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Banner Lady
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Oh, and Zappa, my great uncle when he joined the Light Horse - he was only 19.
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Lothlorien
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This block of units is rectangular in shape but apartments are around the outside only. The middle is open to the elements. Gardens on all floors and walkways. All well equipped with fire hoses etc and in addition to smoke alarms in individual units, there are wired in alarms every two units along the pathways.
All very comforting but one alarm played up yesterday. Mid afternoon it began to scream. This went on for several hours. Fortunately not the one outside my door although that has happened in the past. It stopped for a while and then began again, but intermittently. Sometimes it screamed for thirty minutes, sometimes ten. All night. Even with my hearing aids out, I could hear it. I feel somewhat ragged this morning, although I did sleep some of the time.
Possibly caused by a short circuit from dampness. It is wet yet again here. . Possibly a cockroach or spider inside.
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Huia
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I hope tonight is quieter for you Loth.
Today was beautiful so I went over to the Port where there is a market on Saturdays. I hadn't been there on a Saturday since before the quakes, and the market, which used to be at the school is now in the main street and much bigger. (The school was badly damaged so was demolished and is being rebuilt).
Lyttelton is more of a producers market than the other one I go to and next time I plan to go prepared to buy venison, today I contented my self with buying a rosebush - it's Freesia, a yellow flowering bush that was Dad's favourite. The seller even delivered it.
Huia
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Lothlorien
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Huia, that's lovely. My sister bought a Peace rose which was Dad's favourite and a Mr Lincoln for memory of Mum. She planted them in her place on mid north coast. She is almost on seaside, just a road back. This was just a few months ago and despite sea salt and humidity, they are thriving.
The original Swanes nursery was at the bottom of our street on river banks. When Swanes moved to Dural and moved their rose business to inland NSW, Mrs Swane told him to take whatever he wanted before the place was bulldozed. Dad had the most amazing rose garden.
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Banner Lady
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I am sure there is a Swane's nursery in Goulburn. The roses there are amazing - they have a Rose Week there with many activities for rose lovers.
B4 has a somewhat different floral idea for remembering her family. Next week she undergoes a 3 hour tattooing so that various symbols depicting her family will be permanently inked on her thigh. This involves an anchor, swallows, ribbon, locket, keys and various flowers and leaves.
I have taken to calling it her 'Sailor Tat'. And no. I do not understand why any fair woman would do this to herself. I must be getting old!
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There's a girl in our choir (well, I say "girl" - she's in her late 30s) who started getting tattoos a few years ago and seems unable to stop; she started with a few leaves and a ladybird on one arm, then added more foliage to the other, then dragons on her legs, something or other on her back ...
They're beautiful designs (she's an artist and designs them herself), but I wouldn't want one*.
I have an awful feeling that she may only stop when she runs out of skin ...
* Just as well, as D. would probably divorce me if I did.
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Lothlorien
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quote: I am sure there is a Swane's nursery in Goulburn. The roses there are amazing - they have a Rose Week there with many activities for rose lovers.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
It may be called Swanes but isn't really. The whole business was sold some years ago to another nursery chain and a condition of sale was the name being transferred to new owners.
It was Ben Swane who must by now be in his 90s if still alive, who was the rose developer. I have not spoken to him in years. An eccentric fellow, very goodhearted but not one to suffer fools gladly, who did the developing. I remember him telling me about the rose he developed for the Sydney Olympics and how long it took.
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The small country school of which I was principal had a rose garden planted with a different rose for each principal since it opened in 1921, and thus became involved in the Rose Week which used to occur in Singleton.
Through this event, Ben Swane visited the school about 15 years ago and gave the children a masterclass in the care of the roses, from managing pests such as aphids to correct pruning technique. He charmed them all.
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Lothlorien
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quote: Originally posted by Barnabas Aus: The small country school of which I was principal had a rose garden planted with a different rose for each principal since it opened in 1921, and thus became involved in the Rose Week which used to occur in Singleton.
Through this event, Ben Swane visited the school about 15 years ago and gave the children a masterclass in the care of the roses, from managing pests such as aphids to correct pruning technique. He charmed them all.
A curmudgeonly old rascal. Very knowledgeable about roses.
Swanes at Dural was just down the road from mum and dad's place and my BIL worked for Swanes for many years. For a time he and my sister lived in a flat on premises. As I said earlier, we knew them from Ermington originally. He has an immense knowledge of roses and loves to share. I can imagine him with a school. [ 03. May 2015, 06:23: Message edited by: Lothlorien ]
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Gee D
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It's a bit hard to match a rascally curmudgeon with a man who charmed children.
Val Swane used have a TV show, and Elwyn lived not that far from us - house now torn down to make way for one of those ugly blocks of units on the highway. We did not know her well, but by chance ran into her at an Alliance Française brush-up class.
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Huia
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My paternal Grandad was a bit like that Loth, it wasn't easy to live with, especially in the last couple of years of his life when he moved into our house.
I am going to have to get someone fit and strong to weed my garden and dig holes for the roses. About a week ago I bought a couple of patio roses, another yellow one and one called Black Jade, which I had not seen for sale in the South Island before, despite looking especially for it. It's a very dark red, and can burn if it's in full sun.
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Huia
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For the people of Wanaka, who have had a very shallow 5.8 earthquake. (If you live nearby shallow ones are the worst).
No reports of anyone hurt and bottles in the pub didn't fall off the shelves. It was felt in Christchurch, but I was on a bus (again) and didn't.
Huia - thinking if hiring a bus to live in
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Galloping Granny
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quote: Originally posted by Huia: Huia - thinking if hiring a bus to live in
Roses and all?
People nearby felt both earthquakes (two close together apparently) but once again we missed the experience.
GG, frustrated in getting a 14-page church newsletter (more of a magazine, and in my hands not all that religious) ready for printing. I wish people wouldn't send me great photos reduced to 72 ppi and 4 cm across – useless for printing (I need about 224 ppi).
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Mr Curly
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I will soon have three teenagers in the house. It will be three years before that life threatening situation abates. It's bad enough with two.
Getting to escape to full time work for 6 weeks is a relief. Job interview for a permanent role next week as well.
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Lothlorien
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quote: Originally posted by Mr Curly: I will soon have three teenagers in the house. It will be three years before that life threatening situation abates. It's bad enough with two.
Getting to escape to full time work for 6 weeks is a relief. Job interview for a permanent role next week as well.
mr curly
I was once told about the delightful boys at church. were they mine, those teenagers. They were polite, helpful, kind etc.
I thought of the three at my place yep, they were the three the old lady meant. Nothing seemed to tally.
This too will pass, although I have little experience of teenage girls except grandchildren. [ 06. May 2015, 04:43: Message edited by: Lothlorien ]
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Huia
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I remember telling a mother at a parent - teacher interview that her son was delightful and she said, "But I'm Damian's mother" because she thought I must be confusing him with someone else.
Good luck with the job interview Mr C.
Huia
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Gee D
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Mr Curly, at least the end's drawing nearer.
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Mr Curly
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quote: Originally posted by Gee D: Mr Curly, at least the end's drawing nearer.
At least Biggest is showing us that there is light at the end of tunnel. Mrs C reminded me that when he was going through his feral phase that she was the villain, so I shouldn't feel so bad that Middle seems to hate me.
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Gee D
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I meant your end. If you're old enough to have 3 teenagers, how much more life do you have ahead of you?
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Mr Curly
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quote: Originally posted by Gee D: I meant your end. If you're old enough to have 3 teenagers, how much more life do you have ahead of you?
I did detect the double meaning. I want to kick them out of the house pronto so we can enjoy what little time we have left together!
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Gee D
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I don't think there's a Knox Father's knitting group yet, but you could set one up.
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Mr Curly
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quote: Originally posted by Gee D: I don't think there's a Knox Father's knitting group yet, but you could set one up.
I'd rather join the Knox Fathers' Drive Fast Expensive Cars Group. Don't want to waste any precious time in traffic.
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Welease Woderwick
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Mr Curly - a friend of mine used to say to enjoy whatever phase kids were in as there was bound to be a worse one just around the corner.
In my case, having had two older brothers who both had issues during their adolescence, I was very much in The Good Boy Trap during my own teen years - I think my parents may have regretted that once I got into my 20s!
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Lothlorien
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quote: Originally posted by Mr Curly: quote: Originally posted by Gee D: I don't think there's a Knox Father's knitting group yet, but you could set one up.
I'd rather join the Knox Fathers' Drive Fast Expensive Cars Group. Don't want to waste any precious time in traffic.
mr curly
I assume you would like a lovely eye catching bright red fast expensive car? Nothing like showing off to thepolice.
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Huia
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Of course Loth. Everyone knows red cars go fastest (except the red diesel Skoda my oldest brother sold in 1980).
Huia
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Piglet
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Skodas in 1980 were lucky if they went at all ...
Very old Skoda joke: "Can I have a hub-cap for a Skoda?" "Certainly, sir, that seems like a fair exchange".
We've just bought a red Nissan Micra, and while not in the "expensive fast cars" category, it does seem to go quite nicely.
And it's very cute. [ 08. May 2015, 13:34: Message edited by: Piglet ]
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Lothlorien
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It pays to persevere. Many months ago I received a gas bill for $1400 for one person.
I complained several times, and just after Christmas which was several months later, it was discovered meter in meter room was registering several times more than meter in apartment. I was told it would be replaced and that reconciliation could take a while.
Today there were half a dozen emails in my inbox.Covering over a year. First one started at over $2000 credit and others showed adjustment s from that. Result? I am still in credit for almost $2000.
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Welease Woderwick
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Great news, Loth.
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Gee D
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Glad your hearing aids have shown up Huia. Am I wrong in recollecting that you chose a purple pair to make them easier to find, and perhaps less likely to look like a tit-bit to a ravenous cat?
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Our turn to have the floods. Son teaches physics; his school was closed at 1.30; he loaded the three kids into the car and they made it home, normally about 20 minutes, at 5.45 by a much more circuitous route. Roads home after work were gridlocked for miles; the three main roads north were blocked and so was an alternative route; trains stopped running and so did buses; people from across the harbour being without their usual buses hoped to go on the harbour ferries, which scrapped timetables and just kept going. The Council kept the central library open for stranded workers to shelter in and many went back to work 'to sleep under my desk' as one said. People interviewed on TV were remarkably good humoured, and one man stepped back from the ferry in favour of a desperate woman who was going home to pick up her toddler from his creche. I'm off tomorrow to parish camp up the coast, which has shared the deluge with the city; we still don't know whether the roads will be closed again or whether the camp will be flooded, as the Met Service say there's another similar rain band bearing down on us.
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Huia
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I've been listening to the news and thinking of Wellington GG. I heard of one man who walked from the city centre to Wainuiomata. He must be incredibly fit, in all the years I lived there I never walked over the hill, though my youngest brother thinks nothing of cycling over it.
Here we had one clap of thunder, a cloudburst and that was it, but I'm stocking up on soup for winter and making sure my wee gas burner has sufficient bottles of gas.
I've just caught up with an article published in the "Press" entitled, Christchurch quake survivors and the long road to mental recovery It's absolutely brilliant as it explains some of the causes of less expected effects such as the overwhelming tiredness. It's weird, but I tend to forget there were 4 large quakes in a space of a year as well as the aftershocks which are still happening. No wonder my brain is scrambled.
I hope the people of Nepal get support as they cope with the after effects of a stronger quake in a country that is poorer, has had more deaths and has a less developed infrastructure.
Gee D, yes the purple helps. Mind you so many of my stuff is purple that it could become a problem in itself. I'm lucky in not having a dog as they are more attracted to them than cats. I'm working on not panicking when I lose them as once I calm down I am more likely to find them.
Huia
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Barnabas Aus
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That's the system which was hammering Tasmania, GG! On libraries, one of the branch libraries near Newcastle was deliberately designed to be a flood refuge, elevated on piers above the 1 in 100 year level, and fulfilled that role in the 2007 Pasha Bulker storm.
We are just now beginning to dry out. The main road from us to Maitland reopened last weekend, and the post-flood miasma of rotting vegetation now spreads over the landscape.
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Huia
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I love the idea of the library as a flood refuge.
Barnabas Aus I hope the miasma goes as the drying continues.
Today I had planned planting daffodil bulbs in front of the fence, but I would only achieve a muddy mess so it will have to wait.
Huia
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Lothlorien
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quote: Originally posted by Barnabas Aus: That's the system which was hammering Tasmania, GG! On libraries, one of the branch libraries near Newcastle was deliberately designed to be a flood refuge, elevated on piers above the 1 in 100 year level, and fulfilled that role in the 2007 Pasha Bulker storm.
We are just now beginning to dry out. The main road from us to Maitland reopened last weekend, and the post-flood miasma of rotting vegetation now spreads over the landscape.
Probably stinks as much as silage from freshly opened pit, but without the good properties of silage for cattle,
Nasty messy stuff to clear up, and those poor people who had flood damaged houses have a similar problem.
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Yes, Loth. One of our people's wardens was talking at church earlier in the week about her sister-in-law, whose house was washed up against the Long Bridge in Maitland in 1955, then rescued and relocated to Rutherford, where every time it rained forever after the stench of flood mud permeated everything. Don't know whether cleaning techniques have improved any.
We are still going through the sorting process. Many family archive photos were damaged, but fortunately my wife had digitised the great majority. Most of the books lost were paperback fiction, but some valuable hardbacks went as well. I have been surprised that many which I thought would be well out of print are still available through Amazon. We even had a plastic crate of books which was completely undamaged, even though the one next to it was soaked.
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Banner Lady
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Good luck with the circumstantial downsizing, BA. Every month since TP retired he says "its time to do a book cull". Every month he selects some of MY books to throw out (because in his words "we don't need to keep these, and I won't ever read them".) Every week more books he's bought on-line show up at our door. At the moment he's teaching himself Latin, so the shelves are filling up with Latin texts. Guess that the kids would MUCH rather have those left to them than all my vintage Australiana books....
quote: Originally posted by Mr Curly: quote: Originally posted by Gee D: I meant your end. If you're old enough to have 3 teenagers, how much more life do you have ahead of you?
I did detect the double meaning. I want to kick them out of the house pronto so we can enjoy what little time we have left together!
mr curly
Yes, but they come back, with interest i.e.: grandchildren. We did get two years to ourselves out of the last 36. Good luck with that!
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Huia
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I finally planted the daffodil bulbs in front of the new fence This is after getting topsoil to replace the dirt scooped out by the digger they used to demolish the fence.
Actually I have gained some enthusiasm for sorting out the front garden since the fence has been replaced and spent yesterday digging out about 3 square metres of twitch/couch grass. There is more to come.
I had forgotten the lovely feeling of being tired after physical work, which is so much nicer that being mentally exhausted. Tomorrow it is supposed to rain, which means my muscles will have a chance to get some rest.
Huia
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Lothlorien
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quote: More to come?
There is almost never an end to pulling couch grass out, I have found. Pulling it out is very hard on the fingers too. I would no longer try it if I had a garden instead of a balcony. My fingers ache quite enough from arthritis without adding weeding couch to the causes of pain.
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Well I'm feeling out of the loop. Do I see our very own Lothlorien is now an AS host?
When did this elevation to greatness happen Loth?
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Huia
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Hi Loth, I read your post last night about the sore fingers and felt smug. ... I woke up this morning and ... ouch! So today I concentrated on soup making rather than gardening.
The new Bus Exchange is now expected to open this coming Monday - transferred from last Monday due to a computer glitch. Which does not augur well.
Huia
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Lothlorien
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One advantage of balcony garden is few weeds. Lots of dandelions where I think seeds are blown here. But I hate couch grass with a passion.
Arthritis this year has been really bad. Fingers on my right hand have a permanent curve to them, as well as the bumps and odd shapes from arthritis.
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Gee D
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There is only 1 way to get rid of couch from garden beds. Dig very deeply straight down all the way along the edge between the lawn and the garden. This means at least a half metre if not more, and the aim is to stop further growth. Then get up early one fine still day, and put protection around any plants you want to keep. We find cutting cartons in half and then opening them up is very effective. Having done that, spray with glyphosate, preferably one of the concentrates, and halve the recommended amount of water you use to dilute. Leave the protection in place for a day or so. Make sure that there are no blue tongues or any other wildlife in the area you are treating. It may take a fortnight, but you'll get rid of it for at least a year, more likely at least 2. If you cut down deeply every 3 months or so, you'll have better long term success.
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Glad to see AS in such safe and sensible hands.
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Yea and amen - great to have Loth in the Hosts' Enclosure!
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