Good morning all, you may have noticed I did no post yesterday this is because I felt like shit yesterday and I still feel pretty much the same way. Also yesterday my computer was running slow the internet was dropping out and all in all giving me the shits. I did very little yesterday and today looks to be the same. Although today the computer hasn’t given me any trouble at all.

I was suppose to go to the doctors this morning but cancelled due to feeling like shit and the weather and will now go next Wednesday.

Tasha has asked to borrow the car and she is a right mood as she has asked for her car to be returned to her and the guy who has it hasn’t replied so she is really pissed. Tim will properly be pissed when he finds out I let her have our car. We, however, are not going out today.

That’s all I have today as my mind isn’t firing on all cylinders.

Hello world here we are at another Wednesday a day f or some Aussie Slang.

Piece of piss: Easy as or an easy task

Pav: Pavolova a rich creamy dessert with meringue and maybe fruit

Op Shop: Second hand store

Lucky Country: Australia (of course)

To have a lend of someone: To take advantage of someone’s gullibility

Another week another creature this one is the Mary River Turtle, it can be found around the Mary River ins South-east Queensland. It is an endangered short-necked turtle around 50cm in length the females are smaller and is on of Australia’s largest, however, it is not its size that makes it interesting it is that it uses it enormously long tail to breath. Yeah you read that right, it breathes through its tail, well its back passage which is why it can be called the bum-breathing turtle.

It also has exceptionally long whisker like “barbels” on its chin, inside which are its taste buds which help it feel out food.

It takes an exceptionally long time to reach maturity, the projected age at maturity is around 25 years for females and 30 years for males.

Although these turtles were known to inhabit the Mary River for nearly 30 years, it was not until 1994 that they were recognised as a new species.

In turtles like other reptiles the back passage is how they get rid of urine and faeces as well as being were their eggs pass through.

The first death of a member of the new Police Force occurred when Constable William Havilland was accidentally shot at Orange whilst returning from Eugowra Rocks, where he had been guarding the gold escort which had earlier been bailed up by bushrangers.

In 1867 Special Constables John Carroll, Patrick Kennagh, Eneas McDonnell and John Phegan were secretly sworn in as part of a covert operation to capture bushrangers who had shot and killed Constable Miles O’Grady at Nerrigundah in 1866. The four Special Constables were ambushed at night at Jinden (near Braidwood) and killed.

Their deaths represent the largest loss of Police lives in a single incident of this type in Australia. Later that year, the Campbell Commission of Inquiry into the State of Crime in the Braidwood District was established. This was the first Royal Commission type inquiry into the NSW Police.

Forgot to mention that yesterday morning I spent ages getting quotes for comprehensive insurance for Tasha’s car she has at last decided to get it. The prices ranged from $1,163.82 to $5,225.83.

The internet is being difficult. By 11ish I was able to do the food shop as the internet came good.

A bad time this afternoon with the shaking.

Tim found a pair of headphones that I tried out they are ok.

This would be dad’s 81^st birthday, he is missed so much by so many.

Also my great niece Isabal’s birthday.

Sam turned up at 7.30am just after I rang saying we had 30 minuted before it would be time to leave. Of course the driver didn’t turn up till 8.12am.

Tim went to the Dr’s and then out to work to hand in my paperwork. I had hoped to go out to the Dr’s with him so I could look for new shoes but he said tomorrow would be a better day as he wasn’t coming straight home, so I said ok.

At 2pm I was just about to say it was time to go meet Sam, when I noticed his driver out the front he was 10 minutes earlier then expected.

It has turned out to be a hot day.

A much cooler start to the day back in long pants at least for a few hours.

Rang Sam at 7am only to be told that Sam isn’t going to school due to having a Dr’s appointment.

Shopping came missing 5 items all out of stock, Tasha will look at our local Coles. These were items that have do not substitute ticked.

Been raining on and off all morning.

Didn’t go shopping as Tim is having a bad day.

In for another cool day but hopefully no rain. I asked Sam if they liked the new driver they are not keen on the guy at this stage.

I have had a good day better then the last couple that’s for sure.

Tim went and had an Xray or CT Scan done I don’t remember which he also has to have another ultrasound done, he didn’t read the form right when he booked the appointment.

A new day and a not so cold start to the day I have the back sliding door open due to sweating. Not a good day weather wise could be worse but not the type of weather I feel like going out in.

My back is giving me the shits, I can’t sit anywhere without pain.

Tim has spent some time out the back clearing weeds from the yard he could only work for half an hour before needing a rest but that’s ok he is getting there. He has been trying to get a quote from someone to do the backyard through Youi(CTP).

Friday again this last week has gone fast. I am in my lightweight long pants even though Tasha was sure I would be fine in shorts, she was wrong.

Tim had his rehab appointment changed he did tell me why but I don’t remember. He also had an appointment for the ultrasound on his shoulder or neck I don’t remember which. Yeah I know I bitch when he doesn’t listen but I can be just as bad.

I am looking forward to going over to Kathy’s tomorrow for a BBQ along with Tasha.

Another good night, Tim didn’t go to bed till just before I got up. I guess he slept on the lounge while watching TV.

Kathy cancelled lunch as Michael is in a bad place due to his father being so bad and pretty much on his last legs. Cancelling upset me as I was really looking forward to it. Kathy said we will do it at a later date.

I was hoping to get a family photo of Kathy’s family so I can use it for a Christmas present I have planned for them.

Well here we are at another Friday, this week I am doing another post about my thoughts and what are my thoughts you ask, well I doubt you have asked but here they are anyway.

As any who have read my blog of recent know that my computer is giving me the shits most days due to it freezing or running slow my eldest daughter keeps telling me to reformat she may be right but I don’t want to. I can’t give a reason why I don’t wish to do that I just don’t.

I have many things I want to do over the next few days most of which involves me sitting here at the computer ordering things as Christmas presents.

I have a dozen letters to answer which I hope to get started on this weekend.

I am managing to vacuum without too much pain and it is me who packs and unpacks the dishwasher, I do feel annoyed when Tim hand washes his dishes partly because often when I go to put the dry dishes away they are greasy and not clean enough for my liking. It is also a waste of water.

I am also wondering why I have to rely on others to go anywhere, I miss the days when I could get dressed and go shopping as soon as I had seen Sam off. Tim says he will take me but it doesn’t happen and if it does it will be later in the morning then I like. I had hoped to go out last Monday but didn’t happen and now my knee is causing problems and if I was to go out now I would want to take the scooter or a wheelchair. I know I use to hire a scooter from the shopping centre but not keen on that now that I have my own smaller scooter. I will be talking to Tim about this and see if we can arrange a time to take me shopping. I will not be holding my breath waiting for it to happen.

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.