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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Made the mistake of ordering woollies chicken Kyiv. 2 tiny, very hollow balls of chicken nugget meat with some nasty cheese type sauce inside. Never again.
Also got 8 strawberry iced donuts substituted for cinnamon donuts. Guess what flavour I really hate? My OH now has 8 donuts and I have none.
ok i need a new bed and mattress - is Ikea the way to go or are there other options? Don't want to spend much, about $400- $500 in total, any recs?
You want a frame and a mattress for 4 to 500?
hm, is that unreasonable?
Very low budget. Have you looked at koala ? They are pretty cheap.
Thx for the suggestion, but Koala is coming up to $1500 mattress + bed! :(
I tried four beds that had 100 day trial periods. It didn’t cost a cent and I’m pretty much an expert on mattresses in a box now..
$148 total:
https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/agotnes-foam-mattress-firm-light-blue-50480865/
https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/grimsbu-bed-frame-grey-60458760/
I've had that for 4 years but I'm also someone who happily sleeps on anything from air mattress to particle board and be reasonably fine the next day (I have the equivalent of that mattress. Mine has been discontinued.)
Doing something I almost never do and breaking up my drive back from the border with a coffee half way. For those who know the Hume well: "Bacon Jam.. Really??" will tell you where I am.
Article in the age about the jam factory and the dead part of chapel street that used to be the bustling shopping bit.
Haven’t been there for ages, what happened?
There was a big police operation / crackdown on chap laps.
Chapel St has always been overrated and I guess people have woken up to this fact.
What does it mean to drive around while holding a hat out the window?
I think it means you're a dickhead. It's illegal to have any body parts outside of the car. If you are carrying something oversized you would tie something red to it to alert other drivers that it is oversized. His hat probably got sweaty so he is drying it.
Lol 😂 it was initially a 711 coffee too, then he took out the hat.
Isn't that Lygon St? My assumption would be something soccer or Ferrari related. Did a red team win something this weekend?
