Sunday, August 17, 2025

Sunday Selections

Along with River and Elephant's Child, here are my Sunday Selections, random photos as usual. 

I just came across these photos from back in 2011 before we had the kitchen renovated. An accident had happened and I have no memory of it. On the upper bench a vase of flowers often sat. 

I miss the old sink. The new sink is now very deep, a back breaker. It appears one of us has knocked the vase over and made rather a mess and the vase is broken. I see a less that full bottle of the demon drink. Perhaps that was indirectly responsible for the broken vase. 


Such things come and go in The Highrise. The lads are fickle creatures, and their bedroom is becoming seriously full of 'stuffs'. 


Phyllis really excels with pastry and makes all kinds of delicious things.


Tradie Brother gave me a bag full of his own grown feijoa fruit. They aren't my favourite, and Kosov wasn't keen but Phyllis liked them, although he only had the occasional one. Refrigerated, they lasted at three months. 


I am no longer Andrewwww, but Ondrewwwww. Ondrewwww, do you have some cotton balls? Yes Kosov. The interest here is the brand Farmland, which was a Coles supermarket in house brand for many years. The brand name has long disappeared, maybe back in the 90s. I suppose your cotton don't go rotten once it's processed. 


Phyllis made a cake from scratch, and it was very tasty and nicely decorated. I think it should have risen though. I know a little about cooking, and a bit more about cakes, but he didn't seek my advice.


Unionists having a go at our anti Labor Party tabloid newspaper. Up top,  "Is that the truth. Or did you read it in the Herald Sun". A Murdoch owned paper, of course. 


Last week I was in a small shopping centre and a shouty man came out of a tobacco shop telling no one, what kind of tobacco shop doesn't have cigarettes or tobacco. I turned to look inside and it looked like a normal tobacco shop. The sign on this vending machine outside the shop amused me. There must have been a dog incident in the past. Interestingly in a YouTube series by Philip Mallis, Union Square shopping centre was featured this week past, 5 More Retro Shopping Centres in Melbourne


Ravens rarely perch anywhere up so high, and certainly not on my balcony. The photo was taken through very dirty glass. Roger Raven is giving me the evil eye. 


So many photos in the last two days. I'll give you a rest and be back on Tuesday, maybe with dinosaurs. 

22 comments:

  1. See you around, on Tuesday. The cake looks dense. I read up on Pineapple Guava's (feijoa) and I doubt I'd like them after watching a couple youtube videos of someone tasting them.

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  2. I do like feijoa, though I never come across them in the shops. Love the raven and I am looking forward to dinosaurs. Whether you are Andrewww or Ondrewww the boys are looking after you. Which is lovely.

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  3. That pastry Phyllis makes are so delish looking

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  4. That glass doesn't look too dirty to me, you should see my window! The inside is covered in smudges and bits of cat hair because Lola sleeps on the sill, the outside is covered with security screen so I can't clean it anyway.
    The pastries look delicious and the browning tells me Phyllis uses real butter and doesn't buy ready-made pastry sheets. Are they sweet or savoury? Can you have the too-deep sink replaced with something better?

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    1. I could replace the sink, but given I don't hand wash dishes, and most of any other sink washing is done by the lads, why bother.

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    2. The pastries were savoury. I think the pastry was bought although he has hand made it in the past.

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  5. It’s amazing how photos hold little stories

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  6. I have a bag of cotton balls that must be about 10 years old by now. The other day I got a nasty scratch and used a cotton ball to dab my arm with some hydrogen peroxide. Worked like new!

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  7. Feijoas are delicious but the home grown ones tend to be full of fruit fly.
    I found an old Brash's bag at my parents place, like your Farmland cotton wool, it was a blast from the past

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  8. I wish I had a house mate who could make cakes and pastries. Pastries in particular never come out as professionally as I hope.

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  9. Birds are dinosaurs. 🦅🕊️🐦

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  10. Nice photos with a good description of what happened and so on, Andrew.

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  11. An in-house pastry chef sounds good to me, Andrew.

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  12. The pastries look and sound great, Andrew! Sorry that your new sink is so deep that you get a sore back from bending. Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. I love birds. Thank you for sharing your photos and descriptions!

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  13. As we get older, our stuffs becomes less and less important. Pastries and cake do not, however.

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  14. I worked for a while on the 54th floor of a high-rise and never felt queasy but looking at your pal Roger, I felt quite dizzy. Old age I reckon.
    XO
    WWW

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  15. How nice to have a "baker" in the house :) I've never tried feijoa. Funny sign at the vending machine, lol

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    1. Sami, you would have known the answer to question 9 in yesterday's quiz.

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  16. That is a funny sign on the vending machine. I dig the dinosaur atop the City Tour bus! Ha!

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