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Huia
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Brilliant positioning of news items on TVNZ's home page.
Top one was about the flow of New Zealanders from Australia to NZ had increased (it has been the other way for years).
Item underneath said that, of all the nationalities deported from Australia for committing crimes, New Zealanders were the largest group.
I don't think they were meant to be linked.
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Lothlorien
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Huia, I still laugh at the saying that the flow of New Zealanders to here increased the IQ of both countries.
I have just put some quinces on to poach very slowly in the oven. Am waiting for the wonderful aroma of quinces cooking to fill the place. I can't remember if son likes them or not, but he is having some R&R after custody and property settlements tomorrow. He will be in Leura in the mountains for the weekend, so I will have quinces all to myself.
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Quince season is a good time of the year. A batch a week in the slow cooker while it lasts. Madame thought that we might try spiced quinces this year with some of the early ones, as an accompaniment to a Persian Lamb dish.
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Lothlorien
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I think I may try quince paste. This lot tastes wonderful and has the right amount of sugar for me in it. Tart, but not too tart to eat.
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Quince season is a good time of the year. A batch a week in the slow cooker while it lasts. Madame thought that we might try spiced quinces this year with some of the early ones, as an accompaniment to a Persian Lamb dish.
I have two excellent dessert recipes for poached quinces. I might try something savory as well this year - the lamb accompaniment sounds delicious.
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Lothlorien
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There's two of us interested in the lamb dish with quinces. Perhaps a recipe posting in the Heaven thread would be welcomed by others too? Sounds delicious but I am here by myself this weekend so would need to plan it for when others are also here.
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Quince jelly sells well (my Christian World Service offering, along with crab apple, guava and japonica). I was given some beautiful fruit earlier this season, but a friend said last week she'd bring me some manky fruit (from Italian mancare to be lacking, French manquer – yes, really) and it's stewing away with the spots cut out, waiting to be put in the muslin. Today I also shredded limes for marmalade, another popular item, with the Scottish shredder my dear Scots neighbour used to lend me before she died and I inherited it.
It will all wait in the fridge before day surgery next week.
Gute essen, everyone.
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Lothlorien
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Quince jelly is very good, GG. I still have some in fridge which was given me last year. I rarely think of such things and don't often have toast.
Son's property settlement went fairly well. Could have gone better to fully satisfy me, but he is very happy. Custody case will now be held in October. He has gone up the Blue Mountains to wind down a bit.
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He has gone up the Blue Mountains to wind down a bit.
I trust he will have better luck finding it than I did!
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Lothlorien
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It is the station below where we went and he is a mountains veteran. No problem.
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Huia
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![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) The Christchurch Art Gallery is re-opening in December after being closed for 5 years They are going to feature local art in a 3 month display.
Also the Catholic Cathedral is to be partially retained. (the Catholics have had less public pressure about their Cathedral than the Anglicans have and if there has been any in-fighting it has not been made public).
Things are beginning to move more quickly.
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That does sound as if things are moving in the right direction, Huia - long may it continue!
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Huia
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No, the bus service is brilliant, purple buses every 15 minutes during the week, and half hourly at weekends and red buses going to the Port or the mall with a library every hour. Locating the bus stop has been a challenge though as its been moved a number of times due to ongoing road/footpath/sewer/ultra fast broadband works.
The road workers are very aware of safety and if there's any doubt about the best way to go, offer an escort through the mess. One even stopped the traffic to allow me to cross the road. Drivers seem to be better and merging with other traffic than allowing pedestrians to cross the road).
I have hopes that they will be totally finished in a couple of weeks, but I'm not sure I am being realistic.
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Caught up with Rowen briefly as she hurtled through Canberra towards Sydney. Hope the weather there is kinder than it is here at the moment. Brrrr. First day of Winter has arrived with cold winds and rain. Heavy frosts last week and more expected this week. I have friends who work with the homeless, and I really feel for those sleeping on the streets when it is minus 6 overnight. B1.2 had his first stint of sentry duty outside on one such night. He stuck it out but was really not well the following day. On the plus side, the bush he was guarding did not suffer at all. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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It is not pleasant here either, BL. Wind is picking up but there has been some rain as well.
I am currently minding Master 11 who most likely will be a step grandson later on. They were here yesterday and he sounded like a seal which had smoked all its life. School would have sent him home. His mum, a lovely person, works in day care centre and loves her job. However, she would miss a day's pay if she kept him home and she is not exactly well paid. So I offered to mind him. He slept on lounge last night. Son gave him some medicine early this morning and he is still sleeping. She will pick him up around 4:00. He and his sister are pleasant and polite, but we hardly know each other.
Much to each other's displeasure, he is in same class, same school as Miss M. They believe each spies on the other, although they get on well enough.
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Caught up with Rowen briefly as she hurtled through Canberra ...
I've never met Rowen, but I'm having a vision of a lady in full clerical fig., with a flying umbrella like Mary Poppins. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Lothlorien
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I am sure she has an umbrella, but it would be inside the enormous four wheel drive with all the extras like winches, wet weather gear, extra clothes etc which she needs to get around her enormous bush parish.
I'e had several mini shipments with her and Duo Seraphim when Rowen has been in Sydney. Good fun but a while ago now.
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Oh my goodness, piglet, your description is spot on! How amazing .......
Banner Lady could vouch for this!
We had a lovely dinner and chat.
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Banner Lady
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Yes, yes, Reverend Poppins describes Rowen perfectly. AND she sings serendipitously...cue music for Super-calla-fragilistic-expialla-docious...
Please imagine this: a picnic inside a magically painted motel room, complete with carousels and dancing penguins. It was a wondrous happening when the weather outside was so bleak and dreary. May the magic continue for you, Rowen, no matter which way the wind blows.
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Huia
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Either Piglet has Powers (which could be exciting) or she is associating with too many clergy (which may or may not be exciting, depending on the individuals involved ).
The penguins sound amazing.
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Probably the latter, Huia - organists' wives do tend to meet more members of the clergy than may be good for them.
The appearance of dancing penguins does, however cast questions on the contents of the flask in the picnic-basket ...
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Banner Lady
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Dear, dear piglet. There will always be dancing penguins when discussing life in the church.
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On the first day of winter I went out into the admittedly rather weak sun, and there were the first golden blossoms on he winter flowering kowhai.
Absolute joy!!
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Banner Lady
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Just had 12 hours of below freezing temps here with minus 6.5 the overnight max. Currently the 'feels like' temp is minus 10 so it is a tad chilly. There is snow along on the Monaro highway, and all those snow bunnies rushing to the alps for the Queen's birthday weekend this week will be very happy.
This little penguin just wants to fly north. Sigh.
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Being a rather brainless, northerly piglet, I find it hard to reconcile the ideas of "snow" and "Australia". When I was growing up in the 1970s we had several visits from sundry Australian cousins*, some of whom had never seen snow, which seemed very exotic!
* All Brits have Australian cousins who visited them during the 1970s.
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Banner Lady
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Almost midday and we have reached 7 degrees. TP is complaining it's a heat wave. ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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Lothlorien
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Almost midday and we have reached 7 degrees. TP is complaining it's a heat wave.
Banner Lady, I have asked on the Eagles and Turkeys thread that they stop sending snow. Hopefully it may warm up a bit, although I am not so sure of that.
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3pm and 13c here, which isn't too bad given the time of year. I remember one winter here when anything over 10c was reason for celebration. I have just done a huge sort out of clothes and given that the coldest weather is after the shortest day I need more warm pants. On the other hand I could probably supply a family of spiders with socks, but only if they liked purple and black.
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Banner Lady
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Birdbath was frozen the whole day. Not that the birds were about. If I had wings I wouldn't hang about here either. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Thanks, dear Banner Lady, for your kind thoughts.
I am attending a consultation in Sydney, hosted by my denomination, as it discusses remote and rural ministries, like what I do.
Huge resourcing issues. Will my part of the UCA exist next year? What will I be doing? How will remote and vulnerable people cope without clergy. I know some regions have other denominations therein, but not mine.
Most attendees are cold. Some of us are enjoying the warmth!
Anyway, day two has ended. We are tired. No major decisions yet. Just, um, stuff.
I would appreciate prayers!
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Piglet, on my overseas trips, or when hosting friends from other countries..... I have to explain, patiently, about snow in Oz. Otherwise, I am not believed! And me, a minister.....
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Banner Lady
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All those upside down tea parties possibly don't help...
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Long weekend here in NSW for Queen's Birthday. Son is away at his church's camp and I was looking forward to a weekend by myself. However, he caught a cold from a friend's daughter and has now passed it on to me. My nose is like a tap with a leaky washer.
Fortunately yesterday I made a big pot of good mushroom soup, so that is lunches taken care of.
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Originally posted by Piglet:
Being a rather brainless, northerly piglet, I find it hard to reconcile the ideas of "snow" and "Australia". When I was growing up in the 1970s we had several visits from sundry Australian cousins*, some of whom had never seen snow, which seemed very exotic!
* All Brits have Australian cousins who visited them during the 1970s.
I didn't see snow until I went to Europe at the ripe old age of about 23-put my head out the hotel window and saw little flakes falling from the sky. I later went skiing in Australia but decided it was a hopeless hobby for an Australian-I'd much sooner spend the time and money lying on a beach.
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Huia
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An announcement from the Metrological Service that June is expected to be a good month for skiing.
I hate snow - it's cold and wet and when it melts the river at the end of the street rises alarmingly. It's OK when it's on the Southern Alps looking pretty, but not on my street or in my backyard.
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I had to share:
My little group of 13-year-olds doing language history found that 'liturgy' and 'orgy' come from the same Greek root.
Just one of those things.
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My sister lives in Ravenshoe. Needless to say there were a flurry of family phone calls after the explosion yesterday.
She and her husband were in the hardware store down the street when it happened. Sadly many of those hurt were the local respite care group who were taking their "carees" out for lunch.
Many passers by were blown off their feet, and managed to pick themselves up to get home under their own volition. The initial casualty list may therefore be a bit conservative as the shock and the burns take their toll.
Lord have mercy.
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Banner Lady
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The whole affair sounds really dreadful and lots of nasty injuries.
I feel for the fireman evacuated to Brisbane. My sister said that all that was left of the shirt he was wearing was the collar around his neck, and his back was terribly burnt. It will be a long slow healing process and I hope reasonably straight forward, for his sake.
At least he will be guaranteed to get good support.
So many small businesses went to the wall around that area after two major cyclones hit them successively that it is very cruel to see one of the survivors taken out like that. I hope the family managing the cafe can recover.
In other much cooler news, I have made a pointy hat for a pointy man this week, and am now working on the cathedral banners for the big shindig to install him this Saturday. It will be cold, and I am hoping for no black ice on the road for the drive up.
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More sad news from Ravenshoe, and I expect not the last. Wondering if the 82 year old was the aboriginal lady whose children picked her up and carried her to the local doctors surgery because in the confusion of the aftermath they were not told where the triage points were situated.
Pointy hat a success but have now learned never to trust when bishops elect try to explain colour schemes to you. Having been told cope was an "off-white, light cream colour" I made the mitre in a traditional cream and gold.
Cope was red, white and blue with silver clasp in very modern design. At least the hat matched the very traditional gold and wood staff.
I will be picking up the leftover cope material tomorrow to create a mitre that will go with it. And no doubt somewhere along the line he will come into possession of a traditional looking cope to go with the hat. Old copes do tend to get passed along....
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More sad news from Ravenshoe, and I expect not the last. Wondering if the 82 year old was the aboriginal lady whose children picked her up and carried her to the local doctors surgery because in the confusion of the aftermath they were not told where the triage points were situated.
Dreadfully sad news and how it much it will affect a small community like Ravenshoe. Fancy reaching 82, then die like that.
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Banner Lady
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From what my sister tells me the community is still in shock. Like most country townsfolk they are a laid-back, humorous and practical bunch who know their neighbours and would give the shirt off their back if it would help. Most of them have coped with mill closures, mine closures or natural disasters recently in their lives. Ravenshoe used to be a timber town. They are nothing if not resilient - but this has really depressed many.
For those still in critical care survival is not necessarily the best option, but as Gee D says, it's a terrible way to go out. I was glad to hear the mayor applying to the Queensland government for travel funds for the families affected. I guess everything that can be done is being done, and it is now just a footnote in the news - like the tremors in Christchurch.
But the community is deeply affected, and will be for a long time.
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BL,prayers for the community as well as those actually caught up in the event. Such things always have an effect on small rural areas.
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Wet. Very wet here. Tank is full to overflowing and TP has ordered two more. Expecting that as soon as they are in we will not see rain for many months, because that is the natural way of things.
B1.2 is very organised. I was engrossed in writing a report at the computer this morning when he announced it was time to go to school. He was dressed, breakfasted, had made his lunch, his bed etc.etc. I glanced at the clock and it was indeed a quarter to the hour. Time to go.
So we headed out the door, I waved him off at the corner, and came back in to a very quiet and sleepy household. TP emerged for his 8am cuppa and was unimpressed that B1.2 had gone to school an hour early under my supervision. Fast retrieval of child followed, and TP is now considering whether I am showing the signs of early on-set dementia.
BL. Bad nanna.
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Lothlorien
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You must have been up early, BL, to have made a mistake like that.
Lucky kid to get lift to school. Back in the days, I used to leave at just before 7:00 am to walk to bus, to get bust to station and train to Hornsby, then walk to school. We had to walkin lines, which took longer than if we had just hurried from station.
We also had to keep eye out for the old woman who complained about us. If she was on other side of the road, she would cross road as our lines came into view, just so she could complain.
Of course, back in the days, we were barefoot and had done our homework by candlelight the evening before.
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