Betsy @betsybookworm@cloudisland.nz

A flock of noisy miners just had a loud argument with a flock of (invasive) indian minahs over the power pole outside my house, and the noisy miners seem to have won!

*hugs* to NZ friends 💙

Do you need some adorableness in your Wednesday evening? Suki can provide.

I have done other things these last few days I swear. Yesterday afternoon I cleaned out all my dead houseplants, got some new ones, and potted them up.

I have spent the majority of the last three days playing Timberborn. Today is my last day off work. I have just stepped away from the computer for a snack. Do I go and play more Timberborn now y/y?

Thanks to #LCA2022 I finally got around to making a Bookwyrm account! @betsybookwyrm@bookwyrm.social
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Had to go out to get coffee beans this morning, so I had my first barista-made coffee since before the holidays, and I broke out my well-loved LCA 2019 cup in honour of LCA this weekend (and my last overseas trip). #linuxconfau

I have done the books and scrubbed the shelves of one of the two bookcases so far. The bottom shelf was so bad. I found three silverfish also, stuff of nightmares.

Lots of books, including my three oldest and most precious (to me) now have cockroach poo stains 😭

Fortunately so far I've only found one thing eaten by the silverfish, and it's not one I care about.

My housework for this week (before LCA, as I will be on camera) was to take the books off of the bookcases in my room and give it all a thorough dust.

Now that has become: take all the books out of the bookcases in my room, give them a shake and clean, scrub the cockroach poo off the shelves, and then move the bookcases out to clean up whatever horror lies behind them 🙀🙀🙀

How even are cats?

I have a sewing assistant

That was my 10th blood donation! They gave me a little blood-drop pin :)

I lost count of the times she'd killed me before I stopped playing for like six months, I can't believe I survived

!!! Picked up Hades for the first time in many many months and after a few goes I defeated Meg for the first time ever!!!

This morning I went for a bike ride to a park with swings with a lovely view under the lovely canopy of this lovely tree

I must have missed this story the first time around, or else I've completely forgotten it. It's lovely! A nice smile for difficult times.

https://podcastle.org/2021/11/16/pc-706-tales-from-the-vaults-the-newsboys-last-stand/ The Newsboy's Last Stand by Krystal Claxton, on PodCastle

Cauliflower pickles-to-be pictured with chilli bush