Retired nurse and member of the Vintage Reds (lifelong union member). Whisky, architecture, landcare. Food nazi and general left wing ratbag. Always learning. #FreeGaza🇵🇸
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Last Notes npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Lightning Ridge. Still a bit of an opal mining outpost, but way different from the place I saw in the mid 60s. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Struck down with himself's gut bug in the night. Luckily we were in a lovely campsite with nice amenities. That folding bucket has earned its keep this trip. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Well, Yeppoon: not as bad as I expected, but the beach (which you can't swim at) is a bit howsyerfather, by NSW standards... Anyhooo, we had a beer opposite the substandard beach, and himself has booked us a day tour tomorrow to/around Great Keppel Island (I'm going to be very brave). npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Oh no... poor arthritic taps. 😵💫 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Day trip tp Yeppoon, which used to be quite lovely but which I fear has now turned into a mini Gold Coast. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Stuck in a rather substandard, overcrowded caravan park half way between Mackay and Rocky. On the beach in theory, but it's not much of a beach. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Townsville: surpisingly attractive. Cheek by jowl with the unpowered crowd in a beachside caravan park, whipped up a TVP chilli 'con carne' (in 20 mins) with wholemeal pasta, cheese and avocado. Yummo! 👌 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 I'm endlessly fascinated with these hard core 'living on the road' grey nomads' massive rigs. These 2 have a house on wheels and they tow a little car (for popping down to the shops 🤣). Imagine the fuel costs, but I guess that's all part of the lifestyle if you've sold your house (not my cup of tea but wow). Look at the washing machine and dryer! Clever. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Wut? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Innisfail, pop about $10,000, seems to have a substantial Indian population, with 2 Indian restaurants and an Indian grocery. We've seen a lot of Sikhs/Panjabis around town. Anyhooo, we're eating out tonight and this joint is doing a roaring trade, unsurprisingly! 👌... ping @npub1emv…wnhu npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Not pictured: Bob Katter's central electorate office, Innisfail. We are surrounded here by sugar cane and banana farms, and LOTS of big Aussie flags. Katter country, also PHON country, yay. And a lotta crocs, no doubt. 🤣🐊 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Innisfail: who knew? An art deco wonderland, after the 1918 cyclone. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Ah yes, the wee one.. what's happened with that lately? And Innisfail is next up today! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 2/. Port Douglas: I simply don't get the attraction of a distant location with literally mile upon mile of (ugly) resorts and holiday accomm, but a beautiful long beach you can't swim at. Why travel great distances just for expensive accommodation and expensive shopping/ eating/ drinking... and no beach swimming? Anyone?? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Gordon Bennett, Port Douglas is awful. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Sheesh, Cape Tribulation. Quite the business to get to, and then the rest of the world is there. I'd rather be in Biloela! Anyhooo, this is where Capt Cook reckons all his troubles started (and not just yours, mate!). Slightly related: none of his 6 offspring ived long enough to produce children, and his long suffering wife outlived him by 56 years... 😱 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Jeez Louise, the (trade)winds in Cooktown are epic. Got blown off my feet, literally, at the lookout and nearly knocked over an old bloke. Anyway, this was the view... npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 What fun! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Back at the camp ground on the mainland. Crowds have gone, school hols finished I guess. We got a beach view this time. The Torres Strait, tip of #CapeYork 🥂🌴 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Gah !! 😱 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Cheers from Australia's 'Top Pub' (most northerly) on Thursday Island. 🍺 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Thursday Island! Two hours on this boat first. 🎉 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 We got to the tip. No, not the rubbish tip. Crowds were bonkers, had to queue for the pics. #CapeYork npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Two ckooks have arrived to say hello, actually one's a rooster. @npub193a…faq9 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Jardine River Ferry, the legendary (coz it's often out of action). Crossing in the morning then should see the tip of #CapeYork before lunch. 🎉 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Phwoar, look at the Mareeba RSL sub branch, formerly Uniting Church (1960). No ALT txt, but it's a modern church with sloping roof, amazing 60s diamond design features, and surrounded by a bloody great security fence and roadworks, sadly. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Current view, 4 hours on, from this covered BBQ area... npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 A very trying morning. Long waits (3 hours and counting), an unnecessary indignity (slipped over in the mud, carrying my breakfast and coffee, it's very wet here in Cairns), and still more waiting to do (both of us, for different things, miles apart), but there is light at the end of the tunnel! The car is finally ready so himself is on his way back to this caravan park where I am waiting for Simon (not far away!) to come and fix this effing computer. Can't wait to get these muddy shorts off. 🤢 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Stupidly got chatting to a woman at the clothes line, which started off with innocent weather convo. Quickly degenerated into sov cit / one nation gobbledygook: this weird weather is all caused by the atrocities in the world... and the banks, apparently. #Queensland 🤯 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Faaarrqqq, I'm acopic here in the tropics. I'd have no hope in summer. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Charters Towers, wow there was some wealth here once upon a time: plenty of impressive civic buildings, pubs and banks. Gold, apparently. Anyhooo, now it's beef and country music. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 cont'd.. Fourth dam of the trip: Fairbairn, Central Qld, near Emerald. Lotta barra, it seems. Also lotta water for citrus, cotton etc. He's resisted about 6 other dams en route in the past few days, so fair cop. We had a cuppa and avocado on toast at this stop. 👌 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 I was a bit overcome meeting Priya and Nades (in Biloela), and we glimpsed the girls who are very grown up. 🧡 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Today's excitement: Biloela for lunch! Hoping Priya and Nades have their food truck open. 🤞 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Cont'd... npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Archie Moore: Kith and Kin. Venice biennale winning entry. Astonishing. #QAGOMA npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Spent several hours at the Cleveland museum learning about himself's ancestors who settled in Redland Bay in the early 1870s. Willie (age 18) was taken by a shark in 1905 trying to save a young woman, and the family home burned to the ground in 1936. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Staying with a cousin of himself's on the Gold Coast. Lovely people, with lots of fascinating local family history chat. They are Queenslanders though, so it being mid winter (= SUMMER to us), the house is like a fortress with all heaters blaring. We have retired to our upstairs suite, where I have turned off the heater, thrown off several blankets and am trying to find a window which opens.... 🥵 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 And despite the massive body of water behind this dam, the brand new toilets still have those stupid taps that you have to hold down to keep the flow of water running. Jeez... npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 After a lovely day and night with old friends in Burleigh, we have now arrived at our first dam of the holiday: the (Russ) Hinze Dam. Himself, being a rampant damaholic, deserves praise for lasting 10 days, but how many more will there be? It's a constant struggle. Coffee!! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Broke camp at 6.30 am, now just half an hour from Burleigh. Stopped in Murwillumbah for morning tea only to discover a MARMALADE CATASTROPHE in one of Rhonda's cupboards: my cumquat marmalade had fallen over, lid had come off and it had oozed everywhere. Clean-up done, but what a waste, lucky we have a box of my jam and marmalade to give away, with spares. Gah! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 First free camp of the holiday, about 30km south of Casino. Quiet rest area, almost no-one here, and there's a 'windy loo'. Didn't arrive till 7pm so we've just had fried eggs, raw vegies, and toast and marmalade for tea. Very early start tomorrow so we can get to friends at Burleigh Heads by mid morning (scenic route). npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 It did!! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Sitting around at daughter's, waiting for a parcel which has been on board for delivery since 7am. We have to be on the road by 2pm or we'll turn into pumpkins. To quote Blackboard: "Hurrrry up.." npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Perfect weather so far in Port Macquarie. Daughter is on leave so we've been out and about, also relaxing at her lovely home. Walked into town today to the farmers' markets to get Hainan chicken ingredients for tomorrow night. Also bought far too many snacks at the local Indian grocery, murukku! 👌 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Nice. Beautiful stroll too. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Fair comment, but just for the record I did not enjoy it. And I have never seen Close Encounters! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 We did thanks darls, and slept very well! How are things with the wee one? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Arrived in Port. Daughter's dawgs are very sweet ... 🧡 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Oh frabjous day! 🎉 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Lovely evening with @npub12cj…hqkq at the new food precinct East Traders Hall... very busy! Anyway, forgot to take a pic, dopey duck. Early night, up at 6am for an early departure. #CapeYork npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Quick trip to the tip in Ronnie and Rhonda, fully loaded, to check GVM. We're at 3.42 tonnes, so we have 80kg to spare to stay under the limit for safety. Drink!! #CapeYork npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Golly. What's the new project? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 I have no idea how this works, it simply defies all common sense. I'm sorry she's so awful to you and other trans folk, it's just so unfair and cruel. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 This guy again! That's 2 separate court cases just this month. He's a known nutjob. Poor wife must be coercively controlled... how else could you stay married to a person like that? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/andrew-thaler-cooma-local-court-neighbours-car/106802650 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 There was a lot of egregiosity (is that a word?😆) in Poorlean's address today, unsurprisingly, but the thing that really did surprise me was her tirade against the #trans situation, straight out of the MAGA playbook. Absolutely DISGUSTING. She's such a piece of shit.🤮🤬💩 #AusPol npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Jings, Rolf Harris doco part 2: even more eye popping than part 1... what a monster. Again I say: thank Dawkins my father died (just) before the whole thing blew up. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Bloody hell, that's surprising. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Wow. Where?? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 PSA Ken Behrens!! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 And with that, they're gone. Rasam is closing on Saturday: fabulous southern Indian vego food in CBR city (they lasted 2 yrs). Luckily their local temple is just a block away from us and they do lunches on Saturdays, yay! Influencers have a lot to answer for, like the one the other day banging on about bloody Rama's; I had a go at her and advised a visit to Rasam... too late now luvvie. 💔 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Life eh? Hope you can keep the balls in the air, and yay for leftovers! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Porlean has overtaken Albanese as preferred PM, in some poll. What does that tell you about Albanese?? Hopeless. If he keeps paying neoliberal games, of course ppl are going to feel ignored and want change. He's only got himself to blame. #AusPol npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Friend at Mitchell Falls today, lucky duck. She chickened out on the hike in though, and took the chopper. So bloody hard to get to (but worth it): 8 hours drive off the Gibb River Rd, corrugations all the way, then 2 hours hike in the heat; then the same again in reverse. You only do it once in a lifetime, but they're the most spectacular falls in the country IMO. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 We did !! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Disclosure Day: what a pile of old bollocks. #FilmReview npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Yay !! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 New Zealand?! Yes, maybe. But Melbournites deffo used to EL their ALs, at least when I was growing up; not so much these days with the countrywide Americanisation of our language. I clearly remember Bert Newton saying belcony etc. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Mark Butler: "Iran was a rogue state before this war...". npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Go Albania!! 🦩 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Yes, I'm looking forward to the Mars shitshow, although I'll prolly be dead by then. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 That idiot trillionaire has 14 kids. Just saying. 😱 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Fabulous. We have a new joint near us in CBR run by North Vietnamese and it takes me straight back to the 70s when I shared a house with a Colombo Plan guy from Nth VN who was a great cook. Very lucky. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Lol. David was clearly from Melbourne, where AL is pronounced EL. Examples: elbum, belcony, elpacker. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Same and same! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 See? Silverchair all over again! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Silverchair has won this years Unearthed High again! Wait... 🤔 #Newcastle npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 A week to go. Plenty of sorting and packing still to do. House needs to be made ready for the sitter. Countdown is on. Then this time next week we'll be off: 8 weeks to get to Cape York and back (slowly, coz diesel).... or not, it depends on The War. 🤞 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Just had a lovely lunch with the bookclub girls at the new Eddie's organic grocery and cafe at the Pearce shops. Jo has finally sold her house which was on the market for 8 months, and bought a little villa in Garran. At last!! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Hahahaha, Jane Hume trying to convince us that Tony Abbott is doing a great community service by taking up the *voluntary* job of Lib president, then going on a listening tour. Sure darls.. 🤣 #AusPol npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 😬 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 It's an insult. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Oh FFS... grandparents?! Maybe all grandparents should have them?? How ridiculous. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 The GG on 7.30 tonight (after doing the Big Freeze 👏), discussing Richard Scolyer's 'passing'. Vale the word 'DEATH', which I'm still yet to hear after a day's news and an awful lot of PASSING. Get a grip Straya. #death npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Day's got a lot worse. Went for a cooler bag in the linen cupboard on the landing, and found the whole cupboard dripping wet, actually dripping. Everything sodden. Our ensuite shower above obvs has a leaky floor (only 13 years since the full reno). Righteo then. Have dealt with it as best we can... we're off in an hour. 😱 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 The morning started with a cat vomit, which then precipitated a cascade of further drama (I'll spare you the details). I'm now back in bed with a second cuppa after the first went out the window, not literally. A morning of exercise, packing, and tidying... we leave at 2.30 this arvo for the Merimbula Jazz Festival, via the cattery. 🎶🎉🥂 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Oh FFS. How do they get away with this shit?! I boycotted them years ago... arseholes. They've lost the plot. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Such a bloody shitshow. Time for a rejig of our priorities, with the Orange running the US. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 He certainly is, but what I wanna know is WhyTF Albanese leapt straight in as Oppo leader as soon as AUKUS was announced.. ??! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Yes. But his newsletter is usually fabulous: long, rambling, hilarious, fascinating.... npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 I know. He's such a brilliant writer and all round human being. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Poor bloody Rick Morton. Do you subscribe to his emails? They're wonderful. He's living in Paris, writing a novel; but despite loving Paris and the social life he's having a bit of a bad time with his mental health and life events. 💔 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Nothing worse than a dud cuppa first thing in the morning! #teagate npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Bit arctic here today 🥶 but I know that in a few weeks I'll be wishing I was back here... I don't do heat and humidity and we're heading to FNQ. 🥵 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 What happened in the end? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Time there was a proper, national system to screen the elderly for driving licences. This happened at my local supermarket, and our large Bhutanese community was devastated. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Bit of a shock this morning as our wonderful landcare leader announced she has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Early 70s, always fit, lifelong vegetarian, intelligent, engaged, non smoker, rarely drinks alcohol. Shit... 😱 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 This is BIG. #ACTpol npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Frank!! This is so sad!! I'm so sorry. Sending lotsa hugs. Xx npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Not internet related in this case. Papers being marked centrally makes sense, but not if they are stolen from a van!
