jomacmouse.bsky.social
A squeaky reader in the mouse house. Novacastrian Australian. Currently owned by two cavoodles, one old, one young. My home is in Barahineban of the Pambalong Awabakal people.
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I’ve been known to joke that it means lawyers & judges can’t have a particular kind of dessert. Any lawyer who likes trifle probably wouldn’t find it funny.
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It can do that on this side of the world, too, but it rarely does. Sympathies from experience.
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Think I was paying $200 & something for a two bedroom at Macquarie Park at that point. I’m not entirely certain that block of flats still exists.
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Yes, I’d be writing the ruddy job out of my system, even though I liked it & most of the people I worked with.
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If I were ever to write such a book, it wouldn’t be a client victim. It would be the managing partners of more than one firm. Speaking solely as someone who was a deeds clerk for 5 1/2 years, and had to put up with an awful example of the type at the firm I worked in, let alone others.
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So is the sudden appearance of a screw on the floor, which doesn’t seem important at first, but after which the desk starts to behave like two pieces instead of one. Eep!
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Slav will be Eastern Europe and Arunta is an alternative spelling for the name of one of Australia’s indigenous peoples. So that’s how far the fashion spread, causing trouble as it went.
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So it’s trying to warn us it may be about to fall to pieces. Me moving it this afternoon to try to reassemble & plug in Mum’s computer & related paraphernalia may have been the penultimate straw. We’ll see what my brother says this weekend. If he says thumbs down, well then.
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Will you sing about gold if enough time passes?
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It does make me wonder how long Jasper has, though. We’re hoping he can make it to 16, and there’s only a month to go. But he worries us sometimes.
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Pre-ordered in January. Just have to wait patiently for it to be out in Australia on 19 June.
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One king who doesn’t have much to do with anything locally political? Says a fellow Commonwealth country person.
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There’s a cartoon by the Australian political cartoonist Cathy Wilcox, where she draws herself being horrified by the headlines & taking her dog for a walk to recover, only to come back to more headlines. And she drew that one a few years ago, so it must be an evergreen idea.
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A better idea was had: we got in touch with our neighbours. They’re renting, so a little reluctant to do anything their landlords might not accept, but the panel is in place again temporarily, and they’ll talk to the landlords so they can talk to us about new fencing.
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And after typing that, I see the wind has knocked things over again. May need a heavier plant pot.
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Mum agrees that I should stop looking at the BoM app.
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Erk!
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The BoM website says snow showers on the Barrington Tops, with a maximum temperature of 1 degree C. Thanks, Upper Hunter Valley, thank you very much.
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I like that image & wish it was true.
Signed, an Australian with an unPuritanical arsehole convict in her family tree.
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Substitute an Australian magpie outside & a small fluffy dog inside and you have my home.
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Just emailed that to myself to look at later.
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Might explain one of my maternal grandfather’s forebears. Maybe. I don’t actually known if he was from Kent, just that he was sentenced to transportation from there.
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it’s basically two boofheads, one with a football, running straight at one another & thereby risking the same head injuries that Roberts & other former players have suffered the consequences of ever since. I suppose the alternative is running at a brick wall, but I don’t like that idea either.
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You win, when it comes to cold. I’m too close to the coast. Nonetheless, hibernation still sounds good.
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There’s an image, one that’s both funny & not funny, considering the circumstances. And I’m glad that you & Kat have averted further major repairs/renovations.
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It’s been 10 years, at least, since I last bought one. So something in me said to just have a look…
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Seconded.
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*looks at tv talking about the floods north of here*
*looks at blue sky finally overhead after days of rain*
*nods vehemently*
Give that chicken a cuddle from me too, please.
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I think you chose right the first time. Don’t know why but Manehattan seems to work better with the rest of it.