Ugh was that headline written by Copilot? Since when is ‘up’ a verb?
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Ugh was that headline written by Copilot? Since when is ‘up’ a verb?
Good lord, I miss Making Light.
I once gave a full academic paper at a conference in the US and the first question, more of a comment really, was ‘oh my god, I LOVE your accent.’ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Artful would say cahf. A caff is where you get your egg and chips.
A perfect rhyme in my Australian English.
The article also criticises using home tests. When GPs flatly refuse to see patients with respiratory symptoms in person, insisting on Telehealth, it’s pretty hard to test any other way. Have had this experience with several different practices this season.
It’s a lovely pattern, and a quick knit.
Finished! Halibut sweater designed by Caitlin Hunter, knitted for a beloved kid. #Craftsky
Attacking health infrastructure, killing journalists, starving children - how many more flagrant breaches of international law will governments tolerate before sanctioning PM Netanyahu and stopping trade with Israel? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Canberra March for Palestine today. Extraordinary mixed crowd all united to end the genocide
Canberra standing up for Palestine
And it’s finished , a cabled vest for my adult daughter. Two weeks knitting and a lot of fun, in green alpaca. #knitting
It makes me despair for the human race tbh
Can recommend the Cork-Roscoff route. Travelled France to Ireland last year and Roscoff is gorgeous
?? There were nearly 200,00 new citizens naturalised in Australia last year, just below the number of births in Oz. www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and...
Baby Brains (there are several) , Pig the Pug, Henry the Book-Eating Boy, Mama and P and Baby Joe. These are among the ones I can read hundreds of times without pain
Any Greek lentil soup recipe, like this one. You can also use it as a pasta sauce or even make veg lasagne. thegreekfoodie.com/greek-lentil...
#ShowMeYourKnits I have recently finished this and it’s hardly been off my partner since. It’s so nice when your work is appreciated 💜
Lucky my family has a lot of heads
Self striping sock wool makes excellent baby cardigans, ans is machine washabe
When your extended family will be getting new knitted hats #CraftSky
I’m looking forward to summer in Australia and foraging wild plums near my home. Last year there were none at all. I will be making Georgian plum sauce for sure!
‘Someone like you’, but bluegrass royalty. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr4k...
We have driven Sydney to Broken Hill and back, among 60,000 other kms, in our EV, just takes a bit of planning. You need to take breaks anyway, so just charge and stroll while doing so.
I was a technical writer for a big Australian insurance company in the late 1990s and they knew it then.
Not a thing in Australia or the UK either. A bar tab has always been one of those odd things you see in American movies.
You have more persistence than me. I gave up and get my warmth with cables now.
This happened to me too, even after swatching and calculating. Frogged it for a pair of socks. So annoying!
Damn More of this please
Wow. These have been banned in Australia for a decade because they give people cancer.
It is.
Albo is the Stephen Bradbury of AusPol
Check out Daoiri Farrell’s version. Saw it live at the Gaelic Club the other week. youtu.be/2lw1T-M_FNc
Here in Australia candidates are selected by internal party processes, with no primary elections, and of course you can spoil your ballot, leave it blank or even take it away with you and not submit it — no one checks that you have put it in. Our independent electoral commission conducts elections.
An Australian version is ‘Flash as a rat with a gold tooth’.
Hey #auspol H Fong has a phone number
Thanks! I texted him just now.
Have you tried taking magnesium? Makes a difference for me.
Rick, you are a deadset national treasure. Thanks for your work on so many topics and your consistently humane perspective.
Yep, lucky you. I grew great mulberries in Sydney, kilos of them and plenty for the birds too.
Depending where you are a mulberry tree is incredibly productive and beautiful. And sweet potatoes are the bomb for actual bulk food.
It’s not just Americans. Many are liquidating their international stocks into their own currencies. The US is impoverishing the world s well as itself.
Gus died in 1994.
That sounds really horrible and I’m sorry you’ve had to put up with it. Good on you for persisting.
I think it’s going to be greatly improved, renewed and refreshed. Not before time.
Lots of Australians now vowing never to buy another American product again tho. Spoke to two tonight who have cancelled planned visits to the USA.
Yep. I’m cheering from Sydney — at last there’s some hope for resistance from the Democrats. Many around the world are watching the heartbreaking spectacle of the United States imploding.
My boy/boy twins are 35 this year and both have kids. There’s such a lot of joy ahead of you. I love how you are savouring every moment with them.
Monkey Do is another Ahlberg that is still available and fun to read. Lots of detail and foreshadowing in the pictures and a very relatable frazzled mother, coping with chaos.
It was! www.royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/the...
My son played the Postman in a stage musical adaptation of the Jolly Christmas Postman in England last year. It had all the charm of the books, and was developed with the Ahlberg Estate. The show will be on again next Christmas in Manchester.
Alfie and Annie Rose books are the absolute favourite of my 4 year old grandson, having also been his mother’s favourite several decades ago. Evergreen.
When you drive from the Southern Ocean to Sydney you see some remarkable skies.
River Cartwright would watch Slow Horses. Repeatedly.
Billy Bragg wrote a song about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgQL...
The end of tomato season brings green tomato chutney.
You are an inspiration to many Asher. I hope this hard time passes soon.
I eat meat, dairy and eggs and I live in Australia and I still need to take Vitamin D every day. It’s a mystery.
Yep they were still running on the line to Lewisham in 1987.
Totally worth a trip to the museum in Bayeux, if you get the chance.
I’m making panel 10 in Bayeux stitch —from a kit made in Bayeux. Great fun.
It’s the autumn equinox for us 😢
You should check out the Brother Brothers. Excellent music, might be your vibe www.thebrotherbrothersmusic.com
It’s gorgeous Urth Uneek sock yarn, colour ‘Harmony’. A pleasure to knit.
So beautiful!
This is a remarkable piece #craftsky sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-crafts...
Still very warm here in Canberra but we will be expecting frost next month. Winter plantings are on my mind.
Means winter is coming though,and you are on the way to summer.
Two more pairs of hand knitted socks to add to the gift pile #CraftSky
Basil carnage in my garden leading rapidly to pesto in my fridge 🌱
Australians are coming to similar conclusions. johnquigginblog.substack.com/p/dispensing...
Thanks for writing the truth. Your courage inspires others.
In Australia feral goats denude arid lands in their millions.
We have a Hyundai Kona electric. Great car and has taken us outback as well as up and down the East Coast.
You are a prisoner in a room guarded by two Albaneses. One of the Albaneses always tells the truth and the other is a gutless disgrace. If you have to ask which is which then good lord what the hell is wrong with you.
Not all Guardian readers are from the UK, you know
I’ve been embroidering a panel of the Bayeux tapestry for this reason, feeling those 12thC women over my shoulder, teaching me patience.
I loved it but it was a lot of work, and even growing sweet potatoes we wouldn’t have reached subsistence.
I had a 1/4 acre garden in a subtropical climate (Sydney) with chickens, fruit trees and vegetables and we had mulberries, corn, cucumbers, pumpkins, lettuce, silver beet, beetroot, and tomatoes in summer, and silver beet, spinach and cabbage in winter. And I STILL went grocery shopping every week.
f you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery 🌱 #Bloomscrolling
In solidarity with the international workers trying to keep humanity safe from disease, don’t let the US destroy WHO. I just donated. whofoundation.donorsupport.co/page/FUNEKRB...
David Milner, accurate as ever
Such a beautiful shop!
That’s magnificent, and very impressive for a first go.
Doesn’t work in Australia, or at least for me. My subscription was just cancelled. Which is ok, have been meaning to do that.
An evening on the NSW far south coast. Nothing more peaceful than a mob of grazing kangaroos.
That’s very moderate, really. I have three sweaters on the needles and I’m casting on another pair of socks. A knitter needs variety!
I’m absolutely loving the embroidery — it feels like the ladies of the Norman Court are just over my shoulder, helping. I’ve been wondering if they had an embroidery equivalent of handwriting, and were able to tell that Lady Agatha had made panel X just by looking.
Summer holidays well spent, embroidering a panel of the Bayeux Tapestry from Bayeux Broderie ( www.bayeux-broderie.com ) and knitting a new pair of socks for the winter, after giving the last batch away over Christmas. #craftsky
This is the single-most on-point interview I've ever read about Covid. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
A glorious morning at Canberra’s National Botanic Garden. Flowers, birds and lizards everywhere 🌱
We watched it one time with the book in hand and it is remarkably close to the original, almost verbatim in places. It holds up so well though, even now.
The seven salad spread, with cold ham, turkey and salmon of a hot Australian Christmas, including lentil and sweet potato, broccoli slaw, fattoush, watermelon and feta, asparagus, potato salad and mixed vegetable salad.
We made my aunt’s Christmas pudding recipe which calls for ‘breakfast cups’ of ingredients. We improvised with metric cups and it worked! ‘Tis the season for vintage cooking.
Contempt is correct
The reason convicts’ government issue clothes were marked all over with large arrows was to stop convicts selling them as clothes were in extremely short supply in 1790s New South Wales and were incredibly valuable. I imagine US prison clothes were striped for the same reason.
Happy that in my new apartment life I can still find enough for dinner in my allocated garden bed. Cucumber, spring onions, beans and zucchini today with tomatoes, silver beet and eggplant to come soon. 🌱
Yes it is. And very wise. Really, thank you. It took me back to that strange sad beautiful time, but in a good way.
