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(5 hours ago)kiwimade64 Wrote: It needed to be said, mica. Am over his self pity and woe is me shi*. Yes, you are in pain, that's what pain relief is for. I am not your maid. Think about things you can do, pick up after yourself. I've noticed he's moving a bit quicker now on the walker, so he can do it. I don't care if others think I am a bi**h, he needed to hear some home truths yesterday. I will help when needed but he needs to realise, there is stuff he can do.
And I know what you are saying about the $$$. MrK and I both need new glasses and him a hearing aid. Over the years it has been MrK who has needed them more but now it's me as well.
I'm sure you did the right thing, KM. If only because the consequences of him not doing so could eventually be dire & affect both of you.
Another frosty start here but sunny now, had to wear the Aztec hat for the obligatory morning walk.
Its a good thing that I no longer care how daft I look when taking Madame le Dog for the walk...
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
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Lilith7, the name comes from this place, I have been there many time during my younger years in Africa. Apparently it was the first attempt in this part of Africa for an iron Age culture but was beaten to the marketplace by Arab traders/slavers bringing in iron implements when they scouted the area for slaves and fell into disrepair.
The Zimbabwe Bird is very famous and was the symbol of Southern Rhodesia.
Great Zimbabwe National Monument
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/364/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Zimbabwe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Smith
I grew up in Ndola, Zambia after having being born in Bromley, Kent just outside of London.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
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