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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Felt compelled to write this. On the state of things, this Reconciliation Week. First Nations people in this country are under constant attack. Subject to systems and attitudes designed to control and silence us. We resist by speaking out.

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Control is the Oldest Reflex

From custody to culture to the page, the state still decides who gets to speak, survive, and be seen - even during reconciliation week.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Grevillea grabrilimba 🌱

Red grevillea flower with a honey bee helping itself to its pollen.

Two red grevillea flowers suspended gently below delicate grey foliage covered branches

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Banksia watch. There's a new kid on the block 🌱

Ashby's dwarf banksia has its first flower after being planted two years ago. Beautiful golden yellow tone. There are two developing flowers in the background.

Dwarf banksia prionotes flower almost full bloomed with a few rows at the top still in their fluffy white capsule.

Banksia prionotes from above showing the contrast between full bloom and top waiting to bloom

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Saltbush is in full flower and the berries are appearing and ripening. Tastie little morsels if I can beat the birds, goanna and chickens to them. My lucky day today obviously. 🌱

tiny Ruby red berries hanging from the delicate thin branches of a sprawling tangle of a saltbush.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Birthday cake but it's sandwiching icecream. Perfection.

Two packaged icecream sandwiches from Kuld Creamery. The one on the left is cookie dough and the one on the right is chocolate double fudge brownie. There are some sneaky fingers coming in to steal the cookie dough one

The chocolate double fudge brownie unveiled and sitting atop of its packaging

A curly haired white person wearing glasses and sitting outside a shop eating the chocolate double fudge brownie icecream sandwich and laughing because it's so good

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

So many different shades of grey on this little friend #ausbird 🦉

A Djakal-ngakal (pink and grey galah) perched a top the frame of my clothesline, looking back over its wing toward the camera.

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Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I tried to resist writing about this particular white gazed book, but couldn't. Here's my essay on Evie Wyld's dehumanisation of Blak people, and co-option of Blak trauma for her latest sad white girl novel. Harmful white gazed novels need to be left in colonial eras. overland.org.au/2025/02/echo...

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Echoing of the white gaze in Evie Wyld’s The Echoes - Overland literary journal

Wyld’s creation of voiceless-nameless-lifeless Blak people in The Echoes serves no narrative purpose. This novel is not truth-telling of invasion and occupation, and it does not envision justice for A...

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The relief the MHT I use will be on the PBS come March is real. I don't use the full dose because that's not always in the budget. This means I will have full benefit from the medication. Hopefully it will make it accessible to more people experiencing perimenopause & postmenpausal symptoms.

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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’m back on the tools for The Spencer Street End. This time about the odds stacked against us depending on which post code we’re born in.

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Goal Posts

The uneven bounce of the playing field

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Banksia watch is in full swing. My most mature shrub is flowering earlier than past years. Not complaining and neither are the birds 🌱🐦

Orange banksia flower against a blue summer sky. Opening from the bottom up two thirds. The top third is still white and fluffy. The green serrated leaves form a tangled mess below.

Two banksia flowers in the late afternoon light. They are half in bloom the bottom orange the top white. On the flower on the right a Bandin/New Holland Honeyeater is holding on tight and feeding on the nectar.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

A baby pink and grey galah turned up in my backyard and it was the smallest I'd seen without parents. It seemed healthy and could fly but not strong enough to keep up with the others. It's had refuge here and each day it gets stronger. Happy my garden is a safe haven.

five pink and grey galahs perched on the pitch of a shed roof. Second from the top a smaller lighter coloured baby galah stands up tall looking very pleased to be part of the gang

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Stunning purple twilight sky above my neighbours shed 🌘

A light purple sky above a corregated colourbond shed roof line. In the sky on the left is a waxing crescent moon and slightly above it on the right is Venus.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

When you go to the regular monthly farmers market on Invasion/Survival Day wearing your Ancestress Teila Watson artwork T-shirt and people either side eye you or still wish you a Happy celebrate the day and you have to explain why you don't celebrate.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Every Invasion/Survival Day the absolute worst of people comes out. So far tonight we've had burn outs and someone running around with an air rifle. Tomorrow, just add drinking alcohol in the sun all day at the beach and it will be a complete shit show.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Volunteered to prick out and pot up native plants for future revegetation projects & stock the local community nursery. Honoured to be trusted with 103 Eucalyptus Rudis babies 🌱. One day they will be up to 20 metres tall & provide critters with food and shelter. How cool is that!

Cell tray of Eucalyptus Rudis seedlings at different stages of growth.

Cover of the how to booklet provided by the nursery with an acknowledgement of country of the Wardandi people who have cared for these plants long before colonisation. The impact of that colonisation has meant we need nurseries like LCN to try to keep these plants where they should be.

A view of the worktable with empty tubes ready to be filled with soil sitting in buckets and others already hard at work pricking out seedlings.

Looking down on my first complete tray of 40 tubes of seedlings. Go well my babies.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hoverflies are important pollinators in my garden 🌱

A busy hoverfly enjoying the nectar of the vibrant yellow flower of a climbing hibbertia plant.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

After 10pm and still 30°C for a second night in a row. Ceiling fan has packed it in. Not a breath of wind. Reminds me of summers of my childhood.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Today was a better day. First in four days I didn't get notified someone I know had died. A real reflection time and time for some self care and empathy and compassion. It's been rough over the last few weeks for many.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

First day back at work for the year, a funeral at 11am and the rest of the day was an emotional right off. Leaves me wondering what it's all about really.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Went to the second hand store for a jar to make sprouts, which they had, for $1. Then I checked out the jigsaws and scored three beauties for $15. First one done. Start another tomorrow. Then hand them over to Mum to do them.

A completed Ravensburger 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle which is a painting by John Bradley of a tram on a Melbourne city street on a rainy evening.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Most physical activity I have managed in the last 2 weeks or so. Cleaned all the windows on the outside and refreshed the little breakfast table garden 🌱

A group of colourful small pots with succulents on a small round glass outdoor table up against a brick wall. From left to right a turquoise fish, a white llama a group of three drip glazed tiny pots in greens and browns, a yellow and white rectangular pattern and a tiny bear face.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Good morning from the panettone thief.

Very close up view of Tully the black bantam araucana chicken standing on my bare legs with her sharp claws looking straight at the camera with her fluffy beard feathers sticking out.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Finally feel well enough to sit outside and enjoy a quiet breakfast, a light cooling breeze, some snoozing chickens and the start of banksia watch 🌱

Four snoozing chickens in a garden bed surrounding a worn old gnome. In the foreground Biggus Birdus a white Australop cross, and Tully the black Araucana bantam. Behind them Bessie the light sussex and Ginny the silver laced wyandotte.

View of my front garden looking out from the verandah. The many shades of green of mostly Australian native plants. In the centre is my banksia with flower spikes getting ready to bloom.

Looking down on a early developing bansia flower spike. It is a spiral of soft fuzzy tendrils surrounded by serrated green leaves

Looking up to the top of the banksia through the serrated leaves to two more mature flower spikes framed by a blue summer sky. There is a small amount of orange colour appearing on the base of the spike, a sign the hundreds of tiny flowers are getting ready to open.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Summer is cricket and jigsaws. Highland cow in 1000 pieces took three days to emerge. Test still has a day to go.

Picture of a completed 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle of the face of a brown highland cow with green grass and blue sky in the background

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Its good napping weather. Afternoon hangs with my gang.

Looking from behind a calico cat laying on a bed out the window where a white Australop cross chicken is looking in

The same bedroom window with from left to right Ginny the silver laced wyandotte, Tully the bantam araucana, Bessie the light sussex and Biggus Birdus the Australop cross

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Catching up on all the cancelled appointments. This one needs bloods and another script of her hyperthyroid meds.

A calico cat in a mesh carrier bag looking very grumpy

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Nearly midnight and every door and window is open hoping for a decent breeze to cool things down before another hot day. I feel little teasing puffs. Might be enough to get to sleep.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Seven days in and I had my first day without a fever and didn't feel delirious. Covid is a ride.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

It finally got me. I've had so many tests in the last four years it was a shock to finally see a positive one. I did another two to be sure 😆

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I sat with many distressed people today. All for different reasons but the feeling triggered for them all was loneliness, rejection and deep loss. It's a hard time of year for people whose families may not be safe spaces. Don't judge, just take some time to see and hear people where they are.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I really get annoyed when a company uses bots as their help desk reply. I always put an obscure word or grammatical error in my email. Quickly apparent it's a generated response trying to cherry pick from my email.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Fair call given the snakes

Film photo of a metal council sign lying in the rushes, it reads pedestrians watch your step. Taken on a gifted disposable camera and processed in Dec 2020

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I had so many jobs to get done this afternoon but instead I watched the 3 hour concert of Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90. I have to say it did my heart the world of good. Many memories of those songs.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Came home, opened the gate and out of nowhere a dog appeared. Brought him in to call his owners. Odie had the contact number stitched in his collar. Good idea. Kerry blue terrier. Had to fashion a leash as he got the scent of the quenda that live in my backyard and wanted to hunt them.

A very alert and fired up Kerry blue terrier standing looking out from my front verandah with a home made rope leash attached to his collar. He has a shaved body with curly fluffy paws and face.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Been not so patiently waiting for 12 weeks for my hold on the library app become available. Lucky for me I have many hours of driving today to listen 💙📚

The cover of an audio book by Anita Heiss Dirrayawadha. The picture is a sunset lit cloudy sky in pinks and oranges. The silhouette of a couple between some Australian trees all reflected in a still river. The bottom of the cover reads from the award winning author of Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray. The title of both books is in first nations Wiradjuri language.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This one here was suddenly limping and her left leg was hot and swollen. Biggus gets around the garden 🌱 like a bull at a gate. Seems she's strained a joint and trying to keep her quiet and contained to rest it has been a challenge. She's thankfully on the mend. Worry me sick these girls 🐔

Biggus Birdus a white Australop cross chicken looking straight into the camera. Out of focus looking out from behind her is Ginny or Djin Djin the silver laced wyandotte. Djin Djin is noongar for good spirit.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A little reminder that we don't have to buy into other people's expectations of us.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

My cousin snapped this as he was pulling out of the driveway. He hasnt been home in six years. It's our real life The Castle moment. This ones going straight to his pool room.

A photo of four people and a dog standing on a green front lawn in front of a 70's brick house waving with laughing smiles.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It is panettone season and after a week of feeling flat, fatigued and unwell it helps to be in my front garden 🌱and able to enjoy some with a few cherries and a creeper hoping for some too.

In the foreground a plate with a slice of panettone, a pile of cherries and slices if nectarine. A coffee mug that reads; I never dreamed I would grow up to be super cool chicken lady but here I am Rocin' it. The background is a front garden with all the shades of green of Australian native plants.

Skye aka Biggus Birdus a white Australop cross chicken and her brilliantly red comb looking up at the out of shot panettone from the previous photo and hatching a plan.

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The latest portrait to add to my collection. This one is signed

A child's drawing of a person wearing a blue shirt, shorts, black shoes and has grey curly hair. A large signature in blue is next to the drawing

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

If you want to set me off then ask me why I'm not joining the white ribbon silent march. I have been marching and advocating about violence against women since I was 17. I won't be silent. I am tired. Nothing changes. Let the men march and do some work. There weren't many there today that's for sure

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leonie @llcord.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Nino the quail. They a funny little critters. They can put some food away.

Close up of a male Japanese quail being held in the hand of a person who you can see a glimpse of in the background

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