Nice. Club application accepted. 🍓📜

Simple, I planted them last year!

My strawberries were thriving on being forgotten - I had some self-seeded lettuce going to seed in the tubs they are in, plus a radish going to seed flopping over from the garden next to them. Apparently that’s the way they like it because they have been quietly fruiting underneath all that. I’ve cleaned up the area a bit and put some mesh over the top of them, hopefully they won’t decide that’s too much attention.

I’ve also got some raspberries ripening. They are a bit of a pain because they ripen one at a time on each stem, and I have to cover each stem with a bag to keep the birds off. So every day I have to remove and replace a bunch of bags to get a small handful of raspberries. When I move I will definitely be investing in a proper cage so I can cover the whole plant.

Porridge! Featuring home grown strawberries and some fruit syrup I made.

Looks pretty too!

Kiwifruit chilli chutney has been bottled. Tastes pretty good. Flavours along the line of a sweet chilli sauce, just a bit chunkier (and greener!)

I think the" hello" person was spam to everyone. From memory the removed comment was something about finance and most likely a scam. They’ve been blocked from the Melboune sub.

Nice one! There is nothing like a properly ripened fresh strawberry.

Afternoon buyer has not shown up ☹️

It is very rude, Mr Woof has been waiting for his afternoon walk. She confirmed she was coming just a couple of hours ago!

I ended up with more kiwi fruit this week, so I am going to try a small batch of kiwifruit chilli chutney.

Edit: Chutney is currently cooking. I had a preliminary taste and it is hot.

I’m not really sure. My tastes have been changing again as I have gotten older. It used to be anything with stupidly high levels of chocolate. Now I’d go more for something creamy or custardy.

I think it is @just_kitten 's couch you are thinking of, which is still pending pickup tonight. So the impossibly stuck couch is still a possibility. Hopefully if that does happen the horse in the bathroom situation will not follow.

A selection of items containing cheese, please.

Good start to the day, Marketplace buyer showed up & was very friendly. I have a couple more that will hopefully show up today too - I’ll have to convert all my cash to proper digital money soon! 💰 💰 💰

I’m really hoping some more cupboards sell soon, I’d like to be able to use my carport again. If any are remaining after this weekend I think I’ll put them up free on the Buy Nothing group.

It’s started again here too. Looks like I picked the perfect time for morning walkies, we only got a few drops while we were out.

Or a song that gets picked up for a tv theme or ad, then you get lots of ongoing royalties.

I’m not sure it’s ever had much use here. I’ve bought one or two things on there before, but it doesn’t really seem to get much traffic.

It changes over time too. I used to be able to list pretty much anything on eBay and have it sell, now stuff just sits there (and there is not the volume of buyers to allow you to do the auctions any more either). Marketplace was ok-ish, but these days people don’t seem to know how to communicate and mostly just waste time - and you and up wasting other people’s time because you are so swamped with the dodgy people it is really hard to keep on top of messages.

I’ve started my shed cleanout. There is a lot of junk in there! And a lot of dirt ☹️ If anyone is in the market for a slightly rusty hand saw let me know, I seem to have lots of them! I’m not even sure why I have some of this stuff, I’m pretty sure someone has been sneaking in and stashing stuff when I’m not looking. Couldn’t possibly have been me!

I’ve done that too. Also got quite nauseous and felt generally unwell. I was about to go to the doctor when I realised what the cause was, I’ve been careful to limit my caffeine intake ever since.