1st round of radiation done for my new abdominal tumour. Easy peasy this time compared to 4 years ago, just 3 sessions. It’s kind of like getting an x-ray that takes 15 minutes. The biggest challenges are staying still despite various itches, and not falling asleep. #canceradventures

Boo. I was enjoying this until it all sort of fell apart for me in the last 10%. Too much saccharine schmaltz, fireflies, attempts at ‘magical realism’ and page after page about a sheep named Elaine. #booksky

I moved to Hurstville in Sydney recently, and I didn’t realise Sumner Locke Elliott, author and homosexualist, was a local from just next door in Kogarah. Here he is remembered in tile.

When did the words "waist" and "waste" become so hard to differentiate. Please stop posting about your waste, because EWW.

A happy afternoon unpacking books and arranging my bookshelves after our house move. Sone have been in boxes for several years. Hello old friends.

It’s stories not story’s. You converse you don’t conversate. You simplify you don’t simplificate. I mean, I could keep adding to this list but frankly I think my head would explode.

Post yourself from a different era [Me (far left) at Kaos Comedy Restaurant, 90s. I had the biggest crush on the guy I'm sitting next to. It was very much unrequited.]

I'm packing box after box of books, and getting reacquainted with some old friends. Cudos to 16 year old me who had the good taste to buy 3 Dragon's Dream titles way back then; Syd Mead: Sentinel, Roger Dean: Views and 21st Century Foss. I know nothing of Dragon's Dream but they loved a trippy font.

I'm packing to move house next week. I'm not sleeping well, my new cancer meds are giving me hot flushes, and every night is a bedclothes on again, off again scenario. I'm stressed, but I have a loving partner and supportive friends with offers of help. We'll get through this. All will be well.

It's a good day when the new release book 5 of a favourite series jumps to the top of the TBR pile. "Carnival of Lies" by D.V. Bishop, the 5th installment of the Renaissance detective Cesare Aldo series. This time he's left Florence, for Venice in the year 1539. Intrigues ensue! #booksky

I'm currently packing up the apartment for a move in a few weeks, and at the same time my new cancer treatment is giving me menopausal style hot flushes. Hoodie on. Hoodie off. Rinse, repeat. It's like the worst striptease ever. #cancerjapes

Quote with a photo of you from the 80’s

I finally got around to seeing the 2021 film Firebird, as it was just added to the free streaming service (SBS OnDemand) here in Oz. Oh my, such a beautiful, sad, poignant film, especially knowing it's a true story. It was released last year in Japan and I love the Japanese poster (pic 2). #firebird

Share some sisters from Film or TV. "Oh, I wish Daddy could be here right now! You can never lose your talent, he used to tell me. You can lose everything else, but, you can't lose your talent."

I was just searching for a user on Instagram and amongst the suggestions was 'does it cake pop', and now I really want to know if does, or doesn't. TELL ME.

I know most adult film actors use stage names, but to learn that Gabriel Cross and Scott Wild are in reality Ben and Paul blows my tiny mind for some reason.

I've just started reading The Will of the Many by James Islington (Heirachy book 1), and oof the world building is great. A fantasy blend of classical Rome, with a bit of Dark Academia, and an almost steampunk lack of tech. That actually doesn't do it justice. Book 2 isn't out until November. [sad]

I’m loving the Murderbot series, but the episodes are too short! I want more! #murderbot

There is a guy on my bus tunelessly whistling and repeatedly scuffing his feet back and forth, and we’ll, maybe the word ‘rage’ is too strong but…

When you have a seizure from eating too many cream puffs it's called the choux fits.

Happy birthday to this dead set hottie @tomtheotter.bsky.social. More than 5 1/2 years together and we're still making each other laugh daily. I love you, happy birthday.

If you see this post, find a pic of you from five years ago and post it. (The early days of the Covid lockdown, wearing a crazy night cap I knitted for fun. Before my cancers were diagnosed, and with noticeably less grey in my beard.)

Without downloading new pictures, my mental state.

Yay, I made the cut for the cancer drug trial I was signing up for. Just waiting for the US board to approve. Extra scans showed nothing new, just the one lymph node I knew about. Treatment should start soon. It all feels like making the best of a bad situation. #prostatecancer

If you want me I'll be in my bunk, bingeing season 2 of the Korean reality game show The Devil'd Plan on Netflix. #sogood #thedevilsplan

Get in, chat, we’re paying lock screens Buddhist prayer flags flying in the breeze, photographed at a scenic lookout in the Blue Mountains, NSW.

Democratic right exercised. Democracy Sausage achieved. (Well done MasterFoods on the marketing.) #federalelection #voting #democracysausage

Hairs cutted.

CT scan all done this morning. FYI, if you’ve ever tried poppers, the flooding warmth of the CT scan contrast material is not dissimilar. They really should pipe in Happiness by Alexis Jordan at full volume. #adventuresincancer

New read: Cloistered by Catherine Coldstream, a memoir of her 12 years as a cloistered nun. I've only just started it, but I'm really enjoying it so far. Judging by the prologue her experience was... mixed, at best.

I have a CT scan, a PET scan and a bone density scan scheduled in the next week, to figure out if I'm eligible for a drug trial. If you want me I'll be quietly radiating in the corner, waiting for the superpowers to kick in. #prostatecancer #cancerisbackbackbackagain

How I arrived on Bluesky....

I watched the movie Conclave on the plane ride to Japan, so I kind of feel like I’m an expert on what’s going down, NGL.

Me justifying myself to the boyfriend @tomtheotter.bsky.social

It was a pretty sunset tonight.

I finished "A Merciful Sea" this long weekend. So good! I'm sad to say goodbye to Nightingale and Courtney, as this was the end of the triptych, but it was a thoroughly satisfying read. #KatieDaysh #NightingaleandCourtney #Booksky

Yes, Alfons Mucha was an amazing artist, and yes he could rock a blouse, and yes I absolutely would. #daddybear #ablouseakaafemmininetop

This is how I flirt

Reskeet the spectacles, nerds

It's fit, innit? [Advertising images by George Brehm]

🪷 "In the Sculptor’s Studio" by #ChristianMeyerRoss (1843-1904). #Antinous #Farnese statue in the background, looking on with loving eyes as scantily clad sculptor works on clay model for a statue of Winged Victory". Fame eluded this brilliant Nordic artist, who never married. 🪷

I was in Kinokuniya today and they really have a handle on the nature of 2025.

Everyone's doing those 'post a movie from he year you turned 18', but seeing as I'm old I turned 18 in 1982. Do you know what was released in 1982? Blade Runner. E.T. Tron. The Dark Crystal. Tootsie. Poltergeist. STII: The Wrath of Khan. Victor/Victoria... Oh and Sophie's Choice, obviously.

Inside you are two wolves:

Aloof, patrician Arrow Collar man by Robert C. Kaufmann (1900-1999).

Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.

Ever wanted to play sexy Dissolution of the Monasteries with your Significant Other? To party like it's 1536?...

Tiny @surrenderdotty.bsky.social is tiny. ✌🏻

Look how tiny!!!!!!!!! @surrenderdotty.bsky.social

Yay, just as I finished the book I was reading a new instalment in the Nightingale & Courtney series “A Merciful Sea” has dropped. Yes please and thank you! #booksky #nightingaleandcourtney