Crowpoek

jackdaws snacking on kroepoek

A somewhat blurry picture of us feeding the jackdaws at the hospital. They’re snacking on kroepoek, an Indonesian shrimp based crisp like snack, de riguer when you’re getting a Indo-Chinese takeaway, popular with crows as well as people so it seems.

And yes, that means S. is still in hospital, after three unsuccesful attempts to get back home earlier in the year. It’s still unknown when she can try again, but she’s waiting to undergo yet another operation, to cure yet another problem caused by interactions between the various medications she’s on. I’ll spare y’all the details, but it’s a long story full of medical mistakes and accidents that are more the product of the whole medical process as a whole than the fault of any one individual. It’s all getting her down, as you can imagine, so if you want to cheer her up a bit