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Eating dinner ... So the guess who cooked dinner in my house.... It's a huge upgrade from cheese toasties, 2 minute noodles (ramen) and tinned tomato soup.... Verbal critique: Omg this is grouse, tastes so good. You must be really learning stuff in food tech (home ec) non-verbal critique: mash spuds, watery, and yet lumpy with an odd taste...snags bloody perfect, beans pretty good but cold, kumera chips too salty and soggy...gravy different.... So the mash...got confused, and used whole egg mayo instead of sour cream.."they are both white". Kumera chips (I give mine a quick spray and then cook in the oven....she boiled them in water full of stock cubes, then shallow fried them in drippins)...and the Gravy....she added Vegemite and tomato paste for flavour, then couldn't get it to thinken up so added an egg yolk. The tomato sauce (ketchup) smiley face was because "plating is important mum, you eat with your eyes first"....

Evening fellow NOPErs, so it's a pretty uneventful day but all the number crunchers and tax accountants down here are getting ready for their new year tomorrow. There's lots on tomorrow...but diddly today...so that means fun facts.. Koalas...did you know that they sleep a minimum of 18 hours a day and that their fingerprints are virtually indistinguishable from humans fingerprints....and that over 50% of them have clamydia and research suggests that they originally contracted it from sheep.....and no it's not what you imagining....the sheep poop n wiz contaminated there food source, what you need to ask yourselves is how the sheep got it...and wonder why we stopped importing them from the east islands. Nope...not today, tomorrow or yesterday.

Mashes potatoes, honey carrots, braised cabbage, onion and bacon ...and peas n beans

Don't people get up at sparrows fart where you come from?

I'll give ya five of the best.

Split is good @jillar hope you loved it. @Linda Thomas no rocks...but the kid helps with the washing and hanging, just not the ironing. Right now I'm binge watching for the people and feeling proud of what I just finished....

If NRT helps get you over the hurdle use it, I did. Just remember it's not a miracle cure, you still have to do the work and fight the good fight...but it's like swimming a race with flippers, it just gives ya that extra boost to help you over the line....you still have to kick, and float and move your arms to get there... I do not regret NRT because "for me" it was what I needed, even if it was a little bit psycosematic, I needed that crutch. Do I think in some ways it prolonged the craving/anxty stage, yeah it did, but it got me through the psychological stage before I had to deal completely with the physical. I honestly think for me the emotional and mental part of my addiction was greater than the physical part. I believe it's all a case of horses for courses....we don't all look the same, we don't all think the same, we don't all quit the same.

Good morning fellow NOPErs on this World Scleroderma Day... World wot day?, Now she's just making shit up....but today is World Scleroderma Day...it is an auto immune disease which is characterised by a hardening of skin and tissue...the lungs are particularly susceptible with fibrosis and pulmonary arterial hypertension....so it's auto immune, the body attacks itself, kinda like skin (and soft tissue) arthritis to be real basic...and it runs in families, well it runs in mine....now here's the thing, the 'science' is all over the shop, smoking can trigger it, make it progress quicker, decrease remission episodes, it has no impact (hmm a disease that affects your lungs not impacted by smoking, who funds this research??)....so hear is wot I can tell ya (from my aunties, cousins, sisters)....it hurts, ya cold all the time, and you know what, it's just anecdotal but in my family everyone who has it, bar my sister, is or was a smoker and all bar 2 were smokers when they first had an episode...so just saying boys but speshly girls who are lurking you have a relo with Scleroderma...might be time to kick the habit. NOPE.... Time to put me first

Wot? Didn't the NBN fix that???..... Glad ya ok an just enjoying some bush bashing and a bit of a swag life.

To give someone the Bird.

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So (and this applies to vaping too where you see a (V)) all these are over a decade old, some over 2.....these are law...with on the spot fines...and @garry mhudson ya see (L) they were tested in court and the laws were upheld. (Victoria, Australia) 1. (L) ... Littering with an unlit butt ...$345 2. (L) Littering with a lit butt ....$500 ** $650 on any but from a vehicle window (car)....and anyone can go to the website to do you in and there less than 1% successful challenge rate. Oh and if ya do it on a total fire ban day, triple the fine. 3. (V & L)... Smoking in a vehicle with a passenger 16 years or younger....if a passenger in the car is smoking/vaping then both the passenger and the driver get fined. If 2 passengers are smoking the driver gets a fine for each of them. Currently $350 a pop. *Don't forget it's illegal to sell vapes in Aus with nicotine, it's illegal to advertise, illegal to sell to U18, individuals can import 6weeks nicotine supplies from overseas. 4. (V) ... $500 fine for within 10m of a school fence....even on a non school day 5. (V, L) ... $500 fine within 10m of an U18 sporting event or kids park (playground) 6. (V,L) .... $250, for within 5m of the door of any public building, in an alfresco dining area/beer garden, 10m of any government buildings door (hospitals, etc), train stations, bus stops. We might live our lives upside down....but maybe it ain't such a wrong way to be...and then again considering we are just a glorified former prison, maybe we are just not used to civil liberties

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You sleep in mate?

Like you weren't Gunna go for ya home town boy...lol...

No plan...it went like this; open the purse, fruck not enough money, buy a box of NRT gum to get me through to pay day, in the chemist on payday on the way to the bank, 6 months of NRT gum was the same price as a pack of smokes...said to meself "go orn, let's see how long this can last".... 19 months today since that last smoke, 16 months-ish since the last NRT gum. Edit: well that ^ was the kind of blade post that really pissed me off in my early quit....I didn't just decide that was it and that was it....it was hard work, but I dug in and gave it a red hot go and chose each day not to smoke and then protected that commitment. Oh and I did have a plan, but it came about after the fact and it was an exit plan for getting off the NRT.... That NRT exit plan was much needed for me or I would still be chewing.

There are some ripper covers out there that could see these go on for ages... So expect a lot of Aussie covers from me.

@Sazerac I as thinking of running regular cover v original polls.... And totally agree with...

So I've been kicking this idea around for a while...holding polls on which is better, a cover or an original...and today (28 Jun) is the 45th birthday for the song "Band on the Run"...that's right, 45 years ago today Paul and Wings released Band on the Run...and then 12 years ago the Foo Fighters covered it.... So here they are, have a listen and let us know which one is best.... The Original: The Cover: So my heart wants me to vote Foo Fighters.... BUT ...I'm just not sure they stamped enough of themselves on it....it's just a little too kareoke .. hmmmm....decisions, decisions....

Good morning NOPErs... 28th of June is the last work day of the 2018-9 financial year...all the accounts types are excited for the pending eoy audits, stock takes and ledger Rollings....me despite the chilly air (6°c is cold people) and that wind whipping in from the Arctic this morning had blue skies (not grey) and this strange bright yellow ball...O-M-G...it's the SUN!!!!!....and I will stand by the fishponds and fountains at work and breath in the chilly air with my lovely smoke free lungs! NOPE...gives you more time just to be.

Oh and we don't have a dryer at our place, we use the clothesline ..lots of us have dryers but most people I know really only use them if the rain won't stop. Dunno why..maybe we are just tightarses and don't want to waste money in the power bill...or maybe it's to do with national pride in the hills hoist.

Winter down in the wonderful land of Aus...today is their last day of term 2 so they get a 2 week break...but back to school mid july. So our lot get 6weeks in summer, or as we know it the Christmas holidays, then 3 * 2 week term breaks private/Catholic schools tend to get more, especially high schools.