Hello lucky Dutch people. Enjoy your All-Stars 2: Old Stars premiere. Jammy bastards ( Read more... )

...done. At bloody last. Painless (so far) and about $600 less than I was expecting, hurrah.

Must say, I've never had my nose go numb during a procedure before. What a very peculiar sensation! Especially when the anaesthetic started to wear off - the outside got back to normal WAY before the inside did ( Read more... )

Sent home from doc with bag of antibiotics and instructions to avoid exposing Mum to nasty respiratory stuff. So. Lots of lovely gardening time but no breath to do it with, lots of available-to-Mum time but I can't go there. Fiiiine.

Done far too much tidying up just to have something to do. On the plus side:

• identified replacement tap bits ( Read more... )

Another 26 trees in today - makes 64 in total since Saturday. Mostly hakea and wattles, but also a small London Plane in the arena bit up top; I hope it takes off - couldn't help thinking of it as a sort of Mum Tree as she's so fond of them. Which is a bit pre-emptive but ...yanno. Just sort of felt right ( Read more... )

Slept fitfully ( Read more... )

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1. Mum saw radiation oncologist, and FINALLY nailed down some kind of time frame. No brain metastases, the mouth anomaly isn't, and we're probably talking about a year ( Read more... )

Pruned. Then went and bought proper loppers and pruned some more. Go me ( Read more... )

Is it just me, or is Big Love season 4 just one big daft mess that makes no sense whatsoever within the overall series? (and on a related note: can Bulgy-Eyed Daughter get any creepier? honest to god, I just want to slap her all the time for being so buggy and white and clueless. See also Barb The Terminally Sanctimonious ( Read more... )

Physio: nice fella, all good. Probably just a disc sprain, so have been poked, prodded, electrified, taped up and sent away with a list of daily exercises and orders to Walk. Can do. Should be back at work next week (or working from home if boss decides better safe than sorry). Mmm, policy source updates, my favourite ( Read more... )