Help yourself to a free coffee ☕ ☕ ☕ ☕ ☕
First day of work since I got the lurgie. Managed fairly well.
Fortunately it’s the quiet week.☕
Thank goodness you’re back bacon because we had a weirdo here trying to give away electronics.
Here’s a complimentary biscuit 🍪
nom nom
Free coffee? Don’t mind if I do!
🍩 have this to go with it
I am proceeding on foot, call in a code 8!
We need pretzels, repeat, pretzels.
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Careful saying something is free, the coffee’s gonna get OzBargain’d
Hahaha ☕
that’s some pretty big rain
Spiders
A baby huntsman moved in last night. Nice, I want him to eat the bugs. I also hope this one has the commonsense to stay out of range of Melbcat’s punches. (Nothing bad happened to the last one. He was just a dumbarse who had to be evicted for his own safety.)
Thank you for the spoiler warning here 💛
No worries, I generally try to give a warning for anything touchy like that
Second night of constant droning noise. No idea what it could be, but it’s loud enough to be heard over the rain.
I can hear it too. They’re preparing the Sun for daylight savings ending next week - won’t be much longer
Up all night playing Surviving Mars. Don’t mind me, I’m just colonising mars in the farm future 🌌
I actually bought that a few weeks ago, but I wasn’t a fan of it
Fricken love that game. One of the best epic store free games I ever got.
Meteors keep crashing into my pipes at choke-points… Not sure if random or “random”
[Insert suss Fry meme]
I woke up to no power and had to get ready for Mr Woof’s morning walk by phonelight. It turned out to be just me, something caused the main switch to flick off and I now have power back on.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
CoffeeeeeEEE
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Walk out the front door to start walking to the train station to see two huge purple flashes of lightning on the horizon. Yeaaaaaahhh might wanna haul ass to the station!
Blarg. Very little sleep thanks to hole in the gutter making incessant drum noises. Really sick of this house.
I still haven’t had the energy to go looking for the ginger ninja again, and as the weather gets colder and wetter he’ll probably be hiding away somewhere. :(
Melbcat’s ears are still looking a little sus. Unfortunately I need to clean her ears so antibiotics can work better and she hates having it done. I’m not managing the ear washes twice a day but will aim for at least one, and talk to the vet about restarting the drops.
I am really struggling with mood and energy.
Lie on back. Sit cat on chest (if you have boobs this is a big cat comfort plus). Gently rub ears, paying attention to cat grinding towards where they want rubbings. first two fingers on the back, thumbs at the front of the ear, circular motions, some gentle pulling out towards the sides. Misha gets her ears cleaned then a massage that starts on the ears and goes down the cheeks under the chin until she’s drooled a puddle six foot wide and no longer complains about ear cleanings.
Downside: the little shit will expect ear rubs on demand.
I’ll give this a go! She’s sometimes a bit funny about having her ears touched but if she allows it the rubs should help without her knowing
it also helps work some of the dirt towards the outer ear (and you will get grubby thumbs, so wash your hands!)
All good. Anything to help her comfort.
I rang the vet and they’re not too fussed and told me not to do the antibiotic drops. So I think I’ll monitor, do gentle ear rubs and the occasional wash to dislodge the spuds. And if there’s any discomfort she goes in for a swab
I swear on my mum’s life…if my neighbour is out watering today I’m dropping him.
He was out there with the hose yesterday at lunchtime.
I nearly did that with mine yesterday after his dog bit mine again for the second time in 2 years. I mean, it was a jack Russel vs a Kelpie, I like my dogs chances, but told him if it happens again his dog will have the honor of being the second dog in orbit cause I’m punting it at the sun.
I cannot imagine not having a dog on a lead or behind a fence/gate.
What a knob.
at the park, on the farm?
Farm is different, not in public. Dog parks are generally fenced off, no?
Not having recall/control over a dog and letting is loose is irresponsible.
Yep, his defense was “I only turned my back for a minute” but when the wife went over to play “Good cop” to my “Pull your head out of your fucking arse you C***!” cop, he admits the dog has issues. So why was it allowed out the front unsupervised at all?
I got the hose out today…to fill the standalone maze tanks for the potted fruit trees from the big downpipe tank. Makin’ room.
That makes sense. He literally waters his grass and bushes even when the ground is soaked.
could be working on hydrophobic soil. Or he could just be an idiot.
His soil is the same as mine as we share the front lawn. In summer my grass gets fairly yellow, his stays green. By May, there is no difference in how they look after some autumn rains.
Maybe he doesn’t like his wife.
I’m pretty sure no one likes his wife.
Bang. There you go.
I knew an old bloke who bought a shop just so he could sit out the back and listen to the races without the wife nagging. She was forbidden from entering the shop. Fuck he hated customers.
what did he sell out of curiosity?
Not much.
Locals knew not to go in there because he never changed the oil but if you happen to stumble in there and ask for something other than fish n chips he’d yell DOES IT LOOK LIKE I MAKE HAMBURGERS. CAN’T YOU READ. FISH AND CHIPS as he pointed to the board which had no prices on there at all other than the words Fish and Chips.
Have a few regrets not cleaning one of the gutters before last night. Not a happy downpipe.
If there’s one thing that comes up in convos seemingly every time about problems with a house, it’s water.
It giveth life, it taketh time and cash monies.
Watching the guy from Site Inspections it’s nearly always water damage. When it’s not structurally unsound frames or fake Hebel.
The old homes from the 60s and 70s are looking better and better.
