• Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    16·
    27 days ago

    Unmolded my soap today. The good batch is looking pretty good (although I probably should have put some effort into removing air bubbles). The dodgy batch has been melted down and poured into new molds, hopefully it has been saved.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
      3·
      26 days ago

      I wish I knew how to make soap. It’s a bit dangerous in my current place (with fumes, weak arms, a cat who dances under my feet in the kitchen etc).

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        5·
        26 days ago

        It’s not very complicated to make a basic soap, most difficulties come in when you are trying to add colours and fragrances. I mix it under the rangehood to deal with any fumes from the caustic soda. It’s basically a process of warming up the oil to around 54 degrees, mixing the caustic soda with water and waiting for it to cool to 54 degrees, then when they are both at the same temperature mix them together until it starts to thicken - I use an old slender blender so don’t need to have strong arms, and it mixes in a couple of minutes. Then you just pour it into the moulds and wait a bit. You can use something like a milk carton lined with baking paper, then in a day or two cut it into slices and leave it to dry for around 6 weeks to fully harden.

        These batches are made with beef fat which I collected off a very fatty batch of soup bones I made stock with a while ago, so they should also count as quite frugal!

    • Pilk@aussie.zone
      3·
      26 days ago

      How can we get some? Or are these going to be cured in time to be Christmas gifts?

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        3·
        26 days ago

        Just mix up some fat and caustic soda and you can have all the soap you want!

        I have given soaps as Christmas gifts before, but this lot are all for me 🙂

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    12·
    27 days ago

    Tinyest has started repeating words back to you. Shit is ADORABLE. Bathtime, GO!, Buh Bye and Ball are all big ones.

  • danwritesbooks@aussie.zone
    11·
    27 days ago

    The writing competition blew up over the weekend. Ended up with 83 entries with maybe some more coming in today. I am super proud of the effort.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
    10·
    27 days ago

    yay, booking for new glasses has been made :)

    this is the first time i’m going to be getting my second pair adjusted for my astigmatism, i just can’t have the glare anymore, it’s unsafe

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    27 days ago
    Title

    I pick and pull red threads apart,
    And sew myself a scarlet heart.
    Powered by my woven mind,
    Perceive the schemes across time.
    Within chaos we perform the innate,
    That-which-makes-us-human trait:
    Assign some reason for the random,
    Find some meaningful religious fandom,
    Add a cause for the effect of common sense,
    Draw in the pattern to flatten the tense,
    Allocate the words to describe the past,
    Rhymed with the concepts so my art may last.

  • Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone
    9·
    26 days ago

    Replaced the headlight globe and managed to order my one of my favourite café lunches yesterday over the phone before I got there (the kitchen would have closed before I arrived).

    I’ve been intermittent with my hayfever defence and I have been attacked. Ugh.

    But… as for today, I have done a load of laundry, started the trickle-charge on one bike, washed and put the side mirror back on the scooter, finished a lengthy phone call and am now at the hairdressers.

    Of course, I always accomplish things other than what I should be. 😂

      • Nath@aussie.zone
        2·
        26 days ago

        I think we straddle the edge of social media here. I think the layer of anonymity here means we’re not quite social media. This feels more like the old usenet newsgroups of the 90’s to me. I know it’s pretty much the Reddit 2009 experience, but that also felt like Usenet.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
      5·
      26 days ago

      Walking through the park today and went under trees that just had bark chips and dirt underneath. Looked a bit meh. I was reminded of a pic of some young adult saying how people tell him to go outside instead of being of the computer all day. He showed outside, a very dull dingy grey dirty old eastern bloc dormitory city. So his SIM city would be better, just like on the new Brave New World series, people could be fed a nice make believe place.

      But surely it would be best if he went outside and did something to improve his home rather than escape reality?

        • Pilk@aussie.zone
          3·
          26 days ago

          This is quite a take. Regulation could be government overreach, but banning social media outright is not?

          • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
            2·
            26 days ago

            Yeah who’s doing the banning? The government? Who can also… Regulate…

            I think they’d regulate. Hard to argue that regulation is more overreaching than banning lol

        • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
          1·
          26 days ago

          These rights of free speech are part of the social contract. People who break that social contract to bring down the system of freedoms or to do harm to others have that right revoked.

          No one has the right to use freedom to trample others.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
    9·
    26 days ago

    apparently I’m healthy other than a bad back . Who knew? Just need to lose weight, get a little fitter and keep an eye on stuff.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
    9·
    27 days ago

    8.00 am and I’m already in trouble. Ted bit my bum because he hadn’t gotten his kangaroo for breakfast yet.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    8·
    27 days ago

    Thanks guys for your answers about NZ. I’m looking at Christchurch, Lake Tekepo, Arrow Town, Queenstown or Dunedin.