• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    My new weird food rule:

    • fruit flavoured ice cream or sorbet - in a cup

    • chocolate and other creamy sort of non-fruit flavours - a cone

    I normally don’t get a cone because I don’t love them, but was given one instead of a cup and just made do. The ice cream was part fruit and part marshmallow or something along those lines, and it definitely belonged in a cone.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    1 year ago

    🙂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.

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      1 year ago

      Patina is a good thing. Over cleaning is a flaw to me. I’m assuming some sort of treadle Singer.

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        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.

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    “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.”

  • tone212_@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    It’s local council voting season and I’m getting over seeing signs of the same three people plastered all over my hood. In front of houses, shop windows, street corners, you name it. Does this really get you votes?! I see their faces and I get angry, not wish to vote for them.

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Dream: I went to Saudi Arabia for a something. It was worse than I could possibly imagine. I met an Aussie. We both remarked at how bad it was.

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    1 year ago

    Oh no. Oh no.

    Chillies have germinated far too fast and I haven’t even calculated the amount of soil I’ll need to pot what I can. It’s also too cold outside for them in Northcote. This is a disaster.

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Woke up early to pick up the new Zelda.

    Bought some food and self maintenance stuff. Marvelled at the Cinderella experience set up.

    Also had a haircut too. Feels nice to have it cut and all neat now.

    Lunch has been had and now have my coffee.

    I feel like I want to take out my bins but it feels too early

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    1 year ago

    I have completed the first part of the physical activity study I am part of, and have the first of my $50 Coles vouchers. I have been allocated to the control group, which means I am required to do nothing different to what I do now, and will be paid $150 for it! Can’t complain about that 🙂💰

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Already have one fence dispute (or more specifically Unreasonable flow of water between properties) for the shed up the back. Neighbour came over a few weeks ago and couldn’t see a problem. She got the council to come over and look at it FROM HER SIDE and didn’t give me the heads up so they could look at it from MY SIDE. Tried calling the council several times at least take a squizz but to no avail yet.

    Definitely no problemo there. All they have to do is remove a little bit of soil from their side and let it dry out over summer and put in a little retaining wall / moisture barrier.

    Now the other fairly long / high paling fence on the same boundary is collapsing (really fkn wobbly). re-doing the veggie patch so have a heap of old redgum sleepers. Propped it up heavily on my side so when / if it falls it’s not falling my way hah.