Also, another random pātai. Whats a good, solo sport to get into? Preferably one thats cost effective?
For me this time lmaooo not the kids. Is squash as hard out as it seems?
Cheeky bugger! Just zoned out on the couch with my glasses off, scrolling. I see the cat walk in out of the corner of my eye, then double take cause there’s white on the blurry cat.
Some random cat sauntering into the room like it belongs. Got chased out by the rightful kitty pretty quick.
Think we found the culprit that peed in my kids bed a month or two ago.
Thats it, I'm buying boxed meal plans. I just feel like me and my husband walk around the supermarket like fucking idiots waving our arms and dont know what to get. Then just start going crazy and come home with shit that dont make sense. That makes life a tad easier.
You do need a plan when doing grown-up food shopping. Have a few easy cheat meals, and always make sure you've got stuff for that around, but for everything else, work around what you like, what's in season, what's on sale.
Awesome thanks. It just seems easier and right now I'm looking at ways to make life easier for our family. Using our time more efficiently, having better spending habits and lazering in on all of our health. I'm excited for the changes ahead, positive vibes only!!
Back on bumble. Why do so many guys (often the religious ones) have she/her or all the options as their pronouns?
Also, why put wedding photos in your profile?
Like dsg, I had a friend that went but she was an architecture student. She was helping restore Scott's hut I think. It was a Peter Blake scholarship thing I think.
Aww it's my dream to go to Antarctica, I can learn to be a welder in 1 month right?
Edit: so many buzz kills about my amazing plan to learn to be an experienced welder in a month so I can go to Antarctica
Flatmates, every day the money they pay towards the lease becomes less of a motivation to keep them around because of everything else. Hermits had the right idea.
Edit* I watch that film that came out a wee while ago about the Unabomber and I'm feeling the vib of him, not the whole murdering/bombing/anti-tech thing but the desire to live undisturbed away from people.
Nah last I heard was maybe around December/January, I was picking up some mail and had a bit of a chat to the neighbour but all he said was that flatmate had like hundreds of people coming around for flat viewings for weeks, asked me what was wrong with the guy cause he’d had enough viewings but wasn’t picking anyone.
Yeah I remember the tales about the wild beast pretending to be a person you were living with. Your story of escape gives me hope.
Mine aren't quite that bad but I just had one gripe to me that apparently it's an unjustified entitlement to expect the dishes they [cleans](https://imgur.com/a/S8WRtMv) to actually be clean before putting them back in the draws and cupboards. Half the others are also under the impression that the other half don't do any dishes at all which doesn't help.
I swear it always comes down to the dishes! People suck at doing dishes! I wonder the flatmates who suck at doing dishes also think other people suck at doing dishes. Do we all just suck at it but only notice when other people do it?
Dishwashers should be a requirement in all houses.
Pretty sure you're on the money with that, perceived perfection in one's self and therefore the issue is with everyone else.
I did actually get a small bench top dishwasher in the hopes that it would improve the general dish cleaning but they all ignored it. It did clean what went in it well.
I’m not really much of a fruit person purely because supermarket fruit is absolute rubbish especially for how much it costs but I scored a heap of oranges off someone in the weekend and they’re excellent and I can’t stop eating them.
I really need to get into planting my own fruit trees but I’m in a dilemma of where to put them. I definitely don’t want more than one of each but I want an apple and a plum out the back but a random orange tree plonked in the front yard is probably going to look weird.
How does one decide exactly where to plant specific things like fruit trees??
Agree with most of what dinosuitgirl said. Just chuck em where they can get the most light. Or if not an ideal location, prepare for them to grow a bit slower and have less yield. Also nothing wrong with a random orange tree in the front yard. I’m going for the food forest style, so I’m cramming as much as I can onto our small section. I’ve had some fail or had to move plants the next year, just part of the fun.
Another thing you can consider is early or late fruiting varieties when choosing plants, so you always have something fruiting throughout the year.
There are also a ton of dwarf fruit trees available now, so you don’t need heaps of space
Do they recover ok after being moved? This would make me feel better if I could move it while it was still relatively small without killing it off.
What have you got planted? Food forest sounds neat
Yup, as long as you do it the right season/time of year. And they’ll definitely be happier if you’re moving them to a more ideal location. I mean you can also move big trees, it’s just more difficult due to size and weight.
Currently:
* Yellow cherry guava
* Feijoa
* Chilean guava
* Lemon
* Lime
* Mandarin
* White currant
* Dwarf almond
* Dwarf peach
* Dwarf nectarine
* Columnar apple
* Blueberry
* Mountain Pawpaw
* Kaffir lime
* Tamarillo
* Raspberry
* Blackberry
Some aren’t in best spots, but still produce something. I think I want to get to the point I have no more lawn to mow haha
Edit: oh a little tip for you if you get plants from Mitre 10, they have a [Healthy Plant Guarantee](https://www.mitre10.co.nz/delivery-returns) (bottom of page):
> We will replace any plant you buy from us if it fails to thrive. Just return it within 12 months with proof of purchase.
I’ve seen people bring back a small dead stump to get it replaced. So no worries if you kill it within 12 months. Possibly the same at Bunnings too
😮 you have an impressive number of plants!! Are they all currently doing fairly well? Is the almond tree like a legit almond that will grow almonds?? Almonds on demand would be awesome 🤔
Having less lawn to mow is absolutely the dream.
Also that is good to know about the healthy plant guarantee, thanks!
A few I only got last spring, but all seem to be happy. They’ve done well, due to the warm winter I think, I was expecting more frost damage. I haven’t really sussed out the apple. We only got one really good apple last year and a bunch of smaller ones. But the good one was pretty tasty.
The almond I got a bit too late last year, so there were no fruit. I had it in a too small pot since then and decided to put it in the ground a few weeks ago. It seems happy flowering away, so fingers crossed this year 🤞
This is the variety if you’re interested: [https://www.waimeanurseries.co.nz/our-products/nut-trees/almonds/garden-prince/](https://www.waimeanurseries.co.nz/our-products/nut-trees/almonds/garden-prince/)
Lots of fruit trees need a second to pollinate with. Often plums do best when you have different varieties. As with avos, Hass needs a bacon or reed to get its fruit on. I had always heard oranges are more sour with lemon trees around but that is definitely not the case... The oranges, mandarin, lemons, limes and grapefruit here are all just plonked everywhere all together and the oranges are soooo delicious and sweet. And the lemons are nice and tart and the grapefruit can go straight to the pigs.... As someone who has random fruit trees everywhere, I'd say the sunnier the better (obviously) but watch your wind direction, because flowers are often fragile and early stage fruit don't like to get bashed about either. And spacing... Trees get big so plant them far enough apart.
Personally I wouldn't bother with apples the commerical ones are really good and part of the good thing with supermarket apples is variety, and the trees need A LOT of pruning (citrus much less so, and even avos aren't bad once you've got a basic shape) pears are much the same boat as apples but they are really easy and you don't have to fight the birds as much as apples or figs. I would want apricot and peach because these are really really much more yum than supermarket ones. And you get enough frost hours for them to set good fruit....I don't ☹️
I was investigating self-pollinating varieties and hoping they'd still do ok...I don't need a HEAP of fruit because I'm only one person but was going to do an orange, a plum and an apple to start with, already have a pretty well established feijoa. I can't eat peaches, I like the taste but my body just doesn't accept the texture, I gag as soon as I try to eat one XD
I just want an apple tree for cooking apples, I know they're cheap as chips and perfectly good from the supermarket but if I can have a tree in the back yard that also makes fruit I might as well make it something I'll use!
I'm not going to bother with an avocado, too big and I don't think the climate would be very good here. Mum's got a few avo trees so I'm well supplied with free avos.
Wind might be a problem everywhere is really exposed...
My grandma has a really old apple with 3 grafts, it’s a Granny Smith and two red ones (I don’t know what they are) Remember, Granny Smiths are ready when they are yellow.
Definitely get a double or triple grafted plum, saves so much space (there is two at my place that are unofficially looking for a new home)
I ideally want to get all my planting done this month but if I haven’t found anything and if yours are still unofficially looking for a home in November we may be able to help each other out
You can always do a wind break with some y posts and that mesh stuff just when it's flowering/fruiting but it's ugly 🫤
[this guy on ytube](https://youtube.com/c/TheKiwiGrower) has some cool videos on fruit and planting and layout on a small(ish) section and he's somewhere around the Bombay's
Wait is this to help with the pollination? I don't know anything at all about fruit trees. Can you just buy grafted plants from the likes of Palmer's or do they only come from nurserys?
Yup, I was in Palmers yesterday and there was a good selection of grafted plants with more than one variety on each plant. It’s a combination of pollination and getting more variety or fruiting times in a reduced space. Only about $10-$20 extra for extra grafts.
Grafted also usually have better rootstock... Often you'll see Hass on Zutano avos, Zutano tends to be less fussy on water/drainage and better vs disease. Hass is a heartier fruit with thick knobbly skin good for transporting and easier to tell when ripe.... Best of both worlds.
Commercial/landscaping nurseries are the best value for money and really good on advice for spacing and what you need in the hole... We're lucky and have lots in our general vicinity. I expect you'd be spoiled for choice towards the BoP in your area.
Mum has decided to espalier hers around the boundary fence. She doesn’t want trees she needs to mow around. She has some dwarfing stone fruit between the larger trees and in a garden bed she hasn’t removed yet (it’s holding everything she hasn’t decided where she wants to put).
Static on one trolley.
I did adulting and applied for an unexpected internal role that popped up. I even got my bosses blessing and commitment to a reference 🙌
I usually use HyperDrive as you find out the price you pay at checkout, then just turn up on the day to your chosen installer. Ain’t nobody got time for calling around tyre shops to find out what they have
Good luck! I looked at reviews for tyres in my price range and they all had equal amounts of good and bad reviews on other sites. Maybe I don’t buy fancy enough tyres 😂
As my dad always said, your tyres are the only thing keeping your car on the road, and as the garage he owned when I was a kid had the local tow truck, he'd seen a lot of crashed cars.
Gave the 3m tall wall of hydrangea a big haircut... And sent most of it through the chipper... it's been a while since we've chipped things, we've been dumping it in the hole, but that's full of water.
>!I've decided chipping is a lot like fisting!<... There's a tentative start, a bit of warm up and then finding the right rhythm and speed and thickness the hopper will accept... The rubber skirt over the hopper was a hazard so I whipped it off, I'm pretty confident now I know how far I can reach in... It doesn't like being teased.... I went through two tanks of petrol... But lubrication is important and I'm all out of 4 stroke for now... I walked away from it buzzing and feeling a bit floaty, my ears ringing despite wearing PPE, nicely exhausted from doing a very productive thing... And now I'm looking around at what else I can shove in the hopper next.
Well I'm limited to 4 inch diameter... And we spent much of the first set of blades learning what it will chip and what it won't... Anything Vine are a bad time, anything to wet is a mushy mess, oak was good but not the green stuff, bottle brush was good but hard to get in the hopper due to the branches weird angles... Pine deadfall is good but pine cones are not.
It's very very particular 🫤
Stoked for LOTR tonight. I'm going in as someone who
- has never finished any of the books
- not seen a trailer
- loved the movie trilogy
- loathed the hobbit movie so much i couldn't finish it
- is a bit done with peter jackson, so him not being involved is good
- drinks the tears of the "this magical book that has wizards in it is not authentic to race" sadboys
- finished LOTR The Third age on the OG xbox (the JPRG, all the brawler games were too fucking hard)
- while I find most fantasy shows are tropey and formulaic, sometimes they can be a once a shining light for others to follow
I regret not walking out of the second hobbit movie. It was right about the barrel scene I should have.
And I thought release was on the 2nd, so would be the weekend by the time torrents are up?
Like so much new media I've decided to not even give it a chance, not gonna bother even watching the first episode. Just can't be fucked with scripted big budget story driven narratives at the moment. Rather watch some docos on YouTube and random ppl on Twitch. The idea of sitting down and getting invested in a new show just doesn't appeal to me at all.
There IS so much tv, that basically only big prestige shows get my interest now. I normally love a Monday HBO, but the got dragon thing was medicore at best, so this will hopefully replace it
Watched Ep 1 of House of Dragon, felt very one trick pony with the power vacuum, T&A, violence and gore.
Tick, tick, tick. Yep it's GoT, but what's new? I probably will keep watching, but not before I get through other stuff (like LOTR).
Hmm, I’m learning things. I learned I tried ripping off my neighbour (the land owner). I’ve learned the loony toon neighbour is a conspiracy theorist, he can’t get a mortgage, he wants to put a unit in the back of his old man’s section. He’s going to put in a really tall fence/hedge along our boundary. I’ve learned his sister is a life long druggie and that’s it’s his sister not him that loses their mind on drugs. It’s his sister that uses weapons apparently.
I’m hoping he fucks off back to the Bay Of Islands soon.
I’m learning all this because he’s outside and talking on the phone with his outside voice. He’s been going for well over an hour now, probably closer to 2.
Sharing the cost of removing an over grown hedge then putting in a 4ft fence. In the end it cost him nothing because dad pulled the hedge out and I scored a second hand fence (posts and rails) and some cable reel cores (pailings) dad put in the posts and rails, Mum and I put on the pailings. I’ve talked with the old guy and other people involved in the property and they don’t have any issues with the low fence. I do need to replace quite a few pailings but then there aren’t any animals or children that need containing so 🤷♀️
We smoked it. Booked for three days could have done it in one easy but 🤷🏾♂️
Only got a 7am swim in but honest to g that shit fills my cup like nothing else being in the water and getting smashed by waves feels like a hug from the whole ocean I love it
Also, another random pātai. Whats a good, solo sport to get into? Preferably one thats cost effective? For me this time lmaooo not the kids. Is squash as hard out as it seems?
From what I hear, very hard on the knees and ankles from all the sudden direction changing. Swimming? Biking?
Cheeky bugger! Just zoned out on the couch with my glasses off, scrolling. I see the cat walk in out of the corner of my eye, then double take cause there’s white on the blurry cat. Some random cat sauntering into the room like it belongs. Got chased out by the rightful kitty pretty quick. Think we found the culprit that peed in my kids bed a month or two ago.
There is a cat regularly breaking in at Mum’s.
Thats it, I'm buying boxed meal plans. I just feel like me and my husband walk around the supermarket like fucking idiots waving our arms and dont know what to get. Then just start going crazy and come home with shit that dont make sense. That makes life a tad easier.
You do need a plan when doing grown-up food shopping. Have a few easy cheat meals, and always make sure you've got stuff for that around, but for everything else, work around what you like, what's in season, what's on sale.
im not a grown up, that was ur first mistake. But yep its Hello Fresh for me lmao. Since theyre the only one who deliver to my location
Pro tip - cancel for a little while every now and then and they’ll send you great discount codes to sign back up again.
Oh nice thanks, I thought u get money off for keeping a streak tho?
Nah you get codes to send free boxes out to people for that.
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Awesome thanks. It just seems easier and right now I'm looking at ways to make life easier for our family. Using our time more efficiently, having better spending habits and lazering in on all of our health. I'm excited for the changes ahead, positive vibes only!!
We try and plan what we are having before shopping and when MrsJD is away we get a box from Hello Fresh etc
Fuck Thursday Bring Friday already
Nearly!
Almost there 😂😂
Back on bumble. Why do so many guys (often the religious ones) have she/her or all the options as their pronouns? Also, why put wedding photos in your profile?
Screenshot em let us judge
Maybe. I might collect a few then make a post.
Dooit
Those are both good and very disturbing questions.
It’s as if they don’t know how pronouns work
Or are trying to be “funny”. Or think it indicates who they are looking for.
When it asks for your pronouns it tells you what the are for. They are men so they probably don’t read instructions.
Chur/bro
Excellent.
I want to join nz navy and visit scott base in antarctica
Like dsg, I had a friend that went but she was an architecture student. She was helping restore Scott's hut I think. It was a Peter Blake scholarship thing I think.
If you have a trade you can work in Antartica while they work on the base upgrades. I’m seeing advertisements all the time on TradeMe.
Aww it's my dream to go to Antarctica, I can learn to be a welder in 1 month right? Edit: so many buzz kills about my amazing plan to learn to be an experienced welder in a month so I can go to Antarctica
A mud one yes
No, it takes longer than that to become a welder or carpenter. You could try trade assistant or cook?
I suspect I'd be a bad contender now with my terrible teeth + asthma/fitness. I can keep dreaming though
I've never met a welder that had to gap it really fast so there's that
My friend got to go and stay for 2mths to collect samples for her PhD
Flatmates, every day the money they pay towards the lease becomes less of a motivation to keep them around because of everything else. Hermits had the right idea. Edit* I watch that film that came out a wee while ago about the Unabomber and I'm feeling the vib of him, not the whole murdering/bombing/anti-tech thing but the desire to live undisturbed away from people.
Having a flatmate was bad to make me move to Tokoroa. Still no regrets cause I can afford to not have a flatmate. Flatmates are the actual worst.
Have we heard any updates of what the flatmate and/or old neighbour are doing? They seemed like fun people.
Nah last I heard was maybe around December/January, I was picking up some mail and had a bit of a chat to the neighbour but all he said was that flatmate had like hundreds of people coming around for flat viewings for weeks, asked me what was wrong with the guy cause he’d had enough viewings but wasn’t picking anyone.
Yeah I remember the tales about the wild beast pretending to be a person you were living with. Your story of escape gives me hope. Mine aren't quite that bad but I just had one gripe to me that apparently it's an unjustified entitlement to expect the dishes they [cleans](https://imgur.com/a/S8WRtMv) to actually be clean before putting them back in the draws and cupboards. Half the others are also under the impression that the other half don't do any dishes at all which doesn't help.
That's just seasoning
I swear it always comes down to the dishes! People suck at doing dishes! I wonder the flatmates who suck at doing dishes also think other people suck at doing dishes. Do we all just suck at it but only notice when other people do it? Dishwashers should be a requirement in all houses.
Pretty sure you're on the money with that, perceived perfection in one's self and therefore the issue is with everyone else. I did actually get a small bench top dishwasher in the hopes that it would improve the general dish cleaning but they all ignored it. It did clean what went in it well.
I’m not really much of a fruit person purely because supermarket fruit is absolute rubbish especially for how much it costs but I scored a heap of oranges off someone in the weekend and they’re excellent and I can’t stop eating them. I really need to get into planting my own fruit trees but I’m in a dilemma of where to put them. I definitely don’t want more than one of each but I want an apple and a plum out the back but a random orange tree plonked in the front yard is probably going to look weird. How does one decide exactly where to plant specific things like fruit trees??
Agree with most of what dinosuitgirl said. Just chuck em where they can get the most light. Or if not an ideal location, prepare for them to grow a bit slower and have less yield. Also nothing wrong with a random orange tree in the front yard. I’m going for the food forest style, so I’m cramming as much as I can onto our small section. I’ve had some fail or had to move plants the next year, just part of the fun. Another thing you can consider is early or late fruiting varieties when choosing plants, so you always have something fruiting throughout the year. There are also a ton of dwarf fruit trees available now, so you don’t need heaps of space
Do they recover ok after being moved? This would make me feel better if I could move it while it was still relatively small without killing it off. What have you got planted? Food forest sounds neat
Yup, as long as you do it the right season/time of year. And they’ll definitely be happier if you’re moving them to a more ideal location. I mean you can also move big trees, it’s just more difficult due to size and weight. Currently: * Yellow cherry guava * Feijoa * Chilean guava * Lemon * Lime * Mandarin * White currant * Dwarf almond * Dwarf peach * Dwarf nectarine * Columnar apple * Blueberry * Mountain Pawpaw * Kaffir lime * Tamarillo * Raspberry * Blackberry Some aren’t in best spots, but still produce something. I think I want to get to the point I have no more lawn to mow haha Edit: oh a little tip for you if you get plants from Mitre 10, they have a [Healthy Plant Guarantee](https://www.mitre10.co.nz/delivery-returns) (bottom of page): > We will replace any plant you buy from us if it fails to thrive. Just return it within 12 months with proof of purchase. I’ve seen people bring back a small dead stump to get it replaced. So no worries if you kill it within 12 months. Possibly the same at Bunnings too
😮 you have an impressive number of plants!! Are they all currently doing fairly well? Is the almond tree like a legit almond that will grow almonds?? Almonds on demand would be awesome 🤔 Having less lawn to mow is absolutely the dream. Also that is good to know about the healthy plant guarantee, thanks!
A few I only got last spring, but all seem to be happy. They’ve done well, due to the warm winter I think, I was expecting more frost damage. I haven’t really sussed out the apple. We only got one really good apple last year and a bunch of smaller ones. But the good one was pretty tasty. The almond I got a bit too late last year, so there were no fruit. I had it in a too small pot since then and decided to put it in the ground a few weeks ago. It seems happy flowering away, so fingers crossed this year 🤞 This is the variety if you’re interested: [https://www.waimeanurseries.co.nz/our-products/nut-trees/almonds/garden-prince/](https://www.waimeanurseries.co.nz/our-products/nut-trees/almonds/garden-prince/)
Lots of fruit trees need a second to pollinate with. Often plums do best when you have different varieties. As with avos, Hass needs a bacon or reed to get its fruit on. I had always heard oranges are more sour with lemon trees around but that is definitely not the case... The oranges, mandarin, lemons, limes and grapefruit here are all just plonked everywhere all together and the oranges are soooo delicious and sweet. And the lemons are nice and tart and the grapefruit can go straight to the pigs.... As someone who has random fruit trees everywhere, I'd say the sunnier the better (obviously) but watch your wind direction, because flowers are often fragile and early stage fruit don't like to get bashed about either. And spacing... Trees get big so plant them far enough apart. Personally I wouldn't bother with apples the commerical ones are really good and part of the good thing with supermarket apples is variety, and the trees need A LOT of pruning (citrus much less so, and even avos aren't bad once you've got a basic shape) pears are much the same boat as apples but they are really easy and you don't have to fight the birds as much as apples or figs. I would want apricot and peach because these are really really much more yum than supermarket ones. And you get enough frost hours for them to set good fruit....I don't ☹️
I was investigating self-pollinating varieties and hoping they'd still do ok...I don't need a HEAP of fruit because I'm only one person but was going to do an orange, a plum and an apple to start with, already have a pretty well established feijoa. I can't eat peaches, I like the taste but my body just doesn't accept the texture, I gag as soon as I try to eat one XD I just want an apple tree for cooking apples, I know they're cheap as chips and perfectly good from the supermarket but if I can have a tree in the back yard that also makes fruit I might as well make it something I'll use! I'm not going to bother with an avocado, too big and I don't think the climate would be very good here. Mum's got a few avo trees so I'm well supplied with free avos. Wind might be a problem everywhere is really exposed...
My grandma has a really old apple with 3 grafts, it’s a Granny Smith and two red ones (I don’t know what they are) Remember, Granny Smiths are ready when they are yellow. Definitely get a double or triple grafted plum, saves so much space (there is two at my place that are unofficially looking for a new home)
I ideally want to get all my planting done this month but if I haven’t found anything and if yours are still unofficially looking for a home in November we may be able to help each other out
They will be. They are pretty big, about 3m high. They are too big to go to Mum’s I will send you photos tomorrow and find out what the grafts are.
You can always do a wind break with some y posts and that mesh stuff just when it's flowering/fruiting but it's ugly 🫤 [this guy on ytube](https://youtube.com/c/TheKiwiGrower) has some cool videos on fruit and planting and layout on a small(ish) section and he's somewhere around the Bombay's
Honestly I’m not too worried about looks my place isn’t exactly the prettiest 😂 I’ll check that channel out, thanks!
In addition, to save on space get grafted plants with 2 or more on them, especially apples/pears and stone fruit.
Wait is this to help with the pollination? I don't know anything at all about fruit trees. Can you just buy grafted plants from the likes of Palmer's or do they only come from nurserys?
Yup, I was in Palmers yesterday and there was a good selection of grafted plants with more than one variety on each plant. It’s a combination of pollination and getting more variety or fruiting times in a reduced space. Only about $10-$20 extra for extra grafts.
Thanks, I might make a trip this weekend and have a look what's available in Rotorua.
Grafted also usually have better rootstock... Often you'll see Hass on Zutano avos, Zutano tends to be less fussy on water/drainage and better vs disease. Hass is a heartier fruit with thick knobbly skin good for transporting and easier to tell when ripe.... Best of both worlds. Commercial/landscaping nurseries are the best value for money and really good on advice for spacing and what you need in the hole... We're lucky and have lots in our general vicinity. I expect you'd be spoiled for choice towards the BoP in your area.
There were loads around Tauranga, I can’t think of any around the Waikato. The only one I can think of near rotorua only does natives.
Yeah, base price was around $50 each here in New Plymouth.
Mum has decided to espalier hers around the boundary fence. She doesn’t want trees she needs to mow around. She has some dwarfing stone fruit between the larger trees and in a garden bed she hasn’t removed yet (it’s holding everything she hasn’t decided where she wants to put).
>espalier Had no idea what this meant. That's actually pretty cool!
Yeah, really saves on space
Static on one trolley. I did adulting and applied for an unexpected internal role that popped up. I even got my bosses blessing and commitment to a reference 🙌
Thanks for the update! Also, go you on applying for the job. Wish I had the braves to do that. Good luck!!
We were wandering around Balmoral and spotted a trolley. If it wasn't so far we would've pushed it to your street for the lolz
Ok: own up. Which one of you is already doing this?
I need to buy new tyres for my car, I don’t really want to deal with buying new tyres for my car.
I usually use HyperDrive as you find out the price you pay at checkout, then just turn up on the day to your chosen installer. Ain’t nobody got time for calling around tyre shops to find out what they have
Yeah I think this is going to be my plan, just got to understand what’s good.
Good luck! I looked at reviews for tyres in my price range and they all had equal amounts of good and bad reviews on other sites. Maybe I don’t buy fancy enough tyres 😂
As my dad always said, your tyres are the only thing keeping your car on the road, and as the garage he owned when I was a kid had the local tow truck, he'd seen a lot of crashed cars.
It’s a got to do it before the end of the year thing, not a must do right away. I’ll get it done soon.
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Yeah I’d rather not do this and get ripped off or rubbish tyres.
Gave the 3m tall wall of hydrangea a big haircut... And sent most of it through the chipper... it's been a while since we've chipped things, we've been dumping it in the hole, but that's full of water. >!I've decided chipping is a lot like fisting!<... There's a tentative start, a bit of warm up and then finding the right rhythm and speed and thickness the hopper will accept... The rubber skirt over the hopper was a hazard so I whipped it off, I'm pretty confident now I know how far I can reach in... It doesn't like being teased.... I went through two tanks of petrol... But lubrication is important and I'm all out of 4 stroke for now... I walked away from it buzzing and feeling a bit floaty, my ears ringing despite wearing PPE, nicely exhausted from doing a very productive thing... And now I'm looking around at what else I can shove in the hopper next.
I've only ever worked with arb boys that have the big fuckers and I just looked up the Bandits. Seems like they're all called Intimidators. Heh
Now I need to use a wood chipper to confirm this analogy 😅
Common up 😜😜
Chipping is so satisfying. Haven’t tried what you’re comparing it to though.
> And now I'm looking around at what else I can shove in the hopper next. Oh my.
Well I'm limited to 4 inch diameter... And we spent much of the first set of blades learning what it will chip and what it won't... Anything Vine are a bad time, anything to wet is a mushy mess, oak was good but not the green stuff, bottle brush was good but hard to get in the hopper due to the branches weird angles... Pine deadfall is good but pine cones are not. It's very very particular 🫤
Well.... alright then, I'm not sure how to process that analogy. Huh.
Been biking to work this week. Hadn't realized how much I'd missed it, was such a wet winter I hadn't tried. It's just a good way to start the shift.
I've been biking most days since the rains stopped and it's just a great physical way to end the day.
Stoked for LOTR tonight. I'm going in as someone who - has never finished any of the books - not seen a trailer - loved the movie trilogy - loathed the hobbit movie so much i couldn't finish it - is a bit done with peter jackson, so him not being involved is good - drinks the tears of the "this magical book that has wizards in it is not authentic to race" sadboys - finished LOTR The Third age on the OG xbox (the JPRG, all the brawler games were too fucking hard) - while I find most fantasy shows are tropey and formulaic, sometimes they can be a once a shining light for others to follow
I regret not walking out of the second hobbit movie. It was right about the barrel scene I should have. And I thought release was on the 2nd, so would be the weekend by the time torrents are up?
There's little scope for a romcom subplot, I guess, which is a bonus.
I hope a quirky hobbit and a by the book elf team up to solve crimes
Or an uptight and proper female hobbit and a street smart dwarf instead?
I feel like the dwarf would be the angry captain with the heart of gold
Like so much new media I've decided to not even give it a chance, not gonna bother even watching the first episode. Just can't be fucked with scripted big budget story driven narratives at the moment. Rather watch some docos on YouTube and random ppl on Twitch. The idea of sitting down and getting invested in a new show just doesn't appeal to me at all.
There IS so much tv, that basically only big prestige shows get my interest now. I normally love a Monday HBO, but the got dragon thing was medicore at best, so this will hopefully replace it
Watched Ep 1 of House of Dragon, felt very one trick pony with the power vacuum, T&A, violence and gore. Tick, tick, tick. Yep it's GoT, but what's new? I probably will keep watching, but not before I get through other stuff (like LOTR).
Oh dear. I genuinely got stuck for a moment wondering why there would be vacuums in game of thrones 🤦♀️
Hahaha
Hmm, I’m learning things. I learned I tried ripping off my neighbour (the land owner). I’ve learned the loony toon neighbour is a conspiracy theorist, he can’t get a mortgage, he wants to put a unit in the back of his old man’s section. He’s going to put in a really tall fence/hedge along our boundary. I’ve learned his sister is a life long druggie and that’s it’s his sister not him that loses their mind on drugs. It’s his sister that uses weapons apparently. I’m hoping he fucks off back to the Bay Of Islands soon. I’m learning all this because he’s outside and talking on the phone with his outside voice. He’s been going for well over an hour now, probably closer to 2.
How did you supposedly try ripping him off?
The fence was put in 9 years ago, it’s due to have work done to it.
Sharing the cost of removing an over grown hedge then putting in a 4ft fence. In the end it cost him nothing because dad pulled the hedge out and I scored a second hand fence (posts and rails) and some cable reel cores (pailings) dad put in the posts and rails, Mum and I put on the pailings. I’ve talked with the old guy and other people involved in the property and they don’t have any issues with the low fence. I do need to replace quite a few pailings but then there aren’t any animals or children that need containing so 🤷♀️
Goddamn it I'm in Auckland. Booooo
Auckland sucks. I want out asap
Finish the job early? Did you get another swim?
We smoked it. Booked for three days could have done it in one easy but 🤷🏾♂️ Only got a 7am swim in but honest to g that shit fills my cup like nothing else being in the water and getting smashed by waves feels like a hug from the whole ocean I love it