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Welease Woderwick
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You mean you don't already? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Belated Happy Birthday Loth, ma'am.
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Lothlorien
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You mean you don't already?
Belated Happy Birthday Loth, ma'am.
Actually WW, it is still to come mid week. We had hassles fixing a date for all family, so we are doing it twice, once either side of the birthday.
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Lothlorien
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Happy birthday, Loth, and enjoy your second party! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
eta: if Loth has two birthdays, should we be treating her with a little more respect? You know - curtseying while we type, that sort of thing?
![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif) ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
Would that mean I age twice as fast as I do now, and that is fast enough.
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Huia
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I like that idea Loth - you can spread out the celebration.
Huia curtsies, falls over, picks herself up and backs out of the room.
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Huia:
I like that idea Loth - you can spread out the celebration.
Huia curtsies, falls over, picks herself up and backs out of the room.
Watch out, Huia.. Backing out of the room could cause another fall.
Thank you for the good wishes, all of you. I enjoyed last night and will enjoy next Friday. Life has been somewhat grim here lately and it was good we all enjoyed ourselves.
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Banner Lady
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As our family grows we often enjoy "Birthday weeks" with each other. Glad yours has brought the family together to enjoy some good things, Loth.
We have four family members at present who may not see their next birthdays so they enjoy every moment of the ones they do get to celebrate.
On Saturday one of my daughters decided to come over with her children, who have been sick most of the winter so we hadn't seen them for awhile. Another daughter decided to visit with her kids so the cousins could play together. The eldest daughter and one of her sons were already here and my youngest daughter decided to drop in with a belated birthday present for one of her nephews. At one stage all the kids and all my daughters were happily chatting/playing in the eldest cousins bedroom. I walked in to make the tenth person in the room, stopped just inside the doorway and thought "Hey, look what I did!"
Well, with a little bit of help. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
It was a good feeling. So often as parents we are lurching from one emergency to another, so those 'restaurant' moments are great when you get them. Enjoy your second birthday, Loth, you deserve it.
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I have a friend who celebrates a Birthday Month, and why not, indeed?
My celebration this week was our occasional Cuzzies' Lunch, ten of us this time. One who recently moved down here has specialised in keeping track of remoter cousins and she's calling in people I'd never met, which is fun. One I once knew well hasn't been able to come in case his wife wandered off and got lost but she is now in care so he comes with their foster daughter; our 'matriarch' comes in a wheelchair with her daughter looking after her and she does recognise us all with a bit of help. And we're looking forward to seeing more of the next generation.
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I am spending a week in a remote area, just below Mt Hotham Ski Resort. There has been no Protestant minister here for a year, so I am pottering about, being generally religious and kind.
I popped up into the snowfields yesterday, just to look. Much snow.
Where I am staying, no snow. Just very very cold!
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Clothes and bedding especially selected!
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Huia
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Wow! Keep warm Rowen.
Thank goodness the trip I'm making to Wellington in September won't be as cold. My brother just sent a text saying his current house doesn't have insulation. The fact that we were brought up in an uninsulated house several streets away seems to have escaped his memory.
Still I've got used to have heat pumps so will take 2 hot water bottles and a hat to wear to bed. Also their cat doesn't share the bed so of course it will be colder.
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Piglet
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... their cat doesn't share the bed so of course it will be colder.
"BYOC" - bring your own cat. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Banner Lady
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Was surprised to learn that "Humpytown" still existed in Melbourne in the 1960's. To think of people raising children in unheated humpies along the Yarra in a Melbourne winter simply dumbfounded me. I knew that back in the mid 1880's South Melbourne was known as "Tent Town" - but assumed it was because Melbourne was still being built.
Maybe I simply thought of tin lean-to's as an outback scenario rather than a central city one.
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Huia
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Piglet last time I did the BYOC said sweet wee Princess rocked up to one of the resident cats and bopped him on the head. He, being of a friendlier disposition looked at her as if to say, "Why did you do that?"
How she would manage with Nina, my nephew's cat who is as he says, "Totally insane" I would hate to think. She will just have to go to her usual place, which will be a bit of a shock to her as it's under new management
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Funeral for mum went well - as she wanted, a traditional Anglican funeral. The minister even wore surplice and scarf, though no cassock (such is Sydney, of course). So a good service, then refreshments at the family home, with the refreshments also being the "house cooling" (as opposed to a house warming).
Dad seems in better spirits now, and even looking forward to the move into the retirement village. So as for me - QF 846 SYD-DRW tomorrow. Thank you for all your prayers at this time.
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Piglet
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Glad to hear it went well, DD - prayers continuing for you and your family, especially your dad.
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Lothlorien
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Prayers for your dad, DD, facing two large changes in his life at the one time.
Surplice and scarf? I attended one wedding where officiant had Hawaian shirt, chinos and Birkenstock sandals.
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Banner Lady
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B1 flew to Sydney yesterday on a work delegation. The wild party girl of yore was looking very corporate management when I dropped her off yesterday. It is amusing to listen to B2 instructing her on the do's and don'ts of power dressing for women - including the importance of the 'right' accessories. (Understated, simple, expensive apparently.) A smart piece of carry on luggage was borrowed.
I watch it all in wonder. Mostly wondering where this path is taking them, and what the personal cost will be.
DD, I hope the house matters are settled quickly for you all.
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Uncle Pete
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
Prayers for your dad, DD, facing two large changes in his life at the one time.
Surplice and scarf? I attended one wedding where officiant had Hawaian shirt, chinos and Birkenstock sandals.
Sounds like you may have met our beloved, lamented FD.
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Welease Woderwick
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Surely Biretta and Soutane are always appropriate whatever the occasion.
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Latchkey Kid
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for DD
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Gee D
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Prayers for you all DD.
I went to a funeral at St Andy's, as it's apparently now to be known, about 7 or 8 months ago, and the Assistant Minister took it wearing a suit and red tie - red for a funeral! At St Sanity you would have got cassock, white stole, white frontal and paraments, crucifer in alb.....
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Lothlorien
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Spring appears to have sprung this morning. If is very mild. Lots of smoke from RFS hazard reduction burns, I can see it swirling in the air.
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Banner Lady
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No idea what the funeral arrangements will be for my niece's husband. I suspect a celebrant, and the poem Gone Fishin' will feature. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Huia
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Beautiful spring-like day here. I looked up from the readers I was processing to see a mother duck and 11 ducklings wandering over the grassed part of the playground eating insects and left-over playlunch. I think the mother duck must keep an eye open for when the children go back into class. The daffodils in the raised gardens around the school are blooming too. I'm trying not to get my hopes up yet though because I remember one year we had 3 days of snow at this time.
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Banner Lady
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Mild here too, Huia. The cherry and apricot blossoms have just begun to pop. A damp weekend expected.
I hope its a good cherry season this year. I do love 'em.
Taught B1.1 how to cook rissoles last night. Earlier in the week he was in a winning soccer team and was famished after playing 5 games in a day so I dished up 'boy food' in large amounts. (Snags, rissoles, mash & veg). The end result was a request for more of the same in the future. As I rarely get into the kitchen these days, I decided the best way round this was to teach him how to do them himself. The closest thing to a bbq we own is a tepanyaki grill but I figure that any boy who can work a bbq is going to be a hit with his mates AND the girls!
I'll let you know how that goes.
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Lothlorien
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I have a grandson who usually plays several games ever Saturday. Representing NSW in a comp soon. He too learnt basic cooking do he could get something to fill him up. He is in year 11.
Several grandchildren have learnt from both me and their dads how to cook. The fifteen year old regularly cooks dinner for them several times a week. Her dad likes good food so she is being well trained. Her younger brother helps his dad and now makes biscuits etc from my collection of recipes.. He made Anzacs the other day and misread the amount of butter needed. So that was a lesson in fixing mistakes. His cousin is good too and enjoys cooking. We let her do things here. Her mum can't be bothered.
Show him how to tidy up too.
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... Snags, rissoles, mash & veg ...
What's a Snag?
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Huia
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Whereas S.N.A.G in the nineties meant Sensitive. New. Age. Guy.
Huia ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Ah (**sees lightbulb**). Sounds delicious.
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Lothlorien
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Some are, some aren't. Depends on the butcher. We bought some years ago in a South Coast tourist town. Ours were stuffed full of fat. Those that didn't explode shrank considerably.
Friend who also bought some which were refrigerated till next day ground green sausages when they unwrapped the parcel. Quite dishonest, taking advantage of the holiday crowd.
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Huia
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The smokehouse down the road is selling salmon sausages
I night try then if I'm feeling experimental.
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Lothlorien
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The smokehouse down the road is selling salmon sausages
I night try then if I'm feeling experimental.
Huia
That sounds really good. I bought an electric smoker at Christmas. Food is lovely. Muurika, I think without checking. I bought my son the big smoker pan which he uses over BBQ or on stovetop. He is making his own bacon which is apparently absolutely wonderful. Cures it for some days before smokin and does other meats etc too.
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Welease Woderwick
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M-i-L smokes Kerala Tamarind, a fruit of similar taste but unrelated to ordinary tamarind - she does it just over charcoal. I haven't got to try any yet but I live in hope.
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Banner Lady
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Apparently sausages have been called snags in Australia since the 1940's at least. Derivation is actually from England - not sure where, but a 'snag' is a light, fast meal in some dialect. Exactly what a sausage wrapped in bread would be for a lot of workers. Sounds like it could be a Yorkshire thing, perhaps?
Some reference to it here.
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Lothlorien
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Some reference to it here.
Along with references to just about anything I can think of this morning. A site where a lot of time could be spent.
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Gee D
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Well, the new Bishop for South Sydney has been announced. Rev Michael Stead of the other St James King St is to be consecrated 5 December.
A very interesting appointment. It's quite a while since I went to a service at Turramurra, but it was an old-fashioned Sydney low church prayer book service - strictly followed the AAPB, and the 1662 before that, priest in cassock, surplice and scarf, robed choir, with plenty of large vases of flowers around and a pair of candles on the altar ; I can't recall if there were a processional cross or not. Much the same as Pymble and Killara.
That's one side. The other is the church plant side, with Warrawee Anglican and another at North Turramurra. I don't know about that, but I gather that the Warrawee plant is very plain and simple, in the Jensen line of territory. My impression from conversations with friends is that the new Bishop would prefer the traditional line.
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an old-fashioned Sydney low church prayer book service - strictly followed the AAPB, and the 1662 before that, priest in cassock, surplice and scarf, robed choir, with plenty of large vases of flowers around and a pair of candles on the altar
Quite right, quite right ... well sort of
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Gee D
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Better than the alternative of board shorts, thongs and Hawaiian shirt for less formal occasions, changing to leather sandals for a serious service, such as a funeral. From the little I know, Rev Michael Stead will fit into the pattern set by Bp Rob, and will look after his stole parishes with consideration. He and his present parish are definitely in an Anglican tradition, not the anti-Anglican one of Abp Peter and the Moore College clique. I'm prepared to bet almost anything that his atonement teaching was on PSA lines though.
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Lothlorien
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Perhaps the diocese flogs the shirts. I was a few years ago at Morning Prayer with communion at a cathedral just west of where I grew up.
There was a young couple in row in front of me. Fellow had such a shirt. I very much felt like leaning forward and suggesting that they go get a room. Pretty heavy, then sermon was announced and the young man stood and went to lectern and preached a pretty bad sermon on some chapter in Matthew.
Service was terrible. It was broadcast so sermon was near beginning to be broadcast. Rest of service had no rhyme nor reason nor order to it.
At end on leaving I asked how often service was communion as notice board did not say. I was told that preaching was more important in their eyes so all could understand. I suggested that the actions and orders of a Eucharistic service portrayed the gospel but was over ruled. I haven't been back.
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Gee D
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I am not sure how long ago that was, but a friend ther recently reports it as being much as you describe,
BTW, ++ Marcus Loane became a member of the congregation at St James Turramurra. That was exactly the role he took there, just a member of the congregation, nothing more
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Better than the alternative of board shorts, thongs and Hawaiian shirt for less formal occasions, changing to leather sandals for a serious service, such as a funeral. From the little I know, Rev Michael Stead will fit into the pattern set by Bp Rob, and will look after his stole parishes with consideration. He and his present parish are definitely in an Anglican tradition, not the anti-Anglican one of Abp Peter and the Moore College clique. I'm prepared to bet almost anything that his atonement teaching was on PSA lines though.
I have been known to wear tropical shirt, baggy shorts and sandals when leading services - but with an alb and stole on top
And thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers. Back in the Top End now and back to work.
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I thought I would update you with my ministry situation for 2015 and on into the future... If you don't mind....
Last December, we were told that severe financial constraints would majorly affect the ministry of the UCA organisation in which I work. It places ministers in remote, rural and disadvantaged parishes. It was likely all such placements would finish at some date this year. This process began in March, and we were all on tenterhooks. As were our parishes.
There have been a series of major conferences this year, and intense discussion, and states and regions got involved. In July, it was determined that for the rest of 2015, I would spent one week a month in the neighbouring parish, bereft of a minister for many months. (Same organisation). Then the situation became tough, and a final meeting was held this month... And Lo.... We got a break. Different shape to my parish, but nevertheless the remote ministry will continue. The big town will be taken away. I will spend two weeks on one side of the alps, and two weeks same side but more northwest, by the snow, from 2016 onwards. A few more remote areas under my care, in NSW. Two manses to live in. New possible ways ahead. A very big patrol, about the size of Tassie.... But at least we will exist. Lots of details to be worked out... But I am happy. My mountains folk are happy. The big town is sad.
Life is a challenge, but it is exciting.
Prayers welcome.
It has been a tough year, personally, as we carried the burden of potentially closing everything down.
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Rowen, that's a huge area, but it's good to know it's covered rather than deserted. Also it must be good to have a bit more certainty about the future.
for you and your ministry.
Gravity sucks. Somehow I managed to fall over twice yesterday once down my front steps onto the concrete drive and the second time inside onto carpet. I only have minor bruising but definitely felt a bit delicate, so I decided I needed cheering up. I went into town to see a photographic exhibition of finalists in a completion run by NZ Geographic magazine.
It blew me away. I knew it would be good, but it was stupendous, especially the time lapse photography from the Volcanic Plateau (in the middle of the North Island) and also a sequence of an ancient tree in Pukeora Forest. I felt like I could reach out and pick a leaf.
I think I might go back again tomorrow.
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