Isabel met an enormous bear

[extemporanea]

I really am a fundamentally law-abiding creature, which is useful when in hospital for ten days, because it means I have a tendency to trust structure. Hospitals can be confining and intrusive, what with the rules and the bed-baths and the searching personal questions about your bowel movements, but mostly I found it reassuring. If my knee has to

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[wolverine_nun]

btw, thanks for your return to darkest obscurity. Today's post header I know. That's my 1 in 20 for a while.

As you were.

[extemporanea]

Hah! actually 2 in 20; the pill concocter was also Isabel.

[origamitiger]

it is hard to find those animals in the wild so i am glad you got see them

[mac1235]

Your calm in the hospital sounds pharmaceutical. At home, I can understand the calming effect of Lego.

[extemporanea]

Not really pharmaceutical - I was on painkillers, but only intermittently. I think my calm in the hospital is more or less endemic.

[veratiny]

I took MMM to Taronga zoo a few years back...giraffes with the opera house in the background totally cracked me up :-).

Also koalas have hard bums...which must come in handy when they sleep 23 hours a day with their bums in a tree fork, while in a eucalyptus coma!

[extemporanea]

The hard bums bit must be an Australian thing, because wombats apparently also have them. I'm very sorry I didn't get to see wombats. I've just re-read Digger, which is enough to make one a wombat fan for life.

[veratiny]

Ooooo...I wonder how long one has to be an Australian before one gets ones official "hard bum" :-)