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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Was chatting at work with a colleague, who is contemplating going into business selling charcoal packages - little one-bbq ones. Completely self sufficient - kindling is included in each pack as part of the base. Pack size is 2 kg or so and the base fits into standard webers/smokers/bbqs and most fire pits. 2 packs fit nicely into a half 44 gallon drum. Looking at using mallee root charcoal or gidgee (my fab fave for charcoal cooking).

    Basically is a complete package that you only need to remove the outer covering and hold a match to the base, wait for the coals to ash up and then get to cooking or whatever.

    He got the idea cos a huuuge 10-15 kg chaff bag of charcoal is usually too much for just one bbq/fire pit and is hard to store cleanly for next time. Specially in an apartment. So a one use only quantity with all included that can be bought as needed rather than stored since the last bbq is the basic concept.

    As test of concept (not sales) - is this the sort of thing anyone here would be interested in? Particularly if you could pick up a pack at a petrol station or supermarket or the like? Would be very interested to pass on your comments.






  • The loos at Parliament station are so hard to access that I can quite see how someone in a hurry would go to the lift at the end of the platform rather than hike up the escalators, fish out their myki, walk a large circle around the barriers, go to the loo, walk back around, fish out myki again and then back down those awful escalators again. The Parliament escalators are famous for bothering people with sensory or balance issues - instant vertigo. The designers got them so wrong that they are now world famous for bad design. I hate those escalators with a passion. I usually end up sitting down on a step and only stand up for the last little bit. God help anyone navigating them with shopping bags and/or small children in tow. They should have put proper loos on each platform, or at least on each level. And good luck FINDING the loos at Melbourne Central.