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Baking Irish Soda Bread.. like all sane, normal people do at 3am.

T20 World Cup... the gift that keeps on giving...who'd a thought....England beaten by Ireland.... thank you Duckworth-Lewis for letting the underdog slay the lion. Now I'm imagining all our yankeedoodles trying to work out wot the farkledarkle I'm on about.... let's just say you think calculus, trig and baseball stat's are hard you ain't ever known the complete chaos of working put the Duckworth-Lewis system.... see its convoluted mathematic 'formula' the Brits invented to get a result in limited overs cricket when there are rain delays.

4. 8 legged freaks covered in hair with gazillion eyes and fangs that live in webs or even ground tunnel systems. Freaking spiders.

So this Friday we are having an International Community lunch at work. Basically bring a plate from your cultural background.... I just can't decide...wot do I bring. So my names on the savoury list or I would have just done pavs.... I was going to make sausage rolls but one of the other Aussies has said they are doing that. Now the brief is bring something from you cultural background... for me that's Aussie... but if you go back far enough it's mainly Irish, then chuck in some Scott, German, Norwegian, and French... I'm a full bitsa (bits of this, bits of that). Options rattling around my brain are... pumpkin soup with some home made soda bread, kangaroo and beetroot capaccio (probably too fancy for thus mob), apricot chicken (for that nod to my bogan ancestry), curried egg and lettuce sandwiches, shepherds pie, rissoles in gravy with mash or lamb stew. I'll get pics cos we are expecting food from China, Poland, Vietnam, Philippines, Serbia, Malaysia, Croatia, Cambodia, Turkey, India, Burma, Pakistan, Malta, Spain, Greece, Italy, England, Scotland and of course Aussie. One of the warehouse kids is bringing Vegemite sandwiches and for a fancy option Vegemite and cheese sandwiches too. WOT would you bring??

Honey Joys .... Only way to eat corn flakes...

@overcome ... switch out your onion for a leak add some chicken stock and that's the ingredients to my spud soup. I brown the butter a bit, soften the leaks then cook the bacon until the fat renders, add the spuds and just enough stock to cover... boil until spud very soft then puree and add enough evaporated milk to get the right consistency.

@Paul723 my daughter and I watch it together. I've made a few of the dishes too. Please tell me you love Poh and Julie Goodwyn. Another good Aussie cooking show is My Kitchen Rules.

2. . Hitting yourself with a hammer.

So I have used binaural beats for a while to help with focus at work on bad adhd days... was looking for something new to add to the list when I came across this about 18mths into ky quit. Not sure if I've shared it this before. Not sure if it's a placebo...bit it does help me sleep ... anywho... listening to binaural beats works better with headphones one.

Where do I belong ..... right here chickadee!

1. Get the lid to paint it and then gift it to the grandparents.

6. It tastes delicious. So the only place I've seen pretzels with cheese in Melbourne is at German resteraunts. Warm giant pretzel...gooey melt cheese sauce...now that really does taste delicious.

First.... thank you for posting this. You are not the only one to feel like this. It's hard to stick your hand up publicly and say so this post is big... I mean, one you worry that it might put an early quitter off... then there is the whole wotif I am the only one thought process... what if people give me negative feed back.... but i think you should be proud of your post. So I think Boo explained it best, it's not the thought that's the issue but how your react and respond to it. I still get the occasional thought that I'd like a smoke... I know that's its just a remnant nicotine receptor trying it on... the thing is when for example I get a whiff of someone's smoke and that little voice goes "oh I'd like a smoke" I don't give the thought any realestate... my instant response is "yeah-nah" and I go on with my life. I don't analyse why I thought that, does that make my quit weak, Am I still battling this... why?... will I fail am I failing... no time for that.... had the thought, said nope and off I go with life. It hasn't always been like that... when I was about 18 months quit I'd psycho analyse every single occasional thought... made me feel like a weak/mad quitter and everyone else was doing it easy. It wasn't any hold smokes held over me just my own self doubt and yhought processes. When that self doubt crept in I'd re read my earliest posts.... and remember how far I have come and who I am now... which is not a slave to a chemical/drug. It just takes time...there is no perfect time table...we are all different... it's OK to have a shit day, just ok if you still get a crave or smoking thought.... remember your undoing years of conditioning....you will get to easy street in the time that's right for you and noone is going to think any less of you if you say... "oi support network feeling the pinch here at the moment, please remind me you got my back and it's normal to have off times"

3. My weight

Oh yay @Doreensfree have a great visit with Nicky.

So.... for that 20 pack of Malboro you would be up for £16.60 or US$18.86 or Can$25.88 ...for the 25 pack of B&H .... £30.44 or US$34.58 or Can$47.46. Most of that cost is taxes.... the Aussie government is trying to phase out smoking with a policy called prohibitive pricing so every September and March the tax goes up. It's a 12.5% increase each year.

Oright you mob... did me some research...thank fark I don't smoke anymore, I'd need a second job.... So meanwhile down under...

Send prayers to Kat's little battler. Speedy healing vibes to the little fella and best wishes to you all. Me...I'm wondering if this convo counts as a mummy pass or a mummy fail.... (Background, the kid us studying biology and they have been doing experiments involving growing plants) The Kid (16)... Mum I grew the best geraniums, my root systems were awesome. I also had the best succulents. I so should grow pot. Even my grass was the best and I was trying to kill that.

So if that link doesn't work... please take the time to google Shark Fin Blue by The Drones

Rest up Lady D and get better soon.

Oh I think we have a similar thing here...Passion Pop..... which when I went to school was called 2 buck chuck....it cost about $3 a bottle and was a sickly sweet passionfruit flavoured sparkling wine.

Oops... * you can use chocolate sprinkles, but then instead of fairy bread it is ant bread.

Fairy Bread. This Aussie delicacy is best prepared at least 3 hours before serving and it's just not a party without it. Ingredients Sliced white bread Margarine 100s n 1000s (or sprinkles*) 1. Butter white bread with a decent amount of marg. 2. Turn upside down onto a plate covered in 100s n 1000s (or sprinkles). 3. Cut into 4 triangles, arrange on plate and cover with wrap until ready to serve.

Eye-van-hoooooe.... we have a suburb in Melbourne named Ivanhoe, and I have to pronounce it that way every time. So yesterday I played a game with the children.... Are you smarter than a 16 month old.... saddly, 5 outa 5 failed. So my sis sent me footage of her genius baby identifying historically famous Aussies from their pictures.... Captain Cook ... first European to discover Australia and be bothered to claim it (both the Dutch and the French passed). Mary MacKillop ... a nun who became the first Australian Saint. Sir Don Bradman.... greatest cricket batsman, ever... retired with an average of 99.94 (so almost 100 runs every innings he batted, as an average) Weary Dunlop... WW2 army doctor who was a POW and well just Google him, pretty amazing what he and his other doctors did to keep other POWs alive on the Burma Thailand railway. Douglas Mawson... Arctic Explorer So anyway.... got pictures of each of them and asked the kids to see how many they could name. A couple got Mary MacKillop and young cobsie got the Don.... but that was it. So then I played the footage of Miss 16 months old naming them all...and then I named he other 10 in the chart she didn't name. This was primary school history. Best comment went to K... why wasn't Ned Kelly there I know that one... bit hard to miss the bloke with a metal bin on his head.