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Watching the races ... it's Melbourne Cup day, so public holiday for me.... won the Quinella in the first. Just about to watch the jump in the 6th. Up for the days.

And let's close it out with some stellar **** Rock from the 80's

For a cross between the Mersey Sound and a 60s psychedelic acid trip...

@Boo (and I paraphrase) said "there is only 1 halloween song" ...here, hold my beer... and due to my 2022 resolution these are just the Ausdie ones I can think of.... there are a sit tonne of others...

3am.... and I'm harnessing Kris and Jackson....had to get up for a wiz and now the brains like yep, let's go.

Do you think we could revive it?

8. Failure... how many things did you not start in life because you were to scared to fail? 8 things most people experienced instantly regret asking their hairdresser/barber to do...

3rd loaf in the oven, slow cooker warming with a little water in it.... onions simmering on the stove...while I chop bloody pumpkin

Baking Irish Soda Bread.. like all sane, normal people do at 3am.

T20 World Cup... the gift that keeps on giving...who'd a thought....England beaten by Ireland.... thank you Duckworth-Lewis for letting the underdog slay the lion. Now I'm imagining all our yankeedoodles trying to work out wot the farkledarkle I'm on about.... let's just say you think calculus, trig and baseball stat's are hard you ain't ever known the complete chaos of working put the Duckworth-Lewis system.... see its convoluted mathematic 'formula' the Brits invented to get a result in limited overs cricket when there are rain delays.

4. 8 legged freaks covered in hair with gazillion eyes and fangs that live in webs or even ground tunnel systems. Freaking spiders.

So this Friday we are having an International Community lunch at work. Basically bring a plate from your cultural background.... I just can't decide...wot do I bring. So my names on the savoury list or I would have just done pavs.... I was going to make sausage rolls but one of the other Aussies has said they are doing that. Now the brief is bring something from you cultural background... for me that's Aussie... but if you go back far enough it's mainly Irish, then chuck in some Scott, German, Norwegian, and French... I'm a full bitsa (bits of this, bits of that). Options rattling around my brain are... pumpkin soup with some home made soda bread, kangaroo and beetroot capaccio (probably too fancy for thus mob), apricot chicken (for that nod to my bogan ancestry), curried egg and lettuce sandwiches, shepherds pie, rissoles in gravy with mash or lamb stew. I'll get pics cos we are expecting food from China, Poland, Vietnam, Philippines, Serbia, Malaysia, Croatia, Cambodia, Turkey, India, Burma, Pakistan, Malta, Spain, Greece, Italy, England, Scotland and of course Aussie. One of the warehouse kids is bringing Vegemite sandwiches and for a fancy option Vegemite and cheese sandwiches too. WOT would you bring??

Honey Joys .... Only way to eat corn flakes...

@overcome ... switch out your onion for a leak add some chicken stock and that's the ingredients to my spud soup. I brown the butter a bit, soften the leaks then cook the bacon until the fat renders, add the spuds and just enough stock to cover... boil until spud very soft then puree and add enough evaporated milk to get the right consistency.

@Paul723 my daughter and I watch it together. I've made a few of the dishes too. Please tell me you love Poh and Julie Goodwyn. Another good Aussie cooking show is My Kitchen Rules.

2. . Hitting yourself with a hammer.

So I have used binaural beats for a while to help with focus at work on bad adhd days... was looking for something new to add to the list when I came across this about 18mths into ky quit. Not sure if I've shared it this before. Not sure if it's a placebo...bit it does help me sleep ... anywho... listening to binaural beats works better with headphones one.

Where do I belong ..... right here chickadee!

1. Get the lid to paint it and then gift it to the grandparents.

6. It tastes delicious. So the only place I've seen pretzels with cheese in Melbourne is at German resteraunts. Warm giant pretzel...gooey melt cheese sauce...now that really does taste delicious.