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Quote of the Day.'The advice of Jonathan Alpert, a Manhattan-based psychotherapist. "If you view travel as an adventure and a challenge -- including the long lines and delays -- then it can be fun," he says. His advice is to build in enough time to experience this adventure -- a cushion of time, "just in case there are delays." Avoid tight schedules and deadlines. After all, you're on vacation.
Comings & Goings
The MI Ts have gone on a road trip to Colorado. The G Family will be back downunder soon. Jarrah Kim arived safely. I'm heading North soon
Happy Birthday: AUGUST
GDAD: 9th. Me:8 on 10th (long story)thanks Bruce
Things I have learnt: I am not great in the cold. Chocolate is lethal for me. Pedicures/Manicures are really essentials! Ditto good haircuts.
was grandparents day at piggy pre-school...(oops I mean Prep ;) ) Here TNG #2 is painting an abstract representation of
'mummy at the dentist'.
It was a wonderful morning with shared activities, we did playdough and puzzles, then a concert of singing and performing
songs with actions, even one we all
joined in.
we ended off with orange juice and cake.
Thanks Miss A for inviting me.
On the way south a visit to the famous Yatla Pie Shop.
The old fashioned ovens are still used, but the modern doors are now around the back. These originals, are behind the counter in the traditional Queenslander building.
then B&B happened along...nice to see smiles in their eyes again. A few
other faces from the past came my way and it was pleasant in
the warmwinter sunshine catching up.
Miss Jazz came for lunch bringing with her chinese vegetarian. The Chinese people are vegetarian for the next month in resect for the tragedy in their country. Though Miss Jazz lost no family of friends, she is feeling this rather deeply and our hearts go out to her, her people and her country.
Good luck to Miss Choi (haha) I mean Miss A in her english exam for PR!.
AND to Miss C for her architectural assignments. Year 3 already. Amazing.
Today around lunch time 'The Chef' and TNG 1, 2 & 4 came to sleep over.
For a treat we had pizza for dinner: the closest to 'Chadstone' Pizza we have had in over 16 years.
TNG 1&2 had fun drawing on the smoothed out wrapping papers used for The Orthopod's move East.
They made an apparently yummy choc slice, with their mum, the Chef. I don't actually know the slice is yummy as apparently I am allergic (or something) to cocoa has I get worst hangovers, I don't know what else to call the response the next day....so no more chokkie for me!!!
The name • The identity is based on one unique name "Festival de Cannes". All other name variants that employ the terms Festival, International, Film and Cannes are obsolete and are to be replaced by "Festival de Cannes".
Bienvenue au Festival de Cannes - un événement important pour tous qui apprécient l'art du cinéma.
Welcome to the Festival de Cannes - an important event for all who appreciate the art of film.
My heart goes out to China and it's people as they take 3 days for the Official Mourning of their heartbreaking loss. Especially to Miss Jazz and all her friends, who are so far away, but feel the sorrow just as keenly.
Ok, so this isn't the freeway near me, (but neither is the baby below mine, or me, nor is the boy J; so I guess it's representations tonight.) However the freeway near me was bought to a standstill after an accident which involved loss of life. It seems to happen every few days. Very sad.
I'm having a chat with a grief counselor tomorrow to see if I can unfreeze my memory.... or get it back from where ever it went when mum died. Long term seems ok...but I have a long list of things I can't find...now where is that list?
This could be the 12 year old boy that fixed our STB for me - it's not but I forgot to take a picture! Well done J. We sure appreciate you.
I have added several Blogs to the Blog roll list over on the right. Now I find many of them don't work, but frankly I am worn out and nearly asleep - therefor the adjustments will be made tomorrow.
Click on the movie title above to see the just released AUSTRALIA movie trailer.
The romantic action-adventure is set in northern Australia prior to World War II, about an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits an outback property the size of Belgium.
When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces.
"The trailer presents all the elements of a truly epic movie, in the hands of one of the world's most visionary directors and two of the world's biggest movie stars," said Marcos Oliveira, managing director of 20th Century Fox Australia
"It's a sweeping romance that is set in a far away time - it's far away now - which was just before the war," said director Baz Luhrmann of his new movie 'AUSTRALIA'
"The sweep and the breadth of the story means that there's a sweep and breadth of the emotions. It's not naturalism, and it's not a documentary. The world in which we've set the story is factual, but I've taken those facts and I've made a world that is full of emotion. It's about the size and scale of the story telling."
Australia is, without doubt, the most expensive and highly anticipated local film in history. This is going to be on a scale never seen before...
(Daylight come and he wan' go home) Stack banana till morning come (Daylight come and he wan' go home) Come, Mr. Tally Mon, tally me banana (Daylight come and he wan' go home) Come, Mr. Tally Mon, tally me banana (Daylight come and he wan' go home) It's six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH! (Daylight come and he wan' go home) Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH! (Daylight come and he wan' go home)
I don't know where you buy your sausages, however, we found a local butcher...just a friendly little shop...
perhaps a cut above the others, one might say? (ha ha)
...and if one must wait for the exactness of one's order to be completed, then one waits in style, and comfort.That's a huge flat screen TV on the wall on the right.We found this place by fluke on the weekend.
Honestly, it really is a butcher shop. By the time we marveled at everything, the place was quite full of customers.
This weeks choice, yes late again, but well worth the wait.... is a great site I found for those us needing some some help with how to do all kinds of things on our blogs.
The next lesson I am going to refer to is how to put in my own banner across the top of my blog.
I did the test and sure enough; then I read the top 10 tips and so I got down onthe floor and did the yoga stretches I was taught last year.
I did some other exercises I know are good for me, yet remain safe, from a cardiac point of view.
Then I stood up (slowly)and raised my hand up above my head.I stretched up as high as I could, then lowered my shoulders and my hands running them down the outside of my legs as I bent forward and downward, and YES!!!
I could easily touch the floor, and hold the position to stretch out my calf muscles. I feel better, less jumpy already.
Today was the day I decided to recommence my exercise program and an unexpected benefit is my legs have stopped 'jumping'.
Italian marble floors are great, however carpet invites exercise.
The Military Leaders in Burma are apparently prepared, at last, to take the aid offered. However, they will not the allow the International aid workers in to the country. Which begs the question why not?
Thousands of people. including many school aged children are feared dead in this natural disaster in China.
And yes, there is a major war going on, in case we had forgotten - with daily loss of life...
Inspite of all these events, plus the horror of the kidnapped daughter in Austria, Madeline still being missing, etc etc
this week is International Cocktail week~
words fail me. I'm not even giving you a link on the subject.
In Brisbane area there is a long, slightly rural road called Miles Platting. I always thought this was a person's name and I wondered for years about 'him'.
Now I find a street named John Grey and have designated him a mate of Miles Platting. I have no idea why I have never researched Miles Platting but I haven't.
Tonight it came up in conversation so I Googled the name. I am familiar with the road, but was surprised how many business and residences are in fact on it.
This is what I found:
Miles Platting Districts & Suburbs of Manchester
MILES PLATTING Miles Platting was incorporated into the City of Manchester in 1838. The origin of the name is unclear as there are no early records of the district at all. The derivation of the word "Platt" however is from an old word meaning "a small piece of ground" and and "miles" is probably a corruption of the word "mills". Arguably, therefore, the placename might stand for "mills on a small piece of ground", but this is purely speculative. The District of Miles Platting came into being as a separate entity from neighbouring Clayton, Ancoats and Newton Heath during the Industrial Revolution and first seems to have appeared on maps in the 1820s.
Miles Platting did indeed have many mills - Holland Mills, Victoria Mills and Ducie Mills being the most prominent. By the 1870s it also had a chemical works, timber yard, gas works and a tannery. Certainly the black grimness of the local landscape was its most notable feature. Its population was very large for the geographical size of the district and densely packed back-to-back houses were common. Railways tended to dominate the visual landscape of the district as the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway made its way out of Manchester Victoria Railway Station to Leeds and York. This main line and the innumerable sidings that accompanied it have been considerably reduced over recent years, and the local railway station has been closed and demolished for several years now.
Contemporary Miles Platting is part of the East Manchester Regeneration Scheme and is undergoing extensive redevelopment and the removal of some of the last vestiges of the Industrial Revolution. New light industry premises are being made available and substantial incentives to encourage new business into the area. The area around Oldham Road, particularly, is undergoing extensive transformation as the old buildings disappear and new ones take their place.
I really was quite surprised. So much for the personal history and story I had imagined for this 'man'.
Just goes to show things are not always as they seem.
I heard a review of this book tonight - it sounded great. Interestingly I had selected from the Library on Saturday, an older version of such places, but just in Italy.
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International Cocktail week~
