Yarnivorous

G'day all! This post really should be under my travel blog but it's easier to put it here. On Independence Day, we at last went for a drive in my new baby.  A random drive to the Cascades where, guess what? We found a cascade! This might be lower Wallace Falls but I'm not really sure. It took a bit of huffing and puffing - when they said the track was steep, they were not kidding. Because it is only a state park, people could bring their dogs. The big dogs were fine but some of the little ones were struggling (much like some of the kids and some of the adults). One Boston terrier was whining pathetically but its human was not in much better state. I am pleased to say that whilst I may have huffed and puffed, I did keep on going and on the way back down managed to run part of the way (mostly because it was run or fall over...). Easy track.  Very pretty.  Dunno what is with the poor quality pics. The track along the old railway grade was much easier ...

G'day all! Jumped through more hoops today. Had to have another mammogram today. I don't mind the frontal mammogram, where they grab the boob and plonk it just so and stand like that and head up! It's uncomfortable but not eye watering. But oh my the 45 degree angle one is a little more painful and the way you have to stand is quite difficult. I don't know how older women cope with it. I also asked about older ladies with a certain floppiness to their front porches - how do you get all of the boob on the xray plate? The answer? They don't! (That's a mammogram machine. Indeed that is the very machine that viciously attacked my right boob. It also attacked a man's boobs before mine. Yes, one poor chap had to have a mammogram done. He wasn't exactly well endowed with chesticals if he was the bloke I think he was. You can see the markings for where boobs should go on the upper plate. The xray plates go in the slot in the bottom plate.) Then we d...