Feeling A Bit Sh*t #067

Tiny apartment dinners, cosy beach shacks, homey barges +

Hello! So glad you have popped back to read about some okay things! Let’s do that …

Three Good Things

1/ The pure relief of a hot bath with fragrant Epsom salts.
2/ A warm, fluffy scone with raspberry jam and cream.
3/ Tugging on cosy UGG boots in the morning darkness.

one/ Molly Devlin’s incredible artworks made from fronds and flowers. A must-see. (Above)
two/ A couple of gorgeous ‘shacks’ for your Tassie winter holiday, perhaps? (Top image)
three/ The one-hundred greatest bird names of all time … Welcome Macaroni Penguin!
four/ The winners of the 2026 World Food Photography Awards are in.
five/ How gorgeous is this home in my old stomping ground of Clifton Hill?!

six/ A new wrong-com series featuring Flight of the Conchords lead Jemaine Clement and lights and sirens favourite Nicola Walker has just landed.
seven/ A painting bought in a charity shop for $100 just sold for £190,000!
eight/ ‘Come to a dinner in my tiny apartment.’
nine/ ‘A cross-country road trip with my dog pulled me out of a post-divorce funk.’

ten/ How about whipping up some Panda Express Style Super Greens? (Above) Ricotta with Honey, Toasted Walnuts and Oranges sounds impeccable. Smashed Cucumber and Avocado Salad might be in your future? Or even Snow-pea and Avocado Salad? (Below) Spicy Salmon Sushi Bowls sound more-ish. Make some old-fashioned Cheese Scones. The science of charred fruit.

eleven/ You might love these incredible nature-inspired artworks crafted from paper.
twelve/ Bumblebees are excellent problem solvers, according to scientists.
thirteen/ A couple of useful writing exercises that encourage self acceptance.
fourteen/ How male bowerbirds capture the attention of their mates with special gifts.
fifteen/ These old photos of then it couple Melissa Gilbert and Rob Lowe are gold. (Below)

sixteen/ A cautionary tale → Ducks!
seventeen/ Science and nature themed books to consider reading in June.
eighteen/ A swept-away dog was rescued from an island 800 metres from shore.
nineteen/ Violet Cabin has been posting some beautiful and bolstering imagery lately (Below.)
twenty/ Cibi owner Meg Tanaka reflects on the changes she’s seen in one of Melbourne’s oldest suburbs (aka Collingwood!)
twenty-one/ Buy yourself a canal barge, perhaps? It’s so cosy inside! (It’s the second search result on this page, but was loading independently for me.)

Around the grounds

It’s been a fairly quiet week over here, but I can report that June can now say “up”, “happy” and “apple”, mostly by saying the same sort of sound. It’s an “Uahhppp” kind of thing and is applied where up, happy and/or apple might normally be. Quite the baby shorthand, non?! She’s also very much into “more”, “thank you” and “all done”, mispronounced slightly due to baby type reasons. We’ve also been learning about “stop” and “go” when we are playing together, and she’s very pleased to have the power to STOP me from doing things. She likes to scowl, rather than stay “stop” but it gets the message across perfectly. Then she smiles when I am allowed to “go” again. Non-verbal comms for the win! Further, she is very much into Incy Wincy Spider, which I think is a very good thing.

What TV have you been enjoying?

I have been watching ridiculous amounts of Bondi Rescue on the 7Plus free streaming service. I’ve spoken about this before, but there is something very life-affirming about the good deeds and life-saving this show depicts. It’s important to remember that so many people are motivated to help others, during these tough times, I feel.

Silly joke of the week

What do you call a pair of bananas?
Slippers!

Hope this week is a good one for you, dear reader. May your bed always be the exact right level of cosiness for you!

x pip

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