Mortgage albatross around your neck? Beau is Afraid, don't stop arguing with people, AI is coming for our old photographs and another cheap and nutritious recipe, to gently pat your insides.
You didn't mention those gum/paste bottles with their malformed nipples! Brilliant and I think perhaps refillable? What ever happened to those? I suppose kids use single-use glue sticks now. I know I'm still finding them around the house as we got conned into buying them new each year.
The double whammy for housing is that while mortgages have become unaffordable, rental conditions have deteriorated to the point where tenants are treated like unwelcome guests in their own house. Had my mother, 90 years old this year, to stay this weekend. I took the opportunity to make sure my childhood recollections are accurate. We did live in a rental house for a few years that we treated as our own, it was a single-income family and Mum and Dad had a Housing Corporation loan. Nostalgia is not all bad, if we could do it once why not again. Housing as a right, not a commodity.
"Beau Is Afraid" is one of the most memorable movies I've seen recently. The scene in the bathtub really sticks with me, and we don't even have a bath. Some of the brilliance was in the uncertainty about to what extent the experience was subjective. Certainly a metaphor for the enshitification of our world. The end was both inevitable, and to some extent a mercy.
We had a good crop of broccoli this year with some in the freezer and more on the way. I like recipes that proceed as if cholesterol is not a thing. My doctor might want a word with you though...
Re the mortgage albatross - 🖐️I started young (early 20's) as my parents/grandparents had instilled home ownership as essential for security (personal & financial). I was lucky that I was happy with a modest house & a small loan from family gave help with my deposit, plus a Building Society I had started saving in offered a guaranteed loan approval just at the right time! Since then I have had that base for my next home when I have moved cities, but again only buying what was practical & within budget - you can make improvements if needed, but an affordable home even if basic is better than rented at the whim of landlords & govt! In fact, the ONLY times I have rented between ownership, the insecurity was re-inforced. Now retired I still have a mortgage due to low paying jobs, but it is far below a similar house @market rental & no-one can turf me out & separate me from my garden which provides a lot of my fruit & vegetables. This is NOT a tale of "how clever am I?" but an example of how much harder it is NOW 🤔(plus a little dig at my younger relatives who seemed to want the perfect house & all the latest gadgets & furniture from day one 😲😁)
Such a great post. I particularly enjoyed “Nostalgia is a comfort if we don’t look too closely.” So true. Damn I can’t believe we used to be able to get a pie for $1. They’re $11 at my local cafe 😵💫
Emily, to be fair the $1 pies I remember at school were a certain Large Benjamin brand and the $0.80 chocolate milk was a sugar addled Zap. I hope your local $11 pies are a bit more avant-garde!
You didn't mention those gum/paste bottles with their malformed nipples! Brilliant and I think perhaps refillable? What ever happened to those? I suppose kids use single-use glue sticks now. I know I'm still finding them around the house as we got conned into buying them new each year.
The double whammy for housing is that while mortgages have become unaffordable, rental conditions have deteriorated to the point where tenants are treated like unwelcome guests in their own house. Had my mother, 90 years old this year, to stay this weekend. I took the opportunity to make sure my childhood recollections are accurate. We did live in a rental house for a few years that we treated as our own, it was a single-income family and Mum and Dad had a Housing Corporation loan. Nostalgia is not all bad, if we could do it once why not again. Housing as a right, not a commodity.
"Beau Is Afraid" is one of the most memorable movies I've seen recently. The scene in the bathtub really sticks with me, and we don't even have a bath. Some of the brilliance was in the uncertainty about to what extent the experience was subjective. Certainly a metaphor for the enshitification of our world. The end was both inevitable, and to some extent a mercy.
We had a good crop of broccoli this year with some in the freezer and more on the way. I like recipes that proceed as if cholesterol is not a thing. My doctor might want a word with you though...
That's what statins are for Q!
"Sideswiped": Proudly brought to you by Lipitor(TM).
Feels like a nice little earner.
Yeah, drug sponsorship. I think you're onto something there Q.
Re the mortgage albatross - 🖐️I started young (early 20's) as my parents/grandparents had instilled home ownership as essential for security (personal & financial). I was lucky that I was happy with a modest house & a small loan from family gave help with my deposit, plus a Building Society I had started saving in offered a guaranteed loan approval just at the right time! Since then I have had that base for my next home when I have moved cities, but again only buying what was practical & within budget - you can make improvements if needed, but an affordable home even if basic is better than rented at the whim of landlords & govt! In fact, the ONLY times I have rented between ownership, the insecurity was re-inforced. Now retired I still have a mortgage due to low paying jobs, but it is far below a similar house @market rental & no-one can turf me out & separate me from my garden which provides a lot of my fruit & vegetables. This is NOT a tale of "how clever am I?" but an example of how much harder it is NOW 🤔(plus a little dig at my younger relatives who seemed to want the perfect house & all the latest gadgets & furniture from day one 😲😁)
Such a great post. I particularly enjoyed “Nostalgia is a comfort if we don’t look too closely.” So true. Damn I can’t believe we used to be able to get a pie for $1. They’re $11 at my local cafe 😵💫
Chur Emily. An $11 pie and a $110 afternoon tea with the PM's tradwife. What a time to be alive!
😂 living the dream!
Emily, to be fair the $1 pies I remember at school were a certain Large Benjamin brand and the $0.80 chocolate milk was a sugar addled Zap. I hope your local $11 pies are a bit more avant-garde!
haha good point. God knows what was in those $1 pies 😅