Retired nurse and member of the Vintage Reds (lifelong union member). Whisky, architecture, landcare. Food nazi and general left wing ratbag. Always learning. #FreeGaza🇵🇸 Put your country in your profile, please. And keep to the left you bastards. Canberra (Australia), unceded Ngunnawal/Ngambri country.
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Last Notes npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 We did !! 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🇵🇸 Go Albania!! 🦩 https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/6/11/thousands-rally-in-albania-in-largest-protest-yet-against-kushner-resort npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Yes, I'm looking forward to the Mars shitshow, although I'll prolly be dead by then. 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🇵🇸 😬 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 It's an insult. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Oh FFS... grandparents?! Maybe all grandparents should have them?? How ridiculous. 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🇵🇸 What happened in the end? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 This is BIG. #ACTpol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-03/leanne-castley-announcement-canberra-liberals/106752552 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Grand daughter's NAPLAN stolen! Golly... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-02/naplan-tests-stolen-melbourne-primary-school-students/106746012 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Unions not strong there? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Fair enough too, ha! What a cheek. And yeah, I've been lucky to always live in places with sunny, safe drying spaces. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 I've never had a dryer. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Have you been there? They think differently. Hard to explain but there's this weird attitude that tolerates all sorts of contradictions as part of normal everyday life. 'Freedom' (sic) to do or be anything you like is celebrated, which leaves very little room for collective action or even a social conscience. It's insidious. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 They look like feijoas, in which case they're edible. What are they like inside? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Yes, very sobering I'm sure. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Pretty amazing photo. Loved the text, reminded me of my grandfather's very mundane entries i his WW1 diary from Ypres. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Ooh, yum!! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Wasabi peas are unbetterable. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Horrid. Funny how delivery guys are always spraying around my front door and leaving it there with the pakkidge.. 😜 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Pretty crazy. And if it wasn't for all the wonderful national parks and scenery on Hokkaido, the problem would be even more obvious there, as there's none of that old traditional Japanese history and architecture (but lots of Ainu!). And no, I don't speak French, I have it on automatic translate. 😄 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 I enjoyed reading the full piece. Certainly explains a few observations we made on our only trip to Japan (Hokkaido). npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Concrete slab? So you are permanently situated in the van? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Full marks to Stephen Colbert... managed to be a grown-up and contain his criticism of you-know-who. And Paul McCartney eh? Despite my childhood Beatlemania phase, he's not my fave celeb AT ALL (pushes all my buttons), but you have to admire his energy and stamina, given he's nearly 84.👏 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Woohoo, that is very exciting! Do you still have those neighbours who sit on their verandah and make a lot of noise? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 How wonderful Paul!! 🎉 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 It says a lot about current Australian politics that we allow this to go through to the keeper without much more than a slap on the wrist. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Fantastic Great Move Well Done Angus has not done his maths. Idiot. #AusPol https://thepoint.com.au/off-the-charts/260521-angus-taylors-migration-policy-collapses-under-its-own-maths npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 This afternoon's entertainment involves assisting himself with the annual penguin suit shemozzle. Every year he's a bit bigger and it's more of a squeeze, but this year we hope he's lost a *little* weight and he'll be able to breathe, which is always good when you're on stage singing behind the Canberra Symphony. 🤞 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 💯😱 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 2/. And now I'm home I have questions... I understand that a writer may nominate a person or persons to manage their archive (some of which is public, some private) after their death, but what happens after that person(s) dies? Do libraries have different archive access rules? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Sunshine?? John Bloody Howard. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 An excellent Fellowship presentation by Matthew Lamb at the Nasho Library about Frank Moorhouse and his archives. Having known Frank when I was a child, then again briefly in 2017 when the story of his affair with my mother was revealed, it was good to get some perspective on why we had to traipse all the way to Queensland to see Mum's letters: the National Library had started an archive in the 70s, but some years later the Fryer Library offered Frank more money, ha! So there's 2 archives. 🤣 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Sheesh. They might ask you though... npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Daughter's marital mill. I was just venting, soz, and that term came in into my head. 😵💫 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 You shouldn't have to. The basic necessities of life should be off limits! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 There's trouble at 'mill. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 That saucepan theft is beyond the pale... npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 It's time the generation war mongering stopped. I once tried to have this discussion with a young boomer-bashing journo on the birdsite and had a massive pile-on (hundreds!) descend. It was brutal. I have up. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Have you been to the outback? They're everywhere, especially on roadsides, attacking roadkill, undeterred by traffic. Majestic! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Yep. A shitshow all round. Suffice to say if you took the Israelis out of there, the middle east would cease being a constant war zone. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Yes, truly astonishing. I find it quite ironic that Whitlam is AA's hero.... such a massive contrast. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Jeez we dodged a bullet with this nutjob in 2004. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-16/contempt-proceedings-launched-against-nsw-mp-mark-latham/106686454 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Laura Tingle on recent developments in the complicated relationships between the Gulf States and Israel. #Israel #Netanyahu #UAE https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-16/gulf-states-israel-uae-benjamin-netanyahu-interview-donald-trump/106684904 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Jack Waterford with a warning for Labor.💯👏 A small but definite step for a timid PM, but a tiny jump for Labor (paywalled). #AusPol https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9247167/jack-waterford-a-small-but-definite-step-for-a-timid-pm/ npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Onzième last night was incredible. We went with the $90 per head 'feed me' menu (obligatory for a group of 6), where they give you lots of fabulous shared veg dishes plus our choice of 2 protein dishes. We chose octopus and lamb for protein and they were delicious, but the plentiful veg were the stars for me (jerusalem artichokes!). Full marks! Shame they're closing. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Oh jeeeeezuz.... npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Onzième in Kingston is closing at the end of May. Very sad. Apparently they are exhausted from constantly attracting and retraining staff, with an alarming churn rate... a common problem in hospo these days. Anyhoo, we're off to dinner there later tonight, with a bunch of old friends. Drink! 🥂 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Oh dear! 😆 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Do you subscribe to his regular bulletins? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Waiting to have coffee with a friend. She's been held up at a function with the GG (where she is photographer) coz the GG's so lovely she's talking to everyone and running late. Makes a change from the last GG where you were held up by his mad wife who always insisted on a group rendition of 'You are my sunshine, my only sunshine...." 🤮 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Beautiful!! The legs will recover and you'll be left with those lovely memories. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Here is one thing Amanda Vanstone and I agree on: men need to pay their bloody child support. #AusPol (paywalled) https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9246666/jenna-price-vanstone-and-i-agree-child-support-rules-should-be-tight/ npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 That, and dental and mental health, and jobseeker. Amongst other things. Such a transparent message being sent about the haves and have nots. And Albanese calls Whitlam his hero... Gough must be turning in his grave. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Ooh, are you booked? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Lindy Chamberlain, 1980. Fourth: guessing 2002. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 No, 70s original, but only a thin layer. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Original verandah. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Eat the rich!! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Sucko Twiggy. ✅️ #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-12/yindjibarndi-fortescue-andrew-forrest-compensation-payout/106665232 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Cut my finger on some sugar, quite deep and bloody: warming the sugar in the microwave for the cumquat marmalade, got distracted by deliveries x3 at front door, got back to find a bit of toffee on the sugar, it's sharp! Anyhoo, I tidied up the massacree and got the marmalade done, with sous chef 😻 supervising on his perch throughout. https://static.toot.community/media_attachments/files/116/559/012/508/260/506/original/c04d0652645a473b.jpg npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 My kingdom for a 10cm square of muslin! I knew I had some, somewhere, so cupboards and drawers were tipped out all over the house. Found it. Will have to tidy up the tippage later, but for now I can tie up the cumquat seeds in muslin and get on with the marmalade. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Deb Conway's gone full Zionist. She's popping up at the Royal Commission. Jeeez Louise... 😱 #AusPol npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Corowa whisky? Bugger. Are they known perpetrators? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Yes, the trick is to stay up front but that's not always possible. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Ah, interesting insights there. Makes sense. Peloton can be a dangerous place. I remember watching my boy Mick Rogers in the peloton for years on end, waiting for him to get a stage (2 in the end!): he rarely crashed and worked bloody hard. In hindsight, I now see how skilled he was to survive it npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Coffee crisis. Home from Melbs to a house with no beans! Calling into our coffee broker (friend with a son who works with ONA) this arvo to collect a coupla bags of beans. He's invited us for drinks and snacks on the deck, such a perfect autumn day. 👌🥂 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Yep. Is it just bad luck, or does he need to make better choices? npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Yep, but he's always the shit magnet. 🤣😱 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Jay Vine has crashed AGAIN!! He's channelling Richie Porte. Sheesh, he's only just back in form after the last disaster. #GirodItalia npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 2/. But Tim Wilson's popped up, eating a shit sandwich... so there's that. 👍 #AusPol npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Sheesh, the N grams are all arse about this morning: cooker down the road has put up a bloody fence blocking access to a path, my fave man at the farmers' markets wasn't there, and bastard Wilsons Security have decided to lock the cemetery gate so a cross country trek was required with the nanna trolley full of fruit, veg and eggs. Anyhoo, let's hope that's the end of the shit for the day.🤣 Kiddiez have sent lovely Mothers' Day msgs. ❤️ npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Wow... npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Uh oh, Barnaby's shitfaced again. #Farrer #AusPol npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 💯 npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Rural booths in #Farrer going overwhelmingly to PHON, unsurprisingly, but what's interesting is that the Libs have totally collapsed. Fantastic, Great Move, Well Done Angus. #AusPol npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 On the main street of Gundagai proper. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Me too! It closed for about 5 yrs and we all thought it was a gonner, but it's back better than ever! Am about to post pics... npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 At the Niagara in Gundagai for lunch, woohoo!! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Driving through #Farrer as it happens, and several old motels on the old (pre-bypass) highway into Albury are being used as long term accommodation: housing crisis laid bare. It's all the fault of those filthy immigrants, pushing folk out of proper housing, apparently. I wonder whether the PHON candidate has got beyond this bullshit to figure out who's doing all the shit jobs in Farrer, like aged care etc?? #AusPol npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Being an ANU alumna, I've received an email from the ANU Council on the subject of Bishopgate. I won't go into the details but you can imagine the bullshit. Sheesh... npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Kids left at 6 am to collect Mummy from the airport and OMG she's brought home some fabulous stuff from Peru: chocolate, pink salt, textiles, pottery, little musical instruments. .. wow. On our way home to kitteh, in the rain. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Lol. I have hearing aids and am always sure to wear them when others are around, particularly for the TV as it can be hard to hear words without seeing ppls' lips (yes, deafish ppl all lip read to a certain extent), and I remember the pain of looking after Dad when he had the TV up far too loud, grrrr... npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Bishop's buggered off. There is a god. #AusPo https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-08/julie-bishop-resigns-as-anu-chancellor/106657576l npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Precisely! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Exactly! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Today is David Attenborough's 100th birthday, hip hip hooray!! 🎂🎉🥂 Also the 44th wedding anniversary of myself and himself. 🎉🥂💐 Golly.... npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 I think you need to book 'an annual week away' with those recalcitrant rellos of yours. And this year's is due!! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Very thievable, I wonder how long it will last! npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Just caught up on today's news re the 'ISIS brides' and their children returning to Australia tomorrow. About time. Those poor kids have been through so much, the last thing they need is Fantastic Great Move Well Done Angus and his cronies being arseholes. Their mothers will no doubt cop some shit via ASIO (nowhere near the shit in Syria!), but leave the kids out of it. #AusPol npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 2/. Both girls very expertly helped me roll the echidna balls after school, then inhaled them at dinner, a great success and only 4 ingredients: mince, onion/ garlic, rice, tinned tomato soup.👌 Served with lots of veg. They also helped Roro make an instant vanilla pudding, and inhaled that too. Two more days with them then we're off home. I'm looking forward to a rest, oh yes indeed, but we're going to miss them awfully. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Such a bloody shitshow. Frank Bonjiorno basically said the same: Bishop and the Council need a rocket up 'em. I hope these good (union) guys can hang on till Bishop goes, at least. Good to see Pocock's support. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Made french toast with berries for the kids' brekky this morning and we've just finished up the leftovers for morning tea.👌 Himself is working today so I'm having a quietish day: bit of housework, shopping and cooking. Lola has requested echidna balls* for tea so we'll make them together after school. * 'Porcupine balls' but Straya, innit. npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Uh oh... npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 You should start playing with them a bit, riffing on the 'strange' theme... npub18j66cg54y4lv5a6a7qa0flce9sp3q4nj32c9vzqfted5t43st5zsk20e0q Jude🇵🇸 Yes, but what about Fiona in the local election? She isn't sure she wants to stand again (she'll be 63)... we need a successor!