The totally off-topic thread

[get me outta here]

They aren't lit as yet. Maybe some solar lights when there is enough sun to charge them would be in order.

Do you light up your flamingos with solar spot lights? Hubby currently liking and using green lights.

 

[love_the_life]

Pepe Saya used to do one but stopped - they did mention they could make some if I supplied the truffle.

The local market here usually has truffle butter in season made by one of the local truffle growers. Slabs of butter studded with pieces of truffle wrapped in cling wrap.

 

[whatmeworry]

AA forever pass.

[video=youtube;cF2Gdv6oGMQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF2Gdv6oGMQ[/video]

 

[Simo]

Doing something different today and being a tourist in my own back yard. At a pub I haven't been to in about 2 years 40 minutes drive from my house...

 

[Denali]

Saw the new Spiderman movie, my husband, Marvel fan, really enjoyed it. It was entertaining and I didn't hate it.

 

[GarrettM]

Waiting for 10am - wiggles tickets need to be purchased!

Very important. The wife got four. Herself, bub, and a friend with child.
i won't be going. Although I'm sure I would enjoy an audience with Emma Wiggle.

 

[Flying mermaid]

There seems to be an over-representation of computer-speak people on AFF!

changing the subject.....How did you go with Giraffe Manor for your trip next year? Manage to get availability?

 

[Milboo]

changing the subject.....How did you go with Giraffe Manor for your trip next year? Manage to get availability?

Its only the agenda for this week - and hopefully not too late. Been trying to organise a girl's weekend away, a me-escape for a few days, a Europe trip later in the year first...oh and actually do some work.

 

[Pushka]

Russian Air Force display today. (Taken from a bus on a freeway. Apologies to those following my tr for the dup). But it was really spectacular and they were performing for ages.

 

[TonyHancock]

Thank The powers that be I don't Gamble, I would have put "Hancock Towers" on Pell's doctor deeming him unfit to travel. :shock:

 

[love_the_life]

Just up your alley TH.
We tried: a martini masterclass with the Martini Whisperer

 

[Bundy Bear]

End of year accounts now finished for another year, its always a tough time of year, some staff can't count to save their lives.

2015-2016 was a bad year financially, 2016-2017 saw a massive improvement, similar what numbers were in 2013-2014,

The past 12 months I wasn't sure where we were headed but happy we seemed to have come out the other side.

See where the next 12 months ends up.

 

[Denali]

Someone scratched up against my side mirror of my car.

Hoping its <$500 fix up but its not $500 I have to throw away either *sigh*

 

[Cossie]

Anyone on here that hasn't been to Camden Markets in London?

Massive fire breaks out at London's Camden Market - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

[Denali]

Anyone on here that hasn't been to Camden Markets in London?

Massive fire breaks out at London's Camden Market - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Jeez. Poor London.

 

[Denali]

Trying to order new plates for my car.

Punch in office address for delivery, get an error message and told to phone the RTA.

Phone RTA and 30mins later get told, Not our problem, call My Plates.

Call MyPlates and get told we cant deliver to your office but we can drive past your office to deliver to a Post Office further away from you.

Some days bureaucracy does my head in.

 

[whatmeworry]

Someone scratched up against my side mirror of my car.

Hoping its <$500 fix up but its not $500 I have to throw away either *sigh*

Touch up paint?

Supercheap Auto - Search Results for Holts Dupli-Color Touch-Up Paint

 

[Denali]

Touch up paint?

Supercheap Auto - Search Results for Holts Dupli-Color Touch-Up Paint

Nope. As I told my husband when he went to touch it, "Dont make it worse!"

It just paint scratched but Im not OK with it just being patched over with spray paint, because it will still be rough to touch/look at.

Im not particular about my cars but its a little thing that can be fixed.

 

[Katie]

I discovered last week the development plans for the block next to us on the BCC website. The house was sold in 2015; tenants have been living there since and moved out a few weeks ago. It's a corner block, and 650m2. The plans didn't require public notification :shock:; no idea why, but I guess because they met all of council requirements? We were surprised when the tenants mentioned the house would be demolished as they were moving out; we hadn't seen the usual development sign go up at all in the past 2 years, and we fully expected whoever bought the house to develop it in some way.

The current house will be cut down slightly, fully renovated, raised, etc, and moved to the border next to our house. Two other lots will be created, each with a new two-storey house on it. The middle lot will be a whole 186m2!!!

Not surprised too much by the development - roughly the same thing happened a street away from us in the past two years. Just surprised that it could be done with no public notice at all. Oh well. Hope the new neighbours we get in a year or however long (no work has started yet) like a chatty 11yo who likes to make friends with neighbours!!

 

[Denali]

...... The middle lot will be a whole 186m2!!!!

Im pretty disgusted with how small the blocks are getting. We recently sold a house that was a smidge over 600mtr sq and apparently they can build 2 homes on this without needing council permission to go that small.

We drove past a new development on the weekend and the houses are so close together, the one set of scaffolding in the middle is allowing the brickies to work on both houses.

Crazy.