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That's good news Mr Curly at the top of page again! Hope all is well with him.
Miss M has made a wonderful recovery after our very worrying few days at the weekend and may also be released tomorrow. She had lots of cuddles tonight from Big Sister, 11, and enjoyed that as they are close.
She will be back at clinic for another general anaesthetic on Thursday for bone marrow biopsy and associated spinal taps etc. These will be a check on progress with second round of chemo.
Such a rollercoaster ride here.
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Glad to hear about Middle Curly and that Miss M's still bouncing back.
Long may it continue. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Miss M may get home today depending on results of a rest from yesterday. No infection has shown up in any testing, so it is assumed the severe heart arrhythmia and the temperature of 41°C were a side effect of the second round of chemo.
They treat the symptoms but the chemo goes on regardless. Another general anaesthetic tomorrow, another bone marrow biopsy, spinal tap etc.
Son asked me to say thanks for prayers and good wishes. All much appreciated.
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Sorry, Haven't called in for a while and I do so looking for something for myself.
I will be in Adelaide on the 4-7 May this year to attend the Spiritual Care Australia conference and am wondering if there any Adelaide shippies who would care to meet up.
Ooh, I'm going to the SCA conference too, perhaps we could have a joint meet! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Great. Let's do that.
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Originally posted by James the Confident:
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Originally posted by Latchkey Kid:
Sorry, Haven't called in for a while and I do so looking for something for myself.
I will be in Adelaide on the 4-7 May this year to attend the Spiritual Care Australia conference and am wondering if there any Adelaide shippies who would care to meet up.
Ooh, I'm going to the SCA conference too, perhaps we could have a joint meet!
Great. Let's do that.
It is so tempting to be there. The Swans are away to the Crows at the redeveloped Adelaide Oval. We already have a few away matches booked but if this one gets added I'll have to remember to come back and let you know.
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You'll excuse me for mis-checking my calendar and talking complete balls. But I may still get to Adelaide for work at that time. You never know.
Vulpior, about to take my headache home.
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Son asked me to say thanks for prayers and good wishes.
It was lovely this morning at the lego cathedral because now my priestly colleagues are beginning to pray for her as if they know her personally - I dunno how to explain it but it's beginning to feel as if we all have a personal stake in her well-being
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It was lovely this morning at the lego cathedral because now my priestly colleagues are beginning to pray for her as if they know her personally - I dunno how to explain it but it's beginning to feel as if we all have a personal stake in her well-being
Thank you. That's lovely. we really appreciate the worldwide prayer and it's been a comfort to know of so many praying for her.
I belong to Ravelry, sort of facebook for knitters and crocheters. A group within that seems to have adopted her too. When I thanked them for their kindnesses when they didn't even know me, I was reprimanded. Of course, we were friends, just hadn't met. They are sending her postcards, craft stuff books. All co-ordinated by a moderator so things come separately. They say they feel personally involved too. Extra aunties and grandmas etc.
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A morning in Sydney! Look gum trees, and no snow! A good start to the journey home!
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... Extra aunties and grandmas etc.
One can never really have too many aunties and grandmas. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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... Extra aunties and grandmas etc.
One can never really have too many aunties and grandmas.
Especially ones who buy Miss M more bears. Cousins to her own which I bought when the donor had first operation for breast cancer. She's returning the gift.
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One can also never have too many bears.
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One can also never have too many bears.
Not sure about that. We have three large (tea-chest sized) cartons of them, plus several that are living free!
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Mr Curly, copied from the car thread in Heaven, where I also talk of cars to buy:
As to Biggest's learning to drive - before either of us took Dlet out for his first drive, we booked him into full day course at a well-known driving school, with its own track, and just opposite St Ives Showground. Very useful, well worth the money, and he went back for half day courses about halfway through his L plates and again just before he went for his test. If you book the test at Belrose, Biggest can have a lesson beforehand, and then the instructor will drive him to Belrose RMS and he do the test on the same car. Dlet had to do 120 hours, and these counted double or triple time, can't remember which. There's also a lot of night driving to be done. Since Madame took him out in daylight, I covered the night.
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I think Dlet had too many beers last night - he's not well this morning, not well at all.
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Huia, special prayers from all of us for you and all your fellow citizens, on this, the 3rd anniversary.
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Hmmm, that Adelaide SCA conference in May looks tempting.
Home now, and tired.
Took church today, and was given a warm welcome. Nice.
And extremely conscious of my burning parish, and how much there is to do, noting that some of it s still cut off by blazes.
I had sent emails ahead, asking for donations of biscuits and slices. I figured that would be a kind gesture... Wherever I go in the burning areas, I will bring arvo tea... People are more inclined to relax over a yummy bite of something.
My dear congregation has given me boxes of food. Some we have frozen. They tell me they will go on cooking as long as I ask. After all, they said, they were evacuated, and then the scare ended, and the town was safe, so the least they can do is help others. They were a bit worried about the church and the manse, but felt they wouldn't tell me at the time, as I was having fun in the USA somewhere. Probably for the best!
The members of my main church are dears.
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Glad you have arrived back safely, Rowen.
Autumn is in the air here, and with it the first head cold I've had for ages. Snifff.
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Autumn is in the air here, and with it the first head cold I've had for ages. Snifff.
I hope you were able to appreciate your birthday yesterday (yes, missed it) pre-cold.
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Glad to hear you got back safely, Rowen, and belated happy birthday, BL.
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Huia
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Thanks for the prayers for Christchurch Gee D and Zappa. Three years on I would have hoped people's claims would have been settled, at least so that the uncertainty would be lessened. It is for most of us, but some of the really complicated ones are still in limbo. In addition the price of rental accommodation has skyrocketed due to fewer places being available, people moving out while their houses are fixed and accommodation being required for all the extra workers.
The approach of winter is an additional factor.
I'm lucky as there's just the driveway and front (brick) fence to be fixed, and that should happen in the next couple of months (fingers and toes crossed). Actually I wish it were possible to say -"leave the driveway and fix someone's house instead" but of course it doesn't work that way. IF I ruled the world it would.
Huia - wannabe dictator (mostly benevolent)
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Originally posted by Rowen:
Hmmm, that Adelaide SCA conference in May looks tempting.
Home now, and tired.
Took church today, and was given a warm welcome. Nice.
And extremely conscious of my burning parish, and how much there is to do, noting that some of it s still cut off by blazes.
I had sent emails ahead, asking for donations of biscuits and slices. I figured that would be a kind gesture... Wherever I go in the burning areas, I will bring arvo tea... People are more inclined to relax over a yummy bite of something.
My dear congregation has given me boxes of food. Some we have frozen. They tell me they will go on cooking as long as I ask. After all, they said, they were evacuated, and then the scare ended, and the town was safe, so the least they can do is help others. They were a bit worried about the church and the manse, but felt they wouldn't tell me at the time, as I was having fun in the USA somewhere. Probably for the best!
The members of my main church are dears.
There'll be at least two shippies there, time for a meet!
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I'm feeling very relieved. I just had a new heat pump installed and I could not get it to work. I thought that I was doing something wrong and felt very stupid, so the nice man came around to talk me through how the remote control works. Much to his astonishment the problem is with the unit, not me. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif) The installer is coming back to sort things out ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
I'm having a run of it. Yesterday a plumber broke the handbasin while trying to take off the old taps. It was actually lucky that he did as I didn't realise how fragile it was and it probably would have broken anyway, but at a much more awkward time. So now I'm getting a new vanity unit as well as taps
When the dust clears from all this I'm getting the house re-wired too - fingers crossed.
The joys of having a house that is only 4 years younger than me, but at least this should make it warm and safe.
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Good news for Sydney? Cardinal Pell is to be transferred to the Vatican.
Not sure if this will be a move Upwards? Sideways? Downwards?
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George Pell is in his 70's. That's an interesting superannuation plan...
And in other geriatric news...
TP took our grandsons to the aged care facility to visit their great grandmother. He sat them on the couch inside the entry, opposite the reception desk while he ducked into the visitor's loo nearby. When he came out there was a bit of a crowd gathered around the boys. Some of the residents and all of the admin staff were listening in awe as Master 8 (B1.2 is the geeky one) explained to Master 12 (B1.1 is the sporty one) why time stopped inside Black Holes, the relationship between black holes and white holes, and the space/time continuum....
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
Perhaps this is a deliberately chosen picture of one of the contenders for the position of ++Sydney. In today's SMH, here.
A Dominican surrounded by enough food to feed a homeless shelter! A glutton is not my choice, but since I am not the Holy Father, I will shut up now.
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
Perhaps this is a deliberately chosen picture of one of the contenders for the position of ++Sydney. In today's SMH, here.
A Dominican surrounded by enough food to feed a homeless shelter! A glutton is not my choice, but since I am not the Holy Father, I will shut up now.
And not for the first time by the looks of things. That's why I thought it was carefully chosen, possibly by someone with a view to discrediting him for some reason. I know little of him, just the name and the cathedral where he is.
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I'm reading that Pell's translation is of benefit to both Rome and Sydney. Christian Kenneally, IIRC.
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Here's the ke
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Here's the ke
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Hmmmm, one disgraced Roman Catholic commenting on another. **shudder**. Gives Catholicism a bad name.
Loth, no doubt you've heard the old joke when Abp Jensen was the Anglican incumbent "What's the only thing that separates Peter Jensen and George Pell?"
"Hyde Park"
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Mr Curly, is Middle OK? I might have missed the update but last I saw he was still in hospital
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I popped a request for +Sarah on the Prayers thread. Aust's first woman diocesan, even if the ABC saw fit to give an incorrect explanation for +Keith's resignation.
There seems to me a world of difference between a resignation because of a failure to report abuse to the police and a very honourable resignation because you consider that you did not approach compensation claims with proper pastoral concern for the claimants.
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Originally posted by Gee D:
I popped a request for +Sarah on the Prayers thread. Aust's first woman diocesan,
What took you so long?
Well done that woman!
Seriously though my prayers are with her - it's not easy being the first woman in any role and I think that much of the flak the Bishop of Christchurch cops is because she is a woman.
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I am in Grafton. I was there. Well, not in the cathedral because I didn't pull my finger out to try to get a ticket, but in the hall where they had a small screen but a good quality video and audio feed. We sang, prayed and wept as if we were there. It was a privilege to join the people of Grafton. I counted 19 bishops going in (so 20 going out!). Bishop Sarah was vested in cope and mitre by the other four female bishops.
I didn't particularly note whether Bishop Trevor Edwards was there, but at least three of the four candidates at the last Canberra-Goulbourn episcopal election were: preacher, chief consecrator and new bishop!
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A lot of bishops seem to emerge from our diocese. Perhaps it is thought that if they can navigate their way through the currents of Canberra/Goulburn they can manage just about anything! Good luck to Bp Sarah - I suspect she will need it.
I have a new ecumenical role now, with more travel ahead. My days at the big house have lessened. Much to do, and am still crook. The roof goes on my studio next week, and I am itching to have it finished as we are all living on top of each other.
Glad to hear of improvements in Middle and Miss M. And thanks for the birthday wishes Piglet. TP surprised me with a lovely gift - a genuine 1920's swivel library chair. I am happily sitting in it as I type. Wheeee! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Mr Curly, is Middle OK? I might have missed the update but last I saw he was still in hospital
Thanks for checking up on him. Middle is improving. He had 3 days in hospital, then the rest of previous week off school. Back at school this past week, still with a cough and sore muscles but getting cheekier every day which is a good sign. He's a bit tired and trying to catch up on school work from the 2 weeks he missed is taxing him. He is peeling skin from his hands and feet, which is revolting.
Rain here in Sydney, so not sure if today involves watching Biggest play cricket or not. I suspect a blessed relief is in store.
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Originally posted by Huia:
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Originally posted by Gee D:
I popped a request for +Sarah on the Prayers thread. Aust's first woman diocesan,
What took you so long?
Well done that woman!
Seriously though my prayers are with her - it's not easy being the first woman in any role and I think that much of the flak the Bishop of Christchurch cops is because she is a woman.
Huia
Our first was +Penny Jamieson in Dunedin and I think she had some really hurtful experiences that we outside the church didn't hear much about.
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+Kay may have become the first diocesan as I gather she balloted well in the first electoral synod for Newcastle.
Grafton will be a hard job for anyone. +Sarah's background says that she has the necessary skills, but that does not mean that she will be allowed to show them. Nor does it mean that there won't be any of the nasty criticisms that she has not succeeded in a particular task because "she's just a woman, what would you expect".
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If Newcastle had a nomination system like Grafton +Kay may have had a better chance, but the opposition from both ends of the clergy spectrum meant she was unable to gain a majority in that house of Synod.
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It feels like we have gone straight from summer to winter. There are howling, 130 km winds and large swathes of Christchurch are without power tonight. This is hard because a lot of homes lost their chimneys in the quakes and a reliant on electricity for heating.
I took a bus to the other side of town to have lunch with a friend and was very glad that my shoes are waterproof and that I stayed warm with two knitted hats and a yellow knitted collar, (from a world class knitter ) as well as 4 layers of clothing. I am also grateful that my bus goes right across town so I didn't have to get off at the Exchange.
Tomorrow the weather is supposed to be similar, although a couple of degrees warmer. I'm going to the library, which unfortunately isn't on any bus route ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) and a long-suffering librarian is going to help me sort out whether my Sony e-reader is slow or whether it's the library wifi ( which has been known to make my dial up connection look fast).
In your charity remember him in your prayers, he is both patient and kind.
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