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Oh....blackberries in summer, climbing through the bracken ferns to get to the ferral blackberry bushes while staying at my Great Aunties house...she would make blackberry jam and then a batch of scones to eat it with, lecturing us the whole time not to go near the blackberry bushes cos that's where the snakes are.... Isn't it fun, when you think about these things you can feel the burn of the Sun through your tshirt and you can smell the eucalyptus on the air....it's like a time travel or is that just me.

I'm here.

Today my happy food memory is Lime Spiders..... a glass of lime softdrink with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.... makes me think of summer holidays on my uncles farm crowding into the kitchen to get a treat.... remembering putting on advocates concerts with the cousins, being torchered with bugs and spiders and lizards and snakes by the same cousins so getting an extra scoop to make up for having to put up with the boys all day.

So was off in the music thread sharing some Aussie music when the name of a band triggered a whole series of happy food memories...although in this case it's a drink. 5hen I got thinking about how some foods just make you feel happy when you eat them or think about them. So what's yours and why...

@Steven Drojensky my first memory of the Saints is being crammed into the boot of my uncles panel van with 4 other kids they were supposed to be babysitting driving to the beach and my uncle saying "now kids, this is music, listen, learn" ....sound track of my childhood. Also in those early days of panel van trips to the beach my soundtrack included Radio Birdman... And The Limespiders .... Now I want a lime spider....mmmm yummo

Right...had to hunt down this t model ford bloke cos his video were blocked...yep worth the research, pointed in the right direction by @Boo yet again. Now for some more Aussie flavour..

7. Poke holes in the top, fill with grass and use it to store the frogs, lizards or snails you spend the day catching. Hot Tip from experience: snails can eat their way out, just saying.

3. Use it to store your sticky tape and ribbons for wrapping.

8. Write a 'honey do' task for the kid and leave stuck to the telly screen so she doesn't miss it.

4. Leave passive aggressive notes all over the windscreen for shitty/inconsiderate parkers.

10.... cut the top of, decorate it with permos (perminant markers/ sharpies), pop a tealight in and have a fancy silhouette candle holder... Here are some I prepared earlier...(we'll 2litre and 3 litre bottles ... but same shit different bucket and all that) So what's 10things you cando with a Post It?

Popping in from the office to say to @Kris be kinder to yourself chooky. The first year is hard for many of us, some get lucky and quitting is easy, like flicking a switch....some get it really hard and it's stop start stop start very heavy slug BUT most of us fall somewhere in the middle. Every day you don't smoke you win. 1 step at a time, 1 day at a time and I promise you at least one of us here has felt exactly the same as you have at 1 stage in their quit.... you got this...trust yourself look how much you have achieved. @jillar wot can I say, Birdie is just a ditz..probably gets it from me. @Doreensfree... hoping fir a full and quick recover soon for them both. the summer storms have been wild this year, had to pull over on the freeway the other night because I couldn't see and cars were aqua planeing. Let me just say I was not comfy at all sitting in Emergency last night...I could just feel those little covid fruckers crawling all over me.

It's bin a while... but naughty naughty ( o ) ( o ) Yes I am a teenage boy

@Doreensfree ... omg how are Nicky and Chris weren't laid up too bad and are on the mend. Work is pretty good as they are supplying anyone going into the office with RA tests, so have a daily test pretty much.

Drinking a cuppa. So the kid has a broken foot. Plaster for the height of summer, what joy. Funniest Irish doctor who spent the whole time telling the kid how much she loved her name and ranga hair. And then her nurse was a scouser...was like having Doreen to look after us. They were taking bets on what the X-rays result would be. So for the Americans in the room....X-rays, plaster, some nice pain killers and a set of crutches.... cost $40 (Aussie money, so about $30 us) and that was only because I opted to buy the crutches. Social health ain't an evil thing my friends.

So right now, I'm sitting with said kid in the emergency room waiting for her to get an xray... why you ask? Because she thought jumping up and down on a foot that was asleep and numb to "wake it up" was a good idea... no so much now.

Nope....she was just too lazy to walk from the room she was in to the room I was in and the torrential rain on the roof meant I didn't hear her when she yelled. Just being a lazy teen.

Talking to my daughter on the mobile within 5he same, single story, 3 bedroom house..... Also enjoying an awesome summer thunderstorm even though I know my car will probably be bogged tomorrow.

So I've never actually seen Love Actually. Saw Jason and the Argonauts at the drive in with my parents a special treat before I started prep (kindergarten or whatever it is you call the first year of school where you come from) and had nightmares for a month and decided I was never ever going to school (my school bag had been packed for a month).

Drooling.... little brother just sent me a pic of today's catch.... Red snapper, crayfish and in the bottom of the sink some fresh squid.....he's only a 6 hour drive away.....hmmm

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I.... omg happy New year @beazel.....so glad to so your still going strong.

Oh @Mee my hearts breaking for you. I'm so frickin angry with you brothers, they are total c u next Tuesdays. Just remember they need to live with their actions and look at themselves in the mirror. Users, betrayers, selfish cunty scum suckers, that's what they need to live with. You selflessly gave of yourself for your parents for years, ensuring despite their cruelty and faults they could live their lives complete with their crazy dunny paper rituals. You did it with grace and omg how you continued to turn the other cheek is beyond me. I know this seems harsh but I think it's time to cut the dead wood and rot from your life. Your brothers are like a malignant, cancerous tumour on your happiness....cut them off, blood and genetics are just an accident of fate (seriously is there any chance your parents bought the wrong baby home from hospital cos you are nothing like these nasty shits) and the family you chose and made for yourself us pretty bloody fantastic...you have lots of love and acceptance out there with your hubby, kids, inkaws, grand kids, friends, us .... you deserve and are so much better than them. Wash your hands, say goodbye and heal.

Just realised next year baby boo2 will turn 1!