Tea, Earl Grey, Premium.
@streakmachine I was recently given a jar of lightly-pickled asparagus.
Seems to be more oil the vinegar involved in the preservation process.
Just down the road a bit is where some 90% of the nation’s supply of asparagus is grown.
// @matigo @JeremyCherfas @larand
Just met a fellow walking 2 km from the railway station to the pub. He was my best friend for 18 years from the age of 5 until we went off on our own careers. He lost his driving licence due to alcohol over 20 years ago & hasn’t bothered driving since.
Works on demolition jobs, gets picked up & dropped off at a boarding house near the city, comes back out to visit his parents each week by rail with a booze break at a pub in this town, about halfway through the trip.
No, I’m not going to join him, I’m just not a big boozer anymore.
You certainly see a different side of humanity when delivering food/financial assistance to those in need. One person today has two teenage kids & another who's 7 and has a partner in jail for domestic violence. She takes 40 tablets daily, costing $400 per week, walks with a cane & needs a spinal stimulator worth $80,000 to help control the pain. Recently had cortisone injections in both shoulders & may need a shoulder reconstruction. The car had to be modified to suit her best-working limbs & she had to resit her driver's licence. The public health system isn't sufficient for her needs so private insurance is needed.
Her sole income is disability & parenting pensions.
The only reason she & her kids are living where they are is because her mother owns the house and there's no rent to pay.
And that's just one of the cases we helped today.
Great relief. Lung function test = OK. No signs of asbestos-related damage shown by high-definition CT scan.
Visited a sheep milk dairy & cheesemaker yesterday. Wanted their award-winning blue vein sheep cheese, couldn’t see it anywhere in the displays. Turns out they only had very fresh or very aged versions, the aged one being sufficiently different to its award-winning version so it was renamed. That wass ½-price to make way for the new stock so I bought some.
Another cheese they do with a neighbour’s cow’s milk is called Granny’s Blue, but with one batch, the head cheesemaker & owner of the operation had an accident when taking it out of the mould & it collapsed out of shape. So that batch was renamed “Old Fart’s Blue” in honour of its creator & also sold at ½-price.
I also bought a pecorino flavoured with Aussie mountain pepper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmannia_lanceolata berries and a goat’s milk blue vein.
As I seemed pretty enthusiastic about their products they threw in, at no cost, a small wheel of brie.
All-in-all, a successful trip.
Being over the age of 60 now, I have applied for a Seniors Card. Various businesses & organisations offer discounts for cardholders, such as 50% cost of weekday public transport & free weekend public transport.
I’ll have to take up fishing again! Seniors Cardholders are exempted from the requirement to have a fishing licence.
Recieved a birthday card from the local MP congratulating me on reaching 60. He listed a number of significant things in Australia during that year. One of them being the first Holder motor car to roll off the production lines. He was a bit out there, only by 10 years, though.
It worries me that a fellow seeking re-election would put out stuff like this without a thorough proof-reading. Election is in two days.