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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 10/10/2023
(lemmy.nz)
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Hi guys! A bit late to the thread but checking in anyway. I recovered from the jab so I went and visited my family! It was so awesome to see them and hug them and spend time with them. 💛 I love them all so much.
Now I'm on day 2 of recovering from that, but the worst is probably over so I'm hopeful I'll be back to normal within the week.
It's never too late! Conversations sometimes happen on previous day's threads.
Hopefully your recovery will be swift 🙂
Thanks! I'm feeling pretty uplifted so spending the day in bed isn't as bad as usual. 😀
Your comments in here today got me reminiscing about playing in the mud as a kid. It's like we're magnetised to dirt and mud when we're little.
When I was little, my cousins and siblings would play in a creek, digging out "clay" and I'm sure we used to try to sell it (I'm not sure who to, each other?).
I also have a 6 year old who loves to get naked and colour themselves in from head to toe. Just whenever they get bored. They have a lot of baths.
Probably actually was clay! Reminds me of when I was a kid and "Slime" was being sold in shops and we didn't have any but we got actual slime from this pond and wanted to sell it (not sure who to either, but mum said no).
Your 6 year old sounds super creative.
It may have been actual clay! I only have loose memories but it was this grex colour and definitely had clay-like qualities. Pretty squishy and hard to form into something, but it was probably clay in some form.
Probably squishy because of the river?
Clay's malleability depends on its water content. If a ceramicist wanted to use your river clay they'd probably add more water so they could strain out impurities (sticks etc) then leave it to dry until it got to the right consistency.
I wish you were there at the time, we could have sold it as real usable clay!
Probably be clay millionaires by now!
Missed opportunity, I could have been Elon Musk if I'd had your advice back then!