Luke Hand Diary

A very old profession - washing dishes (Sun, 05/01/2025) 24.01.2025 1:04 ↓

M: 7. E: 7. 🦾🙂 Grateful: there’s one of my spirit-plant (the fishbone cactus) in the courtyard at work - it’s visible from the sink where I ply my trade in one of the world’s oldest professions (washing dishes)

Dishes and chill (Sat, 04/01/2025) 24.01.2025 1:16 ↓

M: 7. E: 7.5. 😟🙂 Grateful: washing dishes

Fri, 03/01/2025 24.01.2025 1:21 ↓

M: 6. E: 4. 😴😐 Grateful: picked up some vibrations at the crystals shop

Umami (Thu, 02/01/2025) 24.01.2025 1:03 ↓

M: 7. E: 7. 🙂 Grateful: umami butter at Lost Cat

Gqom and chill (Wed, 01/01/2025) [Gqom is a sub genre of house music from South Africa - ICYMI] 16.01.2025 1:04 ↓

Gqom is a sub genre of house music from South Africa - in case you didn’t know. M: 7. E: 6. 🙂 Grateful: Chanel no 5.

NYE: totally ruined by mozzies (Tue, 31/12/2024) 16.01.2025 1:32 ↓

M: 6. E: 6. 🙂 Grateful: Sensation of water on my eyelids in the bath

I am a Dylanologist (Mon, 30/12/2024) 16.01.2025 0:50 ↓

M: 5. E: 4.5. 😐😠 Grateful: Trolling rubes on the internet

Marine protein ‘n’ chips (Sun, 29/12/2024) 14.01.2025 1:21 ↓

M: 7. E: 7. 🙂 Grateful: good fish n chips

Sat, 28/12/2024 13.01.2025 1:03 ↓

M: 5. E: 6. 😐😬 Grateful: Picked some flowers from the garden with [REDACTED] and put them in a vase. Lots of colours.

Acute Sexual Starvation (Fri, 27/12/2024) 11.01.2025 0:43 ↓

M: 5. E: 5. 😐😴 Grateful: bbq

Thu, 26/12/2024 10.01.2025 0:46 ↓

M: 4. E: 4. 😑🥱 Grateful: Resting.

Not allowed to say “Merry Christmas” (Wed, 25/12/2024) 09.01.2025 0:48 ↓

M: 4. E: 4. 😐😬😓💩 Grateful: choc ripple cake

Toos-day, innit (24/12/2024) 06.01.2025 0:39 ↓

M: 6. E: 6. 🙂 Grateful: Salad from stuff grown in the food cubes at the community centre.

Wobbled (Mon, 23/12/2024) 06.01.2025 1:08 ↓

M: 7. E: 7. 🙂 Grateful: nearly knocked over the aeropress after I’d put coffee in it. Imagine my relief when it wobbled but didn’t tip over!

Sun, 22/12/2024 05.01.2025 0:50 ↓

M: 4. E: 4. 😑😕 Grateful: harvested and ate a potato

Brown sugar (Sat, 21/12/2024) 03.01.2025 1:00 ↓

M: 6. E: 4.5. 😑😕 Grateful: I lightly squeezed a packet of brown sugar at the supermarket. Felt very nice. It was firm to start with until I tightened my grip on it a bit, then the shape of the sugar kind of gave way and it crumbled. Satisfying.

SHUT THE FUCK UP!! (Fri, 20/12/2024) 02.01.2025 0:49 ↓

M: 4. E: 4. 🙄😡😕 Grateful: neighbour’s huge cactus is flowering

The Talented Mr Hand (Thu, 19/12/2024) 02.01.2025 1:32 ↓

M: 6. E: 6. 😬😠😐 Grateful: i was praised as being “talented” in the group chat for the choose your own adventure book website.

Dibber (Wed, 18/12/2024) 23.12.2024 2:05 ↓

M: 7.5. E: 7. 😇🥰 Grateful: Grateful for the wholesome get-together at the community centre. I should have given [REDACTED] a Christmas card actually. Doh.

Uninspired (Tue, 17/12/2024) 22.12.2024 1:27 ↓

M: 4.5. E: 5. 😑😕🥱 Grateful: We cleaned and packed up the cafe at the end of our shift in record time today.

Annus horribilis: 2024 Year in Review 21.12.2024 10:31 ↓

A clear eyed look back at the year that was for 2024.

Sum of all fears (2002) (Mon, 16/12/2024) 20.12.2024 1:31 ↓

M: 4.5. E: 4. 😑😕🥱 Grateful: My little wattle plant is in rude health.

Top deck 🍫 (Sun, 15/12/2024) 19.12.2024 1:08 ↓

M: 5. E: 5. 😐🙄 Grateful: Cadbury Top Deck chocolate

Not a euphemism (Sat, 14/12/2024) 17.12.2024 1:46 ↓

M: 6. E: 6. 😰😤😇 Grateful: A humble and earthly dinner.

T-jiff (Fri, 13/12/2024) 17.12.2024 0:31 ↓

M: 6. E: 6. 🙂 Grateful: cool, eye-lash-looking clouds at dusk