Happy Birthday Bron!

Cause it's Friday

So i was reading about the cheating governor of South Carolina, he lives on a barrier island off the coast, one thing lead to another and I was wikiering up a storm over South Carolina issues, came across their state symbols which made me giggle then I thought I wonder what the J Doggs state has come up with.

My favourite is one of Illinois minor nick names is "The Sucker State"

for the record NSW

Emblems
- Floral: Waratah
- Bird: Kookaburra
- Animal: Platypus
- Fish: Blue groper

Do we need a state folk dance? Would it be the lawn mower?

Final assignment

It’s been 2 years and 11 months since little Liela shimmied into my life and what a ride it’s been.

She’s kept the hour from many a different time zone, reunited me with faraway family and friends, captured drunken shenanigans, illuminated light swtiches and keyholes, helped me verbally abuse a florist, survived nights crushed into a clutch with jagged keys, been rescued from abandonment at the Pickled Possum and admirably resisted dozens of ignorant attempts to flip her open. Her pretty pink screen has flashed knowingly at me countless times. Her much maligned little tassel has guided me to her light in many a flustered moment. She charmed me from the go-get and to this day I still hold her in the highest regard.

But everyone deserves their dignity. At her age, with her battery fading quicker each day and her screen furrowed with the marks of time, it seems only fair that she be allowed to put her speakers up. To relax and enjoy her twilight years in comfortable retirement. And so I gave the venerable dame one last assignment, a final opportunity to flex her 1.3megapixels and give it everything she’s got. And like the true professional, she didn’t let me down:

‘A portrait of baby Edith’ by Liela N Franklin

not Gordon

Guess who

heard me decide to get an iPhone and eagerly order myself one, then decided it sounded like a great idea and ordered herself one too?

And guess who’s arrived mother f%$^ing first...