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Thanks - I have lovely reddish lights but am regretting that now. Have upped the computer screen brightness. I also have a great app called myNoise that does awesome selection of nature and coloured / ambient noise. I will check out your suggestions. Hope you and melbcat are faring ok.
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I work with environmental stuffs and yeah, I've not been ok about it for a long time. I grew up with floods and cyclones and that was always exciting when i was young but now ...ooof. Hard to deal with the grief in summer, that's all.Climate
Natural disasters terrify me.Thankfully I have cooling now so we’re managing ok thanks! Melbcat is mad I won’t let her outside but she doesn’t know how good she has it