Melbourne

Visited mum for a few hours. She's in good hands.. those nurses at the eye and ear are really caring.

It was my birthday today, headed down to Ballarat to spend it with family. Replacement V/Line coaches did my head in though.

sigh Really cannot complain.

Had a great night practising. I have 3 new songs ready which I'm super happy about ❤️

Here's my number one fan hiding in the cupboard in the studio

Goodnight everyone, and thanks for listening to my vent :)

just want to say thanks to everyone for the support yesterday regarding mum's fall. truly is a great community here.

She'll be home tm or the next so that's a good thing.

in non pooh news, got a wild hair up my arse yesterday and ripped up half the backyard paving. His Lordship toppled the rest this arvo (I left it for him to go SMASHY SMASHY with the sledge, he so rarely gets to)

IN MY DEFENSE it’s a pathway we’re gonna replace anyway because 1) it’s too narrow for my garden trolleys and 2) the bloody thing’s subsided to the point where it’s at a 40 degree angle and 3) I need the new level for the end point between the food garden ground level and the path for aforementioned trolleys. And I didn't mean to. I set the goal of moving my fruit trees to the other side of the greenhouse, and edging down it so we could plot.

But then I looked at those nice clean edges and thought “I could get a pry under there, I wonder how easy it would be?”

Surprisingly easy as it turned out. Especially with a 2 meter lever. But then I had a meter and a half of 15cm thick concrete with bluestone chips embedded through it at a 90 angle. No point in letting it back down after all that, and I couldn’t leave it propped up. what if it fell down on wildlife? To the sledgehammer! So then I had pieces that will become the crazy paving on the new path.

Then I started wondering if the next piece would come up that easily and, well, curiosity, cats and now we're missing 8m of pathway. Birds are going apeshit on the rolly pollies.

What a beautiful little corner of the internet this space is. Thank you for all of the love and support lately, I really appreciate it and will absolutely keep passing it on and lifting you wonderful people up where I can!

Ted is spaced out. All knots and dags have been removed and he's been brushed nicely.

close up of Ted seeing magic stars

I'm glad I talked myself into the gym.

Incoming vent:

Birthday being next week, it's a real rough time to be honest. I can't help but think about how I don't have any family to spend time with. I know I'm not the only one in this position, but still feels bad.

When I was unemployed, I lost a couple of really close friends who I usually hang out with, but I'm grateful for the people in my life that I do have.

It sounds funny, but I've kinda felt like a stray human since I was young.

Things could always be worse, and I try to keep that in mind. I just have moments of weakness where I wish for things that seem so out of grasp.

/end vent

Just back from a lovely walk with my kid. We got to pat 2 very friendly cats, one of which climbed into his lap when he sat down to get closer to it. The other one was called Bruce.

It’s reignited the ‘should we get another pet’ conversation, but can’t decide cat vs dog

Success!!! Got the big unwieldly couch dismantled with my friend's help both physically and mentally. Now I can hopefully get rid of it sooner and if there's no takers at least it's a helluva lot easier to move myself. That's a big ticket item cleared.

Next up, gotta keep culling and packing clothes... made a bit of a start this am, but I'll probably do most of it tomorrow. It's been a big day today with long chats, grabbing a coffee, going to Bunnings together, dismantling this couch in confused stages, going out for lunch, dropping friend home...

This pretty bee at my uncle and aunts property

🐝

My kingdom for chicken salt

I dropped my Darth Vader keepcup and completely shattered the glass. I'm thinking if I find the same size glass keepcup I could put it all back together.

But I'm going to keep an eye on marketplace because damn those things are expensive new

First flowers have appeared on the volunteer tomatoes from the compost heap. Several on one stalk so I fink they're cherry toms. I hope.

Lmao just got banned from a shitload of lemmy.ml for calling a certain someone Winnie. Badge of honour

Thanks for the first part of the delivery bacon!

Oh man why the fuck did I stay up till 4am....

Ted is scaring me.

Sedatives have been given to Ted, now I just have to wait for them to knock him out before I can groom him.

Mr Seagoon got me totes interested in Gothic lit again so I'm listening to an oldie on audio a book I read decades ago, The Night Land by WH Hodgson.

I made a teriyaki mushroom and Swiss burger

Events dominate the net and its farken crazy how many people are blaming harris for trump winning.

The fuck is wrong with that country. Chunks of them chose not to vote, or to purity politic, half of them were stupid enough to vote for the persimmon emperor, how the fuck is it 'the dems fault'.

Absolute abrogation of personal responsibility.

5 ciders into birthday bash for dad, uncle, and cousin.

Gonna crack another

(Flying Brick Original and Draft Cider)

Alrighty. Quick house tidy, gym maybe, but of chilling out, the practising the new songs.

Next weekend is birthday weekend, so happy to have a chill one tonight.

Edit: Some uber drivers shouldn't have licenses, seriously. Hopefully I won't need them soon.

Does anyone know how long you're allowed to stretch out your turning 40 mid life crisis? I'm down to less than 23 hours until that awful meaningless day but still kinda wanna push it out a little longer.

Camping gear has now been mostly sorted - there are a couple of tubs of stuff like cooking gear that will need to be sorted out to either donate or throw out, but all the bigger bits I intend to sell have been photographed. Now I need to do the listings and cross my fingers.

Whoever said salmon sushi was the best, I wholeheartedly agree :)

I keep going to vent then realising I’d be massively oversharing and I live in a very different world to a lot of people.

I think I need to buy a damn diary