I underestimated how many more would come in today. Over 110 entries now!
That’s bloody awesome, well done! Picking a winner may be tough though!
Now let’s all face Launceston and pray.
Buddha Boon!
Sure am. I’ve started on the 13+ age group since they didn’t have too many entries. But man, kids are creative. Love seeing the stuff they come up with.
Boooooonie
Oh you’re going to be so busy with all those entries!
but the most wonderful kind of busy 😄
Unmolded my soap today. The good batch is looking pretty good (although I probably should have put some effort into removing air bubbles). The dodgy batch has been melted down and poured into new molds, hopefully it has been saved.
I thought these were shortbread cookies 😭
They look more like fudge in real life. Unfortunately they don’t taste like fudge.
Those are cute!
those are so beautiful 😍
How can we get some? Or are these going to be cured in time to be Christmas gifts?
Just mix up some fat and caustic soda and you can have all the soap you want!
I have given soaps as Christmas gifts before, but this lot are all for me 🙂
I really should give it a crack, I love soapmaking YouTube
I wish I knew how to make soap. It’s a bit dangerous in my current place (with fumes, weak arms, a cat who dances under my feet in the kitchen etc).
It’s not very complicated to make a basic soap, most difficulties come in when you are trying to add colours and fragrances. I mix it under the rangehood to deal with any fumes from the caustic soda. It’s basically a process of warming up the oil to around 54 degrees, mixing the caustic soda with water and waiting for it to cool to 54 degrees, then when they are both at the same temperature mix them together until it starts to thicken - I use an old slender blender so don’t need to have strong arms, and it mixes in a couple of minutes. Then you just pour it into the moulds and wait a bit. You can use something like a milk carton lined with baking paper, then in a day or two cut it into slices and leave it to dry for around 6 weeks to fully harden.
These batches are made with beef fat which I collected off a very fatty batch of soup bones I made stock with a while ago, so they should also count as quite frugal!
That’s cool!
I guess I’m just a bit intimidated by working with something hot and caustic as well
Goodnight all ❤️
Sweet Gibson 😍😍
You guys only see the nice side. Not the random nibbles on my arm when I’m trying to eat dinner lol
In the biz we call that the squint of approval.
Tinyest has started repeating words back to you. Shit is ADORABLE. Bathtime, GO!, Buh Bye and Ball are all big ones.
The writing competition blew up over the weekend. Ended up with 83 entries with maybe some more coming in today. I am super proud of the effort.
yay, booking for new glasses has been made :)
this is the first time i’m going to be getting my second pair adjusted for my astigmatism, i just can’t have the glare anymore, it’s unsafe
I am short sighted and have astigmatism, all streetlights are staaaaars
same here
not great for night driving , plus i’m curious what the world looks like without it
Saturday is going to be a high of 27 and low of 21. Friday high of 17, low of 7. What a juxtaposition.
8.00 am and I’m already in trouble. Ted bit my bum because he hadn’t gotten his kangaroo for breakfast yet.
apparently I’m healthy other than a bad back . Who knew? Just need to lose weight, get a little fitter and keep an eye on stuff.
Yay!
Excellent ❤️
Corpse is in the oven with marinade and some chopped tomato, carrots and onions
I’m currently warming up the bath for my pasta.
Yes, you definitely need to shave your legs if you want to wear that.
And maybe a dab of fake tan
Ha
Oh no, this again? Haha.
I forgot what colour it’s meant to be
White and gold?
blue and black, just like Pedro Pascal’s Roman uniform in Gladiator 2
Aha a r/shittymoviedetails lurker ?
who isn’t?
Pedro Pascal
Pedro. So hot right now. Pedro.
I see red
Yanny
No, Laurel
Unpopular opinion. All social media should be banned. I’m sorry but it’s just too toxic.
That would deprive us of your comments though
True. I’ll make an exception for aussie.zone.
I think we straddle the edge of social media here. I think the layer of anonymity here means we’re not quite social media. This feels more like the old usenet newsgroups of the 90’s to me. I know it’s pretty much the Reddit 2009 experience, but that also felt like Usenet.
the old Usenet newsgroups of the ’90s*
Walking through the park today and went under trees that just had bark chips and dirt underneath. Looked a bit meh. I was reminded of a pic of some young adult saying how people tell him to go outside instead of being of the computer all day. He showed outside, a very dull dingy grey dirty old eastern bloc dormitory city. So his SIM city would be better, just like on the new Brave New World series, people could be fed a nice make believe place.
But surely it would be best if he went outside and did something to improve his home rather than escape reality?
Imagine how wholesome society would be if everything wasn’t for a feed.
it should be regulated
I’m not sure you can without government overreach and inevitably trampling on someone’s rights.
This is quite a take. Regulation could be government overreach, but banning social media outright is not?
As a benevolent lord and commander of the universe I am not part of the government and I will enact the ban.
Yeah who’s doing the banning? The government? Who can also… Regulate…
I think they’d regulate. Hard to argue that regulation is more overreaching than banning lol
These rights of free speech are part of the social contract. People who break that social contract to bring down the system of freedoms or to do harm to others have that right revoked.
No one has the right to use freedom to trample others.
Title
I pick and pull red threads apart,
And sew myself a scarlet heart.
Powered by my woven mind,
Perceive the schemes across time.
Within chaos we perform the innate,
That-which-makes-us-human trait:
Assign some reason for the random,
Find some meaningful religious fandom,
Add a cause for the effect of common sense,
Draw in the pattern to flatten the tense,
Allocate the words to describe the past,
Rhymed with the concepts so my art may last.❤️
someone please put your bins out so I can figure out which one I’m supposed to do.
You need a binfluencer
I put bin night into my calendar as a recurring reminder. Every two weeks it’s yellow/red bin. Works a treat: my phone knows what colour bin night it is!
Today felt like it went past quick. Either that or I’m getting used to work lol
I always have my lunch break at 4pm so I can just leave.
And someone is happy the treat dispenser is back.
My husband does that. Lunch at 1:30. Knock off at 2.
I don’t understand stopping work, just to go back to work. Let’s smash it all out in one go when see ya later.
The good old back ending go out to lunch and never come back.
Can easily let you get home 30-40 mins earlier depending on how long your lunch break is.
I actually get to sit down on the train and am not squashed against everyone.
Meow
