I don't understand. what do you mean selfish? please explain. When food is limited in the shops the people who are already prepared aren't the ones causing shelves to be empty. They already have food saved, which makes more food be available to others. I have always likened to to the parable of the Ant and the Grasshopper. the ant had enough food to last through the winter. the grasshopper didn't have any.

madly harvesting all the end of the summer crops and planting the autumn and winter crops. harvesting tomatoes, have made a year plus supply of ketchup, salsa , spaghetti tomato sauce as well as dozens of bottled (canned) tomatoes. froze bags of green beans. harvested dried beans. frozen a year supply of capsicum, made a huge amount of apple crumble and stewed apples to freeze. which added to the peaches and plumbs already turned into pies in the freezer. Madewell over a year supply of gherkins, jam, berry ice-cream topping planting all the brassica crops that do better here in the autumn and winter, heaps of different types of cabbage, bok choy, cauliflower, broccoli, as well as lettuce, garlic, onions, broad beans, etc. a very busy time. The Polly tunnel is going to get new plastic put on it this coming week. It is full of veggies as well as flats and flats of seedlings growing to be planted out. the ripped old plastic DD22 wants as she wants to build a small plastic greenhouse for winter growing. DH has been making huge piles of compost.

Could it be that their occupational health and safety for their work states no moving furniture. Sometimes it has things like that in it. When I worked in aged care we had a OHS rule that we were not to do anything that involved moving our feet off the floor. So no putting things in or out of high cupboards or hanging curtains that were slipping off the rods or things like that. Things that didn't make any sense to the clients at all, but had valid safety reasons for us workers. Also just because they are young doesn't mean they don't have to look out for their backs. I would think it fine to shift the desk to the other side of the room then back again.

Sending positive thoughts

my grandmother claimed she hatched a double yoker when she was a child. It was like a Siamese chicken with 4 legs and a deformed body.. It died after a day.

I am so sorry

sending positive thoughts

me too. it seems a very strange and different from the way we live custom. I can see endless fighting. I don't really understand how it works in practice. I would be terrified of kids going missing. I guess people have to sit outside and watch their kids instead of let them play in the back yard. No wonder people in USA all seem to have their dogs inside. they don't have fenced backyards to let them run around and be a dog.

I agree completely

Tool set,Ike a socket set. A good quality one. 13 is exactly the right age to start a lifelong collection of tools I agree with everyone else about a good quality pocket knife

dh did the same.. He put the wheat into one of those plastic barrels in the shed. I don't know how he plans to mill it if worst came to worst. I have images of us taking turns with the hand coffee grinder like Laura Ingles in the long winter

I completely forgot that.. Must take a very long time to get enoght for a load

the chooks don't mind the weevils 😁

The fencing rules here https://www.justice.vic.gov.au/fencing-law-in-victoria

It is the norm here in Australia. Here There are very clear rules about fences. The fence goes in the property line, both neighbours have to pay half for a standard fence. If one wants a fancier fence the other neighbour only pays the price of a standard fence. A standard fence is a 6 foot high wood fence. If one neighbour does all the labour the other neighbour still pays the price of half of a standard fence. Just about all properties are fenced. Especially in towns and cities. I live rural so the standard fence is barb wire. If the property line in in dispute, both neighbours split the cost to find out where the property line is

Gweneth

There is talk here that bread might get as high as $10 au a loaf And leafy greens will go up by 50 to 100% by April I don't know how people who don't have room to garden will be able to afford to eat.

The only time I have seen anything remotely like that was in a hospital. sorting laundry means chucking all of darks into the washing machine and the lights into a washing basket while waiting for the machine to empty. Wet clothes are hung on the clothes line. you guys must have huge laundries to fit all that stuff in.

What is a laundry organiser? I have never heard of them . Everyone I know has a laundry basket in their bathroom to chuck things in and washing baskets to carry the dirty wash to the machine or the clean washing to the clothes line.

Congratulations Dawn

breakfast - banana lunch - leftover roast chicken, beetroot, carrot snack - rice cake with chocolate tea- homemade Cornish pastie cucumber desert- sliver of apple pie with whipped cream

fruit and vegetables are officially up by 75% here and are expected to stay up for at least 6 months https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-03-21/fruit-and-vegetable-prices-increase-amid-supply-chain-woes/100926660

that is exciting news congratulations

So sorry what a mess

A sleeping baby