The cake was popular at work. If anyone would like a slice, please help yourself
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Ooh yes please. I have the hungries on today.
🍰 thank you
🍰 delightful thank you
Thanks 🍰
Yum, thanks! 🍰
Is there anymore?
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Thank you 🥰
What’s everyone’s NYE plans? For me, a friend hosts a gathering each year with a small group of regulars. It’s close to home so getting there & home is easy. There’s usually a spit and other yummy foods and a bonfire. I may get quite drunk as a fitting send-off to this year.
Stay home and watch Dinner for One and YouTube lol, maybe catch up on the seasons of Dragula I’ve missed. Hang out with the cat.
I’m so exciting and young.
My switch is going to get a workout lol
Make pasta. Stay up as late as I can. Sleep in as late as I can.
Probably will be asleep by 11 at the latest.
Happy New Years everyone!!
Went to friends house a couple of nights ago for tea & drinks so tonight it’ll be a quiet one.
I hope there’s a spit for you to enjoy!
Wander along the waterfront and catch up at a local with some friends/fam early. Might stick around to see if I can see the 9:30 fireworks. Hopefully home in bed by 10:30 😊 which is just perfect in my books
Drug the cats and put on some bass heavy music before the boomies start. Boyo may or may not get out of work early, so food plans pending. Otherwise, nada.
I’ve heard of people running the dryer on the airing cycle with a few tennis balls in to hide the noise. Luckily enough I’ve never needed it, one of the perks of being in the sticks.
Interesting technique! I don’t own a drier. We are only about 1km from a big Boom site now. I’ve not heard sound check, so might be paranoid about how bad it will be…
Good call
I start low and up the volume a notch each half hour or so. It’s far from a perfect solution but helps.
beach to see the fireworks in the city
I will take pics 😊
Stay home, play games and chill!
Same
Spending this one at home given how tough the year has been. Probably just have favourite movies from the year on in the background while I put together goals for next year and a year ahead tarot reading before catching some local fireworks and bed.
Stay home and re-arrange my sock drawer. I kid you not - I’m immersed in a major shuffle & redeal of home furnishings/cupboards/clothing atm. Hoped to get it done by now, but no dice. Then tackle the bookshelves with the remainder of my leave. Probably won’t get to that this holidays now. Some major donating of unwanted cookware etc. coming up in the new year too. Will take a break at midnight to have a drink and wish the new year well and wait for the noise to die down a bit before attempting sleep.
I did socks yesterday. Said goodbye to many beloved socks that had been repaired too many times.
I have to admit I skived off yesterday - didn’t get as far as the socks until now. And yes, I fully agree that socks can be beloved.
my Groku socks, my Snoopys
My absolute fab faves that have died a horrible death are a pair of norwegian over the knee fair isle socks in pure lambswool - mended many times and now have completely disintegrated. Alas, moth got into them some years ago and they never fully recovered. Still, 1983 to 2025 is a fair lifespan for a sock. I mourn their passing and keep looking out for replacements.
I will eat snacks with the kids and watch ABC, same as every year🍪🍿 📺🎆
Gf is having a party. I just snuck off for a nap.
I hope everyone has a great night! I’m incredibly grateful this oasis from the cesspit of the online world.
Happy new year in advance, from Gibson and the treat dispenser :)
Happy New Year to the best cat dad and to all the kitties. 😊
At work today but it is soooooo quiet. I’ve done 5 minutes of work in 2 hours. Pretty sure I’ll be sent home early any minute now
Edit: ok yup going home in half an hour 🌞Score! Neighbour throwing out a window with the difficult (and likely $$$) to match glass pattern we need. Don’t think they realise reclamation mobs exist for this 😺
New Year’s Resolutions anyone?
For me, more fruit, more drinking, more drugs.
To be better than I was lol big ask I know I know 😂
You are amazing how you are, but we will always change and grow!
More glitter! And more movement.
I’m pretty happy with the way things are going at the moment, so I guess just keep doin’ what I’m doin’. Boring for a New Year’s Resolution, but boring is good.
I’m actually the same; been exercising and watching what I eat and steadily and very slowly losing weight and getting more toned, so I’m going to keep up the good work!
make my new schedule a habit
To keep pushing forward, no matter what.
Nah, that’s a bad habit
What you got against fruit?
Idk I’ve always been pretty suss of durian tbh
True and cantaloupe is putrid too.
Mo’money
Mo’bitches
But actually to get fitter.
I “joined” the Libreoffice marketing team this year (it means I’ve been added to the reply-all when someone emails the marketing email address). I’d like to do something interesting on that front that could get some traction. It seems like most of the people involved are old IT guys from Greece and Malta, and the promotional material they’ve put out recently has been very ugly and “German” coded. Just too busy with too much going on, not sleek and minimalist like a modern software company
Cheers fam 🍻🍻
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Cheers 🍹
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Cheers!! 🍾
Son is sleeping over at a mate’s house and daughter went to an NYE party at her friend’s…one street over.
Wife and I got a bit stoned tipsy and frisky…daughter came back to get some board games…if the door was unlocked or she was there 10 minutes early…she’d be scarred for life
Happy New year everyone!!!
Out of everyone here…you KNOW how this is
10 minutes early
That’s about 7 minutes more I than can go.
Happy new year!
The teenage-like makeout session we were having beforehand could have been more embarrassing
I need to stop spending money, I just spent a small fortune on updated noise cancelling headphones. I’ve decided I am going to go cold turkey, no more spending for the rest of the year.
You can do it
Hayfever very bad today.
Commisserations, those rampaging grass pollens should really be illegal. It seems to be a bad couple of days for hayfever, but I found yesterday was worse for me.
I would really like the nostril tickles to stop.
mask?
A mask won’t help me breathe properly. 😔
Happy new year all!
Cats have been waiting for breakfast since 10 pm last night.
Beep Beep 🚚
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Just a small coffee to accompany Raven’s beautiful cake please
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I have tested my cake and it passes the edibility check. I can now pass it around at work without fear of embarrasing myself. The attempt at fruit swirled though it didn’t work quite so well, I have yet to master that, it’s more evenly sunk to the bottom creating a slighly sticky fruity bottom layer, which is not quite what I was envisaging but tastes good.
Ancient trick for even fruit distribution which you probably know, but I’m putting it out there anyway - use some of the flour for the recipie to coat the fruit before including. Helps the fruit stay buoyant in the mix. Works for anything up to and including smallish stoned cherries. Chunks of plum/apricot/peach/pineapple need to be 2 cm or less square or they’re too heavy and will sink anyway. If the cherries are large, then they do better if halved. This hack helps with dried fruit too, especially if the dried fruit has been soaked in tea or brandy etc.
This was a cooked/bottled mix. Sort of a very chunky sauce/jam mix. It mostly seems to have been absorbed into the cake, which has made it very moist and flavourful.
Yummm. Save me a slice for elevenses.
You’re doing well, my muffins and pumpkin breads were decent but somehow my cakes (with the exception of sponge cakes) sucked
Boyo telling me he would pick my cooking over his favourite take out 🥹🥰 (unless I can cook it the next day 🤣🤣)
