Let the joy be unbridled! My neighbour's windchimes have FINALLY broken through their string and have fallen! And said neighbours are away for the next week so I'll have at least a week of blessed silence. Happy happy happy!
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While they are away you should take the opportunity to sneak in and fill the pipes with spray foam to permanently silence them.
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Was it a cheap set or anything particularly wrong with them?
As a wind chime owner myself I want to make sure I'm not annoying my own neighbours
Not a particularly cheap set - thin brass bells with a particularly penetrating chime which is just slightly, ever so slightly, off key. Goes through 2 layers of brick wall, double glazing and some serious intervening vegetation with perfect ease and clarity. If you suffered from tinnitus, they would be an instrument of torture. Possibly justifying a violent home invasion. I have contemplated this solution but lack the guts (but not the equipment).
This triggers a past experience I had with neighbours and wind chimes. And it was hung on their side patio right next to my bedroom window. Letβs just say I took care of of the issue βοΈ
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Happy weekend everyone. May the force be with you.
https://imgur.com/gallery/VWnMPn3
I think he likes me π₯Ή
Headbutts he likes you.
Showing you his arse he loves you.
Gets face full of arse and empty ballsack
Aw he loves me π₯ΉππΌ
Is that what it means? Man, Gibson must love me extra when I'm in the kitchen near the treat cupboard lol
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I guess I should be sleeping πI drifted off earlier but I'm just lazing around now enjoying the quiet. We'll, except for the sound of thunderstorms or blizzards or whatever Elder Minipeeler has going on in there that he's sleeping to.
I'm pretty proud of our local train youtubers here in Melbourne. I was able to find a bunch of original content on the train derailment at Clifton Hill. I found videos on the derailment, freight trains coming to take the train apart, and the derailed carriage being lifted off the track by a crane.
And we don't even have the most comprehensive public transport network. I wonder what the train youtubers in other cities are like?
We went for a train ride down to Reservoir and saw one of the yellow SSR freight trains from the video.
It kind of feels like meeting a local celebrity
There's this absolute waste of an ejaculation that keeps pulling up to the stopped light near my place and revving his fartmobile. One day i'm gonna greet him with a cinderblock
Broom broom! Look At Me! Broom broom! I'm A Big Boy! Shut the fuck up you twat its not gonna make your daddy love you
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Off to buy a shitload of aerogard from the chemist lol. CW seems reasonable price-wise.
Was reassuring to find this today. Seems like they do the multi DOOOM approach too, so I'm not going completely mad. Their language does appear a bit defeatist though heh. No mention of weed burners :( .
Checkout person will think I have a massive unhealthy phobia of insects.
I have gathered 900g of the aero g MIST OF DESPAIR and now we wait patiently in the shadows. Was gonna grab the last can too but felt bad.
Also some prawn gyoza for dins which has been a while.
Commander airoguard:
Good luck sir, teach those damn plants a lesson!!! π
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I slept 5 hours in a row!!!!!!
First time in over a year. Feels so weird lol
What use is Al if cats still arent bringing me a morning coffee?
They have natural intelligence, not the artificial variety. I mean, why bring coffee when you can get people to bring you food instead ...
They have to earn their keep!!
Surely 'looking beautiful' is enough work for any cat. Maybe you should take them coffee. You're the staff.
mine put in hard yards making sure that the couch doesn't fly away. Misha even heroically throws herself bodily in the way to ensure the sun doesn't bleach my dining table.
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Since I bought my ipad pro I've been leaning towards going back to iOS for a phone
Fuck they're ridiculously expensive. I would be buying outright this time and yeah, holy fuck I'm not paying almost 2k for a phone.
Phone prices have been getting ridiculous in the last couple of years. I'm almost swinging the other way and I think I'll get a mid-tier Chinese phone next
You can usually pick up last year's model for a major discount and it's often not much different to the current model.
yeah I just wait until my sister upgrades her phone plan and gives me her old one XD.
Last phone I bought was literally a nokia 3310. It's a phone. I don't care. I get everyone's hand me downs.
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nearly finished everything on the todo list π
dinner tonight is chicken spinach curry and roti
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Woke up because wonky sleep π₯±Warm shower time
Hello I also am on wonky sleep time π
Puppy dog eyes won out and we went for a walk. It was as cold and windy as expected, but fortunately we managed to avoid being rained on. Miss Meow now has me pinned down on the couch to make sure I don't try to leave again.
Chill day today. Haircut, wander around for a while and grab a fitness tracker maybe grab a pair of hightops or a pair of dickies.
Then it's guitar and singing all day.
Perfect Saturday.
Edit: success! Cheap fitness tracker and an awesome large black hoodie with a massive hood. Taken me ages to find one.
I have a to do list, ticked off some, have lots more to do.
onward ---->
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Bit disappointed I had a lazy day but also realising that I have years of sleep and oxygen deprivation to make up for. Trying not to beat myself up for not realising and getting treated earlier. I did buy food and get the washing done and got through a chunk of my book and a few eps of the Bear (shhh I have managed to stay spoiler free for S4) Tomorrow a beach walk if it's not as windy, bit of work admin to get ready for the week and some cooking.
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Currently in the middle of a power outage. I didnβt manage to get the heaters on for long enough to warm up the place.
Hoping the sun can warm the place up a little.
Lucky I charged all my stuff for last week but not knowing this was going to happen has screwed me up.
Oh well washing for tomorrow instead.
Now to get make some food. Thank god I still have a gas stove.
Can you go and hang out somewhere warm for a bit? A shopping centre or library or somewhere?
Or else you could build a blanket fort.
Washing is out. Wind is busy. Just waiting on the sunshine to happen.
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Saw these at GardenWorld. My aunt and I got my mum one for her birthday, and we are going to write death cap on it. 
Sleep has been acquired and My Hello Fresh box is inside. Mr Woof thinks that means it's walk time, but the weather is miserable out there. Cold, windy and likely rain coming. I am not feeling enthused.
Awoke with a start at 4:30am, still awake. Boyo also woke up, so now we've resigned ourselves to staying awake and are going for breakky burritos.
Iβve caught some virus, feeling crappy this morning. Couldnβt sleep more than a couple hours in a row last night. Had a birthday party to go to tonight which I was looking forward to, think Iβll have to cancel π If thereβs a bright side to being sick on the weekend, Iβve got a lot of TV to catch up on so going to do some binge watching.
Goodnight all β€οΈ
woooo tanks mounted and tested and despite rolling around the back yard empty for two friggin' years no splits! now I have somewhere to stuff the water from the 300l down the side while I completely redo its overflow system
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