Clouds drifting by

12 What subject were you worse at at school?

Chemistry. I had no interest in it and I always felt sick from the smell of gas.

As an aside, our Science teacher looked like a frog in glasses, was rumoured to be a perv, and wore Rupert the Bear trousers.

1 Would you rather relive the last 365 days or lose a year of your life?
2 What is your most mundane encounter with a celebrity?
3 What's the best advice you've ever received and ignored?
4 What's the best museum you've ever been to?
5 Twelfth Night is also known as Epiphany. Have you ever had an epiphany?

1 Would you rather relive the last 365 days or lose a year of your life?
Unless I could fix things (like not break my foot and spend months in agony), then take a year of my life.

2 What is your most mundane encounter with a celebrity?
I haven't met so many that any were mundane!

3 What's the best advice you've ever received and ignored?
Put your legs up every day, it'll help ease the swelling.

4 What's the best museum you've ever been to?
One I went to as a kid. They had a recreation of a Victorian street. I loved it.

5 Twelfth Night is also known as Epiphany. Have you ever had an epiphany?
Yep.

Happy New Year!

I hope 2019 brings us all good things and good times, and becomes a year we can look back on with fondness. *hugs flist*

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-46561449
(The full article is there.)

A letter to Santa written by a Victorian schoolgirl has been discovered 120 years on.

In it five-year-old Marjorie from Eastbourne asks for toy ducks and chickens, a canvas stocking and a piece of ribbon and a ball for her cat, Kittykins.

The letter, dated 2 December 1898, was found hidden inside a book donated to a charity shop.

It is now being displayed at a toy shop in Canterbury.

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I hope Marjorie and her cat got their gifts. ♥

This guy had a parcel stolen from his porch. He decided to teach parcel thieves a lesson.

He also worked for NASA. <--- Important bit of info.

I've always found it odd that Daisy doesn't really go for human food. If I have anything involving eggs, she might sniff or lick at them, and mayo garners a small interest, but otherwise no.

Today, I said I'd have some cereal bars instead of breakfast so I could make sure to have time for a shower. By the time Daisy came back in, I was back in bed, the carers had gone, and I'd eaten one bar. The other lay unwrapped on my bedside locker. (Carole unwrapped it as I can't undo most wrappers.) Daisy jumped up on the locker then started sniffing the air. A quick investigation (it was by her feet) revealed the cereal bar.

She was absolutely delighted and promptly set about enthusiastically licking it and nibbling at the edges.

Cooked chicken gets a "Meh!" while Alpen strawberry and yoghurt bar gets eyes closed in ecstasy followed by a very thorough face and ears wash.

Maybe it's down to her being a stray for 6months but it's decidedly odd.

From Tuesday I'll be off bed rest. I'll have to spend every afternoon lying down but at least that's only for 4 hours.

My feet are looking better. My right foot is close to healed.

Christine is visiting on Saturday, so I'll be allowed up for 4 hours while she's here. \o/

1. What is your current main mode of transportation? e.g. car, bike, subway, walking etc.
Wheelchair.

2. Are you satisfied with your current main mode of transportation (answer to question 1)? Why?
No, not really. I'd far rather be able to walk.

3. Do you think you'll change your means of transit soon? e.g. buy a car, get rid of your car, walk more etc.? If so why?
Unfortunately not.

4. If time distance and money were not factors how do you prefer to get from point A to point B?
Carried in a litter by umpteen handsome guys.

5. What was your worst transit experience?
Being in a patient transport ambulance and my wheelchair slid. They strap the wheels down so they're not supposed to move. They had to stop the ambulance and strap my wheels down again.

This has happened to me twice over the past 2 days, so I thought I'd post a warning in case anyone else gets hit.

I was reading a messageboard and one of the pages was redirected to a Firefox warning page with a pop up urging me to "download this security patch". Fortunately, I didn't as I'm extremely suspicious of that kind of crap.

I went looking and found this from Firefox.

The ads on the affected pages are hacked to redirect you to a fake webpage. If it happens to you don't download the security patch.

I've spent most of the day thinking about Manchester.

I hope and pray all those who are missing are found quickly, if only to give their families peace of mind.