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I’ve had to escort two rather large huntsman spiders outside today (one at work and one at home) and that’s two too many for one day.
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I’ve had to escort two rather large huntsman spiders outside today (one at work and one at home) and that’s two too many for one day.
My first impressions of tonight’s #SeaKraken game. Murray deserves a win. I actually have a player who’s not my favourite. And our fourth line is still chaotically good.
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
My first impressions of tonight’s #SeaKraken game. Murray deserves a win. I actually have a player who’s not my favourite. And our fourth line is still chaotically good.
So exciting to see #KeanuReeves here on Bluesky, and such an honour to have him following me 🙄
November 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
So exciting to see #KeanuReeves here on Bluesky, and such an honour to have him following me 🙄
There’s still a couple of months to go, but I’m getting excited for harvest day! 155 (give or take, the cockatoos got in before I put the net over) garlic plants, all looking pretty good. #garlic #homegrown 🌱🧄
September 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
There’s still a couple of months to go, but I’m getting excited for harvest day! 155 (give or take, the cockatoos got in before I put the net over) garlic plants, all looking pretty good. #garlic #homegrown 🌱🧄
Spring is buzzing along nicely in my garden. 🌱🐝
September 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Spring is buzzing along nicely in my garden. 🌱🐝
I haven’t been a consistent participant this year, but thank you to @danielle-baldock.bsky.social for organising and running this years #30words30days. It’s always a lot of fun and a good way to get the creativity flowing. 😊
April 30, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I haven’t been a consistent participant this year, but thank you to @danielle-baldock.bsky.social for organising and running this years #30words30days. It’s always a lot of fun and a good way to get the creativity flowing. 😊
Weaving herself into other people’s lives was easy. But the knots that held the fabric of those relationships together was a skill she was yet to master.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #weave
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #weave
April 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Weaving herself into other people’s lives was easy. But the knots that held the fabric of those relationships together was a skill she was yet to master.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #weave
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #weave
April 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Popping a pimple, Paul scrutinised his preposterous wig. Perhaps this off-off-(and even further) off Broadway production, “Penelope, Princess of the Peninsula”, was not the place to launch his career.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #pop
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #pop
April 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Popping a pimple, Paul scrutinised his preposterous wig. Perhaps this off-off-(and even further) off Broadway production, “Penelope, Princess of the Peninsula”, was not the place to launch his career.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #pop
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #pop
She felt fizzy. Good (cola-spider) or bad (Daddy’s beer), she didn’t know yet. She unfolded the note. “Yes”! He would be her boyfriend! She floated home on sticky icecream bubbles.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #fizz
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #fizz
April 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
She felt fizzy. Good (cola-spider) or bad (Daddy’s beer), she didn’t know yet. She unfolded the note. “Yes”! He would be her boyfriend! She floated home on sticky icecream bubbles.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #fizz
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #fizz
After the children went home (24 six year olds!), and the birthday boy crashed, she plundered the fridge. Fairy bread, sausage rolls, lollies, and cake. Diet and adulthood be damned!
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #plunder
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #plunder
April 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
After the children went home (24 six year olds!), and the birthday boy crashed, she plundered the fridge. Fairy bread, sausage rolls, lollies, and cake. Diet and adulthood be damned!
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #plunder
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #plunder
“Think of the happy times”, they tell her. So she lets her mind wander back. The realisation of how bad things have become crushing her.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #wander
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #wander
April 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
“Think of the happy times”, they tell her. So she lets her mind wander back. The realisation of how bad things have become crushing her.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #wander
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #wander
First, weight loss. Then she switched lipstick. Hair colour. Implants (cheeks, breasts). New eyebrows, teeth, wardrobe. Looking at the stranger in the mirror, she only saw who she had been.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #switch
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #switch
April 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
First, weight loss. Then she switched lipstick. Hair colour. Implants (cheeks, breasts). New eyebrows, teeth, wardrobe. Looking at the stranger in the mirror, she only saw who she had been.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #switch
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #switch
Dive in.” My host smiled at the fishbowl of steaming mud. I attempted enthusiasm. The smell was off-putting enough, but the movements? Intergalactic Cultural Ambassador wasn’t always an easy job.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #dive
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #dive
April 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Dive in.” My host smiled at the fishbowl of steaming mud. I attempted enthusiasm. The smell was off-putting enough, but the movements? Intergalactic Cultural Ambassador wasn’t always an easy job.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #dive
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #dive
I could hear her before I saw her. Apartment lights lining the narrow alley glinted off her jangling bracelets and PVC catsuit. Clearly our idea of ‘cat-burgling’ were very different.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #jangle
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #jangle
April 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I could hear her before I saw her. Apartment lights lining the narrow alley glinted off her jangling bracelets and PVC catsuit. Clearly our idea of ‘cat-burgling’ were very different.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #jangle
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #jangle
Incense smoke hovered in the gloom. Crystals reflected rainbows. The cards on the black cloth going my way. She picked the next one from the deck, flipping it. Draw four!
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#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #flip
April 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Incense smoke hovered in the gloom. Crystals reflected rainbows. The cards on the black cloth going my way. She picked the next one from the deck, flipping it. Draw four!
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #flip
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #flip
The party’s promises swivelled with the tide of public opinion, but they were only words. Their foundational policies, rarely mentioned, never budged. After the election, people learnt the difference.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #swivel
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #swivel
April 6, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The party’s promises swivelled with the tide of public opinion, but they were only words. Their foundational policies, rarely mentioned, never budged. After the election, people learnt the difference.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #swivel
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #swivel
If mine heart doth flutter upon your vision, it is merely the horror of thy conversation and the dreadful ennui it brings forth to encompass my very existence.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #flutter
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #flutter
April 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
If mine heart doth flutter upon your vision, it is merely the horror of thy conversation and the dreadful ennui it brings forth to encompass my very existence.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #flutter
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #flutter
Deep breath. Tentative steps. How hard could it be? “Very” her body answered, gravity taking control, left skate skidding forwards, right skate twirling outwards, throwing her backwards onto the ice.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #twirl #truestory
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #twirl #truestory
April 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Deep breath. Tentative steps. How hard could it be? “Very” her body answered, gravity taking control, left skate skidding forwards, right skate twirling outwards, throwing her backwards onto the ice.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #twirl #truestory
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #twirl #truestory
Float? Burn the witch! Sink? The innocent drown. Falling overboard after too many free drinks and over-indulging at the buffet? I just bob along, awaiting the inevitable.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #float
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #float
April 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Float? Burn the witch! Sink? The innocent drown. Falling overboard after too many free drinks and over-indulging at the buffet? I just bob along, awaiting the inevitable.
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #float
#30words30days #30words30dayscommunity #amwriting #float
One of our new girls just laid her first egg! #backyardchickens
March 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
One of our new girls just laid her first egg! #backyardchickens
My 18 year old cat just killed a large spider in the bathroom (and I’m Australian, so when I say large, I mean LARGE). I probably would have just escorted it outside, but go her and kitty killer instincts.
March 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
My 18 year old cat just killed a large spider in the bathroom (and I’m Australian, so when I say large, I mean LARGE). I probably would have just escorted it outside, but go her and kitty killer instincts.
Second skate today, and this time I didn’t fall over or get any bruises. Did just order some padded shorts though, I think my fear of falling again is holding me back. That, and a complete lack of coordination.
March 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Second skate today, and this time I didn’t fall over or get any bruises. Did just order some padded shorts though, I think my fear of falling again is holding me back. That, and a complete lack of coordination.
Hitting the ice for the first time. Probably quite literally. Probably quite a lot.
February 28, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Hitting the ice for the first time. Probably quite literally. Probably quite a lot.
February 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM