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lockdown, day: dunno
actually day five of potentially four weeks. depending how seriously people take it. i have some doubts. the messaging around the lockdown has all been simple, straight forward, easy to understan...
bob the welder
there’s a picture of bob on the top left corner of his website. australian, elderly looking fellow kitted out in his welding gear. tipping his hat, er, welding hood. about what i expected. top bl...
i couldn't eat two lunches
or probably any lunch, next winter. but there was a spare lunch in hospital. someone finished their cancer treatment early. the problem is the infusion usually starts at about 10:15am and by lunc...
and it's almost autumn
good news. somehow i managed to not make the observation that the welder was like a glue stick and the metal a cardboard cutout of a dinosaur. i’m fairly sure peter would’ve been mortally offende...
long weekend
jimmy was here wednesday night. mostly we’ve just been pulling apart the new house, across the lane from his house. patching some things. there’s so much renovating to do in there. almost half of...
i punched myself in the face
last monday. probably looked hilarious but gladly no one saw. writing that makes me think of piglet, she’d have loved to have seen that. payback for all the times i laughed at her whenever clumsi...
they had pickled beetroot
for lunch. last week. in the hospital. cooked, pickled beetroot. with some sort of sauce. i’ve never experienced this before. pickled and cooked. boiled? possibly. most likely. who really knows? ...
it was a long week
infusion tomorrow. finally. finally? huh. yeah, okay. quiet week. not much to write about.
i've been struggling to stay awake
i’m pretty sure i could go back to bed now and sleep the rest of the day. and night. i feel like i’m way overdue an infusion. i just spent five confused minutes trying to figure out why i didn’t ...
have you met joe connor? his nickname's dick
there’s some young lads, around 12 years old. i was trying to talk them into getting into trouble. even told them they could use my name and address if they did get in trouble. it’d be hilarious ...
my spuds aren't ready yet
it’s pretty upsetting. i had to dig up three plants just to get one meal. normally there’s too many and they end up being stuffed into cupboards and tumbling out when all you wanted was a plate. ...
well, that was something
the river flooded. pretty normal for this time of year. normally when we get a flood the river rises and drops within a matter of days. the river’s been flooded since last tuesday. normally the r...
i had an infusion last week
it seemed like it lasted forever. my ears hurt by the time i left. that whole family must’ve been partially deaf. i can’t figure any other explanation for an ordinary conversation to be carried o...
i'm not writing today
well. i’m here so clearly i am writing. okay. anyway. we had a thunder storm last week. golf ball sized hail stones. it smashed some of the roofing here, peter and i fixed it over the weekend. i...
the old bugger must've been embarrassed
about crashing the van last week because he called last tuesday asking if i’d help with something and while i was there he started talking about how the tree in the driveway needs to be trimmed. ...
the old bugger called last tuesday
asked if i’d take a quick road trip with him. in the van? yeah, in the van. ohh, yeah… righto. there goes another year off my life. we’re off to dunsandel this time. an easier drive. the road the...
i think i wrote last time that i spent one afternoon in the garden
that was the previous week and had i thought i had caught up with everything that needed doing. what the fuck was i even on about? the old bugger usually grows pumpkins on the front patch of gard...
infusion yesterday
wiped out, today. my whole body always shakes the morning after an infusion and i have my laptop on a pillow on my knee and my shaking is making the screen wobble. if i try to make myself sit sti...
call eye clinic tell cell no. monday
i had a call this morning. can you please come and mow my lawns before it rain this afternoon? yeah, righto. be there in a jiffy. i noticed yesterday they were really overgrown. i hadn’t visited ...
we didn't burn down the hayshed
it’s still there, still full of hay. the boys even raked the weeds into a pile by themselves. they tried to pull the retard act first though. at first i left them to it and when i go to check on ...
i got out of hospital early last week
that’s two infusions without the slow start, hopefully it’s in my notes now and the other nurses will do the same. if i get out early enough before the infusion starts kicking then it’s not such ...
i'm tired
the old bugger gets his valve fixed on wednesday, he went to hospital last week. peter and i drove up to christchurch yesterday to visit him. apparently i can’t just walk away from a hospital wit...
yesterday was south canterbury anniversary day
i rotor tilled the garden again and resprayed the weeds. i sprayed the weeds on his driveway too since the tank still felt half full. or fully full. it feels full even after it’s empty. he’s got ...
my uncle died last week
quick entry, i have to get ready for the funeral soon. i finally finished most of those skirting boards i painted a few weeks back. i still have a few more to nail together. i didn’t visit the o...
