I have a Tiny Dog. She is very much my boss Intermittent twitch streamer. Lived experience expert in chronic pain. Fan of the Discworld. I also have a mendeddrum.org account. Not a fan of the round world Love to watch the stars, but have no idea about anything vaguely astronomical. Ex-christian. Recovering by questioning. Yarn crafts saved my life. I was once accidentally and unexpectedly on the same stage as Sir Peter Ustinov. #ADHD #Crochet #Dogs #Knitting #ActuallyAutistic
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Last Notes npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose I just realised, my Nephew never talks about "My house" or "Home". The place he lives he calls "Aunty [Name]'s house". His house no longer exists. It burnt down, taking his dad and little brother. He is such an amazing young man, there is such pain there but he still laughs easily, is full of the same mischief his dad had, and has such a beautiful presence about him - just like his dad did. #Grief #GriefAndHealing #Family npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose I know quote tooting this is blowing my own trumpet, but I am bloody proud of myself! The last 5.5 years have been traumatic, with a family house fire, multiple family bereavements, family hospitalisations, pet hospitalisations, unexpected diagnoses, and medical operations. Through it all I have kept going and finally done it! I really am proud of myself! #Study #OUStudy #nevent1q…zh2c npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose Well, I did it! I got my final module result and got a distinction, which means my degree offer should be a 1st! I am so pleased. This is something I never truly believed I could do, but I have done it!! I have actually done it!! Turns out I just needed the right support in place for my ADHD & autism. I will get to graduate before I am 50! #study #OUStudy #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose I have a question for #bookstodon I am looking for easy reading fantasy, something like Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree. Nothing too heavy, but that cosy, comfy feel where I don't need to think too much! Does anyone have any recommendations? npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose Chaos here tonight. The bin routine has changed. Some people have their blue bin out, some have gone blue & black, others are on red & the food caddy. Who knows who is correct? Whose bins will be emptied tomorrow? #BinDay #Binfluencers #UKBins npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/116/821/118/154/619/176/original/04c9cdf2b7830574.jpg npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose I am at my parents house. She has thrown away my stuff that I keep here because "Well I asked the others to move their stuff or I would throw it out, but I didn't think about you". And she wonders why I don't visit often. npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose The thing about international chat groups and time zones, is that there is usually a middle-of-the-night friend around if you need one. A lot of the internet is full of shite, but this is the best thing about it I think. That and the pet pictures. npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose Is there anyone who makes clothes, available in the UK, with soft seams that won't make me want to not wear them because of the intolerable scratching? #ActuallyAutistic npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose Was in an online knit and natter group yesterday where I got to explain the concept of thr fediverse. People seemed fascinated by the idea. It'll be interesting to see if any of them decide to check it out. Are there any knitting/yarn/fibre arts related servers does anyone know? #AskFedi #knitting #crochet #FiberArts #FibreArts npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose For actual fucks sake. I need to speak to my GP. So far I have had to: - fill in an econsult form - wait for a call back - recieved a call back from admin telling me that I need to speak to my surgeons secretary - rang the hospital where I had my surgery - got passed to 3 different people - told that more than 6 weeks have passed, so the GP needs to see me and re-refer in - rang the GP surgery back again - had to fill in another econsult form with the receptionist - wait for a call back HOW IS THIS AN IMPROVEMENT ON CALLING THE RECEPTIONIST AND MAKING A FUCKING APPOINTMENT???? I still don't have a damn appointment and this is why I did not want to have to do this npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose Excuse me! You there. Yes, you. As a person (or people), you are allowed to be kind to yourself (yourselves). Please do something today that nutures your soul. This is especially important if you don't believe that you are worth being kind to, or if you are in a situation where those around you do not appear to care. Thank you for reading #SelfCare npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose Help! I am being personally attacked by this article. https://thedailytism.com/autistic-womans-desire-for-human-contact-thwarted-by-existence-of-humans/ #ActuallyAutistic npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose Do newborn lambs count as Tiny Balancing Sheep? Just I have been watching them in the field next door and they are tiny, are very much trying to balance and are also sheep. #TinyBalancingSheep npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…nmr0 I am more and more of the opinion tbat if your amswer to these questions is mostly "Well it depends" then you probably have a far higher chamce of being autistic npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…prl4 You put so much into so few words. Amazing 💜 npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose We are fast approaching the anniversary of my brother and nephew's deaths. So I am going to take this moment to ask you all if you have planned your escape route from your house in case of fire. Do the kids know the plan? Is the battery working in your smoke alarm? Is there even a battery in your smoke alarm, or did the beeping annoy you? What will you do if your stairs are alight? If the grandkids are staying over, do they know the plan? Which adult is getting which child? Where do you keep your house keys at night? Could you find them if there was smoke and fire? Do you shut the kitchen door when you go to bed? That was what the fire brigade said would have made most difference for my family. Do you turn electrical appliances off at the wall, especially the ones you bought from somewhere online? Have you walked through your escape plan? You need muscle memory to kick in when the panic of an emergency situation hits. Please, if you could think about these things and make changes if you need to it would mean that something good has come from our tragedy. I never want anyone else to have to go through this. #Fire #FireSafety #Emergency npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…prl4 I only just saw this one. My little brother, he was such a man. 💜 Thank you npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose Good Evening Today has been full of good things: I saw Yougest and met his new girlfriend (who is absolutely lovely). The sun was shining. I went for a walk. I did some study. Snuggles with Tiny Dog Messing about online with friends. So many good things. #GoodThings #3GoodThings npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose I love all the languages I see on fedi. My German is starting to come back a little because I trip over German language posts and try to understand them before hitting translate. It is one of the best things about fedi that hardly ever seems to get mentioned - the fact we get to rub shoulders with people from wildly different places and see new viewpoints npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose Evening, Today I am grateful: - that my Eldest got home without mishap - that I managed to do a small amount of study - that I had the time and space to nap safely - that the sun shone brightly through my window - that there are daffodils growing in my garden These small things are worth concentrating on, because these are the things I can do something with, and enjoy. I cannot do anything about the global situation and so I choose to look just into my bubble and do what I can to make my little sphere a better space for me and those around me. #GoodThings #Gratitude #3GoodThings npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…prl4 And it means you 💜 npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…prl4 I couldn't have just scrolled by! 💜 npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…prl4 Thank you once again for sharing your powerful words 💜 npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…prl4 I normally struggle to read poems, but yours leap off the page and stay with me, thank you for sharing then npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…prl4 Your words hit me straight in the depths of my soul 💜 npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose Morning, Beige be with you! My Good News for today - My operation went well - My husband is looking after me very well as I recuperate - Tiny Dog is staying by my side to make sure I don't escape again What is your good news for the day? #3GoodThings #GoodNews #GoodMorning #GoodThings npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…prl4 Oh. Wow. Yes npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose Just remembered the occasion when my Youngest child, then aged 8, asked if petrol was vegan. Their logic was that if it was from the crushed up remains of animals and plants, then it shouldn't be. When a vegan told them that it was ok for a vegan to use petrol they asked how long something had to be dead for before it stopped counting as animal matter. I would just like to state for the record that the original question was posed before I had drunk any coffee at all and was what instigated the "no questions before coffee" rule. npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose You may think that the daft stuff you post isn't important. It is to me. It helps me to smile and that is so important right now So to the wonderful shitposters, jokers and silly people - especially the beige.party people - I salute you! Please, whatever you do, keep posting npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…lxup Thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to answer npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…lxup Thank you. So in this case, am I right in thinking that the convenience for the passenger is more likely to happen if it is privatised, but only for a limited time, as the economics of the situation catch up? (Apologies for the questions, but I wouldn't get the chance to ask anywhere else) npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…lxup I know very little about the sector but am interested to know if you think this might work better in a nationalised rail service? (I appreciate the chance of finding out if probably small nowadays though) npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose DO NOT CREATE THE BIG SIT! #ADHD #ADHDMeme https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/115/471/137/819/548/439/original/59dc0921046c2721.png npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose Fedi, I have a question: If you were going to do a presentation about lived experience of persistent pain to a team of (primarily) health based academics putting together a research grant proposal, what would you include? Please boost for reach. #Pain #research #LivedExperience #academia #AskFedi #ChronicPain npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…sqcg @nprofile…5lc3 John Mastodon, surely? npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose Hello to my fellow ADHDers. You know that glass of water you poured, then left on your desk? This is a gentle reminder to go drink it This post brought to you by my discovery of 3 glasses of water on my desk. #ADHD npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…x759 So many people interpret "here's what I do" as "you should do this too" though. It was something I found when I home educated the kids. If I said I home educated most people took it as a criticism that their kids went to school, despite me saying that home ed wasn't for everyone in the same way that school wasn't for everyone. I never understood it. npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…t2zk Have you seen the sockalong socks by Winwick Mum? She goes through everything you need to know about how to knit socks step by step. It is so comprehensive that socks were the first garment I knitted! https://www.winwickmum.co.uk/sockalong npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…eelv You are going to have to explain this to me, for I am old and cannot parse this as a sentence. npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose I am currently rereading The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett. I am only at the very top of page 3 and it has already made me laugh out loud. "We may find out why. We may find out why mankind is here, although that is more complicated and begs the question 'Where else should we be?' It would be terrible to think that some impatient deity might part the clouds and say, 'Damn, are you lot still here? I thought you discovered slood ten thousand years ago! I've got ten trillion tons of ice arriving on Monday!' We may even find out why the duck billed platypus.* " *Not why it is _anything_. Just why it is. npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose @nprofile…naem Yes. In an absolute heartbeat. From the night before my brother died so that I could tell him to unplug some things before he went to bed. npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose I have a thing I need to do. I want to do the thing. The thing is important. And yet, I cannot do the thing. Explain to me again how #ADHD is a superpower??? I hate this side of ADHD so very much npub1rqp2tfyleg5pg2ddvdgk9jxgx5706vwpf09pkszv6dt36fl83u8scg5s0d Petra - a silly goose Ok, can I have some follow recommendations please. I wish to have silliness, humour and daftness on this account Who do you recommend - who really makes you laugh, sigh and go "oh FFS" on a regular basis? Please boost for more recommendations thank you