Oh, @edprivat, your posts always crack me up - thankyou!!!
I had to laugh at teh one of your wife checking - everything? - on her phone with the delicious irony of you taking a photo to post it on HIVE later.
Yeah, you better pin that thing down proper like! My husband always pins things like there's a hurricane a-coming, bless his pessimism**
[**realism. Autocorrect by husband.]
I end up naming the chickens because I have to relate funny stories of the stupid pickles they get into, or when they do parkour off the fences trying to get away from you as you come toward them with the food that they try to mug you for in the next five minutes. Not all of them get named - the ones without personality lose out. OUr current favourite is James Bond, named because apparently this breed was James Bond's favourite as he liked the dark brown eggs. Now it beats me how Ian Fleming got down to that level of detail with his characcter, but whatever.
It's sooo hard to find one's place in the world and I understand your dilemma. I'm sorry France isn't working out for you - I wonder if sans pandemic, whether it would have been a different story, or whether all of those dissatisfactions and existential anxieties wouldn't have been as writ large, yet still simmered under the surface.
Perhaps you can come and live on our apocalyptic hideway, when we eventually find it.
Thanks for your awesome post. You truly make my day.
We pinned it down with 4 concretes blocks, and a tree trunk, it still flew away like it was nothing.
I don't know what to do with that fact about James Bond's eggs, I imagine bond asking to the cook: "Fried eggs, sunny side, non stirred, sliced bread non toasted"! 😂
And to answer the question, yes, it's totally because of the pandemic and the way the country is turning into shit, I tried to explain to relatives today, why I will not comply, but you can sense the fear everywhere, and the lack of understanding.
THanks for the offer haha, but with your respect, I don't think Australia is currently doing better than France, it's more or less a testing ground for whatever, I guess you guys have a network of reliable people that can help you hide out if needed, but I can't even imagine going there, and not knowing anyone. Right now, it's all about planning the next few months, and making sure we can save a bit more also 😄!
I am glad you enjoyed the post!
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Yeah we are behind in most things, but ahead in totalitarianism.
Saying that, when it all goes to shit even more, vaccines will be the last thing on anyone's minds. Its remoteness works in its favour for sure.
Tassie so far hasn't mandated.. so far... but it's coming. The borders just opened up there.
Many people I know have had to quit jobs and take kids out of school. We had to Vax or we would have lost our jobs too. But we are pro choice and are horrified at where we have come to. I'm not sure anywhere will be safe.
I heard some crazy stories about the way they rounding up aborigines in the north of Australia, this is sickening and the international community isn't moving a finger, they'll continue to do whatever they want.
You're right about vax going to be the last thing on people mind, but I can't help but thinking the French are very soft, and won't know how to cope with starvation and a compromised immune system once it gets worse.
On the other hand, the South Africans, won't accept any compromises knowing they came out of an apartheid regime, and they know how to hustle, if shit hits the fan. I want get a generator, get a cheap 4 by 4, and to pack some shit , instead of feeding a government our hard earned money, while they don't want us to live normal lives, and need us to bend over, and also thank them.
We're free folks, we're staying that way! I wish we could make it to Tazmania though...
Yeah get back to SA, for sure. Grass roots survival. Mind you you'd think the French resistance counted for something!
These French pussycats!
OOh la la!