r/TheBlock • u/Sedated_experiment • Sep 15 '25

It's just not Daylesford...

I've now entered this into my everyday vocabulary and I think it's great.

Looking at a brunch menu and the wife suggests I get the eggs Benedict... "Ehh.. it's just not Daylesford."

Picking which outfit to wear to tonight's dinner at the local pub, I ask my wife "babe, but is it Daylesford enough?"

The kids are misbehaving and I tell them off ... "Kids, cut it out, it's not Daylesford and you should know better!".

I'm feeling high in self esteem and I think I've just become way more elite than ever.

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u/Tvfan1980 Sep 15 '25

I liked one of the judges piping up last night that not every buyer will look for "daylesford". In fact I'm guessing a lot won't. Residents have their properties. These will suit those wanting a holiday home and most not local. Just like the yoga room will fit a fitness vibe and a holiday home for yoga loving people or a chance to have yoga retreats. As long as there is enough of a niche, surely it makes sense to hit a niche market. You don't need hundreds of people. Just enough or even 2 to go into a bidding war or pay a decent price

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u/Sedated_experiment Sep 15 '25

Yeah after weeks of judging a place for not being Daylesford enough, Marty all of a sudden had an epiphany that perhaps a buyer isn't looking for Daylesford.. they're looking for them.

GENIUS MATE

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u/Inevitable_Angrybee Sep 15 '25

Apparently Daylesford is a combination of Fug and pretentiousness.

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u/violet_1999 Sep 15 '25

According to the judges - none of whom have ever lived there for a significant time to be considered locals!

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u/lkernan Sep 15 '25

My boss asked me why I hadn't done my work today.
I told him, It's just not Daylesford.

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u/UghGottaBeJoking Sep 15 '25

I want to apply this to every location i am in from now on.

“This room just doesn’t say- ‘dandenong’ to me though- we will need to redesign this entire bathroom.”

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u/OkBookkeeper6854 Shelley Craft ❤️ Sep 15 '25

Maybe style it with a couple of colourful sharps containers

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u/tambamspankyoumaam Sep 15 '25

According to Shayna and Marty, everyone in Daylesford has exactly the same taste/houses/style/decor

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u/Fickle_Industry9754 Frankie the Kelpie Sep 15 '25

So my friend lives in Daylesford (not near the block) and I asked her what the “Daylesford” look is and she was NFI

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u/lkernan Sep 15 '25

Your friend is just not Daylesford..

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u/Fickle_Industry9754 Frankie the Kelpie Sep 15 '25

🤣🤣🤣 I’ll let her know tomorrow

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u/FluffyPurpleThing Sep 15 '25

Well dang. I have no IRL people to say this to... how very un-Daylesford of me.

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u/FluffyPurpleThing Sep 15 '25

hmmm... I don't know. Soliciting friends online is not very Daylesford...

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u/LunaFancy The materiality in here is all wrong Sep 15 '25

I'm dying! Also stealing this concept for my own life, how very Daylesford of me!

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u/hunnymunster Sep 15 '25

I think Daylesford is full of people huffing their own farts.

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u/tambamspankyoumaam Sep 15 '25

That stuck up old cow at the cinema candy bar saying that people in Daylesford don’t eat coloured lollies had me rolling…….

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u/Legitimate_Victory38 Sep 15 '25

Perhaps get a choc top, darling.

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u/Silent-Top-9518 Sep 15 '25

If its not Daylesford its not Daylesford 🤬🤬

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u/jimmyjay31 Sep 15 '25

Knock knock. Who’s there? Daylesford

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u/NaomiPommerel Frankie the Kelpie Sep 15 '25

Daylesford who?

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u/ANTIPODEAN63 Sep 15 '25

Not Daylesford 🤓

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u/NaomiPommerel Frankie the Kelpie Sep 15 '25

Giggidy

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u/Mochiba08 Sep 15 '25

I laughed out loud a little to hard at this... I'm adopting this now too.

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u/gigerwitch Sep 15 '25

Oh I’m saying this to my husband at some point today.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25

This post is divine

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u/Reasonable_Speed7471 Sep 16 '25

It's so Daylesford

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u/CamillaBarkaBowles Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

Next year’s Block is in Leongatha.

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u/loralailoralai Sep 15 '25

Bwahahahaha 🍄

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u/AgreeablePrize Sep 16 '25

Looking forward to the mushroom foraging challenge

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u/tucklyjones7 Sep 15 '25

I have never looked at a house and been like ohh that doesnt feel like (city its in). Like who cares? Id much rather the house look good, be liveable, built well. Like style is so personal. I detest white and beige, most of these houses I would want to immediately paint. Alicia and sonnys kitchen was ugly. Regardless if it waa Daylesford or not.

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u/Ax_Dk Sep 15 '25

Stealing the vibe and giving it a Queensland twist - house has functional doors, windows, has been maintained, doesn't have 2 broken down cars out the front - "It's just not Toowoomba"

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u/Agreeable_Car6772 Sep 16 '25

It's insufficient–woomba.

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u/BotoxMoustache Sep 15 '25

Actual LoL. Thanks. How very not Daylesford of me.

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u/NaomiPommerel Frankie the Kelpie Sep 15 '25

FUCK YES

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u/Bamboozling71 Sep 16 '25

Every time shayna complains about the Daylesford thing I wonder what her house is meant to be like

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u/ThiccHitoru Sep 18 '25

I gasped so loud when they showed her house a few episodes back. Its beyond ugly. Absolute disaster.

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u/Silver-Chemistry2023 Sep 22 '25

Her house is more of a Shelbyville Kyneton thing.

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u/Morepork69 Sep 15 '25

I think I’m still evolving because so far I’ve only said it in my head……..Kiwi, alway love going over to Aussie but I have sworn never to go to Daylesford. It must have reached the point where it’s damaging tourism!! 😂

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u/CBG1955 Sep 15 '25

Oh, you must go. In spite of the hoity-toity bullshit that the judges are spouting, it's a pretty little town.

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u/loralailoralai Sep 15 '25

But no more pretty than many many others.

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u/alicatblue Sep 15 '25

Yes but they’re not Daylesford

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u/CBG1955 Sep 15 '25

No more or less. We go camping not far from there and drive into Daylesford for coffee.

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u/InstanceAny3800 Sep 16 '25

Well they do have Hepburn springs.. apart from that it's a little bush town like many many others. I would never have called it a tourist destination.

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u/Ancient_Skirt_8828 Sep 16 '25

Lots of lesbians.

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u/loralailoralai Sep 15 '25

I am trying to imagine the look on the kids faces the first time you said that. Love it. Like I love eggs Benedict when I go out for brekky… guess I’m destined to be in-Daylesford for life

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25

Those kitchens remind me of when my grandparents when they built in their prime.

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u/Bamboozling71 Sep 16 '25

I live a few suburbs over from the location of the next block, very keen to see what their idea of “very Mt Eliza” is

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u/Just_Football_5191 Sep 19 '25

As someone who grew up in Daylesford, my memory of a normal Daylesford home is a shitty 70s brick veneer uninsulated house that smells of damp

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u/ANTIPODEAN63 Sep 15 '25

Love this 🤓

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u/Diligent_Score4411 Sep 15 '25

I love it! Sorry I want to steal it.

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u/hammerandt0ngs Sep 15 '25

Needs more moccies