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Lothlorien
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Newcastle is roughly two hours up the coast (north) from Sydney. An industrial city at the mouth of the Hunter River.
It and other parts of the Hunter Valley were badly flooded just a few montgs ago and some people have not yet returned to their homes from damage caused then.
Barnabas Aus is in the area but he posted yesterday that he was OK. Dangerous Deacon used to live in a town in the Hunter, but he is now ever so much further north.
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A stunning Spring type day in Sydney today. I've forgotten about the dreadful weather of the last week already.
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Vulpior
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Apparently it's been seven months since I last posted; things have been busy! I thought you should first look in and greet the locals. Happy New Year and safe times wished to all.
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Welcome back, Vulpior! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Banner Lady
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Hi, Vp!
B1.2 is 10 today. His mother very unwillingly took him and his BF to Questacon yesterday. Science was never B1's strong suit, and she hates insects, so it was a real test to take him to see what he wanted to see: the Spiders exhibition. Apparently it has been a huge success and the best numbers of visitors to date for the centre. They have displays of live spider habitats, and the local dancing peacock spider is able to be viewed. Loved the photo of B1.2 and his friend trapped in a gigantic web with a huntsman hovering above them. The good news is that B1 declared it was all so interesting she is now much less afraid of spiders. Well done, Questacon.
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Worm in the Grass
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BL yes it was a shock to return from 30 degree Adelaide on Wednesday evening but beginning to form up now. Can you advise if it is worth trying to persuade Mr WitG to see Star Wars?
Lothlorien I have now had time to read last year's thread and realise you have been having far too many misfortunes recently. I hope your granddaughter continues to recover.
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Lothlorien
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Thank you. One more lumbar puncture on 21/1. If ok, she is officially in remission. Monthly tests instead of fortnightly and probable nightly medication but a positive thing to look forward to. Diagnosed two years ago on New Years Day, she was a very sick girl for a long time.
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Banner Lady
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Hi WtG. I didn't end up going with the grandchildren to see Star Wars that evening - TP decided we would do a matinee by ourselves instead last Friday. We both loved it. The plot is recognisable as is almost every scene in some way or other - it is a very clever homage and a launching pad for what is still to come. TP enjoyed seeing Harrison Ford playing the cranky old bugger with an out of control son. I enjoyed seeing Chewbacca going ape.
It definitely did not disappoint....nor was it completely satisfying, so fans will be lining up for the next one. And you will probably feel like you can work out the plot for the next one all by yourself! Take him if he enjoyed the original 3 movies. It will feel like putting on his favourite comfy jacket.
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DangerousDeacon
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
Newcastle is roughly two hours up the coast (north) from Sydney. An industrial city at the mouth of the Hunter River.
It and other parts of the Hunter Valley were badly flooded just a few montgs ago and some people have not yet returned to their homes from damage caused then.
Barnabas Aus is in the area but he posted yesterday that he was OK. Dangerous Deacon used to live in a town in the Hunter, but he is now ever so much further north.
Ah, Newcastle! God's country
I think it is more appropriate to say that Sydney is two hours south of Newcastle, rather than position Newcastle in relation to Sydney.
And good to hear that the flooding has passed you by this time.
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Lothlorien
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I have family there too, DD. My uncle was general manager of gas company for many years. His family loved it. They were much more sporting than mine was. Cousins did most sports attended Newcastle High, two boys and a girl. One of these is a prominent kidney specialist of world renown and is closely associated with John Hunter Hospital.
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Gee D
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We drove down to the beach yesterday, straight from church and stopping on the way for lunch. Woke this morning to a glorious summer day, warm to hot, good waves for body surfing, clean and quiet. The present plan is to stay a week, perhaps 2, here. Just the 2 of us, as Dlet is back to work, although if we stay the second week he will probably come down for the weekend. It is good to stop still.
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Ian Climacus
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Happy New Year all!
Gee D's post makes me wish I were still on holidays...first day back at work today. Routine is good: at least that is what I am telling myself.
Had a wonderful Christmas with the family just north of Newcastle; the 3 nieces are growing far too quickly. Left way before the rains and floods came [parents and sister and family are not near the river so they are fine; though my auntie in Dungog had some more backyard washed away...]
The trip back home was via Merimbula, Wilson's Prom and the Yarra Ranges: bushwalking, sight-seeing and generally eating far too much. I had not seen those parts of the world so it was wonderful. Beautiful country.
37C here today. And 40C forecast for Wed. Bring on winter.
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Banner Lady
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In full renovation planning for the laundry - our designated summer job this year. So a trip to the new Ikea store in our region is on the itinerary for this morning. Hunkering down with James Bond in a very cool movie cinema planned for this hot afternoon. Crazy daughters are doing gym things this evening while I shall be sipping fruity things with my feet up.
I like summer.
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Lothlorien
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I like summer and the holiday feeling which comes with January. I do not like the forecast of probably 40° C for Sydney tomorrow and hotter for western suburbs.
Son is on holidays at Charlotte Pass with his girls and fiancee and her children. Two days ago they were playing in leftover snow from winter. Today it was 35 at Thredbo before a violent storm cooled things down. Still in Snowies.
We can do weather just as on British thread.
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Lothlorien, I feel similarly about summer. Yesterday was a perfect day - warm & sunny with just enough sea breeze to make being active pleasant. Today was over 40C, and very unpleasant. Mercifully the change has arrived - with a short sharp shower of fat rain.
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Gee D
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In this part of the land, it has been a very liveable day, with the max in the mid-20s, clear and sunny and not too strong a breeze. We ate dinner outside on the deck as the sun set (and the mozzie candles burned!) and are still there, listening to the surf below and finishing the last of the wine. Some beautiful fresh bream, caught this morning and simply grilled over charcoal with some steamed and buttered asparagus. A really good Tahbilk Marsanne, almost 6 years old now and probably a further 15 or more years ahead of it, all for less than $20 at a chain bottle shop. A good way to wind down after what was a difficult year for both of us.
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Huia
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Bream? Yum!
I was trying to have a quiet holiday time, but my neighbour has decided that the hedge she planted between us to keep out stray dogs (which apparently only come through my section, rather than coming up her drive) is insufficient and a proper fence needs to be built. Apparently couple of dogs visited her while she was gardening. From her description I'm not sure who was attacking who, but she has previously threatened to shoot any trespassing dog (I don't think she actually has a gun as she attacked these two with gardening implements). She is genuinely afraid of being attacked by dogs, so however ill founded I think that fear is, I am taking it seriously.
In addition there is water coming either from her section or my water main that I need to call a plumber to investigate. I hope it is my water main as it would be simpler to deal with as we only communicate through letters in the letterbox because she never answers the front door and regards entering my property, even to discuss the fence with me as trespassing.
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Galloping Granny
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Huia, at least she's not hostile – right?
Takes a moment to give thanks for my lovely neighbours, who help in all sorts of ways.
Maybe I've become the street's kuia (respected female elder).
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Banner Lady
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TP has decided Ikea is the modern equivalent of Dante's vision of hell. Trapped in a windowless circular world of homewares with shopping-frenzied demons wielding outsized trolleys threatening from every direction. Unable to find his way through the maze to toilets or coffee when he most needed them, I could hear him muttering "We're doomed, we're all doomed." Last time he said that was when Rudd was elected.
Sigh. Next time I shall leave him in a bookstore. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Lothlorien
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I'm with TP on the opinion of Ikea. Last I visited was just before I moved in here almost five years ago.
However one son has inherited his father's genes on this. He has been there several times recently as he and fiancee rearrange her girl's room so his two girls can stay there every second weekend.
The best fish I ever ate was super fresh. While camping on south coast a very long time ago we were given some fish to cook for breakfast by people in a tent near ours. It had been out of the water perhaps thirty minutes. It beat cereal and toast hands down.
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
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quote:
Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
Maybe I've become the street's kuia (respected female elder).
Maybe? Sounds highly likely to me.
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Piglet
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I know you're probably all going to want to jump on me from a great height for saying this, but we'd give our eye-teeth to have an IKEA within hailing-distance; our nearest one is about 1500 miles away in Montreal. However much the actual shops and the silly names they give their furniture annoy you, their stuff really is rather good (and absurdly cheap).
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Banner Lady
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Hey Piglet - you don't have to convince me - or my daughters. I like their company and its ethos a lot. If you want basic storage stuff all in one place with a thousand different design options for maximising small space it is ideal. And probably the best quality flatpack furniture I've seen. Ikea has a good range of classic farmhouse style as well, so I will definitely be going back.
TP, however, needs to be left safely back in the eighteenth century where he belongs. Hopefully now he will leave me to just get on with it! ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Huia
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GG, she has been hostile, threatening to kidnap my cats and throwing dirt through the (broken) fence when she was smoothing out a lawn, but since I wrote saying that I was sorry she had been scared by the dogs, she has become much more friendly. Also the friend who is building the fence is meeting her more than halfway by cutting down and removing the hedge she planted and can no longer look after. I'm glad that he has the tools and the skills to be able to do this as he's offering us 'mates' rates which makes it easier on the budget.
I think she has had a difficult life and I don't think she has much support. I live fairly quietly, but my life seems to be a gay social whirl compared with hers.
Kuia of the street - doesn't surprise me in the least.
Huia
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Galloping Granny
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There was a big crafts/NZ souvenir shop at Porirua (since moved), the sort where dozens of craftspeople each had a display, really good stuff. It had a small lounge in one corner where husbands could be parked – comfortable chairs, daily paper, I think there was a coffee/tea maker. Brilliant.
As for Ikea never having actually got lost or gone mad in one – only experienced one when daughter lived in Perth – novelists find it useful: characters walk into a house step into the lounge, see that it's been largely furnished in Ikea – so you know exactly what to expect.
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Lothlorien
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Talk about a land of contrasts! Son is nearing the end of a holiday at Charlotte Pas, the highest resort in the Snowy mountains. Yesterday it was 38 at Thredbo, another resort and the children had a wonderful time in an icy creek. Tonight, the temperature at Charlotte Pass feels like -2 and will go lower. It is their last night and the children are hoping for snow. Unlikely, I think.
Still a bit over 20 here but nowhere near the 39 it reached.
A bit too high for Huia, I think.
Actually I just checked the forecast for there.. It says snow is probable over 1800 metres.
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Banner Lady
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The cold snap has made me feel rather seedy, but it has brought TP to life. He has spent the last two days pulling a mountain of ivy off the back wall of our house. Planted over 30 years ago as ground cover, it now rivals Gormanghast, encroaching over windows and guttering and providing a large insect habitat.
Piles of it now cover our courtyard, waiting to shrivel in the next hot spell. We will need to fix a lot of weatherboard bits and replace a window screen, but it is a relief to see it down. I loved the wall of greenery, but as the rest of the garden is now well established, there are plenty of other green walls in our yard.
We have, however, planted some of the ivy shoots along the back of my studio. Hopefully the vigorous greenery will cover the metal wall completely and provide some cool insulation eventually.
On the other hand, I may live to regret this decision too!
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Galloping Granny
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Our whole section is so clean and tidy – being past keeping it that way I get our lawnmowing man to do a complete jjob once or twice a year.
The high board fence on our NW side was constructed from dunnage* maybe 46 years ago; some of the rotted boards have been replaced but to replace the whole fence, even paying a half share, could be more than my resources could handle, given that the smaller fence on the other side has some rotten boards too.
However, 6-8 metres of the big fence is covered with a kind of rampant broad-leaved ivy, which gets severely trimmed each year. The fence supports the ivy and the ivy holds the fence up. No worries there.
*free from the shipping company that the Grandad worked for.
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Originally posted by Banner Lady:
TP has decided Ikea is the modern equivalent of Dante's vision of hell. Trapped in a windowless circular world of homewares with shopping-frenzied demons wielding outsized trolleys threatening from every direction. Unable to find his way through the maze to toilets or coffee when he most needed them
FD and I started supplementing our household of old bits of family furniture and second hand shop bits and pieces with Ikea stuff when we were still living in UK. It took several visits to realise that the reason why I always ended up arguing with him about half way through was because I was (a) hungry (b) thirsty and probably (c) needed the loo.
Having figured that out, we always now start our visit with an unwholesome big and cheap breakfast in the cafe, washed down with lots of coffee and all is well.
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Huia
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GG - I pull out any ivy I see because it climbs up my brick house and its roots crumble the mortar. At some stage either someone here or next door planted it - I wish they hadn't, both the neighbour on that side and I struggle with it. I know what you mean about the cost of fencing though, if I didn't have a friend who could buy supplies at trade prices I'd be stuck, and the fence isn't very long.
The other cost will be the plumber coming on Monday to sort the water seepage. Pity my builder friend doesn't like working with water too. So far this year is proving quite expensive. I may have to send Georgie-Porgy out to work.
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Gee D
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Also be wary of Virginia Creeper - it gets into the mortar, then grows, expands, and bang goes a garden wall. Very hard to get rid of, so don't give it a home to start with.
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Galloping Granny
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I've just recorded my shock on the National Radio website and on the thread about terms of clerical address, after hearing a reporter giving the views of 'an Anglican reverend' on standardising the date of Easter.
Now I can simmer down and finish my breakfast .
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Huia
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I've over reached myself today. Plumbers at 8am, who sorted out the puddle (a join in my water main, probably by the people who put the driveway in as they hit the pipe at least once), men delivering the freezer at 11, the vet in the afternoon for vaccinations, but Georgie-Porgy seems a bit off colour as well and has lost weight. She was really agitated and we were both looking forward to some quiet when we got home...
Then the fence builder arrived to attack the trees on the boundary with a chainsaw. The bad timing wasn't his fault, but I was glad when he left. I think both G-P and I are a bit anti-social. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Gee D
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quote:
Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
I've just recorded my shock on the National Radio website and on the thread about terms of clerical address, after hearing a reporter giving the views of 'an Anglican reverend' on standardising the date of Easter.
Now I can simmer down and finish my breakfast .
GG
Our ABC's website recently referred to 'the reverend at All Saint's Anglican Church Woollahra' but I could not be bothered writing just to receive a standard reply.
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Moving today, from remote Victoria to remote and higher Victoria.
Organised chaos.
See you on the other side.
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Banner Lady
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The funeral of a neighbour of my mother's today. She was 108, and sharp as a tack until the day she died. Her not very young grandson will be taking the funeral as he is a minister.
At that age one can guarantee there will be much family and not so much friends attending!
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Biggest is on tour with the First XI. Game 1 on Friday at was successful, game 2 washed out and rescheduled to the rest day. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the 3 visiting teams came down with food poisoning on Sat night/Sunday morning, filling the local hospitals with young men on drips. Play was due to resume yesterday, and we assume no (further) news is good news.
Apart from that, the holidays roll on quietly with home activities, movies and other outings. I'm splitting my time between work and tracking various friends' fabulous holidays on facebook. I'm trying to build anticipation for our long weekend at the beach.
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Ian Climacus
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Lots going on around the Antipodes. Prayers for those moving, in sickness, with food poisoning, and where quiet is needed; and prayers for those who have lost a loved one in BL's mother's friend.
I seem to have been struck with the demon of sleeplessness. For the past 4 nights I have either had no sleep or ~ 1 hour, in bits and pieces. No idea why; the anxiety/depression that usually causes me such sleeplessness is nowhere to be seen. I feel fine. Apart from being exhausted, and annoyed through the night as the clock moves on too slowly...
Will see if I can spend a little time at work this afternoon after the third doctor's appointment in as many days. I want to do something to keep my mind off it. And I am blessed to have a good and understanding manager.
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Piglet
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This may sound a bit daft, IC, but someone recommended to me years ago that you could combat occasional sleeplessness by having a bowl of cereal about half an hour before going to bed. I don't know why it worked, but it did.
I find milky hot chocolate isn't a bad idea either.
IANAD, etc. etc.
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Ian Climacus
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Thank you Piglet: certainly a suggestion I have not heard before. I do not have any cereal here currently: may go and get some. Though I may wait until it is slightly cooler than the ~40C it is currently!
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40°C??? No wonder you can't sleep! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Banner Lady
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Excerpt from the eulogy of a 108yr old:
"When she was 11, she went to Sydney town centre where she was to meet her mother at Mark Foy's department store after school. There were no cars back then. Just horse drawn buses, trams, a few trains and hansome cabs where the driver stood behind the carriage. News of the First World War ending caused such a crowd of partying people that she knew she would never find her mother. So she decided her mother would have to find her, and made her way to her Aunt's cafe a few streets away."
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Lothlorien
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"Made her way to her Aunt's café..." Sounds as if she was not only clever but sensible, even at that age. That would have been an interesting eulogy to hear. Husband's grandmother died at 98 and we used to think of all the changes and developments which she had lived through.
From about first class, I was allowed to travel on train by myself and was also allowed to local park with my brother and sister, by ourselves. I allowed my sons much the same freedom but am more wary with grandchildren. Not because I doubt them, but because I don't want to be on wrong side of their mothers who did not have same freedom as my sons.
I allow them to go to service station downstairs for milk or batteries or similar and have done so for several years. I watched from balcony at first but now allow the older two to take my keys to get back in front door. I send them to basementwith rubbish and to letterboxes to get my mail.
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Lothlorien
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40°C??? No wonder you can't sleep!
That would be a daytime temperature, Piglet. Probably in mid twenties at night. My son spent two weeks in Snowy Mountains at a ski lodge just now. One day they went travelling. It was 38° at midday at Thredbo, another resort and they were swimming in snowfed creeks. The next day was 4° C at noon at Charlotte Pass. Quite unpredictable temps.
Ian, my youngest son was at uni at Albury. Unknown to me, he used to swim the Murray River but said that while it was boiling hot outside, the river was freezing. He knew I would not be happy with him visiting interstate via the river, so just omitted to tell me.
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Of course he would only have been interstate had he set foot on the southern bank.
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Of course he would only have been interstate had he set foot on the southern bank.
He said water was usually so cold he would warm up a bit on the Victorian bank before swimming back.
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Such a good day today. My middle (and favourite) brother rang from America at 7am and we talked for an hour. We hadn't spoken for the best part of a year although he had tried to ring several times. (He doesn't have a phone so I couldn't ring him).
Other good things I've posted in the weight loss thread, but the phone call set the tone for the day ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Ian Climacus
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Hurrah for wonderful days Huia!
Yes, the 40 was indeed a daytime temp: though it was still ~30C at 21:30 last night -- cooled down a bit after that. I did take a swim in the Murray the other day and can confirm the chilliness. It was refeshing though.
Colleagues from the Dubbo and Bathurst campuses are down for a team get-together: great to see them again. We'll go out for dinner tonight which will be nice.
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