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Lothlorien
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Miss. M had her last scheduled lumbar puncture yesterday. Good results from that and blood tests. We are all very grateful and she looks really well.
While she was out to it, immunisations were all topped up too.
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Huia
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BannerLady hope you're feeling better and Mr Curly I hope you can recover now you are home. Being sick is bad enough, but in your holidays it's even worse.
What a nuisance having to go back GG.
I'm feeling really excited. Christchurch is having a Readers' and Writers' festival in August and for once I have got myself organised and booked tickets before they were sold out. There are a couple of events that are free too, so that's even better ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
Also the clearing of asbestos and preliminary work has been done for the new central library site Target finish date mid 2018
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Galloping Granny
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What a nuisance having to go back GG.
Also the clearing of asbestos and preliminary work has been done for the new central library site Target finish date mid 2018
Huia
Popped down this morning, no problem. Changed my slippers for the smaller size, found what I wanted at Spotlight, and then down to the surgery to have the dressings off (what hadn't fallen off) and the external stitches off my lip and neck. Still quite sore and I hope I look a bit prettier when it finishes healing.
(BCC if I didn't say before.)
I was recently given a 1947 Women's Weekly with a double page coloured spread advertising the best, newest building material: Fibrolite!!! What you now tear out after covering up with coveralls and breathing masks.
About to go over the road to say goodbye to the wee furry friend I've looked after so often. No longer eating or drinking, and when he came over for a cuddle the other day and I stroked him I could feel every bone under the fur. He goes on his long journey tomorrow.
GG
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Banner Lady
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Sad news GG, but glad you at least now have warm slippers. Simple pleasures every day are what keeps me going. And like Zappa, am more and more appreciating living in antipodean backwaters as the world reels from so much pain being inflicted upon it.
BL. Quite happy to be forgotten.
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Gee D
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A sad day GG, with prayers for you and your neighbours.
A cold week here, with a chilly walk in the morning to catch the train. Dog has refused to get out of his warm bed to speak with me before I go.
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Lothlorien
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Grand children and grandmothers can be a blessing to each other at times. Eldest grandson is coming tomorrow to clean. He can do bathroom and vacuum and re-arrange my top cupboards to replace items used at a dinner through the week. Too high for me to reach but no problem to him. He will also run me to and from my first physio appointment for hip troubles.
In return, he wants me to make chicken curry for lunch and of course he wants pay! I am happy to help, it keeps me in touch with him and counteracts propaganda about me from another area.
Besides, I would have used Uber both ways for appointment, so will not need that now.
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Banner Lady
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Beginning to feel more human again. I never "enjoy" winter, so am glad the days are getting longer and lighter. Bulbs are beginning to pop up and the buds are swelling with promise.
Grandsons are back at school today, and making a slow start at getting back to normal routines. At least the magpies are happy this morning!
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Piglet
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I'll happily swap your 18° for the 30° we're expecting this afternoon. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Huia
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Frost here, but 14c this arvo (afternoon, for those whose English is more standard. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif) ) This is the third, and last in a row of sunny days, but it's a pity that the last weekend of the school holidays won't be as great.
Because the sky is clear the lengthening of the days is noticeable, which helps lift my mood. The daffodils I saw in bloom yesterday help too.
Huia
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Barnabas Aus
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Took Mrs BA for late lunch in Maitland today. 21degC and sunny, so that when we arrived at our chosen cafe, the riverside terrace was fully occupied and we had to be content with an inside table. And this is winter! Only one day in the next fourteen predicted to be chilly.
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Lothlorien
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My sister set out today for drive home to mid North Coast from Gladstone in SA in Flinders Ranges.
Broken Hill is a good stage, not far but the drive was atrocious. Gale force winds made driving hard. She was planning to stay in Palace Hotel, from Priscilla Queen of the desert. The wind was so strong she went to a caravan park she has stayed at before and hired a small cabin. She did not want to be upstairs in the wind.
Comments from Victor Harbour said it was very bad there.
I guess it will make its way over to the east.
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Galloping Granny
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Watchers of a six-month-old 9 kg albatross chick on the Otago Peninsula had our hearts in our mouths as howling gales from the Antarctic swept over her earlier this week. No worries; she hunkered down and between her dense fluffy remaining down and her growing feathers she (and 26 or so other chicks) are fine.
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Clarence
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Originally posted by Piglet:
I'll happily swap your 18° for the 30° we're expecting this afternoon.
I know people in Queensland joke 'winter? Oh yeah, last year it was a Tuesday'. But it's ridiculously warm here. I was in shorts and shirt yesterday.
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Piglet
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Spring is a bit like that in Newfoundland - it's usually about the third Tuesday of June, at 2:45 in the afternoon. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Zappa - maybe it's as well we only know each other across the interweb - if we were actually both in the same place at the same time, at least one of us would probably be very uncomfortable! ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Piglet
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Absolutely not. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Banner Lady
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Dear Rowen: your pm box is full so I can't reply to you.
You do not say which Thursday or which hospital which makes things a little iffy from my end.
I look forward to some enlightenment...and no doubt as you travel northwards phone connection will become possible again.
I sincerely hope you do not bring the blizzard with you. Canberra is cold enough!
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Lothlorien
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I see Thredbo is forecast as -6 to - 4 tomorrow. Canberra is warm in comparison.
I have just had a couple of glasses of a pleasant red in honour of my dad who was born 99 years ago today but died in late 1990s, He was fond of his reds and once told my sons and one of their friends that he could drink them under the table. That was the dementia speaking.
All the more poignant as my friend, recently diagnosed with dementia tries desperately to gain some control over his life. Just time really, so sad to see.
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Banner Lady
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Yes, plenty of snow about on the road between Rowen and her knee op. But I realise I have written it down as this Thursday in my diary - cannot believe how quickly the weeks are zooming by, but I guess that's a good thing when it's winter! All those who are pray-ers please spare a prayer for her this weekend as she recovers.
At least she will be warm!
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Gee D
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Thanks for the reminder BL. Time has flown past.
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Piglet
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![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) Rowen
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Rowen
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Thanks folks.
Canberra motel tonight. Hospital @ 6.30 in the morning.
Then a warm room for the next few weeks.
And my birthday!
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Lothlorien
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All the best, Rowen. DIL's mum has just moved to rehab aftera week in hospital for a knee reconstruction. Shehad both knees done at once 15 years ago, but one needed doing again.
She is doing well, so I hope you do too. A chabce perhaps to thaw right out? All the snow in your area may have gone by the time you return.
Take care.
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Banner Lady
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Prayers ascending for Rowen today. I am busy each morning for the next few days but will attempt to connect tomorrow afternoon when hopefully she will be on enough pain killers to cope with conversation!
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Welease Woderwick
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Rowen
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Banner Lady
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Rowen is awake and coping fine after her op. The hospital has a good caring reputation, so I am trusting she is being looked after well. Praise the Lord.
I will know when she is feeling really ok, because no doubt I will be messaged to bring her something yummy from her favourite drive through!
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Gee D
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Thank you for the good news, and remembering Rowen.
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Lothlorien
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Good news. Quite a selection to be had from most drive through outlets. " This one today, that one tomorrow and I must not forget that either."
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Rowen
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Glad to hear things are going in the right direction.
Rowen.
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Rowen
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Folk.... Alive and ok in a Canberra hospital. Visitors most welcome, especially this birthday week.
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It's a bit far for me to come but I'm sending warm thoughts, have a great day!
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Lothlorien
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Lovely looking winter day here Rowen. Hope you can see it out a window from a warm room. Prayers for your recovery.
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Piglet
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As it was 25° here today, I'll send you a few "virtual degrees" - we've got plenty to spare!
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
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We're safely in our new house, watching rain pour down in the forest (and we're reconnected to the interweb as of this morning). Although its been a tiring week, we're feeling pretty good about it. Cleaned our old house from top to bottom on Thursday, it goes on the market on Monday.
We were extremely fortunate that the promised rain didn't come on the days the movers were running up and down our steps. It was, in fact, sunny for three days in a row, not a given in Wellington at this time of year.
We've already spotted tui...
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Huia
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YaY Happy housewarming
I glad the weather was ok when you needed it to be. I envy you the tui, but I'd have to give up the fat'n'fluffy one if we had them here, or keep her inside, which would probably drive both of us batty.
We missed on some forecast rain, and it was sunny, but cold. I went to the Market over at the Port wearing three layers of poly pro, one of polar fleece and a Goretex coat and I was still a bit chilly around the edges. Now we have sporadic rain and a howling wind. Georgie has just come inside complaining bitterly. I expect her to migrate to the room where the heat pump is on.
Rowen - wishing you a speedy recovery.
Huia
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Gee D
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Yes, happy housewarming from us also.
Huia, how about a sort of rabbit or guinea pig cage for Porgy. You could move it around as needed, and the tui would be safe.
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Happy new house, APW, and good luck with getting your old one sold.
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Yes, happy housewarming from us also.
Huia, how about a sort of rabbit or guinea pig cage for Porgy. You could move it around as needed, and the tui would be safe.
And so would the fluffy one. If Georgy P went up a tree for a tui, who would win? Or doesn't he do trees?
Rowen, always for the knowledge of the presence of God with you.
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Happy New House!
We had some exciting news on Friday. Middle has been appointed School Captain for next year - which starts quite soon given the Year 12s effectively finish mid September. So it's going to be a big few months with Biggest preparing for HSC trials and then the real deal in October, and Middle taking over supreme power at the local comprehensive.
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Gee D
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Well done Middle! May as well let the corruption of power start at an early age. Biggest is no doubt hidden away much of the time now.
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Huia
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
If Georgy P went up a tree for a tui, who would win? Or doesn't he do trees?
Rowen, always for the knowledge of the presence of God with you.
GG
Trees, fences and the garage roof are all the within her territory. Fortunately the neighbour cut the dead branch off the magnolia so she no longer patrols the roof of the house, which is the place where the magpies wait to be fed dog roll by the neighbour. I lived in fear of an overhead scrap for several years, but she and they contented themselves with insulting each other from a distance - thus honour was satisfied. It may be similar with tui as they can be quite aggressive, from what I have observed.
Huia
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Banner Lady
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Yes, Happy Birthday! And glad the digs are a bit better than last time.
I know you are not exactly up for a happy dance, but it is good to know that walking is already possible again for you.
Applause can be heard from around the globe if you listen very carefully....
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Many happy returns, Rowen - hope you can celebrate once you're back to yourself.
And well done Middle!
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