Sunday, May 11, 2025

Sunday Selections

Elephant's Child and River post Sunday Selections, as do others. Here is my contribution. 

Found as a cleared out Ray's wardrobe. MICM is a property management company, a subsidiary of the developer, Central Equity. In the early teen years, MICM was dumped as our property management company.


A very stylish lift, somewhere in town.


This has got to be Melbourne's large Chinatown, spread along Little Bourke Street. Pedestrians almost dominate cars. 


Hmm, Auburn. I remember travelling there by train and I then became confused by distances to train lines and tram lines. 


Perhaps premium prices groceries for home. 


MRB? Google is not helpful.


I remember this evening, with the tram blocking the intersection for pedestrians. Bad tram driver.


I gave Phyllis one shelf area, below the clock. His shelf usage space has sneakily increased. Just a model car here, a Lego construction there. When I dust the shelf, in a couple of months time, extraneous items will be removed. 

I really like these spoon drains and I would like to see them in action, but it no longer rains!


They empty into this soak, which drains into a pond. Should the pond fill, it will drain through reeds into Albert Park Lake, which in turn if Albert Park Lake overflows will pour well filtered water into the sea.  


Three car stacker car parking at The Alfred Hospital, on the way to Alfred Lane House, not to be confused ( yes they are ). with The Alfred Centre, or The Alfred itself. The cars are all the same and used by staff for the services such as soon to be inflicted on Debby.


I did not buy it, but at some point Phyllis bought some Hershey chocolate, and I sampled it. I may be a coffee snob, but I am not a chocolate snob, no matter. Hershey chocolate is just horrible. Everything that good chocolate is, Hershey isn't. It is below the cheap and solid tiny Easter eggs people buy for children.

23 comments:

  1. I can no longer drink coffee (though I still love the smell). I am a chocolate snob. Good to know that Hershey is to be avoided.
    That is indeed a stylish lift.
    I am sorry to hear that you are also not getting any rain.

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  2. Dusting is indeed a bi-monthly activity at most.
    We once tried Hershey chocolate when we visited New York. I agree with your assessment.

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  3. MRB is Murrumbeena. They keep trying things to make the suburb cool, but to no avail.
    I am a chocolate snob and Herseys is a horrible American product. Its Haighs all the way for me!

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  4. Great display shelf.. but there is never enough space. Once every 10 years, see if you are still attracted to the same objects. Or move the books to the library and make two more areas available at the bottom.

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  5. Great selections, though I'm sorry you're still having to sort through things after Ray's passing. ~hugs~ I tend toward more exotic chocolates, which I don't eat often. My husband will purchase crap just to get his fix. lol I must say that I do like peanut M&M's and Reese's peanut butter cups, especially frozen, are awesome. But don't buy the mini or Easter egg Reese's editions as the ratio of PB to chocolate is off. :D Be well!

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  6. Auburn has always been a sleepy suburb in Melbourne. MRB is intriguing that I really want to know what it stands for.

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  7. Hershey's was originally made accidentally using soured milk. It caught on, people liked it. I don't. I think it tastes sour. I much prefer other chocolate, best is Belgian.

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  8. I once visited the town of Hershey in Pennsylvania and I don't mind Hershey chocolate at all. Just because Trump is American, it does not mean that everything that comes out of America is shit.

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  9. J is correct. That is Murrumbeena - I think it is on the corner of Murrumbeena Road and Neerim Road, north of the railway line.
    I hope you remember to go back and take photos of the spoon drains in actions when it finally rains.
    I don't trust those car stackers.

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  10. I have to agree with you on the Hershey's, it really is awful stuff. I wouldn't even give it to people I hated it's that bad.
    What's wrong with that shelf? It looks fine to me, not at all overloaded. Does Phylliss have a shelf in his room?
    If the spoon drain arrangement could be reworked so that well-filtered water goes into city supply wouldn't that be better than having it run out to sea?

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  11. Hersheys isn't even chocolate, like most bars sold here. Its solidified chocolate fake milk, I think. It's awful.

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    1. With way too much sugar to taste anything but sugar I meant to add.

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  12. Can't recall that chocolate, guess I would know if I had had it.
    Nice selection.

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  13. You said it "no longer rains." Are you experiencing a drought where you are, or do you mean it's just not the rainy season?

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  14. I agree with you about Hershey's choc. Once visited their factory in the US and could taste it for free. Yuk! Like the design of the drainage system. A very good idea.

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  15. I often come against that Hershey chocolate in books, its very American isn't it? Anything below decent taste and I label it dog chocolate. Yes I know you are not supposed to feed dogs chocolate but they actually make it presumably with coco beans.

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  16. I've never eaten Hershey chocolate and now never will, if offered the opportunity.

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  17. I see you have a lovely metronome. I wonder if anybody uses them any more.
    I like the MRB, even without knowing the meaning or place

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  18. Love the Auburn photos; you know, architecture and all.

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  19. I like Lindt chocolate the best of the name brands. here is nothing worse than bad chocolate, Andrew.

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  20. I've only ever seen car stackers in Manhattan!

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  21. It's been a while since I've had Hershey's, but that was THE chocolate when I was growing up. I ate tons of Hershey's kisses and Hershey bars. I still liked it the last time I had it but as I said, that was years ago. I'm not sure it's for sale here in the UK, where Cadbury is king.

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