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Might get to see not one, not two, not three, but four Matildas playing in the WSL at a stadium match!
Kyra Cooney-Cross has just been signed with Arsenal (to join Matildas Steph Catley and Caitlin Foord), and with Sam Kerr playing for Chelsea, it would be incredibly neat to see them all.
*gets out her Matildas beanie and dusts it off*
(It's also the only beanie I own. I'm absolutely gonna FREEZE in the northern hemisphere winter.)
Additionally, with all the rising interest in the Matildas' upcoming run for Olympic qualification, there's murmurs that at least some if not all the qualification rounds might be moved back the east coast and held at a major stadium.
I'm glad on my behalf - it might mean I could get tickets to see them - but it sucks for the people on th western side of the continent who were hoping to see it small and close at a local field.
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Took the Spring Veggie Garden course today. Was about 35C - and this is spring. Wednesday is predicted to be considerably worse. It's gonna be a helluva summer.
I'd planned for a beginner's class, and found myself facing a bunch of people who had gardens at various stages and at varying levels. So it was pretty much a case of answering questions and more questions. Loading them up with seedlings I'd planted a couple of weeks ago and sending them off. Hopefully it all works out for them!
Everyone else said it was successful, but I felt like a scatty idiot nattering on about everything and nothing. I wish I'd had better structure, but - again - faced with a bunch of people all at different stages of their garden and it all kinda went out the window.
Anyway, the community garden plot is going okay. I've planted out quite a bit of it, I think I might go by tomorrow afternoon or evening, maybe, and just toss down a bunch of mustard and lettuce and rocket seeds to give things a chance to grow.
The space is pretty huge, and I have mad plans for filling it full of vegies and flowers of all types and kinds. I don't actually have to go back, but I really quite like the community aspect of it. And an hour or two on a Saturday might invigorate me regarding my own garden. Plus, I like people and chatting with old people who vegie-garden is always interesting. I think they tend more open-minded, if only because they understand that it's not just about them. The gardening circle of life, death, rotting, and rebirth/growing again brings a less entrenched mindset.
So, yeah, Saturday mornings, probably until I go away.
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Tomorrow is the family lunch - both stepbros, SSILs, and the nephlets. Be interesting to see how the nephlets deal with each other - S (SB2's kid) is a year older than L (SB1's kid) - and pretty social. Will there be jealousy? Drama? Or will they be interested and intrigued and curious with each other?
I met L in person for the first time on Friday and he was adorable. Just on 11 months, so in that 'exploring things' phase, including 'everything goes in the mouth', 'do those boobs have food for me?', and 'things that make noise are AWESOME'.
SB2 is preaching at the parental church in the morning, so I'll go along to see that, and then double back to pick up some Chinese BBQ duck.
Now, how to keep conversations about the Indigenous Voice to Parliament sane...
My parents do not quite worship at the altar of Talkback Radio, but they're prone to listening too hard to Outrage Politics. And how do you counteract their arguments (logically, even though they're arguing emotionally) when you've got people who should Know Better (to whit, a woman from my permaculture group) who insisted that The Uluru Statement (an acknowledgement of the first peoples of Australia) was twenty-six pages (a lie perpetrated by one of the baldest-faced liars of talkback television that you ever met: think Whatshername McInerney) when it's less than a single page and you can go back to 2017 to find it.
But, I know, logic doesn't work. And they've been emotionally hotwired to outrage by the RWM.
I wonder if pointing out that the talkback hosts make money off telling people that the sky is falling will help them at least think twice before taking everything on hearsay?
Kyra Cooney-Cross has just been signed with Arsenal (to join Matildas Steph Catley and Caitlin Foord), and with Sam Kerr playing for Chelsea, it would be incredibly neat to see them all.
*gets out her Matildas beanie and dusts it off*
(It's also the only beanie I own. I'm absolutely gonna FREEZE in the northern hemisphere winter.)
Additionally, with all the rising interest in the Matildas' upcoming run for Olympic qualification, there's murmurs that at least some if not all the qualification rounds might be moved back the east coast and held at a major stadium.
I'm glad on my behalf - it might mean I could get tickets to see them - but it sucks for the people on th western side of the continent who were hoping to see it small and close at a local field.
--
Took the Spring Veggie Garden course today. Was about 35C - and this is spring. Wednesday is predicted to be considerably worse. It's gonna be a helluva summer.
I'd planned for a beginner's class, and found myself facing a bunch of people who had gardens at various stages and at varying levels. So it was pretty much a case of answering questions and more questions. Loading them up with seedlings I'd planted a couple of weeks ago and sending them off. Hopefully it all works out for them!
Everyone else said it was successful, but I felt like a scatty idiot nattering on about everything and nothing. I wish I'd had better structure, but - again - faced with a bunch of people all at different stages of their garden and it all kinda went out the window.
Anyway, the community garden plot is going okay. I've planted out quite a bit of it, I think I might go by tomorrow afternoon or evening, maybe, and just toss down a bunch of mustard and lettuce and rocket seeds to give things a chance to grow.
The space is pretty huge, and I have mad plans for filling it full of vegies and flowers of all types and kinds. I don't actually have to go back, but I really quite like the community aspect of it. And an hour or two on a Saturday might invigorate me regarding my own garden. Plus, I like people and chatting with old people who vegie-garden is always interesting. I think they tend more open-minded, if only because they understand that it's not just about them. The gardening circle of life, death, rotting, and rebirth/growing again brings a less entrenched mindset.
So, yeah, Saturday mornings, probably until I go away.
--
Tomorrow is the family lunch - both stepbros, SSILs, and the nephlets. Be interesting to see how the nephlets deal with each other - S (SB2's kid) is a year older than L (SB1's kid) - and pretty social. Will there be jealousy? Drama? Or will they be interested and intrigued and curious with each other?
I met L in person for the first time on Friday and he was adorable. Just on 11 months, so in that 'exploring things' phase, including 'everything goes in the mouth', 'do those boobs have food for me?', and 'things that make noise are AWESOME'.
SB2 is preaching at the parental church in the morning, so I'll go along to see that, and then double back to pick up some Chinese BBQ duck.
Now, how to keep conversations about the Indigenous Voice to Parliament sane...
My parents do not quite worship at the altar of Talkback Radio, but they're prone to listening too hard to Outrage Politics. And how do you counteract their arguments (logically, even though they're arguing emotionally) when you've got people who should Know Better (to whit, a woman from my permaculture group) who insisted that The Uluru Statement (an acknowledgement of the first peoples of Australia) was twenty-six pages (a lie perpetrated by one of the baldest-faced liars of talkback television that you ever met: think Whatshername McInerney) when it's less than a single page and you can go back to 2017 to find it.
But, I know, logic doesn't work. And they've been emotionally hotwired to outrage by the RWM.
I wonder if pointing out that the talkback hosts make money off telling people that the sky is falling will help them at least think twice before taking everything on hearsay?
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