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The security men at the college where I worked in Belfast used to run a sweepstake on the Grand National, and in the one dubbed The Race that Never Was guess which horse I drew?
Got it in one - Esha Ness - the one that came in first.
Because the race had been declared void, I think what they did was drew the sweepstake tickets from a hat, so of course mine wasn't the one drawn.
I just don't have that sort of luck. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Gee D
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Any news on HSC candidates are travelling?
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Lothlorien
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Grandson finished on Wednesday. Seems OK but did not like maths. Probably would have helped had he done more work over the last two years.
Now has a labouring job part time, and is due here soon to do some cleaning for me. Paid, probably too generous but I hate cleaning my tiled balcony as tiles are slippery when wet.
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Originally posted by Gee D:
Any news on HSC candidates are travelling?
Finished Monday. Seemed happy enough with everything, not phased by unexpected questions in various English papers.
Now celebrating quietly. Played cricket yesterday with at least one classmate who was seriously hungover after a party Biggest either wasn't invited to or decided not to go to.
I've got him doing some paid heavy work in our garden. He's playing guitar, writing songs that have been bursting out all year, and has also started writing a novel. Given that he plans to do a Bachelor of Communication majoring in creative writing next year, I guess this isn't a major surprise.
Tonight is an all night movie watching night (we declined to host) and band practice with some mates tomorrow (at the drummers house. Drat).
Apart from his indifference to his need for cash, all going well!
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Gee D
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Thank you both and best wishes to them.
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Lothlorien
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I had thought grandson may have been interested in something along sporting lines givien his abilities. At the moment, he is not, but really wants to get into real estate. No idea where that came from at all. Certainly nothing family related.
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Huia
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That's interesting Loth. In the past, possibly due to my total ignorance about it, I would have thought it wasn't a job that would appeal to a school leaver, but one of the workers I employed through Student Job Search was doing an introductory course and she was really keen. I think she would have had a go at selling my house, if I was willing.
Interesting to hear about Biggest too Mr Curly, he sounds multi-talented. I will keep an eye out on Amazon for future developments.
Best wishes to them both.
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B1.1 is now working five fast food shifts a week and playing futsal in a new club one of his mates began. Along with cadets and having to spend every second weekend in the countryside with his dad - this leaves him rather short on time to do non exciting stuff like homework. It will be interesting to see if he stays at school after next year. Somehow I doubt it, but he may surprise us all yet.
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... oh, and incidentally, one of my myriad girls just completed a vet nursing degree yesterday ... so now I have an applied animal scientist (trains guide dogs), a teacher (with a degree in health education), a social worker, a vet nurse, a ... um ... guide dog training and breeding overseer (the only one who hasn't gone on to uni), and an occupational therapist ...
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Congratulations to the Zapplet vet nurse! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Wow Zappa you have all bases covered there, you must be so proud of your daughters ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Gee D
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Well done Zappa. I am not sure why the HSC is thought draconian - after all, there are now 6 years high school rather than the 5 we had, and the content is rather lower. Some of the courses are not quite at the level of hamburgerology, but most of the humanities aren't at a terribly high level. More emote than think.
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Lothlorien
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I keep wielding my teacher's chalk to say that HSC is not the end of the world. I measures the particular candidater's respons to a particular exam on a particular day. Lots of wriggle room there for different responses and marks.
I can't answer for the maths and physics side of subjects but many subjects considered traditional are definitely dumbed down. I do not like the inclusion of TAFE related and other similar subjects. I am not being snobby about them, many of them appeal to me but the place is wrong. Education to me is for different purposes than vocational. Those skills can be learnt elsewhere if the student has been taught how to research, how to read an exam or essay question and to answer what is asked, how to write, how to marshal arguments in order and much more. Still that is not an AS topic.
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The weird weather continues. Following Brexit & Trumpit, this week we have had wild wind and hailstorms. I suspect we have at least one if not two broken skylights. At least they are in the bathrooms, so water damage can be contained. Unlike B1's new swish apartment which apparently leaks like a sieve.
I would laugh...except that in an emergency we have the nearest beds....oy vei...
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Huia
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Big earthquake centred Nth of Christchurch 7.1 I think. It was the longest we've had,
Am Ok but feel very shaken,
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Biggest quake I've felt in a while, and I'm in Wellington so a fair way off the action... Glad you're okay.
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Twitter people are saying they could feel it in AUCKLAND!!
Apparently near Hanmar Springs, some houses lost apparently.
Hope it's no worse than that. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Huia
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Within half an hour we've had a 6.6, a 5.6 and a 5,2. There's also been a 5. something in Wellington.
Thank heaves the power hasn't gone out here like it has in some places.
News just on says there have been multiple quakes, through out NZ, one in Taihape too.
No injuries report in ChCh. but the emergency 111 line isn't working.
I bloody hate this
Huia
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Huia
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Tsunami warning - evacuating to higher ground
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2 metre+ disturbance on Kaikoura tsunami gauge...
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Holding you all in the Light.
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I just got an email from my sister in Nelson. She says the house swayed for over a minute. No damage though.
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[ 13. November 2016, 14:38: Message edited by: Doone ]
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Piglet
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for Huia, GS and all the NZ shippies - glad to hear you're OK so far.
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Huia
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I am back home. Georgie had to spend some hours in her cage and isn't impressed, nor was the resident cat where we stayed). I am celebrating with a bubble bath, but will make sure my clothes are in easy reach ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
School is closed today (as are all schools between here and Wellington) so I am going to catch up on some much needed sleep).
Huia ![[Snore]](graemlins/snore.gif)
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Huia and other NZ Shippies
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Just checked in to see how things are over there. Glad you and Georgie are home and able to bathe, Huia.
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Gee D
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Just seen the headlines. Very glad that you're OK and that the house seems right. Prayers and best wishes from both of us to you.
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Galloping Granny
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First earthquake I've felt for many years. I think it's because the house is on a ten-inch slab of reinforced concrete, but the seismologist said ask an engineer if that's the reason. Anyway I sure felt this one but none of the aftershocks my neighbours are reporting.
Son (physics teacher) said the p-wave woke his wife and she woke him in time for the s-wave (not sure what she did but he stood in a doorway). Maybe that's what happened to me. "All Petone" was evacuated up on to the hills, where local people offered cups of tea.
One neighbour's among the many told to work from home, so if she can spare half an hour maybe I can get my frozen guava juice processed: my apprentice isn't here to help, and with Essential Tremor I can't skim the cooked jelly.
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Glad you're OK, Huia and GG. It was our first earthquake in the new house, and while we felt every shake (there have been at least a hundred since the first one) we have no damage.
We were under the bed faster than greased lightning. And the next thought was, "Oh shit, we haven't refilled the emergency water bottles since we moved." That is now attended to. ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Well, that was a crazy night.* Arabella, from what you have posted before, since you moved, you are now living very close to me. I have not felt anything like that since the Edgecumbe one - also the first time since then that I've experienced things falling down around me. (which makes me reflect once again on how completely ghastly things must have been for South Islanders for year and years now). Had a good check around the place this morning and no damage to the house, except the hot water cylinder is a bit loose on its moorings.
*Which my children slept serenely through, God only knows how.
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So thankful that all Kiwi shipmates are ok. Hoping it all settles down quickly.
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I am a bit late checking in this morning but did look last night. You were probably all processing it.The main thing I see from the reports is the long time it lasted.
It makes my bummer start to the week pale into the significance it deserves.. I knocked a double walled glass insulated coffee mug onto kitchen tiles. It did not survive.
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It makes my bummer start to the week pale into the significance it deserves.. I knocked a double walled glass insulated coffee mug onto kitchen tiles. It did not survive.
It's funny you should say that. One of only two things which fell down in our house was a painting, which did a spectacular end-over-end, falling first onto our dresser, then onto the floor, then over onto the foot of our sleigh bed. All this took place about a metre away from where I was standing, and that painting is probably one of three things I would take from a burning house with me (the others being my kids, and my laptop). But I felt no grief or horror when it fell because at the time I was seriously worried that actual bits of house might start falling. Even this morning, I find myself unable to care too much about it, though it is one of my favourite things. The painting itself, and the glass, have survived, but it's going to need to be re-framed. Meh. Small fry.
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Huia
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I hadn't put my paintings back on the walls since the house was fixed, but the kitchen clock, which usually falls into the sink, is still on the window sill.
Georgie isn't venturing far from home, and when I came home from the pharmacist (stocking up on my prescriptions)she ran to meet me, yowling loudly.
My water bottles are looking a bit dubious so I ran the bath again after I had cleaned it. It will be a temporary reservoir. My water cylinder is safe as it has very solid shelves built around it.
I am very grateful to Orion, the local power lines company as they did a really good job renewing the cables last time so we haven't had power cuts here.
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So glad to hear that all NZ Shipmates are well, even if shaken yet again! Prayers for all!
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I've been thinking of NZ shipmates since I heard the news this morning. I'm glad everyone is safe.
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
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For all you music lovers, two of the worst hit places in Wellington were the cathedral organs - both Anglican and Catholic. Pipes on the floor, and it looks as though someone played skittles in the pipe chamber of St Paul's. Thank goodness it was the middle of the night - our choir sang a concert in the Anglican cathedral on Saturday evening.
It is now bucketing down on the Kapiti Coast.
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Huia
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Turned cold here. I'm going to pack my spare back pack in case I have to evacuate again. Last night I thought I hadn't packed my book or reading glasses - I had, but didn't find out until I was back home. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
Actually I managed quite well, I just didn't think I had. Will be in bed by 7pm as I'm exhausted.
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I was at a meeting in central Hawke's Bay this afternoon, holding forth in full oratorical flight when all present started calling out wait, no etc ... I thought I must have said something wrong and was quite mystified. I never felt it even when I shut up but the lights were swinging and it was one of the bigger longer aftershocks.
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for all Kiwis
But pray tell, what are these '(hot) water cylinders' you're speaking of?
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for all Kiwis
But pray tell, what are these '(hot) water cylinders' you're speaking of?
This is a hot water cylinder. Note that it has three rows of metal strapping around it, which is fixed to vertical timbers, which are in turn fixed to the wall. Our cylinder has a single band of strapping, and it has partially pulled out of the wall at one side (because it is NOT anchored in a piece of timber but screwed straight into the wall. Clearly was installed by an idiot.
THIS is a hot water cylinder which was either unsecured or worked loose of its moorings. In Marlborough, earlier today.
I do understand that there are much better ways of heating your water, btw. We had gas hot water at our last house and I am a big fan of it.
I had to go stand in a doorway halfway through typing this post - and we are having it a lot easier than folk in the South Island. Damn. I like the terra firma to actually be firm.
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Long day with no power, phones, limited running water and not enough staff (due to school closures) in a 100+ bed care facility...
Finally got power at about 3.30. Just before the southerly storm came through.
Proud of my team though, carried it through well
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Banner Lady
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Puts our hail damage in perspective. Glad everyone is checking in ok. Prayers ascending for the shaky isles to settle quickly.
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Lothlorien
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A competition was held to name six new ferries for Sydney harbour. The first one was trialled today. It has been named Catherine Hamlin after the founder of the Hospital in Africa treating victims of injuries in child birth. I think it is a great way to keep her name in the public eye. I have just bought Christmas presents from their warehouse here. Good stuff, very good service and I feel good promoting the idea.
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
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That's very cool, Loth. I read a biography of her and she immediately went on my list of people who I admire.
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