Happy Mio Monday everyone. I hope it will be a good one.

28/11 2022
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Good goat times today. Back where I belong, feels much better. Cold, windy and a slight drizzle, though. But thankfully we have crazy goats who are actually willing to go out in rain, as long as it’s not too bad. So we spent some time sitting inside and some time walking outside. And the feathery fowls followed us around. I don’t know if they like being around me or the goats, but whenever we went outside they started following us and then when we went back in, well so did they. Henrietta and the redshirts, a cluckalong band of merry feathery followers. Cute! We also had a visit from a man with a dog. He was very friendly, but of course the goats spent the entire time sending the death stare at the dog. We need to have one of those droid detectors they have in the cantina on Tatooine, only it should detect dogs. We don’t serve your kind here!
28/11 2022
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The furs and the feathers.

28/11 2022
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Well, my dad got the results back from his tests. And the diagnosis is, as we feared and assumed, he has alzeimer’s. So, that is devastating, but not really new. We knew this is where it was gonig and we know where it is going. It is just a matter of time. I told you before that he’d said he expected not to live longer than a year. When we just talked now he said he expected it to be no more than 3 years. He said he wants to visit Finland (we have family there) and he wants to go in the spring because he’s not sure he’ll be able to make it in fall. The question is of course not just how long he will live, but in what condition he’ll be. He said that he’ll be getting some meds that can potentially extend his life. But the question is of course how desireably that will be. We will just have to see how it all goes. I don’t really know how to process or face it, but it’s not like you have a choice.
He seems fairly at peace with it all. When he was younger he worked as.. a nurse, I guess. Something in the health business. I don’t even remember exactly what he did, I remember it vaguely from my childhood, I remember he changed profession and became a teacher. I remember worrying about or family finances because of the change. But that was when I was a kid. Anyway, he has experienced being around sick people and dying people. I feel like he worries more about me, and probably Peter, than about himself.
Yeah it’s pretty rotten.
28/11 2022
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Thank you everyone for all the comments and support and your own stories. I am not feeling super talkative right now, but I am okay. Just want to try to enjoy somewhat normalcy while we have it. One day a day. I appreciate the support system I have here, you’re all great.
29/11 2022
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HappY Yogi daY everyone. I hope it’s a good one. Again, thank you everyone for all the love.

29/11 2022
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In other news, my upstairs neighbours have been having work done for a couple of weeks now it feels like. They start at 6.45 am and it sounds like they are moving furniture around with intermittent sawing and drilling and stuff. Not constant noise, but constant threat of noise, liud and banging and I’m not going crazy. I’m not going crazy. I’m not going crazy.
It’s like the tapdancing elephants in the bowling alley, only starting early in the morninga nd going on and off all day. Great great I’m not going crazy.
Everything’s fine.
29/11 2022
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I just want to scream at the ceiling,, SHUT UP. SHUT UP. SHUUUT UUUP. Ugh. I overheard the upsairs neighbor telling someone that she was moving out, so it’s some kind of moving out cleaning, maybe renovation of the flat. She said her lease, or whatever it ‘s called, was terminated on December 1st. So i’m really hoping tomorrow is the last day of this. It’s driving up the walls. Now with my luck someone will move in with a drumset and clogs. And I still have to worry about my own apartment which I’m due to be thrown out of in the next year or two, but I can’t even think about that now. Can’t deal. I just want to go to bed. So I can lie in bed and listen to the forking workers instead of dreaming. Sigh. I can’t stand the world right now.
29/11 2022
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Let’s have some happy goat thoughts instead. Here is a little slomo clip of Mia running. I love those bouncing ears. There will be a longer running video up on Mia’s page later on today. I am going to bed soon. I think the workers have stopped for today, or maybe they’re just on lunch break. But i need to dream it all away.
29/11 2022
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I just knocked my computer on the floor. It looks like everything is still working.God what a nightmare it would have been if it had broken.. Ugh. I’m going to bed. I hope it’ll still work in the morning. I’ve had it with everything
29/11 2022
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Happy Hump Day everyone. I hope it’s a good one.

30/11 2022
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goatlog

30/11 2022
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Well, that was Denmark’s thid and final game at the World Cup. We lost 0-1 to Australia and go out bottom of the group. An embarrassing World Cup is over for us. The only upside is now I don’t have to pay attention to this shirtshow anymore. It does make it a little easier to bear that the whole tournament is such a horrible display of corruption and fascism. It’s not a normal wc and I’m happy to be done with it. For a team some people saw as a dark horse in the tournament we performed pitifully and I could go over all the excuses, but thankfully I know most of you don’t care about the ballsports so I don’t have to. Congratulations to my Australian friends, I hope you will do well as it goes on. And congratulations to FIFA for managing to ruin the sport, may you be forced to watch American baseball in the afterlife.
Sorry!
30/11 2022
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Hi Sky!

30/11 2022
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i’m a hit man
and a rap man
some people even think I’m tougher than batman

30/11 2022
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I hope today will be a good day. Here’s Popcorn from 2015.

1/12 2022
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Good goat times today. I almost didn’t make it out. I was feeling so depressed that I told myself, I’m not going out. i’m going to bed for two days. But you know how you can kind of trick your brain? I kept thinking “I’m not going”. “I’m not going”. “I’m not going”. And then at the last second I thought “HAHA I’M GOING” and then I went before my brain had a chaince to come up with a counterpoint. Yeah, I outsmarted myself!
And of course, it’s always good to be with the goats. In fact, it is the best place. Even on a cold day like today. Barely above freezing. Wet ground. I thought I may have seen a couple of snowflakes falling, although it may have been my brain trying to get back at me. But just good to be with the goats agan. And the cluckerjocks. And Jeanette. And we had visitors, for the first time in a couple of weeks I think. Nice to have kids drop by again. They went into the goat pen in pairs and got to have some upclose time with the goats. We had a couple of little butt inspectors too! Bending down and looking up at the the rears. One of them even managed to annoy Mia. I’m not sure what they were doing, they were looking at her back and reached out, not sure what they were trying to touch. Her teatrs or her butt or something, but Mia swung her head around and said nuh uh. She didn’t hit them or anything, but it was a very clear ‘back off’ message. I can’t remember seeing her do that before, at least not as an adult after taking oer grandma’s goat ambassador position. She’ll let the poke and prod her hears and eyes and nose, but not the butt I guess!
Another little girl was staring intently at the goat butts and their adult went ‘Eugenia, what are you looking for?”. And little Eugenia smiled a cheeky smile, trying to look innocent, and said “nooothing”. Oh yeah, we know what you were looking for, kid! Always fun with kids and goats.
1/12 2022
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A couple of butt inspectors caught in the act.

1/12 2022
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Here’s a slightly more wholesome picture of today’s visitors with the goats.

1/12 2022
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Btw, if you think having an American president in his 80s is a problem then I’m sure you also support term limits for there supreme court, right? Because you can’t let old people have power, so.
1/12 2022
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And now for something completely different. More kids and goats.

1/12 2022
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Here is a little goat butt parade. But it is also to illustrate a change. Can you tell what is different?
There used to be a wheelbarrow there. Jeanette had the good idea to move it into the room on the right, that’s the room where some boyscouts are storing some stuff. And I guess there was room for a wheelbarrow. Which frees some space in the ‘hallway’ here in the goat house. Which is nice, because this is where the goats usually hang out when it’s bad weather outside. When i get there in the morning they’ll be standing there scouting out. The door on the left is closed here for the picture, but usually that’s open and the goats can go in there if they want their hay or straw or food or water. That’s where they sleep at night. But other than breakfast I think they are usually out in this space during the day, if they are not outside. So that’s good. More space for goats.

1/12 2022
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I hope tody will be a good day. Here’s Mads from 2005.

1/12 2022
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Looks like Milo is a little butt inspector too.
Alternative title: “Dang, the service here is terrible. I’ve been waiting for the omelette I ordered for hours!”.

1/12 2022
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Some of you are probably asking yourselves “Is Lasse a good cook?”
And let me tell you. I just managed to throw boiling water on myself while making mashed potatoes from powder.
So. Masterchef right here.
*Angry Gordon Ramsay shouting*
1/12 2022
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Hey, Henrietta Solo s climbing the mountain! And because I’m so witty, I turned to the goats asn asked “why don’t you guys climb the mountain? Are you chicken?” and then I laughed and lauged. And then Mia headbutted me. Almost true story”

1/12 2022
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For the premium subscribers, here is a little Behind The Scenes video of me trying to see if Sky remembers the hoofshake trick. This was when we were just starting out teaching her, so she was a little confused. You can hear a lot of her bleating like “What’s going on, I don’t get it, can I just have a treat”. But she’s gotten so good at it, you can see the continuation on Mia’s page in a couple of hours and see how well she’s doing it. And Mia is a pro of course. And Milo, well we love Milo.
1/12 2022
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Happy Caturday everyone. Hope it’s a good one. Here’s Nala.

3/12 2022
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3/12 2022
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Happy Funday everyone. I hope it’s a good one.

4/12 2022
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goatlog

4/12 2022
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Rest in peace Al Strobel. Another one of the Twin Peaks family gone. He played the one armed man. An intgral part of the mystery and feel of Twin Peaks and related media. He was brilliant in that role and by all accounts a lovely, kind person. I hope he’s in the white lodge now.
4/12 2022
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For the premium subscribers, one for the blooper reel. Sky decided it was time to stop filming.
4/12 2022
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Sky’s got a posse. Maybe she’s happy she finally has friends that are smaller than her.

4/12 2022
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Look at Milo, trying to squeeze in on me and Mia hugging.

4/12 2022
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Happy Mio Monday everyone. I hope it’s a good one.

21/11 2022
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Oh s’no!

21/11 2022
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Good goat times today. And if you saw the photo I posted.. yes, we have the snow.
Tell me climate change isn’t real again. After the warmest October and first weeks of November now we got freezing temps and snow. We don’t get a lot of snow in Denmark these years, usually I don’t expect any till January or February.
Thankfully I had checked the forecast and I came prepared. A t-shirt, a blouse, a sweater and a winter coat. A skull cap under my cap. And gloves. All in all, it wasn’t too bad. There was very little wind which made it all quite nice actually. Even got some sunshine in periods. So I won’t complain.
The goats on the other hand… haha. Well, they did come out to the fence to say hello. To Jeanette’s surprise. “Oh, now they come out”. Yes, rain or shine. Goats need their treats. And we got out in the pen and walked around. The goats snacked on some of the willow branches that are still lying around. I dusted some of the snow off them to help. And they picked fallen leaves around the edges of the pen where the snow hadn’t completely taken hold. It’s a fairly light amount, I don’t think it will last too long. Although we may get more which would.. prolong it. Naturally.
It wasn’t all cold today. There was also heat. I think Sky was in heat. Or maybe Mia was and Sky was reacting to it. Or both of them. In any case, all of a sudden Sky started grunting like a buck in heat and started following Mia around, sniffing her read and even trying to mount her, which looked pretty damn ridikidonk. Like an ant trying to mate with an elephant. Sheesh. And Mia was not happy of course. She did her little whining whinnies and there was some headbutting and pushing around. Meanwhile Milo mostly stayed out of it with a look like “Women, what can you do”. Just stay out of their way, buddy!
But yeah, it was quite nice really. My bad blood circulation makes it hard to be out in the cold. But I still love the look of snow. It’s nice to have a snow day now and then.
21/11 2022
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Here’s Jeanette giving some cuddles to Milo. He’s taken a shine to her, at least he really likes when she gives him cudles. He’s a lil attention seeker. If I’m standing around not paying attention to him he’ll often come over and start nibbling on my clothes or rubbing his horns against my hands or pants or something.
I had another nice little talk with Jeanette too, she was asking how I was coping with the cold and heating bills and it got on to Ukraine and how priviliged we are in Denmark and stuff. She’s a good egg, that one.

21/11 2022
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Speaking of how priviliged we are in Denmark, I need to do a little First World Problem rant.
My local supermarket is redecorating. Re-arranging. It’s been going on for more than a week, and it’s a complete mess. Today a shopping trip that would normally take me 25 minutes took an hour. Just wandering around, trying to find stuff.
There are empty shelves and things laying around in the aisles and boxes and it’s all just… a mess. The sugarfree ½L orange sodas were up on a shelf so high that I could only reach with the tips of my fingers. I had to ask a worker to get a pack down for me. And then later I had to ask a worker to help me find the Pepsi Maxes and the Faxe Frees. Turns out, there were NONE out in the shop. I’m pretty sure Pepsi Max is the most popular soda in Denmark. Thankfully the guy I asked, after looking around fora bit and not findding them, offered to go out back and see. And then he came back with the 3 Pepsi and 2 Faxes I needed. There was other stuff I had to just give up because I was stressed and tired and I did not feel up to doing a third round of’try to find a worker and ask for help finding X and Y’. Gosh.
I know they are having a hard time attracting shoppers in that mall, but pissing off all your costumers and making total mess for weeks can’t possibly help. I’m starting to wonder if I should go downstairs to the discount grocery store in the mall instead of this supermarket.
The great thing is once they are finally done I’ll get to spend the next few weeks wandering around trying to learn the new layout, trying to find all the things I usually buy. I’m so reliant on knowing where stuff is, it takes me ages to find things if I don’t know where they are. And now I’ll know where NOTHING is. With my blindness it’s extremely hard to find stuff and with my phobia it’s extremely hard to ask for help. So that’s fun.
I know many people have much worse problems. It’s just not helping with my feelings of stress and depression. I can’t stand change. And there has been way too much of it the last few months..
I need to hibernate.
21/11 2022
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On a brighter note, the abominable snow Sky!

21/11 2022
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Goat butt snow parade.

21/11 2022
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HappY Yogi daY everyone. Hope it’s a good one.

22/11 2022
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Well that was Denmark’s first game of the World Cup. 0-0 against Tunisia. Disappointing result, we never really found our stride. Now awaits France and Australia. We need to do better if we’re going to qualify from the group. But I don’t have much passion for it. This World Cup is a shirtshow of corruption and bigotry. I would have preferred we hadn’t bowed to Fifa. Take whatever punishment they’d give us for protesting. But whatever.
22/11 2022
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Here’s an outtake of me trying to look surprised at the snow yesterday. As you can tell, I have a big career ahead of me in acting.

22/11 2022
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And here is Mia actually climbing the new goat mountain. Well, she got about a quarter way up. But hey, it’s a start! Not sure why the snow made her try it for the first time.

22/11 2022
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For the premium subscribers, here is a preview of an upcoming video on Mia’s page. The heat is on. I dare you not to laught at Sky making those buck sounds. Cracks me up. Not sure Mia is happy about it though.
22/11 2022
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Happy Hump Day everyone. I hope it’s a good one.

23/11 2022
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goatlog

23/11 2022
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Oh I forgot something that happened on our snowday. I managed to teach Sky how to shake hoof! Well, we’ll see if she retains the ability. But she did fairly well. She does it the Sassy way. Which means she needs to see me holding the treat up over her head before she’ll do it. With Mia I just have to reach out my hand to her and she’ll shake. But Sassy, and Sky, won’t just give it away for free. Gotta see the money up front! Haha. i hope she’ll keep doing it, it’s always fun to have some tricks to show off.

23/11 2022
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Did you know I have a pond in my back yard?

23/11 2022
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I’m surprised Milo wasn’t scared of my gloves. Maybe it’s because they are really thin, knitted ones. I’m pretty sure he’s been scared of my larger gloves in the past.

23/11 2022
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I hope today will be a good day. Here’s Magnethe from 2007.

24/11 2022
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Good goat times today. The temps were up a smidgen, from freezing to 5C/41F. Makes a big difference. Slight drizzle on my walk to the goats, but it stayed mostly dry when I got there. Grey and dark day though.
But we had a lot of fun. I was wondering if Sky would remember the hoofshake trick. And… she did! A little prompting and she went right back to it. And in fact she learned and improved! She started doing it without me holding out a treat as incentive. Just a hand out and she’d shake it and I’d give her a treat. She’s not quite as good as Mia, but it’s close. Sometimes she gets a little eager, searching the hand I hold out for a treat or jumping up with both hooves on me instead of shaking. But most of the time she does it perfectly. What a talented girl she is. Now we just need to get Milo going too! But I don’t want to force it. He’s not showing signs of getting it and I don’t want to stress him. If it happens it happens.
Hoofshaking was not the only fun we had. We also did some fun running. Not up the new mountain, but up the goat hill and the haystack and back and forth. First I had all three goats going. But after the first lap Mia jumped up on the bench and then remained there looking at us like ‘I know what you’re doing, I’m too old for this shhhh’. Milo went for a fe laps but eventually dropped out a bit. But Sky kept racing back and forth. She’s so fast! And so cute. She really seems to enjoy having that space and hill to run. She was going so fast she started panting and I had to make her relax or she might have had a heart attack or something. She’s a real athlete!
24/11 2022
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The goat crew, awaiting further treats.

24/11 2022
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who partakes. I am thankful for your friendship. I’m not gonna lie, my mental state isn’t the greatest. With everything going on in the world, and in recent goat news and my family, I’m just trying to hang in there. And I’m thankful I have this space with you all lovely people, a space where I can rant and ramble and goatpost and get validation and support and love. I don’t know what I’d do without you all. Thank you.
24/11 2022
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I hope today will be a good day. Here’s Peanut from 2015.

25/11 2022
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goatlog


25/11 2022
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Here’s Milo taking positon on his New Rock. It’s a good outpost. He stood there for quite a while, chewing his cud and looking out past the fence at the world beyond.

25/11 2022
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I had some close encounters with the feathers yesterday. I was sitting in the goat lobby and a couple of times the redshirts came up real close to me. It almost seemed like they wanted to talk. They settled for pecking on my shoes, though. If you try to touch them they will scoot away. I wonder if it would hurt to get your hand pecked? I guess so.
Anyway, I talked to Jeanette about the concerns some of you have expressed RE: the chickens pooping in the goat house. She was surprised by it, because apparently they don’t poop a lot. Not even in their own enclosure. Jeanette said they mostly seem to poop at night when they’re in their own house. So I don’t know. She even went and got a flashlight and looked around in the goat house, and didn’t seem to find much featherpoop. Maybe Danish hens just don’t poop a lot? Maybe they are shy poopers? Anyway, I have raised the concern and Jeanette will keep an eye on it, but it doesn’t seem to be a problem. Maybe it’s because the feathers aren’t in the goat house that much. They are usually in there in the morning when I get there, but I guess that’s just cos they like to go there when they get let out too. As the day goes on they get out and walk around outside. Or maybe they just don’t poop at all, maybe they are anti-Keikos!

26/11 2022
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And now for something completely different. It’s

26/11 2022
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Happy Caturday everyone. Hope it’s a good one. Here is Nala.

26/11 2022
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Speaking of the feathers, here is Henrieta Solo. Sometimes she wanders around on her own, sometimes she hangs with the redshirt crew.

26/11 2022
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Well, that was Denmark’s second game at the world cup. We lost 1-2 to France. Completely deservedly. France just better. It’s clear our team is lackin fitness. Too many old players, too many players coming back from injury. We lost one of our most important midfielders to injury in the first game, he had to go home. We’re just a tiny country, we don’t have enough goo players. Unlike France that has a parade of star players. So, France wins the group. They have 6 points after the first two games. Australia has 3 points. Denmark and Tunisia have 1 point each. If we beat Australia in the last game we could still qualify for the next round. Depending on Tunisia’s result against France. We’ll have to see on Wednesday. I wouldn’t mind too much if we went out, then I can stop paying attention to this corruptshirtshow. But hey, I’m still gonna hope, it’s the hope that kills you.
And to make up for this boring footballsport talk, here’s a goat butt parade.

26/11 2022
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Happy Funday everyone. I hope it’s a good one.

27/11 2022
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A double butt salute. it’s not quite a parade, but stll cute.

27/11 2022
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Haven’t had the best of days. Been sitting in my chair feeling depressed all day. Listening to Bowie and reading reddit, when I haven’t just been sitting with my head in my hands feeling sorry for myself. And eating eating eating too much. And feeling cold. I wish I could hibernate. I need goat time.
27/11 2022
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That’s all for now.