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Slight spanner add to the plans, but hoping some serendipity might come into it! Mumma Katie came home yesterday to discover her bathroom vanity pipe/hose had exploded and her house was flooded. :eek: After cleaning up what water she could with her neighbours, Mumma Katie stayed at our house...

So, this is our cruise: Knit Retreat 2025 At the start of the year, we finally started knuckling down with arrangements. But first - Mr Katie's BFF threw a spanner in the works. "Katie and Mumma Katie are on a cruise from Amsterdam to Basel in Euro Summer? Well, how about we re-do our Spring...

Trying to find the just right balance of not sitting too much, but not standing too much, not walking or exercising too much, but not being too sedentary. Doing exercise except for when it hurts. Sometimes ibuprofen helps a bit. I had a very ordinary Sunday and start to today. Yesterday my...

Who are you calling elderly?? 🤣🤣 I’m not even 50! Yet. 🤪😆 But there is pain, I’ve been in pain for about a year (though the cortisone injection into one hip for bursitis has helped with some of the pain, but not the spine pain; the facet joint cortisone injection did bugger all other than give...

Sometime way back when in 2023, I spotted an Instagram post by the Skein Sisters yarn store in Sydney (where I've never even walked through the door!) announcing a Rhine River knitting cruise in 2025. I mentioned this to Mumma Katie (my mother) and she seemed unexcited by the prospect. Her...

Had an MRI the other week on my lumbar spine. Have the report, but not seeing the ortho for a couple of weeks. Love this line (sarcasm) - it's making me feel very old! "Dessication of the intervertebral disc with marked loss of height" I prefer any dessication to be of coconut around my rum...

WOW! I'd better not let that power go to my head. 🤣🤣

I keep wanting to edit the title of the thread "Airports which are absurdly close .." to "Airports that are ..." Per my corporate style guide. :P

Well, I'm only a Pleb Silver with Hilton now, but here's some recent stays: Hilton Little Queen St, Melbourne April, 4 nights over Easter Booked: Family Connecting Room Received: 1 King, 1 Twin connecting rooms, Breakfast included, two water bottles replenished per room per day Canopy by...

With the Loft rooms, is the loo downstairs?

Oh, and that's my foot surrounded by those garra rufa fish that allegedly nibble the dead skin off your feet. Watch out for the fat ones. IRL, I'm much taller than a hobbitses.

Mine isn't my name, it's my initials, how they would be said.

Just had an injection in my hip for bursitis. I'm hoping it will be more effective than the injection in my facet joint in Feb (the only appreciable effect of that injection has been numbness along the side of my leg ever since). The injection hurt like <swear words>! The doctor reassured me...

Pulled a Pol Roger 2009 out of the fridge on Weds night to have with the ILs. They were over for dinner, as they do every week, and Thursday was their 60th wedding anniversary. Thursday was also their middle child's birthday, but most of the family went to a nice lunch in New Farm yesterday to...

Godzilla v Kong filming this week.

QF163 tonight delayed by 2 hours so far. I do not have good luck with sneaky weekends across the ditch.

It doesn't matter if it's checked through, because if it's only checked to SYD, then you can check the luggage in at the transfer desk for the SYD-BNE domestic leg on Qantas rather than just dropping it off at the same transfer desk.

My knitting can trigger the machines. It did at BNE domestic two weeks ago. The person looked at the image, asked if I had knitting in there, and gave me the bag. I think it was due to the circular needles and how they look wound around themselves in the XRay.

And I'm on a Thursday QF291 in July. Oh well.

It doesn't matter who you flew into Sydney with, as long as you're on Qantas from SYD to BNE, you can use that checkin/bag drop area and transfer bus.