Update to the spontaneous country day trip (if you don’t know: partner told me we’re going to the country today and the location is a surprise). He took us to two spots.
The first was a coffee pit stop at the Dromkeen Gallery in Riddells Creek. Everyone was so friendly and they let us drink our coffee in the prime spot: in front of the open fire. Very cosy, especially as it gets extra nippy out that way. The baby enjoyed the never-ending piles of picture books and we bought one about Migaloo the white whale to take home.
Then we forged onward. I still didn’t know where we were going. I have to admit I was starting to feel a bit uncertain when we turned down some bumpy dirt roads and the baby started to get upset. But it soon all became clear: we were headed to the Mount Macedon Winery for lunch! My oh my it was absolute heaven. Completely delicious. And the ambiance was so relaxed that the baby just chilled and people-watched while partner and I got in some quality time together.
All in all a very nice day!
10 years on Reddit. Not a word.
2 weeks on Lemmy, MrsGod asks what my username name is🫠
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Feel free to add regular snippets of knowledge. I’d be interested in knowing more about First Nations languages - and as I know next to nothing now anything you add is bound to be new to me!
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search the abc rn website for a snippet segment “Word Up” - introducing aboriginal words to a wider audience - one word at a time. Is broadcast at the end of Awaye on Saturday 6pm, Tuesday 9pm and Thursday 1am.
Thanks - I’ve saved to look into later 🙂
I think it’s funny how Aust-tralia meant south but Aust-ria meant east.
They’ve been teaching the kids down here a bit of Palawakani in schools lately. I think it’s a nice initiative.
Oh, etymology, the study of insects!
Named after Queen Victoria?
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Yes! I mean, some other states here are named after people/places in Britain - new south wales and queensland haha.
As ‘Victoria’ is a Latin word, past tense, I thought I’d give the explanation of where it ultimately came from haha.
But yeah, named after good ol’ queen vic haha
And Adelaide after King William IV’s wife and queen.
Ah, so the wordsmith reveals their heritage! You grow more interesting all the time my friend. <3
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Could you please wax lyrical on the name ‘Melbourne’ at some point? I have heard one explanation, but it fails to thrill. Would be interested in your take.
Can we wax lyrical about phrases like wax lyrical as well? I haven’t really thought about it before but I assume it has the same origin as waxing of the moon. Maybe the opposite is “wane disjointedly”, for those situations where you suddenly realise you have no idea where you are going with what you are saying an lurch awkwardly to an abrupt finish.
I’ve always used ‘wax lyrical’ to describe someone speaking of a topic in enchanting detail - not boring at all but both comprehensively and rigorously. A good after dinner speech should wax lyrical, but also be accurate in detail. Does this fit your understanding?
Absolutely. The lyrical would imply the speach is entertaining, and wax is growth/increase, which probably refers to both the amount of speaking itself, but also the knowledge that it imports, as opposed to something repetitious that adds nothing new.
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You’re pretty much spot on. Wax meaning ‘grow bigger/greater’, so ‘wax lyrical’ is enthusiasm regarding a topic or person, talking at great length about it.
Wax with this meaning only really survives in the ‘wax lyrical’ idiom, and when talking about the phases of the moon.
😂
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Melbourne, named for Lord Melbourne (iirc, I didn’t look that part up hah).
‘Melbourne’ comes from an Old English place-name Mileburne, comprised of mylen (mill) + burne (stream). Literally, Mill-Stream.
mylen, utimately, can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European mele-, meaning ‘to crush, grind’.
burne can also be traced back through the Proto-Germanic word *brunnô to the P.I.E word *bʰréh₁wr̥, meaning 'to bubble forth, wellspring, fountain).
It is important to note that P.I.E is a reconstruction based on commonalities between many European and Iranian languages. There is no archeological evidence of this langauge, but it would have been spoken between 4500BC and 2500BC, give or take a thousand years or so. It is the best understood Proto- language, but new information and understanding is always being sought for regarding these reconstructions.
Interesting. The explanation I heard differed a bit on the ‘bourne’ component. It referenced the word ‘bourne’ to mean a fenced enclosure - Hamlet’s soliloquy uses “that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns” to mean heaven/death cos no-one except Jesus comes back through them pearly gates. And apparently Lord Melbourne took his name from an obscure country village called Melbourne that had been a fenced iron-age camp at some point. I do agree that the Scots use ‘burn’ to mean a stream of water, but I didn’t think this was English usage as such. Burn usually meaning ‘be destroyed by fire’. Which doesn’t exactly fit with the stream/fountain bit. Interesting that two such different meanings can be derived.
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That’s also another explanation. From my understanding, bourne/burne/burn and the meaning of ‘stream’ came to Old English via Germanic, but would have fell out of usage with that meaning in English as it changed and evolved over time. I thought it may be a cognate or related to ‘brook’, as in ’ a babbling brook’ but I haven’t been able to find a link, though both bourne/burne/burn and brook come from Germanic.
I should do some cleaning, but
this is happening.
oh well. Cleaning can wait a bit.
Absolutely nothing must disturb that picture of peace
She has now disturbed herself, and relocated to the basket in the corner where she is in position to catch any afternoon sun should there be any.
basket case
I’m desperately pawing at the screen and nothing is happening but I can sense the restful bliss and gentle purring emanating from that photo. What an adorable little nook 😻
oh my
Aww kitty
6 months after leaving my old workplace, I got a email last night asking where things were. I can’t even.
Send an invoice for $2500 and wait until paid in full before replying
Haaaa wish I’d thought of this.
new number who dis
Strange but rewarding day today.
Had to call WorkSafe cause someone had an ouch that meant we had to call 000. The ouch was minor and a pre-existing condition. So they’re all good.
Someone also had a pre-employment drug test that needs further investigation on the THC front.
But I also:
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Held a really good job interview with someone I’m going to hire.
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Helped my manager represent our department in a global meeting for our company where we are seen as pioneers for OHS.
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Held my own in a meeting to develop SWMS for a national team.
Definitely one of my more rewarding days since I started. It has been a rollercoaster the entire time and I love it, even on the days where it challenges me.
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I referenced pinky and the brain today at work, and my younger co worker just stared at me like wtf. Bloody whippersnappers these days!
What did you say? What was the reference? You can’t just leave us hanging like that 😛
LOL well I just said him and the other supervisor reminded me of them cos he is lanky and tall and the other has a massive head!
And then the obligatory humming of the theme/intro song dududududuuuu dududududuuuu one is a genius the others insaaaane
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My little man is turning 8 today! I got him a Scalextric slot car racing track. One with loop-de-loops.
I had a normal oval track back in the late 70s, and was so jealous of kids that had ones with loops.
I can’t wait to set it up and play it with him.
Oh man I loved Scaletrics when I was a kid!
Best way to teach respect for electricity. I approve. A few small shocks are far more educational that one big one. I miss penny bungers for their power to teach respect for trajectory.
I refer to my dog as Little Man, so for a moment I picturing a little dog happily wagging its tail while watching slot cars race around. Twas an excellent mental image, thank you!
Happy birthday to your kiddo!
Upon waking partner instructed me to “get ready for a country trip today, you can’t say no and the destination is a surprise” so I guess we are going on a day trip 🤠
Ooh how mysterious! I’ll need closure later!
I love this!! Looking forward to hearing how it goes! Have fun!
I’ve told Mr Woof we can go for a walk at first light. He’s using puppy dog eyes on me to try to negotiate an earlier start.
Edit: to correct accidental naming of RustyDog as Mr Wood. Which sounds odd and slightly kinky 🤣
All these settings on the oven and I just use the one setting. Forever.
I have to go shopping and it’s fucking cold. I gouda go or I run the risk of a severe cheese shortage over the weekend.
You cheddar get going it’s not getting warmer.
It might be a bit Brie-zy out there, but rug up & you’ll be fine
If you don’t go now, you won’t be able to camem-bare it later
You better not be stil(ton) at home…
Just get in and out as swissftly as you can
Have you fon-done it yet, or parmigia-no?
haha look at what the Spotify desktop app does to the progress bar when you play Star Wars music. It’s a lil lightsaber!
Image is of the spotify progress bar being a lil lightsaber
That’s so CUTE
I only just made the connection about what your username means 🤦♂️
Thought I was born in 1982 before now hey? 😉😉 (dw you’re not the only DTer who has belatedly and then publicly acknowledged that they just got the name)
Off to the bee man later today to purchase 8kg of banksia honey :D
That is a lot of honey. I just finished a 500g jar I bought probably 2 years ago!
Is it just for general eating, or do have special plans for it?
mead I beelive.
Mead is correct. Making a big 23L batch of traditional with just the honey for flavour and then will split it after fermentation to play around with adding oak, tannins, acids and back sweetening to start to explore how they all effect the final product :D
I want you as a friend so I can steal your mead.
Friends dont steal friends mead :P
It would be a trade for my amazing company. Also, I can help make it, I have experience brewing beer and washes!
Can you make sima?
It looks easy enough, its a pretty quick process by the looks of it. Just mix some ingredients, add yeast, leave for a day and then bottle, consume in about a week
A month is better apparently, but that’s neither here nor there I suppose.
I’ll buy some off you if you feel up to the challenge?
From what i read you make then bottle straight away and it is meant to be low alcohol, if you left it for a month you would have to be alot more careful regarding sugar quantity otherwise you would end up with higher abv and risk of bottle bombs. I dont have any bottles at the moment because none of our batches are ready to bottle yet, maybe ill grab a few extra when i buy some and ill give it a go for you :)
Your life is series of Zelda side quests - and I’m here for all of it.
Also, that is a fuckload of honey homey.
Haha i like that way of looking at it :P It certainly is, got some funny looks last time i went in there and asked for 6kg, a couple in the shop thought i was crazy haha. I just take the big fermenter bucket in with me and get him to decant it straight into that, that way i only have to sanitise the fermenter once and dont have to try to get the last little bit of honey out of multiple jars!!
Do bees discriminate between trees?
Oh I know this one! Bees distrimimate based on food availability, as different trees flower at different times of the year. A wild honeybee nest will forage hotspots within ~6km, but Typically will stay within a km. The different honeys are classified by the beekeepers who follow the “golden highway” as different species bloom, and knowing what the bees were foraging before harvesting leads to the type of honey produced. It’s been a while since I thought about bees, so as always, feel free to fact check and correct!
Honey from different plants tastes different. You’ll get something super different in a clovery meadow than you would in a stand of ironbark trees.
Beekeepers can move their hives around. Bee man has probably got a reliable stand of banksia for them to buzz in
What Alamut said :) Banksia has been my favourite of all the honeys ive tried so far, which is why i chose it for this traditional so that i can try to really celebrate that flavour :D
So cold. Also I hate wearing layers. Hate how the inside long sleeve somehow manages to creep up your arms and you have to try to pull down from the top of two other long sleeves. And it takes forever, and if you don’t it’s just going to irritate you to no end. Curse you cold weather. Curse you. Incase you can’t tell. I don’t like the cold 🥺
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And if you don’t pull it down it feels like your blood supply is being cut off because it’s really bunch up hard. Like ffs can’t you just stay still when I pulled you all the way down to my wrist. Stop wriggling up!
And yes just let me put on pant and a tank top for warm weather and I’m groovy
I like the cold, I’m in and out of the fridge and freezer all day at work and I wear jeans and a T-shirt all year around.
Aye I wouldn’t last thirty mins in your work
Yeah, oddly enough my arms get cold with multiple layers, I think due to the long sleeved shirt.
I’m under blankets right now. Trying to wrap them around me but it’s a pain at times keeping them wrapped, especially when you need to keep the arms free or get them out or move.
I hear ya with everything minus the shirt part. I have errands to run hence layers. Don’t care if I’m at home
Oh yes and what about when the ends of your sleeves get wet or when water somehow runs down your arm ooof
Omgsh don’t get me started. This happened to me twice Monday and Tuesday. Somehow I pushed the sleeve of my top up my arm to wash my hands, and it slid down and got wet (Monday) What the heck? Was more cautious Tuesday and somehow it got wet again 😒 rude!
Hate wearing layers? You’re in the wrong state my friend! Tried a wife beater as an undershirt, then a short sleeved, then a jacket/shirt/jumper? It’s how I generally avoid the sensory overload while keeping my core toasty
I know, I know. Also it’s singlet, 2 long sleeve and a medium warm jacket and my winter jacket sigh
This is why men’s shirts have cuffs, right? So you can wear it underneath a dress jacket without it pulling up.
I’m small why would I be wearing men’s shirt. Men’s shirt would be too big on me and wouldn’t fit with the sizing of the rest of what I wear. I’m confused by your suggestion
