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Christian, Snowy Owl.... Only mostly neurotypical @helenmt@mastodon.social

Poole, Dorset
Joined December 2008
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@adhdmarie (and anyone else ADHD/Long COVID), does my maths work here? ADHD + PMS + Migraine recovery + not actually 100% recovered from Long COVID = recurrence of brain fog in a way that was worrying me It fits the observed data I've got at the moment😆
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A question for the #LongCOVID community...if you're "better now", what's your memory like to write, say, a weekly report and what's your handwriting like now for making notes compared to before?
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I can read as well and as much as ever but when it comes to writing things down (or even typing!) I add or forget letters and loops all the flipping time. I know handwriting is really complex in terms of brain, fine motor control etc, but I used to like my handwriting!
😁😁😁 Finally I can replace a slightly tarnished, matte silver @Girlguiding 10 service badge with a super shiny 20 year badge (@ggdorset @GirlguidingSWE ) Alt: Pale blue Girlguidibg badge tab with promise badge, @WAGGGSWorld badge, Dorset badge & 10 and 20 year bars)
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No sunrise over the New Forest on this morning's train journey. Lots of flurries of leaves falling as we go past though
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The only good thing about being on the 0641 train to London is watching the sun come up over the New Forest
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Stage 2 Fire Starter skills builder complete 😊 @Girlguiding @GirlguidingSWE @ggdorset (Any other leaders of a certain age end up with the Prodigy song stuck in their head after doing this one? 😂 ) That said, the Brownies were happy singing the Hey Duggee stick song
☺️ I've got a Brownie who's decided that she wants to stay in @Girlguiding forever! We were talking about fire safety and what you need to make a fire, and how difficult it would be on the top of Mt Everest. Then I said I'd been to see Everest with @GirlguidingSWE and she lit up
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Hmm, scrolled up further and discovered that Jorts was also considering an early night
And there I was, already giving myself a limit for how long to read tonight so that this scenario didn't happen 😉 teapaw.org/MicroSFF/status/157261…
Home group was back and it was lovely 🥰
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The view while writing up notes from today's visit ☺️ Alt: view of Swanage Station from a shady bench surrounded by trees. There's a steam train coming in to the platform. For perfectly good reasons 🤷🏼‍♀️, the engine is running "backwards" with carriages hitched to it's front
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Elsa is confused about why we have stopped. It's our linear walk since I got COVID back in May alt: a black and brown dog is panting and looking up at the camera. The ground is covered in fallen orange pine needles teapaw.org/JesusOfNaz316/status/1…
If it's not Thursday, why can I hear fireworks?
Making frozen yoghurt for the dog because it is too hot 🥵 (Dog is sitting next to me on the sofa, sharing the cool breeze from the fan) Alt: 2 little dishes with a few teaspoons of plain Greek yogurt bound for the freezer
If you were my other 6 grey squares, where on earth would you be?!! 🤔😮‍💨 (Alt: a pile of silver grey crocheted squares pinned onto a wooden "blocking" board to encourage them to be flat and square rather than crumpled and rounded)
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Answer: in the messy pile of things that got "tidied" into a box and shoved in the spare room before people came round and then was forgotten about. Alt: scruffy pile of crochet square next to near tower on the blocking board
Ice cream time! 😋 (Elsa the dog focusing entirely on licking a dog-friendly coconut ice cream out of a small green and black tub that I'm holding)
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What relatively unknown treats of a day/afternoon out does Dorset have? Bonus points for including no more than about 1.5 miles of walking on the flat
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I'm a native of Poole so I know and have been to most of the usual suspects over the years but, since having COVID in May, I get fatigued *really* flipping easily and daren't commit to a proper holiday away. So it's going to be a classic staycation for me this summer
Yesterday, I went for a very slow, 2 mile walk with a friend. Today, I apparently need a nap at 10am 😑
But what else am I expected to do in this situation? (An upsidedown, very fluffy dog demanding that I pat her tummy/chest) teapaw.org/dog_feelings/status/15…
sometimes. the human pretends my body is a set of bongos. they don’t have much rhythm. but it makes them very happy
The river was peaceful tonight 😊
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(a large number of swans swimming in a river. There's lots of green leaves on the trees on the river banks and sons sort of tall plant with very yellow flowers in the foreground)
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