Ticks and Crosses

^ sem.

:(		:)
✖ Phone bill		✔ Lovely mail
✖ Lack of health		✔ Lovely boy
✖ Lack of motivation		✔ Lovely friends
✖ Money woes		✔ Lovely family

And now to help quash the gloominess, here is a badly disguised wish list;


^ Lobster pad, by Linda & Harriet.


^ Par Avion / Silkscreened Boy with Airplane - Kraft by Humunuku


^ A Gentleman's Notecard Set by Little Red Fox


^ Piggies in ruby and lavender card set by Linda & Harriet.


^ Stamp set - Western Style Moustaches (Large) by Girl On The Rocks.


^ love / spoon / letterpress card by Louella Press.


^ The Small Object Labels & Stickers from Fred Flare.


^ This Is Not A Book by Keri Smith.

Here's a list of ways to cure hiccups I made several years ago:

• drink a teaspoon of vinegar.
• drink water out of the wrong side of a glass.
• yell or sing as loud as you can.
• get someone to drop an ice cube down your back.
  
• eat a spoonful of sugar.
• make yourself sneeze.
• blow up a balloon.
  
• plug your ears with your fingers and drink through a straw.
• pinch the middle of your palm as hard as you can.
• eat a wedge of lemon.
• somebody unexpectedly pulls out a fifty dollar note and says "if you can hiccup again I'll give you fifty dollars" (my mum did this to me).
  
• eat a teaspoon of peanut butter.
• recite "the litany against hiccups" – as follows;
  

I must not hiccup.
hiccups are the lung-killers.
hiccups are the little deaths that bring total obliteration.
I will face my hiccups.
I will permit them to pass over me and through me.
and when they has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see their path.
where the hiccups have gone there will be nothing.
only I will remain.

The latter is the weirdest I've heard.
Can you think of any really strange ones to add?

New TV obsession: Breaking Bad. Doug lent it to me.

Yesterday Doug and I went for a swim at the famed Newcastle Bogey Hole. As the council is apparently intending to develop the site, I'd like to try to go there once a week until that happens. There's even a Facebook group in it's honour;


^ img credit; mark snelson.


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^ img credit; andy gock.