Hello hello.
I’m feeling fairly okay today. Mostly just tired. I probably could have made it out today, but I’m going to take another day or two. Make sure I’m back to good.
I saw ‘Denmark’ trending in the United States on twitter and had to look what was going on. Turns out it’s just about McDonalds and McDonaldMcDumb. I was going to write a whole big thing about it, but what’s the point. What an embarrassment. Skippit.
21/10 2024
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22/10 2024
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I felt pretty good when I got up today. Almost normal. Decided to take one more day to get fit. Maybe taht was a good idea, because later in the day I sort of crashed. Not really a ‘feeling sick’ crash. More like a “i’m so depressed I can’t get out of my chair, I’m going to nap here for two hours and order pizza”.
But on the bright side, now I have pizza.
And on the sickness side I think i’m pretty much good to go. Onwards and upwards, eventually.
22/10 2024
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Good goat times today. Finally back where I belong. After almost a week away. It’s not often I’m away from the goats for that long. I really needed some goat time. So good to see Jeanette too of course, been a week and a half at least because she’s been off on vacation. Now the gang’s back together, ready to party goatstyle!
A beautiful sunny day. Cold. Down below 10C/50F in the morning, but a bit higher after the sun had time to do its thing.
I was only there for about an hour and a half. Still tired. Not feeling sick anymore, but I can feel that I’ve been sitting still for a week almost. My body needs to get into the swing of things again. Build up my energy reserves again. You know, get some fumes back in the tank so I can run on fumes again.
I know, it’s a hard life, but at least I carry it with dignity.
But just good to sit with the furs and the feathers again. Everyone doing fine. A mother with a couple of kids came and got to feed the goats.
Pretty drained no, must fill up on soup.
23/10 2024
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Happy to be back with my goat fambliy.

23/10 2024
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Something bad did happen while I was away from the goats. This tree here in the middle broke. It was long dead, it didn’t survive when goats moved in and started eating it. But it was nice having it there still. It had a little cut off brance sticking out, and Jeanette used to use that to hang up the bouquets of branches she would bring for the goats.
I’m not sure what happened to it. It was dead and pretty thin, I’m not sure if a hard wind could bring it down. The goats would sometimes lean or rub on it. But it seems mot likely, and that’s what Jeaenette figured too, that someone came by and broke it off. Not sure wny anyone would do that, and I sure hope no one is bothering the goats.
But I don’t know. It’s a bummer, but what can you do.

You can see it to the left of Bella in this one https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160805114213657&set=a.10160215975013657

23/10 2024
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Good goat times today. Getting back into the hang of things. Still feeling more tired than usual, but other than that pretty good. Gotta get back on the exercise bike again soon too. But baby steps. Baby goat steps.
Another cold day, this time almost no sun to warm us up.
But lots of visitors. The neighbour school crew came by, lots of regulars. Jeanette was cooking up some stuff on the campfire, not sure what. She found some eggs that the feathers had laid, but they were too old so she didn’t want to make an omelette out of them. Apparently Henrietta lays green eggs, which is funny.
The visually impaired girl Beren came too, always a highlight. She came over to the fence on her own, and Jeanette was off elsewhere. So I let her in through the gate so she could spend some time with the goats. She loves the goats. She was kneeling down and talking to Luna, and Luna started nibbling at her sleeve and Beren laughed and laughed about it. Her Danish isn’t perfect but she asks lots of questions and I try to answer her. She remembers the goat names, but has to ask which one is which. All the goats got some cuddles from her.
It’s just lovely when there are kids who so calm and sweet and interested in the goats and appreciative of it. I prefer that to the kids who are loud and running around. A lot of them have some developmental challenges I think, so it’s not like they’re bad kids. But some of them can be a handful for sure. As long as they are nice to the animals then we are good.
Well there’s more to talk about, but I am tired and I need soup. All work and no soup makes Lasse a dull mud golem.
24/10 2024
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Jeanette brought a bouqet of branches for the goats again today, it may be the last of the season. Not many fresh leaves. With the old tree where she used to hang the bouquets broken, we needed a new place. There was a good branch that worked on the big tree here. Not as good as the old way, it’s harder having three goats around this one. I took a couple of the branches and put them on the fence, so Sky could snack on them there.

24/10 2024
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Well, I had progress on the glasses situation today, believe it or not.
It’s been three and a half weeks since I had the meeting with the optician. And to recap, the optician sent an application for it being financed by the health care system, the health care system told me the optician hadn’t given all the info they needed, I called them, they said they needed info from my eye doc, I called my eye doc who said they couldn’t just send that, the health care system had to request it through their systems, then last week the healthcare place didn’t answer their phone, probably because of vacation. And they only have open phones for two hours twice a week.
So, that’s previously on Glasses For Lasses. When I got home from the goats today I called back to the healthcare place. Didn’t start out great, i waited on hold for 20 minutes and then gave up. Oh boy. I had some other stuff to do, so I did that. And then tried again. And this time I got through immediately. Talked to a very nice guy who told me that, actually the info they needed isn’t really the kind of stuff that would be in my medical journal from my eye doc anyway, so I should just answer some questions from him instead.
What the what. Why did the lady I talked to the first time I called them say that they needed info from my eye doc then? And why did she say I had to get in touch with my eye doc and tell them to send it when that’s not how it works, they’re supposed to request it electronically.
I don’t know, man. Turns out the info they needed were basically 3-4 informal questions like “why do you need them, what effect does the sunshine have on your vision”. Sheesh. I guess it’s partly my own fault for not being more pro-active and chasing it down more, my avoidance and then being sick and then vacation delayed it all so much. But it’s kind of silly when all they needed were basic answers to a couple of questions.
They guy today was super nice and friendly and helpful though, after a few questions he laughed and said “well I can’t really think of anything else to ask”. And that was it. Now he’s going to talk it over with his colleagues and then I should get a reply to my application soon. So. Hooves crossed they accept it and I can get my glasses made soon. I’m not really hopeful that it will mke a huge difference, but any difference would be a help so let’s hope. ANd let’s hope it all gets done soon.
24/10 2024
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Sky getting a share of the leaf, at the fence.

24/10 2024
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Holding out an apple to see if I can get Sky to come over and join in, but look who comes a flapping. Red Sonja is just too much fun. Now that Sky won’t always come all the way to the fence in the morning when i get there in the morning, I sometimes have to throw a peanut in for Sky while Bella and Luna are hogging theirs at the fence. Well if Sonja i nearby she’ll sprint over and grab the peanut from the ground and run away with it before Sky even has a chance to get it. You have to be fast! Good thing I have plenty of peanuts. Although i’m trying to cut down on the treatsgiving. The little girls are getting fat too. Oh oh.
25/10 2024
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Luna is wearing her heart on her sleeve, and her hay on her back.

25/10 2024
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A sketch where Debbie Downer is unfrozen from carbonite and suddenly she’s the upbeat optimist of the group because everyone else is beat down by the time we live in.
Also, if Batman is bitten by a vampire would he be able to turn into an actual bat? And would he then be BatBat?
I’m so glad Mel Gibson has an opinion on Kama’s IQ, it atkes attention away from all the racism, violence and misogyny he usually rants on about. HOORAY WHO WANTS TO EAT.
When the Olsen Twins turn 90 I think they should do a Full House spinoff where they play Michelle with split personality syndrome and just as a really miserably psychotic b-word. Just like the fanfic I used to write.
Orangeotang isn’t Hitler, he’s Hitler Jr in a Gene Wilder movie.
Home Alone 3: Kevin’s Got A Gun. The only thing that stops a couple of bad guys with wet towels is a good kid with a gun. It’s 2020s, no need to set up booby traps, just shoot ’em. Stand your ground, get a job on Fox news.
Why does Denmark only trend on twitter when you guys are talking about McDonalds?!
Craig Ferguson’s podcast Joy is on youtube now and it’s a delight. Craig Ferguson, the best podcast and the best late show host. Not to mention author and actor, is there anything that guy can’t do?!
And Soft-Ice for all.
I don’t know why you’re blaming the government for creating the hurricanes, we all know it’s butterflies flapping their wings in Tokyo.
Facebook: “Lasse, here are some groups you might like”. Narrator: “He did not like them”.
No nut November is going to be a big change from my All The Nuts October. Had some more pistachios the other day. Mm.
Sometimes I can’t see the forest for the lack of trees.
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And that concludes our condensed twitter summary. Engange laughtrack.
25/10 2024
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26/10 2024
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Well, I was supposed to exercise today. Instead I did not exercise and ordered pizza.
Whoops.
Well, I’m not sick anymore, but hey I worked hard for a long time. I deserve a little break. Next week, back to exercising. I guarontee.
Need to get a little healthier again too, I’ve been eating too unhealthily while I was sick and resting too.
There’s always something to work on!
Tomorrow is daylight saving change in Denmark.
And the longterm forecast has freezing night temperatures coming up. Urghk.
My facebook feed is full of sponsored posts and it’s making me not really want to look at my facebook feed, sorry if I’m missing stuff.
Still watching old SNL episodes and the other day I watched a cold open featuring portrayls of a senator Joseph Biden and someone called Clarence Thomas who was trying to become a judge or somehing, haha, time keeps on slipping, everything proceeds cyclically, as above so below, intercourse between worlds. I have the fury of my own momentum.
Anyway. Do you even Twin Peaks, bro?
26/10 2024
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Just watched the new Epic Rap Battles Of History release. Donald vs Kamala.
Oy. Too real.
I’m disappointed they didn’t have Donnie just standing there silently swaying back and forth for 45 minutes, but I guess that wouldn’t have been a great rap battle.
I prefer fictional villains like Darth Vader and Hitler, wait I didn’t mean that like denying the holo.. gram Tupac.
Something something. My facebook reach is tanking.
Sorry bout the politics talk, but you know tis the season. For scarecrows and pumpkins and the deciding of the fate of the world and all that.
This world, this is not my kind of world.
Once the election is over I’ll crawl back into my hollow and come back in another 4 years to look for my shadow, and the other pale riders.

26/10 2024
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Alright alright, goat content. Gotta feed the beast. I mean, the Bella.
I have a goat update development from this week, but I need to get photos done first, probably won’t be ready till tomorrow. I am tired and my head hurts and I ate too much pizza, feed the Lassebeast.

26/10 2024
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Well, well, well. What do we have here.
Goats in collars.
There’s actually only one collar, Bella and Luna are just taking turns modelling it.
I was thinking about how to make it easier to tell the girls apart. Before Jeanette went on vacation I asked her if I went and bought a collar for one of them, would they object? The playground I mean, not the goats. Jeanette said they wouldn’t object to that, but if I waited till she came back from vacation she’d buy one. So this week she went and got a collar.
My first thought the first day was that Bella was going to be the one wearing it. She’s a little feistier, maybe wearing a collar would help control her.
Well, she had other plans. She did not want to have that thing put on her. She’s a smart girl. She knows when something is up. Feisty and independent. She reminds me a little of Mia in that way, she knows when our intentions aren’t ‘noble’. She a bit less.. trusting I guess. Than Luna. It’s like if i want to put both arms around her in a hug then she’ll pull away like “no you’re no trapping me”. But then if i get my arms around her and scratch her she’s totally happy with it. She’s cuddly and loving, just with a little hint of initial standoffishness.
After several attempts to get the collar on her, we finally did it. Only because she was backed into a corner in the storage room when Jeanette was getting hay.
So that’s the top picture. Bella wearing the collar. Now the collar is a breakway type, if you grab a hold of it then it’ll just snap free. I didn’t realise that beforehand, kind of negates the idea of using it to control her a bit. Hah. Of course the big question was whether that collar would stay on. She didn’t see to mind having it on at all, once it was on her. But it would be easy to get off.
And no, it didn’t. Next day Bella was collarfree. Jeanette found it out in the goat pen. Hopefully no one was trying to grab it and hold her, she probably managed to pull it off herself or get it caught in a headbutting with Luna or something.
I gave it a go of putting it back on her, but then realised it would probably be much easier to put it on Luna. And it was. Luna has a much chiller and more immediately trusting and cuddly demeanor. She literally just stood there as I put it on her, no problem. I took it on and off like 3 or 4 times to adjust it, she didn’t bat an eyelid. She’s such a little sweetheart. Total cuddlebug and lapgoat.
So that’s the second picture, Luna wearing the collar. That’s how we left it Thursday. Now we’ll see if Luna decides to keep it on or not! If she also manages to tear it off then maybe we’ll just have to give up the idea of a collar. It would make it easier to tell them apart, but it’s no disaster if it doesn’t work out. I’ll let you know if it turns out to be a short term experiment of if it’s going to last!

27/10 2024
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Luna in her new collar. While Bella is thinking “dodged that bullet!”. We’ll see if Luna has ditched her collar when I see her again.

27/10 2024
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Good goat times today. A cold and grey morning, but we did get a little sunshine later on. So that’s something. I wish it was spring, though.
Jeanette is off on vacation, so we were all by ourselves today. No visitors either. So it was a pretty quiet day. Handing out scratches and snackses. Trying to keep everyone on their best behaviour. Such as it is.
I did have a litlte mishap. I was sitting on the bench with Bella and Luna, and when I got up I banged my leg against the metal bit poking out of the bench. Right in my calf muscle. Ouwie. It’s still hurting. Hopefully it’ll wear off. Stupid human body.
Well, now it’s time for some soup I think. It’s the right kind of weather for it. And by that I mean there is oxygen in the air.
14/10 2024
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With the kids on the bench, while Sky watches from the mountain. I miss being able to sit more or less with all of them at once.

14/10 2024
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i ate too much soup. And I didn’t get enough sleep last niught. I just typed ‘slapp’ instead of sleep. Oh boy. Feeling very drowsy. Maybe I should go to slapp.
14/10 2024
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I got confirmation today of something i haed been suspecting for a couple of weeks. Scammers are using my phonenumber.
It’s a fairly common thing, I knew about it from reading threads on Danish reddit. I don’t know how coommon it is in other countries, but in Denmark it’s definitely a thing. It’s basically spoofing of phonenumbers. Scammers can make it appear that they are calling from any number they want. This is also why you shouldn’t necessarily trust it if you get a call from the police or your bank or something like that where you recognise the number. It can be spoofed. You can only be sure it actually is your bank or the police if you’re the one calling the number. PSA Don’t trust the number on the display when you get phonecalls.
Anyway, I’d read previously about people complaining that lots of peple are calling them and claiming that you’ve called them. Scammers spoof your number and call a ton of people. And some people will call back to complain or if they missed the calls.
About a couple of weeks ago I started getting calls from what seemed to be regular Danish numbers from random people. Now I often don’t answer my phone if I don’t know the number. Because I’ve been getting spam calls. But when I look those spam numbers up online it says in the online databases that the numbers are used for spam and advertising and that sort of thing. These new numbers where just normal numbers that hadn’t been reported for anything.
Today I answered the phone for one of those numbers and a guy said “hey you’ve called me a couple of times?” to which I could only go “nope, I haven’t.” Thankfully the guy seemed quite aware, told me that someone was abusing my number. I thanked him and said unfortunately there wasn’t much I could do about it. The real problem can be when people don’t know that it’s possible to spoof phonenumbers, they can get angry if they think you’re harrassing them and they don’t believe that you’re not the one making the calls. I’ve read about that happening.
Anyway, unfortunately I can’t really do anything. The phone system needs to be fixed to stop this problem, but that’s something that would be extremely complicated and expensive from what I understand, something that would need to be done all over the world. Replacing the current phone system with a new one that doesn’t allow spoofing doesn’t seem like is something that’s going to happen. And once your number is being used, the only fix is to get a new number. Unless this gets completely crazy I don’t think I want to do that. I had about a handful of calls or so last week, so it’s not too bad yet. As I understand it the scammers use your number for a while and then move on and use other numbers. Hopefully that’s what will happen here too.
But it isn’t a nice feeling, knowing there are scammers out there using my number. Humans suck.
14/10 2024
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Cheeky Luna.

14/10 2024
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Got an hour forty five on the bike today. I was worried about my calf muscle, after hurting it yesterday. But it didn’t bother me much. My legs in general are very tired, though. Feeling those muscles.
Also tried calling to follow up on the financial aid for glasses thing. Got their machine which said “We can’t come to the phone today, try another day”. Yeah yeah your phone line is open for two hours two days a week, I’ll try again next blernsday. Well, I guess they’re on fall vacation too. Fair enough. Just getting tired of the runarounds.
Guess what I tried for the first time yesterday? Granola. At least I think it’s the first time. I don’t think I’ve ever had it before. I was looking in the grocery store for some muesli or something, and saw the granola. And I’ve heard that name before and I kind of thought it was basically a kind of muesli. I guess it’s related to muesli, but a lot more sweetened and baked. And good. So good. Oh boy. I put some in my skyr and loved it. And as more proof that I have zero self control, I end up eating the whole bag. Yikes. I never said I was smart. SMRT.
Well my blood sugar and weight survived it, with the help of the exercise today I’m sure. It’s like candy.
I’ll probably end up getting more. Not for everyday use, but now and then. Because I loved it. And I mean the goal is to be able to eat stuff I love without it tanking my blood sugar or bloating my weight. As long as I keep exercising hard and having a mostly sensible diet, then it would be nice to be able to eat stuff for joy. Like granola or nuts or whatever. It’s just the ‘in moderation’ part that is difficult. But since I’m keeping track of my levels, hopefully I can reverse course if I get on too bad a path. Here’s hoping.
15/10 2024
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Welcome to TRL, I will not be taking questions!
15/10 2024
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Bella, you weirdo. I get why you do that when you want to reach something. But there’s nothing there to reach, you’re just going to end up tripping the chair over!

15/10 2024
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Squawk! Susie the Sussex, the big white with the barcode.

16/10 2024
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Time for another round of everyone’s favourite game show: Is Lasse A Hypochondriac?
Also, another episode of Can Lasse Spell Hypochondriac?
My throat started tickling and I started coughing last night before heading to bed. uh oh. I was feeling otherwise okay, but it felt like the beginning of a throat problem. I used a throat spray I have and took a lozenge.
Feeling okay today, but I still feel like there’s something lurking in my throat, oo-er.
Nothing serious I’m sure, but I’m staying home and relaxing today. Take it from there. Might need soup. I mean, just in general. Always might need soup.
16/10 2024
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16/10 2024
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We’re watching

16/10 2024
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Feeling okay, but there’s still a tickle in my throat. Not too much coughing. Hopefully it’s a quick passing thing that’s almost gone, and not something still brewing to get worse. I guess I’ll find out. Better get some slapp soon.
16/10 2024
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Good goat times today.
A shorter trip than usual. Maybe I shouldn’t have gone out. I was feeling pretty okay in the morning, but my throat still tickling. Once I got out walking I could feel that I was not in tiptop condition, though. Somewhat queasy and dizzy and a bit tightness of the chest. Well, I spent about an hour with the goats. Needed some goat time. I wish I could have been there more this week, since Jeanette is on vacation. But I probably shouldn’t have gone out in the cold wind at all. Ah well.
Got home and did forty minutes on the bike. Thought I would try if I could manage some exercise. But yeah, probably shouldn’t have done that either. Low energy, low intensity. Very tired now. Now it’s time for soup and relax. I have a feeling I’ll feel worse before I feel better, but we’ll see.
17/10 2024
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Sky having breakfast with the chickens.
When i got there, Nayim had already served breakfast for the goats. But all the bowls were close by eachother inside, so Sky was outside complaining and not getting any. I brought one of the bowls out to her so she could get some, and the feathers quickly swooped into join. It’s funny how Sky doesn’t mind sharing a bowl with the feathers. She neer wanted to share with Bella or Luna. Now she doesn’t have so much choice.

17/10 2024
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Double chicken butt salute. A meeting of the two big white clucks.

17/10 2024
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Not feeling great. Tired and drained, nauseated and dizzy. Not too awful, but just pretty bleh. Pretty meh. Pretty snuh. Need more slapp.
Just taking it easy, and hopefully it’ll pass soon.
18/10 2024
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Thanks everyone for the words of concern etc.
I started feeling worse after I last updated. More and more dizzy and nauseated and tired. But now I am actually feeling better. Maybe it’s because I ate all my vitamins and supplements and painkillers and had something to eat and drink.
Now I’m just feeling quite tired. Oh, and it’s past midnight. Lost myself in browser work and hours went by. I guess I should head to bed and get that slapp.
Hopefully i’ll be good to go for the next week.
Slapp tite yoall.
19/10 2024
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Hello hello good day hello, goat photo.
Feeling fairly okay today. Tired still, very tired. Still a bit wobbly on my feet, but when I’m sitting down I’m feeling mostly fine.

19/10 2024
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It’s soup o’clock somewhere.
19/10 2024
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It’s another day. I’m still not feeling well. Not super awful, just tired and achey and nauseated.
In an unrelated thing, I hurt my ear a bit. Nothing serious. But it means I’m having to sleep without earplugs fr a bit. So I was woken up by the bowling elephant kids this morning, just what I needed when I’m this tired and drained!
Ah well. It’s probably going to take me a couple of days still before I’m okay. At least my throat isn’t hurting. Last year when I got sick my throat was hurting so bad, it was horrible. I got myself a mouth spray back then, and if I feel any throat problems coming on then I start spraying like crazy. I’m speculating that’s why my throat isn’t hurting and I’m not really coughing anymore. Building up some phlegm, but otherwise my throat is good, as the bishop said to the sailor’s nun.
Just need to relax, that should sort it all out.
Knock on wood.
20/10 2024
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A Luna hug. She’s such an affectionate little girl. I hope that doesn’t start to change now that she’s getting bossier with Sky too.

20/10 2024
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That’s all for now.