Ah some kind of skink 😍😍😍

Red light district gibson.

I'm loving your Goodnight from Gibson nightly posts. Goodnight you two!

Aw man I'm so sorry you're going through it right now, that's so awful. I hope things turn around, it sucks to struggle, I feel that. Sending you my love 💜

Please don't think I'm weird, and your apples are surely lovely, but the first thing I noticed was your hands looking so beautiful and young! My 51 year old hands are lined and creased from hard manual work, dry skin in places, ruddy from years of hot water and wiping and scrubbing and washing, with brutally short nails for hygiene reasons. And I wear gloves at work, but not often at home.

I bet one of the lessons was to wear shoes with solid tops to prevent harm from splashes of hot sugar ... which can burn to the bone.

Ooh looks good! I remember the red toffee apple things as a kid but haven't seen one in ages.

Too hot for me alrdy. Air con is on. Need to buy a new fan tomorrow

Don’t read the Guardian

Based on the assignment I just finished writing you should worry less on the big complicated issues and focus smaller, more local issues you can directly impact. I will be focusing on reducing food waste, which through it's connection to all other problems in existance will eventually fix everything.

For details of how you will need to wait for my next assignment.

The world has ALWAYS been on the brink of calamity. It's just that the calamity du jour affects different groups/people differently. Some are not affected much and therefore do not care as much, and for some it's the end of the world as we know it and a serious disaster. What's different about nowadays is that the group that's going to be negatively affected is much much larger, and includes folk that up till now haven't had to think about it much. I'm with @imoldgreeg on this.

Do what you can in your own life circumstances, and help others where you can without making your own life harder. Don't forget to thoroughly enjoy the good bits of your life too - that's just as important. Possibly even more important. Cos these refuel you for coping with the other shit.

I genuinely suffer from this grief all the time. I am not gonna claim I have anything solved but I can share a few things I do. Firstly I understand/believe we are past a few critical tipping points and there's a good chance of things getting real bad (especially for marginalised communities - wealth buys some protection for longer). I trust any path humanity has through (waves hands) all this boils down to connection - with nature, with community, with 'source' (whatever that means).

I am devoted to doing the little things that are in front of me to do. Caring for the people that I care for, caring for nature in little ways. I am fortunate that I have a career that's in an area I care about too. And I look at the stars, the ocean, the trees. I often say sorry to them. And I know they will go on after me. Taking that time helps me.

This quote I saw on twitter a loong time ago sums up how I get through and I often look at it

I've got old reliable on my shoulder

Nah put them up. The wee one will love it.

One of neighbours has had the Christmas tree up for weeks already.