I have decided to bake some biscuits for Christmas. I have narrowed my selection down to 8, lets see how many I end up doing! The current shortlist is:

• pfeffenusse
• Scottish shortbread
• coconut macaroons
• cranberry-coconut oatmeal
• embossed lemon shortbread
• Pizzelle (wafers)
• Chocolate Brownie Cookies
• "Oma's biscuits" - another shortbread variation

I'm focusing on recipes that are not too complicated to make, keep fairly well, with at least a few that can be dunked in a cup of tea. I'll give a few as gift boxes and take some to work, with the bulk of them to be a gift to my Mum - she has been making her own biscuits for years, but recently has started to find the effort a bit much, so I'd like to fill her biscuit jar with home made biscuits for a while.

Picked up some of these earplugs recently and highly recommend them. A nuclear bomb could go off down the road and you'd die of radiation poisoning before you ever woke up. Great for tuning in to the harsh inner critic while travelling this holiday season, so if you ever want to be trapped in your head with only the voices to keep you company, pick yourself up a box.

today's randomness:

Tool battery powerpacks are usually just literal 18650's chained together. I have a chainsaw one that's actually just a buncha nicads. They don't do replacements. I am not paying another couple hundred for a useful tool that I use once in a blue moon. I know you can get replacement battery packs, but are there small, dodgy shops where they will perform the swap for you?

(I want a battery upgrade which will also need new charger but I am not fuckin' soldering lithiums)

It's that time of year again

Why don't they play THIS in the shops. Instant customer identification is very high indeed.

Lower decks ending. Well, time to cancel paramount plus.

Random thoughts that prevent sleep. I have no idea what a chickpea plant looks like. To the interwebs!

this pic I took of a snake at the Royal show

I think it's a northern death adder iirc. So cute!!!

Edit: oh there's also a black house spider behind the exit sign above the fire escape in the hallway. It's all tucked in there, also very cute but no pics lol

The kid now has a cold. She walked in and said "I hate you" before going back to bed.

I have a random deposit in my bank account this morning of $45.67 as Direct Credit ATO 🤔 feels incredibly scammy

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I was just about to check my email for the estimated time for my grocery delivery today when they delivered it. Faboulous timing, they most often deliver around 11am for this time window. Mr Woof Is not happy about someone encroaching on our territory though.