MIL here for a visit… It’s so hard. Every. Single. Time. Gaaaaaah!
Hang in there, sic the Calhound on her.
Hehe yesss 💀
When you’ve had just a little too much catnip
catnip story
years ago when I was living Europe I grew a whole heap of catnip from seed for my cat Oscar. After a few months I planted it out in the backyard in a big planter.
The next day when I went to look it was gone, eaten down to the dirt.
hedgehogs, it was hedgehogs that ate it 🌿🌿🌿🦔🦔🦔
HEDHOG CUTE
Sorry, old internet skit.
I’m sure Oscar got many other treats and love.
Let’s play a game. What’s the most impressive thing you have in your home?
I have a telescope.
A circa 1850s mahjongg set - with ivory and bamboo hand carved pieces, and a nice little camphorwood chest to keep them in with fitted drawers and inlay work of the 8 immortals. It has ivory ‘money’ sticks and wind of the round indicator, and a really cute little chinese style brass lock and key for the doors. Cannot be sold nowadays cos ivory and I have no documentation of when or where it was acquired. The pieces are hand coloured with lac, and are quite quite beautiful.
Family legend is that it was acquired by my dad’s Great-Great-Aunt Maggie, who was a character and a half if a somewhat abrasive one. She when to China in the 1850s to convert the heathen, who had done nothing to deserve this, so the family was not surprised when she got summarily evicted out of the country at the end of the Taiping Rebellion. So she went to Peru to convert the heathen there, and also got slung out of the country after an argument with the local Catholic authorities. She was a rabid Puseyite of the most extreme persuasion. She did have an eye for beauty though, and acquired quite a few glorious objects that are scattered around the family. My sister has the pearlshell inlaid ebony writing desk, I got the mahjongg set. I still have to decide who in the next generation to leave it to in my Will.
I love mahjong. I’d love to learn it properly though.
500 is a dying art. I’m good at that.
If you can play gin rummy, mahjongg is pretty close. Just with solid tiles rather than cards.
I’ll shit it then. 😂
Fluffball
Gibson is beautiful and spoiled.
Aboriginal coffin. About 9ft long, hollow and covered in paintings.
That’s fucking cool! I used to visit an old aboriginal gravesite when I was a kid. There was something magical about that.
It’s inherited. At some point I’ll try to work out what mob it’s from and return it.
Oh wow 😭
My family.
Naw. Kids are good value. I bet your wife has a great sense of humour.
Melbcat 🥰
Melbcat is a treasure to all of us ❤️
Miniest says the antiques, glassware, crystal and art. It’s a random assortment of stuff that’s valuable but not attractive at all, like this thing
Fuck! That’s interesting!
It’s a decanter made of Murano glass. Of all the beautiful things I have that are Murano Glass that is easily the most outstandingly ugly!
That’s ugly but expensive shit.
Probably the aldi imitation blue Castello cheese
That deserves a decent cracker or two. Don’t let it down.
this framed print from my dad
He got it at silver k, I think. I love The Muppet Show (the series and the 1979 movie, I know ALL the songs), and I love OT Star Wars - so this is my most impressive and treasure item.
On par with it, is the carved camphor wood chest I have that I keep my linen and towels in - inherited from my great-grandmothers estate.
I know those chests well. I never owned one but always wanted one.
Either my collection of video games or my Franklin’s mint dragons.
Can you take a pic of your dragons?
They’re the 3 big metallic ones.
Awesome!
Nice.
My shell collection, including a good collection of fossil shells
I have seen your collection and I am impressed.
I made a shell wind chime when I was a teenager and my mum still has it hanging in her kitchen. It doesn’t chime but it is pretty.
that’s only a small part of it, I have most of it in boxes .
I wish I could at least go back to skincare and exercise but it all feels too hard and too late.
spoiler
I’m not safe to be taking local walks without carrying something like pepper spray (not kidding - there have been incidents) and it feels impossible to do more than scrub my face with water/bar soap in the shower.
There are home exercises (all of which I know) but I can’t tell you how much discipline it took the first time around to maintain something so tedious… plus now I can’t get enough calories and I’ve deconditioned to the point I risk injury on starting again. Feels like I can barely move.
I would love to move away somewhere else, get a shit ton of therapy and then try to salvage what’s left of my life.
I’m now desperate enough to be looking into disability specific housing (if it’s possible for me to get it) but deep down I know I don’t want that arrangement. I’m just desperate to move away and income is a serious problem with that.
so many hugs
and do try for some assistance
Would you benefit from having a support worker?
this is a good idea
Unfortunately there’s not much they can do.
Without giving too much away where the fuck are you that you can’t walk down the street? North, West, East? If you’re in the West or North, I’ll spot ya. Nothing gets passed in me.
Sorry, don’t want to post anything doxable. But my area has Problems
Edit: I can definitely give someone a nasty time if cornered but don’t want legal issues on top of everything
I know you don’t want to dox but shit I grew up in Broady and live in Melton. Fuck everyone here wants to help you atleast walk down the street which is your right.
I’ve kind of stopped wanting to go out by now. Even seeing known shitty people sucks and I’m over it.
I just stay in and keep a crowbar handy.
DT walking group to get Melba out of the house?
my little tiger
the tedster looking cute even while he is plotting his next attack on bill
Listen Ted, as the baby of the family, you can get away with shit.
he really doesn’t belong here
he wants to be a tradie cat
He loves tradies, he helps every single tradie who comes here and when the job is finished he wants to go in their van and go home with them. Then he can go on tradie jobs all the time.
When I have visitors my dog is all over them like rash. Sometimes he does an excited wee. When they leave, he cries at the door.
awww
Beach was not as cold as I thought it would be, I had a singlet, two woolen jumpers, a slicker and a knitted hat. 👍
Tide was high and I took a pic, I was walking around those rocks that are far out in the water the other day at low tide, that’s where I took a picture from. I think the water is about a metre high there now.
it’s a study in grey , looks like steel
Payne’s grey for the darkest bits?
The pyro
And the dog who chooses to sit in the rain
I see no dog, just ear and tail!!
Nice fire pit, but what dog?
He’s camera shy.
🥰
Poor Mr Woof is freaking out with me gone from the house ☹️ I’m looking at him on the camera and he’s been running in and out looking for me for over 2 hours now. Which at least means he is getting used to using the dog door.
Just took a three hour nap. Today has been a write-off. Really want to be powering through my work tomorrow. I have so much to do but this fatigue and brain fog is not fun.
I tried for an hour and a half, but didn’t really sleep. Pets thought it was a great way to spend a dreary afternoon though.
I took a 3 hour nap too. Waking up from that was rough.
Aaaargh, I should’ve remembered to check the metric measurements for tablespoons on Nagi’s recipe… 60 ml instead of 45 ml of soy sauce later I have a super salty dish 😖 adding potatoes won’t work so maybe I’ll have to steam some carrot and throw that in to spread it out a bit more. I did think it seemed like an awful lot of sauce, should’ve trusted my gut!
E: added a tiny splash of vinegar and a touch more sugar and two carrots and it’s passable now.
I’m not an expert of this. Can a little bit of sugar balance it out?
I put some sugar in but it’s not quite enough. It’s still too strong-tasting if you get what I mean, relative to the broccoli and mock chicken
Yeah it can.
Damn. If something is salty I put a splash of vinegar or lemon or lime in it.
Yeah, I’ve put in a splash of vinegar and that’s helped a bit but I don’t want to put any more and risk the flavour changing altogether. I think after I add the carrots I’ll add another tiny splash and hope for the best
I heard you can cook potatoes in something salty and then remove them but have never tried it
Edit: never mind it’s a myth
How about that 10-45mm rain forecast for tomorrow. I bet you it won’t get past 15mm.
woooo so helping His Lordship clear a workspace and showing him how to remove the render for his brewery repoint ended up being more a helping His Lordship clear a workspace, then partially reorganising the basement then showing him how to remove the render then getting stuck in for three hours alongside. But the back wall and chimney are almost done, then it’s just one small partial behind the door.
(bitch better remember this when I start the other half of the garage)
Gave Gibson catnip.
Now I’m just getting yelled at for no reason lol
Otherwise headache has subsided a fair bit so been smashing out some guitar. Feels so fucking good!
Slept through the day again. I should be taking walks to boost my mood but honestly… my area is full of interesting people (in a bad way) and I don’t want to wander around in it.
Think I’m gonna do a few chores and then take a sleeping pill at midnight.
Campfire potatoes. So good! Next time I’ll do chestnuts because he loves them. And damper because he’s never had it.
Yum yum
I did airfried chunky chips, oh they were so good.
