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Rowen
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I am travelling a fair bit at present, and xam kinda getting used to it. Canberra in mid-feb... We must talk soon, to arrange a catch-up...
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Banner Lady
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Excellent, I look forward to trading bead box stories!
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orfeo
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quote: Originally posted by Latchkey Kid: quote: Originally posted by comet: oops, sorry.
And Adelaide.
crap, I'm going to have to rent a car.
Australia is about the same size as the US. You really don't want to drive that far.
Indeed, I'm currently looking at the US and realising it's about the same size as Australia...
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Evensong
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I just overheard a newsreader on radio say " In the United States of California . . ." Lols
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Vulpior
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quote: Originally posted by Rowen: I am travelling a fair bit at present, and xam kinda getting used to it. Canberra in mid-feb... We must talk soon, to arrange a catch-up...
Mid-Feb? Just before the footy starts. Would be nice to have a broader meet, if you want to. I'm in Canberra six days a week, now that I've settled at All Trains.
Oh, and BL, Mum has nearly finished the kneeler...
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Banner Lady
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Lovely. I'm up the road a fair bit at Goulburn until after March. Have joined a costume making group in between making clergy tat, because lots of dressing up will be done during their 150th celebrations. BL. Purveyor of coats and cravats, bonnets and aprons as well as pointy hats.
Though am thinking the easiest thing to make for myself would be a scapula to wear over the alb. Sister BL!
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Latchkey Kid
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quote: Originally posted by Evensong: Evenson 1 has achieved an incredible ATAR ranking and is to study Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at UWA.
Are the job prospects better than "Do you want fries with that?"
Here's to hoping.
Someone said "I went to University to get an education for myself and a degree for my mother." I think that mine was a bit like that. Hopefully the education will hold him in good stead even if the subject matter is specialised. Congratulations to his parents.
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Zappa
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After three+ weeks in the Shaky Isles we're back to face the horrors of a new computer (why are they so bloody hard to set up?) and, it seems, and entirely revamped job for me. Revamped to the degree of impossibility, and to be honest I haven't a clue what my school is talking about: I am not a teacher.
And it's warm. The weather. Not the computer. Which (the latter) is designed with super cooling specifically for these conditions. Unfortunately it came without monitor, keyboard or mouse, for starters, which has slightly delay its functionality.
So nice to see you all - Comet please do come but think of it as a drive from, say, San Diego to Boston - and now back to my break down.
In fact I'll spend the day working on pre-Pub processes for my book.
And mowing the lawns.
Before my breakdown.
(How long do I have to sit under my desk sucking my thumb rocking back and forwards before it counts as a breakdown?)
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Gee D
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Zappa , try lying on your back, arms and legs wriggling in the air, and quietly scream for a couple of minutes - that usually helps.
We're on the way home, in transit in Dubai, and not looking forward to the sudden increase of 30 degrees in the afternoon temperature. Nor to clearing the work which will have built up. Maybe some nice people paid their bills and there'll be a cheque or 2.
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Lothlorien
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quote: Maybe some nice people paid their bills and there'll be a cheque or 2.
Given your line of work, I wouldn't be too optimistic.
Temps here are currently in high 20s but the humidity has struck.
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Evangeline
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Happy Australia Day peeps.
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Dark Knight
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quote: Originally posted by Gee D: Zappa , try lying on your back, arms and legs wriggling in the air, and quietly scream for a couple of minutes - that usually helps.
Sounds like it requires strong abs.
Happy hottest 100 day y'all.
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Gee D
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Build Zappa up for a year of unruly pupils and parishioners.
Back home on a nasty day - around 30 here with a fair bit of cloud and gusty winds. But a clean and tidy house from Dlet. If there were any parties in our absence, there has been no damage and everything was cleared away. [ 26. January 2013, 01:57: Message edited by: Gee D ]
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Welease Woderwick
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Happy Australia Day folks.
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Banner Lady
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Australia Day? 'Bah Humbug' is the response from TP. Yesterday he spent some time explaining "Australia Day" from both indigenous and European perspectives to the grandsons.
All week people seem to have been enquiring as to how we might be going to celebrate it. There must be those patriotic enough to make an effort, but for me, every day is Australia Day.
Very, very glad to have been born in this country with all its blessings. Happy to wave a banner for that any day of the year.
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orfeo
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I keep forgetting it's even on. With the holiday being Monday and all.
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Evensong
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I was impressed to hear a Uniting church minister got an AC award.
And my archbishop Roger Herft got one too.
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Gee D
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The Bishop of Bendigo got an AM. It's a pity he does not have a cathedral as well. [ 26. January 2013, 06:23: Message edited by: Gee D ]
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Lothlorien
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quote: Originally posted by Gee D: The Bishop of Bendigo got an AM. It's a pity he does not have a cathedral as well.
Someone you know got an AM, Gee D.
Sneeze central down here right now. Wind was so strong I could hardly open main door of building which faces north. I've been sneezing almost no-stop for the last hour. Possibly lots of dust in the wind. [ 26. January 2013, 07:02: Message edited by: Lothlorien ]
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Uncle Pete
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quote: Originally posted by Evensong: I was impressed to hear a Uniting church minister got an AC award.
FD?
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rexory
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quote: Originally posted by PeteC: quote: Originally posted by Evensong: I was impressed to hear a Uniting church minister got an AC award.
FD?
No, I even checked the fine print!
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Athrawes
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I believe FD and Clarance are preparing for the arrival of ex-tropical cyclone Oswald by watching their local creek rise and dusting off their flood plan. As far as I know, they're fine, though.
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Gee D
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quote: Originally posted by Lothlorien: quote: Originally posted by Gee D: The Bishop of Bendigo got an AM. It's a pity he does not have a cathedral as well.
Someone you know got an AM, Gee D.
The only person whom I know to get a gong is James Allsop, who well and truly deserves his AO (not an AM). I know who Ron Heinrich and Rod McGeoch (another AO) are, but as far as I can recall, I've met neither. I could have met McGeoch at a school function. Some other familiar names on the lists but no-one I know.
There's a strong wind here also. We just ducked up to a local restaurant for a quick dinner - no food at home and with our flight about 3 hours late arriving, the butcher had closed - and sat outside. The wine was almost blown out of our glasses. And the wind's carrying smoke and ashes from a bushfire somewhere in Ku-ring-gai Chase.
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Evangeline
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Two of my former bosses are on the honours list . One I'm happy for and he deserves it for a lifetime of generous service, the other.......not so much.
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Rowen
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lovely lovely rain lovely cool temperature...
Bushfire threat eased! YAY!
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Barnabas Aus
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Discovered I was acquainted with more people on the honours list this year than I would have thought possible, from the Archbishop of Perth down to the bushfire brigade captain whose grandkids were at the little school of which I was principal. Had known one of them for over forty years without realising his deep involvement in lifesaving, as our friendship derived from one of his other passions.
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comet
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quote: Originally posted by Zappa: Comet please do come but think of it as a drive from, say, San Diego to Boston
I am aware. I'm much more concerned about breaking down on some remote stretch, stepping out of the car, and spontaneously combusting. serious heat sissy. plus I'm a natural redhead which means my skin has zero melanin to speak of. I have sunburned in 10 minutes before.
In Alaska.
according to handy dandy google maps, the drive from where I currently live to where I will be living (and where my mother lives, where I used to live, etc) is the general equivalent of driving from Canberra to Brisbane, and is within the same state (though I have to go through customs twice. 'cause we're a weird state.)
The longest single road trip I've done is the equivalent of Darwin to Brisbane and back again. (and for the record, it was for a funeral and generally sucked. there is NOTHING in Kansas.)
I can handle long road trips. it's the heat, bugs, and snakes that terrify me.
PS - deep breaths, Fr. Zap. post-vacation always sucks ass.
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Evangeline
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A very strange church service this morning. Priest is on leave and the locum fell ill at the last minute, so a mass without a sermon or communion. it was very short and definitely resembled a hymn sandwich but enjoyable none the less.
In news further afield, the succession planning for the Sydney diocese (partic. for the Abp. after the next one) seems to be in full swing. Please pray as the impression I have of the anointed one is that he makes Peter Jensen look quite liberal. The hierachical complementarian stance of the theological college appears to be coming even more hardline too.
for God's love to shine through the darkness of those who desire to make their authority felt and lord it over others.
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Zappa
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For those in the path of ex-tropical cyclone Oswald - seems to be a petulant ex.
O God help me ... I've suddenly become a teacher. Eleven hours a week, teaching "philosophy" and coordinating community service. Last time I was in a classroom you could bash the little shits. S'pose I can't do that now?
I don't have a friggin' clue how to teach, but my school has laid off so many staff I'm the last human left standing. Almost. Bugger.
And ye gods, could you southerners send some wet and wild up here? It's like a bloody sauna, or a page out of a Graham Greene novel. I love heat, but holey moley this is stretching a friendship.
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Rowen
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oh yeah, me too. A great guy
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James the Confident
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quote: Originally posted by Zappa: For those in the path of ex-tropical cyclone Oswald - seems to be a petulant ex.
O God help me ... I've suddenly become a teacher. Eleven hours a week, teaching "philosophy" and coordinating community service. Last time I was in a classroom you could bash the little shits. S'pose I can't do that now?
I don't have a friggin' clue how to teach, but my school has laid off so many staff I'm the last human left standing. Almost. Bugger.
And ye gods, could you southerners send some wet and wild up here? It's like a bloody sauna, or a page out of a Graham Greene novel. I love heat, but holey moley this is stretching a friendship.
We're in drought here! Nothing to send,sorry.
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Gee D
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Zappa
Sadly, I don't know Haire. He's one of those who fell into the familiar names but not known (i.e., met) category, and a well deserved honour.
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Evangeline
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Things seem to be taking a turn for the worse in Brisbane More floods so soon after 2011 is cruel. for all affected.
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Latchkey Kid
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No power for our house church service yesterday. Lots of trees down. Water got into the electrics of our Marine Rescue Radio Base and made it unsafe. Brunswick River higher at the mouth than I have ever seen it. We've had about half a metre of rain in the last few days, but we intentionally bought on a hill, so unless our neighbour's massive lemon scented gum comes down on us we should be OK.
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orfeo
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I basically haven't seen the news today until just now, but it's looking pretty bad.
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Galloping Granny
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for those in the wet. With apologies – though we didn't do it on purpose. Apparently the high pressure system that's giving us ten days of perfect sunshine is so strong that it's blocking the nasty stuff on the east coast of Oz from heading our way as it normally would. So it stays put and then heads south down the coast. Thinking of what's going on over the Ditch takes a bit of the edge off our enjoyment.
Hope the depression can just peter out.
GG
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Zappa
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All Blacks excepted, it's not often NZ can block OZ.
On a more serious note prayers continue for my south eastern brethren and sethren. Some peaks are lower than feared, but still lethal, and I'm getting reports of some pretty wild weather over night on the NSW North and Mid-North coasts ... down where kuruman's mother and sister live. Unfortunately our phone isn't working so we can't make contact.
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orfeo
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GG, that's probably the exact same high pressure system that gave Australia record temperatures. In which case we can't blame you for it.
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Patdys
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Prayers for those hammered by the weather.
I have just finished my last career. I get my ticket and tomorrow I start my next career.
This is where I see if I really do believe in a relational ethic and theology... I hope, I really hope I do.
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Banner Lady
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Believing in it is one thing, Patdys; the trick is surviving the relational theology when so many of us in the church are just simply Not Very Good at teamwork of any kind. If we were good at bringing people along with us, then churches everywhere might not be quite so empty, and the faithful ones not hurt quite so often.
I am simply keeping my head down, and having fun with relational stuff through my sewing. This week's projects include a cope, a stole and a crinoline!
Jugs, you would love where I hang out on a Monday - a sewing group that meets in a costume shop. It is hilarious fun. I'm just not sure what I'll do if the owner of the shop ever wants me to make a mitre for hiring purposes.....
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Huia
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I for one would be happy to give up some of this relentless sunshine for some cooler temps and maybe even rain.
Huia - melting
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Cryptic
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Thank heavens for some cooler weather... for those now being hammered by floods.
quote: Originally posted by Zappa: Last time I was in a classroom you could bash the little shits. S'pose I can't do that now?
(despite my Safe Ministry training...)
Evangeline - what have you heard about new anointed one for our diocese? Haven't heard anything myself, but to be honest haven't gone looking. Not surprised that the diocese is looking to be more hard line.
Today I'm the parent of a high-school kid...
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Galloping Granny
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quote: Originally posted by Huia: I for one would be happy to give up some of this relentless sunshine for some cooler temps and maybe even rain.
Huia - melting
As long as it stays fine for our annual street barbecue on Sunday next.
GG
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