Well here I am at my second attempt to write this post the first I did yesterday (Saturday) to be ready for Thursday but it would not save and I ended up losing all that I had written.

Well this is about working life in the 1890’s and yes I know so far the posts have been about stuff happening between the 1850’s till the 1880’s but that is coming to an end.

During the period between 1875 to 1889 Victoria and New South Wales for the most part enjoyed boom conditions, though interspersed with pockets of recession and intermittent unemployment. This is when the New South Wales trades and Labour Council approached the problems of management and labour from a political standpoint.

As before this there was a tradition of sponsoring candidates sympathetic to the labour movement. It was in August of 1890 a general meeting of the Australian Labour Council drafted a parliamentary platform. Such political planning was justified later in the month when the Maritime Strike started.

By 1890 the boom was changing into an economic collapse and in May 1895 several banks closed their doors and fortunes were lost overnight as inflated share prices and land values plummeting. This of course affected employment as business slowed down and many factories closed or reduced their operating hours and workforce.

From the start of the 1890’s the Australian colonies experienced strikes by workers who at last felt their unions were strong enough to negotiate in their favour. Unfortunately, with the increasingly bad economic times, coupled with a fear of the unions, encouraged managements and colonial governments to put down the strikes with great severity.

That’s it for this week.

Well here we are at another Wednesday, it is coldish but no rain here well it is time for some Aussie Slang…………

Larrikin: Someone who is always enjoying themselves, a harmless prankster

Moolah: Money

Never Never: Outback Australia

No Hoper: Someone who never does well in life

Perve: Look at someone lustfully

Good morning all we are moving out of Africa and on to Oceania for those who don’t know Oceania is a region of the South Pacific Ocean that comprises multiple islands. The United Nations divides the region into four sub-regions: Australia and New Zealand (including also the Christmas Islands, Keeling Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, and Norfolk Island), Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

This week’s creature is a Leafy Sea-dragon , dripping with “leaves” this sea-dragon blends perfectly with the seaweed and kelp forests off southern Australia where it lives. They are closely related to seahorses and drifts with the currents is search of microscopic prey such as sea lice.

It is graced with a thin, tubular snout and small leaf-sharped fins, it’s usually browny-yellow in colour and 35cm long.

If you see a bright yellow tail on a male it is a sign it is going to mate, like seahorses the males are in charge of childbearing. Unlike seahorses which carry their young in a pouch on the stomach male sea-dragons nurture theirs on the underside of their tail.

Moving on to part two about the New South Wales Police Force.

The first recorded death of a Police Constable was in 1803 with the death of Constable Joseph Luker of the Sydney Foot Police. While patrolling on foot at night in an area called Back Row East Sydney Town(now Phillip Street Sydney), he was attacked an killed. His body was found the next morning with the guard of his cutlass embedded in his head. Later four offenders faced court with three of them acquitted including two fellow Constables, the other was sentenced to death, which was latter commuted after three failed attempts to hang him failed.

In the beginning the Police were appointed by the local Justices of the Peace and became know as Bench Police or “benchers”.

In 1825 the Military Mounted Police were formed following clashes between Aboriginals and settlers in the central west but after only 25 years they were disbanded in 1850. They were replaced by a civilian Mounted Police also known as the Mounted Road Patrol they were the forerunners of today’s NSW Mounted Police.

Other colonial police forces included the Border Police they were around between 1839-1846 and the Mounted Native Police between 1848-1859. The various Mounted Troopers were known colloquially as “traps”.

It was in 1850 that the Parliament in Sydney legislated to amalgamate all the various colonial police forces into one force under the superintendence of an Inspector General of Police, with a solicitor names William Spain was appointed as the first Inspector General.

In 1851 because of the discovery of gold the Gold Escort was formed. This year also saw the Parliament in London disallow the 1850 colonial legislation to amalgamate the police forces. During this time police from the United Kingdom were offered free passage to NSW in return for three years service as colonial police.

On the 1 March 1862 the Police Regulation Act was passed seeing all existing police forces at last amalgamated to establish the NSW Police Force under former Army Captain John McLerie as Inspector General.

Manage to do the food shop with little issue, damn my jaw is moving a bit this morning.

I have had a restless day with a lot of back pain and feeling like I couldn’t sit anywhere comfortably.

Jess and Sam came over at around 3.15 this arvo they were having a disagreement about Sam going to sleep, during the last two weeks Sam’s sleeping pattern has been all over the place but tomorrow is a school day so Sam needs to get back into the school routine regarding his sleeping pattern.

Sam came down at 5.55am looking for dry clothes in order to have something to wear, it is the first day of term 4 of school so only 19 weeks of school left for 2023. There is a new driver for this term, well from week three, there is a relief driver for the first two weeks. I was glad I didn’t have to ring over an over to get Sam up he walked in again at 7am.

For some unknown reason I am restless finding it hard to sit still this lasted for around 2hrs but then I came good.

Had to ring the school to check if it was Sam’s early day, it isn’t.

Had a good night but woke shaking around 4am and it was difficult to lay in bed getting up around 4.45am.

I am having internet problems this morning. I also can’t get my Telstra program to open up which is so annoying.

I was on my way up the front while Sam brushed his teeth only to notice that the driver was already there over 5 minutes early.

I have started getting sharp pain in my right big toe and it looks red I am thinking Gout but I don’t know I have asked Tim what does gout feel like, he said he has no idea even though he has had gout a few times but doesn’t remember that. Ok after about 10 minutes he remembered having it.

Sam had to ring for papa to go get him as he was more then 5 minutes earlier then normal.

Not a hot nor a cold day but still found myself sweating this morning, had to open the front and back sliding doors for a little bit.

The cleaners came and before they did I cleaned off my dressing table and computer desk so they could get a good clean. I also had them clean the back sliding door.

Found my bears that sit on top of my dressing table on my bed went I went in to replace the items off the dressing table, they either fell down or were taken down, I will have to get Sam to replace them as neither Tim or I are tall enough to do so.

I am wearing shorts this morning even though it’s a chilly but it suppose to be a hot day with a temp of 27 degrees. I put shorts on when I got dressed but had to go and change into long pants after an hour as my legs were cold. I changed back into shorts around 9am.

This morning at 8am the alarm had just gone off for me and Sam to go up the top of driveway, however, before we could leave we see the transport van out the front of our unit, this was a surprise.

Tasha rang Saint Vinnies to get help with some food vouchers for herself and decided to ask about me and her dad getting help. So two people came out this morning and asked a few questions and gave us two $50 gift cards for Coles, this will be a big help.

I had to turn the air con on around 12.30 as the heat was getting to me.

I decided to put long pants on when I got up, it isn’t suppose to be as hot today.

I was surprised when Sam rang me at 7am this morning not sure why he rang or maybe that should read she rang as Sam now identifies as a female, which disturbs Tim and I am not sure how I feel about it but we will see what happens over time.

Sue called in to see me she was here about 30 minutes, I told her that my plan for individual calendars has changed as I saved close to $30 by getting a package of 5 for $44 including postage.

I am having a better day.

Tasha has decided to get car insurance about bloody time.

SANDY BIRTHDAY SHE IS 46 TODAY

We are in for another hot day and it is voting day, I have already sent my vote in but Tim will need to walk down and vote.

At 10am Jess came over to see if Tim was ready to walk down and vote but he was still in bed, so she walked down with Tasha to vote. Tim walked down to vote and was out of breath by the time he got back.

Tasha bought be a chocolate muffin.

Good morning all, it is Thursday here in my part of the world, here we are at another post about working life in the 1890’s.

After a campaign was run by newspaper proprietor David Syme, in the “Age” a Victorian newspaper. The Victorian government under Alfred Deakin appointed a Shops Commission to report on how the Factory Act was functioning.

The commission found unacceptable conditions in small workshops and in the homework system. This resulted in the 1885 Factories and Shops Act, which provided for compulsory registration and inspection of all factories.

The Act also required the safety fencing of machinery and the provision of proper sanitation and ventilation.

Employment of boys under 12 and girls under 13 was forbidden, shops had to close by 10pm on Saturdays and 7pm on other weekdays. This Act applied to all workplaces where at least 6 people were working but it didn’t prohibit homework.

Improvements in working conditions were also won in the mining industry, a Mines Regulation Act was passed in 1873 and in 1877 Victorian goldminers won an eight-hour day for underground workers. This and other improvements were ratified in amending Mines Act in 1883 and 1886.

In NSW coalminers won inspection for safety as early as 1862 with the Collieries Regulation Act, with subsequent acts amended to the advantage of the workers. Adult workers had a 10 hour work day and workers aged 13 to 18 a 9 hour day, Monday to Friday.

More to come next week

Good morning all here I am doing another post about Aussie slang, so here we go.

Manchester: Household Linen ie: sheets & towels

Middy: 285ml glass of beer in NSW

Matilda: Swagman’s bedding, or sleeping roll

Muster: Rounding up cattle or sheep

Nipper: Young surf lifesaver as in children learning how to be a lifesaver.

Well hello everyone, hope everyone is well and ready to see a naked mole rat, yeah that’s what it is on this creature day.

Looking like a cross between an uncooked sausage and a miniature walrus, the naked mole rat fits into a teacup.

These virtually hairless mammals live in colonies of 20-300 individuals in an area around the size of half a dozen football fields, however, big that is. They rarely leave the safety of their sandy burrows in sub-Saharan Africa.

Like bees and ants the colony is lead by a queen, foot soldiers dig the burrows, collect food and tend to the young but she is the only one allowed to breed.

They eat roots and bulbs but also are known to eat their own poo, they have even been known to chew through concrete. They don’t drink water and their teeth can operate individually with a quarter of the muscle mass being in their jaw.

They have a lifespan of 10-30years

Most people think they are blind and yes their tiny eyes are not much use underground but they can still see a little bit. However, they mostly rely on their senses of hearing, smell and touch more then their sight.

Good morning all, it’s Monday and I am continuing with the posts about Australia today I touching on law enforcement and the first police officers in Australia.

This information will be posted over a few weeks, this is part one.

The New South Wales(NSW)Police Force is one of the largest police organisations in the English speaking world. It began as the first civilian police force in Australia, known as the Night Watch, and was formed by Governor Arthur Phillip in 1789 to guard Sydney Town. It consisted of 12 convicts who were considered to be the most well-behaved in the colony.

In 1862, all Watch Teams were combined under the Police Regulation Act 1862 to form the NSW Police Force. That Act was later replaced by the Police Regulation Act 1899.

In June 1987, the NSW Police Force (which had carriage of operations) and the NSW Police Department (which had carriage of policy and administration) were amalgamated. We operate under the Police Act 1990 and the Police Regulations 2008.

Way back in 1788 when the First Fleet arrived the initial policing of the new colony of NSW was placed in the hands of the Royal Navy Marines. This was not something the Marines wanted to do so Governor Phillip appointed a bloke by the name of John Smith a free settler to the position of Constable, although he didn’t stay in office long but Smith was the first recorded Police Officer in Australia.

In 1789 the Night Watch and the Row Boat Guard were appointed by Governor Phillip drawn from the ranks of the best behaved convicts. In 1790 the Night Watch was replace by the Sydney Foot Police which continued as an organised force until the amalgamation of all NSW colonial police forces in 1862. The Row Boat Guard was both an independent Water Police as well as part of the Sydney Police and was the forerunner of what is today known as the Marine Area Command.

FIRST DAY OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS

Up at 4.55am as per usual I am not one of those people who will comment that it is really an hour earlier, I don’t see the point.

I received 3 letters yesterday when Tasha checked the P O Box one from a pal saying she is no longer able to write and one from someone who said they have written a few time but received no reply which is weird.

Had to restart the computer 3 times this morning and it is still running slow and my book won’t play, it was working but not at the moment which is frustrating.

Tasha got pissed off when I reminded her that her dad would not be paying her CTP this time because she hasn’t been driving her car a lot the last 6 months her friend has been driving it a lot, when she first lent him her car both me and Tim told her that because he was using the car so much we wouldn’t be paying the CTP and she got super pissed and there has been something of a fight and she says she is done with us and she didn’t want the car and blah blah blah. I got upset and cried wanting my mum to talk it over with. I will not be contacting her for a little while and I hope she calms down and understands how things are, she has really over reacted in my opinion.

Had a bad night with upsetting dreams, something to do with my dad being angry about what I don’t know.

Tasha brought down my medications and told me she is done with us I tried talking to her again but everything I said she turned around and made out I was calling her lazy and other stuff I got frustrated and feel even more hurt.

Kathy and the girls came over the girls helped me emptied the bins and Sydney vacuumed out for me. Kathy went to talk to Tasha, I asked how Tasha was and Kathy said she was fine, nothing else just fine.

Tasha came down and gave her dad $15 for fuel for letting her take the car to the gym.

She came back at 3pm with a bag of things she had picked up at the shops for me and to help me get ready for bed, this is when we managed to talk without her going off her brain and by the time she left we had patched things up.

Had a better nights sleep although when Tim came to bed he got straight up again as both the hallway light and the light in his office came on then off again so he got up to investigate, thinking Sam must have come in but no he wasn’t here and all I said was that maybe it was dad

A bloody hot day temps in the 30’s.

Tasha came down at around 8.30ish to ask if I had any idea why she is so tired, she is sleeping well but always tired and has no energy. I said maybe she is low in iron or vitamin B something. She bought some Berocca which she said helped a little, she see the GP on Thursday.

Took a video of myself watching TV I thought I was sitting still and felt happy, when I replayed it I looked stunned and my jaw was moving all the time and at a couple of points it looked like my body was moving, I knew my arms/hands were moving.

Before going to bed last night I had a shower and shaved my own legs but it wasn’t a good job I hope next time I will do better. It is suppose to be not as hot today.

Kathy and the girls arrived around 9am not long after Tasha came down, she took the girls to Glendale to go to Kmart to get some Halloween things.

When they got back the girls wanted to apply make up to Nana’s face and I of course let them do so. Tim said I looked scary.

Turned out to be another hot day and had to turn the air con on around lunch time.

Men came an finished working on the roof, they said it was all done when they left and it shouldn’t leak anymore, we will see.

Back into long pants and so cold part of me feels like turning the heater on but I won’t.

The computer is so slow this morning but I am not getting stressed by it.

Sue came over to see me and we had a nice chat I told her the disagreement we had with Tasha on Sunday and Monday. This is something Sue understands as she has problems with her kids at times. We both had a little cry then changed the topic and had a good laugh over our sense of direction which we both don’t have. Don’t ask me which way is North or South or even East or West because I have no idea.

Another cold morning so still in light weight long pants.

Had a text from my baby brother saying they may be over on Saturday (tomorrow) to see me just because he hasn’t seen me in a while.

At 7.30am the computer started telling me I had no internet again even though I do, which is so frustrating. It was at this time I realised I hadn’t heard from Kathy so I sent her a text, she rang saying she forgot about me but that’s ok she was enjoying her kid free time, her girls are at their other grandparents place, they slept over last night as she has them Thursday and Friday during the school holidays.

Tim had an appointment with his counsellor, he said it went well.

Up a little early 4.50am in for a much cooler day, this morning it isn’t too bad but far from hot.

Another day with a temperamental computer.

Had a text from Sue she isn’t having a good day, very depressed, I sent her a reply that I hope helped how she is feeling.

Dave, Leigh & Liarna came over for a visit they had their new pup with them another border collie this is their 3^rd dog all are border collie’s. It was great seeing them.

A bit later Sandy turned up with Temika, Denni & Skylar but also had Temika’s new boyfriend with them, so a crowded small car.

Sam has been here in his room all day while his mum has been at work.