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Good news, Mr Curly. And Rexory, prayers continuing.
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Here's to what awaits Beyond 2000 ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Weird weather here today. Gales and torrential rain forecast for south of Sydney with some up here. Currently it's both sunny and raining. Son had to drive west for work this morning and said it was below zero at Badgery's Creek. Blanket of snow on Blue Mountains, more near BL's place, first time in decades. Also on Snowies and northern tablelands.
Last Friday it was 34° C.
On a good note, I have just realised I am walking without a limp for the first day since beginning of August. Very welcome.
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With that weather, you had better stay inside, Mr Curly.
We had our 4mm of rain (the first for about 8 weeks) yesterday. Today we are having high and gusty winds.
Called FD yesterday. He seems to be getting on OK in his parish. Next time I am up visiting some of LKspouse relatives I hope to visit him and Clarence.
I am waiting for the hospital bureaucracy to approve my chaplaincy so I can start spiritual care visits. I don't know what is taking so long.
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I'm at Erskine Park, not sure of the temp but it's bloody cold!
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I disturbed shortly after 2am today to a still, quiet and dark house. The power had gone off. I called Essential Energy to let them know. They said that the crews were finding it hard to get around because of the snow. "It's not snowing here," I said.
How wrong I was. Two inches of the white stuff at 6am, with the power still off. Being on tanks, that meant no pumps and no running water, so I trotted along to the one gravity-fed tap to get water for coffee and for washing. Not running: frozen.
We had enough water in the jug to be able to heat on the stove and make a plunger of coffee (good thing there was some ground coffee or I would have been brushing the spills from around the grinder). But to wash the only remaining water was the half-full bucket in the shower.
Apparently the power is back on so I think it will be a bath tonight.
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My sister used to live at Maroota near Wiseman's Ferry here. Tank water and frequent disturbances to power. Like you, that meant no pump. Eventually they rigged up a small pool which was filled periodically from dam. Gravity feed so toilet could be flushed. They usually had some drinking water from tank in a couple of containers.
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Frozen pipes
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Yesterday we stowed away the winter duvet (doona?) and flannelette sheets. Today it is COLD. What are you folk going to send us over the ditch?
Sixty years ago we knew an orchardist near Nelson whose brother had an orchard in Tasmania. When the Aussie brother was struck by violent weather he'd phone his Kiwi brother to expect it three days later.
I suppose nowadays he'd text him.
Looking forward to summer.
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Removed a VERY large decomposing python from the gutters today. ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
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Dear God. Kinda puts Spiffy's skunk thing into perspective...
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Removed a VERY large decomposing python from the gutters today.
(kinda sad, too, because I like pythons )
Dear God. Kinda puts Spiffy's skunk thing into perspective...
Brother had a decomposing possum removed from roof cavity recently. The are has just been re-roofed and hopefully entry points have been sealed up.
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Removed a VERY large decomposing python from the gutters today.
(kinda sad, too, because I like pythons )
And what snake is going to move into its territory. Hopefully not a brown.
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One wonders what killed the python?
Crazy weather in Sydney today, snow everywhere on the outskirts of Sydney, brrrr.
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It probably was feeling its own mortality, and simply found a kind, python-loving home upon which it could lay its weary head.
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Maybe, Kelly but I think of bigger snakes or other things nastier than the python.
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I was about to turn in, but I think I'll stay up for a while...
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Originally posted by Zappa:
Removed a VERY large decomposing python from the gutters today.
(kinda sad, too, because I like pythons )
Dear God. Kinda puts Spiffy's skunk thing into perspective...
I have this problem with decomposing ex's.
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Well, don't we all, really.
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Yes, but you grow lovely chrysanthemums, Kelly.
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Coldest October day in 44 years here yesterday. Today not much better. I hope Rowen is not expecting warmth as she comes north.
Not. Happy. Jan.
BRRRRRR.
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My sister used to live at Maroota near Wiseman's Ferry here. Tank water and frequent disturbances to power. Like you, that meant no pump. Eventually they rigged up a small pool which was filled periodically from dam. Gravity feed so toilet could be flushed. They usually had some drinking water from tank in a couple of containers.
When I lived in New Hampshire, my water came from a well. When there was a power failure, the well-pump didn't work. Fortunately, most power failures were predictable; I knew the storm was coming. I filled the bathtub with water for washing and toilet-flushing, and I filled covered pitchers with drinking water.
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All back to normal. Long soak in the bath when we arrived home from work. Lasagne from the supermarket, Maggie Beer Tempranillo and a film we'd watched before.
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Originally posted by Vulpior:
... Maggie Beer Tempranillo and a film we'd watched before.
Sounds like the start of a poem by the late John Betjeman, Vulpior.
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A message for Mr Curly:
Even with heart medicines, the old ticker takes a few months to adapt after a heart attack. So you do get "aftershocks" - for reasons that I suppose are a bit like those that apply to earthquakes.
However it does adapt after a few months, provided your general health is OK. I am pleased to say that two years on from a [mild] attack I have recovered enough to take part in an occasional cycle race without being totally disgraced. (See the AS cycling thread).
So, to coin a phrase, don't lose heart !
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Woo Hoo! I'm back on line having had to buy another USB dongle from the Evil Empire. Apparently the old one won't work with my operating system ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) .
Week one in the cattery went really well. Now for somewhere to live.
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Was wondering how you were going, James. Blessings for this part of your journey.
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WTF??? Christmas decoratims all ready at a shoppig mall here!!!!!!!!
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WTF??? Christmas decoratims all ready at a shoppig mall here!!!!!!!!
Australia is behind the times. I've seen those for weeks now. Quite a glaring colour scheme what with Thanksgiving just past and Hallowe'en yet to come.
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Thankfully,
my town has no shopping mall, or Christmas displays yet.
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An unoccupied car dealership on the Pacific Highway near us has just opened as a Christmas decoration supa-store. A thin and whispy youth dressed as Santa was on the footpath waving to passing cars yesterday.
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Is that the "new Santa"? Fit and healthy instead of fat.
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Originally posted by Latchkey Kid:
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Originally posted by Zappa:
Removed a VERY large decomposing python from the gutters today.
(kinda sad, too, because I like pythons )
And what snake is going to move into its territory. Hopefully not a brown.
Yeah, that's my main concern. There's some big browns round here. I didn't do an autopsy on the snake but there are about three or four possibilities: - Cane toad
- Swallowed too big an animal (there was a possum around) and became wedged in gutter (too decomposed to be sure if wedged)
- attacked by our three dogs and died of injuries
- old age. Oh, and
- something else. God's punitive wrath for giving apples to Eve?
Dunno. I like to think old age.
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Now if he had got into your whisky, the wrath may have made him legless
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Gee D
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Originally posted by Latchkey Kid:
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Originally posted by Zappa:
Removed a VERY large decomposing python from the gutters today.
(kinda sad, too, because I like pythons )
And what snake is going to move into its territory. Hopefully not a brown.
Yeah, that's my main concern. There's some big browns round here. I didn't do an autopsy on the snake but there are about three or four possibilities: - Cane toad
- Swallowed too big an animal (there was a possum around) and became wedged in gutter (too decomposed to be sure if wedged)
- attacked by our three dogs and died of injuries
- old age. Oh, and
- something else. God's punitive wrath for giving apples to Eve?
Dunno. I like to think old age.
Have you counted your children lately? Lothlorien's brother, who has possum problems, used joke about getting a python and going into business with it - he'd rent it out, put it into your roof, then when it's having its post-possum snooze, removing it and taking to to the next customer.
+Greg visited us this morning. Instead of the usual responsorial psalm we have on non-choir days (choir days has the psalm chanted) we had Psalm 23. He read a verse in creole, and we would then repeat the verse, but in a modern, colloquial NT English. He later threw away his notes and preached on the psalm verse by verse ex tempore. Very effective and very moving. Not sure if this is the right board, but the translation has the enemy looking on to the prepared feast, with implications of envy on their part. It gives a different slant to it. Until now, we've read it as showing care and protection.
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... Maggie Beer Tempranillo and a film we'd watched before.
Sounds like the start of a poem by the late John Betjeman, Vulpior.
I have knelt on a gift of Betjeman. He donated the altar rail kneeler at my former church (my former UK church, not the local place I've given up on) in memory of his mother.
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Originally posted by Vulpior:
... Maggie Beer Tempranillo and a film we'd watched before.
Sounds like the start of a poem by the late John Betjeman, Vulpior.
I have knelt on a gift of Betjeman. He donated the altar rail kneeler at my former church (my former UK church, not the local place I've given up on) in memory of his mother.
So it is contagious!
Wonderful poet, though I would think considered a bit "dated" now.
OBTW I think you'll find many have given up on their local places. In retrospect I see it as often an act of genuine spiritual discernment.
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Rowen has arrived. As a CostCo virgin, I am, it seems, to be deflowered this week. This is because I am too cheap to pay the $60 membership, but she, as a member, can sign me in.
I suspect shopping may have to be followed by a leisurely lunch to get our strength back up.
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Sir P, in my case I wouldn't be quite so bold as to claim genuine spiritual discernment. I do think the concept of God wanting each one of us in a particular church is a little tending to predestination.
BL, we have been putting off a trip back to Costco (and so a now-due membership renewal) because we are off on a combined work trip/holiday, and also because the credit card account is bursting from the Grand Final* trip to Melbourne. but on our return, we will be indulging in the happy pastime of shopping.
Make sure you take cash. Why cash? Firstly, because non-members cannot pay for anything except by cash via the member, and secondly because it will give you a rigid budget.
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BL assumes rightly.... I like being on vacation, especially when there are lovely folk around!
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Sir P, in my case I wouldn't be quite so bold as to claim genuine spiritual discernment. I do think the concept of God wanting each one of us in a particular church is a little tending to predestination.
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I was basically speaking of the act of exiting a particular place, Vulpior, following a sort of hunch.
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I was thoroughly oriented yesterday ![[Snore]](graemlins/snore.gif)
Today I have been trained, tomorrow I get jabbed (again) then on Thursday I have to attend a focus group ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
Somewhere in all that I hope to see some patients! It would be possible, it seems to me, to attend meetings, be told what a good person you are and never see a patient.
Is it any wonder I am supping a malt now?
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Prayers plese, one and all: have to have a prostate biopsy tomorrow. The procedure is not what's owrrying me, but the possible results. So be an ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif) and feel free to bang the gates of heaven!
Wityh thanks in advance - and will keep you updates as matters come to light.
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James, hope the new job goes well once you "really" get started.
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