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It’s my second last night out here before I return to Melbourne. A beautiful cool day and as the sun sets I can hear the lyre birds making their laser gun/magpie/alarm noises and feel an immense sense of peace.
Sadly, I did not finish off the last bit of outstanding work due to patchy internet and no electricity in the cabin (and, tbh, not being remotely in the mood for it while away). But I’m starting to see a way forward where I can finish it off when I get back with a sense of positivity and appreciation and relief at completing this part of life, rather than resentment and aversion and anxiety because I didn’t finish it on time.
This is good. 🤗👍😘
Oh my golly gee gosh moses. That was the most juiciest chook I’ve ever eaten. Even the breasts which I usually avoid. Time for a nap.
Food coma! Night night!
I’d like to give thanks to all those workmen out there who don’t remove all their signs when they finish work. My cherry tomatoes are being supported on stakes supplied by Yarra Valley Water, my raspberries have a trellis made from a sign from an unknown road contractor, and the same sign provided corflute panels which are protecting the fence from built up garden beds.
Random question, does anyone know of somewhere I could get Christmas presents wrapped?
I despise wrapping, I’m terrible at it and I can either pay someone to do it for me or I can add gift bags to my shopping list
Contact your nearest shopping centre they normally do it. Probably a bit out of the way for the city folk but the Salvos are definitely wrapping gifts at Forest Hill Chase for a goldie.
donating an entire golden retriever seems a bit costly for the purpose
Anyone got a rock solid white sauce recipe for Christmas pudding?
Keep it clean, you heathens.
Brandy butter right?.. Search for that and you should get some good results. My grandma used to make a great one, only thing I know that was in it though was a hell of a lot of brandy
You can do brandy in it but we’ve usually gone boozeless. My great aunty used to make it and it was amazing for the kiddos but she literally took the recipe to her grave.
I tried making this today as a test but I must have had too much cornflour because it was so thick it was like custard jelly.
This one is closer to my grandma’s…
I only know ‘white sauce’ as a savory thing, it’s another name for bechamel. Goes in lasagne, not on pudding. Did you mean white chocolate sauce?
I declare this cheese hunt successful
Nice haul! Cheaper Buy Miles? They had 1kg wheels of brie for $15 yesterday and people were buying them 2 at a time, as fast as they could restock. Was sorely tempted.
It is indeed CBM, so this pile cost less than some single blocks! Missing a good stinky cheddar and maybe some spreadable goat, but otherwise sorted for the whole party season 😺
That place is a goldmine of inexpensive goods! I bought some relish there for $1 a jar, and the Bonne Maman was I think 2ish dollars a jar! Yass!
I’m rather fond of playing noodle roulette: package image implies spicy but can’t read a single word on the thing. Yes!
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉
Special extra large meal for botbot
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Bathtub of butter pleaae
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Worth it for an experiment - skin maybe a bit softer? but my bedding smells like butter now
time to turn your room into an air fryer
Apologies in advance, but the Lemmy upgrade appears to have broken the bot’s ability to post - it is trying, but it can’t actually connect to any communities for some reason. ☹️
If one of the nightowls could make a post at midnight that would be great - we can declare it “Manual Monday” and I can poke at the programming tomorrow when I have had some sleep.
Sure, I’ll be up. 👍
It’ll possibly be an Auth issue with the bot, I was getting those when browsing since the upgrade.
All you might have to do is feed the bot a new set of creds and let it eat a new token :)
I could be completely wrong as I am guessing based on my user experience!
I did have to sign in again so maybe. Wasn’t there some sort of lemmy update?
Yeah there was, and if the community of devs maintaining lemmy is even mediocre, they’ll not to do breaking API contract changes. Hence me thinking the bot is just having authentication/authorisation issues (I’m a very very experienced software dev)
Hehe, I didn’t understand a word of that
Basically the bot might have forgotten it’s key card to get in to the office and the office rules haven’t changed
There were initially issues with logging in, but I got that sorted out. IIt’s now giving an error message when trying to connect to the individual communities, so something may have changed there. None of the other community bots seem to have posted daily threads today, so I guess it’s not just my dodgy bot having issues with the change. The last major upgrade to Lemmy made some API changes that broke a lot of things, so it is definitely possible they have done the same again.
I was hoping to get some working code for the post sorted out today (based on working code from other communities) and then work on the cron stuff to trigger it (standby for questions regarding that, I am likely to have some!). But it is likely to take longer if everyone’s bots are having the same issue.
Urgh… Good devs do not make breaking changes so I feel really sorry for you and managing the bot.
I’m always happy to help and have a load of free time later this week and through in to late Jan to support you if you need it. Defo have a hack at it first though, it’s the best way of learning this stuff IMO.
Also feel free to DM me the http response code and exception message. Make sure you remove any tokens &/or and PII though.
I had to sign in again too on my desktop.
I washed the house today. The outside of the house. I did not know that was a part of home ownership. Looks good though.
Brunswick Kippers on sale for $2 for can as Woolies this week.
What is Sunbury like to live in? Epping?
Trying to find housing that is more suitable for me and heard about some accessible options but I really don’t know the reputations of the areas now. Sorry not sure which parts of those suburbs it’s in
I haven’t been to Sunbury since the late 90s but I’d excpect a little gentrifiy and a little stabby. I think Epping is hilly with a lot of bush this fire risk. I’d go to Epping if I didn’t have to attend a place of work.
Have lived in the outer west and north, but not those suburbs specifically. They are both working class suburbs, generally people with middle to lower income. Due to the socioeconomics you might encounter some people with issues. But you can have meth junkies in south Yarra too, and I would say I’ve have way more of those encounters in the inner city than I have ever seen in the suburbs. The suburbs are quiet places where people mostly keep to themselves. As for amenities, I guess it depends what you need. There’s not lots of restaurants or hipster cafes or micro breweries. Because it’s lower density living there’s a a good chance you’ll need to drive to get to supermarket etc. But if those things are ok for you there’s no reason to not live there. The stabiness is greatly exaggerated.
Street Christmas party was today, so I made my home made chicken nuggets and they were a hit! Jerboa was working fine for me until this lemmy update and now it’s gone a bit psycho on me. I’m using my browser, with fewer issues, but still a bit janky. One of the elderly ladies has sold her house to move into a retirement village, and it’s been bought by a family and not a developer thank goodness. Mr P was quite the party animal and is now indulging in whisky sours with the young renters a few doors down. 🥴
I’m getting a bit dry but Melbcat is asleep on me. The cup of tea will have to wait
Here’s the brandy sauce for xmas pud recipe. You can always add more brandy of course
Can’t go wrong with Delia
For the brandy sauce: 11/2oz (40g) butter 2 tablespoons brandy 11/2oz (40g) plain flour 10fl oz (300ml) whole milk 11/2oz (40g) golden caster sugar 4fl oz (110ml) double cream Place butter in a medium saucepan with the flour, pour in the milk then, using a balloon whisk, whisk everything vigorously together over a medium heat. As soon as it comes to simmering point and has thickened, turn the heat right down to its lowest setting, stir in the sugar and let the sauce cook for 10 minutes. After that add the brandy and the cream. Pour the hot sauce into a jug, then cover the surface with clingfilm and keep warm until required.
Not sure exactly why I’ve done this but I’ve gone back and pulled out some old Xbox 360 games and ps3 games and looking to play through through them.
Have a wide range of choice but felt like trying out Red Dead Redemption via backwards compatibility and maybe Ex Troopers and GTA4.
