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Normally I read a book in a day or two, but because of the time of year, I can only get brief bites at this one. Haven't got to the sixties yet - but as Weldon mentions living through tremors quite often, I guess we are building up to that moment when reality rudely intrudes.
Not recommended reading for those across the Tasman at Christmas time!
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My iPad just popped up a reminder that it is Christmas Eve in South Australia tomorrow.
What happened to the rest of us or do they have a holiday then?
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We're dreaming of a wet Christmas ... for some strange reason my prayers for snow to accompany the Nine Lessons and Carols went unanswered on Sunday night. But in spite of the fact that most of Darwin has now headed south, we had a good turnout. And the monsoon rains started.
This afternoon will go and fire a cannon down the Smith Street Mall. Won't hit anyone.
Meantime, the rain and cloud continues, and Darwin shivers at just below 30 degrees. I may try a run down the ski slopes at Stokes Hill.
And from all of us in Darwin, every blessing at Christmas; may the joy and love of Christ be with you and those whom you love!
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... my prayers for snow to accompany the Nine Lessons and Carols went unanswered ...
We've got some - would you like it? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Today I hobbled the whole 5 metres or so down the drive with the aid of a broomstick and took I taxi to the medical centre where the lovely doctor gave me some industrial strength pain killers ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif) I think I am in love (with his prescription writing skills at least).
The injury actually happened in September when I fell down the front steps, but the physio got a bit overenthusiastic on Monday. I rung her yesterday and she was a bit condescending and after I had tried exercising, resting, elevating, icing my knee and using a hot pad it still was unbearably painful, so after not sleeping last night I made a doctor's appointment and was lucky to strike Dr S. He also suggested an x=ray because it may not be only soft tissue damage, so I'll have that next year.
I had kind of lost touch with how long it had been so I'm glad he suggested further investigation.
Being almost pain-free is amazing ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Today I hobbled the whole 5 metres or so down the drive with the aid of a broomstick and took I taxi to the medical centre where the lovely doctor gave me some industrial strength pain killers I think I am in love (with his prescription writing skills at least).
The injury actually happened in September when I fell down the front steps, but the physio got a bit overenthusiastic on Monday. I rung her yesterday and she was a bit condescending and after I had tried exercising, resting, elevating, icing my knee and using a hot pad it still was unbearably painful, so after not sleeping last night I made a doctor's appointment and was lucky to strike Dr S. He also suggested an x=ray because it may not be only soft tissue damage, so I'll have that next year.
I had kind of lost touch with how long it had been so I'm glad he suggested further investigation.
Being almost pain-free is amazing
My knees gave a sympathetic twinge just to show I care.
Cheers for the painkillers, prayer may help but the painkillers too must be of divine provenance.
Do these things have to happen at Christmas? I fell on my shoulder at this time a couple of years ago; the x-ray was immediate, but by the time a scan appointment had come up, and the results had reached the GP, all the orthopods had gone on holiday till the end of January.
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Yes GG, the doc said I could get an xray today, but the report wouldn't be available until mid January at least.
A well-meaning friend came today with some crutches he had found in a garage. The smallest setting barely fitted him and he's at least 8 inches taller than me ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
I was going to be on the door welcoming people to church tomorrow, and on Sunday but I'm staying home because it's all a bit much, even though the friend with the crutches offered to drive me there, which was kind because he is not a church goer.
Huia,feeling sorry for myself
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Ok, in the SOF Christmas play you HAVE to be Tiny Tim now....
I can think of a few shippies who could play Scrooge...
I will put up my hand to be the Ghost of Christmas Past - although I could probably do a passable rendition as the Christmas Pudding or the fruitcake. And No, I am not nominating to be the goose....
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I was reading the ship' s Christmas play last night as I do at this time of the year, when i came to the description of the shooting star and thestage lights dimming as Miss Molly went home. So I read some of the Fields of Gold Thread which is another thing for Christmas.
After a stressful day supporting son through more rubbish from a bitter ex, the threads were a bit much for me and I burst into tears. However, it also helped release tension.
(Threads mentioned are in Glory. Miss Molly was a Shipmate who died of cancer and the Fields of Gold theead is arecord of her interactions with Shipmates over the last few months.)
Sorry, sticky keyboard not working well.
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A very Happy Christmas to you all from us, and special thoughts for GG and Arabella as they approach the joy of Christmas with their losses in the last couple of months.
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Many thanks Gee D, and our best wishes to all at this most holy season. Midnight Mass well-done and dusted. Now to bed to prepare for the invasion of grandchildren in a few hours.
Prayers for those for whom Christmas is a difficult time for whatever reason. We have the deaths of three parents during December, so we feel the loss every year.
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Heading off shortly for Midnight Mass. Blessings to all on these boards!
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I'm just home from Midnight Mass on a very warm night. Wonderful service though and I'm sitting down with a cuppa to unwind before bed. Happy Christmas shipmates.
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Amazing the difference a good night's sleep followed by a shower makes.
But did RNZ National have to play The Small One The evocative power of hearing Bing Crosby read this had me in sentimental tears, not so much from the story itself, but from happy memories of childhood Christmas's.
Happy Christmas everyone.
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And of course remembering you also DD.
A wonderful - full of wonder - service at midnight with about 200 or so attending. There had been 130 at the early evening one. Great sining from the choir (and the congregation), a thoroughly sound sermon, a service that flowed smoothly, and, then a warm evening with the full moon to come out to.
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Amazing the difference a good night's sleep followed by a shower makes.
But did RNZ National have to play The Small One The evocative power of hearing Bing Crosby read this had me in sentimental tears, not so much from the story itself, but from happy memories of childhood Christmas's.
Happy Christmas everyone.
Huia
I agree. It reminds me so much of my childhood too. At primary school the teacher would play it every year, all 4 78 rpms!! I would love to hear it again this Christmas as back in May we were in Bethlehem, Jerusalam and Nazareth and it would mean so much more now
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Great news Zappa. I posted greetings last night on Pete's thread, but a Merry Christmas to all.
We have celebrated here so far with a slap up breakfast and several cups of good coffee. Middle son, new fiancée and her two, new step grandchildren for me.
Moonlight last night was lovely to see. More cloud this morning but a break last night.
Edited for typos caused by typing and talking on phone together.
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Grandchildren have now departed for lunch at Poppy's house, having breakfasted with us and opened presents. Now we are relaxing to the strains of the 1958 Carols from King's which is part of a fine boxed set given me by my dear wife. I think it might have been the first such performance under David Willcocks, with Simon Preston at the organ. Such fine music never becomes boring.
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It's probably well into Christmas Day with you folk, so I'll wish you a merry Christmas before I go out to sing at Midnight Mass.
Have a good one! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Happy Christmas to you all. I've survived the kid's Christmas service, preached and presided at midnight and aga in this morning,band am now fronting the organising of food and everything else before the family arrive late this afternoon.
My thoughts are with those still fighting fires, or experiencing anxiety about the threat of fire on this hot & windy day.
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This is the first year since I've been back to church that I've missed Christmas Day
Not that I had a bad day, but it was quiet apart from phone calls and texts. I am getting more mobile and am in less pain, which seems like the best Christmas gift ever. I think I will make it to the planned Boxing Day lunch, and the lunch I was to have today is postponed until I don't need my broomstick*
Huia
* To support my hobbling, but flying would be more fun. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Happy Christmas all. Last night we had 15 of us at B3's for dinner. This morning I went to church in the nursing home with my mum, before bringing her down to spend the day with us - with various family coming and going all afternoon. Everyone except me has managed a nap, so I am expecting to sleep well tonight.
Glad that's over for another year! I am now ready to clock off for a few weeks along with the rest of Australia.
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A strange, blank, day yesterday. Glad its over. Spent most of it in the rest home with my mother-in-law.
Today, however, we got up and went to the Botanical Gardens for a ramble. It was glorious, not least because everyone was being friendly and saying hello to complete strangers. Beautiful warm (around 20 degrees C) weather with a tiny breeze - perfect.
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Arabella I'm glad you had the time in the Gardens on such a day.
I love those gardens. The shape of them is far more interesting than those in Christchurch. One of my favourite memories is spending a day there with my paternal Grandfather. Old Jim was a bit of a grump usually, but it was a place he loved and it was like we were spending time with a very old, close friend. I saw a side of him I had never seen before and I still treasure the memory.
At 18 I planned to get married there in the small, white summerhouse, but it was not to be and the would-be groom died 4 years later. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
I went to a friends place for a long arranged Boxing day lunch today and he took me to a small mall where I could pick up my prescriptions and do some grocery shopping while he bought a DvD player that can record.
I'm so grateful that I now have some fresh fruit in the house -including cherries I could cope with having cheese on toast for Christmas, but not having any fruit was horrible.
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Ha, we had marmite on toast last night!
I love the Bot Gardens. When I worked in town I used to walk in them every single day - a good workout given that they go up and down so much. Doesn't matter which bit. I particularly love the Bolton Street Cemetery which is wonderfully overgrown but has heritage roses popping up in unexpected places. Today we went from the cemetery, round the rose garden, up to the herb garden, down through the pines and over to the duck pond. I found a lovely rose called "My Mum" which I'm going to plant in my garden - its name is only a side benefit of a lovely apricot colour and a gentle fragrance.
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Years ago we stayed a night or two in Chandigarh in northern India and went to see the Rose Garden there, about the only thing worth seeing in the place, and the wind was such that we smelt the garden before we got there - this wonderful perfume of roses in bloom!
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Years ago we stayed a night or two in Chandigarh in northern India and went to see the Rose Garden there, about the only thing worth seeing in the place, and the wind was such that we smelt the garden before we got there - this wonderful perfume of roses in bloom!
That's a proper rose garden, that isn't full of modern roses with all the perfume bred out of them.
Not just roses, either: purple verbena anyone? carnations?
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A most satisfactory Christmas celebration at Chez Curly yesterday. A very quiet day today, packing and cleaning up and watching a little cricket.
Merry Christmas all!
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A very wet Christmas greeting to you all. Church attendance was well down on last year - gale force winds and monsoon rains are not conducive to a large turn out at Midnight Mass. As was remarked by one hardy member of the congregation, "Last time we had weather like this on Christmas Eve, it was followed by Cyclone Tracy".
Fortunately the tropical low was moving away from us inland rather than towards us from the sea, so no cyclone, just rain and wind. Enjoy the rest of the Christmas Season!
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A lovely thing about the Christmas/Summer Holidays is that when the clergy take turns to go on leave we all share one another's services. Vicar's away next week so this week local Presbyterians and neighbouring Uniting parish worshipped with her congregation. We do enjoy a dose of Anglican liturgy from time to time; it's nice to see a bunch of Presys totally at home in St L's up the road.
It will be a bit of a change for them when they come to us next week. I haven't had to take a service with Anglican visitors before so I hope my years of experience on my home turf stand me in good stead and I don't let the side down. Especially having been landed with John 1:1-18.
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We bought three new roses yesterday: Margaret Merrill (white, classic rose perfume), Blue Moon (pale lavender, beautiful cinnamon-ish scent) and Sir Walter Raleigh (Austin with rich fruity scent). Planted them this morning in between Abraham Darby and Shakespeare, with some salvia and Queen Anne's lace for company. Have ordered two other roses for later. GG, totally agree that roses without scent are just wrong.
We've spent so much time away from home in the last three years that our garden was a bit woeful, so its nice to be back getting our hands dirty.
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... having been landed with John 1:1-18.
The Ninth Lesson in the Carol Service - it's one of my favourite passages of scripture, and having it read from anything other than the Authorised Version makes the Baby Jesus cry. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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I agree, it's one of the most hauntingly beautiful bits of the Bible - but probably a bit nerve-racking to have to preach on it!
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I agree, it's one of the most hauntingly beautiful bits of the Bible - but probably a bit nerve-racking to have to preach on it!
I often check out William Barclay for first ideas, but he can produce enough for one sermon on the first verse, and so on.
Piglet, do you think the Baby Jesus would cry if the reader used the AV and then I read parts of a modern paraphrase?
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I will let Piglet answer that ...
I have preached on this passage at Christmas-tide, and it strikes me that the biggest problem with it is that it is intensely theological, at a time of year when a lot of people want to hear only sentiment and simplicity.
It is also intensely sad: the world and his own people "received him not".
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Arabella, I remember how lovely your garden was. I think roses without a scent are unnatural. My own garden is a disaster area, but I'm limiting the roses due to their need for frequent watering.
GG I don't know if you remember a TV series many years ago with William Barclay expounding on the Bible? My dad, a convinced atheist, watched it avidly. He said if the local Vicar ever sounded
that intelligent he just might go to church.
My knee is getting better I even managed to bus to church yesterday. Our buses "kneel" down low for us doddery people and one driver even offered to unfold the wheelchair ramp if I needed it - I didn't.
I was exhausted when I got home though.
I am amazed at how generous people I don't even know are. When I posted on Christmas day on a books thread in a local online community that I was lucky I had picked up a book for holiday reading before the knee flared up, another keen reader offered to drop some books off for me if I ran out. (only another bookaholic would recognise the seriousness of running out of books). ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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... Piglet, do you think the Baby Jesus would cry if the reader used the AV and then I read parts of a modern paraphrase?
Possibly not if you're using it by way of explanation in your sermon.
Some well-meaning idiot with more money than taste presented the Cathedral with a very flashy Gospel book rather like this a few years ago. I don't know which translation it is, but it's not the AV, and leaves a lot to be desired. Every year at Midnight Mass I feel as if I want to commit an act of vandalism ...
At least for the Nine Lessons and Carols D. makes sure that a copy of the correct version is slipped into the book before the service.
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Problem is, there are maybe 3-4 people in the congregation who could read effectively from the AV, though there are other quite competent readers, and I'm not sure how well the rostered reader would cope.
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Blue tongue lizards in our garden this year. Just caught sight of one gorgeous specimen as long as my forearm and just as thick, looking very happy out in the sun. Always thought they were a blue grey in colour but this one was gold in colour with dark stripes like this.
I hope he doesn't grow much larger!
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A good thing to have. They eat snails etc.
We used to have goannas at Wollombi, most around 2-3 metres in length. They would come out at lunchtime into the sun and looking for scraps from lunchtime BBQ.
My brother has a couple of bluetongues in his garden and hopes they stay.
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More importantly they eat funnel webs - and around here that's a big plus.
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Yes, TP has decided no more snail bait - even though he used to only ever put it inside collars on his plant pots or inside collars around trees when the snails or slugs were particularly persistent. He thinks there is another one, more slender and darker, so we are wondering whether we may see baby ones soon. According to google the Eastern blue tongue usually mates September to December and has a clutch of around 10 eggs in January. They can live for 20 years, so may see us out!
Don't know if they climb well, but perhaps that's what has been making a racket in the ivy on our back wall at night. Still think it is more likely to be a possum though.
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I can now walk around the house unaided. My feet may be shuffling a bit, but my heart is dancing
And no painkillers last night, so my head is much clearer.
Huia
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Galloping Granny
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quote:
Originally posted by Huia:
I can now walk around the house unaided. My feet may be shuffling a bit, but my heart is dancing
And no painkillers last night, so my head is much clearer.
Huia
So you can dance (maybe a little shuffling dance) for the New Year.
May 2016 be a good one for you – and all our readers.
GG
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On that happy note from. GG for Huia, i will close this thread and start a new one. The decks need scrubbing, the portholes are encrusted with salt. Piglet, WW and I will be busy today.
Thank you all for your company and support all year.
[ 30. December 2015, 22:59: Message edited by: Lothlorien ]
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