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Lothlorien
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It's eased a bit here both in wind and gale. I was expecting to see the palm tree near service station topple over. There were branches blowing wildly in many directions.
King tide in about 20 minutes I think. If it's still not raining I may wander down and see what the nearby canal is like. It almost overflowed in the last deluge some weeks ago.
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Dennis the Menace
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(maybe it's been stormed out?)
It's on here in Newcastle, has been raining and a bit windy but not as bad as Sydney. A we bit chilly at 11 deg though.
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Very wild here, but I got home with no real delay. The train did seem to be rocking as we went over the bridge. The only trouble was the walk down the hill from the station - lots of leaves and light twigs blowing around, but only light rain at that stage. Fortunately, Madame had cooked an old-fashioned beef burgundy, ideal for the evening.
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Banner Lady
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Spare a thought for Rowen who has been 30 hours in the cold far deep south without power thanks to the wild weather.
BRRRRR!
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Galloping Granny
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Overcast skies here in places where people from round the world have gathered to watch the Transit of Venus. If they're disappointed, maybe the locals up the East Coast will put down a hangi to warm their guests' bellies with hot and tasty tucker.
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I'd love a hangi* right now. Snow has been falling steadily and Georgie and I have been snuggling in bed. There are occasional flickers in the electricity, which is a bit worrying as the supply is a bit fragile.
Stupidly left the gumboots and the wee gas cooktop in the garage, but will need to get them in. Georgie does not look as though she will volunteer.
*hangi- basic definition - a hole is dug in the ground and large stones are put in it. A fire is lit and the stones are heated. When the stones are hot food is put in and it is covered up. The heat of the stones cooks the food.
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Lothlorien
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*hangi- basic definition - a hole is dug in the ground and large stones are put in it. A fire is lit and the stones are heated. When the stones are hot food is put in and it is covered up. The heat of the stones cooks the food.
Huia, I knew this and have seen one done in Sydney suburbia in next door neighbours'. However, the thought just occurred to me. What type of stone is used. Having been at BBQ once where river stones exploded and put gritty bits of rock all over the chops, I just wondered.
Rowen, I hope things are better for you now. Did you have lots of firewood to stoke fire and heat up marshmallows or whatever? More to the point, I hope no one was hurt and that damage was minimal. It was pretty wild in Sydney last night and is grey so far this morning. DIIL was out on SES work , lots of damaged roof tiles, trees down etc.
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Galloping Granny
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Originally posted by Huia:
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*hangi- basic definition - a hole is dug in the ground and large stones are put in it. A fire is lit and the stones are heated. When the stones are hot food is put in and it is covered up. The heat of the stones cooks the food.
Don't know what kind of stones are needed, but I think the covering of wet sacks adding steam is important. But I'm not very knowledgeable...
Took my special transit-watching glasses on a trip to town but, being in a friend's car, decided against asking for a minute to check the T of V since there was a patch of bright sunshine. Overcast at home, but we flung a picnic together and headed east where it looked a tad brighter. The sun was casting shadows, but through very fine cloud: it looked bright orange but with wisps of cloud blowing across. No little black dot.
Sigh...
Roll on the eclipse in November.
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Lothlorien
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I hope MSHB and his family are OK. In our massive storm last night in Sydney, his little coastal village had many trees down on roofs and cars. The news gave no news of injuries there.
Waves on Sydney beaches average 8 metres today and many were 13-14 metres. People were surfing at Nielson Park inside harbour on waves about 4 metres high and sand covers Esplanade at Bondi.
DIL has been out again on SES duty clearing up and helping with trees etc.
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
Waves on Sydney beaches average 8 metres today and many were 13-14 metres.
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I imagine by today there will be slightly less of the eastern coastline of Australia.
Just received news B3 is expecting again. With B2 due next month this means TWO new grandbabies in the pipeline... ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Huia
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
Don't know what kind of stones are needed, but I think the covering of wet sacks adding steam is important. But I'm not very knowledgeable...
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I thought I'd forgotten something ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
I don't know how they pick the right stones, but I do know riverstones are to be avoided. According to the course I was doing short lengths of rails (from a railway line) could also be used.
According to the Met service last night's dump of snow was the heaviest in the munted CBD since records began. This morning I'm looking out on a totally white landscape. I am lucky as both the nightstore and the heat pump are working. Some places are without power, which is compounded by them already being earthquake damaged.
The sun is out now though and temperatures are forecast to gallop up to 7c. I'm staying home as the buses aren't running yet.
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Evensong
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Did it have anything to do with the Venus to-do Loth?
Just wondering because I went for a run on the river at midday yesterday and there was no beach the tide was so high. Usually we have about 6-10 meters of it.
And it wasn't high because of rain either....we haven't had any of that for weeks.
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Welease Woderwick
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Evensong runs on water!
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Lothlorien
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Massive storm, winds up to 130 km/hour and a king tide. Loads of damage here, scaffolding fell over and smashed another building , power out to thousands, roofs off, hundreds of trees down Snow 80 km west of Sydney as well as on mountains below canberra.
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Huia
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Just don't go sending that weather across the ditch. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) for all those affected.
Some things just fall into place. I was about to ask about a Bible for the kindle and came across the Jedi recommending a free one in Heaven - one of the limited time offers that works with other e-readers as well. So I now have a Bible including Apocrypha downloaded as well as Rob Bell and John Domimic Crossan. Strikes me that the contents of my kindle give an inaccurate picture of who I am ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
Now the challenge will be navigating around it.
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Lothlorien
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Thanks Huia. I saw that this morning but forgot to come back to it.
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So I now have a Bible including Apocrypha downloaded as well as Rob Bell and John Domimic Crossan. Strikes me that the contents of my kindle give an inaccurate picture of who I am
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) I read all of Bell's book but was so annoyed by the setting out and his grammar and punctuation that I glossed over quite a bit. I really thought that while I disagreed with some stuff, there wasn't anything vastly new to me in it. I also found it written to a particular market.
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Galloping Granny
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Originally posted by Evensong:
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
Only what I've just bought and eagerly started on is John Dominic Crossan's The Power of Parable; How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction About Jesus
Would she go for that, do you think? (Rob Bell's Love Wins comes next but I borrowed one of the minister's copies).
GG
Not her style. But I'd be interested to hear what you think of Crossans book when you finish it. Give us a summary!
You shall have a summary but having been immersed in Crossan's reasoning I'll need to give it some deep thought before responding.
But I needn't have bothered to borrow Love Wins. I opened it, and after dipping in here and there for half an hour I closed it again. It was like going back to kindergarten. Good stuff in a way but not for where I'm at. However having seen one of Bell's videos I can imagine him delivering the written text as a very effective sermon/speech.
Basically I've reacted rather as Loth did, but didn't have the patience to continue reading. I've actually never been in the territory he's aiming at; for anyone who has I still think the Linns'
Good Goats might be more effective.
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Huia
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I only skimmed Love Wins, but found it dissatisfying. I didn't really know if it was the book itself, or the fact that it was the first thing I had tried to read on an e-reader, so it's good to hear your view GG.
Crossan is more of a challenge, in part I suspect because I have been immersed in light reading as a distraction from everything else that's going on in my life. To change gear is more of a discipline, but I think it will be well worth the effort.
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Lothlorien
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That's three of us from down here unimpressed by Bell's book. I think the real basis apart from the
multiple
sections
formatted
like this, is
possibly cultural. Add exclamation marks as wished.
I grew up in Sydney diocese and married into an extremely conservative group. However, I was exposed to other ideas as well by reading. I think Bell imagines that he is writing for those who may be utterly horrified by his ideas. I suppose that may be true where he lives, but it doesn't seem to work down here. His emphasis on this aspect doesn't impress me. The grammar and his formatting all contributed to my less than favourable opinion of the book. None of that opinion is based on what he actually says once I got past the other obstacles. In fact I agreed with a lot of what he said, but found it a pain to read.
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James the Confident
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I am currently reading a book for my course that I am finding difficult. The author is a strident American--and I don't agree with his theology. Not only that most of his peer review footnotes seem to come from other books he has written!
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I am around, but reading rather than posting.
Taking Biggest and 4 mates to Vivid tonight for his birthday party. Looking forward to it, although I think it will be crowded.
Sport over, household chores await.
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Evensong
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
You shall have a summary but having been immersed in Crossan's reasoning I'll need to give it some deep thought before responding.
Cool. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Don't know alot about Crossan but know he's a big wig in the Hysterical Jesus scene. Last I knew the consensus usually split into two: those that see Jesus as a wandering cynic sage or those that see Jesus as eschatalogical prophet. I think Crossan was of the latter persuasion. Is that right?
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I only skimmed Love Wins, but found it dissatisfying.
Perhaps, as Loth points out, it is only really earth shattering to a conservative evangelical?
I have one rather conservative colleague at college that disagreed with Bell and I piped up and said "Oh so you've read the book?" and he turned to me with a rather challenging look and a flash in his eyes and said "I've read enough".
Or perhaps Bell comes across better in visual media.....I rather like this video of his on what the good news is.
He takes the historical issues into consideration too.
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I'm not qualified to comment on the theological content of what he says but, having to check it anyway, I found his presentation in that video really annoying!
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James the Confident
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Aargh! I don't know which way to go, Wales or Australia. The Aussies are winning so perhaps I'll go with them.
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It's still dark and the mercury on the deck has some way to go before it gets to 0. I am about to head off to the big stone house, where no doubt it will be even colder. The question I am asking myself is "Just how many layers can one get underneath an alb?"
Today, I am attempting a marshmallowy 5.
Today, BL stands for Big & Lumpy!
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Galloping Granny
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It's still dark and the mercury on the deck has some way to go before it gets to 0. I am about to head off to the big stone house, where no doubt it will be even colder. The question I am asking myself is "Just how many layers can one get underneath an alb?"
Today, I am attempting a marshmallowy 5.
Today, BL stands for Big & Lumpy!
The local on-line forecast tells us how many layers of clothing we'll need. It doesn't specify whether they should be all cotton, all thermal, or something in between.
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I am currently reading a book for my course that I am finding difficult. The author is a strident American--and I don't agree with his theology. Not only that most of his peer review footnotes seem to come from other books he has written!
Come one ... name and shame!
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James the Confident
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There really is a need for an envy smiley!
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Banner Lady
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OOH! Thanks for the reminder
I feel like my brain cells have all gone on vacation - or maybe they're just snap frozen!
I honestly would have forgotten without you lot in here. My 33rd wedding anniversary will be spent taking my mother out, while TP goes out with another woman (former colleague who needs a referee's report from him). Meh. Another one bites the dust!
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Congrats, BL.
Biggest turns 14 today. We took him plus four mates into the crush that was Vivid on Sat night, but we all had fun. Walking across the Harbour Bridge to get there, seeing the Opera House from above, was a good plan.
Trying to write today, but with the imminent arrival of the Senior Curlies from Perth tomorrow, and me on driving to a funeral 120 km away duty on Thursday, a bit distracted all round. The passing of my uncle in his late 80s after a long painful illness is something of a relief to all, but it still be a difficult day.
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James the Confident
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Trying to write today, but with the imminent arrival of the Senior Curlies from Perth tomorrow, and me on driving to a funeral 120 km away duty on Thursday, a bit distracted all round. The passing of my uncle in his late 80s after a long painful illness is something of a relief to all, but it still be a difficult day.
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AdamPater
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Is anyone in Sydineeee going to see Stanley Hauerwas this Friday, perchance?
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I think you're in the wrong city AP, the event (which sounds great btw) is in Melbourne not Sydney.
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<bugger...>
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Lothlorien
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Heard a pickup line today that I hadn't heard before.
From the response, I think he should have tried again.
"I really like your shoes."
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Evensong
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All now quiet on the Western Front. Storm wasn't as bad as expected. My boys were quite disappointed they had to go to school today.
As for AP, looks like we might be studying at the same Uni next semester. I just got permission from my Arch to do a dip ed.
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