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An unexpected drop in by Z on the way out of town - yay. Lunch and an attempt at a seam after a sewing machine oiling that looked like it made it much happier. Thread breaks if go too fast (the left one - possibly a tensioning issue, but the threads are balanced at present...- think it is the thread skipping and catching on things at variable speeds) and needle skips and doesn't pick up (mainly on the right one) if go too slow. So, there is 3/4 of a seam done. May see if I can do a single row of stitching to attach pieces together and do the overlap by hand - feeder foot and the double threads appear to be the main issues - the single thread and needle things I have sewn have been ok (2 swags, 2 cloaks and 3 hoods).

At least the biltong is on drying.

But now freshly hugged and oxytocined and Z is off into the field and I think after the bit of grocery shopping, an afternoon of Buffy and embroidery is called for. Will play with rasps and bits of bed frame and fitting tabs a, b, c, d and e into v, w, x, y, and z later.

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But now freshly hugged and oxytocined...

What a delightful gloat that is. I had to look it up on Wikipedia to be completely sure. Ten out of ten for apparent subtlety!

I managed six long distance relationships before I got sick of 'em and vowed to come up with a better technique. I can vouch for the benefits of the odd weekends together. Never got to see much of Brisbane, Sydney, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Sydney (in that order) but I don't think I missed much.

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Apparently (I forget where I read it), hugs of longer than 20 sec cause release of oxytocin. Or are one of the potential release mechanisms...
Hug the Monkey has some interesting stuff, though some of the more extreme ideas probably need to be taken with a grain of salt. A certain degree of born again convertism.