Melbourne

It's officially 1.3° colder inside than out. #Winning

it's a little warm, egg nishna has been switched on

Market shop complete. I have procured

• a nice piece of ocean perch for dinner tonight
• beef for stir fry
• bagels
• milk
• 2x pistachio cookies the size of my face
• potatoes
• carrots
• mushrooms
• baby spinach
• cherry tomatoes
• cucumber
• capsicum in assorted colours
• baby corn
• yellow nectarines
• green grapes (straight to fridge, yaaaaas)
• blueberries
• cherries
• toy for Chook, as he is a spoiled baby

These overcast skies are blueballing meeeeee

Just rain already ffs!!!

Hired a goget car to do Saturday stuffs. Now waiting for train. It's hawt.

To make up for not feeling hungry this morning I now have a horrific craving for greasy sausages. I wonder if the Coles nearby has the brand of vegan snags I like. But after this morning's jaunt and then the boiling hot laundromat journey I'm not going out again. Ikea and the lot can be left to tomorrow.

...although, despite my recent extravagance^, I think I'll go for that pizza dinner. They do a mock beef Mexican, i have to try it.

Gonna have to work extra hard over the next few weeks to make up for some of this.

^ (and also eyeing off a $750 phone to buy on sale to replace my device bricked by the 3g shut down)

The cool change has come across at just the right time. It has cooled down enough that I could take Mr Woof for our after work walk, and we are done in plenty of time to avoid the rain.

Just got through the first season of Happy Valley. For all the typical story beats, dang is this well acted and the dialogue tightly written... Sarah Lancashire is amazing. And I absolutely want to murder Tommy Lee Royce.

Also strikes me how much technology had changed in ten years. None of the kids are glued to mobile devices...

E: that pizza absolutely hit the spot too, perfectly greasy and salty and spiced and faux-meaty. I'm ready for bed soon I think.

Somehow my comment disappeared into the ether.

I am out with the masses after a late dinner of wagyu beef roll wirh dipping gravy. Om nom.

What dis weather, though.

Humid and ambient heat seeping through the pores of the city.

Blerrghhhhh

Come on rain. Come on!!!

I have stuff to do, made a kinda list. I suppose if work thru it slowly it's still done, eh 🤷‍♀️

mmkay, two things crossed off list, the searching thru boxes to get european art papers

ugh, trying to do a crossword and the clues just keep moving up and down, forcing me to keep looking for them and messing with my head and eyes

think I'll drop that one

seriously, reminds me of early tv when they would use special effects just because they could even tho they looked shit and had no actual artistic purpose

Going out for an early market run before it gets even hotter. Anyone want anything?

I finished The House on the Borderlands yesterday. It was ok. Not as engrossing as The Night Lands but still very imaginative and having all the elements of a gothic novel.

I've read the Poe short stories just a few years back in a lovely edition called Steampunk Poe, so I might skip them for now.

Gormenghast? It's been quite a while since I've read the trilogy, I find the characters and the world engrossing. 🙂 Greatly recommend. I think I'll do this, then Poe novels and some HP Lovecraft. These are all rereads of course, oh god I did so much reading in my 20s and 30s,

various renditions of Titus Groan have been sampled, the audible version is best and has been bought 👍

also, art books 🥶

I am hearing the rains

we've had the rain, a small shower and now it's past

I knew cardboard would be a terrible canvas (hence attempts at sealing) and only for early practice but wow. Even with the layer of medium underneath it basically drank the paint. Which I knew it would but not to this degree.

I’ve been trying not to feed them as much but one of the magpies approached me when I went out to rinse my brush under an outside tap. Flew right up close and looked at me. It looked like a female maybe. Broken top beak. I nipped inside to grab some of Melbcat’s pet jerky and threw the magpie some crumbled pieces.

I’m wondering if I’ve done a bad and made the magpies too dependent and trusting of humans. Also worried about whether this bird can eat properly. But I’m not going to be able to catch it for treatment.

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Melbcat keeps licking herself in the exact same place and has made an itchy hotspot…

I can’t find her cone of shame to stop her and it’s a hassle to buy a bib but I managed to get a baby onesie that might fit over her upper body and stop her accessing it.