The Medusa Fora

Sportin' Life wrote:I just saw on facebook that KwaK had a bit of an accident. I hope she feels alright -- the pictures look a bit rough -- and here's to a speedy recovery.

Oh dear. I was going to write about the wonderful things I've been doing today but I think I'll post them on a different thread.

I do hope she's OK. Do you know what happened?

Heather wrote:

Sportin' Life wrote:I just saw on facebook that KwaK had a bit of an accident. I hope she feels alright -- the pictures look a bit rough -- and here's to a speedy recovery.

Oh dear. I was going to write about the wonderful things I've been doing today but I think I'll post them on a different thread.

I do hope she's OK. Do you know what happened?

Not really. There are some pics on facebook of her in the hospital, but it doesn't say why. The pictures look like maybe a grizzly bear attack (I am certain it isn't), but sometimes these things look worse than they are. The post alludes that she is on the mend and feeling better, so I take that to mean there won't be permanent damage -- in other words I am just going to be optimistic unless I am given any real reason not to be.

I am also concerned about KWAK and expect she will recover, though it looks bad.

Edit: She has been released from the hospital. Get well fast, K.

Very sorry to hear about all this. Hope you make a full and speedy recovery, KwaK.

I've just won tickets to see a show called Shed at the Royal Court, Liverpool. It's the only show I hadn't booked to see but Jake showed interest in it so when a competition came up to win tickets, I thought I'd give it a go. The show is on Wednesday night, 6th May. I don't usually win anything so this was a complete surprise. I was probably the only person that entered or something. Anyway, can't wait for that.

This been a good week for me. As I reported on another thread I signed up for an online Journalism course with a recognised UK journalism college. It's in the early stages yet but the first assignment which I have started looks good. Also today I spotted a competition to win a commission as a theatre reviewer for The Stage newspaper which I'm definitely going for. I was only thinking yesterday that I'd love to write for them.

More family bragging... a bill to limit interest charges on student loans drafted by my daughter & one of her friends has been introduced as a private member's bill in Canadian Parliament!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhMbRXA2Ks

Well done Low D. From a man who has three Canadian teenagers including one about to start at university of ottawa. ....good luck to your daughter. You should be well proud!

Kudos, Low D!

Christ! Make it four teenagers....my youngest turns 13 in September. Where's time gone?

Low D wrote:More family bragging... a bill to limit interest charges on student loans drafted by my daughter & one of her friends has been introduced as a private member's bill in Canadian Parliament!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhMbRXA2Ks

That's fantastic. Plenty to brag about there! I wish there were similar opportunities in the UK parliament for young people to influence government.

soulfinger wrote:

Low D wrote:More family bragging... a bill to limit interest charges on student loans drafted by my daughter & one of her friends has been introduced as a private member's bill in Canadian Parliament!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhMbRXA2Ks

That's fantastic. Plenty to brag about there! I wish there were similar opportunities in the UK parliament for young people to influence government.

Ah well it's not likely to ever pass, of course, but the personal achievement is the thing to cling on to for sure!

Low D wrote:

soulfinger wrote:

Low D wrote:More family bragging... a bill to limit interest charges on student loans drafted by my daughter & one of her friends has been introduced as a private member's bill in Canadian Parliament!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhMbRXA2Ks

That's fantastic. Plenty to brag about there! I wish there were similar opportunities in the UK parliament for young people to influence government.

Ah well it's not likely to ever pass, of course, but the personal achievement is the thing to cling on to for sure!

That's seriously impressive, Low D. Well done to your daughter and her friend. And their parents, of course.

firehazard wrote: Well done to your daughter and her friend. And their parents, of course.

Well her mother has a PhD, and went about 1/2 way through her education as a single mother (which necessitated her to pay for fucking childcare with student loans!), so you could say we've been role-modeling by living with a crushing amount of student debt.

More than 20 years after the population famously (and totally predictably) collapsed from massive over fishing, it appears the Northern Cod population is finally beginning to make a comeback.

http://www.perishablenews.com/index.php?article=0048371

Or, as Douglas Copland put it in a rant about McD's Filet O Fish:

Cod fish is one of the first reasons Europeans began visiting North America. In 1992, after decades of extreme industrialised overfishing, northern cod biomass sank to 1 per cent of its historical level and the Canadian government declared a moratorium on fishing it, thus shattering a way of life that went back five centuries. But what else was there to do but save the tiny number of fish that managed to survive? Extinction is extinction. Even politicians couldn’t maintain the lie of permanent abundance. In parables and allegories, fish represent the soul. The way we think about fish tells us about how we see our souls. The fish fillet sandwich seems to encapsulate much that’s wrong with our current thinking. Our oceans deserve love, and our food needs to be more real.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/525fbefa ... 8f74e.html

Our elderly cat, who snuck out of doors and was not to be found overnight through perhaps the worst storm of the year, was found alive and well, if rather muddy, hiding amongst yard junk, by our next door neighbour. And now I have given a cat a bath. The horror...