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NOPE - never on #GravyDay... But who's gunna make the gravy?

Waiting for train...currently running 10mins late...45c in the shade with 7% humidity...the air kinda burns to breathe but no fires near me...fingers crossed the predicted dry lightening doesn't hit.

Its out in the middle of the dessert, but apparently they were busing into Alice overnight from some of the communities.

Heading into work on a day expected to be 44C...that's 111F.....and tomorrow? Well it will be 21...so 69...Fricken schizophrenic weather..... although some parts of Aus are expecting 64 today (147).

Wondering if @Boo ever went to band camp So you all know I love Archie and Paul Kelly...well listen to wot I found...really hope you northies can access it...

I hate online shopping...I hate the big fat river company the most.

True...I do an awesome rooster...the kid used to get a nice time to get up but I'd she didn't out came the crow....an of course I do a brilliant craw call...*fark*fark*fark*...birds are animals yeah? Tnp doodles when there on hold on the phone.

Basmati rice us much better for you than wheat products. Chickpeas, lentils or Dahl are all better options than wheat products. Google a list for low GI foods.

Happy Birthday D....almost missed it...

Oh @Boo glitter is one of life's necessities for little girls...I swear I haven't put glitter hairspray in the kids hair for 2 years and there's still glitter in there.

Rain to the North East is the best Chrissy present, Nino/Nina change is good news too.

@Sazerac...those poms always cheat.... Bodyline... dirty cheating poms nearly caused a riot in flipping Adelaide..the stadest town in the land...then ask the pore bloody kiwis about the poms tendency to cheat.

Did ya know Chris that the first registered ice hockey team in Australia was in Darwin...and they were undefeated world champions for 32 years...until they opened a bloody rink in Darwin... Never lost a game, never played on either just won by default when the other teams didn't show up because there was no ice rink in the Territory... A Swiss team showed up once, the game was declared a draw.

The last time it snowed in Werribee was the day before never ever...nope apparently it snowed in Werribee once in the 70s but it was gone in hours. Last time snow fell on Melbourne was 1951...had to google that...Brunswick (suburb) got snow 86.

I remember my first cyclone watch in Darwin....first thing to sell out...beer! I would be super excited to get snow.

Ñnnnnnnoooooooooooo!!!!!! Oh what's wrong with Harry...go on start....

Xmas ... Pronounced either ex-mass or Christmas. Christmas for the non-Christians....or more to the point why write 9 letters when ya can get by with 4.

^^why??? 1970s Johnny Farnham.... I promise @Sazerac he is like the Aussie Rod Stewart...just much less skeezy. There's a completely different version Farnsie did with Olivia Newton-John I found a Harry Connick Jr version even.

Sleep in peace Marie Fredriksson...painfree and at rest.

Yet again I am excluding Bing from the list, cos well Bing and Bowie's version is the one I tolerate the best but it deviates too far from the original. Let me preface this by saying I fricking hate this song (well cepting the Bing n Bowie version). I hated it when I was a kid and I hate it now....but I figured I may as well do one of these xmad polls with a Johnny Cash song for Boo and his version of this is kinda ok. So here they are, your versions to vote on: 1. The Von Trapp Family Singers...the real ones from Austria, not those Julie Andrews Disney crew. 2. Johnny Cash 3. Christine Anu...cos I gotta have me an Aussie ....ah but some of that's not English I hear you say...still Aussie mates, that's Kalaw Lagaw Ya the language from Torres Straight Islands... 4. A klezmer Carol of the drum...surprisingly entertaining if somewhat schizophrenic..worth a listen for the Hawaii 5-0 key change. 5. Etta James....cos Etta James 6. Alex Boye ft Genesis Choir...the clips a bit odd but you can skip to the 1:05 mark....African drums...African line dancing..this goes all out...on a budget. Each has a different sound so have a listen, cast ya vote, post your opinion or your favourite version.

Jacinda is one of the classiest world leaders I have seen in my time...there are a shit tonne of tools out there claiming to be statesmen who should take lessons.

Yep....I could eat a box of red head's a day .. they tasted the best. And I'd get the real cheap black wiper blades, cut them into bits about an inch long and chew on them till they were itty bitty bits of rubber and wash them down with ginger beer. Funny thing though, when I was preggas I couldn't eat Vegemite. For a week or so I lived off vanilla icecream smothered in tomato sauce (ketchup). I also had to get someone else to put the petrol in my car cos I kinda liked the smell at the servo and figured it wasn't healthy for the baby for me to be deep breathing petrol fumes.

So what did you or the missus crave when you were up the duff? What is the wierdest thing someone you know has craved? What do/did you crave each month with ya period? So with the kid, when I wasn't being Linda Blair, I had some not so normal cravings....and some normalise ones. Frosty Fruit Icypoles Mangos Kiwi Fruit with the skin on (would just eat them like apples) Persimmons Watermelon rind (not the nice pink fruit, just the green and white bit on the outside) Burnt match heads Windscreen wiper blades. Now monthly....I crave savoury... Shapes, or dip, or cheese n bickies...or Sakata seaweed rice bickies...or cheesels ....or chicken twisties....sometimes even burger rings.

Stay safe @forestgreen.