My therapist is retiring due to chronic fatigue syndrome. I’m trying hard to not take all the blame for this.

Tuesdays, eh?

Can relate.

Which means I understand and am happy when I see you on here and don’t begrudge the times I don’t.

A sign announcing the entrance to the Cane Lounge.

My kind of place

Maybe it got washed away…

Is there anything more certain to end sleeplessness than one’s morning alarm going off?

Fabulous news! All the best to baby and (probably exhausted) mum xxx

If ever you think that your work is run by eejits, consider this: when an external report into our organisation suggested that management needed to communicate better with employees, one senior manager protested that the communication was fine, but the employees needed training in listening skills.

Oh great, today’s forecast is 39 Celsius and 80% humidity. And every Aussie I’ve ever met tells me the weather’s better here.

Bleargh. What idiot invented Tuesdays?

I have often wondered if there’s competition amongst the medical consultants they hire for these shows to see what’s the most ridiculous thing they can get past the show runner. Also for police, courtroom, etc . dramas.

I have a Labrador, so I’m used to the idea of food as tax.

I love that we’re all amused/aghast/taken-aback about trans-national variations in English when you can travel 30 miles (~50km) in the UK and chances are the name for an individually-sized loaf of bread will change three times. The clues are there 😉.

Gas marks go up to 9, so 6 is on the hot end of medium, officially 859°R

My ladies? Barenaked!

My purple? Deep.

Perhaps you should be persuaded to utter some ouches.

My pedometer app tells me that I am 14 steps shy of my goal for today, so I am off to the pantry to get the biscuits so I can end the year on a healthy note.

Oh great. The forecast for Saturday is 42C in the shade. That’s 107.6F if you’re so inclined. I will be sitting on an A/C vent.

Thank-you, though I’m so far from the US that it’s not even Thursday here :-D.

I hope you have a good day, whichever one it is.

Is this a flexibility issue or a visibility issue? 😀

Ladytrews once told me of her attempt to make borscht, long before we met. She had only ever encountered beets in their pickled form, so naturally that’s what she used. Apparently it wasn’t good.

I have not encouraged her to try to replicate the dish.

For a second there I thought it was ketchup.

You sound disappointed! 😳

😉

A stack of three Shaker-style oval boxes. The bottom one made of London plane, the middle totally out of walnut, and the smallest, topmost one also out of walnut but with a blackwood lid.

I made some things.

Well, I guess you are naked underneath the clothes…

How did you go with that? :-)

This is the way.

That’s the hope (plus Ladytrews is very likely to be going too).

I’m mostly surprised that you have to think about it, implying as it does that there might be a time when you are ready to behave ;-p