Magpie update : nest no longer in tree. No hope for the baby chicks as only 10 days out of the egg at most. Mrs maggie was seen this morning gathering nesting material, so maybe maybe maybe will lay more eggs. Wishing her the very best of luck. Young male maggie nowhere in sight this morning.
Happy Birthday! Give that jasmine a right smacking!
oOOH which op shop so I can go buy it?
This applies to cats? Good luck making any cat live a purer life.
At least all the grief is over in one day - not hanging around for a week or more.
nother kind of party still a bangin tune.
Single women live longer, are healthier and a lot wealthier than most married women. Married blokes live longer, are healthier and a lot wealthier than single blokes. As a species, we are doomed.
With a bit of luck they’ll eat each other.
Dress kilt? Um, I wouldn’t have thought that this task needed lessons but what do I know?
Is this any different to standing up and singing God Save the King/Queen/Whatever or the ‘National Anthem’ before sporting events? A ritual to be gabbled through before the real business begins. As such, it’s a travesty of what such a welcome should be.
Leadenhall scones with heavy cream and stone fruit jam please. With a bit of luck I won’t get blown away with that on board.
Yes, beating the shit out of the parents is definitely the way to go.
1 cup coffee plungers can be used to make tea at the office and very nice tea at that. The real problem with loose leaf tea in an office is disposing of the used leaves.
Yeah, the whole power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely thing. Unfortunately inevitable, unless there is robust pushback from the rank & file. Same thing happens with political parties. The point of short electoral cycles is that the bad apples can be booted out before they’ve done much damage. Variable election dates also help with the booting process. What gets really nasty is a fixed election cycle like in the USA - where the last 2 years of an election cycle is spent getting re-elected instead of actually accomplishing anything. The appointment of a ‘king’ with no pre-specified end date for power works quite well if the ‘king’ is sensible, but if a bad apple gets power …
When unlawful power is called out and given a good smacking? Always entertaining to watch from a safe distance. Unions are not per se bad, but when the power inherent in them is abused it’s good to know that there are some ways to rein them in. You may be too young to remember the whole Painters & Dockers Union stuff, but they did things like murder people. As well as run-of-the-mill corruption and stuff. No-one was surprised when that union was forcibly de-registered - except maybe the members of the union. Seems like the CFMEU have forgotten that lesson.
Spraying the holes and galls with WD40 works to kill the little bastards if you don’t want to chop off a particular branch/trunk.
The only possible response is to take his pillow and doona and put them in the dog’s kennel (if you have a dog) or in the laundry if you don’t. A disaster of this magnitude demands a severe response.
Um, I’m sure he was trying to connect with Miniestpeeler and help her project, but he sure did pick a weird way of doing it. The dishwasher bit was totally unnecessary and I can’t think of any sane person who puts dirty paintbrushes in the dishwasher.
The pork & ginger ones I like to have in soup or on top of ramen. They are softer and tackier than other kinds. I have had trouble fry/steaming them. They do OK steamed only, but are really nice in soup.
Unfortunately not. Tree is in the backyard of a known anti-vegetation anti-mess maven. That is, a person who dug up ALL the bare earth in the backyard except for the tree (which is huuge and on the council register) and replaced it with tamped gravel and astroturf to save on mowing. Has been known to apply roundup to the nature strip in the street at the first hint of a weed, and talks frequently about hating ‘mess’. Not generally liked as a person.