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2026-08-18 09:02:05 GMT

Australian nerds: what service do you use for offsite backup these days? I was a Crashplan user back in the day, but for the last few years have just been relying on local copies of my stuff. That's not ideal.
American internet loves Backblaze, but I don't love putting all of my data on American servers (enough of it already sits there). I'd like a set and forget option.

2026-02-15 05:09:54 GMT

Spoiling @npub1x2h…t0w4 on her birthday by making a lactose-free triple layer chocolate cake. Bit nervous as I’ve never made a cake from scratch before.
Hope it turns out okay.
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2025-08-31 10:28:42 GMT

The one bright side of the local Dad’s groups on Facebook being a hotbed of Rise Up for Australia nonsense is that it makes it really easy to identify which local small businesses and their owners won’t be getting my money. It really narrows down the search when I’m looking for quotes on things.

2025-03-23 08:38:11 GMT

A question for the Australians: we have just got our youngest his first phone now that he's in high school. It's basically a "dumb phone that also has WhatsApp”, and its primary purpose is for contacting us if something goes wrong with public transport, or he is contactable when out with friends.
Suggestions for cheap, low use calls and data plan that would suit? Currently tossing up between Aldi and Vodafone pay as you go long life credit options. Am I missing any obvious ones?

2025-03-21 12:27:01 GMT

I have just discovered Whittakers chocolate. I may never go back to Cadburys again. You get what you pay for I guess.

2025-01-19 09:47:59 GMT

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This one was off the website, but I got the new one for Christmas. I made a tasty lentil stew last week from the book recipe. Very filling.

2025-01-19 09:44:48 GMT

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It was tasty. Another Nagi special.

2025-01-19 08:51:41 GMT

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Not bad.
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2025-01-19 06:29:44 GMT

Trying my hand at a beef roast for the first time in my life 🤞
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2025-01-19 06:28:45 GMT

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Charities round our way don’t like taking a lot of stuff. I don’t blame them. People like to just dump any old crap on to them and leave them with the cost of disposal.

2025-01-18 10:07:29 GMT

We’ve been decluttering and listing items on Facebook Marketplace (both for $$ and free). This past week I have learned:
- people can’t read
- people are chronically entitled
- people are rude
- people are incapable of maintaining a personal schedule that facilitates them arriving at a known location at an agreed time, even when time and place are known days in advance and 9 times out of 10 they nominated the time in the first place
- the cheaper the item, the less they seem to think your time is worth anywhere near what their own time is worth
- I hate people
(The last point is a lie. I didn’t just learn that this week, I already knew it a long time ago)

2025-01-15 01:13:27 GMT

Any recommendations on a cheap and hardy dumbphone? 12 year old enters high school this year, and it would be useful for him to have a phone for things like public transport failures and he needs to be picked up from somewhere.

2025-01-11 22:57:06 GMT

After the rain, comes the pollen 🤧

2025-01-10 05:02:58 GMT

How good is Vegemite on toast when you’ve been feeling unwell? Should be on the PBS I reckon.

2025-01-10 04:51:14 GMT

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Feeling better now, albeit somewhat foggy. I just hate that I have essentially wasted my whole day.

2025-01-10 02:18:04 GMT

It’s been a while since I’ve had a migraine. I guess I was due. Just wish it wasn’t while I was on holidays with a big list of stuff to get done before going back to work.
I hate these stupid things so much.

2025-01-08 07:17:30 GMT

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I had been living there a year, and @npub1x2h…t0w4 moved down to join me at the start of 2003. The bushfires hit just days after we arrived. What an introduction that was.

2025-01-08 06:18:20 GMT

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Sounds very similar to what made the 2003 Canberra bushfires so destructive. These kinds of fires are terrifying in scale and scope for destruction.

2024-12-25 04:25:39 GMT

Nap time?

2024-12-24 11:34:33 GMT

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The most colourful one I can find.

2024-12-24 10:19:54 GMT

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I nearly bought a Christmas blazer this year, but my only in-person work function got delayed to February so I wouldn’t have had anywhere fun to wear it. I’ll get one next year.

2024-12-24 09:51:28 GMT

I’m not a religious man, but somehow I’m sure that Geordie is still out there somewhere, dressed in the most severe Christmas suit ever made, insisting that if those halls aren’t decked right fucking now then there will be real trouble.

2024-12-03 11:31:50 GMT

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Ha! I bought that one for myself for my birthday this year with Amazon credits. Because apparently only women cook at home😆

2024-12-03 10:27:19 GMT

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Is it at least Nagi's cookbook? (which in this house would be bought for me and not Helen)

2024-12-01 12:55:14 GMT

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I love it. Others I have spoken to also love it. I'm just not sure that the intended audience cares enough to justify the time I spend on it. I'm not very good at this stuff so it takes me a lot of hours to complete.
It's a labour of love, and my misguided sense of pride in the work that I do.

2024-12-01 11:43:24 GMT

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Here's a perfect example. I'm pretty sure no one but me cares, but if I'm doing something, I want to do it properly.
This is probably why I have a habit of burning out every decade or so 😓
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2024-12-01 11:41:45 GMT

The best bit about the streaming services are that I can relive all the music of the late 90s and early 2000s where I lost track of their back catalogue in later years.
Currently quietly grooving to Afrocelt Sound System while pulling together the soccer club end of year book about 2 months too late, but damn it, removing backgrounds on action shots to make cool little photos for the words to wrap around in the margins adds a little delight to the end result.

2024-12-01 11:36:29 GMT

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How good are Nagi's recipes? I know she's hardly reinventing the wheel, but I've always found her recipes more approachable than most.

2024-11-03 11:25:03 GMT

Shit. November already. Time to start researching Christmas suits I guess. #RememberingGeordie

2024-10-24 09:02:54 GMT

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sounds very tasty

2024-10-24 08:44:33 GMT

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WWGD is often at the back of my mind when I do the weekly meal plan.

2024-10-24 08:29:44 GMT

French cream pork, blanched broccolini and sweet potato mash.
For all my many imperfections, at least I can ensure my family eats well.
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2024-10-20 07:14:42 GMT

Urgent unplanned-for renovations due to a leaking bathroom start tomorrow. The need to shuffle things around and effectively empty 2 rooms while maintaining the same level of nonsense clutter we already own has been distressing to say the least.
Having to weave my way through piles and piles of things upon things using goat tracks and desire paths inside my own house is proving to be a significant challenge. I look and feel like I’m inside an episode of Hoarders and I’m not really coping.
“This too shall pass” has become my “Serenity now”.

2024-10-16 11:39:07 GMT

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Between her studio and our home there are already 4 acoustics and a digital piano. I’m not sure we have the space for another one.

2024-09-17 10:21:24 GMT

Rustic but tasty
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2024-09-17 09:39:03 GMT

Well that was a complete disaster
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2024-09-03 22:39:29 GMT

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It’s finally the year, huh?

2024-09-02 07:00:55 GMT

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Though I’m not sure what happened to this one. The Strange Tale of the Oven Mice I guess.
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2024-09-02 06:55:57 GMT

After a stretch of some of the most stressful, exhausting and emotionally taxing few weeks of my life, I’m pleased to report that I’m back on my bullshit again.
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2024-08-24 09:04:34 GMT

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Chorizo, ham, cabanossi, mushroom, capsicum, pineapple. Given what these cost at the grocery store these days, commercial pizza is probably cheaper per slice 🤣😢

2024-08-24 08:45:57 GMT

On a scale of 10 to 10, how good is home made pizza?
The correct answer is, of course, 100.
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2024-08-22 10:38:29 GMT

As an aside, TIL that proper Catholic ceremonies are tough on the knees.
Please be seated. Please rise. Please be seated. Please rise.
Oof.

2024-08-22 03:35:52 GMT

Hug your loved ones extra tight today, and don’t ever let anyone tell you that “internet friends aren’t real friends”.

2024-08-22 03:23:21 GMT

Go well, G-Man. There’ll never be another one quite like you.
#rememberinggeordie
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2024-08-19 12:18:28 GMT

Do any of my followers live in Adelaide, and if so can they confirm if the Indian restaurant “Jasmin" is:
(a) still an ongoing business
(b) still in Hindmarsh square
(c) still as amazing as it was 10 years ago?
Ta.