Idk about any of you. But $35 to get into the Royal Melb Show to pat and feed the sheep and goats was 100% worth the price of admission.
The piglets, deer, llamas, and rabbits were just so dang cute
photos
Aww man 🥰 I’ll have to make sure I take the kids and go next year 🤞🏼
It’s on until Oct 6 but it is terribly expensive. Best to bring your own lunch and snacks and look at all the animals and other competitions.
Yeah, we got Tix for 35 bc we both have Health Care Cards. Otherwise it is exxy as. Still is.
Didn’t get any food there, but did buy some coffees, checked out all the animals (ag shed, petting/feeding the animals) and went into most buildings. Got a show bag for Mickey, because they had a cat one, and he loves his new wand toy. And I bought a little cat ring heheh. Hopped on two rides. No regrets, and today was a good day as it wasn’t too crowded at all.
Oh my god the bunnies!
They didn’t say what breed they were, but I reckon they’re mini lops. You can tell by their size (a bit bigger than a guinea pig), and their ears are ‘loppy’ hence the name. Dwarf lops are bigger versions (like what PeelerSheila posted). They’re super common pets because they’re very friendly and docile.
I couldn’t believe they had actual deer! I did end up getting a photo of one!
I’ve never seen a deer in real life!
Fuck it I might go tomorrow lol
Was given the day off today (didn’t want it, or tomorrow, but we’re quiet ATM) so I thought I’d make the best of it by using uneaten strawberries to make jam. It’s still cooling but it seems ok. Also waffles
That looks soooooo good!
OMG
Mmmm waffles
I commented before and the jamwaffle looks delicious, but I don’t know how you managed to achieve the Donna Hay cookbook food porn photo. Amazing.
Aw thankyou! I got lucky with the lighting
that all looks very delicious
I YIELD THE ONE RING
Take it easy huh… I’m sure there’s a medication for that.
IN THE DARKNESS BIND THEM
Um, watch out around the Gladden Fields if you should happen to be passing through.
Thank you but we are sure we will be fine
Be sure to put it back where you got it from when you’re finished with it. Or no dessert for you.
WE SHALL EAT CHERRY TOMATOES
Or Bill
🔥🔥🔥Ooh kinky. Is it getting hot in here?🔥🔥🪢
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This is the most animated bacon I’ve ever seen
TREACHEROUS AS THE SEAS
“And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth!”
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad.
“I pass the test”, she said. “I will diminish, and go into the West and remain Galadriel.”
Or
“In place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth!”
Idk which I prefer 😭😭
you take the book i take the movies
I HAVE ONE TOO
WE RULE THEM ALL
Um nah I’m just ruler of my own.
And where did you get this one ring?
From Sauron, duh. 😂
FROM A FINGER
What has it got in it’s pocketses?
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Cheers revellers 🍺
Cheers 🍻
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Cheers! Here’s to avoiding TV for the next 48 or so. 🍸
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🍷 cheers!
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Not until tomorrow night for me I’m afraid. 🧃
Until tomorrow 🍺
I don’t want to boast but , I’m eating out of date sausage.
Let’s hope the sausage doesn’t pay you back tomorrow.
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🟫🚽🧻🧻🧻🧻
I had some sketchy roast veggies for lunch and seem to be doing okay.
IT’S HEEEEERRREEEEE
Despite having spent ~280 hours on the series, I’ve still only seen 2 of the episodes in the box set
(Yes they’re VHS tapes)
I ditched all my tape, but still have a functional player
I ditched DVDs, but I’m actively expanding my VHS collection. They’re basically vintage now. Cool retro tech I can’t ordinarily buy/use. We do have a player, but I’m not going to dare play these because I don’t want it eating my tape. I’ve tested other tapes, and it hasn’t, but I don’t trust it
You’re such an old soul lol
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I DID IT !!!. It was a little button on my phone God dammit.
Sometimes I think about running away to a foreign country and starting again with a completely clean slate.
Circumstances of late have forced me to think about old jobs and the horrible things I went through and it’s quite triggering.
Sounds like you’ve got a lot of the past to let go of. Speaking as someone who dragged the past around like an anchor for far too long. Even if you were to go overseas, you can’t escape from you. I hope you can one day find a way to let go of it.
It’s weird. Sometimes I’m good for 12 months, then something yanks me back.
Negative experiences (shit job, shit family, shit friends, trauma, abuse, etc) will cause triggers to manifest naturally, it’s the brain ‘misfiring’ doing risk assessments and memory recollection, similar to the way ptsd works. Something in the world reminds you of that time, and your brain treats it like a new threat rather than a memory, even though it is just a memory.
You can run away across the seas, but you will still have your brain reacting to triggers.
It may help to recentre yourself by reminding yourself of what you have achieved, your goals, that you are not ‘there’ anymore. That you have come so far despite your past experiences, and fuck those times where you were in a hard place. You persevered and you are succeeding.
Sorry for the rant and possible lack of help this supplies 😬
I think once certain things are resolved which at this stage looks like will take six months to resolve it will be better.
My kid is going camping with friends this weekend which is a little sad because the dog will miss her but gee it’s gonna be one hellva party when she goes.
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Moar dinosaurs! I don’t expect to win Ace of Cakes, but pretty happy so far.
I love them and the one in the front’s cute little teeth 😃
Raaaaawr!
I love them. 🥹
“The real concern driving CEO resistance is the fact that remote work involves a previously unthinkable change in the way productive activity is structured and organised. If workers can do without the physical presence of managers, perhaps they don’t need managers at all, at least in the way they currently operate. The eagerness of CEOs and other senior managers to wish these changes away suggests that, at some level, they realise this.”
*Removing as it was a rant
Who’s your favourite X-Men character and why is it Storm?
Brian Mannix because he had the coolest hair.
I also vote for Brian Mannix
Uncanny!
Storm because Halle Berry.
Rogue, because she just wanted to touch people without them dying and the other X-Men treated her like a traitor. Yeah she can bring dead things back to life, but never being able to be physical with your loved ones ever without killing them? Yeah I’d cure that shit too.
Edit: I get the metaphor to marginalised groups, like the LGBTQ+, and that the cure is a metaphor for like, conversion therapy. But also, they have supernatural powers and hers is sucking powers and life force out of people. She cannot be cool like Storm and control the weather, and she cannot read minds (unless she takes those powers). So, in my mind, the metaphor falls apart when it comes to Rogue. Gay people don’t kill others by virtue of their gayness; she can. That’s the difference and I hate how the other X-Men reacted to her. Storm is all like “noooo you’re perfect”, but she can hug her loved ones, Soo there.
This is a well reasoned argument.
I getcha.
Deadpool
Back when I was a kid I always wanted to be Cyclops because I thought he was cool.
Tada!
The man says Wolverine because he’s got attitude. I still say Brian because hair and all.
The wolverine from the cartoons in the 90’s had the best one liners.
True says he.
Enjoy!
Sending that to the appropriate precipitant. I guarantee he will enjoy.
The last xmen movie I saw was Logan , which I thought was really good, so I;m going to have to say Wolverine and Xavier.
That movie was incredible. Was not what I was expecting and I’m glad.
Really good actors and story.
I like speedsters for super powers so whatever magneto’s kid is called. Marvel’s Flash.
From the films? Wolverine. Love the attitude. Or maybe the Cavillrine, simply cause of the shotgun arm reload for the claws.
I’ve been spending some time reading an American right wing forum just to see what their deal is.
Man. Just wow.
Okay, I’ve rewritten this a few times now and idk what to focus on, so I’ll say that I have also looked at what they write in those places and it brings me such visceral fear and anger that I feel sick to my stomach.
Sure, some conservatives are reasonable normal humans, but that side of politics has been taken over by RW extremists, incels, and misogynists advocating for the legalisation of child marriage (let’s be honest, just little girls married to old men), the forced slavery of millions of women and AFABs, and the forced rape and impregnation of said women and AFABs. They believe they have the right to our bodies just because they are the “stronger sex”, whatever the fuck that means. They want to create Gilead in real life.
I’m tired of our stories being dismissed, I’m tired of the fight against sexism and misogyny that feels endless.
I don’t want kids and I won’t have them for many, many reasons, one of which is what kind of world is this for them? If I had a girl I’d be so utterly scared that I know I would end up like my mum was to me… And that’s no way to grow up, AND it didn’t protect me at all - just exacerbated my naivety. She may as well have put a neon yellow sign on my head that said VICTIM
Their utter disregard for the humanity of more than half the human race (women, bipocs, marginalised groups) scares me so much that I fear there is no hope for this world. It’s all crumbling apart, busting at its seams, that I feel so hopeless. Abusers want what they want, and if they all start working together… Idk, it’s scary to me.
I assume much of that stuff is angry AI from dodgy sources. Eg Russian troll farms.
I read Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein earlier this year. She proposes that conspiracy theorist right-wingers feelings that the system has failed them has some merit, but that they’ve completely misunderstood who that is. It’s not vaccine scientists or diverse communities. It’s social media magnates, exploitative capitalism and corrupt politics. I guess when you’re full of prejudice you have to do lots of mental gymnastics to make your world view fit your bigotry.
I’ve been doing that too the past few months.
They sound ok at first, rational, then they get worse and worse as they reveal themselves and go down rabbit holes.
🙂Today I bought the last of the materials I need to restore the cabinet and frame of my old sewing machine. It’s about 120 years old and it’s a functional machine so it has a lot of knocks, it looks old. I got medium grade steel wool to clean the iron up as the hardware store didn’t have wire brushes and I got paint which included primer. A new paint brush with an extra long handle for those hard to get at bits. I’m quite excited to get it all done. It won’t look pristine or even great but it will look good. Next I might tackle cleaning up the machine inside. I have a new belt to put on and I have machine oil and rust remover. Might even touch up some paint.
Also bought some good dark furniture wax to protect the newly painted big chairs and the sewing machine cabinet.
I have loads of microfibre cloths for these jobs.
Patina is a good thing. Over cleaning is a flaw to me. I’m assuming some sort of treadle Singer.
yep, old treadle. It’s not over cleaned at all. Patina is good, dirt is not. It’s a H series , that makes it 118 years old.