The Vet has decreed that the five pet boy rats are too fat. She has said that four are obese and one is overweight.  The overweight one is Kennedy.  I suspect that he is not obese because of his disabilities – He is blind, hearing impaired and has a limited sense of smell. He also prefers to sleep through meal breaks.

Their ongoing health is a concern so an exercise and food intake regime has been developed.  They like to sleep on the upper mezzanine so their water and ‘dry’ food will be on the basement level.  Their ‘wet’ food will be on the ground floor.

The plan being ‘eat less, move more’.

The walking machine and treadmill have been significantly less popular.

Lorgue and Kennedy wondering if they are having fun yet.

"But I’m not going to put a general tag [of] racism on the Australian community, I do not accept that there is underlying racism in this country." – John HoWARd.

Really. Even in the wake of one NATION™‘s  popularity. The findings of the Palmer report. The hatred of middle-easterners. Issa’s harrowing experience where the mob accused him of having a bomb.

As someone who is other (although born here), has antecedents who are other, lives with people who are a different other – I disagree.

This event has shattered Australia’s idyll. I now understand my father’s protection (and fear) for us.
I wonder where/if this will end? Or will we always have the fear of this racist violence being just behind the next wave.

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Update: PM’s avoidant behaviour escalates.   

As a very young girl I was taught to knit by my Oma for the ‘boys on the front’.
I remember wondering why they might need woollen socks and scarves in Vietnam until I understood the finer points of Dementia.

I have recently reclaimed my ability to knit and have made a sock (for an amputee I know) and 3 hot-water bottle polo-neck covers.

Put your orders in for a SUKS original now…

Hello and welcome to the new home of suki has an opinion.

 
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