I don’t like bragging, but this is shortlived so I’m gonna own it.
I got my other assignment back yesterday.
Again.
I thought I was looking at the previous one. But nope. 2 x 92’s in a row. Couldn’t believe it.
Smashing it! Nice!
Thanks!
excellent ☕
Just had a slightly tearful goodbye meeting where they brought in some old colleagues too for my goodbye. Have handed in all my gear and am off to the pub while I wait for other peeps to finish and join me! Feeling.
Aw! I hope you have a good night! I’m sure you’ll stay friends with them! 💜💜
I bought a tin of sardines in your honour 🥲
so many hugs 🫂🫂🫂
Cheers! 🍻
Im drunk and I’m going to bed. Most of y’all are pretty cool and i hope the greebles don’t get you tonight
Merry Christmas Force 🎄
Miss Meow caught all the greebles earlies tonight, so I should be alright. Sleep well, I’ve heard greebles don’t bother drunk people, so you should be fine too.
I sedated the Grue, you may turn the lights out
No greebles here.
sweet dreams
Update on the diverse lifestyle magpies in my street, as of last night. Old Mrs magpie has moved 3 streets over and found a new (male) mate known to all as the Admiral (a long term resident), but still enjoys rolled oats from my hand. She hasn’t built a nest yet. Young Mrs magpie has taken a young male mate (as yet unnamed by us), and has built a nest just over the road in a street tree. It’s too far up to see if there are eggs yet, but we can hope. The young male, who is a complete dill and alternates between doing his duty by feeding young Mrs magpie, and begging food from her. He doesn’t take food from humans yet, though young Mrs magpie has started doing so for the first time just a week ago. We think he’s still learning how to do husbanding properly, but as he’s less than 2 years old that’s not surprising. Young Mrs magpie is also about 2 years old. Will keep you all updated on this teenage romance.
I’m keen on magpie love story updates.
Interestingly there’s pair down the bellarine and only the female will eat from my hand. The male wants absolutely nothing to do with me.
Cuteeee! This could be a TV series
Id watch this.
I’ve had a wonderful start to the week. Since it’s book week I got invited to a couple of schools. I did some talking about my books and writing and read a couple of chapters to kids from grades 3/4 and 5/6. I asked the kids if they liked scary stories, and then what scary stories they like and one kid said ‘Revenge of the Flightless’ which had me all teary-eyed.
Also scored a box of chocolates.
Yesterday I was a ‘celebrity’ reader for another school so I read a couple of chapters to about 40 kids who mostly seemed enthralled (though I am sure I heard one kid whispering ‘this is boring’ lol). And after that I did a writing workshop. I thought I’d get like 5 kids interested, but had 30. It was like my own classroom and we started thinking about stories and how we write them and I got them to talk about scary experiences in their lives and how we can use them as ideas for stories, creating characters and all that. It was really fun.
I got the 92 on my assignment.
I was also told that the librarian at my daughters school (who recently bought my books for their library) is reading them and really likes them.
This morning I got a message from the parent of one of the kids in the workshop thanking me for doing it and how her son came home talking about it, and being confident in sharing his work (I mentioned at the end to not be afraid of sharing their work with friends and family and how it took me 35 years to have that courage).
And finally, I volunteered to read in my daughters class this morning (not my books) and I got to see a glimpse of how classrooms look and work before I got to read. It went well which was good and my daughters face was priceless (despite her asking me to do it).
So all in all a damn good week so far.
There was a lovely story yesterday about a Jack Russell who alerted a neighbour that her owner was having a medical emergency and basically saved the owners life.
My husband: Gee some dogs are smart. Some have jobs and do some remarkable stuff. Your dog eats tissues.
Our JRT protects the child from the vacuum cleaner with such ferocity we have teeth marks in the dyson. But she had a mouse friend living in the cupboard beside her bed and she even shared her food.
Oh yes. The deadly vacuum. Also the lawn mower, the wipper snipper and any remote control toys the man owns.
And the wheelie bin wheels!
One of my dogs would be very sad. He would lay with me untill someone found me. The other would take a leg for the bone the second I went down on the ground.
😂
Your dog eats tissues
Sounds like doggo needs to meet gibson so they can debate which paper is best.
He’s not interested in the tissue. More the goodies that are hiding in a used one.
Snot gobbler.
You can eat tissues AND save lives! Everyone needs a hobby
Back home now after work.
Don’t forget to get petrol folks. Price is expected to go up in the next few days.
Also to end the day I was greeted by this after it rained.
Thanks for the petrol reminder - just about time as I’m down to maybe 10%, pay day this week, so perfect timing to fill up.
If you need more time and peace of mind about petrol and don’t mind using the 7-11 app and having an account for it you can fuel price lock in a price of your nearest 7-11s in your area for a week.
I should have tidied up my stationery earlier - I found $100!!!
I recall a couple of years ago thinking I must have been overly optimistic in my estimates of how much money I had received from selling some of my stuff, I guess I was right after all. Shoving my cash inside a random notebook until I could put it in the bank seemed like a good idea at the time.
You got paid for cleaning!
winning 🙂
Can someone tell me what planet is in retrograde or why I have such random anxiety today? There’s no reason but it’s been shocking all day. I had a great night’s sleep last night too…
I just did a tarot reading for my partner lol this is weird to see this.
I blame the weather tbh, I haven’t been able to breathe through my nose since the flowers bloomed and I’ve been quite shitty since
Yeah I am loaded up on antihistamines but I’ve still be generally itchy and off. Maybe it is that. And the full moon!
That damn man in the moon messing with our auras and chakras -shakes fist at sky-
Throw a fist full of crystals at the fucker!
It’s either anxiety or just an off feeling all day here too.
what planet is in retrograde
Earth
But seriously it could be changing seasons or everything just kind of being stressful
I’ve taken today off to look after the boys. It will be nice to look after them properly instead of trying to watch them whilst tethered to a laptop
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If you have the bench space get a countertop dishwasher. Highly recommend. Life changing.
Those milk crate sized things?
Yeah that’s the one.
When I’m at work (food manufacturing) I don’t mind because I’m getting paid for it, so when I’m doing it at home it seems an especially thankless task!
I always splash myself like an idiot
I don’t mind doing the dishes and cleaning the kitchen. I hate putting the dishes away.
Worse chore than cleaning the loo. Hate it!
Me too. Its endless. I try to minimise creating them when cooking but they spawn anyway from whichever circle of hell they arise from. Forever. Until death do us part. Or maybe not, if that’s the particular hell I get assigned to in the afterlife.
Morning all
Good morning, good morning, its … cornflake time!
Great, now for some reason I have Cornflake Girl by Tori Amos stuck in my head :P
Stupid brain.
Flaming Lips in Feb - secured. Let’s go
That’s a nostalgia hit!
I think I know what Friday night’s theme will be!
omg omg omg, that’s awesome, they are such fun
you will have a great time 👍
The new double edge razor brush for cats has already removed 4 knots from Ted, the annoying one under his chin too. Poor little guy, he didn’t ask for all that fur. ( I have to wear gloves or Ted shreds me )
Ted shreds me
Love shreds. Deep down he knows you’re only trying to help.
I know, he doesn’t move or run, he even rolls over a bit to get his tummy done.
There is something triggering him as he hates hands. I suspect he has beaten. 😿
I didn’t have crying for a cat I don’t even know on today’s bingo card, but here I am.
My brain is not working today. Totally zonked out. Must.focus.on.work.
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nah nap time