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.

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.