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I have slipped right back into non-Edinburgh reality and am greatly enjoying my long morning dog walk/podcast listen. Today my ears ingested Do The Right Thing with Rick Edwards and Lucy Porter and it is highly enjoyable.
If you don't listen to this one then you should.
As tempted I am to test the resolve of fans by making the Stone Clearing podcast a daily event, I will keep it weekly for now. But I felt a bit bad that Tuesday's podcast was truncated so decided t
o do another one tonight. I was forced to confront my own mortality when early on I saw a tiny dead field mouse, gone before his work of running around in a field eating wheat was over. Might I also die before all the stones are cleared? Is the whole stone clearing enterprise a waste of my valuable time? Surely not.
I returned home to help with putting the kids to bed to discover that my son had done a poo in the bath. We've all been there and if you're not two yet then there's little to no shame in it, but my daughter was traumatised. She has a bath game with some fake poo and a little net to catch them in and had perhaps become confused and touched the real poo. She may never get over this.
It became my job to clean the bath and the bath toys and fish out the bits of poo. To complicate matters I discovered that there was quite a lot of hair in the plug hole, matted with soap and presumably now some poo. Even so I quite enjoyed the challenge of getting it all out. I have dealt with enough poo now to not be squeamish about it. It's maybe the only positive thing that has happened to me as a result of having children (and pets). And the fact that I view that as a positive shows you just how bad things have got for me.
But nothing can defeat me. We bought a new fridge freezer today and I think it's going to change my life.
This is why humans are not meant to live beyond 35
We have a great guest for the RHLSTP/Guilty Feminist Mash on Saturday. It's Siobhan McSweeney aka Sister Michael from Derry Girls. Saturday Night at 9pm at Kings Place.
Still some tickets.
