Juanita McLaren
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Juanita McLaren
@juanitaeatingalone.bsky.social
Painter, crafter, gardener, linguaphile Social Policy Researcher, advocate, public speaker on policies impacting on single mothers families, Neurospicy, an ally who's always learning, big on sleeping, shit cook, adored by many - unknown to more
My view this morning from bedroom window at my bestie's....
May 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Hand-making congratulatory postcards for our new PM...
#auspol
#freepalestine
#ceasefirenow
May 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
March 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Sunflower kernals harvested - nature's pretty beautiful.
#sunflowers #giantsunflowers #yield #harvest #slowfood #nature
March 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Artist Katie Sfetkidis has done a really engaging installation in Little Malop St in Geelong about the history of protest in Geelong. She's even reinstated the protest book! Come down and write down what you wanna protest!
#art #protest #revolution #stopkillingwomen #installations
March 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Sun drying the sunflower kernals a bit more before storing. Going to see how they go replacing pine nuts in my pesto...Anyone done that before and how did it go?

#gardening #nature #sunflowers #sustainability #harvest #yield #photography
March 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Weaving with stuff around the house - the birth of a trug.

#gardening
#weaving
#fibreart
#rafia
#fibre
#baskets
#freestyle
March 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Apparently if you double your kids height at 2 years old that's how tall they'll be when they grow up. My nearly 16 year old is on track to be the exact height of this giant sunflower.
I predict a lot of head knocks on doorways.

#gardening
#sunflowers
#giantsunflowers
#nature
February 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
In breaking news, the beans are coming! The beans are coming!
#Gardening
#Nature
#Heirloom
#Beans
February 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Either someone pulled a Shakespeare & cursed me with pestilence or my body has been forced to give me a visual ailment cos I have Chicken Pox at 51. Every time I get up to do a small task the men in my house say "oh, you're better!" This is how women become scream machines.

Rest is resistance!
February 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The bees are going off chop in the corn. Their knee baskets are bulging with bright yellow pollen...
The ladybirds are having a lovely time of it too. Such a joy to watch all the gentle busyness.

#bees
#gardening
#vegetablegarden
#vegepatch
#ecosystems
#pollenators
#harvest
#distracted
#adhd
February 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Word on the street is that everyone in the area is having zero yields from their beans this season. These red and white runner beans are very pretty, the bees are loving them, but that is all. Stay tuned for the big stories.
#gardening
#bees
#climatechange
#beans
#heirloomvegetables
February 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Just for now my place in the revolution will be to love my fellow humans as much as I can. Just love love love and make art and grow my veges and keep loving. It's all a bit big ATM but so is my heart, and I reckon yours too.
#freepalestine
#transrightsarehumanrights
#refugeesarepeopletoo
February 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Today I was with a client & I was feeling light headed. I said "do you ever realise you haven't been breathing for a while?" He said"Yes, both times I died, but funnier than that was during my heart transplant I was heartless for a bit too!"
Oh we laughed!
His dog didn't get it.
#Braininjury
#stroke
February 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Eastern Beach as the clouds are coming in to cool the 38C day. What you can't see or hear are the jet skis and the hover board thingo that shoots the water to propel this guy into the air. He waved to all of us onlookers, but my annoyance, or a'noisence, outweighed the thrill of the spectacle.
February 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The plant in my painting about how fracturing and colourful moving into a new place can be keeps looking like celery no matter what I do...this is possibly because my home is palliative care for indoor plants and similarly where celery comes to die.
#acrylic
#acryliconboard
#painting
#art
February 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
*hair
February 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
After relaying my recurring airport dream to my BF, he observed that maybe my anxiety drags me around sometimes.
This lead to an earworm with Stop Dragging My Heart Around. I changed Heart to Hair.
Am now listening to #TomPetty for the first time in ages.
All in all a good result.
#ADHD #art
February 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM