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bib
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Prayers for any shipmates caught in today's horrific cyclones. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
I note that commentators are calling one cyclone "Marsha" whereas I thought you pronounce Marcia as "Mar-see-a". Whatever its name, I'm sure it has all been very frightening and pray that there have been no fatalities.
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Huia
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Yesterday I fronted up for a couple of potentially serious medical checks. I took some tranquillizers first and arranged a massage afterwards as a comforting experience.
One test later I was told the situation had resolved itself and all was well - whew! I still had the massage though and it was blissful.
I hope Miss M's tests go as well
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Dennis the Menace
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
I have known several Marcias over the years. All were known as Mar-c-i-a.
Also why is the media pronouncing Lam as Larm?
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Welease Woderwick
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Years ago I had occasion to write to the weather people at the BBC after they consistently mispronounced Kerala, the Indian state as karela the Hindi word for a rather lovely vegetable. Just because they are the Beeb doesn't mean they get it right!
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Originally posted by bib:
Prayers for any shipmates caught in today's horrific cyclones.
I note that commentators are calling one cyclone "Marsha" whereas I thought you pronounce Marcia as "Mar-see-a". Whatever its name, I'm sure it has all been very frightening and pray that there have been no fatalities.
The Brady Bunch generation onwards says Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.
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DangerousDeacon
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Originally posted by Dennis the Menace:
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
I have known several Marcias over the years. All were known as Mar-c-i-a.
Also why is the media pronouncing Lam as Larm?
We are being told it is a Vietnamese name, to rhyme with Vietnam (which can be pronounced Vee-et-nahm).
Fortunately no reported casualties in NT, and for Darwin just rain.
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
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Remembering everyone affected by the Canterbury earthquakes today.
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Huia
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I'm going to float some flowers down the river.
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Piglet
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for all affected by the typhoon/cyclone (I'm not sure which is which, but the pictures on the Weather Channel here looked pretty scary).
Hope you're all safe and well.
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Originally posted by Evangeline:
The Brady Bunch generation onwards says Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.
I'm glad you posted that, Evangeline - we've been getting an advert here for Snicker bars which has that line in it and being British I didn't know what it was a take-off of. Now I do - thank you! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
[ 22. February 2015, 02:15: Message edited by: Piglet ]
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Vulpior
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A happy birthday to Banner Lady.
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Piglet
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Happy birthday from over here too, BL! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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...and from this little tropical paradise.
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Gee D
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And even more belated from us as well.
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Huia
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BL these late wishes are making your birthday
s-t-r-e-t-c-h. Hope it was fun.
Now I want to address a really serious issue between Australia and New Zealand; vicious spiders and dangerous insects - can you please keep them at home. During my childhood the only dangerous spider was the katipo (endemic to NZ and not very common). Now we have red backs and whitetails as well as a fruitfly that has parts of Auckland a no-go area for fruit and vegetables.
Currently my sister in law is in hospital due to a spider bite that caused bad swelling. She seems to be recovering thanks to the 3rd lot of medication, but it has been a painful time for her and worrying for the family as she is far from home.
Insects and spiders are bad enough, I'm just relieved none of those salt water crocs have made it over here - yet.
Huia
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Thinking of your sister, Huia.
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Galloping Granny
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And for BL – belated birthday wishes. May it be a birthday month, or a birthday season – why just one day?
Recently I began seeing bright torchlight moving round on the house next door, late in the evening. It turned out that my neighbour had spotted very large spiders on the walls, and he was going out before bed time to find them; not sure whether he sprayed them, swatted them or knocked them down and jumped on them. I bet there are much bigger and more poisonous ones across the Ditch.
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Huia
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GG - I've been told that whitetails eat Daddy Long Legs, so if you have a lot of DLL you are unlikely to have whitetails. I'm hoping that's true as whitetails breed well in Christchurch and I have an abundance of DLL.
I used to be quite benign towards spiders, picking them up carefully and escorting them outside, but I am now more wary.
Huia
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Huia
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Double posting to say if L's improvement continues she may be discharged tomorrow ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
And she has nothing but praise for the rural hospital she's in - take a bow Hawera!
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Galloping Granny
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Originally posted by Huia:
I used to be quite benign towards spiders, picking them up carefully and escorting them outside, but I am now more wary.
Huia
If the spider that I took outside yesterday was the same one that I took out a few days ago, then I wondered if he was an Indoor Spider. Quite a small, inoffensive fellow. As for the DLLs, they don't seem to be making webs up in the corners of the ceilings, but in floor-level corners, and they're mostly tiny. Maybe they migrate upwards as they mature...
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Gee D
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A friend was bitten by what the doctor concluded was a white-tailed spider, caught up in sheets dried outside under a tree. His suggestion was that even if bone dry, 10 minutes in the tumble dryer would kill any wildlife there. The bite was extremely painful and it was 6 months or more before she was over it. Symptoms, such as reddening of her face and neck, would recur at irregular but increasing intervals. Finally they all ceased.
The bite from a white-tailed spider does not lead to skin and flesh necrosis - some good news.
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Banner Lady
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Phew - it HAS been a big birthday week, with not much time for dawdling on-line - thank you for all the lovely good wishes.
Sunday saw me at a river baptism for three that happily turned into a baptism for six as some of the onlookers answered the invitation given by the enthusiastic pastor. I took some worship flags along and the wind of the Spirit certainly took hold of it all.
Monday started out on a fun note with TP doing a very cheeky rendition of "Happy Birthday Madame President" in light of the fact I have just been re-elected as chair of an inter-denominational prison ministry group for the Monaro region.
My response was "Thank you, I think!" There are many interesting doors opening before us, and the calendar is looking alarmingly full already. I have eaten much chocolate, had several yummy birthday meals, and had my first experience in a "perception cell" thanks to some free tickets to the James Turrell exhibition at the Australian National Gallery. I perceived that it was a lot like being put into a morgue drawer, slid into a metal cabinet then surrounded by an ethereal light show - hmmm - I wonder where he got that idea from?
More stoles being made, with two friends due for deaconing at the big house on Saturday, so I am hard at work in my studio. Official opening, I have decided will be Lady Day.
Seems somehow appropriate.
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Huia
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Nephew rang - L is being discharged today. I'm leaving it for a couple of days before I contact her, to give her space to settle back home - J will ring with any urgent news.
Given that I had just had a health scare based on what I think was a sandfly bite the smaller entities of amongst the animal kingdom have wielded a disproportionate effect on my peace of mind this year.
Huia
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Clarence
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What constitutes a minimini shipmeet?
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Uncle Pete
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Originally posted by Clarence:
What constitutes a minimini shipmeet?
When 2 or three are gathered in my name, yea, there am I, also,
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Wesley J
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
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Originally posted by Clarence:
What constitutes a minimini shipmeet?
When 2 or three are gathered in my name, yea, there am I, also,
Depends if they're gathered in Uncle Pete's name. He might be there. Or he might not. In fact, he might be more present in warmer climes, currently. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Clarence:
What constitutes a minimini shipmeet?
Is it when everybody arrives in two small cars?
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Latchkey Kid
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Originally posted by Piglet:
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Originally posted by Clarence:
What constitutes a minimini shipmeet?
Is it when everybody arrives in two small cars?
It is when the shipmeet is arranged through a planked shipmate.
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Clarence
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Originally posted by Latchkey Kid:
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Originally posted by Piglet:
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Originally posted by Clarence:
What constitutes a minimini shipmeet?
Is it when everybody arrives in two small cars?
It is when the shipmeet is arranged through a planked shipmate.
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Banner Lady
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Gosh I miss FD.
Anyhow, got to the Anglican big house for the ordination, and TP & I were promptly given a job to do, taking up the elements for communion. TP was highly amused, and wondered if anyone knew he was a Catholic. I suggested he look upon it as his ecumenical community service for the week.
Today my youngest grand daughter was christened in a Catholic church and we bequeathed her and her parents the huge 205yr old beautifully engraved Cornish family bible, which came down from her strictly Methodist forbears. I am sure certain graves rumbled on the other side of the world, but it went to the only one of my offspring who actually appreciates it. Although her sister did confess to me last week that when they were little, they used to get it out, put slices of fresh bread inside it and sit on it to make communion wafers for themselves.
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So I guess it was right to give it to her as it has her bum prints all over it... ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Gee D
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Yes, I miss FD as well and even more do I miss Multipara. I am fairly sure that we know her IRL, not seeing her much these days, but quite a bit 35 - 40 years ago. I have a fairly good idea how she'd deal with some of those posting here - they would not get up until after Christmas next year.
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Banner Lady
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Cranmer's Baggage is missing on the luggage carousel too.
I suppose when matters of faith get just a bit too demanding IRL it is a luxury of time to post on the ship. But if you haven't had a promenade on this deck for a while just remember we remember you!
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Clarence
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Isn't serendipitous a lovely word!
FD is very touched by all the remembrances!
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Clarence
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Originally posted by Zappa:
FD is very touched!
No I didn't say that. Poor chap can't defend himself after all. Mwahahah.
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My son went back to his former home last weekend to collect things. A very unpleasant, spiteful time.
I remembered when I did this some years ago. I still remember with much gratitude how FD and Rexory rang me from Brisbane. They both talked to me for quite a while and then prayed with me.
It was a big surprise and gave me confidence for the day.
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I agree Loth. Certainly if I were living in Oz, I would be very pleased to know that both of those guys were in my corner (and when I was visiting, I knew that they were!)
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Even if one of them abandoned you half way up the range??
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Huia
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Athrawes I thought of you a month ago as I was travelling through Arthurs Pass and saw some kea.
I came home to find a slip of paper in my letterbox to say some of the drain covers in the street are being repaired - which I would be quite happy about - if it wasn't happening between 6pm an 6am tonight and Sunday ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
In addition kerbing and channelling and some patching* over the worst breaks in the road surface will be fixed over the next 4 weeks.
Earthquakes - the gifts that keeps giving.
* It's only patching because my little crescent is not a major road. The Council is too broke to fix all the streets that need it because some overpaid clown failed to insure the infrastructure sufficiently. ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif) for which his punishment was a handsome golden handshake following months of "Garden leave".
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Galloping Granny
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Do you have this same problem in Oz – overseas tourists renting cars then driving way over the speed limit, crossing double yellow lines, overtaking on blind corners, driving through stop signs, and killing people in head-on crashes because they forgot to drive on the left? Numerous deaths on tourist routes down south. Several times members of the public have stopped a car and taken the driver's keys – not a good step really. One young Chinese woman had only recently got her license, had hardly driven since she got it, and at home was still restricted to driving under 40 kph.
All sorts of suggestions: one rental car company shows people a video before they take their car... Other worries are that they can get off a long jet flight and get straight into a campervan and drive off.
Aussie solutions?
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Even if one of them abandoned you half way up the range??
Dear lady, how could I ever forget that? I didn't even know there were that many road trains in the country. Of course, I will always remember my lovely rescuer. ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Clarence
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
Do you have this same problem in Oz – overseas tourists renting cars then driving way over the speed limit, crossing double yellow lines, ...
Aussie solutions?
GG
We have crocodiles. They cheerfully eat 'em up.
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Athrawes
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![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) And the menagerie
GG, We also have snakes and spiders, who take care of any the crocks leave behind.
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When Top Gear did one of their car/boat races in an ordinary hire-car in New Zealand, the car had a sign on the steering-wheel saying KEEP LEFT in big letters, with an appropriately-pointing arrow.
I remember D. talking about someone (I think it was a composer) who was killed in a car accident after driving off the ferry from England to France and forgetting to drive on the right.
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Galloping Granny
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And the menagerie
GG, We also have snakes and spiders, who take care of any the crocks leave behind.
Well, that's another burning question: how to stop the Freedom Campers who park with tents or basic campervans overnight in the prettiest scenic spots where there are no toilets provided, and leave all sorts of waste under the trees and on the grass.
Yes, Piglet, many rental vehicles do have a big Keep Left sign on the dashboard; it's hoped to get all the rental companies to do as much as possible to better brief the overseas tourists.
Does the UK have the same problems with visitors from the Continent?
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Welease Woderwick
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YES!
Driving down a winding, leafy Lakeland lane with a minibus full of choristers and suddenly finding a French registered 2CV careering towards you on your side of the road can be, erm, interesting! Happily they took fairly swift evasive action - and I'm sure the choirboys already knew the word[s] the adults shouted - but not the girls, of course.
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