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Chit Chat / Re: What are you been cooking today
« on: February 09, 2025, 05:15:59 am »
I have been given a lot vegetables this weekend so I cobbled something together with lentils, tomatoes, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, broccolini and loads of other things in it, with potatoes on top (I am calling it a vegan shepherds pie, but that is a stretch of the imagination) and a green bean casserole.

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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?
« on: February 09, 2025, 05:13:01 am »
It's the annual Melbourne Pride day down our street today.  I really enjoy it - seeing so many people out on the street, all colourful (some outrageously so!), happy and smiling and no aggro.  It really is a fun (if not loud near the big stage) day - and probably night as well!

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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?
« on: February 06, 2025, 07:12:09 pm »
Credit card surcharges are a real cost to businesses, but I believe that the charges laid on customers are inflated in many cases.  We do not levy surcharges at our shop nor do we include a surcharge percentage in the RRP of any of our items, i.e. we don't hike up the price of an item to cover these charges and we pay many hundreds of dollars every month to the bank in merchant fees, so I can understand why businesses have this surcharge.  HOWEVER, the percentage they charge does not necessarily reflect what the bank charges them to process the sale.  It is very complicated.  With us we have something like 10 different levels of charges, depending on the type of card presented, so it is hard to calculate what is a realistic percentage at the point of sale.  There is some legislation on how a business charges for a credit card but I do not think any one polices it.

I recently saw, probably an urban legend, a story about the value of cash vs card and it went along the lines of if you pay $50 cash for an item, the supplier has $50 to spend, the supplier then buys something for $50 and the next supplier then has $50 to spend and so on, whereas paying by card the supplier then has $50 less a merchant percentage for their next purchase and so it goes on to the next merchant with the original $50 having (theoretically) less and less value with each succeeding transaction - it is very interesting reading but I won't try to go further with the story because I will not be able to write it out clearly and will only succeed in confusing everyone.  The crux of the story is that the original $50 payment by credit card has less and less value with every succeeding card purchase, whereas the cash used for the original payment remains $50 ... does that make sense?

Having said all of that, I very much prefer to use cash but for larger purchases will revert to my credit card and, of course, you have no choice when making internet purchases.

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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?
« on: February 05, 2025, 07:16:40 am »
Went up to Guildford for our neighbour's mother's funeral.  Hot, but well attended.  A lovely send-off.

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Chit Chat / Re: What's for Dinner Tonight?
« on: February 03, 2025, 04:13:31 pm »
Swabian potato salad with beans cauliflower and broccoli in rose sauce and a few left over leaves of green salad

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Chit Chat / Re: What book are you reading?
« on: February 02, 2025, 06:50:13 pm »
I am half way through the third of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo et al).  I had read all three books some years ago, but am thoroughly enjoying reading them again.

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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?
« on: February 01, 2025, 01:40:09 am »
Thanks Cookie and Judy. Did miss everyone.
We are in for a 4 day heatwave. I’ll be staying inside and cleaning up my Blog as well as sorting out stuff for the op shop. I’m still finding it difficult to let stuff go.
Don't force yourself, Chookie - everything has its own time and you will relax when you feel the time is right and you are ready to let it go ... small steps - don't push it.

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Chit Chat / Re: What are you been cooking today
« on: February 01, 2025, 01:37:23 am »
Does cauli smell like cabbage Chookie?
That's a question I have often pondered too, Judy.  Let's see what Chookie has to say.

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Chit Chat / Re: Reviews of RTE recipes.
« on: February 01, 2025, 01:36:11 am »
It is always a triumph when you get that reaction to your cooking.  Obviously a DF of refined tastes.

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Chit Chat / Re: What are you been cooking today
« on: January 31, 2025, 08:29:42 pm »
Miso mustard bean bake, Beans in rose sauce and German (Swabian) style potato salad

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Chit Chat / Re: Anything goes for Uni
« on: January 31, 2025, 08:28:08 pm »
To celebrate the forum being back I thought I would post this YouTube link to make everyone smile - hopefully I haven't already posted this, but if I have it was a long time ago.  I watch it every now and again because it always makes me laugh.  Make sure you have the sound on : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAssPedIdbk

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Chit Chat / Re: What have you been doing today?
« on: January 31, 2025, 08:22:43 pm »
Good to see we are back up and running again.  It has been so long since it went down that I had just about given up on the forum.  So happy to be in touch with everyone again.

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Chit Chat / Re: What's for Dinner Tonight?
« on: January 21, 2025, 02:14:52 am »
Last night's left over gado gado veges in a white bean rose sauce.

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Chit Chat / Re: What are you been cooking today
« on: January 20, 2025, 03:33:27 am »
Too hot to cook - will make gado gado

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Chit Chat / Re: What are you been cooking today
« on: January 19, 2025, 05:34:52 am »
DH made a special loaf of bread today for a friend and it failed spectacularly - DH was upset, this had never happened before and he has been baking bread for years - it sort of looked like it had exploded (possibly there was a big air pocket somewhere inside ... goodness knows).  Fortunately he had another loaf in the oven, so all is not lost!

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