Term Three Déjà Vu Style
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capn_n_pyeIs it going to get to the point where we don’t remember what it’s like to go out and about in August? Or are we going to come to simply expect that we spend most of term three working from home and get cross when we have to physically go to work for like, eleven weeks in a row?
What better time than winter and working from home for your gas heater to break, eh? I mean, yeah, it turned out to be a first-world kinda problem because we have a split system as well, but still. The poor split system didn’t seem to be working very efficiently, so when the bathroom taps also decided to break, we took the opportunity to ask the plumber how much a service would cost. The answer was “lots and lots,” and we were all like, “Well dang.” Then he said it.
“When was the last time you cleaned the filters?”
.
.
.
Extraordinarily, once centimetre-thick dust was removed, the split system started working a treat. Sometimes you don’t know how dumb you are until someone asks the most obvious of questions lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Other times, you say something that you think is dumb but it turns into the cleverest thing that anyone has ever done. D’admiral and Chuckles werecomplaining boasting commenting at how much fruit their avocado tree was producing this year, but because they’re included in the Melbourne lockdown zone, we wouldn’t be able to come and help them eat them. As a joke, we said that they should just post us some. Very droll. Then there was a little package in the letterbox.
Oh ho ho, they didn’t …? THEY DID! Cheeky!
So if you’ve ever been wondering if you can successfully send avocadoes through the post, the answer is YES!
The surprises didn’t stop there, though, cos before much longer an email arrived with a gift voucher attached and strict instructions to be reckless, not to buy anything sensible with it and basically treat yo self! D’admiral and Chuckles are rascals and we love it.
Gleefully spending vouchers made Pye remember that she had a bunch of Coles-Myer vouchers that had been sitting around for what felt like forever. Combine them with an online sale and it would have been false economy not to buy a Dyson stick vacuum!
In these lockdown days, who wouldn’t get excited about a new vacuum cleaner??
Especially during lockdown-holidays and latest regional lockdown in general, it’s almost impossible to remember what normal school was like, when unexpected things could happen. Pye dimly remembers when her school had a lockdown drill scheduled that was since cancelled. Pye was at her desk in an office with a science teacher (who is definitely high up on the spectrum) has deliberately constructed a board to sit behind and only answers anyone speaking if she feels like it at the time.
A stand by announcement happened. Pye commented loudly on this, cos wasn't the lockdown drill cancelled so why are we now doing anything?? An evacuation announcement ensued, and Pye ejaculated angrily, finished saving her document, then said, "I suppose I should rush out and take care of my homeroom. See you out there!"
Trotting down the stairs with entirely too many students who can't possibly wear a mask over their stupid goddamn noses, suddenly they all found it wasn’t actually a drill - the builders onsite had ruptured the gas main. Huh. Pye went and made sure her poppets were safe and then looked around for her office mate, just in case she needed to go back in for her. After a while, she found her and guess what! All that time Pye thought she was talking to someone who was just rude, turns out she was blasting tunes on her headphones and was completely oblivious to unfolding drama - and then Pye left her to die. Well she didn't die and all's well that ends well, but maybe the not-dead-one be less rude in future (but also she probs won't be lol).
Speaking of weird people who you don’t always understand, if you can tell us what this weird woman was doing at 8pm on a Wednesday night, we’d like to know.
You can still see her bum when she bends down, so she’s not even looking along the fence line, but rather just under some pots. And she gives up so quickly! She looks like she’s in PJs, but the neighbour’s camera caught her getting in a car and driving off, which means she drove over for a reason?? WHY???
Anyway, in more positive news, while regional areas were still out of lockdown, the mega bling’d up stapler we’ve previously mentioned made its way to its proud retiree owner. Hooray!
Maybe if more people were vaccinated by now, we wouldn’t have had to all go back inside again.
Hey here’s an idea to the vaccine-hesitant – check out this article. We are more than prepared to lose friends over this issue! At least we’ll be ready to help the children when we’re all allowed back to school.
In 2020 déjà vu, Father’s Day was in hard lockdown again. Joy! Happy Father’s Day – stay the fuck home.
They let Year 12 students go back on site for the last week and a bit of term, and there is definitely something to be said about a school that only has about 150 students who are all mature enough to (mostly) not be chaos goblins. Mind you, having to drive to work to deliver one set of lessons in person and all the other ones still remotely is a bit weird – how are you supposed to get your folding done during lunch??
We were quite convinced that a hard lockdown would come back with the school holidays, so the minute parent-teacher interviews were over at midday on Friday, we leapt into the car and fanged it down to the Otways for a nerdy afternoon trip. It’s no secret that one of our hobbies is watching the Barwon Water Storages graph especially when it’s going up and up and up, like right now. Pye’s school used to take kids camping in the region and one of the activities was to go and look at the West Barwon Reservoir, but poor Stinky had never had the honour. Quick, rectify the situation in the brief window we were allowed out of the house!
Daaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmm!!
It was very, very close to spilling, and is about 70% more full than the last time Pye visited. Woot!
Next thing you know we were at the end of September and it was enthusiastically spilling all over the place and it was very, very tempting to make the three hour round trip again!
Not too far away is Stevensons Falls, where they used to make the children (and Pye) sleep in tents and fight off brush tale possums. If there’s that much water in the dam, then there must be water coming over the falls, right? Only one way to find out!
Judgemental cows aside, a moist spring made for lots of nice textures, mmmmmmmmm
Along the way, we met this funky lil kookaburra:
Look at Stinky pointing at the kookaburra…but isn’t that the mask Pye was wearing? Um…it’s Pye’s hand and that is freaky.
He was vaguely about our proximity to him, and we were annoyed about how much like a puppet he looked. Ridiculous bird would be right at home in Yonderland!
Down the track and around the corner, what do we see…
There it is! You lose all the depth in pictures, but there they are - Stevensons Falls!
We also tried to go to Barwon Park Mansion, but despite the internet saying it should be open, this was as close as we got lol.
And then, sure enough, before you could say “Where do you want to go tomorrow?” we were all back in hard lockdown again.
This meant that we were all very confident in saying where we were when a friggin earthquake struck! What the hell!!! First Dog knows what’s up (click to enlarge).
To all the twats who are organising street protests toact as super-spreader event show how mad they are at Dan Andrews, it was further proof that his nefarious powers know no bounds! (This would be funnier if dickheads didn’t actually think it is true.)
Joke's on you, Dan – we will rebuild!!
Our Indonesian friends are all like, “Didn’t any of you remember your earthquake drill training??” while as Australians we were all just all * look around in confusion * * try and ascertain whether there is a big truck or a wash on * * say a variation of ‘wait wat urthkwakk??' * * go on Facebook to shout EARTHQUAKE! *
NB complete lack of rushing to stand in a doorway or, indeed, in some cases, get out of bed. Still, it was nice to have something unexpected happen – especially an activity that we could experience with other people.
What do you get when you combine one of the best things on TV with lots of downtime and the urge to make things that are cute af? Ghosts amigurumi! You get Headless Humphrey Bone, and Kitty and Pat Butcher…
Mary, who was burned at the stake, so therefore was thoroughly smoked (and stuffed with bits of burned stuff) so that she always smells of burning…
Caveman Robin, Lady Fanny Button (cue clitoris jokes), and Thomas…
The Captain and Julian who died with his pants off (NB tiny lil pubes lol)…
And the living members of the household, Mike and Alison.
When Stinky finished little Mike, Pye decided the saucy thing to do would be to direct message some pictures to the actor who plays him (Kiell Smith Bynoe) via Instagram. Next thing you know, KSB has not only answered to say it was so cute, he also added them to his Instagram Story!! Eiiiiiii!!!
The excitement of getting attention from an actor in the show was pretty much on par with the earthquake, lol.
Shenanigans definitely ensued throughout the entire ghost-creation process!
And sometimes the yarn has a mind of its own – like here, when Stinky was working on the Captain’s hair and she realised she’d accidentally made Trent Crimm from Ted Lasso, whoops.
Pye’s role is mostly to jiggle impatiently until Stinky finishes one and then do photoshoots of them to put on the internet (including recreating scenes from the show because why not and what the hell else is there to do during lockdown holidays? I mean, we did engage a builder for the extension, but this is more fun and less expensive.)
Not everyone thought that playing with the amigurumi was the right thing to do, though – Pye was in the backyard one afternoon/evening doing a photoshoot, but apparently it was Magpie Playtime.
This lil sod and its two friends warbled instructively, got entirely too close (at one point it looked like it was going to sneak up and steal one of the lil friends!) and displayed their frustration until Pye finally got out of their yard.
While we’re on Corvid News, do you remember Kevin the Special Needs Raven who once sat in a pot plant out the front for hours crying because he forgot how to fly, and then later fell off the roof a bit? Either he's had an egg or his parents tried again, because when Pye went to chop back the jasmine on the driveway fence she had to stop. Plaintive squawks from ground level on the other side of the fence and a pair of anxious raven parents flying back and forth between chimney and power lines made the idea of dropping cuttings into the mix seem quite rude. Hope the medium-sized idiot figured out how to fly before sunset, just for its parents' sake!
Anyway, here’re some more fucking birds:
Go you lil hooded plovers, do your bit to fight extinction!
What better time than winter and working from home for your gas heater to break, eh? I mean, yeah, it turned out to be a first-world kinda problem because we have a split system as well, but still. The poor split system didn’t seem to be working very efficiently, so when the bathroom taps also decided to break, we took the opportunity to ask the plumber how much a service would cost. The answer was “lots and lots,” and we were all like, “Well dang.” Then he said it.
“When was the last time you cleaned the filters?”
.
.
.
Extraordinarily, once centimetre-thick dust was removed, the split system started working a treat. Sometimes you don’t know how dumb you are until someone asks the most obvious of questions lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Other times, you say something that you think is dumb but it turns into the cleverest thing that anyone has ever done. D’admiral and Chuckles were
Oh ho ho, they didn’t …? THEY DID! Cheeky!
So if you’ve ever been wondering if you can successfully send avocadoes through the post, the answer is YES!
The surprises didn’t stop there, though, cos before much longer an email arrived with a gift voucher attached and strict instructions to be reckless, not to buy anything sensible with it and basically treat yo self! D’admiral and Chuckles are rascals and we love it.
Gleefully spending vouchers made Pye remember that she had a bunch of Coles-Myer vouchers that had been sitting around for what felt like forever. Combine them with an online sale and it would have been false economy not to buy a Dyson stick vacuum!
In these lockdown days, who wouldn’t get excited about a new vacuum cleaner??
Especially during lockdown-holidays and latest regional lockdown in general, it’s almost impossible to remember what normal school was like, when unexpected things could happen. Pye dimly remembers when her school had a lockdown drill scheduled that was since cancelled. Pye was at her desk in an office with a science teacher (who is definitely high up on the spectrum) has deliberately constructed a board to sit behind and only answers anyone speaking if she feels like it at the time.
A stand by announcement happened. Pye commented loudly on this, cos wasn't the lockdown drill cancelled so why are we now doing anything?? An evacuation announcement ensued, and Pye ejaculated angrily, finished saving her document, then said, "I suppose I should rush out and take care of my homeroom. See you out there!"
Trotting down the stairs with entirely too many students who can't possibly wear a mask over their stupid goddamn noses, suddenly they all found it wasn’t actually a drill - the builders onsite had ruptured the gas main. Huh. Pye went and made sure her poppets were safe and then looked around for her office mate, just in case she needed to go back in for her. After a while, she found her and guess what! All that time Pye thought she was talking to someone who was just rude, turns out she was blasting tunes on her headphones and was completely oblivious to unfolding drama - and then Pye left her to die. Well she didn't die and all's well that ends well, but maybe the not-dead-one be less rude in future (but also she probs won't be lol).
Speaking of weird people who you don’t always understand, if you can tell us what this weird woman was doing at 8pm on a Wednesday night, we’d like to know.
You can still see her bum when she bends down, so she’s not even looking along the fence line, but rather just under some pots. And she gives up so quickly! She looks like she’s in PJs, but the neighbour’s camera caught her getting in a car and driving off, which means she drove over for a reason?? WHY???
Anyway, in more positive news, while regional areas were still out of lockdown, the mega bling’d up stapler we’ve previously mentioned made its way to its proud retiree owner. Hooray!
Maybe if more people were vaccinated by now, we wouldn’t have had to all go back inside again.
Hey here’s an idea to the vaccine-hesitant – check out this article. We are more than prepared to lose friends over this issue! At least we’ll be ready to help the children when we’re all allowed back to school.
In 2020 déjà vu, Father’s Day was in hard lockdown again. Joy! Happy Father’s Day – stay the fuck home.
They let Year 12 students go back on site for the last week and a bit of term, and there is definitely something to be said about a school that only has about 150 students who are all mature enough to (mostly) not be chaos goblins. Mind you, having to drive to work to deliver one set of lessons in person and all the other ones still remotely is a bit weird – how are you supposed to get your folding done during lunch??
We were quite convinced that a hard lockdown would come back with the school holidays, so the minute parent-teacher interviews were over at midday on Friday, we leapt into the car and fanged it down to the Otways for a nerdy afternoon trip. It’s no secret that one of our hobbies is watching the Barwon Water Storages graph especially when it’s going up and up and up, like right now. Pye’s school used to take kids camping in the region and one of the activities was to go and look at the West Barwon Reservoir, but poor Stinky had never had the honour. Quick, rectify the situation in the brief window we were allowed out of the house!
Daaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmm!!
It was very, very close to spilling, and is about 70% more full than the last time Pye visited. Woot!
Next thing you know we were at the end of September and it was enthusiastically spilling all over the place and it was very, very tempting to make the three hour round trip again!
Not too far away is Stevensons Falls, where they used to make the children (and Pye) sleep in tents and fight off brush tale possums. If there’s that much water in the dam, then there must be water coming over the falls, right? Only one way to find out!
Judgemental cows aside, a moist spring made for lots of nice textures, mmmmmmmmm
Along the way, we met this funky lil kookaburra:
Look at Stinky pointing at the kookaburra…but isn’t that the mask Pye was wearing? Um…it’s Pye’s hand and that is freaky.
He was vaguely about our proximity to him, and we were annoyed about how much like a puppet he looked. Ridiculous bird would be right at home in Yonderland!
Down the track and around the corner, what do we see…
There it is! You lose all the depth in pictures, but there they are - Stevensons Falls!
We also tried to go to Barwon Park Mansion, but despite the internet saying it should be open, this was as close as we got lol.
And then, sure enough, before you could say “Where do you want to go tomorrow?” we were all back in hard lockdown again.
This meant that we were all very confident in saying where we were when a friggin earthquake struck! What the hell!!! First Dog knows what’s up (click to enlarge).
To all the twats who are organising street protests to
Joke's on you, Dan – we will rebuild!!
Our Indonesian friends are all like, “Didn’t any of you remember your earthquake drill training??” while as Australians we were all just all * look around in confusion * * try and ascertain whether there is a big truck or a wash on * * say a variation of ‘wait wat urthkwakk??' * * go on Facebook to shout EARTHQUAKE! *
NB complete lack of rushing to stand in a doorway or, indeed, in some cases, get out of bed. Still, it was nice to have something unexpected happen – especially an activity that we could experience with other people.
What do you get when you combine one of the best things on TV with lots of downtime and the urge to make things that are cute af? Ghosts amigurumi! You get Headless Humphrey Bone, and Kitty and Pat Butcher…
Mary, who was burned at the stake, so therefore was thoroughly smoked (and stuffed with bits of burned stuff) so that she always smells of burning…
Caveman Robin, Lady Fanny Button (cue clitoris jokes), and Thomas…
The Captain and Julian who died with his pants off (NB tiny lil pubes lol)…
And the living members of the household, Mike and Alison.
When Stinky finished little Mike, Pye decided the saucy thing to do would be to direct message some pictures to the actor who plays him (Kiell Smith Bynoe) via Instagram. Next thing you know, KSB has not only answered to say it was so cute, he also added them to his Instagram Story!! Eiiiiiii!!!
The excitement of getting attention from an actor in the show was pretty much on par with the earthquake, lol.
Shenanigans definitely ensued throughout the entire ghost-creation process!
And sometimes the yarn has a mind of its own – like here, when Stinky was working on the Captain’s hair and she realised she’d accidentally made Trent Crimm from Ted Lasso, whoops.
Pye’s role is mostly to jiggle impatiently until Stinky finishes one and then do photoshoots of them to put on the internet (including recreating scenes from the show because why not and what the hell else is there to do during lockdown holidays? I mean, we did engage a builder for the extension, but this is more fun and less expensive.)
Not everyone thought that playing with the amigurumi was the right thing to do, though – Pye was in the backyard one afternoon/evening doing a photoshoot, but apparently it was Magpie Playtime.
This lil sod and its two friends warbled instructively, got entirely too close (at one point it looked like it was going to sneak up and steal one of the lil friends!) and displayed their frustration until Pye finally got out of their yard.
While we’re on Corvid News, do you remember Kevin the Special Needs Raven who once sat in a pot plant out the front for hours crying because he forgot how to fly, and then later fell off the roof a bit? Either he's had an egg or his parents tried again, because when Pye went to chop back the jasmine on the driveway fence she had to stop. Plaintive squawks from ground level on the other side of the fence and a pair of anxious raven parents flying back and forth between chimney and power lines made the idea of dropping cuttings into the mix seem quite rude. Hope the medium-sized idiot figured out how to fly before sunset, just for its parents' sake!
Anyway, here’re some more fucking birds:
Go you lil hooded plovers, do your bit to fight extinction!
