I think I got the wrong order chef!

(First time ever despite my trolling since our reddit days. A Birmingham Balti is a UK thing and typically uses chicken breast, only place you can buy one in Melbs is BaseCamp in Northcote. Loved the factory / coal power plant though :D)

I don’t have a car so it would be pick up only and I’m starting from seed and even with 3 seeds per cell, with exotics and unstable varieties you know how that goes… So 200 rapidly becomes 90 and I wanna keep 60. Or 200 becomes 200 and I’m up shit creek and need more friends haha.

Pots and in true Northcote hipster style - glass jars, which surprisingly work great for smaller varieties. I’ve found that pequins for example thrive in tiny jars or pots and look gorgeous littered around the house. Although… I have had to release ladybirds inside before to deal with aphids lol.

My Thai ones seem to only produce about 25% the following year so I think I’m going to give up on over wintering unless I try and bonchi again. Everything is from scratch this year as I couldn’t look after them last season, barring one indoors one which refuses to die (some purple exotic and bird eye level heat).

You doing hot sauce again this year?

Birmingham Balti please chef, extra spicy

Chillies love heat to grow, and so this time of year in Melbs sucks for them, especially at night because of the weather.

As I said in a below comment I’m going to have upto 140 plants to give away for free towards mid October. Lots of them are hotter than Jalapenos though, but there are some on the milder side.

But defo start more yourself, you can never have too many plants, especially ones that you can eat!

Those blackout periods sound inhumane, I mean what if one of your grandparents dies for the 5th time and you need to fly back to the Arctic? Is that not allowed?

Ramen, GAhhHhh!! When I say spicy, I don’t mean white guy spicy, I mean spicy. Yes, I’ve ordered the spiciest thing on the menu, there’s a reason for that, please don’t give me level ichi because of the colour of my skin and my poor language skills.

I can’t waffle too much more on Tokyo as to me it felt like Sydney, whereas Kyoto felt like Melbs and a place I could live in. And Kyoto wasn’t even my favourite place on our last trip.

Any ways, about those sandos… I’ll send you an esky. I may or may not be hiding in the esky for a bonus holiday to Japan :D

Absolutely or absolutely? I’ve found that taking a week off unpaid is barely noticable when salaried.

Tokyo is all new adventures IMO, and you must must must do this light exhibition which is walking distance to the highest bar in the city.

The gardens near Shinjuku are beautiful if you haven’t been, and there’s a great vegetarian restaurant 3-4mins walk away from the main entrance. The temples in Tokyo I found to be very tourist-y though, the experience is much better away from what you already know to be the hustle and bustle that is Tokyo. Also if you haven’t done it already Electric City is bad… Those very young girls… :(

I’m waffling so I’ll shut up. Also because you’ve made me crave an egg sando again and want to book flights haha

Do you find that anything over wintered doesn’t produce as much fruit, or is it just me being rubbish at managing my N & P balances?

Also if you want to add some variety, I’ve got 200 cells on the go and only room for 60 plants (built in redundancy) so I should have spares to give away.

Started late as Ms. Indisin needed us to go to Bali and so they haven’t sprouted yet.

Just habs again this year mate, or are you trying something new?

🎶 Monday you can fall apart…

Yeah, thank you. Fortunately it didn’t start a fire. I’m slightly concerned that I have another 4 of these running and also annoyed that Amazon wants them actually returned rather than just issuing an automatic refund.

Are you accepting shopping lists that will not get through AU border checks?

Is yes,

4x Family Mart ham and cucumber sandwiches.

4x Family Mart egg sandwiches. 100,000x Suntory grape water (I’ve tried contacting Suntory, they apologetically will absolutely not deliver this to AU).

100x 20 Marlborough red.

Thanks in advance! And btw there’s genuinely some ¥ hidden in Old Bar which should cover some of it.

Joking aside, are wanting the solo trip or is it just that your partner can’t take the time off too? What’re you thinking of getting up to whilst over there if you go?

Well that was unpleasant at this hour. Loud bang and the electricity tripped in the whole house. A heat mat for chilli seed germination has blown after 4 days of use turns out to be the root cause.

Now back to getting all my automation working again. ssh pi@192.168… oh wait, wrong window 😁

Eh-oh o/

Reading this has made me annoyed sorry. Yes I vape and occasionally still smoke imported ciggies but wtf is the point of these laws other than to get people smoking darts again to rake in the insane tax?

So it’s going to plan then?

I’ve tried praying and it hasn’t helped. Should I listen to Lorde? Will that help?

Lol @ 12 hours sleep, this isn’t one upping it’s just sharing a story: I once went to sleep (not bed) at 2:30-ish AM after being awake for a ridiculous number of hours and woke up and was super confused at it being 1am. I thought the clocks had gone back haha. Those missed calls and msgs… Priceless memories lol.

Glad you got your meds sorted but I’m intrigued that you would take a cure if one was available. I wouldn’t as I think people wired like us can accidentally change the world 😂

But oh shit, I haven’t finished the job I started outside and there’s a box cutter sitting there. Should probably sort the groceries first though yah? When did I last pee? Ooo just had an amazing tech idea I should start! Feck, plants need watering. Yay, I did the recycling at some point. I should probably play a computer game. Why is my computer already on?

Hi fellow ADHD person, you’ll be fine it’ll just be a bad day, it’s not the end of the world. Coffee can help, but I know you’ll need insane quantities to make that work and it’ll write off your Monday. So today can be just a “nothing” day for you, go do your hyper focus pleasurable activities / have fun, and you must sort the meds first thing tomorrow.

Frozen toilet roll and some ice cubes please chef ❤️

LPT: Do not add 2tbps of “Da’ Bomb Beyond Insanity” to a single fajita. My anus is currently trying to leave me to be with a better person.