• PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    13·
    6 days ago

    Party is over and I bought way too much food and soft drink, but it won’t go to waste around here I guess. Miniest’s friends are all funny and nice little girls with nice mums, but I didn’t get a chance to talk to them much.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    9·
    6 days ago

    forgot to post how good the potato wedges were! the cheese sauce wasnt my best, but the bolognese sauce was amazing with them as was the simple sweet chili and sour cream. Gonna get back into the “snacks for dinner” to save a bit of cash and cause the kid loves 'em!

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
      2·
      5 days ago

      Loaded baked potatoes would be even cheaper. Get the washed kind (preferably floury) and microwave them skin on to cook. Then smash open, load them up, and bake to get everything hot and crispy/melted

  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
    9·
    6 days ago

    Anybody have the “board game stash cupboard” ? I counted around 30 board games and card games and half dozen puzzles. I think my favourites are Settlers of Catan and Risk, but the one game that everyone comes back to is UNO for some reason.

    I think it’s more fun in a large group gathering that’s more casual.

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
      7·
      6 days ago

      The new UNO game has draw 10 and other weird cards in it. Great for big gatherings.

      We have a lot of quiz games and classics.

    • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
      7·
      6 days ago

      UNO Flip is one of my favourite card games, it’s so chaotic. Got any games good for 2 players that you can reccommend?

    • tone212_@aussie.zone
      6·
      6 days ago

      UNO is a classic. Never gets boring. Cards against humanity gets pulled out a fair bit at friend game gatherings as well.

    • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Yeeeess. Just the classics - chess, backgammon, cribbage, mahjong and ordinary cards. Oh, and Squatter (inherited from siblings - dates back to the 1970s). Zillions of jigsaws as I like doing these and have good lighting over the jigsaw table so can be done after dark.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
      2·
      6 days ago

      We’ve got lots of games like various Uno ones, Throw Throw Avocado, Throw Throw Burrito, Exploding Kittens, What Do You Meme, the hit each other with fake swords one and stuff like that. I like good old fashioned monopoly but nobody else is interested. There’s a heap I haven’t looked at in ages, I probably should.

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      1·
      6 days ago

      I only 2 board games so I don’t think it really counts. I have flamecraft and Wyrmspan.

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    12·
    6 days ago

    Miniest’s non birthday party today. She wanted a get together with her besties rather than a full on party. So we’re hoping to snag a spot at the local “good” park (we live closest to the “shit” park) and I’m providing plenty of cold drinks and snacks. Got to make brownies and do some quick shopping. Off I go!

  • SituationCake@aussie.zone
    11·
    6 days ago

    I have just learned that all the HBO shows have left Binge. HBO has launched their own streaming service. The fragmentation of the market is ridiculous. People are just gonna give up and go back to the seas.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    9·
    6 days ago

    Flu vax acquired. The nurse this year was the most efficient ever, I was leaving almost before I arrived. Lollipop was also aquired.

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
        4·
        5 days ago

        Maybe the top one… probably not the rest.

        But you’d have to stand at a weird angle and lean or twist to use any of them. Stress position = injury waiting to happen

    • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      This is a kitchen for ubereats and takeaway. God forbid that the kitchen should intrude on the really important rooms. It’s been tucked into the leftover space on the floor plan. The door next to the stove - is that to a cupboard or an exit? Because if it’s an exit then this is a passage with a stove in it. The drawers MIGHT be on swivels so they open sideways, but I doubt it. If this were mine, I’d take an axe to the peninsula thingie and replace it with a moveable island. Then it’s more workable if not exactly good.

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
        2·
        5 days ago

        I once had a kitchenette (?) that only had a few square feet of floor space and not enough room for a fridge… it was still more usable than this. It’s terrible planning.

        They absolutely should have used an island or even just left the peninsula out. There’s even an area at the side where a small table or sideboard could have been used for extra bench space instead.

        • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          I think that space is where the fridge is supposed to go. Judging by the placing of the power point at eye level to the left of the shelving. And that’s a crappy place to put the fridge too as opening the door is going to impact on the peninsula. I only hope that the view provided has been snapped with a fish eye lens and the angles are not quite as bad as they look.

          • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
            1·
            5 days ago

            You’re right. I completely forgot about the fridge. It gets worse the longer you look.

            Edit: Perhaps a taller shallower French door fridge could be used but would still kind of be impeding the walkway. A bar fridge could go where the dishwasher is but that’s very limiting when the other space is there.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
      4·
      5 days ago

      screams in trying to open drawers also does the dishwasher door open to where the pantry door also opens? I can’t tell what that door is. It’s the “I don’t care because I’m not going to live here” kitchen.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        3·
        5 days ago

        Three bedrooms one bathroom is what I am looking at. It’s just for me so I don’t need or want another bathroom. But if you go down to two bedrooms you rarely get a full kitchen which I want (and modern places often have pretty tiny kitchens too).

        I have found quite a few in the area I’m looking at have seperate rooms for bath, shower and toilet so more people can be using things at the same time. I don’t think more than one bathroom became common until the mid to late 80s.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
      3·
      5 days ago

      stares

      Terrible. Who the fuck designed that?

      They should have just gone with a portable kitchen island on wheels, so it could be moved into that empty side area when not in use. Or just used there.

      Maybe a kitchen island would stick out into the walkway a little when pushed to the side but that weird angled monstrosity there impedes access to part of the kitchen and would constantly take a chunk out of your hip.

      Even omitting that extra bench space would be preferable.