After Saturday-Monday with the kids + granddaughters, I’m also doing two afternoon/evening sessions helping out this week. DIL is doing it hard, the 3yo has croup & the cough-vomit episodes are brutal, son is away for work for 2 nights & baby bares her (2) teeth & growls if she wants her mother. 🥹

Imagine thinking talking shit about Grace Tame would be a vote winner.

Bluesky doing weird shit today. Apologies for duplicate posts, they allegedly failed to upload, but actually did, and now I can’t delete them.

The cucumber situation was getting out of control, so I’ve just made a large jar of hamburger pickles for eldest son. I love preserving stuff, so satisfying.

Australia: "Most flu deaths this century were recorded in 2025, ABS finds" Last Year (2025): 🔹COVID-19: ~2,161 deaths 🔹Influenza: ~1,701 deaths 🔹RSV: ~582 deaths

Storm warning cancelled, so hopefully that’s our lot for today. The heavy rain added so much weight to one of my capsicum plants, that a laden branch broke off. They won’t ripen now. 😭

According to The Australian, former Prince Andrew is the real victim here. Not the young women and girls he's accused of molesting, or the confidential business dealings he handed to Epstein, or UK taxpayers who've paid for his pampered lifestyle. Our empathy should go to Andy. Got it.

Can confirm it is bucketing down.

Just had the loudest thunderclap I’ve ever heard crash directly overhead. Made me jump. 😅

This is infuriating. Politicians perfectly willing to risk the lives of children if it means a few more racists might vote for them. Oh well, I guess we have form. 😑

Premier Jacinta Allan on our #4Corners: “I’ve also referred these allegations to Victoria Police. Without commenting on specific case, let me be clear: Performing unnecessary surgery is a crime, removing a woman's organs without a clinical need is a crime, & assisting in that conduct is a crime."

Vetting the brides. My @smh @theage cartoon.

I missed the bluesky vs X discourse but as always you can start everyone one of these debates with a simple question!!!!! - Does social media website come packaged with a software system designed to freely generate child abuse materials on request 🔳 Yes 🔳 No

Husband has found me a 2011 version of Wuthering Heights that I don’t think I’ve seen? There’s my night sorted.

Home again. Youngest kid & wife used our place while we were gone so they could have some time alone away from the in-laws. It smells like delicious Indian food in here.

We’ve spent the weekend at a lovely house on the Peninsula, helping the kids wrangle baby & toddler around a “no kids”wedding. The rain today is a bugger, bride & groom were planning a beach service at Sorrento at 5:00pm & it bucketed down. 🙃

There’s still one more facade which will take another 10 years to complete. 🙃 I wanted to go back to see it completed, but that’s probably not happening.

Saw one great egret, one white-faced heron and one royal spoonbill tonight. There’s barely a few cm of water left, but apparently enough for the waders. This is usually a good series of 3 large ponds where ducks, cormorants & darters can dive. February, huh? 🤷‍♀️

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Australia showed up. Its leadership decided not to listen to the people. The people will prevail.

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/andr... Remember that Queen Elizabeth and the rest of the royal family lent Andrew millions of pounds to pay his settlement to Giuffre. The whole damn family of inbred fuckups chipped in to protect him, with taxpayer money, from consequences.

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Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you You’re off in a divvy van And they’ll fingerprint you

No precedent? 😂 The 3rd Duke of Clarence may disagree. I’ve been making jokes about barrels of malmsey for the past couple of hours.

Rainy day; cup of tea; ten minutes to kill. Most of you know what that means by now. #Storytime. New folk, this is when I write a story from scratch, here on Bluesky. And it always starts ike this: "There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve."

How in one interview our Prime Minister can celebrate protecting Australian children from the interwebs, while saying other Australian children should be ultimately left stateless, because of their mothers, is just beyond me.

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Is it just me or does it feel like creeping fascism is now galloping?

Browsing local restaurant menus:

Human trafficking is bad but if you are trafficked to/by ISIS that's on you

OK, I’m settling in to watch this. I’m totally prepared to abandon it in favour of a rewatch of one of my comfort shows if it gets too difficult.

Son was here for dinner, so I served up chicken schnitties, a salad of homegrown veg & crispy little potato cubes with rosemary & Parmesan. Cue many compliments. 🥰 Those potatoes are the business!

She destroyed Adelaide Writers’ Week by, let’s see, oh yes, being invited

this fucking guy istg

The RSV vaccine is recommended by the dept of health for several vulnerable groups, but is only funded for pregnant women & some babies. It’s $300 for the rest of us. After catching both Covid & flu last year, I think I’ll just fork out the money. I guess it’s too bad for those who can’t afford it.💩

Police just looking more and more ridiculous. 🤡

Police have seized five posters from the window of a Canberra bar "depicting Donald Trump, J.D Vance, Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin dressed in Nazi-like uniforms" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

I just read some of the details exposed in the America’s Next Top Model doco and OMG. The bullying came across in the show quite clearly, but the actual twisted abuse & abandonment of any duty of care towards those girls is horrifying. Tyra Banks is a monster.

I’ve cracked on with this over the past few days & har one page left to do, then assemble the whole thing. I do need a couple of items from Spotlight to finish it but it’s looking good.

Guillotines.

We had rain overnight, it seemed decent but the gauge only had 4mm in it. The neighbourhood wetlands have dried up, just a couple of shallow puddles and a lot of mud left now. Very few birds, mainly wood ducks & swamp hens. The cormorants, spoonbills, herons & egrets have gone elsewhere.

Odd choice of headline, ABC. 🤔

So ISIS brides have "made their own beds and now have to lie in them", but Australian Jews who serve in the Israeli IDF are welcomed back to Australian comfort, and are to be protected from being made to feel uncomfortable by any mention of Palestine or the apartheid and genocide the IDF perpetrated

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So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Bloody bushfires around Trawool again. 💩 Give those poor people a break.

Last night, helping DIL with the kids: She’s settling the baby to sleep, I’m reading books with the 3yo. She starts to get upset (long day, no nap, big feelings) & I can’t console her. DIL comes out, baby’s just gone to sleep in her arms, tries to tell her she’ll be done in a few minutes. 1/

The Labor government won't let family members with links to ISIS return to Australia. I wait for the announcement that families with links to the IDF terrorist war criminals will also be banned from return, and deported. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

I’m shocked. 🙄