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quote:
Originally posted by Evangeline:
but we do get a holiday next Monday for Labour Day.

Oh - and we do that on the 25th Oct or thereaclosest

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Originally posted by Dark Knight:
Happy birthday to Queen Lizzie over here in Sandgroperville! Do you Eastern lot get a public holiday too?

Isn't the Queen's birthday in April? Just in case, I Googled Elizabeth I to see if it was for her, but her birthday was 7th September, so that's no help.

[Confused]

Ya can't be expecting us to muck around with holidays every time we get a new monarch, so it's just an arbitrary date not their real birthday, as you can see, different Australian states have different dates for the holiday. Interestingly the potential loss of a public holiday worried a lot of people about voting to become a republic.
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Schoolchild chant:

The 24th of May is the Queen's Birthday
If you don't give us a holiday, we'll all run away


Canada has spoken (We're older and bigger. [Razz]

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quote:
Originally posted by PeteC:
Schoolchild chant:

The 24th of May is the Queen's Birthday
If you don't give us a holiday, we'll all run away


Canada has spoken (We're older and bigger. [Razz]

Case closed
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24/5 used to be called Empire Day here and we had a half holiday from school to build a bonfire. I date myself. It then turned into Commonwealth Day and I doubt it's much recognised at all down here.

Queen's birthday is in June in NSW.

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The Grandad was duly delivered, like a 13-year-old to boarding school, to the rest home. He phoned yesterday to say he'd found a friend, a man from the same line of work who's waiting for a unit at a nearby retirement village.
I'm sitting at a window on top of a hill in Oamaru with a sunlit view from the distant Alps and down the coast almost to Dunedin, and trying to get the hang of my new iPad Mini,

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Me too, Loth. A mid-morning assembly, speech from the local member [in our case the late Eric Willis], sing God Save the Queen, and home for the rest of the day.
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I was quite surprised to find that Canada celebrates Queen Victoria's birthday (nearest Monday to 24th May, which was her actual birthday).

I believe it's when people go and open up their cabins and cottages for the summer.

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Don't know, and don't care, when her actual birthday is. We do need a public holiday in the latter half of the year, though. Not that I get it, anyway, as I work in academe. But as that's not a real job anyway, no harm no foul.
Are all the bizarre oval ball sports done with now? Bring on the cricket season.

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Me too, Loth. A mid-morning assembly, speech from the local member [in our case the late Eric Willis], sing God Save the Queen, and home for the rest of the day.

We had a play where countries of the empire brought gifts to Britannia. Followed by a song representing that country. Eg. Wales had Men of Harlech.

I played Britannia as I could learn the biggest part and project my voice. No amplification at my small school. I cringe at it now, but there was nothing unusual then.

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quote:
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Don't know, and don't care, when her actual birthday is. We do need a public holiday in the latter half of the year, though. Not that I get it, anyway, as I work in academe. But as that's not a real job anyway, no harm no foul.
Are all the bizarre oval ball sports done with now? Bring on the cricket season.

The self-employed only get a holiday if they decide they don't want an income. I usually work 8 to 10 hours over a weekend, and more if it's a 3-day one like the next (as well as daylight-saving time - can anyone remember which way the clocks go?).

Some of us started out singing God Save the King, even if it were only one year for me.

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Clocks go forward. 2:00am Saturday I think.

I remember reading about the King's death as I brought the paper home from kiosk for Dad. The Telegraph no less then. More cringe, although it was nothing like what it is now.

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When I went to high school (in the nineties) we used to sing God Save the Queen AND Advance Straya Fear at Speech Night. My mother approved of this. She is not like the other mothers.

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When I went to school in the 80s we used to sing God Save the Queen only, one year there was a stoush with the Moderator of the Church about the singing of the National Anthem at Speech Day, so no anthem was sung at all.
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Even when I was teaching, God save the Queen was sung at school assemblies etc. Speech day in Sydney Town Hall saw choir singing it in four parts with a solo, normal school assembly as a pupil had three parts. As a result I now sing a hotchpotch of different versions.

Primary school on Monday mornings had the pledge. I honour my God, I serve the King, I salute the flag.

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I sang in the Combined High Schools' Choir under the baton of Terence Hunt in the Town Hall. We ended each concert with one of the Elgar arrangements of GSTQ. I can just about remember the bass line 45+ years on.

Terry Hunt was a great fan of English choral music, so we sang lots of Britten, Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Holst.

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At our local primary school, both verses of the National Anthem are sung - the second verse without irony. I guess if we share our boundless plains with multinational mining companies who've come across the seas, it must count.

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Yeah, I'd ditch the 2nd verse.......

Long weekend coming up here, and the weather looks like being very kind yaaay.

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I find it odd that Advance Australia Fair became our national anthem in a surreptitious way. We all got a vote to choose from a short list what was to be known as our national song, and chose AAF, but some time later AAF became our national anthem which included altered words. Does anybody know how this came about, as I certainly didn't vote for that to happen.

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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Curly:
At our local primary school, both verses of the National Anthem are sung - the second verse without irony. I guess if we share our boundless plains with multinational mining companies who've come across the seas, it must count.

mr curly

Yes, it does stick in the craw. Maybe we should sing v2 more, to make it plainer how we are failing to live up to its vision.
Godson's birthday party today. He is 2. Does tend to remind me how much I have missed of my girls. But he is ridiculously cute, and heaps of fun at this age.

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Though I'm an outsider now, if I were supreme dictator of Australia I'd make "We Are Australian" the national anthem.

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I like that one, Zap.
If we're going to stick with Advance Australia Fair (which by all accounts is better than God Save the anachronism), we should at least do it Adam Hills style.

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My brother when five sang the original second verse to his kindergarten class. You may not like that the current second verse makes us sing lies, but the original is dreadful. I have no idea where he learnt it as I did not know it at the time. (scroll down to view, When gallant Cook from Albion sailed...)

We may have boundless plains but are not allowed to share.

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True, the original second verse is a tad, um, imperialistic, but it was written in 1879 and I suppose that's how they thought in those days.

For my part, I'm quite relieved that I've never had to sing the verse of God Save the Queen (written about 1745) about crushing the rebellious Scots ... [Big Grin]

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BL, We have several tertiary Franciscans in the parish and commemorate St Francis's Day in a big way. Your bishop preached to us this morning, largely on the Saint. In his sermon, he noted the excellent relationship Francis had with Moslems, and said:

Writing this week to his congregation in Roseville (and picked up the ABC’s ‘the Drum’ website) Dr John Dickson stated:
In the end, I have a simple thing to say, and I feel a strong sense of God’s pleasure in saying it. Common sense and Christian faith urge us to shun both a naïve recasting of Islam as the mirror-image of liberal democracy, and a hateful projection of our own tribalism onto Australian Muslims.
Instead, let’s go out of our way in the coming weeks and months to pray for the Muslims around us and to convey love and friendship toward them. I commit to pray for every Muslim I see, and when I meet Muslims personally, I will try to express friendship in Christ’s name.


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Very well said.
Hope y'all had a nice public holiday. We kept the country running.

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quote:
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Very well said.
Hope y'all had a nice public holiday. We kept the country running.

Son had a phone call last night from a good friend in Perth. Unfortunately son was just asleep after a very tiring day and friend had forgotten daylight savings now makes a three hour time difference.

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quote:
Originally posted by Zappa:
Though I'm an outsider now, if I were supreme dictator of Australia I'd make "We Are Australian" the national anthem.

Well, I'm not supreme dictator, but am Aussie. And I would too.

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No names, but some of us had our own little private edge of the world ship meet the other day ...

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I knew I should have rung and said hello. I've been in your neck of the woods all last week - although dancing attendance on my mum (not an onerous job, but time-intensive).

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No worries - I am out of my tree busy last week and this

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No names, but some of us had our own little private edge of the world ship meet the other day ...

And it doesn't get much closer to the edge of the world than New Zealand! Thanks for your hospitality - fish & chips and a fine Kiwi Sav Blanc [Cool]

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Son took Miss M and her big sister to Night Noodle markets in Hyde Park in Sydney on Saturday evening. The had a wonderful time and were auditioned by Channel 7 as junior weather reporter. Link below is to a very short clip of them. They are reading from an auto cue. Miss M is clear, but big sister is struggling with two acrylic plates and braces on her teeth. She is still getting used to them.

It was to have aired last night and I turned on Channel 7 news near the end. [Hot and Hormonal] However, the delays to Bathurst car race meant that they were still showing that. News came on late and was abbreviated so nothing was shown of any junior reporters.

Look, Miss M has hair!

Clip was able to be seen in both USA and UK yesterday, so hopefully still works. It's only short.

Junior weather reporters

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Lovely to see your talented grand-daughters after hearing so much about them.
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They did very well.

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Bravo Miss M. and Tara! [Yipee]

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Brava! Good to see them both looking so well!

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Loth that was lovely, thanks for sharing it.

I have had my new computer connected and it's wonderful. While Sarah the technician was setting it up the courier arrived with my new kindle and I'm a bit conflicted as to where to go first. I keep learning new things - like the old one didn't have the red wavy line for spelling mistakes (no excuses now) and the size of the print is much kinder on my eyes.

I also bought a new phone which has the loudest ringer I have ever heard, and a speakerphone so I can hear more clearly (I never really had much luck with holding the receiver in the right place to connect with my hearing aids).

I think this is it for technology, at least for now. Next spendy project is rewiring the house

[Eek!]

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quote:
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and the size of the print is much kinder on my eyes.
Huia

I can change the print size on my Mac with Command + or -. Do you have anything like that?

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I am sure there is also a way to do this with Windows based systems as my Dad had his set differently - you may have to go into "accessibility" or something - I am sure someone here will know how it is done.

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Your Granddaughters did a great job Loth! No easy thing to speak to camera, well done!

I'm off to the Night Noodle Markets next weekend, a friend managed to wangle some reserved seating as it always seems to be so crowded down there. I might have to give the low carb diet a break that night!

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GG, the control + is my favourite command ( [Hot and Hormonal] the only one I know off the top of my head). The monitor is humungous, around 55cm measured diagnonally. I was looking at something smaller until I was shown the one in the church office and realised how much easier it was to read.

All this is very well but last night I stupidly switched everything off now I can't get anthing to work [Waterworks] The wi-fi modem says wifi is off, only it can't be right off because my laptop is using it. The humungous screen glares at me emptily. Last night I couldn't send an email nor access the old stuff that was transferred. I hate technology.

At least the phone is OK and the kindle is charging. Meanwhile I will curl up with a real, live, paper book.

Huia - technopeasant (thanks for that word Uncle Pete)

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Loved seeing the Loth granddaughters (looking so well too).

And a little bit nostalgic. Four years ago Mr F and I met Ian Climacus at the night noodle market. Great food (and company!).

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This is ridiculous. Spring weather is fickle, but 34 deg. a couple of days ago and this morning there is snow on the mountains and out Bathurst way.

Another very wild storm here for second night. Torrential rain and wild wind. No hot water here this morning. Electricity is fine and there is gas to stove, so I am guessing something happened in wind to tanks on roof garden. Gas and electricity are both used to heat hot water for block.

I have emailed strata manager and she probably has other complaints on her desk this morning.

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I don't know whereabouts in Australia you are, Loth, but there were pictures on the Canadian weather channel's "wild weather" feature today of fairly interesting (and very moist) weather in Sydney.

Take care, those of you who are affected. [Votive]

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Lothlorien
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I'm in Sydney, Piglet. Well out of flooding reach where I am, but one street where I looked at townhouses is deep in water from Cook's River this morning. The townhouses would not have flooded but their underground car park would have. Storm water canal which is wide and deep near me, was on point of overflowing.

Intersection I overlook had huge waves as cars moved through. It's at the bottom of two slopes and water gathers in intersection.

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Piglet, Lothlorien, Evangeline, MSHB and I all ive in Sydney, but spread across different suburbs - remembering that suburbs have a very different meaning here to that in the US and Europe. It is probably over 60 km as the crow flies from D Towers to MSHB lives. Where MSHB is was very hard hit, less so where I gather Evangeline and Lothlorien live (I am going by their attendance at a particular church). Where we are is usually one of the wettest areas of Sydney, but we escaped the worst of it this time. Only a few light branches down at home and I had no trouble on the train this morning.

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Arabella Purity Winterbottom

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Well, I've learned something today - I just used Ctrl and + - and I think it will be my new favourite thing. [Big Grin]

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Lothlorien
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quote:
It is probably over 60 km as the crow flies from D Towers to MSHB lives. Where MSHB is was very hard hit, less so where I gather Evangeline and Lothlorien live
It would be all of that, I think. My cousin lives in adjoining area to MSHB and there are pictures in SMH of major damage. They could not get out of their house and boats have broken loose from moorings too.

Evangeline and I are much closer to each other. She is close to one major road out of Sydney and I am on the other. Your area seems to have escaped this time. I can remember two major storms up your way and my brother's Volvo was crushed by a tree falling lengthways along it about 25 years ago. He said he moved a branch from the road this morning but could see not other signs of the storm.

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I was using a library computer when one of the staff told me about ctrl+ then, the next day, I was the star of Improve your Computer skills at another branch by passing the hint on. Even the staff member taking it didn't know. For a few seconds I basked in the joy of seeming to be knowledgeable about computers, then I told them how recent and limited my knowledge really was.

Huia

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You know you can reduce the size of the text by Ctrl- ?

I forget how many keyboard controls I use because they become automatic. Copy (CtrlC) and paste (CtrlV) are regulars, but there are lots more.

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