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Christine Gordon Manley

@cgmanley.bsky.social

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She/her Newfoundlander 🫐 living on PEI 🥔 Editor, specializing in memoir 🦓 Living with Hypermobility Syndrome (HEDS) I believe that everyone is equal & deserves love, sunsets are magic, & a good cup of coffee can make your day.

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Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 14h

Good suggestion!

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Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 17h

Earliest appointment I can get for a covid vaccine is Nov 10. Same for flu. AND it's the *only* appointment for all of November and December. Explain how that is at all a helpful public health strategy to minimize infections?

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Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, I still don't get this one so call me an old fogey I guess, ha ha.

Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 17h

We just got back from the UK, where solar panels have increased in popularity, like here, and everyone we talked to were shocked how we have a grid/credit system and it's not self-sustaining for most of us.

Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 2d

Yuuuup…

Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 3d

We are back on PEi, approximately 25 hours later. Haven’t slept since Friday night so gosh darn it is my bed gonna feel nice. Epic trip, such great memories, and I’m happy to be back home now.

Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 3d

Air Lufthansa was a treat! Excellent service, friendly staff, actual meals (plural!) with (gasp!) real cutlery…way above Air Canada in terms of service. I’d absolutely fly them again.

Now in Toronto (yay, 🇨🇦!) waiting for our last flight home.

Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 3d

Cheers. So far so good! Just a long day…and I’m operating on no sleep since Friday night so I feel stupid most of the time.

Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 3d

It’s starting to hit me that I haven’t slept since Friday night… 🧟‍♀️ 😴

Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 4d

Today is travel day for us, but in the most roundabout way. Our first flight (2 hours) left Glasgow at 6am (that was fun). We’re now in frankfurt airport, hanging out here for 3 more hours. Then a 9 hour flight to Toronto, followed by a 6 hour wait, and then lastly, we fly into PEI at midnight. 🤪

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Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 4d

Alarm goes off in 40 min and I’m finding I’m finally wanting to nod off of course. Now switching tactics to keeping self awake. This night sucks, friends.

Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks. Part of the issue is that I typically take cannabis to sleep and obviously can’t do that while in a foreign country. (The other parts are chronic pain and perimenopause, neither of which my GP is willing to help with so I’m effed, basically.)

Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 4d

I actually have to wear a neck brace on a plane. It serves a similar function but probably isn’t as comfy.

Keith, I can’t sleep in a bed at normal bedtime these days, lol, so I have very little faith in my ability to sleep on a plane, sadly.

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Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 4d

I have yet to fall asleep and our alarm goes off in 90min…at 2:30am (need to be at airport shortly after 3). Not scheduled to land back on PEi until close to midnight. It’s gonna be a long ass travel day, made worse by zero sleep. Yay.

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Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 7d

What a beautiful cover!

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Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 7d

I’m getting to hang out with family here in Scotland and my heart is so so full. Really means a lot to me, as I didn’t grow up with a lot of extended family near me (as in: none, really). This trip has meant the world to me, and I am beyond grateful.

Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 9d

Love me a good Highland Cow! Also, these guys drink water the same way our Great Pyrenees does (mouth wide open), so maybe a distant relative?

2 Highland Cows, standing over a concrete water drinking trough.

Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 9d

Agree

Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 10d

…it also works in reverse, reinforcing ignorant and false beliefs so yeah. I dunno. We’re all screwed.

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Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 10d

Balance is important…and hard to figure out how to essentially achieve it. I’m not at all defending social media as it can be ugly and horrible…one perk is the social pressure to “think like all my friends.” Sometimes this does spread awareness for those who don’t watch the news. Of course….

Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 10d

Some of this is good—like on the global scale of awareness—but I get what you mean.

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Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 10d

BBQ this afternoon with my Scottish family. It’s been decades since I’ve seen them in person, some of them not since I was a teen. It felt really special to be altogether again, and bonus: warm, sunny weather meant we could all be outside.

Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 10d

It’s a life-long journey, sadly.

Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 11d

Friends, I think I may have gotten 7 hours of sleep last night! First time in months for this. Currently first one up, and am enjoying a cup of tea and a read on the couch. ❤️

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Christine Gordon Manley @cgmanley.bsky.social · 12d

Oh I’d forgotten how I do not like coffee over here. On the plus side, the tea is excellent.