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Rooms or whole house to rent, Preston.
Hi folks,
I have one, two or three bedrooms or a whole three bedroom house to rent, furnished or unfurnished, in Preston.
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I have one, two or three bedrooms or a whole three bedroom house to rent, furnished or unfurnished, in Preston.
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i have a dreaming
when you've sat in the dirt, surrounded by the cousins,
aunties, uncles, brothers, sisters,
talking language, teaching culture
when you've sung elvis songs together to a busted guitar
while the great emu rises in the sky
when you've shared roo casserole
shot that day
from a cast iron pot over the fire
when you've curled up to sleep by the fire,
a dingo at your back against the wind
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aunties, uncles, brothers, sisters,
talking language, teaching culture
when you've sung elvis songs together to a busted guitar
while the great emu rises in the sky
when you've shared roo casserole
shot that day
from a cast iron pot over the fire
when you've curled up to sleep by the fire,
a dingo at your back against the wind
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Flood damaged electrical equipment
So a friend posted this article from the SMH on rescuing flood-damaged computers and other electronics, which is full of contradictory and downright bad advice (I know! In a Murdoch paper?? I'm as surprised as you are!). Let's try and set the record straight, shall we?
Rainwater and most tap water is fairly benign to electronics; nearly everything electronic is water washed at some stage during its manufacture.
Floodwater? Silty, muddy, possibly contaminated floodwater? Not so much.
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Rainwater and most tap water is fairly benign to electronics; nearly everything electronic is water washed at some stage during its manufacture.
Floodwater? Silty, muddy, possibly contaminated floodwater? Not so much.
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Tomato sauce
Throw roughly equal quantities of the following into a blender:
Fresh tomato
Tinned tomato (drained)
Tomato paste (triplo contrentrato)
sun-dried or semi-dried tomato
red onion
Add to taste:
Balsamic vinegar
Garlic
Basil
Oregano
Black and/or green peppercorns
Soy or worcestershire sauce
Sweet chilli sauce
Blend it until it is blended.
Suit pizza toppings, parmagiana, pasta sauce etc.
Fresh tomato
Tinned tomato (drained)
Tomato paste (triplo contrentrato)
sun-dried or semi-dried tomato
red onion
Add to taste:
Balsamic vinegar
Garlic
Basil
Oregano
Black and/or green peppercorns
Soy or worcestershire sauce
Sweet chilli sauce
Blend it until it is blended.
Suit pizza toppings, parmagiana, pasta sauce etc.
Dream
Dream Sat 070309
It begins as a "story so far" from a previous dream. There's been an attack on a wedding party at a temple complex. I fly (as in superhero fly, not aeroplane fly) over the roof of the complex and see bodies lying everywhere. ( Read more...Collapse )
It begins as a "story so far" from a previous dream. There's been an attack on a wedding party at a temple complex. I fly (as in superhero fly, not aeroplane fly) over the roof of the complex and see bodies lying everywhere. ( Read more...Collapse )
Evil Clown-Bear and the Campervan of DOOM
Cross-posting this happy tale I just wrote up for the brutal_honesty comm. Every word is true, scout's honour.
Around the time I was nine years old, my folks decided to buy a campervan (RV to some of you), on the theory that we could go on camping holidays in it, and it would bring us "closer as a family", or some shit.
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It really only occurred to me years later how completely squicky the whole thing was, and that we should have pushed it over a cliff or some shit.
Around the time I was nine years old, my folks decided to buy a campervan (RV to some of you), on the theory that we could go on camping holidays in it, and it would bring us "closer as a family", or some shit.
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Here's the b_h:( tl;drCollapse )
It really only occurred to me years later how completely squicky the whole thing was, and that we should have pushed it over a cliff or some shit.
Polyamory now legal in Oz?
In the context of wide ranging reforms of the Australian Federal Family Law Act, a window seems to have opened for legal recognition of some forms of non-monogamy.
Please excuse the headline and general tone of the article: the Herald Sun is a shameless tabloid rag. But as I was perusing it for lulz over a beer today, the sentence I've bolded below leapt out at me.
If that is really spelled out in the Act - and I'll be downloading a copy before I take the Ferald Scum's word for it - then maybe it's not accidental at all. Because those words pretty specifically spell out "not monogamy" to me; perhaps not polyfamilies per se, but a fairly explicit recognition that an individual can have more than one "genuine" relationship.
And if this is the same amendment that passed the Senate on the same day, changing the meaning of the term "de facto" to include same-sex partners in 68 other Acts, and polyfamilies are able to write and sign their own binding financial and domestic agreements ...
... does this suddenly make Australia the world's first poly-friendly jurisdiction?
X-posted to polyamory, polyamory_aus
Please excuse the headline and general tone of the article: the Herald Sun is a shameless tabloid rag. But as I was perusing it for lulz over a beer today, the sentence I've bolded below leapt out at me.
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But legal experts warn the amended Act - passed in the Senate on Monday - opens the definition of a de facto couple to wide interpretation.
The legislation describes a de facto relationship as an opposite-sex or same-sex couple living together on a "genuine domestic basis".
Yet it also stipulates a de facto alliance can exist even if one of the partners is legally married to somebody else or in another de facto relationship.
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But legal experts warn the amended Act - passed in the Senate on Monday - opens the definition of a de facto couple to wide interpretation.
The legislation describes a de facto relationship as an opposite-sex or same-sex couple living together on a "genuine domestic basis".
Yet it also stipulates a de facto alliance can exist even if one of the partners is legally married to somebody else or in another de facto relationship.
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If that is really spelled out in the Act - and I'll be downloading a copy before I take the Ferald Scum's word for it - then maybe it's not accidental at all. Because those words pretty specifically spell out "not monogamy" to me; perhaps not polyfamilies per se, but a fairly explicit recognition that an individual can have more than one "genuine" relationship.
And if this is the same amendment that passed the Senate on the same day, changing the meaning of the term "de facto" to include same-sex partners in 68 other Acts, and polyfamilies are able to write and sign their own binding financial and domestic agreements ...
... does this suddenly make Australia the world's first poly-friendly jurisdiction?
X-posted to polyamory, polyamory_aus
Geek poetry
Green paper worse than doing nothing
I'm forming an opinion about the recently proposed emissions trading scheme.
I'm beginning to think that it is far more than merely not good enough: it's a disaster, for both the economy, and the environment, and will have the worst possible outcome for both.
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I'm beginning to think that it is far more than merely not good enough: it's a disaster, for both the economy, and the environment, and will have the worst possible outcome for both.
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