RustyRaven

RustyRaven, 1 day ago

Beef stew cooked with lots of wine for dinner tonight. I’ll do baked brussels sprouts and cauliflower in cheese sauce to go with it. I made a big batch of stew so will have 6 serves for later too.

Breakfast this morning was sourdough avocado and cheese toast, with 2 fried eggs. Plus a little bit of parsley for garnish so I could call it fancy,

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RustyRaven, 1 day ago

does anyone know where I put the corkscrew?

RustyRaven, 1 day ago

not in any of the drawers. I checked each one about 4 times.

RustyRaven, 1 day ago

I have checked both the cupboard which collects random tools that should mostly be outside and the pegboard storage areas where screwdrivers are and there is no corkscrew ☹️

RustyRaven, 1 day ago

Handy to know about BfR. I have now created my own Reddit sub and the app is working again.

RustyRaven, 1 day ago

She is currently curled in her favourite hanging basket. Obviously I can’t wake her up to check but it seems highly unlikely she would have stolen the corkscrew and managed to carry it up there. She’s only little and has no teeth for gripping such things.

RustyRaven, 1 day ago

Cork was pushed into the bottle. Alas I have no swiss army knife. I have a suspicion I may have overzealously decluttered it thinking it was a spare.

RustyRaven, 1 day ago

My cutlery sits in a pot on a shelf. I did check the shelf it is on and the one above it (which houses the teapot). No corkscrew ☹️

RustyRaven, 1 day ago

I will be moving in with my mother and consolidating households in the near future, so at this stage I am not buying anything I can do without for a short period. So I’ll be pushing in corks for a few months then either find it in the move or just use mum’s. I’ll add it with the broken beaters to the list I need to make sure mum doesn’t declutter!

RustyRaven, 1 day ago

The only reasons I can come up with are if the laundry is on a different floor it might be handy to check if it has finished before you go downstairs to unload it. It might also remind you if you don’t unload it which could definitely be handy. Or it could give you a bit more control over programming if it has a decent app - it’s easier/cheaper to build in more variables into an app than it is to have hard buttons. My rice cooker has an app which gives you access to a lot more detailed programming than you can do on the panel, like setting the exact finish time for the times, adjusting default times to your preferences, programs for yoghurt etc. Plus it allows multilingual settings - the cooker has chinese on all the buttons but the app is in English.

RustyRaven, 1 day ago

Beef stew (with lots of wine) has been cooked and is currently in jars in the pressure canner. Seven serves, so one tonight and six for later.

RustyRaven, 1 day ago

I found the corkscrew! I cunningly placed it on top of my box of wine. Where I had already looked, but obviously not very well as it was just pushed to the back a bit (under a shelf, so not very visible).

Having used the first bottle of wine in the beef stew I have opened another bottle to drink, and have been able to use the un-screwed cork that I had to push into the bottle as a seal for the newly opened one, which means I have been able to use the wine stopper in the bottle of soy sauce that for some reason had a non re-sealable bottle top and has been sitting with a bit of foil squished onto it as its lid.

RustyRaven, 1 day ago

I made it myself 😁

I did a package at Shiraz Republic in Heathcote and made a few boxes of Shiraz.

RustyRaven, 1 day ago

I sort of agree, but at the same time my first experience of theatre was Cats and that is crazy.

RustyRaven, 3 days ago

Like the Garden of Eden? God commands you not to use Apple devices!

RustyRaven, 3 days ago

I will be enjoying it by mowing my grass, removing a few weeds and (if the enthusiasm levels are high enough) poisoning some other weeds.

RustyRaven, 4 days ago

Is it possible to eat cocktail frankfurts without tomato sauce or is that a crazy person thing?

RustyRaven, 4 days ago

Divided by the 6.6 million people in Victoria it adds up to $7.50 per person, over about 6 months.

RustyRaven, 3 days ago

I’m at $0, so not even on the curve!

RustyRaven, 7 days ago

I doubt I could concentrate on work having just won 150 million. I think I’d need at least a week off to have a minor nervous breakdown while I sorted myself out.

Afterwards I definitely would not want a job. Which is different from not wanting to work or do anything productive. If I won a massive amount like that I would look at starting a charity, probably focused on providing housing and support to people in need. Working out how to do that would probably be a full time job, just figuring out how to actually set up and structure something like that, what the goals etc. would actually be, finding the people needed to make it a success.

RustyRaven, 7 days ago

She was being a bit suspicious in the vicinity of both my stepladder and a cracked mirror in my sewing room the other day, does that count?

RustyRaven, 7 days ago

I honestly doubt 150 million would be enough for that.

What I would probably do in that regard is look at where the missing links are in allowing a more community based supply chain. Most likely something like developing community hubs that can serve as a distribution link between suppliers and consumers. Farmers and bigger suppliers are not generally set up to provide retail quantities, but you can often set up “group buying” schemes to buy in the bigger quantities and divide them up. But they tend to be limited by the lack of places to store and distribute those purchases. If you could set up points that could do that you could have people pick up directly or organise deliveries using uber or other locally available delivery options. Because everything is pre-ordered you would not be trying to handle a retail style shop but could provide a lot of the benefits. If you could provide the initial funds for communities to set up something like that and they could collect a small amount to provide ongoing running costs it would be self sustainable.

This already happens on a limited basis, through places like CERES and community centres. It even happens informally within groups - we have people at work that regularly take shares in a cow and have had things like bulk mango or pumpkin purchases split up there!

RustyRaven, 7 days ago

Miss Meow managed to knock her toy completely upside down whilst flying past doing zoomies. Apparently being upside down makes it very interesting and mysterious again.

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RustyRaven, 7 days ago

Beer. It covers all three options really so is the only logical choice.

RustyRaven, 7 days ago

Until covid I’ve never had any reactions beyond a sore arm and a mild headache. The Covid vax was so awful I have decided I can’t put myself through that again.