Daily Discussion Thread: 🫂 Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
Daily Discussion Thread: 🫂 Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
Today's weather forecast(Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 14°C, max - 31°C. 95% chance of no rain
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Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays
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Merry Xmas everyone! From human and furball
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Merry Christmas Mr FluffButt
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Merry xmas all.
Off to Anglesea today to my cuzzes farm which I've never been to. They've recently done it up and apparently they have four (4!) horses.
I plan on patting a horse.
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😊 🐴
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Pat one for me! I miss being around horses
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Merry Christmas everyone! My your day be happy and free of any unplanned combustion or entrapment.
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Heard sirens already. May it be as minor as possible...
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Happy Xmas Everybody!
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Merry Christmas to you too and everyone.
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Merry Xmas ❤️
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Pepper says Merry Christmas from her wrapping paper fort.
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She looks so soft and secure in her wrapping paper fort 🛏️
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She's waiting for the dog to pass for a surprise attack!
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I got my nephew a remote controlled fart machine. He keeps sneaking it under adult seats and setting it off, the grown ups are being good sports and playing along. The kids are in fits of giggles. It's a happy game that I think the kids will remember throughout their childhoods. It's very wholesome. ❤️
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Kids make Christmas fun. Our second outing for the long day has been lightened by a remote control centipede attacking peoples feet.
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Came down with food poisoning or gastro or something, so didn't see the fam today. Will do that on the 27th. Spent the morning drinking water, and then when my bowels were thoroughly cleaned out, I went for a walk with my partner.
We did end up getting Macca's because I wanted a coffee frappe, which was worth it lol.
The cat is very very happy were home, he's been very playful and snuggly.
All in all, rather chill. And nothing wrong with that other than the overwhelming hatred I have for myself for being a disappointment to my family and my dad but that's Christmas time for me anyway 🤦🏼♀️
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Glad you’re feeling better, but please don’t feel bad about not seeing family. If you’re sick, you’re sick, and it’s much better staying home than sharing the germs around
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gees, I hope you feel much better real soon.
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Damn. Another case of food poisoning here.
Hope you’ll be feeling way better soon!
Glad you’ll be able to see family in a couple of days instead.
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Merry Christmas.
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I hope the lack of a Christmas tree in the title doesn't upset anyone. I thought hugs were more appropriate - enjoyed by everybody, family/friends to spend time with or not.
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Merry Christmas! 🎄 ❤️ 🎄
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Merry Christmas! Have a great day ❤️
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Merry Christmas 🎄! On the train to the 'Rat and it's lovely seeing quite a few on board with gifts and food. I even saw someone on the way to southern cross pushing around a pram with an Esky in it 😂
I'm also chuffed that my sneaky plan to drive to the CBD and park near the station (all day free street parking on a PH!) worked - although plenty others had the same idea as me on Little Collins St, that was full up, lucky I got a park on Collins just 3 minutes walk.
Downside of today is I packed my headphones and forgot to bring the adapter and I'm kicking myself. Luckily it's quiet in this carriage... I have to get used to the modern world and their stupid headphone-jackless phones.
E: families piled on around Rockbank. Oh well, I can live with it for now...
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Did not account for quite that many snack breaks and so I'm a few mins off with my Die Hard timing. But happy trails, Hans!
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Back home after train delays. Kind of glad I went for the lazy option driving to and fro the CBD, much less lugging around heavy dishes in the heat and thanks to the wonderful city trees my car stayed nice and cool all day. Barely any traffic, zero stress. The first song that came on when I was about to enter the city was Bill Withers' Lovely Day. I can never get the full "daaaaaaaaaaaaay"... But it was great vibes.
Lunch was alright and I'm glad I left when I did. So many loud obnoxious kids on the ride home. Right. Just need to push myself to get the pots and crap out of the car, vacuum the house, pack... and disengage. C'mon me, one last push. We are almost done with being in GO mode
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Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lov-ley day!
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a lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (gasp) aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
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Merry Christmas everyone. Be sure to put on Paul Gilbert's album Twas if you want some more exciting Christmas music
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Every year my mum has different salt & pepper shakers on the table. This year they were Melbourne themed:
Ps. Forgot to ask her about them. Probably older than me.
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Happy Christmas y'all
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Look what I got! A Gudetama squishy lamp
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I love this! Hahahaha!
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Bah humbug 😺🖤
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Merry Christmas!! Sending you all my love and good vibes!
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yay, i just discovered that apple forced all my music onto the cloud, goodbye all my special release and international albums and live tracks
if i can find them
I s'pose I will have to play my Beach Boys xmas album on yt
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Apple Music is terrible for that. They often replace a single album track with a live version. I guess trillions of dollars isn't enough to make a half decent service.
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I haven't looked in a few years, but Apple Music was just a re-brand of Beats Music, which was itself an enshitified rebadge of the old MOG music service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOG_(online_music)
Yes, Apple have enough money to improve it. But unless they have already been improving it, they didn't make the existing service.
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I've stayed an MP3 man all these years because I didn't like iTunes.
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Yeah now i need a nap but I'm being good and going to the gym first because I'm a fucking masochist (I promised myself i would go this morning and I didn't)
Edit: Fed the extended cat family, ordered a kebab and time for a nap.
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Merry Christmas all!
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Merry Xmas mate :) hope your day is going well!
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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate!
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I did end up skipping roast and all the classic Chrissy things. But somebody dropped by, and I was gifted a small blow up pool and some solar powered fairy lights which is very dope. Blew and filled it up today, probably not gonna go for a dip til the morrow though
Apparently one of the Indian restaurants near my house is open, so I'm thinking I might take a quick shower then nip down for lunch. They're very nice there, and their food is affordable. Tbh I don't really like roasts (except for roast chooks, but I don't have the patience to cook those), so I'd take a curry over a roast lamb any day of the week
When hottest 100 day comes, I reckon I might pull up my speaker and have a lazy day in the pool listening along. The only thing I'm worried about is that my hallway and every entrance is carpeted, so if I need to go for a funny run or want to grab a drink, I'll have to towel off outside and wait til I stop dripping. Might need to buy some kind of tarp to put down or something
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Merry Christmas good people.
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Had a Spotify playlist on earlier that was spitting out all the hits. INXS, Cold Chisel, Goanna, Icehouse, etc. Very good
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hey everyone, I hope you have all been having a good day 😊
I came home and found Ted hadn't eaten Bill so that was good. 😇
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Ted was sneaking some cooking utensils so it might have been a near thing…
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watching other people cook is agony
inefficiency drives me cray
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Lol okay Gordon Ramsay
Don't come to my kitchen, I take 10 minutes to make 2 minute noodles
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I promise I won't look
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Merry Xmas all
Fell asleep last night without replying to everyone.
The Christmas movies were
Elf (Peter Dinklage was the GOT connection)
Home alone
Trading places
Christmas vacation
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DDT Fam, Merry Christmas or Merry insert your preference here!
I hope everyone has a lovely day, no matter what you are doing.
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Merry Xmas everyone! Hope you all have a good day, however you spend it 🎄🥂
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Fuck that was a lot of food
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Yes. I’m discombobulated
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I am more ham then human.
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Good lunch.
Didn't get to pat a horse but had a good tug of war with one of the doggos 'clyde' sort of a collie cross. I was very impressed by his enthusiasm. Clyde didn't realise that I'm not one to let go of the stick. He did well but I won.
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What's a Christmas gathering without a display of dominance? 🤣
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what on Earth can you mean? 😉
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Be careful when typing seasons greetings. It’s Happy New Year not Happy New Tear.
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I mean, there could be tears… (Right now just looking at the traffic makes me want to shed a few… 😭😂)
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I've been up four hours and don't even care.
Merry Christmas ya filthy animals
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Happy Christmas everyone⛄🎁 I hope all your family things go smoothly today 🙏
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I wasn't sure if this was a whammy. I clicked. Not a whammy! Good job Nath
(Can I be safely whammied now that it's officially the big day?)
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Zooper doopers magic review: the green toffee apple tastes identical to how it did when it was brown. The creaming soda one tastes the same as icky raspberry to me, definitely the least fave and probs gonna sit in the freezer til I eventually throw them our
That's all I've tried so far. Will report back with lemonade and grape when it gets hot
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Use the ones you don't like as ice packs!
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Good idea!
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Yo Happy BD JC 🎂
And Merry Pudding Day 2 da rest of youse. 💕
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It is in fact my brother's birthday
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Yo happy BD to him yo
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Ho Ho Ho 🦌
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋-
Crispy porchetta with roast vegetables and gravy, followed by a pavlova with strawberries and passionfruit topping please Chef. Champagne to drink. And an antacid tablet and a nice dark place to sleep it all off.
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The eggnog at this establishment is unparalleled, so could I please have another of those
And here’s some of my secret-family-recipe trifle for you, chef. Hope you have a lovely day, whatever you’re doing 🥣
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🥚🥛🥃
That is most delicious thank you. Chef is at work today.
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I'll get a big juicy steak served with sauteed capsicum, asparagus and broccoli - with cheese on the veggies. Two eggs as well please
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🫑🎍🥦🥔🍳🍳
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Inspired by somebody you probably don't know: Chef I send you a halo halo pavlova 🍠🍒🍇💚🥚🍥
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Thank you!
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Mr Woof's not going to be happy, it's not looking like it will be cool enough for a walk this evening. And obviously it will be too hot tomorrow too.
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I'm in two minds about whether I should get a new phone. The one I have right now (from the Samsung A range) has been randomly restarting, and my sister who has the same phone, has had that happen to her. I don't want to get rid of the phone until it's on its last leg, but maybe it's time for a factory reset.
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Finally after years and years of asking record stores and second hand vinyl markets on the off chance they might have a copy (that wasn't stupidly priced)...
- Awesome gift :D
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Lamb in the airfryer, coleslaw all ready for eating and garlic dip about to be opened!
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Fantastisch!!! 🤤🤤 Sounds so gooood
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Oh it was soooo good.
That aldi garlic is potent!
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My aunt made bons bons with mini alcohol bottles, chocolate and mini block Christmas themed Lego. She also wrote the jokes and trivia questions herself. Was cool!
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Quiz time - how well do you remember 2024 in pop culture?
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8/30
Pretty much all guesses.
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7/30 and I was surprised to get that much. Some lucky guesses.
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I got 8/30, clearly I've paid no attention.
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11/30 and I'm lucky I got that far. Genuinely no clue about anything
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19/30!
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I got to question 5 without getting any right so I gave up. I pretty much only follow local news. Zero shits given about what idiots with too much money say or do to other idiots with too much money
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15
not too bad
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13/30 lucky guesses
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Decided to grab biryani. Went for a chicken 65 biryani with medium spice and a mango lassi. Gonna get a takeaway and eat at home because it's very very busy. The lassi is great! Just waiting on the biryani
This area is so much better than the last one, seriously. So many fantastic places to eat in a 5-10 minute flat (not uphill!) walk, and everywhere has good prices and are really lovely
E: they put coriander in it :( All I can taste is Palmolive dishwashing liquid
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Opinions requested: 24° inside still (17° out) but I've acclimated, so it doesn't feel hot or even toasty. It's comfortable for now
Since it will hit the 30s today, reckon I should open up my windows overnight to get things a bit cooler for the morn and close when I wake up? I don't think there'll be any avoiding it, it'll probably simmer at about 28 whether I open the window now or not. Just a matter of when
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I'm an idiot and forgot to set the AC on a timer before leaving. At least the blinds are down and windows closed. Oh well, just gonna rack up bills cooling the place down when I get back.
What did you end up doing with the windows?
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Bugger!
I ended up keeping them closed. Big mistake because it's now 26 inside. 21 outside but hardly seems worth opening up now
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It seems I’ve been too ambitious… 5 of the 6 golden nugget pumpkin seedlings sprouted then have grown super fast and the 20 gallon grow bags were ordered too late.
Would it be super bad to just scratch out holes in the grass and plant the golden nuggets in ground? I haven’t had the soil tested for toxic metals yet because I have not been able to get to the post office, and am weird about the thought of the soil tainting the fruit.
It might not be tooo bad… Apparently fruiting stuff is lower risk.
While I haven’t had mine tested specifically yet, from the research gate map from 2018 my spot looks low for lead contamination. There has also been exposure to cat poop and a buried pet bird but that was about 4/5 years ago.
Just feels weird. With their size I’m going to have to decide soon but don’t want to accidentally give anyone gross produce. And Melbcat might be having some purée too.
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Unless the soil was previously a rubbish tip, a chemical factory, or owned by weirdo who liked to water their garden with leaded petrol, the amount of lead in the soil is likely to be minuscule. (And other heavy metals too. It would just whatever the background level is, which is fine for food, all soils our farmed food is grown in have naturally present trace metals to various degrees). But if it’s not in your comfort zone, then that’s ok! Just grow the pumpkins for ornamental value, or learning a new skill, or still life subjects for your art, or providing flowers for pollinators, and eventually compost for the garden to keep the worms happy and soil healthy. The goal doesn’t have to be food production, it’s still enjoyable to watch things grow.
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Thanks, my goal is mainly food production though :(
I started doing this to give veg to a friend and their family and hope to expand to give some to a community pantry
Edit: I just used the last of my potting mix to plant them out into some soy milk *cartons with holes in the bottom. That should buy me some time to decide. There’s not much width but there is space for roots to grow down.
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Using up some of this yarn making a string bag. Acrylic is apparently not ideal but it’s what I’ve got. I may or may not finish, feeling kind of lazy.
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A late merry Christmas to all. Hope it was pleasant whatever your activities were. I ate lots of food, stayed out of some arguments, patted a dog, and am now in bed.
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Also Santa with Muscles is free on YouTube if you really have nothing better to do
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Still so warm in the hotbox bedroom. I had plans of leaving at like 7 am tomorrow but it's not happening I think. The beauty of driving is I can push it back. It'll be hot regardless... Leaving at 8:30 won't be that much worse on Boxing Day, surely, especially when most people will probably be staying indoors
Had planned on watching the last episode of Shrinking but CBF now, I'll watch it when I get back. It turned so soapy I kind of hate it now.
I did finish the first series of Northern Irish cop show Blue Lights yesterday though and that was really entertaining. Looking forward to s2.
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Not sure where you’re going but the Boxing Day match at the MCG is sold out for tomorrow with the expectation of 90k+ people.
I’d avoid that area like the plague tomorrow if you leave later.
Going to be a low of 23 tonight. Hope you’re able to get some relief somehow with it being so warm tonight.
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28.7° checking in!
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Ted Cat and all the the Seagoons say Merry Christmas 😘😘😘
Here is Ted helping with cooking
Ted looks like he got sprung getting up to no good.
Merry Christmas Seagoon fam. 💜
Always, Ted is always up to no good.
Ted appears to have been sprung bad
Ted's definitely up to something.
Merry xmas to the seagoons!