Dr Susie Walsh

Guess what?
You don't have to actually have to go to all of the Christmas parties.

Seriously, you don't.

It's ok to slow down, stay in, keep it simple. 💜

Emergency Warning: Nimbin Road Fire, Koolewong (Central Coast LGA) - Seek Shelter Now: Phegans Bay and Woy Woy Bay Road area The fire burning in the vicinity of Nimbin Road has spotted across the water and is now burning in the vicinity of Woy Woy Bay Rd, Phegans Bay. If you are in the Phegans Bay and Woy Woy Bay Rd areas, you are in danger. Seek shelter now, or as the fire approaches. It is too late to leave. For more information, visit thew.rfs.nsw.gov.au

Emergency Warning - Koolewong, Central Coast NSW. 4.20pm Sat 6 December.
#Bushfires

LOL...It happened. They gave him the made up peace prize.

Also no chance Trump can explain the offside rule.

#FIFA
#WorldCup

Large Skip Bin parked in the back lane.

Assorted broken down timber and rubbish.

It's "Fill The Skip Bin" day! It's going to be stinking hot here in 4-6 hrs time, so we better get cracking.

There are vile people.
There are evil people.
And then there's Sean Combs, a vile *and* evil person. Also an insecure violent psychopath.

Just finished watching "Sean Combs: The Reckoning". #Netflix

CW: Watch with care...the two jury members will make your blood boil.

Rupert Murdoch and I'll forgo presents forever...

Current temperature in Braidwood NSW 6.5°C the "feels like" temperature is 4.1°C.

FFS...
First day of summer.

#FeckingFreezing

Fabulous!

Fifth day in a row of roaring wind and gusts here. Last week we had temps up to 33°, and it's going to drop down to 3° tonight.
Humans, animals, and tomato plants are OVER IT...

Coal in a holiday jumper. Coal is a large black Maine Coon cat

Festive!

Murdery, but festive!

In Australia when @darthbluesky.bsky.social hibernates it's called "Summertime Sadness Season".
See you when you emerge darth. 💗

Susie, wearing firefighter uniform and helmet. Also wearing an N95 mask. In the background is a RFS truck and another Firefighter.

Group of volunteer firefighters refilling the water tank on the truck from a creek.

Rain, hail, or shine - Braidwood Rural Fire Service training this afternoon was slightly on the soggy side but worth practising skills no matter the weather...

#NSWRFS
#Volunteering

If someone knits or crochets you a blanket or sweater, they want to keep you warm AND they dedicated many hours of their lives to making it for you.

There's no profit in fiber arts, not when you can get a machine made at Target for 30 bucks. So know fiber artists making for you? Is an act of love.

A screenshot with a photograph of a light brown cat whose smooshed face has the effect of making him look grumpy. In the blurry distance is a drawing of this same cat, with a sadder expression. Under the photo, text reads: "Meet Gary, the cat who ended a friendship and cost $25,000 in legal fees" A calligraphic "I" (the logo of the Philadelphia Inquirer) is in the bottom right corner of the image.

Amazing, no notes, I do not desire to learn anything else about this story, for it would only detract from the perfection on this headline.

50 Years of Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ (Gift Article) In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.

The New York Times devoted 4 full pages this morning to the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith’s landmark album, “Horses,” with commentary on all 8 tracks from Michael Stipe, Florence Welch, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, and others. Read it online here (gift article):

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

OMG! I just got off the plane in Asheville and RFK Jr. Was boarding and someone passed by him and said “quack”

Photo taken from the driver's seat while sitting in an automatic car wash bay. The windscreen is sudsy. A McDonald's takeaway bag is also in shot.

Eating Macca's while sitting in the Jeep getting an automatic car wash is peak adulting.

#YoureNotTheBossOfMe

The Pacific Ocean from a beach near Batemans Bay.

My white legs. Jeans rolled up and wet sand on my bare feet.

Went and touched and tasted the ocean today.

Looked good.
Smelt good.
Still a bit too salty tho.

Trump stands behind the Resolute desk, while others attend to a man who has collapsed on the floor.

Trump Pivots To Non-Interventionism...

This is the most #AusPol story in an era of truly borked #AusPol stories.

Bravo Asher - you deserve peace of mind and a safe work environment.

Trump ally Infantino to award first Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw in DC Fifa unveils a new Peace Prize to be awarded at the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington, citing a mission to honor efforts to end conflict

LOL...Trump is going to be awarded this.

However...
The winner should only receive it if they can coherently and succinctly explain the offside rule.

In my scoughts are thattered era...again

#AutisticBurnout

Lady Dedlock looks imperiously at her visitor when the servant has left the room, casting her eyes over him from head to foot. She suffers him to stand by the door and asks him what he wants. "That your ladyship would have the kindness to oblige me with a little conversation," returns Mr. Guppy, embarrassed. "You are, of course, the person who has written me so many letters?" "Several, your ladyship. Several before your ladyship condescended to favour me with an answer." "And could you not take the same means of rendering a Conversation unnecessary? Can you not still?"

Charles Dickens was the originator of "this meeting could have been an email"...

#BookSky
#BleakHouse

Evie, a Bengal cat with green eyes laying down horns (her stabby stabby claws showing) and her tongue sticking out.

Evie...

Pupdate - Ruby undid the zipper of a beanbag, including breaking the stiching we put in so that wouldn't happen. Of course the ceiling fans were on at the time.

So what have you lot been up to for the last two hours? 🤣

Roaring wind and roof rattling gusts here at the moment.

Hope the tired old big eucalyptus in the front yard stays upright.

This unsettled weather has really unraveled me lately.

Um, that looks like a Colles' fracture - scored one of those when I fell off playground equipment circa 1975.
Six weeks in plaster 😬.

A green plastic seed raising tray filled with soil and tomato seeds.

Tomato seeds planted! Seeds saved by my husband from last season's bumper harvest. We've planted late to dodge the frosts...so fingers crossed.