Despite the cold wind - perhaps because of it? - we had a good day. Dlet, a young lady, and one of his mates from school came to lunch. It was a bright, sunny and clear day, so I lit both the outside heaters, pointed one in at each side of the table, and we bbqed on the terrace. The wind was largely blocked by the house, we were warm, and it was very pleasant out there.
I've joined an exercise group for oldies' strength and balance at a nearby church — much gentler than the tough one with the physios at the hospital — and I'm really enjoying it, finding old friends and meeting new ones. Each joint in the body gets a work-out, a bit like going over a machine with an oil-can. I had a mad vision in the middle of the session: how would one of my grandchildren, say the 8-year-old, react if he could see 20-30 grans and grandads singing 'Row, row, row your boat..' with arm movements?
GG
I'm sure the 8 yo would smile, like me, and, again like me, inwardly or outwardly shout, "Go for it!" (and probably join in the singing). Great to hear you are enjoying it: I'm hope I'm able to sing while working on strength and balance when I reach that age.
The signs of spring come fast... Green leaves have sprung out of the branches on the tree outside my window at work. Quite a lot of leaves. And seemingly overnight.
Climacus the wildflowers on the West Coast have been spectacular since mid-August. I can't get there this year but the photographs of vast stretches of veld in dazzling colour are wonderful.
Not nearly as vast or colourful as those photos, but I was travelling on a but today that is on a road that divides Hagley Park, and there were blossom trees in full bloom down both sides of the road - stunning.
I love spring. I also saw my first duckling - it was at the Animal and Bird Hospital and had been nursed back to health by one of their volunteers after being separated from its family 💚
125 years of universal women's suffrage in New Zealand today. White camellias duly delivered to our M.P.
Not knocking the achievement, but that post-dates South Australia by a couple of years from memory. Necessary legislation was an early act of the new Federal Parliament, and it was in all states well before the end of the first decade of the new century. Entitlement to stand fo election came at various dates - what was the date in NZ please?
Haven't a clue, I know I've read it lately though and will post if I come across it again.
I know the first woman elected was in my Electorate. She was Elizabeth McCombs and she was elected in a bye election after her husband, the previous MP died.
Wyoming also had women's suffrage before NZ as did the Isle of Man, but I'm unsure whether it was universal in either place.
I'd forgotten Wyoming, but had not known of the Isle of Man. A quick check shows that Utah allowed it in 1895. I've not got time to check other US states.
There's a fair bit of anti-government feeling in my electorates, State and Federal. I can't see that translating into any change at Federal level, but if the Greens were to endorse a woman at the next state election she may well have a good chance. The trouble is that the NSW Greens tend to be hard-left (think Lee Rhiannon, and also the former Marrickville Council) and choice of a suitable candidate may be beyond the powers that be in that party.
There's been a lot in the paper and some in this week's Listener — I can't find the date written but if it's 125 years then it must have been 1893.
The media have been saying 'the first country' which I took to mean that earlier examples of women's suffrage was in individual states or regions but not national elections. I think the actual day was somewhere in the last week or so.
I had a note somewhere of which of my female forebears had signed the petition.
GG, you have six minutes to edit which is better than it used to be on old boards. On top of the frame where you would type your post is your name. To right of that is a cogwheel. Click and it will ask EDIT?/DELETE. Click Edit and off you go. At the end, click post comment again. Six minutes, . OK?
The doves at work seem to be in spring-time mode; plenty of tail-fanning going along as they chase each other. The parrots seem to be in pairs too. Rather noisy as I arrived.
And, yes, I do start work slightly early. I'm an early riser.
My immediate neighbour leaves for work at 6.45am — she comes home at 3.15 and has plenty of time for gardening or baking or whatever.
Next neighbour to her leaves for the bus at 7.45, when I'm just sitting down to breakfast.
Having retired about 21 years ago I can't remember what it was like to rise early and go to work.
I've just gone through the 'Sign In' routine again, and because I couldn't find my latest password I had to do a new one, by which time I could see my Avatar on the page.
I hope this frequent sign in request will be sorted some time soon.
I have a date for settlement. October 22 at 12:30. October seems a long way away but that is only three weeks from next Monday. Buyere wanted an early settlement and almost three weeks ago, agent and I discussed a possible date. She has not got back to us, so today I SMSd agent to say that I was not going to muck around with dates at this late stage and the October date which I have had for three weeks will stand.
I will probably know at weekend if I will be moving earlier. Removalists will do most of the packing for me but I am sorting clothes. Much of my stuff went before we put the place on the market and there is really not a lot left.
Do our NZ friends have any thoughts on Palmerston North as a place to live? There is a job going at a university there. Could I cross the ditch?
Can be wet and windy in the winter ... beautiful campus. Summers are climatically variable, maxima high 20s, but the maritime climate means there some quite chilly days as well. As it happens I was there for half an hour yesterday.
A university? The world's foremost university whose alumni are unsurpassed in excellence. Think Harvard, Yale, Oxford, er, That University.
It is for a very good reason that there are very productive wind farms around Palmerston North. On the other hand I bought my second vehicle, a Ford Escort van there because car prices were lower there than Wellington and there used to be some good needlework shops there too.
Oh, I'm one of those people who stop on drives and visit wind farm viewing platforms: so that is very helpful advice. My weekends are set should I get the job!
And if any shops remain it's never too late to start needlework . Unis love their meetings...and I need something to do during them...ha ha.
Climacus, I too like watching them. I find them elegant, although I know of others who do not like them at all.
Busy day here, different to usual Sundays. Settlement is three weeks tomorrow, so packing proceedeth apace. As DIL packed a lot before the place went o n the market, there is not much. Haha! I have packed a bag to be going on with over the days and there is a load of washing to add to that when clean and dry. When I thought I was going up there for the day today, I packed a pile of bottles, mostly full. Three different GINS, and other assorted goodies. I think today may well be pantry and glassware etc. Dismantling of shelving and removal of paintings and photos. Along with a discussion as to when removalists will be booked. It will be a weekday so less pressure for dates than at the weekend.
This block prefers people to move on weekday than at the weekend. A bylaw more honoured in the breech than the observance. We have a loading dock at front door which is handy.
Yes, but I would hope you be visiting the Zappa/Kuruman home (the Zaplets have pretty much left home now, and will have by then ...) ... unless I get a job that I'm sniffing at elsewhere
And should you move I'd travel the length and breadth and height of the islands to catch up again anyhow. And with any other NZ shipmates.
Continued best wishes for the job.
A non-swooping magpie pair has set up its nest in a telegraph pole just across the road. It is nice to hear the cheep cheeps as I wander past -- and to not be attacked. The plants and trees are flowering and getting their leaves back too. It is a nice time in this part of the world.
That would be one of my objections too, and I suspect that the bus service isn't up to much.
I liked that poetry anthology, although it was one I gave away when I, foolishly, got rid of a bookcase that impeded my exit after the quakes I should have spend more time working out where to relocate it.
You will have to visit down this way Climacus, I'm told the skiing is good.
ZI have a removal date, 16/10, two weeks from yesterday and a week before settlement. I was surprised at my reaction when SDIL told me. Very fluttery tummy. The removalists are known and trusted, they have moved son and DIL several times, including once with a huge 7 tonne truck. I have lots of cartons, but a lot of the bigger pieces have been given away etc as not needed with two other households already unpacked.
It seems an age, but really not fully seven months to float ideas, sell my place in a downturn, find somewhere suitable for five adults and two teenagers, all with a long wishlist, arrange mortgage, purchase, move two groupsr each of us in and unpacked. Arrange tenancy agreement to protect each of us. The others have been there almost two months. My turn now.
Welcome to the world and to Christchurch Leon Uri. I hope the that Christchurch City Libraries are still giving the free books to newborns in in the city,
Beautiful day for a colleague's wedding this afternoon. She's crossing the border to our Botanic Gardens and then I will cross the river and border for dinner.
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I am exhausted, having done a bit of gardening today to clear up some lose ends from yesterday (see Thanksgiving thread).
The signs of spring come fast... Green leaves have sprung out of the branches on the tree outside my window at work. Quite a lot of leaves. And seemingly overnight.
And feeling good as I'm taking tomorrow off to go on my first trip to the Henty Machinery Field Days!
I love spring. I also saw my first duckling - it was at the Animal and Bird Hospital and had been nursed back to health by one of their volunteers after being separated from its family 💚
Not knocking the achievement, but that post-dates South Australia by a couple of years from memory. Necessary legislation was an early act of the new Federal Parliament, and it was in all states well before the end of the first decade of the new century. Entitlement to stand fo election came at various dates - what was the date in NZ please?
I know the first woman elected was in my Electorate. She was Elizabeth McCombs and she was elected in a bye election after her husband, the previous MP died.
Wyoming also had women's suffrage before NZ as did the Isle of Man, but I'm unsure whether it was universal in either place.
There's a fair bit of anti-government feeling in my electorates, State and Federal. I can't see that translating into any change at Federal level, but if the Greens were to endorse a woman at the next state election she may well have a good chance. The trouble is that the NSW Greens tend to be hard-left (think Lee Rhiannon, and also the former Marrickville Council) and choice of a suitable candidate may be beyond the powers that be in that party.
The media have been saying 'the first country' which I took to mean that earlier examples of women's suffrage was in individual states or regions but not national elections. I think the actual day was somewhere in the last week or so.
I had a note somewhere of which of my female forebears had signed the petition.
And, yes, I do start work slightly early. I'm an early riser.
Next neighbour to her leaves for the bus at 7.45, when I'm just sitting down to breakfast.
Having retired about 21 years ago I can't remember what it was like to rise early and go to work.
I've just gone through the 'Sign In' routine again, and because I couldn't find my latest password I had to do a new one, by which time I could see my Avatar on the page.
I hope this frequent sign in request will be sorted some time soon.
GG
I will probably know at weekend if I will be moving earlier. Removalists will do most of the packing for me but I am sorting clothes. Much of my stuff went before we put the place on the market and there is really not a lot left.
Can be wet and windy in the winter ... beautiful campus. Summers are climatically variable, maxima high 20s, but the maritime climate means there some quite chilly days as well. As it happens I was there for half an hour yesterday.
A university? The world's foremost university whose alumni are unsurpassed in excellence. Think Harvard, Yale, Oxford, er, That University.
Earning capacity is a little lower in NZ.
PM me with specifics.
A university? The world's foremost university whose alumni are unsurpassed in excellence. Think Harvard, Yale, Oxford, er, That University.
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It's always good to get an unbiased opinion, Zappa!
Sorry I can't give any actually helpful advice.
And if any shops remain it's never too late to start needlework . Unis love their meetings...and I need something to do during them...ha ha.
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Unlike the poetry anthology
Busy day here, different to usual Sundays. Settlement is three weeks tomorrow, so packing proceedeth apace. As DIL packed a lot before the place went o n the market, there is not much. Haha! I have packed a bag to be going on with over the days and there is a load of washing to add to that when clean and dry. When I thought I was going up there for the day today, I packed a pile of bottles, mostly full. Three different GINS, and other assorted goodies. I think today may well be pantry and glassware etc. Dismantling of shelving and removal of paintings and photos. Along with a discussion as to when removalists will be booked. It will be a weekday so less pressure for dates than at the weekend.
This block prefers people to move on weekday than at the weekend. A bylaw more honoured in the breech than the observance. We have a loading dock at front door which is handy.
Yes, but I would hope you be visiting the Zappa/Kuruman home (the Zaplets have pretty much left home now, and will have by then ...) ... unless I get a job that I'm sniffing at elsewhere
And should you move I'd travel the length and breadth and height of the islands to catch up again anyhow. And with any other NZ shipmates.
Continued best wishes for the job.
A non-swooping magpie pair has set up its nest in a telegraph pole just across the road. It is nice to hear the cheep cheeps as I wander past -- and to not be attacked. The plants and trees are flowering and getting their leaves back too. It is a nice time in this part of the world.
That would be one of my objections too, and I suspect that the bus service isn't up to much.
I liked that poetry anthology, although it was one I gave away when I, foolishly, got rid of a bookcase that impeded my exit after the quakes I should have spend more time working out where to relocate it.
You will have to visit down this way Climacus, I'm told the skiing is good.
It seems an age, but really not fully seven months to float ideas, sell my place in a downturn, find somewhere suitable for five adults and two teenagers, all with a long wishlist, arrange mortgage, purchase, move two groupsr each of us in and unpacked. Arrange tenancy agreement to protect each of us. The others have been there almost two months. My turn now.
@Lothlorien - exciting to have a date and finally to be settling in. Sounds as if you'll be in for summer and Christmas.
We had some well timed wet stuff overnight - just after I planed the multi-coloured brightlights silverbeet.
I missed this somehow, sorry! Best wishes to the Galilit daughter.
Loth, moving is exciting and scary, a big change.
Both well
Deo gratias
Greetings and blessings to Leon Uri and his Mum. And, of course, not forgetting his Gran!
Blessings too upon Loth and her whanau. May this move be to a Happy Place for you, and the new stage to your life be full off peace and joy.
GG