Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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A tiny fix
So a while ago I started to consider getting some sugru – because the cable that ran between the cassette adaptor I use in the Prius and the ‘phone had started to split. Unfortunately, and in what is the story of many repairs in my life, I didn’t quite get there in time. Indeed, the…
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Well, this is spectacularly awful.
So. It seems that the conservatives are likely to win this election. I didn’t expect the left to be hugely ahead or anything, I expected a fairly close election. I really didn’t expect what currently looks like the conservatives looking so strong (at 61 seats left to go). It’s an astonishingly depressing start to a…
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Onward, Onward, Ever Onward…
So, today I got my request for the nursing transcript to go from my Uni to the US to be assessed sent in. Thankfully it’s only cost £25 this time – being a repeat of my previous request. This allowed me to tick the first box of my items in the ‘the great escape (list)’…
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Progress comes but once a year.
Or something like that. I am attempting to envisage this bit like the moment the rocket boosters start on a space rocket, lots of fire and smoke and seemingly not a lot of movement. Today not being a bank holiday mean that, despite me being post-night super tired we stopped off at the bank with…
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…and that went particularly well.
So I walked into the bank and the friendly clerk, on my asking for a physical paper real actual thing type money order, rather than a digital one, looked confused and disorientated. She checked the calendar… no, it is 2015. She asked if I could possibly do it online. Having explained that no, it says…
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So, in terrifying activities
In a moment (when I finish my tea) I’m going to go to the bank and attempt to obtain an $88 money order. It’ll go in this envelope [points] which contains an application to be a registered nurse in WA. It goes with the $350 I sent over [there] to a company to assess my…
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Retail Therapy?
So there’s this job, right? A job which I’m really, really interested in, but can’t interview for because I’m not going to be in the US by the time that it’s ready. Which is frustrating. Really quite frustrating. More positive is that the person who reviewed my application suggested that if the timing’s right, in…
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Well, that sucks
So as we explore other baby options prior to our next clinic appointment we were poking at adopting from Sri Lanka, given that half of my DNA is from there. And there it was: Under Sri Lankan law, single individuals cannot adopt; married couples must jointly apply for adoption. Although existing laws in Sri Lanka…
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Onwards ever onwards
So we’ve had a busy few weeks, what with both Kathryn and I ageing another year, and Kathryn’s dad & partner visiting us from abroadland. We took them on a whistlestop tour of England, calling at Bath, Bristol, Stonehenge & Avebury stone circles and London – then we went for a brief sojurn in Kent…
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Get some Poise
So, for Kathryn’s Birthday I hunted out a somewhat battered old anglepoise lamp with the intention of refurbishing it for her. It did look somewhat sad when I pulled it from the box… After a really good clean, a lot of spraying, finding a very similar paint (courtesy of Cass art, who were lovely), Unfortunately,…