Once again I am joining with Elephant's Child and River for Sunday Selections.
I'm back to normal this Sunday with just random unused photos.
An apartment block nearby. Nice.
A ghost sign in South Melbourne.
Nearby in a lane there was this delightful green space. This photo was taken in winter, 2022.
I consider Rose Chong a Melbourne icon. Her costume/drag shop in Gertrude Street Fitzroy has been there for decades.
Beekeeping on public land on the edge of Westgate Park.
I've not had plunger coffee for years. The plunger made a brief appearance for a couple of days last week and then quickly disappeared. There is barely speakies in The Highrise at the moment.
My moisturiser pump ran out, but not really. I cut the pump pack in half and here is how much is still left. This will last a few weeks.
Azalea Indica I think. A great show even if many possible flowers had been clipped off.
Over 14 years ago when Sister lived in Murrumbeena, she would at times buy food from the nearby
Katrina's Kitchen. In an effort to future proof ourselves for food when Household Management no longer can cook, we caught the train and picked up four frozen meals. They cost about $11 each, not especially cheap. The instructions were to heat them in the oven for 30 minutes at 200C. They were so good. My first was salmon patties with vegetables and I couldn't eat the second patty. It was delicious the next day. My second meal was a pork chop with vegetables and it too was great. Again, I couldn't eat all of the chop and mashed potato. Another lunch for the next day. We could have them delivered, but our freezer is small and you have to buy about eight for free delivery.
When the doctor removed the suspicious mark on the back of my neck, she used disposable equipment. Apparently these steel scissors she offered to me are disposable. They are razor sharp. I took them, of course. You never know when you might want to stab your partner to death.
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This post will be all over the place, just as I am all over the place. I'm vacillating about going ahead with the carpet and painting. W...
Friday, I paced the apartment, closing Ray's bedroom door and then opening it. It is closed at the moment, and to be sensible it will sa....jpg)
Some as Elephant's Child and River join in with Sunday Selections, as I am doing and this week, and bar two, the photos are mine and ...
I do love your eclectic selections. I hope harmony is quickly restored in the high rise and that those vicious looking scissors are not called into play...
ReplyDeleteThe ice melted today EC, thanks.
DeleteI only went to Westgate Park for the pink lake in the past. I never knew about the costume shop there. I went to Katrina's cafe once to celebrate (suck up) some senior colleagues' special days (I cant remember what these were). The food was nice. RE: scissors do come in handy. Just sterilise it with alcohol and do other stuff with it
ReplyDeleteRoentare, it is some years since we visited when it is pink. I heard it mentioned the other day. Perhaps it is pink now.?
DeleteI'm not wasting good scotch by dipping scissors into a glass. Germs should be dead by now.
Dettol, or run them through a candle flame.
DeleteBahaaaaaaaaaha! That last line came out of nowhere!
ReplyDeleteI have never used a French press correctly, evidently. I always wind up with grounds in my coffee. Which I hate.
Debby, there are so many names for such a coffee maker. I am not sure it is easy to get grounds in your coffee. Was yours $2 from Walmart?
DeleteYou can always tell nurses by the number of scissors they have with a blue handle! It seems wasteful but I shudder when I think of the olden days when scissors were cleaned and resterilised. Could you really get all the blood out of the hinge?
ReplyDeleteWe tried Katrina's Kitchen for the inlaws but FIL was a grumpy old prick who insisted my arthritic, almost blind mother in law prepare all his food from scratch.
I forgot to ask what the issue with the coffee plunger was.
DeleteCaro, I am not sure what happened at school for immunisation. Did they reuse needles in the early sixties?
DeleteYour FiL sounds like R's father, an old grump, fussy about food and waited on hand and foot.
Re the coffee plunger, I don't know. R tried it and then I guess decided he didn't like it or couldn't be bothered.
DeleteThey certainly re-used the needles.
DeleteCure worse than the disease perhaps.
DeleteIs each floor in the top photo responsible for its own plants? Or are the roots all on the ground floor?
ReplyDeleteHels it isn't that tall, maybe two storeys. By the look of it, it may be ventilation openings for car parking floors.
DeleteI love finding unexpected green spaces in the city.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the problem with the coffee? Is the plunger stuff not nice enough, so you need to go out and buy a Krups?
the frozen meals sound lovely, maybe you should get a bigger freezer and stock up. Just a new fridge with a bigger freezer section and a smaller fridge compartment. Spoil yourselves.
River, I just go out and buy my coffee, made by a barrister. I have one or two cups a day. I just don't like plunger coffee and I don't like drip coffee. Yes, every so often we think about a new 'fridge and sometimes look, but we never have measurements with us. It is for the future.
DeleteWell, if you do decide to stab your partner to death, make sure you remove this post first.
ReplyDeleteKirk, I'll just edit it. When an Australian detective flies to your city to interview you, just plead dumb.
DeleteThat wall is looking good with the greenery and flowers.
ReplyDeleteThe meals sound great, not often can you get a good frozen meal that tastes yummy, well back when dad was with us we tried a few down this way, but yuk.
Yes, you just might need those sissors oneday if no talkies, get it will all boil over eventually..
Margaret, the business has been around for a very long time. It must do something right. So far, so good.
DeleteWe rarely use our cafetiere (plunger) now. Although we add the same coffee that goes into the filter machine it always tastes different and P doesn't like it as much.
ReplyDeleteJayCee another word for the plunger. The coffee kind of tastes 'raw' to me.
DeleteThe azalea hedge is lovely.
ReplyDeleteI used to enjoy making coffee in the cafetiere though I never drink the stuff - can't stand the taste. Now we have an all bells and whistles coffee maker and I can't be bothered to work it out, though have done once or twice. It's help yourself in our house - or go without!
JB, so you are cup of tea kind of gal? I've never used home coffee makers, although I have used pod coffee machines in hotels. They are awful.
DeleteThat's indeed a practical gift ! Not only you can cut your nails but also attack somebody in "self defense" ! BTW my header represents the house where Rick's friend lived and everybody had put his laundry outside. It's not really a house, it was a convent attached to the only church in the town. So when we stayed there the bells where ringing all half hours and at midnight you fell out of your bed. I only could sleep there with earplugs !
ReplyDeleteI'll leave my nails to my manicurist thanks Gattina. I am sure one day I will find a use for them, beside stabbing a rapist.
DeleteThe bells must have been terrible.
Re the sharp scissors. Now that I'm living with diabetes, I've got a "sharps container" on my desk. Scarey, eh?
ReplyDeleteJames, yes I think diabetes and sharps go together. Just a thought, you have suffered the worst. What could be worse in the future if you did not follow the path of looking after your diabetic levels?
DeleteI bought a cheap coffee press (French Press) at IKEA, neither of us liked it, it want in the donate bin when we redid the kitchen.
ReplyDeleteGood riddance then TP.
DeleteNo stabbing! Banish the thought!
ReplyDeleteI love the look of Rose Chong's shop. I also like the Albert Einstein "Put in Bin" message on the trash can out front.
Steve, I remember seeing that bin slogan now you mention it.
DeleteI enjoyed this eclectic mix. And that last cracked me up. Enjoy your day.
ReplyDeleteThanks Darla.
DeleteWow, those surgical scissors are considered disposable? I'd love a few pair because I hate sharpening scissors. No speaking going on in your place currently? The vibe thick enough to cut, is it? Hope things settle.
ReplyDeleteStrayer, doesn't it seem such a waste. He'll get over it. We are in the two steps forward, once step back at the moment.
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