One of their favourite toys is a long length of cord. they haven't managed to tie themselves up it it, but they do get tangled when we're playing with them and the cord. 😆
I love that! George has managed to extract a few things from a kitchen drawer, but not a chopstick so far. He loves a little clear plastic lid from a little cleaning spray for my glasses, but keeps losing it under the furniture.
@bmacDonald94@Rory29 It’s all relative. My brother had the privilege of being “white”, but had other demons. How sad that your father was like that. To suffer racism within your own family must be awful.
I suspect that he was AuADHD like me. Very bright, engaged with social justice issues etc (Idi Amin was a brutal Ugandan dictator), & got into drugs of all sorts in his late teens. Personal ethics not as admirable as his broader ones - he bullied me. He managed to get his life together, qualified as a nurse, married & had 2 kids, but was awfully arrogant & life fell apart in his early 40s. Homeless on & off, neglected his health, died of bowel cancer a few years back in his early 60s. (Family history, but he took no action to monitor or his own risk.) I saw him once a few months after his marriage ended, & briefly just before he died. Did that mainly in memory of my mum. He wasn’t a nice person, but I realise that he suffered a lot & might’ve turned out so much better under different circumstances.
@bmacDonald94 I remember when my brother flipped out in a drug related psychotic episode. He was going to fly to Uganda to assassinate Idi Amin, then to the US to ask Carter to tell everyone to put uranium back into the ground. 1977.
When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time on the land across the road, formerly 2 holes of a golf course bought by the education department before I as born, for a tech school that did t open until I started high school. Big gum trees between the 2 former fairways, ti-tree scrub along the back & a virgin bush are at one end, sand bunkers that were the scene for our “list in the desert” games… My friends & I climbed & jumped out of trees, spotted lizards & butterflies, got lost in the jungle & played ball games on the fairways. My own kids had access to similar if smaller reserves & a linear park along a creek. So much fun & adventure. #childhood
My oldest is there & here. The numbers are bigger there, which is good for an author trying to promote their work, but they enjoy their interaction here too.
My partner is still on the latter because of a core group of followers, but his feed keeps flooding with pornbot posts. His group need to do a group migration.
Lifelong learner, leftie, AuADHD, Bunurong country, Australia. She/her. Social justice, environment, climate change etc. Too old to pretend to be “woke”; it’s just the way I am. Won’t boost photos without alt txt (unless I forget!). If you would like to follow me or be followed by me, tell the world something about yourself in your profile.