January 2, 2025 • 20 mins
Ever found yourself captivated by the sound of rain on a tin roof? This cozy chat blends the soothing symphony of rain with the vibrant atmosphere of a bustling neighborhood café. Your friend shares a slice of their life in the Sunshine State, complete with the quirks of Queensland lingo and the comfort of a morning rainstorm that breaks the heat. She chats about local cafe culture, homemade maple macadamia muesli, a day at the cricket, and the charming antics of cockatoos feasting on the macadamias from a tree.
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Jacquie Joy (00:01):
Welcome to the Day-to-Day Podcast, calm
Conversations with a Friend,spoken by Jacquie Joy, and you
are listening to Episode 7.
You decide to check yourmessages.
(00:23):
One new voicemail it's from oneof your friends.
You decide it's time to sitdown, make yourself comfortable
(00:48):
and have a listen.
Hey, I'm sending you some rainsounds from this morning because
I'm hoping it will make youfeel a little cooler.
It sounds like you may be readyfor the heat wave over there.
To finish, it will make yourdaily walks a lot more
(01:11):
comfortable.
I bet we're getting closer tosummer now here, so we're seeing
a lot more rain again, which isalways super welcome to help
cool down our often extremelyhumid days.
Lately we've been getting up to90 plus percent humidity.
(01:35):
Now don't get me wrong.
I do love a humid day and Ilove living in the sunshine
state and walking around in mytogs, but it is actually getting
even a little bit too humid forme at the moment and I'm
(01:55):
finding myself ducking in to theair conditioning after a few
hours outside.
I just realised I used the wordtogs, which I think is a word
that is a Queensland made wordand it means swimsuit, so I
thought I would just translatethat for you.
(02:17):
Anyway, still talking rain,though, we have been getting
morning rain, which I absolutelylove.
There's nothing more relaxingthan laying in bed listening to
the rain, and upstairs ourverandas have tin roofs, which
(02:40):
makes the rain sound even morespecial, which makes the rain
sound even more special.
So thank you so much forsending your latest song through
to me to have a listen to.
I love, love, love andespecially love the lyrics, and
(03:03):
it was super clever how youweaved your very quick-witted
sense of humour in there and ithad me laughing out loud
throughout the song.
You must be so, so happy withhow it's all coming together.
So well done you.
(03:24):
It's all coming together.
So well done you.
Congratulations again, and Ican't wait to hear the next song
.
I've been chatting to Tilly andshe knows how much I love going
to places and taking audio clipsof the ambience of the place.
So earlier in the week she wentto our local cafe and recorded
(03:53):
some audio clips for me.
I'll pass a couple on to you inthis voice message, because one
of the clips even had a how yougoing mate in there, so you can
hear some of the local Aussiesin situ at a cafe.
(04:15):
I'll dig that up just while I'mchatting to you.
Now.
While I'm doing that, I'll tellyou about the cafe.
It is about literally housesaway, probably about eight or
nine houses away, so it is soclose.
But it has become very popularand if you want to get a table
(04:37):
you have to go in there at about7am or you can just get
takeaway.
So, funnily enough, if you arelucky enough to get a table, you
are often guilted into leavingthe table, which happened to
Tilly and I a few weeks ago whenour elderly neighbour, who is
(05:04):
lovely, and her group of friendswere just finishing up after
church and wanted to have acoffee together, and the four of
them stood around us and theysaid they were happy just to
wait there until we were readyto leave.
So of course we decided weshould probably move on.
(05:30):
So it is a very, very popularspot to dine and have coffee,
but it is a little difficult todine in at times.
Most of the seats at this cafe,and at pretty much every cafe in
(05:51):
Brisbane, are outdoor, becausethat's certainly the style of
living we have here, which is abit like LA.
So on to the important thingsthe menu, the menu, and I think
(06:16):
if you were here, you would lovetheir homemade maple, macadamia
muesli and yogurt.
Have you tried macadamia nutsbefore?
They are very Australian and Ilove them when they're covered
in chocolate and I love themwhen they're covered in
chocolate.
We have a macadamia treeactually here at the front of
(06:40):
our house and the cockatoosvisit and love chomping on them.
They have very hard outershells, these macadamia nuts.
The only way you can open themis to hit them with a hammer,
but I think the cockatoos havevery strong beaks and they can
crack them with their beaks.
When they do have a macadamianut fest eating fest it's very
(07:08):
loud and you often hear lots ofrustling and lots of nuts
dropping onto the ground.
They're quite heavy and theydrop onto the tiles here, the
pavers, so there's lots ofclanking noise as the nuts drop.
(07:29):
They're a real treat, macadamianuts.
And so, without further ado, Ihave the cafe audio for you.
Enjoy the authentic how yougoing, mate.
You can also hear a dog in thisaudio.
(08:03):
Cafes are a very popular placefor dogs here and they often
even cater for dogs in theirmenus.
There's always a water bowlwelcoming dogs and usually at
this particular cafe at anygiven time there would be five
(08:23):
or six dogs there with theirowners, we wouldn't take our dog
there, however it would be.
He's still too young.
It would be way too excitingfor him and I don't think we'd
last long sitting down therebefore he would create a little
havoc, happy havoc, but it wouldbe a little crazy, but it would
(08:50):
be a little crazy.
So I know you love food, andgood food at that, and our
Thermomix has been turning ourhouse into a little restaurant,
so I'll share with you, I think,my favorite recipe of the week
this week, which was chosen byour eldest son, cj, and it was
(09:16):
chicken tikka masala.
A great thing about the recipewas we were able to adapt it to
be dairy-free, so we usedcoconut yogurt and it still
tasted absolutely just,flavorsome and fresh.
The masala itself contained somany spices that are really
(09:42):
incredibly well thought out asfar as the amounts of each of
them and how they are combinedtogether to produce this really
depth of flavour.
In the masala they had, ofcourse, turmeric and actually
freshly ground cardamom pods,garlic and ginger paste, which
(10:08):
we both made ahead of time fresh, and we did add a little bit of
chili powder not too much.
There was enough flavor inthere, as is one thing I've
never used or seen used beforein a recipe in my extensive
(10:30):
cooking experience Not, butstill Fenugreek seeds.
I'm not even sure if that's howyou say it, but that's how it
looks like you should say it,and apparently it's a herb
similar to clover and it tastesa bit like maple syrup, but it
(10:55):
really does look like anincredibly healthy ingredient
herb to add into your dishes andapparently it helps with things
like diabetes and menstrualcramps.
So anyway, that was one of themagical little ingredients in
(11:18):
this masala mix.
I know you do like spicy food,but we haven't discussed Indian
food before.
I haven't discussed Indian foodbefore.
I'll send through the recipeanyway, because it is
interesting reading just to seeall of the mixtures of the
spices and herbs in there.
(11:41):
Even if you're not going to planto cook it, it sounds as though
you really enjoyed yourThanksgiving.
I so much love the idea ofgiving thanks and thank you so
much for your friendship as well.
It means a lot and I can't waituntil we can have a few laughs
(12:02):
again in person.
I'm really looking forward tothat.
In Australia we obviously don'tcelebrate Thanksgiving as such,
but the Black Friday sales hereare now huge and seem to be
bigger than our Christmas andBoxing Day sales, and recently
(12:25):
they've also started CyberMonday sales, which seem to be
associated with Thanksgiving aswell, or Thanksgiving timing.
Do you have them there as well?
You probably do, and we're abit behind the times here,
perhaps.
So did you buy anything on salearound that time?
(12:47):
I bought a Pro Toolssubscription finally Just a
basic one, but it can get mestarted and also I bought an
update to complete which I seemto do each year just the Native
Instruments package.
I expect you may have that aswell.
(13:09):
I mean, most working musiciansdo tend to get that collection,
don't they?
And there's a very cool newsynth in there.
I think it's called ConfluxConflux, and it just looks like
it's got some really moderntechie features in it.
(13:31):
So it still blows my mind howmuch synthesizers have changed
over the years, and I'm stillremembering programming my first
one on a very, very oldcomputer.
It's something always I findmagical about electronic music.
Just, there's no limit to thesesounds you can make, and
(13:55):
they're often gorgeous, withlots of reverb and very lush.
So it's like a little toy forme.
I can't wait to play with it.
The football season has finishedhere in Australia, so now we
(14:15):
move into the cricket season,and I know over there you do not
play cricket, so it's prettymuch like baseball.
But there are different formsof cricket and the traditional
form of cricket is called testcricket, which takes up to five
(14:35):
days to play, so it's evenlonger than an NFL game.
So we went to the cricket onthe weekend and the trouble with
the cricket is, if there's acouple of drops of rain,
immediately the covers come out.
And well, actually, the coverscoming out is quite entertaining
(15:02):
and it's a bit like theatre initself, because it is all so
precise and coordinated gettingthe tarpaulin I suppose it's
called over the pitch itself andthen a wider section of the
pitch.
People come and roll the grassfield as well, and so, look,
(15:30):
that is entertaining, and thatis mostly what we saw on
Saturday when we attended forthe day.
Play was actually shut downafter about an hour and a half
and in, in fact, the suburbsaround the Gabba, which is where
(15:50):
the cricket test was beingplayed, suffered flooding.
It was a very large storm event.
However, we were lucky to stayundercover.
Usually, over 100 overs ofcricket are played in a day and
we watched 13 overs and spentthe rest of the day watching the
(16:19):
groundskeepers trying to keepthe field as dry as possible and
just celebrating with peoplearound us and enjoying some time
with the family.
There were 10 of us there, itwas a super relaxed atmosphere
and there were some manygenerous people there who were
(16:42):
offering to buy people drinksand to share food, and so it
turned out to be a mostwonderful day, even though we
didn't actually watch much ofthe cricket.
Now we finally got our Wi-Fiback.
(17:04):
Yay, we've finally invested ina portable modem, so next time,
you know, we get a storm and themodem succumbs to a power surge
, we will be ready.
Not having Wi-Fi, though,always makes you realise how
(17:26):
much we use it now in oureveryday lives, even for just
organising things and also forbasic communication.
This was a time where I wassharing a lot of photos and
media with friends because, asyou know, cj had finished school
(17:53):
, or has finished school, andwas heading off to schoolies.
So I was missing thatcommunication more than usual.
I'll have to tell you a bitmore about what schoolies is
when I chat next, because Idon't think you have it there in
(18:15):
the US.
Anyway, I am now back onlineand have a backup plan for next
time.
But apart from the lack ofcommunication, I did enjoy the
peace of no Wi-Fi.
(18:36):
And, of course, when there's noWi-Fi and it was raining, we had
to look for some alternatefamily entertainment.
So the old board games came out.
I don't know if you have stillgot any board games in your
cupboard, but we had Risk andalso Battleships.
(19:02):
I love a good game ofbattleships, but risk tends to
bring out a real competitivenature in me, so that made for
lots of laughs.
It's such a classic gamealongside Monopoly, so I'm sure
(19:22):
you're probably familiar with it.
Anyway, that's probably enoughfor now.
Congratulations again on yourlatest song.
Best of luck getting throughall of your coursework this week
.
I know you have a lot on yourplate.
(19:45):
I'll speak to you again soonand hope you have a really fun
evening.
Bye for now.
Welcome to the Day-to-Day Podcast, calm
Conversations with a Friend,spoken by Jacquie Joy, and you
are listening to Episode 7.
You decide to check yourmessages.
(00:23):
One new voicemail it's from oneof your friends.
You decide it's time to sitdown, make yourself comfortable
(00:48):
and have a listen.
Hey, I'm sending you some rainsounds from this morning because
I'm hoping it will make youfeel a little cooler.
It sounds like you may be readyfor the heat wave over there.
To finish, it will make yourdaily walks a lot more
(01:11):
comfortable.
I bet we're getting closer tosummer now here, so we're seeing
a lot more rain again, which isalways super welcome to help
cool down our often extremelyhumid days.
Lately we've been getting up to90 plus percent humidity.
(01:35):
Now don't get me wrong.
I do love a humid day and Ilove living in the sunshine
state and walking around in mytogs, but it is actually getting
even a little bit too humid forme at the moment and I'm
(01:55):
finding myself ducking in to theair conditioning after a few
hours outside.
I just realised I used the wordtogs, which I think is a word
that is a Queensland made wordand it means swimsuit, so I
thought I would just translatethat for you.
(02:17):
Anyway, still talking rain,though, we have been getting
morning rain, which I absolutelylove.
There's nothing more relaxingthan laying in bed listening to
the rain, and upstairs ourverandas have tin roofs, which
(02:40):
makes the rain sound even morespecial, which makes the rain
sound even more special.
So thank you so much forsending your latest song through
to me to have a listen to.
I love, love, love andespecially love the lyrics, and
(03:03):
it was super clever how youweaved your very quick-witted
sense of humour in there and ithad me laughing out loud
throughout the song.
You must be so, so happy withhow it's all coming together.
So well done you.
(03:24):
It's all coming together.
So well done you.
Congratulations again, and Ican't wait to hear the next song
.
I've been chatting to Tilly andshe knows how much I love going
to places and taking audio clipsof the ambience of the place.
So earlier in the week she wentto our local cafe and recorded
(03:53):
some audio clips for me.
I'll pass a couple on to you inthis voice message, because one
of the clips even had a how yougoing mate in there, so you can
hear some of the local Aussiesin situ at a cafe.
(04:15):
I'll dig that up just while I'mchatting to you.
Now.
While I'm doing that, I'll tellyou about the cafe.
It is about literally housesaway, probably about eight or
nine houses away, so it is soclose.
But it has become very popularand if you want to get a table
(04:37):
you have to go in there at about7am or you can just get
takeaway.
So, funnily enough, if you arelucky enough to get a table, you
are often guilted into leavingthe table, which happened to
Tilly and I a few weeks ago whenour elderly neighbour, who is
(05:04):
lovely, and her group of friendswere just finishing up after
church and wanted to have acoffee together, and the four of
them stood around us and theysaid they were happy just to
wait there until we were readyto leave.
So of course we decided weshould probably move on.
(05:30):
So it is a very, very popularspot to dine and have coffee,
but it is a little difficult todine in at times.
Most of the seats at this cafe,and at pretty much every cafe in
(05:51):
Brisbane, are outdoor, becausethat's certainly the style of
living we have here, which is abit like LA.
So on to the important thingsthe menu, the menu, and I think
(06:16):
if you were here, you would lovetheir homemade maple, macadamia
muesli and yogurt.
Have you tried macadamia nutsbefore?
They are very Australian and Ilove them when they're covered
in chocolate and I love themwhen they're covered in
chocolate.
We have a macadamia treeactually here at the front of
(06:40):
our house and the cockatoosvisit and love chomping on them.
They have very hard outershells, these macadamia nuts.
The only way you can open themis to hit them with a hammer,
but I think the cockatoos havevery strong beaks and they can
crack them with their beaks.
When they do have a macadamianut fest eating fest it's very
(07:08):
loud and you often hear lots ofrustling and lots of nuts
dropping onto the ground.
They're quite heavy and theydrop onto the tiles here, the
pavers, so there's lots ofclanking noise as the nuts drop.
(07:29):
They're a real treat, macadamianuts.
And so, without further ado, Ihave the cafe audio for you.
Enjoy the authentic how yougoing, mate.
You can also hear a dog in thisaudio.
(08:03):
Cafes are a very popular placefor dogs here and they often
even cater for dogs in theirmenus.
There's always a water bowlwelcoming dogs and usually at
this particular cafe at anygiven time there would be five
(08:23):
or six dogs there with theirowners, we wouldn't take our dog
there, however it would be.
He's still too young.
It would be way too excitingfor him and I don't think we'd
last long sitting down therebefore he would create a little
havoc, happy havoc, but it wouldbe a little crazy, but it would
(08:50):
be a little crazy.
So I know you love food, andgood food at that, and our
Thermomix has been turning ourhouse into a little restaurant,
so I'll share with you, I think,my favorite recipe of the week
this week, which was chosen byour eldest son, cj, and it was
(09:16):
chicken tikka masala.
A great thing about the recipewas we were able to adapt it to
be dairy-free, so we usedcoconut yogurt and it still
tasted absolutely just,flavorsome and fresh.
The masala itself contained somany spices that are really
(09:42):
incredibly well thought out asfar as the amounts of each of
them and how they are combinedtogether to produce this really
depth of flavour.
In the masala they had, ofcourse, turmeric and actually
freshly ground cardamom pods,garlic and ginger paste, which
(10:08):
we both made ahead of time fresh, and we did add a little bit of
chili powder not too much.
There was enough flavor inthere, as is one thing I've
never used or seen used beforein a recipe in my extensive
(10:30):
cooking experience Not, butstill Fenugreek seeds.
I'm not even sure if that's howyou say it, but that's how it
looks like you should say it,and apparently it's a herb
similar to clover and it tastesa bit like maple syrup, but it
(10:55):
really does look like anincredibly healthy ingredient
herb to add into your dishes andapparently it helps with things
like diabetes and menstrualcramps.
So anyway, that was one of themagical little ingredients in
(11:18):
this masala mix.
I know you do like spicy food,but we haven't discussed Indian
food before.
I haven't discussed Indian foodbefore.
I'll send through the recipeanyway, because it is
interesting reading just to seeall of the mixtures of the
spices and herbs in there.
(11:41):
Even if you're not going to planto cook it, it sounds as though
you really enjoyed yourThanksgiving.
I so much love the idea ofgiving thanks and thank you so
much for your friendship as well.
It means a lot and I can't waituntil we can have a few laughs
(12:02):
again in person.
I'm really looking forward tothat.
In Australia we obviously don'tcelebrate Thanksgiving as such,
but the Black Friday sales hereare now huge and seem to be
bigger than our Christmas andBoxing Day sales, and recently
(12:25):
they've also started CyberMonday sales, which seem to be
associated with Thanksgiving aswell, or Thanksgiving timing.
Do you have them there as well?
You probably do, and we're abit behind the times here,
perhaps.
So did you buy anything on salearound that time?
(12:47):
I bought a Pro Toolssubscription finally Just a
basic one, but it can get mestarted and also I bought an
update to complete which I seemto do each year just the Native
Instruments package.
I expect you may have that aswell.
(13:09):
I mean, most working musiciansdo tend to get that collection,
don't they?
And there's a very cool newsynth in there.
I think it's called ConfluxConflux, and it just looks like
it's got some really moderntechie features in it.
(13:31):
So it still blows my mind howmuch synthesizers have changed
over the years, and I'm stillremembering programming my first
one on a very, very oldcomputer.
It's something always I findmagical about electronic music.
Just, there's no limit to thesesounds you can make, and
(13:55):
they're often gorgeous, withlots of reverb and very lush.
So it's like a little toy forme.
I can't wait to play with it.
The football season has finishedhere in Australia, so now we
(14:15):
move into the cricket season,and I know over there you do not
play cricket, so it's prettymuch like baseball.
But there are different formsof cricket and the traditional
form of cricket is called testcricket, which takes up to five
(14:35):
days to play, so it's evenlonger than an NFL game.
So we went to the cricket onthe weekend and the trouble with
the cricket is, if there's acouple of drops of rain,
immediately the covers come out.
And well, actually, the coverscoming out is quite entertaining
(15:02):
and it's a bit like theatre initself, because it is all so
precise and coordinated gettingthe tarpaulin I suppose it's
called over the pitch itself andthen a wider section of the
pitch.
People come and roll the grassfield as well, and so, look,
(15:30):
that is entertaining, and thatis mostly what we saw on
Saturday when we attended forthe day.
Play was actually shut downafter about an hour and a half
and in, in fact, the suburbsaround the Gabba, which is where
(15:50):
the cricket test was beingplayed, suffered flooding.
It was a very large storm event.
However, we were lucky to stayundercover.
Usually, over 100 overs ofcricket are played in a day and
we watched 13 overs and spentthe rest of the day watching the
(16:19):
groundskeepers trying to keepthe field as dry as possible and
just celebrating with peoplearound us and enjoying some time
with the family.
There were 10 of us there, itwas a super relaxed atmosphere
and there were some manygenerous people there who were
(16:42):
offering to buy people drinksand to share food, and so it
turned out to be a mostwonderful day, even though we
didn't actually watch much ofthe cricket.
Now we finally got our Wi-Fiback.
(17:04):
Yay, we've finally invested ina portable modem, so next time,
you know, we get a storm and themodem succumbs to a power surge
, we will be ready.
Not having Wi-Fi, though,always makes you realise how
(17:26):
much we use it now in oureveryday lives, even for just
organising things and also forbasic communication.
This was a time where I wassharing a lot of photos and
media with friends because, asyou know, cj had finished school
(17:53):
, or has finished school, andwas heading off to schoolies.
So I was missing thatcommunication more than usual.
I'll have to tell you a bitmore about what schoolies is
when I chat next, because Idon't think you have it there in
(18:15):
the US.
Anyway, I am now back onlineand have a backup plan for next
time.
But apart from the lack ofcommunication, I did enjoy the
peace of no Wi-Fi.
(18:36):
And, of course, when there's noWi-Fi and it was raining, we had
to look for some alternatefamily entertainment.
So the old board games came out.
I don't know if you have stillgot any board games in your
cupboard, but we had Risk andalso Battleships.
(19:02):
I love a good game ofbattleships, but risk tends to
bring out a real competitivenature in me, so that made for
lots of laughs.
It's such a classic gamealongside Monopoly, so I'm sure
(19:22):
you're probably familiar with it.
Anyway, that's probably enoughfor now.
Congratulations again on yourlatest song.
Best of luck getting throughall of your coursework this week
.
I know you have a lot on yourplate.
(19:45):
I'll speak to you again soonand hope you have a really fun
evening.
Bye for now.
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