Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Third night in a row I can’t get myself to sleep. Next time the melatonin is coming out at 7 and it’ll be a full tablet. I also have forgotten to eat much today so upon having two slices of toast my stomach has performed quite the symphony of gurgles.
Hooray for sunny Wednesday! My toes are frozen… I desperately need to spend more time outside
I’m glad I brought a bunch of zzzquil back with me from the US. Just took a shot… let’s see if it takes otherwise #nosleepgang
Fingers crossed the earlier dose works tonight. I took one last night a lot earlier than I normally do and it completely knocked me out cold. The only thing that hurt was the alarm smacking me straight out of a dream when it went off this morning.
And yes - get you some natural vitamin D! Do it!!! DOOO ITT!!
I’ve just popped into the office and was standing outside this room thinking about whether I should go into this room, so I did.
Did you contemplate leaving as well to cover all bases?
I did! Once I was in I contemplated whether I should go, so I did.
The first delivery of soil has officially been moved - just in time for the next load to be delivered! I’ll try to get the second planter filled today, then cover the rest of the pile to protect from rain and fill the other areas I have over a bit more time - this is exhausting!
The payoff will last for years though! Such glorious delights await, and just in time as well.
Shout-out to any folk at DH who may be getting some rough news this week/having their teams decimated. Rough time.
Ate my first mango of the season. So good.
Kensington Pride? They’re my favourite.
It sure was. $2.50 each at local green grocer.
yum. this season I should make sure to buy heaps and make some chutney
I’ll be buying lots to make mangoritas. 🍹
Last night I woke up in the middle of the night with my thumb hurting. (Not asking for medical advice, just sharing my misery). Swollen and bright pink, with a hole in the skin. Couldn’t get a doctor’s appointment until today. Throbbing all day yesterday, and now I can’t sleep from the pain. Anxiety about flesh eating bacteria and having it amputated.
Go to doctor stat. You really really don’t want this puncture wound to go septic and develop gangrene. Easily done when pruning roses. Happened to me once and I had to have the classic penicillin injection in my butt - with what felt like a sharpened hosepipe. Could not sit down for a week. Don’t recommend.
PS I now wear gloves to do the garden - strong recommend for this practice going forward.Just in the last few months I’ve read two stories about horrific infections from browsing around in soil gloveless - first the worm in the woman’s brain from foraging, then the recently published report of the Sydney woman who got blackleg disease from gardening soil - a bacteria normally found in livestock which was eating her bowels up and nearly killed her last year but for a new mode of treatment.
I don’t care what people say about getting a bit o’ dirt in your bowels, I’d rather not have the other stuff as well thanks.
Unless you went swimming somewhere you should have zero worries. Maybe a bug bite ?
I was thinking maybe a spider bite, I had been gardening. Oh well, I’ve got a thumb on the other hand, she’ll be right mate.
Whitetails and necrosis is something that worries the hell out of me. I don’t care that they’re not deadly - I don’t want no flesh-eating spidey bite to remind me some little fucker was able to invade me like that!
I know you’re not looking for medical advice so I’ll just say, hopefully you’ve managed to use antiseptic on the area and given it a good clean (or three). That and ibuprofen might help with the swelling.
I’ve been bitten to hell by whitetails: they take ages to heal but the whole necrosis thing is wildly overblown. It’s been found in most cases the “necrosis” was actually caused by something else - diabetes, staph, etc etc. If you have diabetes, mild concern (as always) but don’t get paranoid to hell over a whitetail bite.
Huh, the more you know! I worked with a guy who got necrosis from a white tail - but he was definitely a candidate for pre-diabetes so that could explain it. And look, it wasn’t that bad, maybe like a pinky nail-sized hole? But still, I can deal with a lot of things. Spiders, nope. Not a fan of something so small being able to damage me like that.
Perfectly reasonable for random things to give you The Ick, but don’t let it drive you unreasonably nuts - get it checked, then it’s sorted and all happy makings.
flesh eating: unlikely. Puncture with a bit of an infection: sorted with penicillin. Spider bite: possible, also treatable.
DetachableProtein 👀
Comedian Cal Wilson has died. Sad news.
I just saw that, that’s unbelievable.
So young as well :(
53… I just can’t. So sad.
PSA. If you’re thinking about an airfryer Aldi have them on sale for $149. Join the cult.
Are they any good? I bought the Stirling toaster/kettle a few years ago and they sucked. I pretty much swore off the Aldi appliances after that.
I still like their power tools, though.
Well a lot of people bought their airfryer and really like it. I guess if you’re unsure about buying one then it’s probably a good starter one to try out.
Lower back pain 😑 Massaging the muscles at the sides of my hips helps but I don’t like the cheap foam roller. Trying to foam roll actually puts pressure on my joints from supporting my weight like that.
I end up just jamming my thumbs into the muscles but they bend back so I just use the heel of my hand. Wondering if a massage gun might be useful or is just a waste of money
You might like to try a massage ball
You can also get ones with spikes.
I’ve got one with spikes but somehow it doesn’t work too well. It might be better to have a smaller firmer one
@melbaboutown @CEOofmyhouse56 a hard spikey massage ball like this little puppy can work wonders if muscle release is called for
Massage Guns are good but if you don’t like to be roughed up then I’d look at massage seats. They slip on to a chair and you have a remote attached. Some of them can target problem areas.
Gluteus medius and minimus. They might be better accessed with a tennis ball or something firmer - rubber lacrosse or cricket balls maybe. I sometimes side-lie on my stainless water bottle as a way to self-massage them, it’s a smaller diameter than my foam roller so it can get between the top part of the femur and the bony-wing of the pelvis, where those muscles hang out.
Good idea.
lovely day so I’ll be going out walking and doing some errands
then back home to do my emails and messages
Enjoy the day everyone 😘😘
Codral original do your thing, I need to push through work today. Really wanted to take another sickie but these bloody client deadlines have come thick and fast this week and we have several people on leave.
Lunchtime in the sun planned, hopefully some solar power will help me get better.
Hey green thumbs I have a question. Can you grow coriander inside near a window in a little pot? It would get the afternoon sun. I’m sick of paying for it.
What I like to do, there’s a receptacle I keep in my kitchen which has a foot pedal lid. I’ve found coriander works best for me when I put it in there.
It’s the bin. Coriander belongs in the bin.
We can’t all win the genetic lottery.
Nah it’s not that. It doesn’t taste like soap, it’s just overpowering and bad. It’s acceptable it if it’s finely chopped and in some kind of sauce but just putting the leaves on stuff ruins whatever that stuff is.
What do you put in your banh mi then huh? It’s not a banh mi without the coriander.
I just don’t have banh mi
:(
😂 I love the stuff but am sympathetic to those who can’t stand the taste
Had us in the first half, not gunna lie hahah.
I believe I could get it to go straight to seed in that position yes.
Will bolt (go to seed) very quickly. Coriander as a green herb is a very difficult plant to get right. Better left to professionals imo. Sure, grow it for seed in that position.
You might have better luck with about half a dozen pots, and grow a small quantity in each. You’ll need to feed and water them every day and harvest the INSTANT a potful is ready. Then replant that pot. Lots of maintenance for minimal reward imo.Top advice here. I find coriander goes like this:
- Sow seeds
- Small shoots appear
- Growing but not ready to pick
- Growing but not ready to pick
- Growing but not ready to pick
- Gone to seed, too late to pick
My experience exactly. Mongrel stuff.
It’s like avocados that ripen the second you look away. Or Eddie Izzard’s sketch about pears… https://youtu.be/KxUD57NFLcU?si=J5WOxBl9L_opmGWW&t=330
Thank you for that.
We’ve all been there - coriander is exxy and doesn’t keep so we try to grow it. Then we find out what a fussy little bastard the plant is.
I chop it up and freeze in ice cubes. Not good for a salad herb but fine for salsa etc.
I’ll eat bolted coriander rather than pay $3 for the shitty little morsel you get at supermarkets in a plastic case - thankfully there’s other grocers around selling them loose in larger bunches.
personal experience has shown me that jamming it in a pot with a dripper and then ignoring it because IDGAF about coriander and it’s His Lordship’s business results in a three foot high bush that keeps producing.
I have tried growing coriander in all sorts of way, and never had success. It’s a fussy whinger. Oh it’s too hot, oh it’s too cold, oh it’s too sunny, oh you want leaves? Well here’s some seeds.
I’m afraid the only way to get this worm out of my brain is to share it, so:
IIIII’M ENNERY THE EIGHTH I AM, ENNERY THE EIGHTH I AM I AM
William, William, Henry, Stephen Henry, Richard, John, oi!
🧡 horrible histories! I learnt so much watching them with the kid
I actually memorised that thing in my goddamn 40’s because it’s bloody handy for trivia nights.
I’m ‘er eightf ol’ man named 'enery, 'Enery the eighhf I am!
Remember guys if you put a bolt or screw in something some poor bugger might eventually have to take it out. PSA brought to you by me having to angle grind the anti-rattle bolt off my towbar.
Another glorious sunny day. And I’m filling it with hauling soil. ☹️
At least the second bed should be a bit easier to fill as I have access for the cart all the way along the long edge, I won’t have to double handle soil to get it down the end like I did the first one - plus I’ve already filled some of the bottom section. I’m calling it my gardening boot camp, if this doesn’t build me some decent arm muscles nothing will.💪
