Place next door is being demolished making way for the most ridiculous new house to be built.
Going by the plans it’ll be a single residence, 3 levels, massive basement w/ 5 underground car parks all for a single family. Going to be a big white box basically. Building will go fence to fence no or tiny garden. Why people opt for no garden on such a big block is beyond me. I completely understand on smaller blocks, and maybe the maintenence concerns but if you can fork out that much for a tacky mcmansion, you can afford a gardener or 10.
No space for trees which is the same that happened to the neighbour on the other side. Maybe I’m getting old but the whole charm of the area is a shitload of big trees and nice little front gardens. Most new places going up around here have neither. If you’re lucky a few small shrubs and some synthetic lawn.
Don’t care about what the place looks like really, but no green just shits me. Not sure if that makes me a NIMBY.
Shame.
Hate people who build massive houses on big blocks and leave no space for a decent garden, but that seems to the trend now. Yes a garden is work, but so is cleaning more internal space?
Money doesn’t buy style / class unfortunately.
the people who build large houses like that rely on all the little houses in the area to have nice gardens and trees to make the neighbourhood nice
fuck them
Same people hate your leaves in Autumn. “Messing up the place”. Oh no, some nature getting about.
Once trees go bare in autumn, the only saving grace is the leaves on the ground. Looks so comforting.
Yeah, my tree is my bedroom blind for the streetlight so it sucks in winter. No leaves all streetlight.
they’re the sorts who always go “oh, I LOVE trees and nature! but…”
and inevitably you can complete the sentence in your head
When they’re made of rendered polystyrene I can’t help but think of them as big esky’s.
I still can’t believe that is allowed.
Did no one read The Three Little Pigs?
And the property developer pig built his house out of hebel and spack, when the wolf came by he’d already sold it so the wolf ate the new owners.
But object and you’re a nimby
Why arseholes keep insisting on buying into gardened and forested areas just to turn them into concrete shitholes is beyond me
Years ago I was involved (working for a sub contractor) in the build of a mansion in Toorak.
The amount of money that went it was mad. Got to know the site foreman over the course of the year and the stuff he told me was ridiculous.
Seeing the house go through all the building stages, still cannot fathom where the money went. It was a nice house, but there was definitely a ‘Toorak tax’ applied.
Well, at least it sounds like they have enough parking. Where I am it’s all two car garages that aren’t actually big enough to fit two cars and driveways short enough that the giant vehicles many people have stick out over the footpath. Frustrating when you actually walk places.
A lot of people these days see to focus entirely on the inside of their house, they don’t care about gardens or the neighbourhood. Just drive straight into the garage, and the living areas are usually at the back so you rarely even see the neighbourhood through the windows. Putting out the bins is probably the only time many people spend in their own neighbourhoods (which may explain the appaling state of many of the front yards around me, you don’t see all the weeds when you are just driving past).
People who build like that are probably better of in a good quality apartment, there is no benefit to them having their own land.
I’d hate it more if they built this monstrosity but spent most of their time whooping it up around the outside teppanyaki grill.
Sounds like an area with them faux chateaus. My local council has a mandate of 30 or 35% of the land having greenery, but it sure doesn’t look like people are adhering to it.
Alfie is home with us! Lots of meowing and exploring and already kicking kitty litter everywhere.
yay Alfie 😸
The lift problem has been temporarily patched - workman found a master setting that stops at every floor - and I am home
phew
Hopefully they’ll give advance warning if they need to be taken off line when the repairs get done. Hope they catch whoever did it.
depression rant
I have been so utterly depressed. Everything is a damn effort, and I just cannot seem to motivate myself to do anything that would help me. I hate being self-aware enough to see that I’m not helping myself, but still so affected by depression that that doesn’t motivate me either.
I feel like I’ve wasted my time, with everything, and I still am. That I will never get ahead or be anything worthwhile of anything good. I see others persevering through their hard times and I just can’t. Am I just lazy, even though I want to be better than I am? Am I making this up as an excuse? Am I just destined to never better myself and be even a modicum of successful? My partner has a job, and is dealing with their mental health. Why can’t I? What is wrong with me? Why can’t I be like those with the strength to help themselves? Why do I have this mental block to helping myself???
I know what I need to do, I just needed to vent.
Feels
I’m just gonna counteract this self-judgement by telling you that this could be a freeze trauma response and you did cop a severe trigger recently.
Go easy on yourself.
Shit is demoralising
so many hugs
sometimes depression doesn’t match where we are in life , doesn’t reflect reality, who we are nor reflect our possible futures, it’s not unusual for successful or happy people to suffer depression
but it is very hard to not believe what depression tells us because the voice of depression seems to be our own voice
Ignore the voice, it’s just rogue ideas from who knows where and when. Listen to partner and those who love you.
Another thing is you don’t have to believe in yourself to do things. Just do them.
so many many hugs , you are loved here 🫂🫂🫂
Hard relate. Hang in there 💕
It’s really hard when your brain is what you need and it’s sick. Hugs. May it pass soon.
Incredibly stressful day, and I’m glad its over.
Goodnight all ❤️
good night , sweet dreams
I have been informed that I can’t go home today.
Some dickhead ripped out the scanners in both lifts of my apartment building. Neither lift is functioning, indefinitely
What the fuck? Surely the building has a contingency plan for accessibility?
Having some experience with lifts and servicing, they should have an override option (or maintenance mode) that basically stops at every floor and just cycles through.
Username checks out
Hahah…unrelated and the username was first.
Temporary maintenance mode activated. Apparently the degenerates damaged that backup option too, and that had to be fixed first before anything else.
Still no panels until tomorrow, but they’ve fixed the backup option
I hope they find the culprits and catapult them into cacti
What the fuck!!! Fuck that!!!
If you need to stay at a hotel they’d better be paying you back for that.
oh no
WTF who’s gonna look after Chook?
Hopefully he’s sorted with food and water until you can get in but this isn’t ok
Welcome back YarraByte, it’s good to have you back with us again.
oh dear, Bill put his tail under my desk chair and he got rolled a little by accident , he’s ok but he sure did yeowl loud
Oh no! What a travesty!! 500CC of treats STAT!
I did this to Gibson when she was a kitten and I freaked the fuck out. Rang the emergency vet literally ran down the street with her in the carrier to the vet and they were like “nah she’s fine” lol
I’ve had to train myself to check if Alfie under my chair because he loves to sit under there and watch the birdies and I end up accidentally pulling out chunks of fur… love how it’s the human who learned, not the cat.
I noticed a soft plastics collection bin at my Woolies. Sign said it’s a trial. I’m gonna start collecting plastics again, hopefully they don’t get hoarded in a warehouse again.
I think it’s better the supermarkets pay to keep them in a warehouse than they end up in the ocean. Maybe that will incentivise them to stop wrapping everything in plastic
I’ve been hearing about recycling plastic for a lot of decades and it’s always been a scam, always
find me suspicious
Me too. But even if it’s a scam, having to bear the cost of collecting might put pressure on supermarkets to reduce the ridiculously excess plastic packaging of many products. Better than ratepayers having to foot the bill when local council has to dispose of it.
Dismissed all my alarms because I thought it was Sunday. A benefit of living close to work is I don’t have a mad rush in to work now because of it
Definitely feels more springy than last week. Time to start on the hay fever meds.
Me: Come home from a difficult day dealing with political bullshit, being stuck like a sardine on the train.
Gibson:
Morning. I’m making a hot chocolate and then I’m going to work
Given I called out of work and just ate nearly two steaks, pretty good idea what is off with my brain right now. Fuck this hormonal shit!!
I seem to be completely lacking motivation today. I think I’ll have to try taking the dog for a walk, maybe the wind yesterday blew it down the street and I can find it again out there.
Edit: no motivation to be found out there. I did find some more rubbish blown into my yard though. I might look in some boxes after lunch, maybe it’s fallen into one of them. Possibly with my missing jar of cranberry sauce.
just for today?
I’m having huge lack of motivation for the next few decades
Some of us were put on this earth to dilly dally.
If I hated anything as much as you hate bananas in pyjamas, I think that I’d have the motivation to build a new Great Pyramid
