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  • Went out with Miniest today and she accidentally left her phone on the bus. That's what I reckon anyway after I tracked it via "find my phone" and figured it was basically following the 513/514 bus route to Greensborough. Interesting seeing it moving around. Have secured it remotely, but luckily it's a dirt cheap ZTE Optus prepaid phone and not something more expensive, why would anyone steal it lol. That's why you don't give your kids an expensive phone. She's pretty upset but I'm like hey we'll call lost property tomorrow, nothing we can do right now. It's a good lesson to you to be more careful with things. Luckily it's not an expensive lesson. She's got the same haphazard mercurial nature as her father, but she's a better learner! Elder's like me, checks things several times and then checks again. There comes a time when I have to say to myself, "Right, I've got my keys, I've got my phone, I've got my purse" in order to break the cycle of obsessive checking.

  • My Opa caught a black rat with the trap he uses for Indian Mynas 😂

    I gave it some grape stalks lol. Of course it is a pest so he's gonna gas it with the car exhaust tomorrow. Sad but necessary. I told him to wear gloves and whatnot, zoonotic diseases and all that. I hate how cute it is though. I quadruple checked it wasn't a bush rat - the tail length gives it away.

    • that tail 😬

      • Yup! Long black rat tail - their tails are longer than the length of their body.

        Bush rats have rather short tails, you can see in these pics how short it is compared to the body of the bush rat

        Different species too, but same genus: Rattus fuscipes. Native to Australia.

        The black rat, Rattus rattus is, obviously, introduced/a pest species. Same with the Norway rat Rattus norvegicus

  • I have packed another box.

    I really don't like this whole packing thing. Why have we not yet invented teleportation so I can just beam it all over as is?

  • PSA: new way for manufacturers to skive on what they sell. Just did a load of washing with a new bottle of laundry liquid. Clear bottle that was full to the top. Undid the top, and the vacuum released and the level of laundry liquid in the bottle dropped by about 2-3 cm. They'd squeezed the bottle when filling it to make it look a lot fuller than it was. Didn't think to measure the amount of liquid but will next time.

    • Argh. Like opening a box of something and finding it is mostly cardboard packer, or the way Toblerone bits have been double spaced. Aggravation and lies.

    • not a scam

      the volume of soap remains the same

      the bottle bulges a bit when filled

      it's sealed under vacuum to stop it from leaking in transit

      • Agree. It's like the air in a packet of chips. Acts as a cushion.

      • Um, I was thinking of tubes of toothpaste. When you change the topography of the outside layer by squeezing, the inside volume goes down. The difference here is that the shape of the bottle springs back which does not happen with toothpaste.

  • Going across town to see my nan and opa today. They're getting older and it's lowkey freaking me out, so I'm trying to visit more often 😬 it's just a small gathering; myself, them, dad, maybe my uncle - so it will be nice 🥰

    Dad also found some old photos, about 10, in his wardrobe. Ones he hid and saved from mums rampages. He sent them to me and now I have a real nice collection of memories!

    There's a number of them where I'm just a wee baby and mum is holding me. It's crazy to think she was just 19-20yo and I'm now way older than that. She was my age when I was 12-13. I can't imagine having a young teen child myself at my age.

  • bit close to home

    Guessing they chose to swim at the front beach which is where that piccy I took of a wave hitting the sea wall on Fri. is.

    Was rough.

    And that's why we go to the dog beach about 1km away further in the bay when it's like that.

    Silly (and lucky) people.

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