Enjoy! This calls for a celebration imo. With lots of 🍻🍻🍻 and some ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°).

Save some seeds from it for future plants.

Better the table than the pies.

Riiiiicccchhhhh in fibre, protein and other useful nutrients. Kinda tasteless by itself, but OK mixed into other things. Absorbs quite a lot of water so good for putting in stews that are too liquidy - same as cous cous. Agree that it does a good fill up and flush out of digestive system. Please note, raw seeds need to be rinsed well to remove bitter taste (saponins) before cooking unless packet says ready to cook on the label.

At least you’re not being refused “because you don’t have children” - apparently leave requests for parents get priority in some places. Nearly got trapped by that in one place I worked. Leave request approved, then suddenly cancelled because someone else had kids and wanted the same date range as leave. At the time, my workplace didn’t know I had a family too. I really enjoyed ripping them a new one over that.

Seriously, a bot probably has a standard time frame for booking leave requests - and your request might have been just outside it - is one month the same as 30 days? - depends on the month. And a ranked list of requests stacked up to fill once it got freedom to grant leave. This list might well be ranked within the organisation, by tenure etc. too. Your request might have been just below the cut off point in the allowed parameters.

Doesn’t make the situation any better or less aggravating.

Do your own research. link

That is a definition of skinny that I haven’t heard before!

Cut a couple of little slits in the top pastry before putting it on the pie. This allows steam to escape which is what usually causes splosions.

There’s a fair few rooftop bars around now - maybe one of those?

Will be buying ticket today for Epic Brass at Fitzroy Bowling Club. Anyone else still interested? Event is next Sunday 3-6 pm. Tix are $25 general admission - no concession info available on the website.

Is it the lactose? Cos there’s lactose free cheese available.

You have to be kidding. Even the paper costs a bundle nowadays. And gift wrapping is a fairly skilled art, even with squared paper, good cutting tools and good ribbon skills. I used to do Myer xmas wrapping temp jobs for a few years- it was a madhouse and extremely stressful. Even a charity would have to charge for the paper and ribbon etc. to make any money at all.

Pancakes for everyone! I like the idea of Galentines Day - so much more universally acceptable.

Coconut curry of dolphin & broccolini please chef.

Mine is very boring. I’m a witch and I live in Thornbury. All my social media usernames are variations on this theme. Would have been worse if I lived in Ipswich. One day I shall re-invent myself, but at present I see no particular need to do so.

That’s the MINIMUM.

Sorry, quote from The Dark Is Rising. “Tonight will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining”.

Tomorrow will be beyond imagining.

Thanks chef, I think.

Helthy salad please.