OK, Sam Neill watch #2: Hunt for the Wilderpeople on SBS OnDemand.

“The Saturday Paper offered to amend last week’s story, if Rinehart were able to articulate some difference between her politics and the far-right positions of One Nation and Advance. She did not respond before deadline, although in fairness there is a time difference with Sicily”

From The Department of Aussie Battlers:

PSA: My Brilliant Career is on Netflix & iView right now, if you’d like to see a young Sam Neill & a young Judy Davis in a classic Australian story. Oh, and directed by Gillian Armstrong.

Just got home and already pouring a gin & tonic. 🫠 I hope son & DIL survive the evening, the kids were absolutely feral today. One with an ear infection, one super over-stimulated from kinder. 🙃

I was called in for emergency grandma duties today. DIL has just gone back to work this week & baby Lil is sick, so daycare is not an option. Currently trapped under a sleeping, snotty, warm weight. 🩷

There is still no detail on new programs that will supposedly support autistic kids and silence on any kind of support for adults. 💩

I missed a coin in a pocket and now I have to listen to it clanking around in the washing machine for the next hour & a bit. 😑

Youngest granddaughter is snotty again & I’m going over there this afternoon. It’s 3 days till our holiday. 😅🤞

None of your business you god bothering creeps. #religion

Just got our passports out of the fireproof/floodproof safe to find once again(!) they’re a bit mouldy 😠 - and also the covers are all warped. FFS. That safe is getting binned.

Anyone else getting this nonsense? I deleted my account long ago, after not logging on for at least a couple of years, so no clue what this bullshit is about. It appears to be legit. 🙄😂

Going to the city for an early dinner & a show, which seemed like a good idea when I made plans. Leaving the house when it’s 11° & showery isn’t all that appealing now.

Guess I’ll have to rewatch Hunt for the Wilderpeople then. Maybe even Death in Brunswick.

Loving all the Sam Neill anecdotes in my feed. He’ll be deeply missed.

Me, trying to explain looks-maxxing to not-very-online husband.

@australianlabor.bsky.social you have this all wrong and will lose millions of traditional Labor voters. You deserve to lose those voters. #AusPol

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Watching Dirty Business, a DocuDrama about UK’s failure to secure a clean water supply. Holy shit, capitalism showing its absolute failure.

A very good movie, but huge trigger warning about child abduction/murder. Also, I cannot have Stanley Tucci as a bad guy, just no. Young Saiorse Ronan is a star.

Neil the Seal, Pam the Bird, Count Binface, Lindsay Graham. What a cracker of a week.

Husband asked me something about the battle of Agincourt. This led to an involved explanation of the wars of the Roses, the Tudor dynasty & oh, the amazing pop-up Globe Shakespeare production of Henry V I saw in 2018(?) 🤔 Thank god he loves my nerdy weirdness & strange obsessions.

Team effort for dinner tonight. Husband did a small pork loin on the Weber with a mirepoix, I did the roast veg, magicked up some gravy & steamed a bit of broccoli. It was sensational. I cleared away the leftovers & he’s now washing up. 👌

Husband telling me he thinks we should take the “green suitcases” on our trip next week. My face —> 🤔 We do not, in fact own green suitcases. Eventually, I worked out he meant the charcoal grey suitcases. Babe, WTF? He does this all the time, the man cannot see colour correctly. 🤷‍♀️

Don’t live your life so that when you die people say “oh I was hoping it’d be the other guy, but I’ll take it”

I want to punch something. 🤬😭 All the men arrested were known to the victims.

Please, Australia, never let this capitalist bullshit invade our beaches.

Australia has’nt been “majority religious” for a very long time. Many people will tick a box if their parents had them baptised. Not me, I reject shit I didn’t consent to. FFS, I wasn’t walking or talking. 😂 Never had my kids baptised, in spite of Grandma’s disappointment & somehow they’ve survived.

Just saw this from Northern Health on FB. How bloody fantastic. Imagine the stress & worry this will alleviate.

Our randomised music thingie is serving up a fair bit of Buble tonight & I’m not unhappy about it.

Look, I adore my granddaughters, but they’re a bloody health hazard. Love to wake up with my eyelids glued together. 😑 Dashed to the chemist for some Chlorsig drops, so hopefully it sorts this out, pronto.

#BREAKING 🚨 Former Victorian senator and broadcaster Derryn Hinch has died aged 82 Hinch had a lengthy radio and television career before forming Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party and serving in the Senate for three years between 2016 and 2019

Tried to watch some movie that was awful, have now defaulted to a very old favourite, The Man With Two Brains.

Being neurodivergent is avoiding the bad spoon in the cutlery drawer until there's no other option.

Was just reminded by my scatterbrained mind (I’m sorry, idk how it works?) of the lovely tango “Por una Cabeza”. Asked husband to pop it on the music machine and 😍

Was it a Boeing plane? Let’s go see.

If you see this, post your comfort characters

Oh, France. Good luck getting it back from the British Museum 😅

Eldest DIL & I are plotting a European trip next year, her idea. After middle son’s wedding, before eldest granddaughter starts school. We really need this to happen. Working on the husbands now. 😬

You won't see this on ABC or SBS News this evening, heh Jillian? #SackSegal

The fuck has ABC done to iView logins? Neither mine nor husbands work any more. 😑 Had to create a new one. Nobody has time or patience for this shit.

Rest in peace, Bonnie Tyler. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK-S...

apple.news/AdZqY53G1Qn-... Sad news. 😢

The perception of reporting on which activities, Jilian? #AusPol

anyway ICYMI the data show colonial institutions like the ABC are very diligent about dehumanising Palestinians and shielding Israelis in the genocide. open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...

Take my fucking money!

Finished off the preserved lemons today. Now they sit unopened for a month before we can use them. Also unmoulded & wrapped the quince paste. It’s not the frantic pace of summer/autumn pickling & preserving, but these bits & pieces will last us a year. Bestie is getting one lot of quince paste too.

Granddaughter is doing better today. Ventolin is helping the cough, there have been no more blood-vomits (thank goodness) and she’s eating again. Son is back from Sydney & wfh as usual, so DIL is just dealing with the normal level of chaos a 3yo & 1yo create. 😂