Guys, my newly adult daughter is on an overnight bus with her friend on the way to Adelaide for a few days. I am sad but I’ll be ok.
That’s awesome that she’s having adventures!! What’s planned for ADL?? How has your night been?
They’ll be doing touristy things. Staying in a backpackers hostel. My night’s been good, lots of laughs and now a little bit sad. I am happy for her but a little anxious because this is her first trip without a proper adult. Thanks for asking.
she’ll be fine, you have raised her well 👍😊
Thank you.
I have a very dear older family friend that is in early stage Alzheimer’s. We travelled together about 18 months ago but she is really past it now and we kinda knew that would happen (it was a bit of a last harrah family visit). there’s a family event coming up and she would love to go. I have told her that I can’t manage to find accommodation that will suit us (true) and I also think she is a bit past it (true and said and received with love). But she wants to and is a little bit past reason (keeps saying ‘I will let you know if I can come’) and it breaks my heart. I am gonna zoom her into it (someone in her home can help).
But fuck this getting old business. She was the strongest most capable woman I knew growing up. Always a real rock for me. Aaargghh.
I’m sorry for what’s happening. Dementia related ageing just sucks. 🫂
I’m so sorry. hugs
What are you peasants eating?
Ayyyyyyyye!!! 🎂🎂🎂
Suddenly I don’t want my planned dinner, I want that spread.
I’m also having a seafood feast for dinner
(It’s sardines on toast)
A bit of crab meat rolled down my leg so the dog got some too.
… I had tinned spaghetti on toast. It was delicious OKAY.
Glad you’ve celebrated hard though, this looks amazing and you deserve all of it!!
Thanks
Hot bowl of noodles tonight…
It’s too cold!
Tacos!
yay, I went to the beach with my new gum boots. The tide was out and I was adventurous and walked right out across the sand flats to the far rocks that are usually well underwater.
here’s a pic looking back at the shore 😊
That’s a beautiful photo.
Thank you. 🙂 It’s a very photogenic place.
That’s so lovely. The sun reflection is beautiful!
I had no idea it was going photograph like that, with reflections, if I knew I would have centred the picture a bit better
Nah, just frame it as rule of thirds. It’s lovely.
Gorgeous photo. Spin is right, the reflection fits perfectly into the right third of the picture
Well it’s official.
Hambam is now confidently an off leash walker.
I have waited for this moment for a long time.
Trick was to take him to the same park several times a day so he got over being hyper stimulated / fixated. It worked. Now he doesn’t give two shits about anything… other dogs / kids. So I have upgraded his braincell count to 3, from 2.
Nice. My tip, still keep eyes open for skateboards and electric scooters…took my doggo an extra year after graduating to off lead status before he could see those and not be bothered…
Welp, I may feel like my thesis is complete shite and that doing a research project was the worst decision ever that’s dredged up an unrelenting blast of old trauma, but because nobody fucking applies for scholarships in my school, I did… and guess who just got $3000 for filling out some forms - when I’m weeks away from graduating 😂
Sadly, it is taxable as I’m a part-time student, but hell, at least it’ll be in this FY where my taxable income isn’t as high due to having worked part time
Nice. And trust me everyone feels like that weeks away from graduating - you are doing just fine.
I survived work. Must make tea
I wish I’d taken annual leave tomorrow so I could have a 4 day weekend. Ah well.
It’s my birthday so that means seafood and cheese platter day.
Happy birthday! This platter sounds nice, which cheeses will feature?
Thanks.
3× Mersey Valleys and a wedge of South Cape brie.
Happy Birthday to my favourite CEO 😘 🐟🦈🎣🍥🦐🧀💐🍾
Thank you. You’re my favourite Seagoon ❤️
Happy birthday! 🎂
Thank you.
Happy birthday!!!
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Happy birthday CEO. Have a wonderful day!
Thanks.
Enjoy your special day, or 5.
All the best.
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Happy Birthday! May it be a cracker!
Thanks. It’ll be a 5 day extravaganza.
Hoppy birthday! All the beers you could want are coming your way.
Thanks. Beers tomorrow. G&T tonight
Happy Berfday Chief 🥂
Thanks.
and 🎂
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Happy Birthday!🧀🍤🦪
Thanks.
Happy b’day!
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🎉🎉 happy birthday!! Enjoy the festival of CEO 🍻
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Happy birthday CEO! I hope you’ve had a lovely day for it. Can’t go wrong with the oysters etc you had.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR CEO!!! I hope you an excellent day and enjoy alllll of the treats!!
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Happy birthday CEO! Hope you’re having a fabulous day and getting spoilt! 🎂
Thanks. I am.
🎂
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Happy birthday! 🎂🧀🍤🦪
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Happy birthday :)
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Happy birthday and birth week, CEO!!
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Happy birthday, here is a frozen sardine for your platter: 🧊🐟
Thanks. Just throw it at me, I’ll catch it like a pelican.
Cuddling with my warm fuzzy baby. Her bunny soft fur, her warm comforting bulk, her sweet good natured face. I love my cat so much and kiss her little head.
Has CEO invited you all to their party tonight or just me?
I’m allergic to karaoke
Booooooo
There will be street artists, unicorns and fairy bread.
Do we get to smash a piano with sledgehammers?
Yeah
yep and apparently it’s not BYO which is very generous of her.
Bribed her with offers of soju and oysters.
That would do it.
I’m not cool enough for parties sadly
Did you try giving her a frozen sardine?
Do we get a share of the caviar?
I made hash browns. It just ain’t the same. Maybe brushed potatoes aren’t the best for it.
They should be ideal. What recipie did you use?
I followed this one to the letter and it really doesn’t work well. It’s also pretty time consuming
Recipie uses russet spuds - which are not common here. Also they recommend Idaho spuds, also not easily found here. Both of these are extreme ‘floury’ spuds and used for french fries and mashing. If your brushed spuds were a bit more waxy, then I can see that this recipie wouldn’t work so well. Brushed spuds are usually a good allrounder variety, mashes and bakes fairly well, but are not extreme floury or waxy though they do tend more towards the floury sort. I also use a salad spinner to remove moisture rather than the towel method, as I’m lazy and it works very well. I usually add a couple of heaped tablespoons of plain flour and an egg to the shreds (well mixed in) before frying as I find this works to hold the shreds together reliably with practically any potato, and gets nicely crispy.
Also, the heat in the pan matters for getting that nice brown crust. A hotter pan and use a mixture of butter and oil so it doesn’t burn as quickly, then let the hb sit on the heat for a good 5 mins to get a nice crust on it before turning. Cast iron is perfect for hbs, as it holds the heat so well. I think the recipie is probably very good indeed for extreme floury spuds, but might be difficult to adjust for less floury spuds unless you add a bit of flour and an egg to bind.
Interesting thank you 🙏
What was up with them?
I had a look and apparently brushed potatoes are often Sebago which are floury. They would get crispier than a waxy potato but maybe not hold together as well.
There’s also other stuff people do like rinsing the starch off the shreds, squeezing them bone dry with a tea towel or a ricer, and pre-heating the oil before frying.
Using enough oil also makes potatoes crunchier, as well as using a type of fat that can be heated higher. (Not butter, more something like tallow or ghee. Edit: Canola or coconut would also work.)
I’m not an expert and haven’t really made hash browns so there’s no criticism here. Just curious about the science of the process and see people talking about different methods.
Yeah did all that, I used butter and a medium heat setting on cast iron. They really didn’t turn out like I expected. My imagination has got the best of me haha.
Damn. Maybe trial and error will help, or higher heat, or a different recipe.
There’s also r/askculinary on the other place?
Step 1 in life admin day complete:
I have a desk
It is much more solid than I expected for the price, and a touch bigger than I was envisaging. It mostly went together easily too, with only a few bolts at the end which were tricky to position and in a place that didn’t allow you to turn the allen key fully. I think I’ve only got three more bits of furniture to assemble now, the two bedside tables and a small shelf.
Edit: and I now have a working computer too! The important peripherals have all been installed: mouse, keyboard, speakers, and cat sleeping mat.
Oooh, that actually might work at my place… Where’d you find it? Allen key = IKEA?
A place called Living Styles, but it was a clearance item which has now been discontinued. I got quite a bit of furniture and decor items from them which have all been really good, so worth a look at any way.
Nocturnal friend wants to become a ‘NEET’ which I have learnt stands for Not in Employment, Education or Training. She said she just wants to win the lottery. A girl can dream.
What would you do if you won the lottery?
I just want a home of my own
I think that is definitely a possibility. But in the mean time, I hope where you’re living feels like home. And home isn’t just a place. I also hope you can find home in yourself 💕
Travel and when I’m not, I’ll be in a nice cabin somewhere and read books all day.
that too sounds like heaven 🙂
There will be a fireplace and a large spa bath. I won’t be slumming it.
My really boring answer to this is go see my financial advisor and get things set up so I can live like I do now but without the work
This used to be called a LOL - Lady of Leisure. Estimated income level = $200,000 pa MINIMUM. Without working, that’s a shittonne of capital at 2% pa averaged. She can dream, but those dreams are not realistic. I doubt even the lottery would finance that sort of lifestyle.
You mean like a socialite?
Not sure that Low’s friend said what she wants to do, only what she doesn’t want.
buy a nice small house by a beach, set up a nice art work studio, do education and training, work at my art and do part time employment
doing nothing would drive me crazy
That sounds wonderful, and I feel you about the doing nothing thing.
My dream is to have an abode in Melbourne, and also a second abode in a regional place I like that serves as a weekender but I will eventually retire there. I’d love to retire early; I don’t think my body can handle hard physical labour for another 15 years even though I love it. That’s probably it lol. It’s only the lottery: when I was a kid a lottery win would set you up for life. Now I feel like it’ll pay off your house and your kids education and not much more.
Edit: that’s assuming I win something smallish. If I won like 15 million dollars or something that’d be very different.
I just want somewhere safe and stable to live.
That’s a basic human right! It might be a bit naïve of me, but surely there’s a way to achieve this in the not so distant future?
Aaaaaaaaaaaargh
what happened?
Nothing, today’s just an incoherent scream day
