::: spoiler drove to a dark scary road for aurora viewing

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Doing a donation of items to the shelter I got Toby from this weekend. I prefer to donate physical items, so reached out to them to see what they needed. Have got some rabbit food, kong toys to stuff and freeze, cooling mats, will go out tomorrow and buy some blankets and basic training treats. Am preparing myself for the waterworks from myself.

Well that was a disaster. I tried to heat up a container of purchased fried rice for din dins. Something in it had a hard shell, and esploded all over the microwave. Not on my bucket list for Thursday night - cleaning the microwave including picking rice out of the ventilation grids. The less said about the state of the turntable the better. I didn't know takeaway food containers could actually melt but this one did. Will not be purchasing from that outlet again. On the plus side - I now have a spotlessly clean microwave oven. And every reason to do something in the airfryer for dins.

Recommendations for covid cures solicited! Vaguely sensible things, not vinegar up yah clachah/s who am I kidding? Daft ideas go

Leaving earlier and finishing earlier is definitely the go. Way less people on the train both ways.

Have a great day everyone ❤️

Since Nellie has decided to leave for a wifi-less locale, perhaps this specimen might be a new mascot

Chill day. Bit quiet because the guy I'm eventually taking over from has been under the pump.

BBQ after work tomorrow is pretty chill though.

Just wish I lived closer to work

::: spoiler 1am pork crackling? Don't mind if I do! :::

Sky pretty. And maybe an aurora later.

One great thing about getting older is my memory seems to be going.... what's the positive you say? Well, tonight it means that I realised I totally forgot I love Spoon and that seeing them play this live and the whole crowd just going nuts is a pretty fucking good memory. Hardest Cut

Garden work is finally complete. I am going to celebrate with a shower and then veg on the sofa for the afternoon.

::: spoiler A lot of dirt was moved. Pigeons supervised, but refused to help :::

::: spoiler The back yard looks even more patchy than when I started, but should improve once the grass grows in. :::

I think if I top dress the grass again in Autumn I can fill in the lower spots a bit more, and the extra sand should help with drainage and hopefully I won't have the wet spots that hold water after rain.

I’m gonna go try and have a short walk to shock them bones. Hopefully there will be no unsavoury incidents

I planned on washing the doona cover but someone has other plans. Do I kick him off?

All I've been doing these days is drinking tea and trying to get the uni shit done. Have made plans for next week to leave the house for reasons other than work so I have to get shit done faster. Let's see if this works. Spoiler: it won't.

Paaaaaakij

Just cracked a Christmas ginger beer 🎅

Last minit catch up with partners friends from Perth, they've just bought a house here.

Looking forward to the nearby house parties they're known to do 🤘

Have you seen the GabeCube announced by Valve today? Interesting things happening in the world of PC gaming right now

Hmmm… the results of my bone density scans were not good.

Lately it just isn’t coming up Melbhouse

so tired

early night again, good night everyone, sweet dreams, 😘

I have achieved pizza, to make up for a disappointing pakij experience - a power meter widget, very boring

sleep driving me crazy ...lol

I am sleeping so well now there is no back pain and I can sleep in any position. Comfort now means comfort, not least pain.

but I wake up 5 hours later 👀👀👀

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Listening to the documentary of BBC Radio I have heard many interviews, many voices, many real time recordings of events I have never heard before.

On side 3 I heard Howard Carter interviewed, Hitler and Mussolini speaking, the first Bing Crosby, the Announcement of War by Chamberlain, real sound recordings and reporting of the Blitz of London, Vera Lynn speaking on the radio, Churchill's announcement of the fall of France.

It was fascinating and engrossing.

nearly all today's garden tasks done, just didn't move a big pot, too heavy, and couldn't repot another because the plant is too big for the pot I had for it. But so much cleaning up done, filled the two garden bins again!

Tomorrow I have to shop for some Australiana for the Young Seagoons and friends. I am excite. :) 😊😭

3rd post in a row!

London Calling.

Now I get the song. The world is ending and that's how it felt in the 80s.

another day, another ban from Reddit.

Who knew asking for reliable sources would get me banned!

My body feels like I got hit by a truck. But mentally I’m really understimulated.

chewing furniture

I have a huge list of garden chores, most chores are very small and easy. I will do those first otherwise, overwhelm.

Staying up late for the sake of staying up late.

It's a beautiful sunny day to sit and watch the remaining cypress trees fall.

The weather forecast says mostly cloudy, but someone forgot to tell the clouds. I got to an early start today, the dog has been walked, breakfast eaten, I have watered the front nature strip and moved about 6 carts of dirt so far. I think of moving the dirt as an arm strengthening exercise, but it's really a whole body thing. Every shovel full also involves squats and bracing all the core muscles. Which means everything should hurt tomorrow, not just the arms!

Edit: looks like the clouds were no available, the forecast has been changed to mostly sunny. I've moved another bunch of soil, at the rate I'm going I might even get finished by lunchtime.