TheWitchofThornbury @ TheWitchofThornbury @aussie.zone

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3 day eventing. Nearly got there in my youf so what I really want is to be young again. Will accept showjumping as a mediocre substitute. Bugger anything that requires sore feet. The sweat, blood and tears go with the territory.

Sky very very pretty.

quiz It's a doozy this week.

40/50

The 'live' results on the abc news live coverage have been updated after a couple of hours of just sitting there static - Labour = 81 seats!

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EDIT: Now 84 seats.

Fabric headboards are a complete pain to keep clean, especially if you have pets. The amount of hair that accumulates is mindblowing, and I worry about fleas/bedbugs etc. as they're impossible to wash or clean properly. I have a wrought iron decorative head & foot, with sturdy iron rails holding them apart and sturdy slats. Its quite tall - mid thigh when standing next to it, but the underbed space holds my two spare guest mattresses easily and more besides.

Slats are a major point of failure in cheap beds, so if you get a Cpt Snooze or Fantastic Furniture bed, replace the slats with tongue & groove boards laid a little apart for ventilation. This also prevents cats from climbing up into the mattress from below and getting squashed by the coils (if any).

Champers all round I reckon. Victoria deserves it. Slightly less political idiocy than usual, though there's still plenty to go around.

Right. 6 pm. Heeeere we gooooooo!

Just finishing up now - the adults are settling in to watch the election results. Kids are now engulfing pizza after a long afternoon sugar high - what could possibly go wrong?

Best of luck! But I don't like your chances.

Kids party next door. Adults talking politics and getting fairly heated. Kids playing pass the parcel and pin the tail on the donkey. Much noise. Pray for me.

Noooooooooo

Heh heh. Actually they didn't get my vote - a party of witches is a bit of a misnomer. According to Terry Pratchett, the collective term for a group of witches is an argument. I agree with that definition.

It's a great place to hang the face flannel.

This is a metaphor. Right.

Sossige, cawfee, passionfruit sponge and some choc chip muffins please. All gluten free. I kid you not, my local booth had a separate BANK of tables marked variously 'halal', 'gluten free', 'dairy free' and 'vegan'. Well separated from the carnivore heaven on the other side of the playground but downwind, which gave me a chuckle.

Interesting. I was aware of Vote Compass, but the Build a Ballot was new to me. Will save that for next time.

That stuff makes a great spider! Never did care for it as a milkshake though - looked too much like toothpaste.

Been there, done that. A friend of mine rented the terrace house next to the bandroom so we spent a LOT of time at the Dan. St Pats was a whole other thing though - the Dan was as much fun as Molly Blooms.

Yeah, the Chevron was for getting dressed up all fancy. Mostly I went to the nearest pub. The Chev did a good Black Russian which I liked better than White Russians.

Get thee to a podiatrist asap! Trust me, they are brilliant at sorting out ingrown toenails. Which have a genetic component but are made much much worse with ill fitting footwear. Speaking as someone whose toenails started to grow into tubes during my 20s, and still do if I mistreat them. My podiatrist kept my feet functional for a long long time - far better than any doc ever did.