Jessica @jayeless@toot.cat

Quick blog post: On Wimbledon and Married Women's Names

Went to get my flu vaccine this morning. Considering it's already a bad flu season maybe I should've gone earlier, but I procrastinated until my GP clinic called me to ask if I'd like a shot this year 🤣 Ah well, job done now!

I have a few photos to catch up on posting 😅 Anyway, Gizmo got the best seat in the house at our little Election Night party, on top of blankets and one of Mum's hand-knitted jumpers. Plus somewhere in that pile he'd buried some treats for later, too 🤣

Honestly, day 2 of unrelenting loud excavation work and I’m on Gidget’s side now. I tried going for a walk to get away from the noise but everywhere I went there was more construction, beeping, leafblowers, annoying loud cars… just so exhausted now 😭

Noisy day today. The construction site next door seems to be digging out all the earth where their underground carpark is going to go. Currently they have a massive embankment of dirt visible over our shared fence. Gidget is unimpressed.

Took a little selfie with Gidget this morning… and at the same time I get to show off this neat new jumper I bought, featuring Chilean "riot dog" Negro Matapacos! 😄 Gonna wear it out tonight to our little Election Night party.

Gidget's week has been full of ups and downs. Some days she's felt starved (Monday when she nagged Viv to give her ⅔ of her daily food before 6am was a bad one) but as the week's gone on she's seemed better and better about the diet. She's weighed in at 7kg a couple of days, which suggests it's doing what it's supposed to! The biggest down has been the poo-stravaganza she launched when I was in the shower yesterday, but I suppose her human servants’ dedication must be tested occasionally… (she's NEVER done anything like it before, so idk, I hope it's a one-off).

Today I discovered that the English word country is in fact cognate to Latin (and descendents’) contra; apparently it comes (via Old French) from a Vulgar Latin phrase terra contrata “land lying opposite”. Wouldn’t have guessed that! 😲 The Anglo-Saxon word is land.

Link: Building a Digital Homestead, Bit by Brick by Tom Critchlow

I appreciated this blog post about the nature of building a personal website, crafting it into a space that feels like home. It quotes/links to a few other good blog posts on the topic, too.

Gizmo decided to be a real bro to his best friend Gidget when he visited last night. He nagged and nagged Vivian to feed him cat food until Vivian finally caved in. Then the second the food hit the bowl, he ducked out and let Gidget violate her diet by eating everything 🤣