Margaret L Ruwoldt

Inside the conservatory at Adelaide Botanical Gardens. It’s a sunny day outside. Inside, assorted ferns and palms tangle together and reach for the curved steel and glass skylights. A fine mist of water drifts through this wholly enclosed rainforest, filtering light into crepuscular rays and softening the decisive edges of leaves, trunks and branches. Feed some John Williams music into your phones or buds and recall key scenes from Jurassic Park, Gorillas In The Mist, Last Chance To See, you get the idea.

Play misty for me

(We had sandwiches.)

Graph directionality, a critical strategic concept.

Many of us believe the very stupid Library exec's plan has just been 'withdrawn' before the rally tomorrow (Saturday, 12.30, Library steps) to try to get it cancelled. Big possibility of them re-wording & doing most of it anyway. Come along to find out what's happened & what needs to happen now.

Photo of a marble mantelpiece in the hallway of a 19th century building. An ornate antique clock sits in front of a large gilded mirror, which reflects sparkling Christmas decorations. The high ceiling is white, the cornices gilded, and the walls are yellow, all harmonising to create a gently golden ambiance. It’s all very tasteful and posh.

We lunched at the club.

Yes! A great start but the same people are still, astonishingly, running the State Library of Melbourne. They're not saying, 'we were wrong' but 'you don't understand it, so we'll re-word it'. Rally tomorrow Saturday, at Library 12.30! We must stiffen our spines! (Ba ha ha, books, I'm very tired.)

Plus ça change…

(bone dry and high 30s over here)

Having had experience in FOI admin, I was trained as privacy officer when the Victorian Act came into effect. (Still have the celebratory coffee mug.) It was seen as a neat fit alongside advocacy for usability and accessibility of info, systems, processes. Different world!

a pigeon is walking on its hind legs on a white surface . Alt: Very brief video of a pigeon walking or hopping along the ground. The image freezes and repeats a single step, so the bird looks like it’s dancing in a hiphop music video.

Hoppy birdie 💐🎂🥂🎉🎶
You make the world brighter ⭐️

Ah, summer, when the five-day cricket commentator comes into maturity. A frenzied season of statistics and intricately-traced threads of trivia only ends when the flocks of lesser flannelled fools migrate north for the pitch-restoration season.

Woman sitting opposite me at the tram stop is manspreading in a mini skirt.

#cannotUnsee

Bronchiectasis: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment & Prevention Bronchiectasis is a condition where your airways widen or develop pouches. It causes coughing with a lot of mucus and frequent infections.

Great that you have a diagnosis, Wolfie, and that the condition appears manageable. At this point my GP would (a) start treatment ASAP and (2) investigate potential underlying causes. Meanwhile I’d be reading up and asking more questions about next steps.

my.clevelandclinic.org/health/disea...

Australia’s social media ban puts free speech on the chopping block <pic> Australia’s social media ban for under-16s is being sold as a protection for children, but it raises serious questions about free speech, democratic participation and the perverse effects of prohibiti...

"But not only is the ban undermining of human rights, it also creates a great market opportunity for new business ventures to help under 16s get around the ban. Have we learnt nothing from the blanket ban on drugs such as cannabis? It appears not."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

The retelling of a story remembered by holding an object is as much about the time in which the story is told as it is about the time in which the story takes place.

🤣 as it should be

No, you’re right about that 😎

Those little lumps on the fore-edge are intended to discourage skateboarding.

That’s how she pronounced it 😏

I left a senior editor/publisher role to join a web team as projects officer/analyst. A colleague in an adjacent team at the new org started our every conversation by firmly reminding me she was a Qualified Editor. That identity clearly mattered to her, tho it was tangential to my/web team’s work.

Solidarność! 💪🏻

My BlueSky profile doesn’t have a date of birth defined. If I disappear from here, this (👇🏻) will be the reason.

Finally, three series of Australian crime novels written and set mostly in the 1980s to early 2000s:
– hard-boiled PI Cliff Hardy stories by Peter Corris
– the Scobie Malone police procedurals by Jon Cleary
– Shane Maloney’s deliciously hilarious Murray Whelan political mysteries (no audio, sadly)

Thought about it with both hands, and came up with two addenda: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco; and the Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, which my parents enjoyed but I never got around to exploring. A libro.fm search for Cadfael turns up more medieval period mysteries, of which I know nothing.

Eccentric dresser, British poet Edith Sitwell in sunnies and snood, and actress Marlyn Monroe in a demure black suit, sitting at either ends of a couch, genuinely delighting in each other's company.

Calling all Melbourne & Victoria #bookgroups & #readinggroups! Rally together this Saturday to help save the State #Library of Victoria, on its steps, at 12.30. (Here's a pic of the poet Edith Sitwell & big reader Marilyn Monroe: reading makes friends.) #StateLibraryofVictoria #ReadingMakesFriends

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That’s very good news 👍🏻

Only the best necklaces sparkle and gleam 😎 Looks great with that frock, too.

That necklace is fab 😍

And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.