AS: Life downunder

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  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    Happy New Year to all here -- hoping it is kinder to many of us than 2018 has been.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Just noticed - no new thread so far. Just a bit shy of 6 pm here.
  • Happy New Year to all here and welcome to Elizabeth Bennett which I forgot to say last time. Hoping it is a good one without nasty surprises.
  • Happy New Year all! Massive electrical storm in the valley meant some NYE events and fireworks were cancelled. What a contrast to the far west where towns I know well and where friends reside disappeared beneath a massive duststorm.
  • Elizabeth BennettElizabeth Bennett Shipmate Posts: 28
    Just seen the weather report, 42 for Friday. Ok I won't invite any one for tea then. Barnabus I am reminded again of Dorothea McKellars poem, droughts and flooding rains. We spent the day near Marysville, lovely sitting by the falls under the wisteria, And thank you everyone for the welcome. I think I have been reading here for over 4 years, I am just slow to get the courage up to join.
  • Today marks five years since Miss M was diagnosed with acute leukaemia after a couple of months of general ill health. The treatment is hard hitting with nasty side effects. Diabetes, pancreatitis, arthritis and more as well as the usual hair loss. Today, she is in remission, about to enter the third year of high school, doing well. I am still so grateful for the support here and especially for support from PeteC, now gone a year himself.

    DIL and I unpacked six boxes from my kitchen yesterday. More to go out as who really needs another two sets of cutlery and saucepans etc and there is no room when two have already been un[acked several weeks ago.

    Good find was my single serve stainless steel coffee plunger and the New Norcia coffee mug my sister bought me when she was last in WA. It is good to hold, a good size and pleasant to drink from. So plunger and mug are both in use this morning.
  • Enjoy! And great news re Miss M.

    I remember a wonderful visit to New Norcia many years ago. A beautiful monastery. And wonderful people.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Excellent news about Miss M - wishing her continued good health in the coming year!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Gee D wrote: »
    Just noticed - no new thread so far ...
    This thread has 22 pages, which isn't too unmanageable, and no date, but if you'd like to start a new one with a new name (and a date, if you like), please feel free, and one of us will close this one.

    Thanks,
    Piglet, AS host
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Not having a go at anyone at all, just happened to notice it. Besides, to start a new thread would involve thinking and it's not the best time of year to think much.

    Still around 30 at 6pm yesterday so it was into the pool before getting ready to cook dinner. Great floating on my back in the warmish water, looking up at the deep blue sky with the eucalypts catching the late afternoon sun.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    31c is the expected high today, :sweat: Why can't we take all the temperatures over a year and average them out, rather than have the highs and lows?

    Huia, struggling to work out how to adjust the heat pump so it goes into cool mode.
  • Gosh. Only 5 or so degrees less than what it has been here. Hope you find some coolness.

    Despite 35+ temperatures I have caught a cold. No idea how. Anyway, had a nice breakfast at Morpeth, an old river port town.
  • Just down the road from us Climacus. Some lovely eateries there, but they now how to charge - I think it's part of the tourist thing. I'm also coughing and spluttering, but the bacteria seem to be overcoming the viral infection I've had for many weeks. I've been able to do some of the household tasks the last couple of days without gasping for breath.
  • ZappaZappa Ecclesiantics Host
    edited January 2019
    Climacus wrote: »
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    I remember a wonderful visit to New Norcia many years ago. A beautiful monastery. And wonderful people.

    Foaming Draught, Clarence, and I were there about fifteen months ago. A kind of bitter-sweet pilgrimage, as tails of abuse entwine with hints of holiness. So sad.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Climacus wrote: »

    Despite 35+ temperatures I have caught a cold. No idea how. Anyway, had a nice breakfast at Morpeth, an old river port town.

    Try and find a copy of the Maitland and Morpeth String Quartet, a great recitation written by Nick Enright.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    29c forecast here tomorrow. Maybe I should pay a visit to my brother in Chicago.
  • I’ll close this now and open a thread for 2019.
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