I underestimated how many more would come in today. Over 110 entries now!
That’s bloody awesome, well done! Picking a winner may be tough though!
Now let’s all face Launceston and pray.
Sure am. I’ve started on the 13+ age group since they didn’t have too many entries. But man, kids are creative. Love seeing the stuff they come up with.
Buddha Boon!
Boooooonie
Oh you’re going to be so busy with all those entries!
but the most wonderful kind of busy 😄
Goodnight all ❤️
In the biz we call that the squint of approval.
Sweet Gibson 😍😍
You guys only see the nice side. Not the random nibbles on my arm when I’m trying to eat dinner lol
Unmolded my soap today. The good batch is looking pretty good (although I probably should have put some effort into removing air bubbles). The dodgy batch has been melted down and poured into new molds, hopefully it has been saved.
I thought these were shortbread cookies 😭
They look more like fudge in real life. Unfortunately they don’t taste like fudge.
those are so beautiful 😍
Those are cute!
How can we get some? Or are these going to be cured in time to be Christmas gifts?
Just mix up some fat and caustic soda and you can have all the soap you want!
I have given soaps as Christmas gifts before, but this lot are all for me 🙂
I really should give it a crack, I love soapmaking YouTube
I wish I knew how to make soap. It’s a bit dangerous in my current place (with fumes, weak arms, a cat who dances under my feet in the kitchen etc).
It’s not very complicated to make a basic soap, most difficulties come in when you are trying to add colours and fragrances. I mix it under the rangehood to deal with any fumes from the caustic soda. It’s basically a process of warming up the oil to around 54 degrees, mixing the caustic soda with water and waiting for it to cool to 54 degrees, then when they are both at the same temperature mix them together until it starts to thicken - I use an old slender blender so don’t need to have strong arms, and it mixes in a couple of minutes. Then you just pour it into the moulds and wait a bit. You can use something like a milk carton lined with baking paper, then in a day or two cut it into slices and leave it to dry for around 6 weeks to fully harden.
These batches are made with beef fat which I collected off a very fatty batch of soup bones I made stock with a while ago, so they should also count as quite frugal!
That’s cool!
I guess I’m just a bit intimidated by working with something hot and caustic as well
Unpopular opinion. All social media should be banned. I’m sorry but it’s just too toxic.
That would deprive us of your comments though
True. I’ll make an exception for aussie.zone.
I think we straddle the edge of social media here. I think the layer of anonymity here means we’re not quite social media. This feels more like the old usenet newsgroups of the 90’s to me. I know it’s pretty much the Reddit 2009 experience, but that also felt like Usenet.
Walking through the park today and went under trees that just had bark chips and dirt underneath. Looked a bit meh. I was reminded of a pic of some young adult saying how people tell him to go outside instead of being of the computer all day. He showed outside, a very dull dingy grey dirty old eastern bloc dormitory city. So his SIM city would be better, just like on the new Brave New World series, people could be fed a nice make believe place.
But surely it would be best if he went outside and did something to improve his home rather than escape reality?
Imagine how wholesome society would be if everything wasn’t for a feed.
it should be regulated
I’m not sure you can without government overreach and inevitably trampling on someone’s rights.
This is quite a take. Regulation could be government overreach, but banning social media outright is not?
As a benevolent lord and commander of the universe I am not part of the government and I will enact the ban.
Yeah who’s doing the banning? The government? Who can also… Regulate…
I think they’d regulate. Hard to argue that regulation is more overreaching than banning lol
These rights of free speech are part of the social contract. People who break that social contract to bring down the system of freedoms or to do harm to others have that right revoked.
No one has the right to use freedom to trample others.
Saturday is going to be a high of 27 and low of 21. Friday high of 17, low of 7. What a juxtaposition.
Corpse is in the oven with marinade and some chopped tomato, carrots and onions
I’m currently warming up the bath for my pasta.
I’m glad it’s late night so nobody sees this. I just purchased a pair of crocs. How embarrassing but I’m looking forward to the comfort.
are you going to get those cute little personalising charms? 🙂 I think it’s worth it just for those. And the comfort.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=croc+charms&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
I’m of the opinion go hard or go home. Get the eyeballs.
What colour??
Colour is “bone”, it’s like a beige / cream colour.
OMG nooo you go back and buy a pair of scarlet red ones right now!
It’s nearly 10pm for me. Not that late at all! 👾
It’s when this mob start posting before I go to bed that I know I’ve made some poor life choices.
I’m still awake lol
I like the croc sandals. Comfy and durable.
apparently I’m healthy other than a bad back . Who knew? Just need to lose weight, get a little fitter and keep an eye on stuff.
Yay!
Excellent ❤️
Today felt like it went past quick. Either that or I’m getting used to work lol
I always have my lunch break at 4pm so I can just leave.
And someone is happy the treat dispenser is back.
My husband does that. Lunch at 1:30. Knock off at 2.
I don’t understand stopping work, just to go back to work. Let’s smash it all out in one go when see ya later.
The good old back ending go out to lunch and never come back.
Can easily let you get home 30-40 mins earlier depending on how long your lunch break is.
I actually get to sit down on the train and am not squashed against everyone.
Meow
Tinyest has started repeating words back to you. Shit is ADORABLE. Bathtime, GO!, Buh Bye and Ball are all big ones.
The writing competition blew up over the weekend. Ended up with 83 entries with maybe some more coming in today. I am super proud of the effort.
yay, booking for new glasses has been made :)
this is the first time i’m going to be getting my second pair adjusted for my astigmatism, i just can’t have the glare anymore, it’s unsafe
I am short sighted and have astigmatism, all streetlights are staaaaars
same here
not great for night driving , plus i’m curious what the world looks like without it
Just one day of using the Samsung UI for more than just work and I’m reminded how much I hate it. And the fucking bloat. Can’t delete the Facebook app off the phone, only disable it, what a joke. Can’t be stuffed dicking around with custom ROMs for this one, I think I’ll be using this phone for work only as much as possible rather than making it my primary.
Gonna be hopefully clocking some overtime this pay cycle, maybe I’ll get a Nothing Phone 2a or something else with stock Android. Although once again, hisssss at modern smartphones not having headphone jacks
Nova launcher beats Samsung UI hands down
Red Magic 9 Pro user here, it has a headphone jack and is a beast of a phone and comparatively cheap.
I could not possibly recommend it more highly. I no longer have to charge my phone every day and when I do charge it it’s done in less than 30 mins, performance is insane for a phone.
It’s a gaming phone, and so is also like having a Nintendo switch in your pocket for nearly half the price of the latest Samsung / Pixel / iPhone, whilst it blitz’s day to day stuff.
You don’t have to ever use the gaming mode btw, there’s a literal physical slider on the side to enable it. It feels like a 2000s gamer designed their dream modern portable device that’s primarily a phone.
Do check it out!
Oh wow, that’s really high praise and sounds like an amazing phone. It’s beyond my budget though, I think I gotta go for something more mid range with all the moving expenses coming up.
It is genuinely is fantastic, it even has an IR beam (TV remote) and when abroad we just hook up my phone and use it like a fire stick. And I love using my wired IEMs. And 120hz on a phone is so overkill.
Completely understandable if your budget is constrained due to the move, but with renting these days you’re going to get what 2-3 years out of the place vs. possibly 5-7 years out of the phone?
Zero bloatware on the OS, but there is a super weird completely optional waifu when in gaming mode. I didn’t know what it was when doing set up and now keep it installed just to show people how ridiculous it is haha! If you take selfies a lot then it’s not so great as the selfie camera is behind the screen. It’s also not technically waterproof as it has fans for cooling, but mine has been dropped in the toilet and is fine. I feel like I’m living in the old Nokia days where a phone is unbreakable :D
For ref my partner’s phone just got the 3g ban despite her doing the firmware upgrades and has a OnePlus 12 on the way so I’ll be able to do a comparison in a few days if that’s an option for your budget?
Financially, it’s more that I need enough of a buffer if I need to hire movers/bond clean/storage and it costs more than I like, I don’t want to touch my savings just yet as honestly this 3G bs locking out the device completely caught me unawares.
My existing phone was an older OnePlus (before the whole shebang about going away from Oppo or whatever), had a custom ROM right from the start. Not sure I’d bother with that now but I’d like the option. I’m definitely open to considering newer OP offerings though I’ve heard the quality isn’t quite what it used to be. Have been considering Nothing Phone 2 from the ex CEO of OnePlus though frankly it’s a bit more than I’d like (trying to stay under 1k, preferably around 600-800 mark, but need to weigh pros and cons)
Moving is insanely expensive, I really feel your pain and understand the weightings going through your head. 6 moves in 9.5 years for me, I feel like a broke vagrant.
The 3g stuff was/is utter bollocks.
“Hey, some people might not be able to make emergency calls anymore so let’s disable everyone’s phones that may be impacted altogether so that they definitely can’t”.
I do wonder who that bandwidth is going to be sold to and what it’ll be used for.
My partner was getting messages every day about it though for roughly 3 months but she thought she’d worked around it, only to have them just blanket ban the device. Frustrating.
On the quality of OP, yeah they lost me (a former OP5 owner) when they switched and ditched the headphone jack which is a hill I will die on. But my partner primarily uses bluetooth IEMs over her wired IE80s. We’ll see the quality of the latest build soon and I’m happy to update you.
Again though, the Red Magic 9 Pro is like a Swiss army knife that’s built like a brick shit house door. After owning it it would pay double the RRP to get another.
Edit: I know nothing about the Nothing phones so can’t comment on that.
I went from a Samsung to a Pixel, because of the Samsung bloat. I mean I get a bit of Google bloat, but nothing like Samsung.
Also I miss phones have a charge port AND a headphone port. My Pixel uses ONE usbc port for both and I fucking hate that shit. I feel like they’re forcing me to buy wireless head/earphones and I don’t want to fucking dammit! I prefer wired ones tyvm
Same!!! I will never use wireless headphones - sorry but I already have trouble remembering to charge my phone as it is, I do NOT want to have to remember to charge headphones as well and I would be fuming if I’d headed out and the headphones had no charge. No thank you.
I can get away with a 3.5mm to USB c converter if I have to, but it sucks on flights, PT etc when you want to charge your phone and listen to music at the same time.
Sigh. I remember the days when you could swap out phone batteries 😭
I had a navy blue Motorola flip phone, and a friend had a pink one, so we swapped the backs. Mine navy with a hot pink back and her vice versa. It was super cool!
Yes, you definitely need to shave your legs if you want to wear that.
Ha
And maybe a dab of fake tan
I see red
Yanny
No, Laurel
Oh no, this again? Haha.
I forgot what colour it’s meant to be
White and gold?
blue and black, just like Pedro Pascal’s Roman uniform in Gladiator 2
Aha a r/shittymoviedetails lurker ?
who isn’t?
Pedro Pascal
Pedro. So hot right now. Pedro.
Replaced the headlight globe and managed to order my one of my favourite café lunches yesterday over the phone before I got there (the kitchen would have closed before I arrived).
I’ve been intermittent with my hayfever defence and I have been attacked. Ugh.
But… as for today, I have done a load of laundry, started the trickle-charge on one bike, washed and put the side mirror back on the scooter, finished a lengthy phone call and am now at the hairdressers.
Of course, I always accomplish things other than what I should be. 😂
