Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
This year just keeps giving. Got some bad news at doc today and being sent for scan on Monday. Currently panicking about cancer.
Fingers crossed it’s a false alarm 🤞
Sending you best wishes and hope everything will be ok.
big hugs
Garden is looking good today, I really should be doing some weeding.
Image is a magnolia with a hot pink rhododendron in front on a sunny dayOh that is so pretty!!! 😍
Yes apparently prior owners were keen gardeners as we have lots of well established trees.
Awesome garden, but of course my eye went straight to the dog… very cute!
Thanks for checking in on me and standing up for me re the Reddit post, pals.
Rough times over here but everyone’s alive so it can’t be that bad. Miss you! ❤️
It’s so good to see you around Lemon.
We were worried about you and have been keeping an eye on when you’d come back.
It’s a very friendly space here if you need to talk or just vent into space as well if you feel like you need to.
Anyway Welcome back!
Thank you! That’s very sweet ❤️
Yay you’re here. We’ve missed you. Please check in anytime. It’s soooo nice here without smartarses. Yay.
I’ve missed you guys too.
Lemon!! 😍 so good to see you here!! 💜💜💜
Thanks! 😄
big hugs
Bigger hugs!
Hi there! I was u/Positive_Complaint over there, and I occasionally contributed but mostly lurked. Sorry people were such jerks about your post.
Nice to see you in here :)
Thanks :)
I’m almost scared to go check reddit but it’s great to see you here 🍋
Aw thanks :)
Hi Lemon! Nice to see you! 👋🏼
Nice to see you, too!
Welcome to your new friendly home ❤️
Lemon!
Melb!
My miniature garden aqueduct is working well. I have an old sink near here that I use for garden stuff which is not plumbed to drainage, so I put the green tub under it to collect the water, which I used to just empty directly onto the garden. I have a bunch of concrete spoon drain pieces and bricks from old paving around the house, so created this to take most of the water across to the base of the apricot tree. A fair bit leaks along the way too keeping other plants watered.
This reminds me of an invention that a friend’s dad made at a party. He cut a large pvc pipe long ways, suspended it on bricks and had a bucket at the end to collect the waste for his lemon trees. It was a homemade urinal around the side of the house.
I went to a week long event where a few guys put handles on potted lemon trees and carried them around as personal pissoir
The romans would be jealous!
If it ends up being El Nino I’m gonna do a similar thing with buckets and watering the garden. The budget didnt go as far as a water tank this year.
Impressive water feature!
I’m not up to running around doing guerrilla gardening myself.
But how cool would it be to seed bomb abandoned lots with native wildflowers for native pollinators?
(Not only bees - though they’re important).You can make seed bombs as clay-soil balls, soil bound with flour, dried paper pulp, or soil filled eggshells.
Legality is dubious so check beforehand if you want to do it. And don’t use anything poisonous or invasive.
Edit: Scratch that. This video is saying not to use regular wildflower mixes as some species may be invasive. The natives may be a much better choice until I look at what’s in the bee/butterfly mix
I have considered lobbing a few into my neighbour’s back garden (which is basically abandoned), but I’m not sure they would get enough sun or be able to compete with the weed growth.
alyssum are generally good, coriander and dill as well.
- doggo found the sunCUTE!
Does anyone hate the media covering the AirBNB levy, through the “your weekend stay is going to be more expensive” angle.
How to pretend like you’re speaking for the people when you’re really speaking for big property.
Taking my sun prescriptions right now eating peanut butter toast and having a vanilla latte satchel while listening to a podcast.
Will have to move soon after as my long pre order is ready for pick up and I’ll get a haircut too at the same time and pick up some coffee supplies, hash browns and maybe some fruit juice?
Yaaaasssss boi! Self-care! You got this!
First half done. Now need to motivate myself to go out and get the other stuff done!
Sounds like a great start to a solid R&R break! Please remember your prescription is to be taken once daily
It was so nice I think I spent way more time than I was meant to.
Have to get moving now to get my haircut and supplies.
Can I just say sometimes Australia Post pleasantly surprises me. I ordered something online on Wednesday (being shipped from Sydney) via standard parcel post. If hasn’t arrived yet but it is apparently on board for delivery today!!
Are we on top of the milk situation yet?
🥺
With Seagoon’s guidance we should be up and running this time next week
spoiler
🤮
The Mannary Gland
😱💀
So theoretically if I made a perfume or cologne that smelled of freshly ground coffee beans would you wear it?
I think it would need a hint of vanilla or caramel to go with. Then yeah sure.
I’d like a hint of hazelnut
That’ll work
deleted by creator
Ok well assuming you didn’t have acidic skin what about then?
Still no. I might get licked by random hipsters.
No. I wear florals with a hint of spice.
I think so? I’d want it to be a little bit sweet though or fruity.
Yes!!!
Yes
Sitting in the company truck while our tradies do the hard work. What a lovely Friday!
Sitting having lunch? Or just absorbing everything in today?
Twas just chilling. Did a half day, as he only had 3 jobs to do. But it was a great learning experience, will help in my role at the office definitely!
Awesome. How has it been so far? Been nice to be out and about as well?
Oh yeah, it was lovely! Perfect day to do another field trip!
I have been up since 5.40am though, so I think an afternoon nap is in order lol
Oohh yes. That’s super early. I think a nap is definitely due for you.
Eh? I planted the spinach seeds 4 days ago and they’re already sprouting. The cat grass took so much longer.
I think I sowed them too thickly as well, should have left room for more staggered plantings. Wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing. The carrots were definitely sown too thickly and will 100% need thinning once they’re up which feels like a waste of good plants.
I might just leave the spinach as is, uproot any that get ratty and reseed the empty spots. Or thin some of them for microgreens. (Might do that for the carrots too as the tops are edible.) It’s possible some will bolt when summer hits unless they’re brought inside.
I really wish I could plant pumpkins and zucchini or tomatoes but cannot take on that much garden
Spinach goes HARD.
It really seems to respond so well
zucchini aren’t much harder than cucumbers, tomatos can be pissy but go gang in hydroponics. I’ve grown pumpkins and watermelon in a 50cm pot up a trellis. You only get a couple of fruit, but they’re whoppers
I just wish I had the room and the physical strength.
I do have a few small patches of soil but they’re covered in aggressive grass runners, I haven’t had the soil tested, a pet was buried there and intruder cats use it as a bathroom.
I’d do raised beds, huge buckets or grow bags with trellises (I was eyeing off the mini pumpkins) but am trying not to set up anything that would be difficult on moving
Have you seen these? I’ve raised tomatoes, eggplants, chillis, peas, etc very successfully in these over the years. Too small for melons, but very good for mid-size plants.
(They do sell singles btw lol)
Ooo… this is enabling
We may be actually passing on some of ours, but not this growing season. Still sorting the garden.
Something funny to me is that out of the 5 weeks I took off work, traveling throughout the US and spending almost 2 weeks in Vegas… it’s the Friday night before I go back to work that I finally get drunk. At home in Melbourne. By myself.
Loved your posts btw.
💜 💜 💜
I was killing me self laughing all the way from the 7-11 hunting knife find to swanning past the peasants at the VIP treatment at a casino hotel.
So much lemonade. 😊
I had to activate my new debit card. I couldn’t quite do it on the phone so I called them and I failed the security questions so now I have to go into the branch so they can ID me. I’ve been flagged. Lol
Can’t remember your first pet’s name?
straight to jail.
First car?
also jail
No. None of those. Where and when did you last use your card and for how much? Idk I can take a guess. Which I did and apparently wrong answer.
That is just WILD! How do they expect anyone to remember that? I could possibly give stores but amounts are just, no
I know right. All I know is I failed that part of the interrogation. I failed adulting. I failed at technology. I don’t deserve a debit card with my own cash.
Oh it’s okay, I don’t think many people could remember exactly. You haven’t failed.
You’re very kind ☺
That reminds me 😬
🤷♀️ the site isn’t working
