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Rejoicing quietly with you re good news, Loth. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
May there be more of it.
TP's brother, who also has leukemia, and had a bone marrow transplant several years ago, has been back to the gym recently. His first social outing for many many months. We thought we might lose him several times along the way, so this is good news for us.
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Am about to set off for my last working day,(at this stage) a day of cleaning and tossing out out the last of the rubbish. The hardware shop I was at has closed due to the end of the lease, the owners ill health and NOT because of B......s. I have mixed feelings about the impending retrenchment.
I will be 63 next month and have been applying for positions for the last three months with no luck so have no alternate but to take my superannuation.
Thanks be to God that I have a reasonable investment which will keep us fairly comfortable for the next ten years or so. Plus it looks like I could be elligable for some 'new start' as well.
The next few weeks will be life changing to say the least.
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Good luck Dennis. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) for life transitions.
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for all, especially miss M.
I have come down with the dreaded lurgy which would not ordinarily have stopped me. I do, however, work in an oncology unit. I arrived back from Perth on Wednesday morning courtesy of the "red eye", went to the doctor who seemed a bit unimpressed when i told him I had a cold. I then said I have not come for medication but for a certificate as I work in an oncology unit. Change of demeanour, "how long would you like?" If all goes well I will return to work on Monday.
I will be in Sydney for a week in July, I will start a meet thread.
I have been a bit quiet for the last little while but do read often.
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Pink coats for penguins ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
What's black and white and pink all over?
A penguin that got caught in an oil slick.
More seriously though - good on her. I had never really thought of that aspect of penguin recovery.
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Call this a weekend? Mrs Curly is away with 30 junior guides, leaving me to deal with an unusually complicated weekend routine for the Little Curlies AND Mr and Mrs Curly Senior staying over.
I feel like the ringmaster of a circus where half the animals are on speed and the other half want the show to run for 17 hours, while receiving a detailed commentary on every single move.
Feeling thirsty for "medicine time" already.
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Mr Curly Senior's contribution to one of the busiest Saturday's of the year was to announce that he let the guinea pigs out to feed, yesterday at lunch time.
WTF?
Rodents recaptured having not been eaten by predators and before Little Miss had a chance for an "I want my mummy" meltdown.
Oh, but that hour I needed to set up the garage for Biggest's recording session this afternoon? Gone.
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Mr Curly, luck was on your side with the guinea pigs,
Hope the rest of the day works well for you.
When I used to walk down Marian St at Killara around 6:00 am to station, I often saw one very plump small rabbit, possibly an escapee from a hutch. Lots of leafy gardens to sustain it there and it wandered along the footpath and squeezed under fences. Even crossed the road. I saw it for months and it was still around when we moved. A charmed life.
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Don't worry Mr Curly, you've still got time to fatten it up for next Saturday's dinner. The thread for difficult relatives (I think they mean relations, but don't worry about that) is in Hell. Perhaps you could post there also.
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All who do, please pray for 4-week-old Esther on life-support in our Children's Hospital. She had heart surgery the day after she was born, but took a turn for the worse on Thursday. Her grandmother, from Queensland,has been coming to my church for several weeks, and my people have taken her and little Esther very much to heart.
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We certainly shall Rexory. That's every bit as sad as Lothlorien's granddaughter. Poor tiny one.
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Yes, indeed, Rexory. We have been so appreciative of the prayer and concern for Miss M who is on a three week break before what sounds like another horrendous round of chemo.
It is good to hear of the support she is getting from your church. Things like this and Miss M are very hard on the family. I have been very glad of amazing support from many areas. Poor little mite.
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
Put a reminder in your phone or calendar to pop up the day before.
Aarrrrgh ... it may be the weekend I'm supposed to be in Suva for the deans' conference.
I would just have to miss the Suva conference. I missed his 1978 gig because I was at a conference and I ain't gonna miss him again. Though I have been nine times since.
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for Esther and continuing for Miss M.
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For sick girls - tiny and big.
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for Esther and Miss M. May God's love surround them.
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Esther and Miss M
Our younger son had open heart surgery on his second day and at 8 months. He is now 25. Pray that Esther will recover similarly.
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Just had a call from Esther's grandmother. The little one has been taken off life-support and is so far holding her own. Doctors are not particularly optimistic, but let's keep praying.
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Will keep praying, Rexory. Just heard of another little boy, a month old who has just had operation to close three holes in heart.
Thanks Latchkey kid . I did know about your son but had forgotten.
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4 Corners on now about Pope Francis... I do hope he manages to have an impact on the Catholic and catholic church.
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He is a beacon of hope. May he be as subtle as serpents and innocent as doves.
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Have now been out of Australia for 3 months - 9 more to go. Germany is fun, but homesickness is still a thing.
I miss magpie song, meat pies, outdoor washing lines, sunshine that requires sunscreen, dimsims, gum leaves, and many more things besides. I also miss my cat.
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Ah, but how many different kinds of sausage do you have to chuck on the barbie? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Ah, but how many different kinds of sausage do you have to chuck on the barbie?
Most of the chain type butchers here have an enormous range, with all sorts of rich and strange combinations. At least one of them is said to have won a prize in an otherwise unknown competition.
Huia, our local weather site also shows temperatures in the neighbourhood. It's supposed to be only 1 in Christchurch at the moment. Even allowing for the time difference, that's really cold. Hope you have your winter doona keeping you comfortable.
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Oh St Deird homesickness is such a thing isn't it? Often it's things you don't think about much that you miss, like birdsong or the colour of the sky.
Australia will be here waiting for you in 9 months time and you'll be amazed that you will be changed but it isn't.
Do you have some Aussie mates over there?
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Only my husband. So at least I get to hear the accent a couple of times a day. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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... I miss magpie song, meat pies, ... and many more things besides ...
Did you bring your own supply of Vegemite* then? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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... at least I get to hear the accent a couple of times a day ...
I know exactly what you mean - the first time we hear an Orkney accent on the boat going home always makes us go a bit fuzzy round the edges.
* Sorry - as a Brit I assume you feel about Vegemite the way my Better Half feels about Marmite.
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Originally posted by Gee D:
Huia, our local weather site also shows temperatures in the neighbourhood. It's supposed to be only 1 in Christchurch at the moment. Even allowing for the time difference, that's really cold. Hope you have your winter doona keeping you comfortable.
I go in for layers of bedding and at least one possum and merino hat. Now that I've had someone out to fix all the window catches the room is warmer too. One morning I awoke with aches all down my back and I thought I had the flu, but it was only the result of sleeping in a draught and a warm bath cured it
I'm sure Canada is a lovely country, but in winter I am always glad my ancestors chose NZ. Maybe I would be hardier if they had chosen Canada, on the other hand I have been told houses are better insulated there, and with that in mind have someone coming to quote for underfloor insulation.
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* Sorry - as a Brit I assume you feel about Vegemite the way my Better Half feels about Marmite.
I do indeed. And yes, I brought my own.
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... I'm sure Canada is a lovely country, but in winter I am always glad my ancestors chose NZ. Maybe I would be hardier if they had chosen Canada, on the other hand I have been told houses are better insulated there ...
Here in Newfoundland I've found it's not so much the extremity of the cold (although we get far colder temperatures here that I was used to in Orkney or Northern Ireland), but the length of the winter. This year we got snow on Advent Sunday and it was still there at Easter (and a very late Easter at that), and Spring is taking a long time in coming ...
Many of our friends' houses feel to us as if the heating's set to "tropical", although we haven't really developed that habit - we wouldn't find it comfortable and couldn't afford it anyway. Chez Piglet is a fairly old, wooden "row" house, and until we had the front windows replaced was very draughty, but now much improved.
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Gee D
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Huia, some friends put in underfloor insulation last year and say that not only is the house warmer but that their power bills are lower. It's a question of balancing capital cost against income expenditure I suppose. D Towers keep warm, but there's nowhere that draughts can get under the house. We may investigate further depending on the next gas bill.
And Piglet, we've never been to the Orkneys, but a friend who went their in what was laughingly called high summer said that she's never been so cold in all her (considerable) life, which includes a trip to Antarctica. Worse than the main street at Katoomba.
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Gee D, Lithgow main street would give Katoomba a run for its money. My parents grew up there and Mum used to say that the fire burnt from early March till late November, sometimes longer. The valley is a wind trap for southerlies.
We used to have two storey house built on hill so that there was really another floor under most of it. We put in what passed as a ceiling in that downstairs area when son used it as an office. That meant some dead space between top of floor joists for living area and bottom of those joists for office area. Upstairs became much less draughty and much warmer. This was in a house now almost 140 years old, so there was a lot of opportunity for draughts.
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... a friend who went [to Orkney] in what was laughingly called high summer said that she's never been so cold in all her (considerable) life ...
In Orkney it's not the cold, it's the wind, which can make it feel a heck of a lot colder than it actually is. As D. is fond of saying, "Orkney has a wonderful atmosphere, if only it would stay still ..."
For myself, I think the coldest I've ever felt was January in St. Pierre, a tiny French-owned island off the south coast of Newfoundland; when we went out to explore the town, despite being well wrapped up, we had to give up after half an hour or so because it was so cold you could hardly move.
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Is that the Saint Pierre which goes with Miquelon? Never been there, but I've heard from someone else who visited in August that it was far from tropical.
Yes, it is the wind that makes Katoomba so cold. The shopping area is on the southern side of the ridge, and the main street is very steep. The wind comes up from Antarctica, hits the plateau and swirls up the main street. Bitter, so the best course is to rug up well for the street but get into a café or coffee shop as quickly as you can.
I thought that the smog would have kept Lithgow warmer, working as a blanket. Never stopped there long in winter, and the last time was probably 40 years or more ago.
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Lithgow had a heated swimming pool during the Depression. Well, not really. Dad and other boys were friends of the son of the brewer. There was a pool which had warm water in it from some part of the brewing process. They would swim there and the son would ring and ask for more hot water to be sent down.
The other, bleaker side of side of life was the use of the old blast furnaces as dwelling by the unemployed. Each had several families living in horrid conditions in it.
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We have qualified for state-supported insulation. We had several phone calls, and when we were asked for the third time what access we had to the under-floor space I had to laugh as I explained yet again that we sit on a ten inch reinforced concrete slab.
Meanwhile, our huge attic contains a 44-year accumulation of Stuff, which the man who came said could be taken down for $250 (and put where?). We can't do much – the Grandad hasn't been up for decades – so we've asked at church for help, and have had a couple of sessions with a friend passing stuff down while we stack it in bedroom #1, for me to sort and arrange in bedroom #2 – rubbish (outside), recycling, Sallies, Books for the Downtown Ministry's annual book sale, Mother-in-Law's linen for refugees, old uniforms for the Drama Soc....
The aim is to have the insulation in before the end of the winter.
Incidentally, our heat pump is set to 18°C and anything more is too hot for us.
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It was the ice on the inside of the windows that got to me in London. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Is that the Saint Pierre which goes with Miquelon? ...
Yes - it's a wonderful place! We've been there three times - the other times were in May (so foggy you couldn't see the end of your nose) and August (beautiful, sun splitting the rocks).
Two of our visits were for immigration/visa purposes when we had to leave the country: St. Pierre is actually part of France, a fact which becomes obvious as soon as you arrive. AFAIK there are no French cars in Newfoundland, not even a comedy Citroën, but SPM is full of them.
And the food. Ah, the food ... Even in the most ordinary of B&Bs or hotel restaurants, the food is absolutely to die for.
**sigh**
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Yes, the islands are an overseas department, but very difficult to get to from here. Even Newfoundland is out of the way, given the need to change planes at Vancouver and then Toronto or Ottowa. Even with good connections it's probably about 40 hours from here. But a good flight to Paris can be under 24.
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Please whisper a prayer for one of my favourite church leaders ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
And now for his family and diocese. Rest in peace and rise in glory, Bishop Mac,
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Yes indeed. May he rise in the glory of our resurrected and ascended Lord.
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Tomorrow, I begin, after church, a week's vacation. I will drive to Canberra, and see Banner Lady. She will graciously foster my car for the week.
I will fly to Brisbane, and conduct my god-daughter's wedding, which is tremendously exciting.
Today, in Brissie, my best friend's father died. Amongst many tear-ridden phone calls, I have been asked to conduct his funeral.
Weirdly enough, I was asked to do two baptisms, but upon reflection, we had decided to postpone them until September.
Life is weird, and happy and sad at times.
Bishop John worked with the UCA in my previous parish. He was a gracious and holy man.
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Just talking to little Esther's grandma. The little one one is off life-support and stable. Prayer continuing.
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