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rexory
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Relatively quiet here in WA!
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Lothlorien
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Been in the Solomon Islands for two weeks, come home (complete with infection and mild fever of course) and find out that you lot have let the entire country descend into farce!! Up here in the NT we seem to have two chief ministers (or none?), Queensland has lost its government, and Canberra has lost its mind.
When Aussie politics gets bizarre, it does it in spades. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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The weather is weird too.
Last week, I lit the fire on several days, as we shivered thru summer.
Now we find ourselves heading for several days of major heat.
Very odd, I tells ya!
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DangerousDeacon
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Climate change. Frying the brains of our leaders. Got it.
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Tukai
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DD- I would not call Solomon Islands a model of political stability either!
The more so when I see that the many-times disgraced Sogavare is back as PM. (or was he toppled while I wasn't watching?)
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Piglet
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Originally posted by DangerousDeacon:
... Frying the brains of our leaders ...
Doesn't that imply that they've got brains? ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
As the inimitable W. S. Gilbert put it:
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When in that house MPs divide,
If they've a brain and cerebellum, too
They've got to leave that brain outside,
And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.
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Zappa
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We live in a tourist cruise ship town. Yesterday Kuruman rang me. XXX and YYY, the former my closest and dearest colleague from my theological and Potty Training days, whose husband YYY knew Kuruman from his curacy days (in a very different part of the country). Though I have seen YYY a few times (he is a priest assistant at a Well Known Melbourne Church) I haven't seen YYY for a couple of decades. They had wandered into my kirk, seen my name on the board, wondered if it was ... and had just an hour before re-embarkation.
It is surely an eschatological foretaste, the way in which such friendships resume where last they pulsed?
![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif) (in a purely sororical sense)
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David
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Awesome work, Queenslanders.
Except for the bit where you nearly elected Pauline Hanson. That wasn't very impressive.
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DangerousDeacon
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DD- I would not call Solomon Islands a model of political stability either!
The more so when I see that the many-times disgraced Sogavare is back as PM. (or was he toppled while I wasn't watching?)
Absolutely agree - I suppose I just expect better in Australia. The Solomon Islands has tried to move to democracy in just one generation - we have been working on it for several centuries.
Anyway, it makes for a fascinating spectator sport in both countries ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Latchkey Kid
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I like it, Zappa.
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Mr Curly
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Each day is easier as the routine settles in.
Biggest seems to be doing homework every night, made his debut in the Second XI on the weekend, and will be having his first outing playing piano with the Senior Stage Band at a parent do on Friday night.
Middle is easing into school work, but is now in three bands including playing bass in his senior stage band. Much cricket is being played, including making his debut in senior cricket, taking Biggest's spot in 6ths.
Little Miss is adjusting to high school and has made it into the intermediate bands at her first attempt. Netball grading is well underway.
We are exhausted but quite proud.
Church is a shambles, BTW. Trying to ignore.
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Lothlorien
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This morning my brother fished a funnel web out of his pool and took it for collection to local hospital. Then this evening i read this in SMH. Our damp summer has encouraged them to be out and about.
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Lothlorien
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My brother said these stories surface regularly. Perhaps so, but it pays to be careful in those areas here where they are.
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Lothlorien
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I am on "pool patrol" for funnel webs every morning at the moment.
mr curly
You are both in one of their favoured habitats.
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Dennis the Menace
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When I lived in the Blue Mts I worked at a motel with an indoor pool and was always fishing them out and sending them to the hospital. It was alarming at times when one of the staff had been doing a pool check and an hour or so later a guest would tell a staff member a spider is in the pool.
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Why do you send them to a hospital? What do they do with them?
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Gee D
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The Commonwealth Serum Laboratory (probably privatised 15 times backwards by now) collects them from the hospitals, and then milks them for their venom. It is used in the manufacture of the anti-venene. I can't recall the exact figures, but the venom from several dozen spiders is needed to make one dose of the anti-venene. The collected spiders have a luxury life, food brought to them best china and silverware etc, to keep them alive as long as possible to enable repeat milkings.
There has been no fatality since the anti-venene was discovered. It is very effective, but has to be administered quickly after a bite. Atrax robustus is not a nice creature.
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Banner Lady
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I never realised funnel web spiders liked to have an early morning dip in the pool. You'd think that the smell of pool chemicals would deter them a bit.
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Uncle Pete
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I acknowledge the need for the venom, but I fear my first reaction would be to stomp them with heavy workboots! Or similar.
Very glad I never met one. Now the wallaby, in Brisbane, quite another thing. And I don't think I will ever forget the koala being detached from my shirt.
PS - Joey was delicious!
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Evangeline
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I never realised funnel web spiders liked to have an early morning dip in the pool. You'd think that the smell of pool chemicals would deter them a bit.
They loove pools, we used to get them in the bottom of the pool at my parents' place(bushy area frequented by spiders) all the time. You have to be very careful getting them out-they can come back to life and bite you despite appearing to be quite dead. You shouldn't leave pool toys lying around and/or in the water overnight as funnel webs also like to be on them and can bite you by surprise.
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When I first moved to Sydney, the bloke selling me my first car told me about how he and his family had seen a funnel web marching across the kitchen floor. His father had the presence of mind to spray it liberally with oven cleaner (having no Mortein to hand). It marched merrily onwards.
So the fact that pool chemicals don't worry them doesn't unduly surprise me.
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DangerousDeacon
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As we Australians love to tell our English and American friends - all our wildlife is deadly. On land (spiders and snakes and boxing kangaroos), in the water (blue ring octopus, sharks, crocodiles), and in the air (swooping magpies). Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!
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rexory
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DD, you forgot the ubiquitous drop bears!
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Piglet
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![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
I had to Google them, and was quite distressed. Aren't koalas supposed to be cute?
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by DangerousDeacon:
As we Australians love to tell our English and American friends - all our wildlife is deadly. On land (spiders and snakes and boxing kangaroos), in the water (blue ring octopus, sharks, crocodiles), and in the air (swooping magpies). Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!
You forgot drop bears, bunyips and yowies!
Sorry, Rexory. I should have read to end of thread before posting.
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Nunc Dimittis
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Originally posted by David:
Awesome work, Queenslanders.
Except for the bit where you nearly elected Pauline Hanson. That wasn't very impressive.
Thank God she didn't get the majority. I don't know what the people of Lockyer were thinking.
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DangerousDeacon
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
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Originally posted by DangerousDeacon:
As we Australians love to tell our English and American friends - all our wildlife is deadly. On land (spiders and snakes and boxing kangaroos), in the water (blue ring octopus, sharks, crocodiles), and in the air (swooping magpies). Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!
You forgot drop bears, bunyips and yowies!
Sorry, Rexory. I should have read to end of thread before posting.
I didn't even get to the cryptozoology! A few years ago Kosovar refugees were at Singleton Army Camp, which is surrounded by kangaroos and those road signs warning of kangaroos. Apparently some of the locals with a sick sense of humour told the refugees that the kangaroos were carnivorous (hence the warning signs), and particularly loved the flesh of young children. So come dusk, when the mobs of kangaroos came out to eat the grass, the refugees would hide inside their houses with their children. Who needs drop bears?
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rexory
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Saddened by the death of Bishop Barbara Darling this morning in Melbourne. Barb taught us Church History at Ridley.
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Lothlorien
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Saddened by the death of Bishop Barbara Darling this morning in Melbourne. Barb taught us Church History at Ridley.
That is sad news.
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Emendator Liturgia
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![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) May she rest in peace and rise in glory!
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DangerousDeacon
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According to the Dean of Melbourne, her funeral will be on 22 February at 5.00 pm at the Cathedral. May +Barbara rest in peace and rise in glory.
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Gee D
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Indeed, may +Barbara rest in peace and rise in glory.
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As ever, our lovely Anglicans hosted a great Shrove Tuesday pancake lunch... Fabulous food, delightful conversation....
In small towns, everyone goes to everything, and admires profusely.
I feel most shroven. And ecumenically blessed.
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For us it's a community event in the park – lots of pancakes, clowns, music, bouncy castle, picnic teas, getting together with friends from the other church or none. A late afternoon party in warm sunshine.
Lovely! (Now I have to get someone to write the story for the parish magazine).
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Over here, the words "Shrove Tuesday", "picnic" and "warm sunshine" aren't likely to be heard in the same sentence ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Glad you all had a good one.
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Gee D
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Here are the proper rituals for Shrove Tuesday (courtesy of Anglicans Online). You will always feel properly shriven if you follow these. This morning looks a day for celebration of Christmas or Easter, rather than Ash Wednesday - clear and cool as I walked to the station this morning, then the bright sun walking up Martin Place.
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Gee D:
Here are the proper rituals for Shrove Tuesday (courtesy of Anglicans Online). You will always feel properly shriven if you follow these. This morning looks a day for celebration of Christmas or Easter, rather than Ash Wednesday - clear and cool as I walked to the station this morning, then the bright sun walking up Martin Place.
Thank you for this. I was reminded of the saying that one learns someting new everyday.😋
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Vulpior
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Thank you, Gee D. I'd lost my bookmark of that page a couple of years ago and haven't been able to share it since.
I had no pancakes yesterday. I'm in Adelaide for work, but I did this evening manage a visit to St Mary Magdalene's on Moore Street. Just what I've grown used to now I'm at All Trains, although I've never seen Palm crosses burned in the service before.
A holy Lent to all.
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Lothlorien
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Miss M is at Westmead Children's hospital today for a rescheduled bone marrow biopsy done under general anaesthetic for children. It was due two weeks ago, but her place was taken by a child admitted as an emergency, just as she had been thirteen months ago.
There is no reason to suspect anything wrong and doctors are very pleased with her progress, but it is always a bit of a worry till results come through.
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Uncle Pete
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Please give her a hug from me and tell her that Uncle Pete still prays.
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Lothlorien
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Thank you Uncle Pete. I passed your message on to son who is at hospital. He sends thanks and says he will give her a hug from you. He is still very grateful for support from here and another craft forum to which I belong.
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Did everyone go to church yesterday for Ash Wednesday? We had a full choir for the evening service, but the attendance by the congregation was very disappointing - I counted only 15! The service was very meaningful, but I was sad that so many regulars from church didn't front.
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Was in Canberra for a meeting so attended 7.30am at All Trains, a simple, reflective said Eucharist. Vulpior, is the small terrier who joined us a regular?
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and hugs for Miss M. from over here too, Loth.
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Gee D
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We hope your granddaughter's biopsy went well. It sounds a horrible procedure, especially for one so young.
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Was in Canberra for a meeting so attended 7.30am at All Trains, a simple, reflective said Eucharist. Vulpior, is the small terrier who joined us a regular?
Yes, we have a regular dog. In the choir loft when the choir is singing ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Gee D
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Surely any dog at All Trains would be a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel......
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Lothlorien
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We hope your granddaughter's biopsy went well. It sounds a horrible procedure, especially for one so young.
Thank you, all seems well. Children get the benefit of a general anaesthetic, adults may not. She has had then regularly, possibly between 12-15 in the last year.
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