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J MacQueen

@jomacmouse.bsky.social

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A squeaky reader in the mouse house. Novacastrian Australian. Currently owned by two cavoodles, one old, one young. My home is in Barahineban of the Pambalong Awabakal people.

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J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 16h

It needn’t be flying if there’s water somewhere in that sketch. A mere suggestion, no more. Meanwhile, thanks to an exhibition @tanaudel.bsky.social went to, I’m thinking of Australian children’s tv character Mr Squiggle asking Miss Jane if she knows what he’s drawing yet.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 22h

Seconded. Or howevermanytimesit, according to how ever many others have said so before me, because I’m not counting lest the sympathetic magic stops working.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 1d

Oh dear.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to @tanaudel.bsky.social, who shared a link to a Mr Squiggle exhibition in Canberra, I have Bill Steamshovel stickers (& a pin!) coming my way. Also a postcard of Blackboard saying “Hurry up!”. Apologies to those who didn’t grow up with Mr Squiggle.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry I wasn’t able to photograph it as Dad & I drove past, but there was a lot of laughter in that car that day.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 2d

It’s funnier when you know what else is making me want to do so. The local museum, before it moved to its present spot, was displaying a really large mining scoop from somewhere up the Hunter Valley. Someone wrote on it with spray paint: “Bill Steamshovel is that you?”

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 2d

See what you mean, says the person who is going to buy Bill Steamshovel stickers later.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 2d

Also, the last photo in the article seems to think he’s Snape in mufti, there’s a young woman who has either travelled forward from the 1980s or is aping the MAGA woman look, and there’s another bloke claiming to be 20 but looks like he’s lying about his age.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 2d

Probably meant to emphasise young fogeyness, in wearing a garment in a pattern worn by Doctor Who before he was born. Also the alarming face fungus on the bloke in the first photo.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 2d

It may be time to put me in safekeeping: I just said thank you to a tree. A tree with a low-growing branch that looked like it was going to block my way. But the branch moved, just as I got close. Now, it’s blowing quite strongly, so it’s going to be wind direction, but I still said thank you.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 4d

I do hope no one used Blackboard's signature phrase at you while you sketched.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 4d

Bailey likes oven chips. Not fully cooked & out of the oven, but still frozen. He’ll take fully cooked ones if you’re silly enough to drop them on the floor, but still cold & hard?

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 5d

Endless Screaming strikes again in my timeline, immediately below your post.

Screencapture of a post by Camestros Felapton as to having forgotten about former Australian P M Scott Morrison until an article by The Guardian acted as a rude reminder. It is immediately followed by a post from @ infinitescream, which this poster finds horribly appropriate.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 6d

I suspect the OP doesn’t trust our hosts to know the difference.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 6d

One trouble with daylight saving, as it is now in New South Wales, is that it goes back to darkness at 5 am, instead of being light enough to see colours. Yesterday, I could see the orange of the bird of paradise flower in the backyard. Today, faint signs of dawn but nothing more.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 7d

This wobbly-brained asterisk just wants to mention that cakey-things fix everything, whatever they are. If you have brownies, they’ll do nicely. If you have chocolate muffins, so will they. Add your own personal favourite & it’ll be a great fix for today’s everything.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 10d

The water level must be low, but there seems to be enough water still in the bird bath for a couple of Indian mynas to have a bit of a splash. And ‘splash’ is the word: I can see the droplets on the shed’s roller door.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 10d

And when you close the pop-up, the same screed appears on the front page. They may think we need to read that codswallop a second time, but it’s no more sane the second time than it is on first reading.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 10d

So it is, yes.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 11d

Last of Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher novels, alas, to be released 4 November (in Australia, possibly elsewhere too). Have pre-ordered.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 11d

It makes me wonder what we did to be in the index, let alone the text of your book. But consider that a selling point: this Australian will just have to buy the book & find out by reading it.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 13d

Bailey’s getting anxious that he can’t catch the flydys. Doesn’t like flydys. They have to be jumped on, so why won’t they stop to let him do it?

Bailey, who had a haircut a couple of weeks ago, so isn’t quite as barrel-like a dog to look at as he was.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 14d

Counterpoint: Morris dancer thwarted by librarian.

Silversprite @silversprite.bsky.social · Oct 23

Tense atmosphere in here; a librarian just angrily silenced a Morris dancer. "No more jangling in the quiet zone or you will have to leave!"

The Morris dancer is now sitting completely still, possibly too afraid to move. This feels like a spaghetti western standoff, but in Worcestershire. #bells

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 16d

Haven’t heard anything more from brother & family directly, but brother’s Facebook page photo header has changed to show the five of them posing in the gaps of the letters at the Titanic museum in Belfast. So they’ve been there. Don’t know if they’ve got to Galway yet.

J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 16d

Low-stakes, you say? Are you sure @eldritchgirl.bsky.social wants to watch anything described that way? ;-)