Food and Drink #61

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chizontiz said:
Lads I’ve got ages on this train and the WiFi is too rubbish to watch anything and I obviously wasn’t organised enough to download anything ahead of time. What are your recommended threads to grunk? I feel like I know enough about Simon Harris and RSM by osmosis. Anybody else worth the time?
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The Mumsnet thread is always funny, I like the off topic and current events threads because you can just pop in without having to know a back story.

I'm in bed getting my arm kneaded by Susan. She was climbing up my back earlier. Also meowing loudly then when I looked at her she screamed and ran away.
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Thanks fraus, really useful advice. This happens to me with candles all the time even though I always burn the first burn for at least an hour - I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

I’ve got it burning just now - a teeny little bit of flame but I’m keeping it going. The water in the jug didn’t go right up the jar so none of it went in, thankfully.
hopefully it’ll even itself out.
 
I straighten out candles by placing them in oven at a very low temp like 50°. Smooths them completely flat again. Then freezer overnight to sort of set/alchemise the wax to remind it of its new form.

But before lighting for the first time, I always refrigerate / freeze overnight. It makes the first burn - which is definitely supposed to be for at least two hours - also help the wax's "memory"
 
Lazarus said:
Thanks fraus, really useful advice. This happens to me with candles all the time even though I always burn the first burn for at least an hour - I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

I’ve got it burning just now - a teeny little bit of flame but I’m keeping it going. The water in the jug didn’t go right up the jar so none of it went in, thankfully.
hopefully it’ll even itself out.
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It's not always your fault- sometimes the wick isn't right for the diameter of candle and/or wax blend. Although you wouldn't expect that from a spenny brand.
Also maybe the candle is in a cold spot so the heat from the centre wick is being beaten by cooling on the outside?
 
today was our thread side character pachoochoo's birthday

I was a bit worried cos I got him a card referencing his age, so is that offensive? not a big x0 birthday, but 🍉 a big famous song by some of youses most famous homeboys

anyhoo, I may not have given birth to a vera, chuck or dave, but he loved the card!
 
The $15 Kmart mini ice cream maker has arrived in time for Christmas! The courier company must be working so hard, sincerely thankful to all those people. The dog ate plums that I raked up and buried in the compost bin. We've done the grocery shopping early today.

And I’ve resolved a hose issue: had to test a number of long garden hoses, chopping off perished parts and joining them together, to resurrect a gravity-fed long hose from a rainwater tank at the sheds. The hose is probably 80 metres long. Now I can water the fruit trees with relative ease and the buckets of shower water can be used on garden beds. (We're on tank water: not water scarce, but water savers by long habit. The only exception for me is post floods when I told all my friends on town water to have super long showers to help drain Warragamba Dam (Sydney's biggest water catchment) ha.)

Seriously, that hose thing was a really good farmlet job yesterday, hooray. The citrus trees' leaves were all curling up and falling. Now they are saved!

Cherries at Woolworths $15/kg: tasteless and bitter at the same time. Cherries at the local fancy fruit and veg shop $28/kg, delicious perfection. Purchased 300 grams and very happy with this life choice.
 
It's the eve of Christmas Eve in summer, in Australia. And it's 14°C.

And a Sydney friend just asked me if the Echidna photo is a hedgehog and is it a pet?

What!!!
 
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