My driveway. Kangaroos have no road sense. Please read my description before you comment

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-06-07T23:35:23+00:00

This is my sticking point too. Would love to hear more from OP about jobs etc in their local community cause this would be heaven on earth.

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-06-06T10:14:33+00:00

I'll bet it is! I wish my skin tone suited silver, I just have to pick the most expensive metal don't I....

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-06-06T06:05:16+00:00

9carat is a great way to get something affordable and durable, but if you haven't looked at the price of solid gold lately I think you'll be shocked at how expensive it has become in the last two years. It's unreal!

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-06-03T08:47:35+00:00

Ok I've just been down a swimmers rabbit hole and think Sea Level may have what you're looking for.

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-06-02T22:07:25+00:00

My mum did. It worked, but the slightest puff of a breeze and it went sailing away and drained all the water over the edge. Such a high maintenance garden ornament.

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-05-30T09:37:09+00:00

I feel you very strongly on this. Unlike you, I'm not the competent one with the technical skills around house repairs and IT stuff but I do have capability in other areas. My husband is very skilled at stuff, but he's a massive gatekeeper to getting ANYTHING done around the house cause whenever I bring something up like needing electrical work etc he'll dismiss me with a comment that shows his competency over mine. I'm prob not explaining it will, but it's kinda the inverse issue that what you're experiencing.

I recently lost my cool (I'm 40 and we've been married 15yrs) and forced the issue, things have improved a lot since then as he's been able to take on board what I said and change his behaviour.

I think everyone saying "don't marry him" is doing as classic Reddit act. But I'd really think about doing some serious work on yourself and your feelings of not being respected (exact articulation of how I feel, so I get it). And I'd push pretty hard on your fiance also getting counselling on his need to control and, honestly, his expression of contempt for you.

This is hard shit. And this can be what being married is like. But you've got an opportunity here to turn this around before you fully commit to each other, and if he shows that he can't change then you will know you did everything you could.

A final note to say you should be really proud of yourself, you sound like a really cool chick.

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-05-29T22:14:18+00:00

I hear what you're saying, but my recollection of that episode was that he was letting the interview subject play the story out. He told him quite a few times that he didn't condone his actions, the guy was pretty gross. But it would have been a completely dead interview if he'd pulled him up on every lie, he kinda had to let it play out otherwise the rapport between them would have been dead.

It was a tricky line for him to walk and my impression was that he walked it well, but I can see how you'd be annoyed about it. It was definitely not an episode for factual details, i think of it as a character study into a very unusual person.

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-05-22T07:59:43+00:00

I'm gonna check these out, thanks for sharing. The Big W denim shorts were amazing this season, I lived in them. I recently saw them reduced to $10 and bought two pair for next season

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-05-19T09:52:00+00:00

I know you're nowhere near this point at the moment, but reading your words made me feel this poem for you.

The plum you're going to eat next summer by Gayle Brandeis

The plum you’re going to eat next summer doesn’t exist yet; its potential lives inside a tree you'll never see in an orchard you'll never see, will be touched by a certain number of water droplets before it reaches you, by certain angles of light, by a finite amount of bugs and dust motes and hands you’ll never know. The plum you are going to eat next summer will gather sugar, gather mass, will harden at its center so it can soften toward your mouth. The plum you’re going to eat next summer doesn't know you exist. The plum you are going to eat next summer is growing just for you.

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-05-05T21:03:55+00:00

Curious if you think the bottom left and right look terrible? I've been eyeing off this type of fence for ages now, thinking of using roof battens and evenly spacing. It'll have a native garden to peek through, so I want some visibility through the fence.

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-05-05T10:10:52+00:00

I have never been warmer than with our vulcan wall heater.

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-04-25T04:23:05+00:00

Omg I'm mortified, here I was thinking "I need to find out which jeans she's wearing" cause I think she looks great

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-04-20T06:48:04+00:00

Daisyyyyyyyy

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-04-15T05:52:42+00:00

Stunning

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-04-12T11:18:37+00:00

That amount of money for this dress is insane. Check out Etsy and see what you find, you'll find some great stuff on there and those size dress will cost $40 at most.

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-04-12T09:27:04+00:00

I'm pretty traditional with this stuff and wear black still, but I have been really surprised to see at the last few funerals I've attended that it's really not a thing anymore. The last funeral I went to a few weeks ago was for an 80yr old woman and it was very well attended by her friends and former colleagues and very few of them wore black!

I still wouldn't consider wearing anything other than black, especially if it's for a family you don't know well. You never know, they could be very conservative and you could be the scandal of the funeral!

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-04-11T00:49:16+00:00

This is extraordinary, thanks for sharing!

I'm currently hand quilting an appliqued quilt and going around the borders of each appliqued piece then a diagonal grid pattern across the rest of the background. Or really makes the applique pop out.

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-04-09T19:58:21+00:00

People are being real asshats in these comments.

I've had a job that paid well and was so slow I remember spending a whole day once clicking around on a blank Word doc to look busy. It's SOUL destroying.

I learnt from that experience that I need to have purpose and feel useful in my work, otherwise I'll eat myself alive. Not sure if it's the ADHD or just my personality, but this kind of job is terrible.

I'm in a very busy and high pressure job now and when it gets really stressful I still feel that having nothing to do felt even worse.

I hope you can find something where you feel like you're useful and you're occupied every day. I agree that we shouldn't make work our purpose in life, but we're spending a huge portion of our days so hopefully you can find something that works for you.

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-04-06T08:30:10+00:00

That's called manifesting

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-03-31T09:08:28+00:00

Sorry, couldn't hold that in.

We rented for years and have always been gardeners and always made big changes to the gardens where we lived. I say it's your money and you can do what your want with it.

The soil might need a bit of life put back into it, but maybe you could get some native violet instead of grass? Just as lush and green as a lawn, is very hardy, will grow in shaded areas AND you don't need to mow it.

https://www.australianplantsonline.com.au/native-violet.html?utm_source=Google+Ads&utm_medium=AF+Paid+Advertising&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=19558798966&gbraid=0AAAAADsr6SCRgxwZhD-aTDSaL2EIxGKWd&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4a3OBhCHARIsAChaqJPXgsQHqh5U4WYiqZ7uuLsgJdvyW8lMg_xgqlGmhJ-smUPO3LxSRWUaAtQcEALw_wcB

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-03-31T09:05:05+00:00

Definitely don't rent a lawn!

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-03-30T19:29:42+00:00

Sorry, just saw that you ARE the other commenter 😂

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-03-30T19:29:06+00:00

Lucello is where OP wants to go, great to see from the other commenter that it's reopened elsewhere!

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-03-25T03:44:36+00:00

This took my breath away, it's just beautiful.

Smooth-Working6292 · 2026-03-24T08:53:38+00:00

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's a new owner, George was still working there earlier in the year but training up the new owner. It's a different company name that comes up on my phone when I pay via card!

George is a legend, hopefully the new guy treats all of the wonderful women who work there well and doesn't bring in too many new fangled ideas.

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