The really important question is - has your wonderful floofy cat forgiven you for your extended absence? Pix please!

Thank you very much. It was delicious.

Coffee, and a lightly toasted wholemeal muffin with smoked salmon, poached eggs and a rich fruity chutney.

Happy Gotcha to Miss Meow!

No one would buy the awful flavour otherwise. All part of the great "I know what I want to make and you just have to buy it anyway" conspiracy. God forbid that we should actually buy what WE want. Case in point - bath soap. Every supermarket in Aust stocks one million brands of liquid soap, but only (at most) 3 different kinds of bar soap. I prefer to use bar soap in the shower - and the brand I prefer is only available occasionally. It appears that other folk also prefer this brand as it sells out in approximately 3 nanoseconds when it's in stock. Then there's a wait of months before it's in stock again. So when I see it I buy up several months worth. As do the other buyers. You would think the supermarkets would keep more of it in stock more regularly, but no. They want us to buy the liquid soap instead.

There's a lot of literature on the topic already. Albert Camus' The Plague, Stephen King's The Stand to name just two. Plus a lot of sci-fi. Might could be that the writing community is still processing and still looking for a new angle to write to on the topic.

Best used in cake mixes instead of fresh eggs. I don't like them scrambled - lived through too many powdered egg scrambles at school back in the old days. Might be different doing them yourself.

I think that's called "Jai Alai" in America, pelota elsewhere. Sort of a hand held bat with a basketlike scoop arrangement on the top. Like a woomera but for a ball. Very fast and quite dangerous game due to the sheer speed of the ball.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_alai

Might be. Might also be too dry in parts. I would cut it back severely, aerate the soil around the plant (fork lift method) and apply a slow release fertilizer around the drip zone. Rosemary likes a well drained soil, but does need water and feeding for strong growth. Also, is it in full sun? Rosemary can get sunburned if the sun is too intense. Keeping it bushy rather than letting it go leggy helps a lot to prevent sunburn. Melbourne's rainfall is usually enough to keep an established plant going, but a young plant may need a good soak after a few very hot dry days. I see you've got the mulch sorted, which is good. The reason for the extra fertilizer is to correct any imbalance caused by the mulch decaying and absorbing nutrients that can rob the plant underneath of its nutrition. Pine bark mulch is notorious for this - you usually have to add at least a lime sprinkle under pine bark mulch when it's first laid down. Slow release is better though.

Morning all. If it is indeed still morning. I've tried camomile in the past, but I think it doesn't work on me. And tastes like a mixture of soap and grass clippings. Gimme the real stuff.

Can't sleep. Will try some weak tea to see if that helps.

Borrow @taleya's new trumpet. Made for situations like this. Unless of course they join in - in which case you will have made some new friends.

Good to see you back!

Thanks!

A nice healthy salad please. And a decadent cafe au lait with whipped cream on top and chocolate shavings.

A fine specimen. Peelings are a possible source. There may be more lurking in the undergrowth.

The powder is carbon based and electrostatically charged a bit. So hand sanitizer may work in conjunction with face washer.

Yumm. Thank you.

Eel fillets with a nardoo crumb coating, fried in duck fat and served with bush pepper sauce. And finger lime tea sweetened with hakea nectar.

Some serious marge on its way here. I thought for most of today that the worst would pass north of us, but we're still gonna get some.