Mar. 11th, 2014

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But, KITTEN news!

So we are adopting Nameless the kitten. I visited him this evening in a bid to get photos. Potential names include: Speedy, Ninja, Indefatigable, and – like all relaxed kittens – Fartybum. Will Not Bloody Stand Still For A Second Unless Being Cuddled is too long, and I was not taking a selfie of my norks, which he was burrowing into when cuddled. So here are two bad pix!

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Judging from his running around the vet room trying to make friends with all the cats and dogs (especially Jack the Jack Russell terrier), his epic levels of sluttitude are not confined to humans. And when I put him back in his cage, there was yet more epic levels of mewling and reaching out with paws in an astonishing display calculated to induce the maximum amount of guilt kittily possible. So Classic Jewish Mother, My Actual Mother, Pope Francis and (my great friend) Arty's Greek Nona would all also be appropriate names, albeit unwieldy.

And I had a little chat with Lynxie the kitten so miniature his name has had to be made into a diminutive. His chart even reads 'Needs to gain significant weight.' Here he is, and you can see why we think he might not do well in our small house of much heavy stuff, big boofy Monster cats and Mr Brammerses:
photo(16) That is a cutaway 4L bottle he is sleeping in. Those are his little shoulder and hip bones you can see jutting out. If we had a bigger house and I had a career that could be done from home, obviously I would also be adopting him!

And now I need to do a load of washing, water the garden, bake Anzac biscuits and get to bed before midnight, which is in 95 minutes. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! [Fade to sounds of slightly manic laughter.]

Nice!

Mar. 11th, 2014 10:44 pm
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I really like the mother and school principal in this story! http://www.dailylife.com.au/life-and-love/parenting-and-families/my-eightyearold-daughter-just-wants-to-be-a-boy-20140308-34eth.html

And you may all judge me on this, but I confess that since I found out the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was hugely supportive of his friend Lt Col Cate McGregor's journey through gender reassignment, I keep thinking that he can't really be as bad as he's otherwise appeared. Julia Gillard is totally going to block me on Twitter for that …

(She wouldn't actually, because she is super lovely and would instead say, 'Well, I can see how you would find that a sympathetic quality and I can only hope that it is more representative of the way that he will manage his interactions with more people going forward.')

Finally, is it just me, or is this sign risible?
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You will note that the sign also points away from the sight lines of the cyclists using the path, which is an uphill contraflow on Wilson St in Newtown. Having mocked it, I should in fairness add that it is a very useful cycle path if you're kicking up to central Newtown!

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