Well ok this one *isn’t* quite as horizontal as the one we saw was, but it’s damn close!!
This one was supplied by a friend in the AO forum. It was taken up on the Gold Coast… the lights are on the highway. Ours was also far lower on the horizon and so appeared far bigger to us.
As soon as I see the thing again I’ll post a picture but it’s still good to know I wasn’t going crackers!! 
We’ve just been informed by the weather bureau that NSW could be hit with up to 100 severe storms this summer… each with devastating force. Bit of a worry this.
We’ve seen some really heavy storms hereabouts before of course some with driving hailstones as large as tennis balls and they really aren’t anything to look forward to. The forecasters are usually pretty accurate here… well lets face it it’s usually just ‘hot’… but this is one time I really hope they have it badly wrong.
The storm season officially runs from October 1 to March 31, but the worst of them seem to arrive here in late October early November …. so if I go quiet in a few weeks… well you’ll know what’s happened 
The *last* time we had a storm here several houses got flooded… the place opposite had the front room ruined in a deluge that collapsed their ceiling… loads of fun… not.
He’s a nice guy… but has the tendency to rabbit a bit. Today I dropped in at 12:00 right on time for my appointment. By the time he finally got round to see me and I’d got away with the script clutched in my sweaty little palm… it was 1:20 p.m.
He did much the same last week. It would almost be more sensible for us to travel the 45 mins journey to see our old doctor and back come back. He’s also a nice guy but is far more business like. You walk in, tell him what’s wrong; he asks a few questions and you’re off again
I like it that way.
Looks like my mother and father won’t be arriving this year after all. We’ve got kinda used to them coming over for Xmas and then staying most of the next six months, but it looks like last year *was* the last year.
My father is getting concerned about both my mothers and his physical condition (both in their mid-eighties after all) and the steady deterioration of my mothers mental condition is also a real concern.
Added to that, I think my father is preparing to move into smaller, easier to handle accommodation so will be preparing his own house for sale. It’ll be sad to lose the family home, but none of us kids could afford to take it on and so he may as well realise the assets and make he and my mother more comfortable over the ensuing years.
So to get the house ready he really needs to be there to sort out papers, make sure essential renovation is done properly and to clear out junk to make the place look ‘spacious’ and presentable. He won’t be able to do all that from here so… 
Oddly enough it makes me feel even more ‘cut off’ than usual! The eldest UK daughter is still intending to come over… in fact to marry here… but it would be so much better with the oldies here.
C’est la vie. I suppose we’ll manage.
At age 84 the man who was possibly *the* best known mime artist around the world has finally died.
Marcel lost his father to the invading German forces in WWII and joined first the resistance and then the Free French Army. It wasn’t until 1946 that he finally began to study acting and mime but by 1947 he had already created his famous character ‘Bip’ which would stay with thru his career.
He was a great character but has passed the baton to many others who seek to emulate him and his skills… strangely however, I can’t think of any of their names! When I think of mime… I think of Marcel Marceau!
In an attempt to get the RSS feed working with minimal effort… I changed the theme to see if this will do it all for me automatically
Will check in Bloglines and see if it appears… the last theme/update seemed to kill it.
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And back again… didn’t work and I didn’t like the theme. So until I figure out what Feedburner isn’t functioning properly… this is how it stays.
Reading in the papers this morning about some supposed lesbian antics going on between those whiter than white soap opera sisters Marcia and Jan Brady, (Maureen McCormick and Eve Plumb). Well the story is a non-event since who really cares whether it’s true or not.
What got me laughing was that the report shows this picture to remind us all who the Brady Bunch were. They reported that the girl top left was ‘Marcia’ and the girl next row down was ‘Jan’. Well in that they’re correct. Trouble is the picture they used was from the 1995 movie and the girl who played Marcia was Christine Taylor, with Jennifer Cox playing Jan.
The *original* TV Bunch are shown here. You might see there is a slight difference between the two girls!!
I wonder if they’ll bother changing the pic when they realise? Find out here.
EDIT:
Yup… looks like they finally woke up and changed the picture. Was like it most of the weekend tho!!
No idea what happened to yesterday. Maybe I’ve just been spending so long at the gym that I’m losing all sense of time… ok losing all sense.
I *did* manage to get out and buy a few pressies for the youngest who’s birthday is in a few days. And I also managed to get fillers for the lolly bags that are a feature of every part here. We have boys coming… oooohhhh…. !!! Trouble is we don’t know how many. In fact we don’t really know how many will be there in total anyway.
The little one took out 20 invitations, but we neglected to make a list of who’d responded… so we really haven’t a clue! Hopeless really
The party itself will be at the Sydney Ice Rink which is now the youngest’s second home… she all bar lives on the ice! They are going to take care of all the party food, the entertainment and the clearing up. We just have to ‘socialise’ with the parents who stay to watch, chat or take part. I say ‘we’ in the loosest sense. If I can manage it I’ll be scuttling off back upstairs to the gym (it overlooks the rink) and hiding until it’s all over
Went to the docs today because of my arthritis, but more especially my bronchitis. Of course, he gave me anti-inflammatories, antibiotics, and a puffer. Might not sound so bad but of course there’s all the *other* stuff I knock back as well!
I have 2 calcium tablets, just in case. The mother has osteoporosis so I’m taking ‘just in case’. The wife also ought to take calcium, not just because he sisters have osteoporosis, but because she has had her thyroid removed and the parathyroid glands that are in close proximity to the thyroid control bone density amongst other things. Did they remove them when she had the op? We don’t know… but will have to ask. In the meantime she refuses to accept there may be an issue and is ignoring the odds – bizarre behaviour for an actuary, but there ya go!!
So… moving on…
Per day I take the following
2 calcium+ tablets (they also have Vit D3 and K1 whatever they are)
1 D3 (to potentiate the calcium)
1 ‘sugar balance’ mainly chromium, magnesium and zinc (because of the diet)
1 modafinil (to keep me awake…)
I glucosamine 1500 (for joint repair)
1 50+ multi-vitamin
12 fish oil capsules
1 moxicam (for the arthritis)
1 curam an antibiotic
… and the seretide puffer.
One of the worrying things about this is that apart from the cough caused by the bronchitis, some pain in my right hip, knee, calf and heel from the walking, and a blister (also on the right foot) I actually feel pretty good!!
It just makes me wonder just what would I be taking if I was ill??
The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’!
Makes you think!
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