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  Trigger warning! Uncle Tim here. In early December last year, my 9-year-old niece suddenly started hemorrhaging from her mouth late at night in the bathroom of her family home. Thankfully her parents were both nearby, however, she almost bled to death in their arms before my brother-in-law was able to somehow stop the bleeding while they were waiting for an ambulance to arrive. He almost lost a few fingers in the process when she began fitting and her jaw clamped down on him as he was trying to staunch the blood flow from his youngest child's (and only daughter's) mouth. He has bite mark scars on his hand now. What followed this were several weeks of completely emotionally harrowing times for my immediate family during which time my niece and sister were airlifted from Hobart in Tasmania to the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne with my niece in critical condition where she ended up having multiple CAT scans, MRIs, angiograms, ultrasounds and operations where arteries...

Sometimes I think Bender has it right! Ahoy-hoy! Uncle Tim here!  👋 I hope everyone is well and hanging on as best you can during this shitshow of a time we call existence. Yes, super cynical intro I know but fuck it, that's where my head and heart are at right now. It's been a strange time for your Uncle Tim in The Land of Oz (AKA The Upside Down, AKA Fucken Straya, AKA the place that everyone knows doesn't really exist.....) since we last spoke. There's been work shit, family shit, social shit, political shit, health shit, mental shit, emotional shit, weather shit, friend shit, financial shit etc etc. It's been really fucking weird man! What a time to be alive! Weather and financial shit aside, one of the major constants throughout all the mess that has been going on are people, be they the cause of the issues, being impacted by them, helping to support me or others through it all, resolving the issues or just shutting right down so they don't/won't allo...

  Uncle Tim here 👽👋   Just thought I'd pop in and say hello or "How's it going?" (pronounced "Owzigowen" in Upside Down Talk.) It sure has been a while friends. "Where have I been hiding?" I hear none of you ask, well I've been lurking about on Discord, or working my little buns off but I've been about.  The last few months have been a very strange time for me and without going into too much detail here it has left me feeling quite flat, demotivated and relatively uninspired overall. My muse has been absent of late and that's ok, these things happen, and I always said from the get-go that there would be no timetable to this, it was more when I felt like writing something that I would. A couple of months ago we kicked off the ' 30 mins for 30 days Challenge ' again on the Discord which is where you set yourself a goal for the month and try to carve out 30 mins a day to work on it. The goal can be anything you want, there are no...