That makes me think of that ancient joke about Ita and several super heroes ending with the line "You're Thor, I can hardly pith"

She is heaven sent 🙏

I was pretty not OK when I woke up this morning, having come home at 3am and slept past pain meds time, and in a position it took many painful manoeuvres to get out of. Had to get a friend over to sit me up!!
But all drugged up and much better now 🙏

Oh yes, let's...how lovely! And how very global that you would be my first real life encounter with a friend from social media 😁

Have to squeeze in a friend in Kent, ancestry in Orkney, former exchange student in Annecy Fr, possible hop over to Sweden for another friend, but mostly relaxing (I hope) with my son
& extended fam in Amsterdam and Vught. All very nebulous date-wise at this point, but we are *all working on it 😁

Hey Margaret, all being well I will be hitting your neck of the woods this year in July/August! Wheeeee!🤗

My cousin was near her due date with twin boys (planned caesarian) and came down with strep throat. Begged for antibiotics for the babies. She survived, one twin did not. Was the subject of a very protected legal battle.

Funny you should say that.
I'm in emergency with a seized back.

And if you use it to commute it can send you down streets you never knew existed 😏

Winston Churchill's funeral, the two Kennedy assassinations, Ronald Ryan hanging, and reading articles about the UK Moors Murders in the evening Herald aloud to Mum while she cooked to practice reading at age 5 😬

Irresistible little face 🤗

Absolutely! Won't happen in my lifetime unfortunately.

Hmmm. Flemington "pivoting" away from horse racing finally?

And I love fried cheese!

Made from girders according to the advertising lol. Looks like rusty water, so it's definitely possible 🤢

Not quite that Scottish apparently. And I loathe Irn Bru!

And just a smidge 🤏 of Scots ancestry.

I certainly wouldn't waste petrol to get chocolate! I can be standing in the lolly aisle and still go meh...
I blame Cadbury's, it's not the same as it used to be 😖
As for the tinned fish...I guess I need more calcium 🤷

He'd have my vote!

My daughter often says she wished she were just dumb enough not to be horrified by everything around her.

I've recently returned to my small country town after caring for family in Melbourne. My most used phrase (although I'll admit not ALWAYS out loud) the past couple of months is "where did you hear THAT bullshit?"

I've never liked it (sorry Amy😉) and I think scab fits perfectly. And using the word scab may even remind people of the importance of being unionised!

It's taken a while, especially since his wife died, to convince him "independence" isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be, but he's so much less anxious now he's moved, and is enjoying the company (probably more so than his hermit daughter would 😄)

Following that train of thought.. they do kind of think of them if there's a buck to be made in exploiting their needs. I'm so, so lucky I've been able to move Dad up near my country home, into a community run nursing home. Under the close scrutiny of a country community things are very different!

That's only if they bother to think of them at all!

Totally smokin'!
Actually a woman, & only barely apologetic when I made it clear I wasn't one of her usual elderly residents, who were brought up to "respect authority" & often embarrassed to even ask for help, pitifully grateful for the little they received. It almost became my FT job advocating!

Nope, it really isn't. At the time I'd just transitioned from cleaning top end tourist accommodation around here (most sold off during lockdowns) to cleaning for a few local NDIS clients. It was much better money so I made sure I earned every penny, but I saw that not everyone was as diligent 🤨

My Dad's "local" council representative (cheers, Jeff Kennett 🤬) had the cheek to tell me the then newly elected Labor Fed Gov had "withdrawn" funding, rather than that they were opting out of providing the service a year early.

Wow, wow, wow, Rick! So much of the almost daily struggles I went through last year trying to sort the shitshambles of getting Dad's meals delivered now make horrible sense. If "Future Fit" was the brainfart behind the order forms that a 19yo coder would struggle with, no wonder they went tits up!