TheWitchofThornbury @ TheWitchofThornbury @aussie.zone

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The Chevron in St Kilda Road! Also the Croc, the Parkview, and the Dan O'Connell. But just about any pub had live music on Fri/Sat albeit of varying quality and volume back in the early 70s. If you could be bothered with a long tram ride, then the Three Weeds on Plenty Road often had good bands just starting out.

Back in the dim & distant past, you could get spearmint milkshakes here in Melb. Grew up on them. Then about mid 1980s the choice of flavours dropped back to to vanilla, choc & raspberry - caramel if you were lucky. This was about the time that Big M started putting their wares in supermarkets, and you could no longer get milkshakes in milk bars as a matter of course. Some holdouts of course but in general the spearmint milkshake died right then and there. Could be time for a revival.

The Big Green Store mafia puts in the boot in on them I reckon.

Pah! Last election my local election booth had CAKE STALLS! I will have first dibs on the first passionfruit/cream sponge I see! Plus sossiges of course but compared to a nice passionfruit sponge .... no contest!

Umm, Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie, Pythagoras, Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, Einstein, Nikolai Tesla and the last one's a blank.

Ooooh, crispy edges!

Pub on main drag. Very good counter lunch the last time I went there. Some interesting menu items as well as the usual.

Neither have I. Counting my blessings.

OK, I'm late to this party, but I thought Ballaratbag only applied if you live in Wendouree. Or has that vibe expanded with new settlement/immigration. I last lived there in the late 70s, so my info could well be out of date.

April in Paree ...

Chocolate coated prawns and lemon flavoured coffee please.

Fashion advice : banana print oodie, striped pj pants and ugg boots. Just because you recognize the existence of the outside, that does not mean that you necessarily endorse it.

Awwwwww. We like you too.

I'm going to go into the garden and eat worms. Big fat juicy ones, long thin slimy ones, I'm going to eat some wooooorms.

The quiz you've all been waiting for

25/50 Prince Phillip - who knew?

My aunt used to have dachshunds. Tough little buggers and excellent hunting dogs, with a built in snap crackle pop kill drive for rats, rabbits and snakes. No, this survival story doesn't surprise me at all either. I saw the abc article, and she's a shorthair with good legs and not fat. Show-bred ones are a bit fragile in the back and some have leg and eye issues, but a healthy young one can survive a LOT.

Owwwww.

Add some gin. Kills the germs.

Finally! Marge!

Given the extensive shedding, I think this would be PERFECT for a car collector or similar. Or someone with a horsefloat and a caravan and a boat and a few zillion motorcycles to store undercover.