It's so easy to do a daily update when there's the ongoing saga of my booster shot to report. Not that there is much to report today, just that I found out the "unforeseen circumstances" that made them cancel today's appointment. Apparently Thursday is meant to be for children, but they somehow managed to mix up who was eligible to book an ( Read more... )

All week I have been receiving reminders about my booster shot tomorrow, both an email and a text, Monday morning, Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning. Then this afternoon, another text: my appointment has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. So that's what I've been doing this evening, booking a new appointment, and I'm sure you will be ( Read more... )

Yesterday's storm turned into last night's storm and I woke this morning to a freshly washed world and a flock of rainbow lorikeets.

My mother had her Covid booster today. Mine is next week. And that leads me to today's story from... [imagine that wavy thing TV shows do for a flashback]... way, way back in December last year. Three weeks ago.

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Hello, f-list. I am unemployed! For two days. I finished work on Friday and I will start the new job on Monday. I've never done that before. I've always had at least a couple of weeks between jobs. I hope I remember to go to the right place. It's just across the road from where I've just finished, so that's not entirely out of the question. I must ( Read more... )

An exciting letter from the council today. Our neighbourhood has been chosen, specially chosen... to trial a new bin. Ooh! Lucky us ( Read more... )

There's a thing going round to find your US Presidential candidate slogan: Your name + 2020 + the last text you sent. So vote

Daisy 2020
I can't find the Reckon passwordA small novelty from this week: When I took Alistair out for his walk the other night, it was dark. I mean: obviously. But also: freakishly dark. It took me a while - longer than ( Read more... )

I am being haunted by an ad for a particular item of clothing, and I don’t know what I’ve done to make the internet think I would be interested in it. I’ve never seen it before. I’ve never been on that website. I’ve never even imagined such a thing and wished it into being. And yet, there it is, following me to the weather website and other people’ ( Read more... )

Update 1aMy mother went out yesterday and when she came back she had her house deed with her. The woman at the bank called her while she was out so she went straight in to get it. It turned up in the bank's post yesterday, even though the bank's computer system still shows the request as being processed. Whoever sent it also returned the fee via a ( Read more... )

I made some orange curd to use up some of the oranges in my bag of them. Do you know how many oranges three cups of orange curd uses? Two ( Read more... )

Here is a thing I never knew existed: a pasta tap. As in, a tap right above the stove top for ease of filling your saucepan. I can't say I'm tempted by this idea. It looks cluttered. And I think I can manage to carry my saucepan of water the single metre between my sink and my stove top ( Read more... )