@blenkinsopthebrave @JanetteB

thank you for your responses regarding ‘icons.’

Agreed: depressing to wake up to but entirely predictable. The notion that a LNP would support and invigorate teaching and education is nonsense, isn’t it? LNP politics argue for continued & increased funding for private education and with fringe parties I’m sure…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @JanetteB

Dear Mr Blenkinsop at the Blenkinsop manor. I love that phrase. Someone else used the phrase and mum really liked it. I haven’t been on the site in all year.  ANd I agree with what you’re daying. Mum used to say that if she had the lottery she would move to Canada or the US -but she changed from mentioning the US…[Read more]

@JanetteB

Yes, what was meant was: as an exercise, what things “Australian” pop to mind?  You know, like vegemite (despite, yes, it aint Australian) but meat pies, pavlova, wattle tree, ANZAC biscuits..

Black Arm band for Bob Hawke or Australia in general?

@JanetteB @Blenkinsopthebrave @Craig @pedant @missy @winston

Paging anyone anywhere..

mate of mine is taking a last minute contract at university for 1st years where the topic is, basically, modern Australia. She’s wondering if anyone can add ideas as to what concepts or items are icons for Australia (forgive my bad gramma but it’s “Australia…[Read more]

@JanetteB @blenkinsopthebrave

@pedant indeed yes, this track showed his comedic quality when prior it was all “take me very seriously intensity.”

Whistle Test -know it well. Various faculties had access to whole boxes of recorded cassettes!

Time was a beast, though.

@pedant

Well, normally I’d agree but Meatloaf is TGOAT -his inspiration only from Zeus. Karla is Hecate. Or….something.

She’s unbelievably good isn’t she?

And I think, I think, Paradise is the best rock song ever written, actually.

Closely followed, of course, by Wilde’s Kids in America…. (Seen recently in S2 of Killing Eve)

Puro

I remember many eons ago putting on Calamity Jane – we had a drum-kit & 2 keyboards only & a fantastic young Maori lass as Calamity.  “Calamity’s word is sacred!”

@pedant  @craig

Absolutely phenomenal, wasn’t she?

Two nights ago we were watching a Doris Day movie (hadn’t done this in AGES) and when we awoke the next morning, found out she’d died.

A genuine talent to be missed.

@craig

Absolutely. You did a wonderful thing. A necessary thing. I think @whisht‘s idea of speaking with the Samaritans yourself -if you feel you may need to – is top advice.

Also, what @pedant said -it’s rarely capricious.

It must have been difficult to do & you could’ve looked the other way. You turned towards them, Craig.

Puro and Thane.

@mudlark yes, weedy, here. In my garden. 🙂  It’s like “muh-fashnik”

I like weeds, actually -grassy weeds, though.

I have a gardenia which, foolishly I added Dynamic Lifter to. The woman at the so-called nursery said “oh, ah” & it explains bright yellow spots a week later. I know it will die. I just know it. An arborist planted one next door…[Read more]

@mudlark looking at what you recommended, and then checking the one local nursery still hanging on by its roots, we don’t appear to have it -or rather, they don’t. I’ll have another look around, though, thank you.

Also, the small ‘violets’ -for want of a better description are easy to grow, even here, strangle everything if not snipped back (I…[Read more]

@mudlark

That was silly of me wasn’t it! “Oh yeah, terrific photos.”  So, Puro LOOK at it before commenting on the vinca!

My response: “euw.”

they look kinda weedy?  So, I’ve learned all about botany today & appreciate it mudlark. Thank you.  I’m attempting to grow more bougainvillea @JanetteB & definitely, rosemary thrives in the dry do…[Read more]

@Winston indeed the pix! @pedant is a brilliant photographer & if I’m miserable about not going further afield -beyond my fence, in other words -I look at the photographs. It’s real mastery of the craft.

Thane & Puro

@janetteB @mudlark @winston

Did someone mention “vinca”  ??

Part of my gardening work (motive: helps with pain relief; as the garden sits VERY close to the footpath & we have a large tuckeroo,  judiciously taken care of, – but presenting a tendency to naughtiness: it doesn’t like to share the water) was to double dig & work on my soils For t…[Read more]

that’s @idiotsavon above.

@pedant @bluesqueakpip Late to the party of sugar.

Wondering if Diabetes is hereditary? Is remission something that lasts for a few years only anyway? I know with Cancer or Crohns (both with unknown etiology) that a few years only can be widely interpreted. Are sounds being made to indicate that the study mentioned would rid the body of Diabetes…[Read more]

@mudlark

Oh I LOVE drop scones! I’d never even heard of them until a friend of mine showed me almost 10 years ago.

Jolly delicious.

Puro

@pedant @winston

that’s great history & I didn’t know an inch of it -or a pinch of it (salt) nor a cup of it (flour & sugar presumably).

Aussies put a pinch of salt in their pancakes, whether savoury or not. The worst crepes I had was in Lausanne. Twice. For some reason between ’93 & 2009 I believed they’d improve. They were SO sweet I wanted to…[Read more]

@mudlark

I should have said the 5-8 thousand models are affixed to the house so they’re used for the entire property. Most people in this suburb have 3 or 4 bathrooms etc -2 kitchens even.

Not us, though. Just two loos and one small kitchen but we do go thru a massive amount of water. I should look at my water bill and list it.

Coffee grounds…[Read more]