Melbourne

It took a bit of time for our lady to settle in this time as she's been away for a year and hates the carrier - bit of hissing and swiping at her human before he left - but nothing a bit of churu knockoff can't do to lift a kitty's mood.

First point of order was bathroom, followed by a general investigation, then of course food (while I was rushing around tidying up and making my own dinner) - guaranteed cutest meows whenever food is involved - but I forgot then that I have to keep her out of my room if I open my closet, because she loves hiding in it and refusing to come out and there was more swiping and angry huffs as I tried to coax her out.

She's pretty settled now though, headbutts and trills and all, and keeps coming back to sit on/near my socks, so I feel rather honoured 😌

soxloaf and soxfloof

Enjoy your night everyone ❤️

Got a bit shitty at work over being lectured about fucking image formatting (fuck Word, seriously) but got over it thoroughly by (a) having walked to work and back - big tick, (b) absolutely SMASHING through the backlog, and (c) clocking off on the dot - because I have much more important things to attend to very shortly! Everyone else can fuck off!

Also managed to survive nearly getting collected by some fuckwit speeding through Kew Junction after the cars finished turning, a good 20 seconds after the lights had changed and I was halfway across the pedestrian crossing. People do be getting stuck in dumb situations there. No death for me today, though - thanks, but nothing will get in the way of hosting my VIP guest!

Got home in time to do some last minute gardening (now). How good is it having the sun still up when I get home. Home - which has been nicely aired through all windows during the day. It's a great feeling.

Going to be a warmish night tonight.

Low of 14 tonight.

I didn't know I needed this until I ate it - smoked trout on hot buttered toast with just a smidge of mayo. Life is good.

First night in a long time that I’ve had the door and some windows open at night to cool down the house a bit.

Second interview went... okay. I definitely fumbled some questions and repeated myself a lot. But the interview ended with talk of what's next, etc, so at least it wasn't a "okay, thanks for coming in, see you around" sort of end. Fingers crossed for a call either way quickly.

last nights' go at the SMC

Didn't realise the dew was gonna be so bad so only used 12 x 5mins exposures instead of the 24 I took. Shit happens. Will probably end up using only 4 and will have to take another bunch another night. Good to see the equipment still works though.

Whilst I prefer the red trike as it's pretty stable with a lot of weight at the back, it is currently out of commission so the new shopping goon and snack mobile (for now) is the unicorn basket bike:

Doubt the kids are going to laugh at me now.

"Can I have a chip"... "No". "Can you buy us some booze"?... "No".

I got'em on the telly now

And yep that looks like a dead relo

some pics of my old sewing machine after spending many hours refinishing the woodwork. It was so bad, it had huge patches where there was no finish at all and much lifting and bubbling of veneer. It's still really beat up. I haven't waxed it yet which should help filling holes. Later today I'll be having a go at it using a tough wire brush on that base cos the softer brush did nuttin'.

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and some patina

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Today's weeding done:

About 3x that to go FML.

I'm going to have to ninja it into other people's green bins at 3am for a few consecutive bin nights (they won't mind).

Throw open that door, bask in those well needed vitamin d rays and sneeze yourself senseless for the rest of the day.

My leg still ouchies from yesterday's morning cramp so that's fun.

Also I went to woolies for cat supplies (only thing I still get from there) and the chemist for me supplies and ended up spending $180. I miss when $180 was a lotta fucking money to me

Anyone following the Collins St Falcons - the babies are hatching!
Mama birb's bum is firmly on them, but #2 hatched about 40 minutes ago.

This day has thoroughly defeated me. White flag, i'm calling it. You have won day. let me lick my wounds in peace.

o h ffs, i tried to fix my solar mushroom garden lamp with super glue. Lamp isn't fixed and now I have dirt glued to my fingers

Gon’ eat some jambalaya

#W A S H I N G

Opened the front door to let some air in.
Neighbours across the way have done likewise.
Discovered Sammi and their cat having a stare at each other through our respective security doors. 😂

60 mins to go. Come oooooooon.

Science says I need more sun than others due to darker skin.

I don’t know why my split system does this but I can’t change it from heating to cooling.

To get around it I have to go into my bed room and set that one to either heating or cooling with a remote then walk back into my living room and using that remote turn on the system and it’ll be set to whatever setting I used in the bed room.

If I try and directly move from heating and cooling the split system will double beep at me and won’t switch or turn on.

Frustrating to say the least.

A day full of meetings. Yay.

OMG THAT SUN THO 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞