Just sitting in the dark down here, wndering what will happen next.
"We're going mad in the covid county....."

Unfortunately the actions of a couple have us now having some restrictions re introduced as of yesterday. Hang in there Nozza

Was at the local bank Friday, the woman in front of me said she couldn't get anyone to work for her and said most were happy to be on welfare or job keeper ...Things need to change

There was a reply, and now there's not.....
There are more issues than welfare in getting and retaining staff, she might be a nasty lady to work for.....

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Nozza said..
There was a reply, and now there's not.....
There are more issues than welfare in getting and retaining staff, she might be a nasty lady to work for.....

How would people know she was nasty if they hadn't even started? You Missed the point by about a 4iron.

That's happening a lot with businesses trying to get back casual staff they're getting more on jobseeker than they were when employed.

I was on 45 to 50 a year now looks like 25 or less ! Fk china and i live in vicco which is run by the communist party curfews r killing people ffs

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Was at the local bank Friday, the woman in front of me said she couldn't get anyone to work for her and said most were happy to be on welfare or job keeper ...Things need to change

When you say, "the woman in front of you" do you mean the teller ? 'Cause if it's the Bank that can't get anyone to work for them that's kinda completely understandable no ?

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Cobra said..
Was at the local bank Friday, the woman in front of me said she couldn't get anyone to work for her and said most were happy to be on welfare or job keeper ...Things need to change

When you say, "the woman in front of you" do you mean the teller ? 'Cause if it's the Bank that can't get anyone to work for them that's kinda completely understandable no ?

No, just a local business woman,I don't know her ,as I know has a pretty good name.
LOL my son only has a horticulture 3 cert and travels 80km round trip to-from work and asked his boss to give him job keeper so he gets extra $150 a week and lay on the beach every day. Obviously job keeper needs to have a better system to prevent fraud.

OK, I'll bite.
But my "NewScotty" mandated attention span prevented me from getting very far in to that.
If Clive Palmer is the voice of sanity and reason, God help us all.

Me I've been using my hour per day in the exercise yard for some skating.




Daughter No. 2 even getting keen.


Waterblasting has moved on to the back yard.
Melbourne actually warm enough that barefoot water blasting was quite pleasant.


And about to do the weekly cooking exercise, Quarantine Spirit Risotto.

Backyard looks amazing Nozza!

And how good is Nat!

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McHenry said..
Backyard looks amazing Nozza!
And how good is Nat!

Thanks for the backyard comment - we did a renovation and pool install about 10 years ago. Probably 5 years too late given the age of the children, but finances always got in the way.
In the process, I have achieved no lawn to mow - we are on a corner block that was chopped up before we bought - ours is the original house on 434m2 of land.[New Scotty attention span, skip on from about there] It would have been great to get the whole block before it was chopped up, but even 21 years ago when we bought that would have been out of our price range. Most of the outdoor space is in the old front yard. With some fencing of dodgy legaity planning wise, we have fitted a pool in the old front yard, with BBQ area and outdoor eating. Back yard is the little bit shown, with another screened outdoor sitting area looking on to it. Everything inside the yard is sandstone paved, and the two nauture strips are mulched and planted with natives. A bit short on car accomodation, but my work car was always a mud encased 4wd you wouldn't bring in to your driveway, and Wife has a garage / car port to park in. Daughters cars in the street, but that is transient until they move out.

And how good is Nat? - I'm cooking stuff I never would have attempted.

(Smells like) Quarantine Spirit Risotto.
My opinion of Risotto is that it was Italian for "Waste of Ingredients", had observed it a couple of times but never eaten it, or been tempted to.
Without totally repeating the recipie, It was for mushroom risotto. I decided to add chicken as I was using chicken stock. To make it even more lefty and touchy feely conservationist, the stock had been made from the remains of the carcase I stripped for last week's "Chuck a Siskie" soup.
Remains below pre conversion to stock.


Ingredients - at Nat said, the is f*** all in it.


Imagine a bottle of white wine standing there. The stock is in the red bowl.
Start of preparation.


Ah, the wine has appeared


Stock is now in a pot warming up. I was surprised you warmed it before adding it, but having never made it before, I'm not sure why.







This is rice in and up to the stock adding bit.
I got the impression this is quite important.
You add a ladle of stock, and stir around until it is absorbed.
Then another ladle full, stir until absorbed.
This takes a while and you have to keep stirring or it doesn't absorb, and sticks like **** to a blanket.
You keep going until all the stock is gone, and it is cooked.
You know it is cooked because as Nat said.... "You've had rice before right? It tastes like that"



Despite by reservations, absolutely delicious.
Took a bit over an hour including the prep, which helped fill in a lockdown day after the hour of skating and the water blasting.
No time to watch You tube videos by blokes who look like they should have moved out of Mum's house a few years ago.

Wow Victoria

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MickPC said..
Wow Victoria

Yeah thats a disgrace...whats next go gatherinsg of more than 5 people...oh thats right we already ahve that :


First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-

Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-

Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.

Meanwhile, in the exercise yard.........

Electric skateboards and electric scooters deserve to be laughed at. Here's old mate from his Momma's basement taking the piss out of electric scooters.

This will really piss you off then

Well played, sir.

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Greeney said..
Well played, sir.

Thank you Greeney.

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Nozza said..
This will really piss you off then

Hey...It's your world. I'm just living in it!

It must be centrelink payday. internet is back on hey.

The 5%er of Covid survives to ramble mindlessly another day I see. Yet another sunrise to greet the day of yelling at kids to get off his lawn.

The sage has spoken.

Midlength Magi thanks very much.
Buddha taught to follow the middle road.

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Cobra said..
It must be centrelink payday. internet is back on hey.

Pension day?