Amalthea Rose

As you can see here, right from the very first day he entered our house, Jim found great difficulty in getting settled and making the environment his own.

THREAD.

3 & 1/4 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he'd been living, in rural Cornwall, & decided he wanted to live with us instead.

We decided to call him Jim.

This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st 2022

I bought a CD player recently, best decision I've made in years. Been listening to all my CDs from my youth

I really think a lot of today's problems can be blamed on Henry 8th. He should have been divorced, beheaded, died, not his wives. It's his fault we have Evangelicals trying to bring on the end of days. More reasons to abolish the monarchy.

Wow. I mean, wow.

The easiest way to offend me is to assume I'm American. Excuse me, no. I'm descended from different colonists, thank you.

Sadly it is not. But they were convenient

I'm sorry not sorry about what I said, I do love the lyric "I was prêt-à-manger" though I do wonder if the double entendre is noticed by those unaware of the overpriced sandwich chain. How well is it known outside of the UK?

Oh Evan 🤣

I'm delighted to find someone else who uses that phrase

Very impressed you took the day off ❤️

We're passing the same $50 around all our friends, we don't have money to invest.

So you went into someone's memories???

Oh I used to have a bunch of those editions, the copy of Hunchback fell apart as I was reading it.

Week 2 of Gaielge lessons, forgot to print my workbook again, oops

My wonderful local queer bookstore is having community hang out reading and crafting nights, it's delightful ❤️

My dad bought me a copy of The Librarian back in 2005 and I was forever changed. I am all about Flynn Carson ❤️

It is Monday morning and I am full of anxiety. For a bunch of reasons. I mean *gestures broadly*

I am going to do what I can to keep me going. That may involve all the puppy cuddles. Though she's snoozing so I better not disturb. Steve Dee always advocated for letting dogs make their own choices.

If you don't stab yourself, are you really doing a needle craft?

My sister handed out electoral material for him, never got paid 🤣

I am going to a birthday party in a bikini. Oh boy, I really have gone on quite the journey since moving here 7 years ago. Wait, it's been 7 years since I moved to Perth?!

Love is driving to your spouseman's work in the middle of your morning to take him his medication he forgot to take and get stuck in heavy traffic and don't even mind because he needed my help.

My spouseman & I are working our way through the audiobooks. We are currently listening to Guards! Guards! and having such fun. We've also gone to some local theatre productions of some of the play adaptations. He will also appreciate this horrendous concept!

No, no it wasnt.

So they're not going to tell us who the Perth terrorist is, anyone else think it's because he's related to someone in power? Or with money? And they're going to say oh, he has mental illness/his wife left him and make all the usual excuses?

My dogs act like I'm insulting their ancestors

Can someone please explain why my parcel that left Sydney is now in Hobart? It is coming to Perth. Why has it left the continent for the one state I've never visited? It contains temperature sensitive medication so I am a bit concerned.

I am feeling the desire to put out writing. Pondering starting a Substack. My brain is so overloaded, I know writing helps me process. I miss Livejournal.

In Australia, a bed quilt that throws outrageous artistic tantrums is a prima doona.

I am so fucking grateful to be able to be in control of the temperature and noise in my environment now I'm home. I was crying in frustration on the drive home. Got to regulate before I yell at someone. I got Jon Batiste singing and nice cold air moving around. Going to organise some stuff.

It's one of those times where it's hotter there than here in Perth. Wild. We are fortunate to have good aircon at my house but the air hurts to breathe when it's that hot here 🙃