Soft kitty seeker

I enjoyed it, and not as much as his Thursday Murder Club ones though.

Is it by Richard Osman?

The guilt fades somewhat when I have to remove 2 dead mice from the living room.

Thug asleep on my belly. She's purring.

Need coffee but covered in purring cats so can't get up without feeling immense guilt at disturbing them.

In related funny things, 83% of western philosophy - be it analytic or continental - consists of unresolved lingering issues from the reformation

The details are longwinded, but the end result is that the most rabid militant atheists unwittingly marry themselves to a distinctly protestant worldview

we will Make Witch Happen

We have to get it into English

Favourite work thing today - learning that a German equivalent of "it's not rocket science" is "it's not the work of a witch"

Choose joy

went to the park and sat in the sun with nothing to do but feel the sun and listen to whatever's going on, which was mostly squirrel chases and high school kids on break, and that was good

There is a bottle of prosecco in the fridge - whatever happens I am opening it Friday night

OH wait it is the size of the tshirt not the size of me. I am clearly too brain dead to be doing this. I will measure one of my tshirts in the morning

I am trying but I have hit a problem, are those measurements right? I have a fairly normal 36inch bust size but the biggest at 5XL is only 32inches?

You star, will order tonight. Please write gift and under 20 euros when you do the oosting otgerwise Fucking Brexit means customs duty. Also it is only 18 degrees so far, not 28!

Right, gotta pay for that cat food. I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go.

Fb memories reminded me that it is 11 years since I had an argument in Kyiv with the then Ukrainian president's security detail before I had even had coffee. I didn't win, they made me walk all the way roundtable park to the coffee kiosk that was 50 metres away even though he wasn't there yet.

Do we get to choose the colour? I would say black but given it is already 28 degrees in the day may not be a wise choice.

Is this a tshirt yet? I'll brave post Brexit customs to get it to Sicily

I have banging but I like it because they may finally finish by this Friday

Love and light

Choose joy, there's a lot of it out there. You cannot overthrow evil on your own and we need to survive long enough to organise. So find those little bits of joy. Tiny lights, keep on shining, hold back the dark.

And the total was 42.42 so I started to explain why I had done a little snort of laughter and I think the cashier thought I was talking about some weird religion. I could hear Douglas Adams spinning in Highgate Cemetery. If someone is near leave a pen for me please.

Quoting Marx at a Norwegian woman as we wait for the supermarket to open is so on brand for me I worry I am becoming a caricature.

And that I am only here to get cat food.

What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here,
have my seat,” “Go ahead — you first,” “I like your hat.”

(thank you old me who left this poem in memories)

For the waitress
to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,
and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.
We have so little of each other, now. So far
from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.

3/4

And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other.
We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
at them and for them to smile back.

2/3 (or maybe 4)

Small Kindnesses
By Danusha Laméris

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.

1/3

Don't Hesitate by Mary Oliver If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

This seemed apt tonight.

I was just short of 4 years, frustratingly! I arrived February 2016 but hadn't realised the school hadn't in fact "sorted your residency" (I was unwise in the bureaucracy ways) so I wasn't legally resident until 2018.

Whereabouts are you? Congratulations on citizenship! Due to Brexit I can't apply until 2028, through residency though I've started sorting out documents already!