Lady Leo

Journalist for 44 years. Mixed media mosaics artist. Gardener. Mother. Grandmother. Friend. Animal lover. Vigilant malarkey detector.

[Lady Leo @Dunhacking]

@Acyn

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

Hello again
Such a beautiful painting by
Barbara Richardson new artist ( to me)
English painter well known for her sensitive light filled botanical Still Life Oil paintings
‘Auricula in Flower Pots’

[Lady Leo @Dunhacking]

@blakandblack @flightcentreAU I shopped in a different town this week, not the “posh” place I usually go to. Bought basics at some basic shops: K-Mart, Lowes, Priceline and Coles. Fabulous service, nice chats and a helpful young assistant at the chemist. Even other shoppers were pleasant. Attitude, people!

[blakandblack @blakandblack]

Customer service @flightcentreAU style.

I just walked out of a flight centre location after waiting 30 mins without any kind of acknowledgement I was there.

Five staff on:

Two talking about family stuff to each other

One laughing and joking to someone on the phone

Two actually serving customers

They’ll all whinge when they lose their jobs because people look elsewhere to book their holidays

Customer service matters … acknowledging the presence of a customer matters‼️

[Lady Leo @Dunhacking]

@LoveGrowingVeg Best honesty system I’ve encountered was in Tasmania: a fridge containing trays of shucked oysters, wooden picnic benches to sit at while you slurped them down, and a 1950s bathroom sink (cold water only) to wash your hands in afterwards.

[🌱Hello, I'm Mark @LoveGrowingVeg]

Got a call on our doorbell from an African chap about buying eggs. Explained to buy them from the honesty box right next to him. He look confused so I rushed to find him. Guy works at the chicken factory and wanted to buy some eggs on his way back from work but was anxious that no one was at the farmhouse.

I found him and then explained the concept of an honesty box. He could not understand how any business can work like this. Basically I told him that most people are honest and I had CCTV which lets me know when I have a customer. Anyone who doesn’t pay I keep a mugshot on my computer and if I see them again they get a talking to.

Not sure exactly where he came from but the fact he rung the doorbell and discussed his concerns he was honest so the system can and does work.

[Lady Leo @Dunhacking]

@theiaincameron Same in the USA. 🤷‍♀️

[Maaike @MaaikeSchimmel]

Is dit leuk of is dit heel leuk? Mag ik zeggen, want zelf gemaakt 🤪 Kleine kommetjes om met water te vullen voor de bijen en andere insecten #maaikekeramiek

[Lady Leo @Dunhacking]

@JuliaPappasPhD Nor me. 😡

[Lady Leo @Dunhacking]

@giveashitnature I was stirring some matted leaves in the bottom of the compost bay before piling in a new bagful and uncovered a blue tongue lizard in a state of brumation. Luckily I was stirring with my hands and not a garden fork. Note to self: remember this!

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Most people start composting because they want better soil. There's a wildlife bonus most people never hear about.

An active compost heap is one of the best small habitats you can put in a backyard. The decomposing material attracts decomposer insects (beetles, millipedes, springtails, worms, woodlice) in numbers that nothing else in the yard can match. The insects attract predators: garter snakes, toads, salamanders, ground beetles, and the songbirds that eat them.

The warmth generated by decomposition (the center of an active heap can hit 140°F) creates a winter refuge that small mammals, snakes, and amphibians use to overwinter. Bumblebees sometimes nest in the loose material to start their spring colonies.

You don't need a sealed plastic bin, an open pile in a back corner, ideally partial shade, in direct contact with the soil, will do just fine. A wooden slatted bin works too. Sealed plastic tumblers and "compost machines" are effective at making soil, but they shut out the wildlife and trap the heat instead of letting larger animals access the warm edges.

What goes in: kitchen scraps (no meat or dairy), yard clippings, dead leaves, shredded paper, coffee grounds, eggshells.

What doesn't: anything sprayed with herbicide, dog or cat waste, anything you want to keep away from wildlife.

The compost heap is the rare yard project where doing it imperfectly actually works better than doing it "right."

[Lady Leo @Dunhacking]

@JuliaPappasPhD Plenty of Nurse Ratcheds out there.

[Lady Leo @Dunhacking]

@gomichild I make almost everything “from scratch”, usually just slinging in whatever’s to hand. My daughter recently admitted that as a child she thought “from scratch” meant “without a recipe”. 😂😂😂 Mum’s cooking.

[Crowbar Jones 🥘🔪 @gomichild]

Braised Beef Cheek || Potato Mash || Asparagus || Smoked Soy Gravy

#food #foodporn

[Crowbar Jones 🥘🔪 @gomichild]

Gravy of course made from scratch

[The Noisy Elephant @TheNoisyTrunk]

I've got a friend who's a bit of a cooker. Not a full cooker, but 'cookerish', sort of on the simmer, soft boil on the way.

We don't mix a lot, but he came to stay last night before he and his Karen go back to, let's just say 'regional Qld'.

We get into a debate about politics and One Nation. As I said, at the beginning, he's a bit of a cooker, but not a strange lunatic type, not a bogan. But cooked enough.

Well fuck me. The stuff that came out of his fucking mouth just astounded me. Now, I normally don't get into these sorts of conversations with friends, basically because most of my friends are normal, not cookers.

The delusional nonsense that he repeated turned my head to cabbage. I had to do what any reasonable person would. I took him to the office, sat his arse down and did the research in front of him.

As I said, he's not the full cooker. You know those ones that just won't accept anything, even if the proof is right there in front of them.

And what happened was that with proper evidence in front of him to counteract most of the stupid claims he was making, he got it. We spent some hours doing this on various subjects, from Tax to immigration, the fucking flag even came up.

But by the end of it all, he accepted that he had been totally misinformed and sucked in.

I had to make him quite a few martinis to calm him down, he was that disappointed that he had been misled previously.

Unfortunately, most of the cookers aren't like my cooker 'ish' friend and there is no hope for them.

But I'm pleased to say that I saved one.

🥇𓃰

[Lady Leo @Dunhacking]

@RupertsConscie1 @TheNoisyTrunk 💯 Intelligent people Google to seek information. Stupid people Google to find confirmation of the disinformation they fervently believe.

[Rupert's Conscience @RupertsConscie1]

@TheNoisyTrunk Bukowski nailed it...

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."

...it's the laziness of the ignorant is what gets me, in the age of social media they don't bother to check anything they swallow.

[We don't deserve cats 😺 @catsareblessing]

"What is the meaning of life? Why was I put on this Earth? When will my next meal come?"

[Lady Leo @Dunhacking]

@AhoFrank @giveashitnature @loveisbrilliant Some people build bridges; others, walls.