ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘
Retired teacher and bookseller. Born 1952. She/her. Living solo if you don’t count 3 cats and 3 hens.
Interests: climate survival, climate politics, my electric car, pandemic response, cats, Australian politics, human rights, turning Australia into a republic, the Uluru Statement from the Heart, early offshore whaling in Australia and New Zealand, genealogy, colonial history, dressmaking and design, recycling and repurposing, Buy Nothing Group, gardening, chooks (chickens)… etc
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Cake day: November 19th, 2022
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@AlexPed @salute The pictured machine is an “iron lung”. Polio had a paralysing effect on muscles, including those we use to breathe in and out. The iron lung used different air pressures to help the patient expand their lungs. It saved many lives.