Well here we are at the last of the doggy on the box post……

In 1981 on the night of the 22nd-23^rd of October students from the Canberra College of Advanced Education stole the dog and this aroused nationwide attention.

The dog was recovered on the college campus unharmed. It had apparently been stolen as part of a “stone day” scavenger hunt, a yearly pranksters day to mark the laying of the College foundation stone.

The dog is now more securely bolted to his base.

The fiftieth anniversary of The Dog was celebrated on the 28^th November 1982, with the unveiling of a plague by Sir James Rowland the then Governor of New South Wales. Also a record by the Howie Brothers featuring their new song “He’s been there for fifty years”.

That concludes this series……………

Good morning, how are we all doing? Me, well I am still suffering with arthritic pain in both my knees. The pain is so bad I just want to cry.

Anyway here are this weeks facts…………….

During the 1760’s many parents would plunge their children into ice-cold water each morning, they thought this would help ward off colds and other diseases.

In Australia there was a mistakenly named East Alligator River up in the Northern Territory, it doesn’t have alligators in it, it has crocodiles.

Hawaii is home to the world’s largest active volcano, Maura Loa, which is 120km long and 4,170 metres high. Most of it underwater.

An elephant trunk has no bones but 40,000 muscles.

The average raindrop falls at seven miles per hour.

Had a decent nights sleep, was awake and up at 5.30am.

Tim & Leo went over to Kathy’s and picked up the desk for Leo’s room and outdoor set for out the front.

Ed’s birthday sent him a text.

Leo is happy with his room.

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August has arrived, I woke up in a mood couldn’t get the front screen door open because I thought it was locked but it wasn’t. I got Tim out of bed for nothing.

Saw Kelli and kids when she brought Blain home. She helped Tasha do the medications.

Tasha called the after hours Dr to Jess as she was really sick, turns out she has tonsillitis. Leo slept here last night and has been here all day.

1-8-21

A new day, has started yet again as it does each day, when I wake each morning I am thankful that I have woken.

Another warm day, Tim back at work after his week off.

2-8-21

I woke at 4.45 needing to pee, after that I couldn’t settle so been up since 5am.

The Census information arrived for me to do it online between now and the 10^th. Tim has a problem with the census, always had and I don’t understand what his problem is.

He also has a problem with QR codes which I don’t get.

Just walked to the bathroom without my walker which meant I was walking/shuffling fast when I got to the bathroom something happened, it felt like a foot got stuck and didn’t move causing me to stumble forward hitting the bathroom sink hurting my left arm somehow. I also broke a glass that was sitting on the table under the sink.

I was distressed crying mostly from fright more then pain.

3-8-21

Awake and up at 5am, after yesterday’s stumble both Tasha & I forgot about applying cream to my knees for the arthritis, this resulted in knee pain this morning.

I decided to refill my body lotiion jar but even though I checked thr bottle, I poured body wash into the jar. So I had to transfer it to a different container as pouring back into the bottle it came out of would be too hard.

I then had to wash out the body lotion jar, before I could use it.

4-8-21

Another early start up at 5.40am, Kathy rang at 7am to let me know she had been contacted by Hunter Health as she was shopping a store that is now a Covid 19 spot. They have to all be tested and self isolate for 7 days or till they get 2 negative tests.

Newcastle and Lake Macquarie are now in lockdows well from 5pm we will be.

Leo & Blain’s schools are going to online learning.

Someone came to fix the screen doors locks, the front one was easy, the back not. In fact he had to get someone else to come as he couldn’t get the old lock out. The new guy will arrive after I go lay down, so Tasha will deal with him.

5-8-21

Awake and up at 5.50am, had a hot shower before getting dressed.

Both screen doors are now fixed.

Leo slept till midday, so no school work for him today, same for Blain. Although Blain needs a laptop from the school if he is to do work online, as they do not have a computer at this stage. Leo also brought a laptop home from school so he can log in each day. Although Leo doesn’t do work online he will have paperwork that Jess will pick up on Monday.

Neither boy handles online working, they get confused and frustrated easy.

Tasha went to get my scrips and our chemist was closed for deep cleaning. They had an infected person in the store during the week. She had to ring and pay for the scripts and arrange for them to be delivered.

6-8-21

Awake and up at 5.15 took me ages to get dressed and ready for the day.

Kathy rang just to check in, while on the phone to Kathy, Sandra rang to let me know ,that at last GE has wiped Mum’s debt to them.

Leo here all day while Jess goes for her white card.

7-8-21

Hi everyone, as of 5pm yesterday my local council is in lockdown so is Newcastle council, I live in Lake Macquarie Council area.

Anyway here is this Friday’s baby say post……….

Babies say love

when they reach for you face

and give it a warm

gooey pat

The Swing

By Robert Louis Stevenson More Robert Louis Stevenson

How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
River and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside–

Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown–
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!

Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/the-swing-by-robert-louis-stevenson

Hi all, here we are at another Tuesday and here is the second last post about a dogie on a tucker box……..

Here is the “original poem”……………..

As I was coming down Conroy’s Gap

I heard a maiden cry

There goes Bill the bullocky,

He’s bound for Gundagai

A better poor old…………

Never earnt an honest crust,

A better poor old…………

Never drug a whip through dust.

His team got bogged at the Five Mile Creek,

Bill lashed and swore and cried.

If Nobby don’t get me out of this,

I’ll tattoo his………hide.

But Nobby strained and broke the yoke,

And poked out the leader’s eye,

Then the dog sat on the tucker box,

Five Miles from Gundagai

Hello everyone, hello world, hello life, hello complete strangers who stumbled a pond this post and think what the hell is this.

It is Monday so here are some facts.

Dissolved salt makes up 3.5 per cent of the ocean

Despite a population of over a billion China has only about 200 family names

The Geysir (gusher) near Mount Hekia in south central Iceland, after which all other geysers are named, shoots hot water up to 180 feet in the air.

In 1782 a post office, I don’t know which postal service but someones published a leaflet saying people should chop in half banknotes before sending them, if the two halves are sent at different times a highwayman wouldn’t be able to steal it.

Dinosaurs droppings are called coprolites

Saturday at last slept in till 6.30am although I did get to pee at 4.20am.

Kathy arrived at 8.15 to shower me, she didn’t look go as in she looked like she had a cold. She said she did have a cold.

Another cold start but warmish day.

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Slept well till 11.30 when I was awoken by banging at first I thought it was the wind, as there has been a lot of strong wind. But I realised it was inside so asked Tim to check it out by say “Tim what’s that” turned out to be Leo. When I asked what he was doing all Tim said was making noise.

I then woke every hour till I got up at 6am.

Michael’s birthday today sent him a text.

25-7-21

Had a good enough sleep, I must had fallen asleep while the book was playing. Suddenly the book was over so I will check it later.

Checked the book there is 44 tracks and I must have dozed off around track 39.

Tim off work this week, he had to take the car somewhere to get something fixed. Jess went and picked him up and will take him back when car is ready.

26-7-21

Awake and up at 5.40am washed and ready for the day. Going to be a warm day.

Tim took car for rego check it passed.

Tim also cleaned out Leo’s room, getting rid of the bed, drawers and such. We have our mid year curb side bulk waste collection.

There is more to do but he said he will do it tomorrow, ready seen the council picking up the stuff in near by streets so I think tomorrow will be too late.

27-7-21

Awake and up at 5.50, had a shower, now dressed for the day.

Tim left it too late to take the rest of the stuff up the front, it was collected by 7am.

Leo was dawdling and his driver arrived and had to wait 8 minutes, if I hadn’t been there he would had left after 2 minutes as he is only required to wait 2 minutes.

Tim went to Kathy’s and picked up futon and a chest of drawers for Leo’s room.

28-7-21

Up washed and dressed by 6am for another day.

Tim has set the futon up in Leo’s room along with the chest of drawers.

The new ink arrived but now the damn printer will not let me change the damn ink.

29-7-21

Woke at 6.15 when my alarm went off, that’s the latest I have slept in ages.

Leo said he liked the new bed.

Tim went to the post office for me and posted the 10 letters I had ready to post. I know only have 6 left to answer.

Sandy rang this afternoon and we had a great chat.

30-7-21

And The World Carries On

© Amy O Connor More By Amy O Connor

Published: August 27, 2020

The plates will still shift
and the clouds will still spew.
The sun will slowly rise
and the moon will follow too.

Life’s beauty will continue
to flourish all around,
but now you are gone,
these birds have no sound.

And my heart does not beat.
It is still inside my chest.
My tears keep on falling
and my head will not rest.

But I have no choice only
to move through this life.
Endlessly attempting
to fill this longing that is rife.

ABOUT THE POET:

Amy O Connor was born in Tipperary, Ireland. She spent much of her early twenties travelling the world to experience different cultures and has lived in both Barcelona, Spain and Toronto, Canada. Amy always had an innate passion for the pen and in 2019, she published her debut anthology, A Beautiful Complexity. She studied journalism at the University of Limerick and now works in communications and resides in Cork, Ireland.

Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/and-the-world-carries-on