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 so beautiful 😍
Those are cute!
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
Tinyest has started repeating words back to you. Shit is ADORABLE. Bathtime, GO!, Buh Bye and Ball are all big ones.
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.
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
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
Saturday is going to be a high of 27 and low of 21. Friday high of 17, low of 7. What a juxtaposition.
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.❤️
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*
Imagine how wholesome society would be if everything wasn’t for a feed.
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?
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.
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 ❤️
Replaced the headlight globe and managed to order my one of my favourite café lunches yesterday over the phone before I got there (the kitchen would have closed before I arrived).
I’ve been intermittent with my hayfever defence and I have been attacked. Ugh.
But… as for today, I have done a load of laundry, started the trickle-charge on one bike, washed and put the side mirror back on the scooter, finished a lengthy phone call and am now at the hairdressers.
Of course, I always accomplish things other than what I should be. 😂
8.00 am and I’m already in trouble. Ted bit my bum because he hadn’t gotten his kangaroo for breakfast yet.
Corpse is in the oven with marinade and some chopped tomato, carrots and onions
I’m currently warming up the bath for my pasta.
Yesterday sucked,I had a headache after I took a nap and it basically lasted the whole day, I could barely concentrate on anything.
Most I achieved was having the cricket on for most of the evening, couldn’t really use my phone much or anything else during that time.
Wasted Sunday :(
gentle hugs
sometimes we just a day off , it’s never wasted 😘
Thanks Seagoon, feeling a bit off and exhausted today and a bit spacey.
Trying to take it easy at work and not overdo things.
