Digby’s mum

Middle class woman of a certain age. Mother to Archie, Digby and Banjo. Plus some humans. @[email protected] and calliebuddy on IG.

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

I think Banjo is happy I’m home.

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

@Spanners_cat @Docsthename Because I will never not be a pedant. That’s a Laughing Kookaburra. A Blue-winged Kookaburra looks like this:

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

I had the choice of 1A. But I went with 2F.

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

@stationmum101 @sheepGeekCP @LambproHolbrook Me too. But no, they have a stabby thing that they poke into the baby fishies.
Also - Tilapia is considered a food fish everywhere except North QLD!!

(The benefits (?) of working for a uni who’s in the top 10 in the world for fish stuff).

[Ducati Corse @ducaticorse]

🤩🤩🤩 OMG!
@DucatiMotor

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

@sheepGeekCP @LambproHolbrook At a conference recently I learnt that fish farms vaccinate their fish. Individually. One by one. The bloke I was talking to (a researcher) said they sometimes do 20,000 a day.

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

@stationmum101 😬

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

@AdamCoffeyNT @Nyscat I have a reasonable level of anxiety about where the life jacket is stowed:under the seat? In the arm rest? And then I remember that chances of surviving (with or without life jacket) are very, very small.
(This is the problem of having pilots and aero engineers in your family)

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

@Ithilia_V @Uber @Uber_Support @Uber_Australia Melbourne airport transport (Uber or taxi) is the worst in Australia

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

Back in my natural habitat.

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

@CallissClan ❤️

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

@stationmum101 As opposed to here, where they have their nests in the middle of the road 🤦‍♀️

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

@DustyPee And I bet you’re paying them to do it, too.

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

For those interested. Bit of a wobbly start with some electrical gremlins, but ended up winning the night with a PB of 8.57/157mph. Happy boy.

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

Race season has begun. New engine, new fairing. Eleventy billion midgies at the track.

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

@agvocate_au My NT drivers licence photo had a saturation problem. I look like an Oompa-Loompa. For 10 years.

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

@stationmum101 @agvocate_au If this had been a couple of weeks ago, I’d definitely have skipped out from my conference to come!

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

@SandyHorne61 That’s a beautiful shot, Sandy. Colours and composition ❤️

[Digby’s mum @CallieBuddy]

@CKMonty @stationmum101 For most rental cars in Australia, that voids the insurance. Pays to read the t’s and c’s before hiring!

[Ali Zeck @AliBeckZeck]

My ex husband said to me a few years ago that my social media bio was “ridiculous,” saying I’m a survivor of domestic violence.

When I asked him why he said,

“Because I didn’t hit you our entire (27 year) marriage. You’re not a survivor of domestic violence.”

And ladies, that right there is how abusive men minimize harm—they define abuse by the worst thing they didn’t do.

“I didn’t hit you every day.”

“I never broke your bones.”

“I never put you in the hospital.”

“I only cheated.”

“I only lied.”

“I only screamed.”

“Lots of men do way worse.”

But domestic violence isn’t defined by whether a man hit you often enough to satisfy his own definition.

It includes coercive control, intimidation, threats, financial abuse, emotional abuse, psychological abuse, isolation, humiliation, betrayal and making a woman live in a state of fear, collapse, and survival.

And the person who abused me doesn’t get to define what I survived.

I am a survivor of domestic abuse.