Moomba Festival (7 Mar - 11 Mar 2024)
Managed to get a bronze with one of my entries in my first ever mead competition, pretty stoked!!
YAY! Are you doing taste testing for us all?
Haha ive only got 4 bottles of the bronze award one left :( Got lots of other good stuff in the works though :)
2nd harvest is in:
Those little ones take faar too long to pick. Dense little shrubs and trying to navigate to the middle with scissors is a PITA. Still don’t really know what they are. Probably birdseye but they taste different to the shop ones.
And finally full sized habs (and hot af) unlike last year.
Edit… ooh looks like they’ve changed the forecast… ouch.
Hope the organisers of moomba have thought about cooling stations / misting spots.
Beautiful babies
Ooh spicy. I find that home grown chillos taste different to the shop ones even if they’re more or less the same variety. Got that terroir going on
terroir
TIL a word!
I was reading this today:
https://www.dmagazine.com/food-drink/2023/05/why-jalapeno-peppers-less-spicy-blame-aggies/
And it got me thinking where the little ones above came from originally. I planted maybe 2, 15+ yrs ago just as little hobby (so I’m guessing they were from woolies) and they kept going. Wasn’t buying seeds just saving the ones from those (they pretty much only stocked birdseye then). And from memory they were a lot smaller.
After picking them today, safe to say if I were a farmer I’d selecting for size and I wonder if that’s what happened here too. hrmm.
Dude, I only just got around to reading that article but it was hugely fascinating. I do notice the commercial chillis in .au have much thicker flesh and tougher skins than what I’m used to in Asia - bred for better storage and transport properties but they’re terrible for mashing into paste :(
will go to asian supermarket this evening for something high sodium and quick to cook in anticipation of the hot weekend
planning skills
risk mitigationCan work with others. Great at problem solving
research skills
delegation (most of the cooking to the factory) skills
Nutrition expert, trained in cultural diversity best- practice
✨i n c l u s i v e✨
A 22 year old man has been arrested in connection to the disappearance of Samantha Murphy. No charges have been laid as yet.
Oh shit!
He was just charged with her murder. Deliberate attack. No further details.
What a scumbag. It may not be the only time he’s done this.
What’s worse is that he’s not cooperating either, for the moment the family won’t have proper closure.
😢
Disgusting behaviour. A previous woman was attacked on that trail a year ago too so if that was him as well I hope he gets multiple sentences.
I always have hope until bad news is confirmed 😔
Morning all. One of my favourite people resigned at work and today is her last day 😢 Elder minipeeler has started therapy but is still not going to school 😕 Miniest has decided today she is joining him, and I didn’t have the time or energy to argue about it 🤬😔 Old friend is in Australia for a week and is coming over for dinner tomorrow night 😃 Managed to get a load of washing done because I wasn’t trying to get kids ready for school 😐
😢+😕+🤬+😔+😃+😐=?
=🤯
I just read that it has been ten years since that MH370 plane went missing. Honestly, the older I get, the more time blurs.
Today is le hard, and I am le tired
Ze missiles are waiting
Just saw the forecast. Talk about last gasp of summer!!!
Just looked too. Eeek. Good weekend to wash blankets, pillows and cushions too if you are so minded. Definitely an early shop on Saturday tho, then some heavy duty hibernation.
Just saw it myself too, holy hell they bumped up the temps on Sun and Mon. I’m meant to be going out to Ballarat on Sunday on the v/line, hope the tracks don’t melt or whatever bs often happens on a string of hot days.
I wonder if this is the hottest streak we’ve had since 2019/2020
Expect cancellations and a very slow trip.
I had plans on Saturday but now it’s gonna be 3 days of air conditioning instead.
Just finished the psychometric test for that possible job. Gotta say, not a fan of that kind of stuff.
How can you possibly judge a person based on a ridiculous “test”?
The companies have been sold these tests by the companies that designed them. It’s all pseudoscience shite.
I hate them so much, they utterly useless and a complete waste of time for everyone involved.
Help I’m addicted to NYT puzzles. I’m in bed for hours doing crosswords
I’m addicted to SCP stories. I could sit in bed all day and read them. Send help!
Sending in the MTF to administer amnestics…
Memetic kill trigger has been engaged.
DjKaktus is my fav SCP writer. And anything religious and keter. Love me some end-of-the-world scenarios.
I remember visiting the site just before the 1000 block competition, and to see it grow the way it has is incredible. When I’m stuck on what to do, I read SCPs.
He is incredible! His articles are so complex and satisfying to read.
Over the last 3 years, I’ve read every article with a score over 100.
Now I’m reading all the canon and tales lol
Nellie’s first newsletter has arrived. There is a quiz.
7/10 too - we need to up our numbat game to support Nellie. I admit that I had to guess the scientific name (but got it right for all the wrong reasons).
Oh my goodness, the picture of the baby. I got 7/10 and am officially a Numbat Maestro.
soo cute 🥰
8/10. Lucky guesses!
You got 7/10 correct answers Congratulations, Numbat Maestro! You’ve proven yourself as the ultimate champion of Numbat knowledge. Your expertise is truly impressive, and it’s clear that you’ve delved deep into the wonders of the numbat kingdom. You’re not just a quiz-taker; you’re a Numbat virtuoso! Keep spreading the love for these remarkable marsupials!
I am not a Numbat ball aficionado, just sayin’
8/10 not too bad
So how did I end my mundane work day?
By catching a trapped bird in the building and letting it fly out the window.
I think I’ve had enough excitement for one day.
💤
Also bring on the Footy!
A kind act for that bird, you should feel very happy about that! Kindness towards animals is what makes you a good human 💜
🤦🏼♂️ ffs I was meant to call and cancel that dodgy newspaper thing, but I forgot to and they charged me 18 dollars for it. That’s not that much, but I literally just signed up to read a single article, which wasn’t even a free trial they still charged me like 2 dollars for it. :/
They don’t even give you a heads up, hell, not even a courtesy “wait until days end”, they take their fee at exactly midnight, and that’s the end of it. Absolute scumbags.
On the plus side, if anybody has any articles you want from the Wimmera mail times, hmu and I’ll send you the content. Unfortunately there’s not even that much content in most of them, it’s usually just a couple of sentences about something mundane.
18 dollars Jesus Christ I’m an idiot
You’re not an idiot, you just forgot. Free trials plan on doing that to people.
Ps. Not really relevant but be careful of renting to own appliances or phones too, you end up paying much higher than the actual cost of the item
Nah you’re not an idiot. I kept forgetting to cancel my Xbox game pass sub for months 😅
Idk if it will help, but if you want to read an article that’s paywalled, I use the website 12ft ladder (just Google it). You can paste the article URL into this site and it will remove paywalls and the like. It isn’t 100%, but it works often enough :)
I did try to get the article open with 12ft but it didn’t work. And unfortunately the WMT was the only one with an article on what I was looking for :/
But thank you, I appreciate the rec. 12ft is ♥️
Archive.is or whatever the URL is now is a good one too although again it doesn’t work with everything
Hungry hungry Montague. Nom nom nom.
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Slight headache and drowsiness. But got a few loads of washing done, as well as the dishes. Overall a relatively productive day.
Pasta bake for dinner, which is just leftover pasta in a dish with cheese on top… Which was made from the roast pork and veggies mein liebe made. Not a single scrap wasted in this house.
I made banana bread today because I didn’t want to throw out the dead bananas so the man bought more 😡
freezer
Yeah I normally do that.
