TheWitchofThornbury @ TheWitchofThornbury @aussie.zone

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Happy Solstice for lunchtime today!

Trying to decide if I want a Continental breakfast or a Modified American breakfast or a Full English breakfast. Chef, could you please roll the dice and provide accordingly? Not if it's too much trouble of course.

Yep. Used to do them for putting round the sides of birthday cakes for the boys. In football team colours. And to satisfy my bloke's toffee addiction. Very fun and very pretty. They look lovely as christmas tree decorations.

Try Preston Market. The out of date/out of stock re-sellers sometimes have bags of boiled lollies that are perfect for stained glass bikkies.

EDIT: or make your own. Boiled lollies are just sugar and water boiled to hard crack stage, then coloured and set. I cup of sugar+1/4 cup of water is a good base mix. Boil up to hard crack stage, then dip out a half ladleful, add food colouring to suit, stir with fork and pour onto a tray lined with baking paper to set. Dip out some more, colour etc until you have all the colours you need. I recommend banishing all pets, kids and spouses from the kitchen until you've finished. Hot sugar is nasty when juggling priorities.

And the final result is easily storable in airtight jars/bags for future use. And you're going to smash it up anyway so if bits stick to each other that's fine.

Just got home from work. EOFY sucks the big one. Kill me now. (after I've had this glass of wine that magically leapt out of the fridge and into my hand) Really should eat something. Later.

Popcorn is good. Popcorn is life.

saladas with a thin smear of vegemite, and weak black tea is very good at settling a grumbly tummy.

Cheesus! Pepperoni is preserved, goddamit. If no one dies or gets sick, the preservation worked.

Hot & spicy soup please, with crusty bread.

Please be very careful of those all-in-one build/finance packages - they don't have a good success record. Please check out the quality of their previous builds too. And any past bankruptcy/business failures too for the builders. Phoenixing a building company to cover up past defaults is all too common. Get some advice from your accountant BEFORE you sign anything, and be very clear about your rights if the builders go broke or otherwise default before completion. Or vanish after completion leaving serious structural repairs that need to be done to make the place liveable. Please.

Too many people get caught out by an industry that for a very long time now has depended on a kind of reverse ponzi scheme. It works fine for a bit, but any tiny change in for example materials supply can bring the whole thing crashing down. And with the world in such turmoil and supply chains in such chaos, it seems very difficult to predict what will happen over the next few years.

spelling quiz

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Fukkit. The sun is shining, the wind has dropped. The washing is done and the house clean. There's a new caff in Miller St where TickledPink used to be. I'm going out for brunch. I may have a wine or two with it then doze the afternoon away.

Have read several murder mysteries where the beignets were the killer - arsenic in the powdered sugar. And on one occasion Mrs omitted to add the usual arsenic to the sugar and Mr (abusive) died of the withdrawal symptoms. No evidence of poison he he. Mrs was smart.

Those are much bigger and bright yellow and black. Don't know the one in the pic.

Do they serve beignets?

Thanks! Needed some helth today.

Some granola and yoghurt with fresh fruit please with coffee.

There do be a song of some sort in that thought maybe ..

Check useby date. If the mix was fried, then the oil may have gone rancid and nothing will fix it.

Yggdrasil.