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Over to the Mr Katie and Katie week in the lead up to departure. Weekend prior - spent tidying, washing sheets, preparing spare bedroom for our lesbian invaders, and making meals for the dog and the Teen when she returns, as well as GF and onion free for our first lesbian invader (aka dear...

Alrighty, we’re now half way through the Katie and Mr Katie portion of the trip, so time to start updating this thread. The Teen and Mumma Katie - Paris edition. They caught the Eurostar on a Sunday afternoon, and made their way to Hotel Meslay Republique, which Mumma Katie chose without any...

The Teen and Mumma Katie have completed their time in London and are now in their next city. Some London notes: On arrival, their luggage took almost an hour to arrive at the carousel. The Teen was messaging me to use the Apple Find My app to check they were in London and not in DOH still...

Thanks to being able to see my MRI report in the QScan app, and to my physio, I understand more about my back pain than what the ortho explained to me. He basically said my discs are degenerating/have degenerated, there’s no surgical answer and I should see a pain management clinic. Severe...

Thanks to renos at BNE, this was the best departure pic I got of the Teen and Mumma Katie.

Cruise updates There must be some water issues in the Rhine, as our cruise is now finishing in Breisach instead of Basel. The cruise line will get us into Basel on disembarkation day (Mumma Katie and I were arranging our own transfers/what we were doing after disembarking). The TA organising...

Stage 1 of the trip has commenced! Mumma Katie and the Teen departed and flew BNE-DOH-LHR, successfully navigating Doha airport for the first time together. Teen was unimpressed with her GF meal on the first flight as it unfortunately contained a heaping pile of mushrooms. She opted for a...

New addition: cheeky weekend in Singers with my BFF as she's on her way home from a trip to Sri Lanka. Her sister was meant to join her, but due to complications with her sister's newly purchased house, sister doesn't have the spare cash. As this is the year of "Say yes", I looked at my...

Perfect timing for Mr Katie's and my upcoming flights.

I’m mot sure bursitis comes and goes like that. I’ll defer to the doctors here! I was diagnosed with it in both hips around Sept last year (via ultrasound). The cortisone injection in one hip a few weeks ago has been the first thing to make a significant difference to the pain. As always...

Thank you. My only cruise thus far (as I don’t count the ferry from Oslo to Cooenhagen!!) was a 6 night Disney cruise, so the dress standards were much more do what you want and formal meant wearing your sequinned Mickey/Minnie ears!! 🤣

Cruise etiquette I'm going on an AMA Rhine cruise with my Mum in a few weeks. Do I need to dress up for dinner? I'm thinking maybe linen trousers ... but was hoping to keep my luggage minimal (that is, single suitcase) as I'll be carting it by train from Berlin-Essen, Essen-Brussels (with 2...

This would be part of their ISMS/ISO27001 requirements to inform interested parties of an incident. I assume they're ISO27001 certified, even if they don't advertise it (couldn't find evidence from my quick googling; my employer doesn't publicly advertise our security certification lest it...

I'd guess Salesforce. I've seen knowledge base articles come up in search results on the QF website that clearly come from Salesforce Knowledge. And you would not choose that product for KB unless you were using Salesforce for more, IMNSHO.

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...