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GG I must admit I do like fine Sundays so I can bike to church, but a maximum of 25c would do me fine.
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the giant cheeseburger
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Eight and a half months of election campaigning? Thanks a fucking lot Julia!
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Eight and a half months of election campaigning? Thanks a fucking lot Julia!
I think you were going to get that whether they called the election or not!
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Yes, and everyone knew it was probably going to be around then anyway, but...
Goodness me, that is HIGHLY unusual. And it's during footy finals as well - also not common.
For me there's the added bonus of knowing I'll be back in the country by then. Although doing an overseas vote would have been novel.
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It is a surprising date, but I'm sure that the AFL will cope with it by having the two matches that weekend on the Friday night, and on the Saturday night after polls have closed for the day. The big winners there will be the Seven Network, having the footy instead of the election that night will guarantee huge ratings.
It will make the atmosphere outside many polling places a bit dull though, being after the end of the winter season for most school sports and the motive to put on fundraising barbecues being lower than if it was during the season.
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Huia
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For me there's the added bonus of knowing I'll be back in the country by then. Although doing an overseas vote would have been novel.
Is it still compulsory if you're overseas?
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The semi-finals are normally evening matches; I think they will get a boost as the politically weary switch over. I've only ever worked at state and local elections, and would enjoy working at a federal election, but I have to allow for the possibility of finals footy for the Swans. Of course in an ideal world they'd make the top four, win the first week and have that week off, and we're hoping for back-to-back, but who knows.
I'm talking about footy; can you tell I'm getting excited in anticipation?
Huia, it's not compulsory if we're overseas, but if we want to the locations are a lot more limited; just the embassies and high commissions, I think. In fact, it would be good to be away within the state, as in many places the queues are often shorter for absentee voting.
I don't think the early announcement will have a long-term impact on the campaigning; we're just getting front-loaded discussion of the unusual announcement rather than loads of speculation about the date.
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Huia, just about the only excuse for not voting in Oz is being out of Oz. Though if you were a really true blue Orstraylien, you would find the nearest embassy and lodge one anyway. So there.
Rellies in Bundaberg were evacuated for one night, but are back home again. TP's brother is working for Lifeline in an evac centre there. Family in Mackay, Ipswich and Brisbane are all checking in to say they are damp, windblown and over "one in 100 year" flood events entirely (especially when there are 2 in a row and 6 within living memory) but are okay.
Clarence, please gather yourself together - you have been making rather a lot of water lately.
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Clarence, please gather yourself together - you have been making rather a lot of water lately.
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
Fortunately 2 cm less than would have been needed to submerge Grafton ... but Ulmarra, Lawrence etc never stand a chance. I suspect kuruman's dad's former house will have very wet feet at the moment ...
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Today will be the first day of real face to face stuff in the classroom (pray for me - and for the students!). Yesterday I discovered there are new fangled things called smart boards (whatever happened to the nice roller or counterweighted blackboards they had in my day? ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif) ) so DVD, here I come ...
... on the problem of evil. Theodicy. I like to start with the easy things.
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Theodicy? Sheeeyat mate!!! ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
I start my Dip Ed (secondary) majoring in RE shortly. I have three massive textbooks on how to teach Catholicism in schools. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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how to teach Catholicism in schools.
But why would you want to?
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Zappa
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The RE didn't happen - it was an Indigenous class and the Indijkids aren't back yet. So a reprieve. I did however have a double International Baccalaureate Creativity Action Service (aka IB CAS) Year 11 ... students and I survived, but as I don't have as yet a fly's fart's worth of understanding of what they're supposed to be doing they didn't gain much. I put them through a role play and debrief that had bugger all to do with anything, but nearly got them through the double period. I let them out early.
Some stayed back to talk with me. Is that a good sign?
And I've got a talker over the top of everyone else in the class. Is assassination permissible?
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No! If I'm not allowed to kill them for talking, you certainly aren't. At least none of yours throw desks.
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At least none of yours throw desks.
Are you issued full body armour? At least, a taser?
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Banner Lady
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My sister in the NT has just started teaching at a new remote area school. She was told to leave her last post because she physically restrained a primary school child who was trying to hit another kid over the head with a metal chair.
The indij families concerned were so outraged at her interference that they demanded her dismissal. She was informed she had 24 hours to vacate her allocated housing, and it was in her interests to leave quickly as threats had been made that were being taken very seriously.
School teachers. What they don't tell you at training college. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Huia
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Is assassination permissible?
Have you got a decent long-jump pit?
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EL: The cope (that his wife made for him when he became archdeacon) is cream with a startling ethnic fabric border in black, brown, cream and white. It has a hood lined in the same Fijian print fabric. He has some connections to ministry in the Pacific.
If you need any more of said fabric let me know - it's readily available here. Our clergy have copes, stole etc of it too - doesn't go well with sparkly stuff.
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Emendator Liturgia
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Originally posted by Huia:
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Is assassination permissible?
Have you got a decent long-jump pit?
Huia
Maybe a nice game of leap-frog for the darlings - in the direction of the largest cliff? Hmm, treat them like lemmings, and ....
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At least none of yours throw desks.
Are you issued full body armour? At least, a taser?
No, but I do have a behaviour management parrot. He seems to be working so far.
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It is a surprising date
Really? With all the juicy details and a court decision on one of her former colleagues about to thrust her through the Media gauntlet yet again; I would say it is timed so the worst is over before polling day.
Just a thought.
Of course, that also leaves plenty of time for someone else in her party to embarrass the heck out of Labour, cause a whole lot of headaches, and then give us the usual spectacle of a party disembowelling itself at the most unfortunate time. Labour seems to be rather good at doing that.
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Emendator Liturgia
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Originally posted by Banner Lady:
Of course, that also leaves plenty of time for someone else in her party to embarrass the heck out of Labour...
Craig Thompson, Senator Chris Evans - well, who's next?
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Craig Thompson, Senator Chris Evans - well, who's next?
Nicola Roxon, it seems.
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There are tiny black ants scurrying around my bathroom floor. I am three floors up, so hope they have made a mistake in coming this far up!
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I'm still waiting for KRudd to come back.
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(I'll get me coat...)
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I like this idea of Queensland having another go round in February with Australia Day II after the floods last weekend.
I suggest that the first time around be retroactively referred to as One Australia day, because like the infamous yacht of the 90's it too was covered in water ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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I'm still waiting for KRudd to come back.
(I'll get me coat...)
Oh, I wish. Unfortunately, constitutionally, he can't, now. Which means we'll be trapped with the Elephantine Budgie Smuggler in September. Which, sad though I am to say it as a Laborite, will only be marginally worse than the Ranga and her groupies.
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the giant cheeseburger
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Why not? The faceless men could dust off the steak knives again and appoint Rudd their leader, and if he could demonstrate to the Governor-General that he has the majority support of the House of Representatives (i.e. all Labor members plus four others) he would become the new PM.
I would not welcome a second Rudd premiership, I think he's a power-mad psychopath who has designs on much higher titles than just Prime Minister, think along the lines of "Supreme Leader."
There is nothing official about this election yet, all we have so far is that the PM has said that's when she'll do it.
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Ahh, the joys and pleasures of a cool day and night - just right for recharging the batteries.
Tomorrow is a big day at church - we've regigged the Purification of the BVM to include aspects of traditional Candlemas. The order of service is done and printed, the music is ready, the sermon sits on my new android tablet (with a paper copy in hand, just in case), the candles for candlemas are in their presentation basket - now what have I forgotten?????
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The kitchen sink? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) Hope it went well. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Attended Candlemas at my local today.
So nice to be a participant at a great church rather than a leader in a different one again......
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It is a surprising date
Really? With all the juicy details and a court decision on one of her former colleagues about to thrust her through the Media gauntlet yet again; I would say it is timed so the worst is over before polling day.
Just a thought.
It was agreed with Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott in 2010, long before any court decisions were on the cards, that the election would be in September or October.
She didn't exactly have a lot of wriggle room unless she broke that agreement.
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I'm still waiting for KRudd to come back.
(I'll get me coat...)
Oh, I wish. Unfortunately, constitutionally, he can't, now. Which means we'll be trapped with the Elephantine Budgie Smuggler in September. Which, sad though I am to say it as a Laborite, will only be marginally worse than the Ranga and her groupies.
*consults the Constitution*
Eh? What the devil are you talking about, man?
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I've made it through a week as a high school parent - just 5.75 years or thereabouts to go... More importantly Cryptogirl has made it through the first week, although it is year 7 camp tomorrow and today she is complaining about a sore throat, but it's expected of her to be sick the day before camp - regular as clockwork!
One week into the election campaign and I'm bored to death already...
Loth - did your ants go? Ours have just arrived ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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You mean there's hope?
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There's only one thing worse than endless election campaigning, and that's endless leadership speculation. I am SO SICK of every single Kevin Rudd cough or twitch being turned into oh my goodness maybe he's starting another run at the leadership!
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Loth - did your ants go? Ours have just arrived
They did for a few days, but have returned today with a cohort of followers.
I now have two grandchildren at High School. Eldest grandson is now in year 9 and his cousin, Miss 12 from central coast, started last week.
I no longer look at policemen getting younger. I just look at my grandchildren. Master 14's two younger sisters started at the same school as he is. Year 5 and year 3. Not my choice but looking at alternatives in their area, probably a wise move. And the youngest, Master 7, also central coast, is over the moon at his new teacher for second grade because said teacher knows about soccer.
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Loth - did your ants go? Ours have just arrived
They did for a few days, but have returned today with a cohort of followers.
Hmmm... They must be different ants then. I really hate spraying ants as they are such busy industrious little creatures that it seems a crime to do anything horrible to them. They are mighty annoying and persistent little buggers though, and completely mysterious the way that they seem to come from nowhere, make a trail across your house, and disappear back into a different nowhere.
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I just saw Jackie Weaver on TV. At least my eyebrows are my own, not from a pencil.
She gives her age as several years below mine, but she was in the year down from me at Hornsby Girls. Does not compute.
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Loth - did your ants go? Ours have just arrived
They did for a few days, but have returned today with a cohort of followers.
Hmmm... They must be different ants then. I really hate spraying ants as they are such busy industrious little creatures that it seems a crime to do anything horrible to them. They are mighty annoying and persistent little buggers though, and completely mysterious the way that they seem to come from nowhere, make a trail across your house, and disappear back into a different nowhere.
We're lucky to have no ants but we did have a large weta (say 5 cm body) appear in the middle of the passage this morning. Did s/he (didn't attempt to sex it though I guess the female has an ovipositor) come in when we had the door open to get a breeze through the house? Wouldn't step nicely on to my hand so I had to get the dustpan and take it to a leafy spot outside. The Grandad kept his distance, having been a child in Egypt where insects must have been scarier than ours, or so I assume.
A weta is a gentle beast unless it's stressed, when a bucket or a dustpan is sensible.
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Was she accelerated or did you fail a few? ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
I think her memory is failing her. You probably don't know re NSW schools but Hornsby, North Sydney Girls and Sydney Girls battled it out each year for top selective girls' school. Academically, sporting choral etc. Not much has changed, another couple get a look in nowadays in state system.
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Maybe you're younger than you think, Loth! Wikipedia says she was born 25th May, 1947.
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Our letter was being moved into this afternoon by some ants and their eggs. By some, I mean a lot. Had to dispatch them.
Getting on with the writing this week. Still waiting for some paid work to eventuate, but looking good. Feeling much better in all ways last couple of weeks.
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