tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24590592517169593072024-03-06T14:06:49.411+11:00Palais de Steff"Palais de Steff" has arrived and is a work in progress.
So come on in...grab a cocktail... or the nearest available houseboy and make yourself at home...feel free to wander about or just plonk yourself down and stay a while...
Princess says "Hello and Welcome"!...Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021504621181130629noreply@blogger.comBlogger685125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459059251716959307.post-22487379940284731892017-10-05T03:19:00.000+11:002017-10-05T03:19:01.965+11:00It's Spring Again and I'll Sing Again.....<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my goodness... doesn't time fly... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Especially when one is up to ones pits in bark and sawdust...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">I'd have been tip toing through the tulips but sadly I didn't get around to planting any... never mind... perhaps an adventure to some of the local parks might just be the ticket to view the councils effort with tulips this year...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">now where was I?... Oh that's right... up to my pits in bark and saw dust<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been busy in the garden trying to get it back to resembling some form of its former glory...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No mean feat I might add considering the amounts of bark and sawdust laying about after having the huge gumtree removed from the back corner of the yard.... not to mention the piles and piles of wood stacked haphazardly about the nooks and crannies making it difficult to actually get into some of the areas needing to be worked.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana";">so it has been a somewhat adventurous task particularly when the trusty old trailer that I take all the clippings and detritus to the tip with... decided to go on strike! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Yes!... That's right!.... After 25 years of neglect it decided that not only would one of it's tires develop an irreparable split in it's side wall but the other, decided to go out in sympathy with it by developing a slow leak... how rude I thought.... After all I haven't done for you over the years and this is how you repay me!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana";">2 new tyres later and I could finally get back to work... or so I THOUGHT...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana";">I filled the trailer with rubbish and tied it all down ready for a run to the tip the next morning.... well that was the plan. on making a final check before going out the driveway I discovered that one of the brand new tires was totally flat! not only that but the tyre had pulled away from the rim making it impossible to tow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana";">I contacted the tyre mob who eventually realized my predicament after several phonecalls of to-ing and fro-ing... you know like initially saying to "bring the trailer in and they </span><span style="font-family: "verdana";">would take a look at it mate"... Then " well... bring the wheel in and we'll fix it" and finally " oh... so the trailers full... and you don't have the right tools to remove the wheel to bring it in to us" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana";">eventually they sent out the manager who within the space of 20 minutes removed the offending wheel took it back to the store to be fixed and returned and put it back on the trailer... All for no fee!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">and even Bigger wood...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm feeling good again and my energy levels keep getting better as well...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">The Empress gets out and potters about in the garden with me but it is spasmodic as her blood pressure still causes problems and she ends up spending the day in bed or on her favourite recliner chair when it drops to low and she starts getting the giddies on me... It doesn't stop her from coming up with multiple suggestions for plantings in the garden, maintenance that needs to be done around the yard or new things that need to be built or fixed... the trouble is... there is only one of me and her list of ideas keeps getting longer... when she is up to working she tends to push herself all day despite my pleas for her to take a break. subsequently she is exhausted for the next day or so....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Anyway darlings I'm looking forward to catching up with all your gardening efforts over at MJ's annual event... </span></div>
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Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021504621181130629noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459059251716959307.post-74276933593965394972017-09-13T11:16:00.000+10:002017-09-13T11:16:20.098+10:00Ahhhhh.... That feels better... or Prinny Prinny where have you been?<div style="text-align: center;">
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I'm Finally home again... it has been quite some time since we last spoke hasn't it darlings </div>
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and so much has happened... well not so much... but as much as can happen when leading such an extraordinarily exciting lifestyle... er... I mean... the quiet and secluded life of a proverbial hermit.</div>
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July continued to be cold and very wintery... </div>
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Not much happening in the garden or elsewhere for that matter, apart from having the big old gum tree in the back yard cut down as it was starting to die back and drop limbs becoming a safety hazard.</div>
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In August we had a 2 week visit to Western Australia to catch up with family and attend a Nephews wedding.<br />
It was lovely to catch up with family and friends and to meet new members of the family... Notably 3 great nieces... and the Empress (more commonly known as Gran Nan) delighted in spoiling them royally.<br />
Staying with sister and her husband was enjoyable and it was great to spend time with brother in law who has had a difficult year battling bowel cancer. Diagnosed 12 months ago and following treatments of radiotherapy and chemotherapy and several surgeries he has been given the "all clear" almost 12 months to the day.<br />
Spending time with the Nephew, his new wife and their 2 little girls was really special, on meeting Miss 4 for the first time she announced..."I know you, you're the lady and man I talk to on daddy's computer"... She and little sister 2yo made the cutest flower girls as they held hands carefully walking down the aisle carrying a basket of rose petals each. They were so busy concerntrating on walking nicely that in the process forgot to throw the petals.<br />
The look on their faces when they realised they had forgotten to throw the petals was priceless... but then Miss 2 on realising the mistake promptly announced 'Oh No!' and tipped the basket of petals out into a pile on the floor... saying "That's better"<br />
The day was delightful and we both felt very privelidged to be able to share the day with them.<br />
On another day we were able to visit the zoo with the children and the next day travelled to spend the day with the family before they departed on holiday/honeymoon.<br />
It was great to see the home where they live an be given a personalised tour and demonstration by the girls of their local playground and parkland... including a walk through the bushland to see all the "pretty flowers"..<br />
We spent a very quiet second week relaxing and visiting a few of the local haunts, fish and chips on the beach, a picnic in the park and the odd ale and a meal at a variety of local pubs.<br />
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We did have a lovely time but it was nice to come home again.<br />
The weather is starting to get warmer now and gardening is back on the agenda once again.<br />
The backyard is full of piles of wood resulting from the lopping down of the tree. Some of the logs are very large and will need two or three people o help to move them. Brother has a combustion heater in his home and has 'first dibs" on the wood. Other neighbours and friends have also made enquiries. So eventually I might be able get the garden back into shape without having to climb over mountains of logs.<br />
Health wise we are both feeling refreshed and getting back into the swing of things again.<br />
It is a good feeling and I'm finally feeling re energised and ready to get back into life.<br />
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Still haven't worked out how to post pictures yet but now feeling well enough to tackle this new technology.<br />
Till next we speak Darlings...<br />
Bottoms Up!</div>
Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021504621181130629noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459059251716959307.post-3534451754137328352017-07-19T15:34:00.001+10:002017-07-19T15:34:43.877+10:00I'm Not Dead, But Some Days it just feels like it...<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello Dhaarlings...</div>
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It has been a long time since we last spoke...and I know you must have all been terribly worried about where prinny had pfaffed off to... without even a hint of her whereabouts...</div>
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Turn off the alarms and stand the search parties down... I'm here darlings... sitting in my recliner in front of the heater doing very little else but read, watch telly and visits to the doctor for either the Empress or myself.</div>
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It has been a cold and shitty winter. Both of us have been plagued by recurrent chest infections and I'm still struggling with Chronic Fatigue.</div>
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The Empresses hip is giving her some recurrent pain and slows her down when she'd really like to be going full pelt. The weather has curtailed our gardening exploits even when I have been feeling up to gettin down and dirty in the weed patch. Needless to say, the yard is looking quite neglected and forlorn... I'd show you a picture but I still haven't worked out how to download one from the new camera to this new computer gadget thingy... </div>
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I call it deliberate product frustration...</div>
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I do miss the old mouse. All this tap and slide stuff does my head in...</div>
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Anyway darlings I must away... Miss Daisy has summoned her driver... I believe we are off to the chemist to replenish the drug supply...</div>
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BOttoms up Darlings...</div>
Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021504621181130629noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459059251716959307.post-795543976069286622017-04-26T11:36:00.000+10:002017-04-26T11:36:32.455+10:00Dhaaarlings.... I'm Home!...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Finally I'm back on air... It's been a long wait I know and I'm very grateful for your patience... but it has not been without it's traumas darlings let me tell you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Firstly... the old dinosaur of a computer I had gave up the ghost... not voluntarily but because the parent company in their wisdom decided to cease support to the platform i'd been happily plodding along with for years... Which effectively meant that it no longer recognized the internet connection that had been working perfectly well up to that point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I then has to wait to replace the computer with a new one, albeit second hand reco notebook... which took some time to procure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My telco then issued me with a new modum which i'd just managed to set up the week before Easter and while I was still trying to come to terms with driving the new notebook then sent another, different modum for the new faster broadband system and in the process decided to switch off the old internet system and sign us up to a new faster system. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Sadly they decided to do this over the Easter break which meant that all internet connectivity was down including our land line telephones that needed to be switched to the new system remotely. I had to ring the company to arrange this and get talked through the process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">finally all things seem to be up and running again and so I can finally start posting... hopefully a little more frequently than I have been...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Now all I have to do is to work out how to save pictures to the new contraption and then I'll be set!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Till next time darlings...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Bottoms up!</span></div>
Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021504621181130629noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459059251716959307.post-12462808583345396092017-02-14T10:51:00.000+11:002017-02-14T10:51:15.909+11:00Do My Eyes Deceive Me?...<div style="text-align: center;">
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My poor sad old computer is slowly grinding a long and protracted march toward an inevitable and long awaited death. A week ago it started to do very strange things like get slower and slower to load and programs that I have used for ages suddenly crashing...<br />
So it was time to start looking for a new apparatus.<br />
Now the old darling will not recognise the new modem and so I can't even get on line to acces the help desk!<br />
The Empress has been wanting to upgrade her mobile phone for some time now so off we went. I have never had a mobile device! I know! Reading this news you've probably gone into shock...<br />
But I'm just an old fashioned girl darlings...<br />
Anyway... After speaking to the lovely young shop assistant...We now have three mobile devices a smartphone each plus the inclusion of an iPad Mini which explains why I have just been for another check with the optometrist.<br />
Yes...Prinny needs stronger glasses for reading and now driving as well...<br />
It was already bad enough trying to read and write using the old computer but on these new contraptions I'm thoroughly stuffed...<br />
Everything is so small and I have big clunky fingers to stuff up texting in an exemplary manner<br />
That's even without trying to locate the correct icon in the first place.<br />
The trouble with all these smart gadgets is that they are smarter than the person attempting to use them and then when yo do finally find what it is you are looking for it starts<br />
interrupting you with silly questions or sliding things over the screen that you didn't want and now don't know how to get rid of.<br />
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Bugger technology darlings...<br />
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It has taken me over a week to write this with my grandson ? Fuck predictive text. What I was trying to write was great big clunky fingers and strained eyesight..<br />
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Ahhhhrg I've had enough!!!</div>
Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021504621181130629noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459059251716959307.post-60832570389999220332017-01-25T00:38:00.000+11:002017-01-25T00:38:52.701+11:00A Screw Loose?... More Like A Lost Screw....<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This set out to be an update on my further readings and other goings on about The Palais since we last conversed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But given the events of the past few weeks I think the theme for discussion will be rectification... you know like fixing things up or putting things right again...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or something very similar... A loose screw suddenly became a lost screw and put paid to my continued readings until i could get off my arse and go get my reading glasses fixed... Which just happened to be today...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whilst at the optometrist I made a long overdue appointment to have a review of my eyesight as the current glasses just don't seem to be working as well as they used to... or perhaps its has more to do with my eyes just not working as well as they used to... either way... it's time to rectify the problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In other news I'm feeling a lot better in myself and have found great benefits from having some decent remedial massages. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My wonky shoulder is back to normal... as in... It's not wonky any more...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The aches and pains that I knew I had and even the ones that I didn't know I had until I started having them worked on.... have improved to the point were the ones that knew and the ones that I didn't know I had are almost gone completely... sure... I still feel achy for a day or so after a massage but it's a good ache... And... as the massages are remedial they are covered by my health insurance. So far... I have not incurred any out of pocket expenses... Yay!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've also discovered that eye care is covered by my policy as well... so things are looking up!... if you will pardon the pun...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm also feeling my energy levels returning... slowly... but still needing to pace myself...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now... Who was it that once said...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> "Princess... Life is a marathon... Not a sprint" ?...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It could have been my premature ejaculation therapist... Well that's how he introduced himself... I really wouldn't know... He was holding on to my ears at the time and I could hardly hear a word he was saying...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I digress...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since our last conversation darlings... The Palais has been having some sewerage "difficulties" to say the least.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over Christmas and New Year I started to notice that some areas of the backyard rather than taking on the look of an arid desert... which is usual at this time of year... were remaining green and verdant and abundant with grass... "That's odd" I thought to myself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On other days I'd notice patches of "water" laying on the surface of the ground to about 2 inches deep in places... "That's even odder" I thought to myself... "I didn't leave a sprinkler running overnight again did I?" then remembered that I had just installed new "Tap Timers" on all the garden taps and hoses used to water the garden that can be pre set to turn themselves off. And I'd not watered in the offending area's at any rate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then the toilet in my unit started to do strange things... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like back up and take ages to drain... or have bubbles of water and air gurgling up through the bowl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Time to call a plumber" I thought to myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I called a plumbing company who instructed me to call the local sewerage authority to establish whether the fault was theirs or ours and thus if it was their fault we would not require a plumber.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I contacted the local authority and was told after describing the situation to the receptionist to "go and see if there was anything wrong with the "Manhole" covers located behind your property... I did this without having a clue as to what i was meant to be looking for. I explained to the person on the phone that i couldn't actually see over the back fences given their height... But there was a very strong odour of raw sewerage in the vicinity and grey water laying in the yard...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was then informed that she had looked up the computer and their system was reporting that everything was "fine" and it was "more likely that the problem is on your property and you I should call a plumber!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I rang the plumbing company again to be told that the soonest that someone could come out would be tomorrow as most of their staff were all still away on leave...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So the plumber came the next day, shoved a very long thingy down the pipes, Thought he had felt something "dislodge"... and left saying that he didn't have his "Pipe camera" with him but if there were still problems over the weekend to contact him again on Monday </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The problems persisted over the weekend and got a little worse but I shan't entertain you with further yucky details darlings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I called them again on Monday morning to be told that the plumber in question had been called out on another emergency but would call by in the afternoon... He did... at 4pm...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I gave him all the horrid details of my trauma over the weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He walked into the toilet and flushed it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course it flushed normally for him didn't it!... He's an expert in such matters after all... despite the surrounding evidence of buckets and plungers l'd left strewn the offending loo as evidence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He scratched his head and then looked all over the old toilet and announced "It may have to be replaced... and because the old bowl has been cemented into the floor and tiled around... it will be a "big job" and be "fairly pricey" to fix"...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But as it was nearly "Knock off time" he couldn't start on anything now and would come back tomorrow...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He arrived bright and early the next morning armed with all sorts of contraptions including the "pipe camera" and proceeded to perform an endoscopy on the pipework. Apart from a bit of fatty buildup in the pipes themselves he could find no problem... they were draining normally until he got to a patch where he could see the build up of sewerage not draining away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He then removed the camera on its wire and proceeded to walk down the back yard with me holding the wire from where it entered the pipe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He got to the back fence and still had 15 meters of cable that he says had entered into the mains and that was where the problem was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The stench coming from somewhere was far more noticable and had gotten stronger since the weekend...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Together we just happened to look over into the next door neighbours property (which is a rental that is currently unoccupied) to witness a river of raw sewerage flowing in under </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">their back fence line... </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at least a foot deep!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"That's where your problem is" says Einstein... "It's definitely the mains....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It's backing up and seeping into your yard as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ring the barstards now while I'm here and tell them that they're the ones with the problem...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then they will want to fight over who's going to pay my bill...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So don't pay my account when it comes... give it to them to sort out with us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I contacted the sewerage authority to inform them that "Despite my alerting them to the problem over a week ago to be told that their system was "Fine" without doing a manual inspection and that the problem must be on my property and to contact a Plumber... I've had to call a plumber out 3 times since making the initial report to you.... He has discovered that the problem is in fact yours and is definitely a blocked sewerage main."...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The immediate response from the other end of the phone was...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Well hang on just a minute... we first have to establish that the problem is in fact ours"... to which i replied " Well let me help you... there is a foot deep river of shit running through the neighbours back yard and backing up into mine... does that help you in your establishment of fact?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His response... "I'll send out a crew immediately"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"And how long will that take?... Can I expect them tomorrow or the next day?" I inquired...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"They will be there within 15 minutes Sir" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was like all hell had broken loose... All of a sudden there were trucks and Ute's and suckers and blowers and a plethora of gentlemen in High Vis gear swarming everywhere in the paddock behind the property.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The loo is now in full working order and there are no longer stinky puddles of grey water seeping up through the ground in the back yard and the next door neighbours yard has been cleaned up too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The account for the plumbing arrived last week for $440.00 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I immediately took it into the Sewerage Authorities office and explained the situation again to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I received a phone call from the manager last Friday to say that the fault was indeed theirs and that they would accept the incurred costs and would contact the plumbing service to have the invoice rectified.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But given that my level of physical activity and stamina is up and down, I do what I can do on a good day when I can... But on a bad day it's a real effort to even get out of bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To add to the problems I keep getting reoccurring chest infections and have a muscle out in my neck that is causing pain and limited movement and spasming in my right shoulder which limits my gardening to short bursts...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I'm setting myself a challenge for 2017... To read/re read as many books as I can at the moment and to see just how many books I can get through by the end of the year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had intended to do a post to update the Gardens and the Vegie Patch around the Palais but it's a vey overcast day here so tha put paid to that idea...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Why is Princess writing at 4am on newyears day?"... You may well ask. and i'd be quite happy to tell you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Empress and i for some years now have not been all that fussed about celebrating in the new year. Our eve consists mainly of sharing a meal together talking to family and the odd friend on the phone, watching a bit of TV. Congratulating eachother for surviving another year and then retiring to bed at around 9.30 pm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> So around 4am I was rudely awoken by my bladder.... or as my father used to say "I was forced out of bed by water"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As i'm now slightly awake I thought id just say hello and wish all of you a better 2017. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2016 seems to have been a pretty shitty year all around for many including myself... but there are a lot of things to be greatful for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Family being top of the list... Not just our biological family but those that we invite into our lives as friends that become like family... including blog friends that have shared many years of joy, dissappointments, sadness, the ups and downs of life and all of the permutations in between. The celebration in welcoming new family members and sharing in the sadness and grief of losing others. Just doing life together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My intention in life is to try and be a good person... To help someone when they are in need... to try not to judge other people even if feel frustrated or angered by their words or actions... (sometimes i don't do this so well and have to stop myself.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This past year has been a difficult one for me as I've been plagued by ongoing illness... but i have learned something from it all...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've always been one to volunteer and first to say yes to helping out in any way I can... but how can I be of help to others if i'm burnt out and exhausted and left without any time for me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's the first time I've ever made one... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My resolution for 2017 is to learn to say NO! But in the nicest possible way...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I won't wish you all the usual New Year guff as none of us know what the coming year holds in store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But what I will say is just be kind to yourself, be kind to others, and lets just start this new year together in the hope that in some tiny way it's a little better than the one just gone...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It seems to have been a very difficult year for both of us with one thing and another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Empresses health remains fine apart from the odd bloodpressure anomally which is rectified with a review of he medications.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As for me i'm still struggling with Chronic Fatigue following a bout of Glandular Fever and recurrent chest infections. But I'm slowly comming good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Finally last month I managed to meet with the theatre group director and after a four hour discussion have come to the decision that i will be taking an indefinite break from costuming... I figure that the stress and lack of support and the inability of the director to address any of my concerns over several years now is not worth persisting with. It is not good for my health and wellbeing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So i'll be taking at least a 12 month break... Sadly she still doesn't get it and recently asked if I'd like to make just one or two specific costumes for the show next year!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The tomato plants are thriving along with the sweetcorn and cucumbers but are nowhere near harvesting as the days remain comparitivly cool... we need some extended sunshine to get them to colour up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yesterday i planted up a "New Bath"... (one of two recently procured from the tip recycleing shop for the bargain price of $20 a piece)... of Asian Greens, including Bok choy, Chinese cabbage so It might be a week or two before I can whip up a little stir-fry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">In another Plant Nursery hunt.... the most recent of many over past months... i finally had a win!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">As you probably know... My most favourite rose of all time finally succumbed to the dreaded "Black Spot" virus. I've been searching every nursery that i manage to find in the hope that they might have a replacement and until yesterday i'd not had much luck at all...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">But there hidden back behind a clumped arrangement of Standard and bush roses was the solitary beauty i'd been seatching for...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">My heart skipped a beat... Then i noticed that the poor little darling had several spotty black and yellow leaves...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">My heart sank... Bloody black Spot!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">On making enquiries with the sales staff as to wether they would discount for a diseased plant... I got the reply from the spotty teenager behind the counter of...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> "No... cos... all our roses have got a disease Mister"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> I asked to speak to someone more senoir so the manager was called over.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> I said... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"Your young salesman here just told me that i couldn't get a discount on this rose that has "black spot" as he tells me that all your roses have diseases... I just wanted to check that this information was correct"...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> The manager looked quite horrified and whilst looking daggers at the young sales assistant... </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">appologised profusely and</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> immediately knocked $10 off the price... I thanked him for his business accumen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">This reduced it to almost half price and i figured that</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> if i got the little darling home and gave it a good treatment it might just survive it's ordeal....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">And so might I!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">So there you have it... I've a new rose for Christmas and it has been sprayed and fed and watered....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Everything was over priced particularly food and drinks as can be expected these days... I hadn't been to the zoo in over 25 years and was astounded by how much has changed... for the better i might add... from an animal welfare perspective. The enclosures are larger for the animals and a lot more natural with large areas of grass, soil and plantings of vegetation and waterways... but mor of that later...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For this post... I've decided to share with you </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">some of the "more obscure" and "less famous" critters in captivity...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Over the past few weeks the palais grounds have been snipped, slashed, pruned back, weeded, mown, raked, fed and watered, dug up and replanted to within an inch of it's life... and is now looking more like a garden again rather than an overgrown jungle of weeds and neglected plants...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The pink climbing rose "Leonardo de Vinci" has been a stunner this year but is somewhat shaded out by the Apple Tree...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have had the same parsley plant growing in the same pot for about 10 years now... It has survived the worst of the droughts by growing smaller leaves and when water has been plentiful it takes off again producing large lush bunches of leaves... I walk past it every day but barely even notice it... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've planted tomato bushes in both pots and baths this year, hoping to be able to harvest enough to preserve and or make sauce... we will have to wait and see... Last year we managed to bottle cherry tomato's which have been well used in batches of bolognaise and added to pasta for a quick healthy meal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Until next time darlings you know where to find me...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Last seen being chased (along with the Empress) by a humungous storm?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Well... I can finally put my feet up for a little while and have a spell of some long awaited rest and recovery time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The debutant ball for my niece went off very well although the remake and finishing of the frock took longer than anticipated... given that the whole front of the bodice was pearl seed beads and apliqued lace... Which all had to be removed and then re sewn by hand!... Very very time consuming ... but then I knew it would be...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fitting... reworking patterns and re fitting seemed to be the order of the project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All very time consuming and demanding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bride was delighted with the outcome as were her family which is the main thing. Along with alterations to the grooms suit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The project was finally finished just in the nick of time with the gown being delivered at midnight the night before the wedding day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So in celebration... a long awaited Spring has finally arrived and here are some lovely backyard bloomers for your enjoyment!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It has been a long awaited Spring... and still we have 2 days of warmth followed by a cold snap that makes me feel like we are back to winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had Snow in the hills at the end of October which is almost unheard of!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway Darlings... The Empress has just informed me that the bucket of scraps is full and needs to be emptied into the worm farm... So I must away...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Empress and I survived our Sunday jaunt to the country and back....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They run an organic garden and herb farm from their small property in a fairly remote and very small town in central western Victoria that has a population of about 30 residents and is 2 1/2 hours drive West from home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The weather had cleared a little (it had at least stopped raining) and the floods which curtailed our previous plans to visit had subsided with the roads in that area being open again. We passed many signs that read </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Water over Road" along the way and could see the debris from floodwaters along the sides of the road suspended from the fences, usual empty dams were now full and over flowing into paddocks and streams that were usually dry on our previous trips were now full of water and flowing freely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The area we travel through is largely broad acre cropping and sheep country.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In past years the area has struggled with drought and hence poor crop results and de stocking of livestock. The drive was usually dry, sad and depressing to see everything covered in dust, shades of brown and struggling to survive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both sides of the road were lush green with crops of wheat, barley, and rye standing tall, broken by patches of vibrant yellow canola in flower. Or lush green pastures full of ewes and gambolling new spring lambs... There was even a bit of sunshine. I listened intently to the Empress as she sat beside me enjoying the sunhine commenting on the sights she could see in the paddocks as we drove by...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Oh look at all the baby lambs, aren't they just gorgeous... And the sheep look white for a change instead of that dirty reddish brown from all the dust"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'That wheat... at least I think it's wheat... is the highest I've seen it growing in years"... Then she said</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">" I don't like the look of those clouds over on the horizon... By the looks of it we could be in for a wet bum!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just then the news came over the radio. Apart from announcing that Footscray, better known to their fans as "The Bulldogs" Had one the grand final fot their first time in fifty two years beating the Sydney Swans. The second news Item was an alert for a severe weather warning for the whole State with damaging winds, possible hail, torrential rain and thunderstorms due to hit later that evening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I turned to the Empress and said "Well that sounds fantastic Mother doesn't it?... We need more rain and storms because we have't had any for oh ... at least the last 12 hours... I guess it will have to be a short visit if you want to be sleeping in your own bed by </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> tonight" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"A very short one... looking at those storm clouds we are driving into we could be in for a very interesting trip home" she replied sagely</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a lovley lunch with the family and catching up with the renovations to the place and plans for developing their business the squally rainstorms started passing rapidly through... thwarting several attempts to venture outside for a tour of the gardens</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Dress fitting went far from smoothly... it seems that Niece as gone up a bra size or two since trying the dress on and suddenly the dress won't do up past the waist line leaving a gaping gap of about 6 inches all the way up to the Back neckline.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A look of panic crossed the Empresses face... "What do we do now? I thought something like this would happen as She's still growing"...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Is there any seam allowance that you can let out?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Stop worrying Mother... It will be just fine... I'll just make a new bodice to fit"... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sure... It's a lot more work </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> but will be easier than trying to re fit the bodice by opening existing seams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hoping that the fabric hasn't faded or discoloured from the original</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With new measurements taken and the dress packed ready for a full make-over the rain had stopped temporarily and gave us enough time for a wander about the gardens and visit some of the animals...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The drive home was not too bad but the closer we got to home the heavier the rain got and I started to notice that where parts of the road that had been previously flooded but, were dry on the way over, were now wet and had started to have very shallow rivulets of water flowing across them.</span></div>
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Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021504621181130629noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459059251716959307.post-44631505888558116272016-09-29T16:13:00.000+10:002016-09-29T16:13:22.472+10:00Meet the Boys....<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All settled in for a day on the couch in front of the heater... with a blanket each... but... they tend to end up sharing the same one anyway...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They have separate food and waterbowls but these also become shared items without any arguments or fights... they just wander over to each others bowl halfway through eating and finish off each others portion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once thay have had "Enough" from their own bowl they will stand and wait patiently for the other to have their fill before changing places and finishing off each others meal. Very nice manners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Spot" is the permanent resident and "Star" is a current house guest whilst his owner recovers from illness... Although you wouldn't know it from the way he's settled in... But he does come for "sleep overs" fairly regularly...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The way they behave you would think that they had been raised together from puppies despite the 3 year age difference... and when "Star" goes home... His owner brings him back for "play dates" because they start to miss each other...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm being stared at intensely because "Both our bowls are empty and you havent immediately re-filled them you know... Hop to it Princess!"</span><br />
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Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021504621181130629noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459059251716959307.post-13951229166731734252016-09-27T15:44:00.001+10:002016-09-27T15:44:22.806+10:00Phantom Pains...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Princess has still not recovered from a very gruelling run up to Oklahoma!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With the usual post production flu and weeks of sleeping to make up for all the endless hours of sleep missed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The time spent putting the show together wasn't without it's usual pressure but this year I felt there was even more unnecessary pressure due to lack of communication and over stuffed ego's among the production team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The move to the new venue I think brought out some of the worst in the attitudes of the leadership team helping them to lose their focus from being about the kids on stage to being more about themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many of the Drama's were orchestrated by the leadership without any thought to the people that were actually effected by ad hoc decisions made... resulting in much unrest, resentment and disillusionment among the volunteers and parents. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Platitudes about how great the costumes look isn't cutting it for me anymore... I know I can make great costumes and have a keen and eager team of parents behind me that also see the vision and are more than prepared to put in the long hours required in bringing them to life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The thing is...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I can well do without the added stress of orchestrated drama by the leadership team and after this years effort have to question whose needs are being met? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Currently I am re evaluating my ongoing involvement with the theatre group and unless things change through addressing some of my major concerns i will not be available for future productions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To top things off, before Oklahoma had even opened a "Surprise" announcement was made to the production team that the core Leadership group had procured the rights to perform "</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Phantom of the Opera" next year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It seemed that I was the only one in the room that was surprised! Given the discussion that followed with other members of the broader production team obviously having prior knowledge and the decision being presented as a fait acomplie!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I expressed my major concern that the "To be hired" costumes were made to fit performers from an Adult company and many of the costumes would need to be altered to fit teenagers.... Something I doubt the hiring company would approve of and hadn't really been thought through by the team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The response from the self proclaimed head costumier (Remember her?) came immediately and looking</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> directly at me stated...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> ""We" can just make copies of the costumes </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in the sizes that "We" need"... using the royal "We".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Meaning... "You"</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (Princess) can just make copies of the costumes "I" want copied...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Needless to say I was unimpressed feeling that I'd been once again left out of the loop.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I also have concerns in knowing that t</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he volunteer sewing team that I have brought together, nurtured and supported over the years continually express their refusal to work with her due to her abrupt manner... lack of support and point blank rudeness toward them in the past... and have indicated that if I'm not involved with costumes then they won't be either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She is still up to her old tricks of cherry picking only lead characters leaving the ensemble cast to me and the extended team and then turning out ill fitting/ugly costumes leading to last minute remakes and fixes, either initiated by me or at the directors request... the Director still refuses to address this issue despite being totally aware of it and the amount of extra work/ undue stress it creates for me and other members of the sewing team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The week after of the show finished I requested to meet with the Director to express these concerns about next years show... I'm still waiting for a response...2 months later!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Exhaustion is still ruling my life with one day being reasonably good where i am at least able to function and get some work done around the house and garden and then the next day needing to spend time resting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm still suffering chills/ running temperatures and have achy joints and muscles. My GP still keeps telling me that it is a virus? but can't be specific...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm seeing a new GP today.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hopefully i will get some answers, but i really have to force myself to do anything at the moment and will fall asleep as soon as i sit down... Living like this is driving me mad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In other news ... word seems to have got about that <br />I am able to do the "impossible" when it comes to odd shaped or Plus Sized brides... I've been approached to make another wedding dress for a bride to be that cannot find a gown to fit her "off the shelf".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So despite still feeling unwell I am currently in the process of designing and making her a wedding gown for early November</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I also have a dress to alter for a Niece for her debut. Fortunately it shouldn't cause too much angst as it really only needs alterations to remove the "Disney Princess" sleeves and some repairs to a <strike>bit</strike> a lot of the beading on the bodice. The beading is done using antique pearl seed beads which i have been fortunate enough to match!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was an op shop find and I think will do the trick nicely... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm off to see her for another fitting at the weekend, hopefully the rains will hold off long enough for us to make the trip. Last weekend we were planning to go for a visit but the weather was against us. Road closures from recent rains causing flooding prevented us from travelling so we had to cancel..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is more rain forecast for the end of the week so I'm just hoping that it isn't enough to close the roads again as time is running out with the debut happening in mid October which doesn't leave much time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sorry to inflict such a sad tale of woe upon you darlings... but that is just how life is for me at the moment..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You know I'm usually a "Glass half full" kind of gal but at the moment the bottle just seems a little bit empty...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Excuse me for not being around much of late but since Oklahoma! finished I've been a little exhausted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This years show really took it's toll on me and I still haven't recovered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An extended bout of tonsillitis in August didn't help despite 2 courses of antibiotics and now I'm left feeling tired and drained of all energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The weather hasn't helped. We seem to have had the longest, coldest and wettest winter in the 13 years that I have lived here. It feel like it has been winter since May and the cold and wet weather continues. (I haven't turned the heating off since early may)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With the show being all consuming this year the garden has been very neglected and since we have had lots of rain... weeds that have been dormant for years have taken over, creating a lot of work that i don't seem to be able to find the energy to address.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On top of this, the Vacant block of land that we have lived next to since moving here has become a building site with the erection of new 2 storied apartments that now look directly into our back yard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Needless to say the days are filled with lots of noise from the loud and boisterous tradies and the constant sound of cement mixers, trucks, cranes diggers, nail guns, hammers and angle grinders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From early in the morning to late in the afternoon...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Which doesn't help with my exhaustion and needing to sleep during the day some times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Apart from the constant lethargy I'm feeling good mentally so it is not all bad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Empress remains well and is even better since having another cortisone shot to her troublesome hip last week. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back in July she got a very good report from the neurosurgeon who doesn't want another review for two years as the very small deep tumour in her brain has not changed and she remains asymptomatic...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She seems to have more energy than I do at the moment and has been beavering away in the garden (weather permitting) and has made quite the impact on troublesome weeds and overgrown vines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She has always been a deft hand with a pair of secateurs... and the roses are all pruned and fed ready for spring which i believe has recently arrived... or so I'm told as it still feels like winter...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our local council has implemented a "green waste" service without consulting the rate payers before spending 7 million dollars on contracts for the service and just expecting the community to fork out more money on their annual rate charge... An extra $90 a year on top of a 7% increase in rates!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There was an immediate backlash in the community refusing to accept the service or the new charges... over 2000 rate payers including myself revolted by expressing the fact that we already have systems in place to reduce our green waste... resulting in the implementation of an inspection/exemption program.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We had the inspector come to the house last week and ticked all the boxes for exemption by having the following...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a Compost heap...</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Tick</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a Leaf blower/mulcher...</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Tick</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a pet Dog for meat scraps...</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Tick (good boy Spot)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a Private Gardener to manage lawns...</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Tick</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the Access to a trailer for removal of tree prunings and cuttings...</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Tick</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The inspector was very impressed...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So yes... we are now exempt from extra rate charges for a service that we don't need nor would we use.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I made the suggestion that oin future perhaps they could do some community consultation on need assessment before introducing mandatory legislation that impacts on every member of the community and particularly low income households.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He just looked at me vacantly then added "I don't make the decisions"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Well obviously the council is happy doing deals with big companies on the quiet then presenting initiatives as fait accomplie"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With that he gathered his things and made a hasty departure...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I guess the issue wasn't up for further discussion!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyway drlings thats me at the moment...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Still struggling on daily... doing what I can manage around the place and being kind to myself in the process...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know that this too shall pass...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's the night before opening night and I am just exhausted Darlings... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Final Dress rehearsal went of without too much Drama...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">as opposed to the tech rehearsal on monday night... That was a bummer all around... but I won't dish the dirt here...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We had the Arts editor From the local paper at last night's rehearsal and here's his review...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have almost sold out for opening night performance... which is a first...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And tickets are becoming scarce to the point where I had a phonecall from the box office just this morning asking what i wished to do with the tickets that i have reserved for friday nights performance and did I still want them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The tickets in question just happened to be the 2 gift tickets that the Empress and i get for our volunteering througout the productuion year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Needless to say I still have seats for friday night's performance...</span></div>
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Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021504621181130629noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459059251716959307.post-46522510279753961932016-06-29T00:36:00.002+10:002016-06-29T00:36:25.543+10:00Climbing out of the costume avalanche...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well darlings... I'm finally clawing my way out from under the enormous pile of costumes i've been sourcing/creating for this years production of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">click on the link above and check out the fantastic trailer for the show made by one of our year 12 student.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year the standard of production has been stepped up in every area as the performance has been scheduled for 4 shows at the Capital Theatre in Bendigo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There have also been publicity shoots with the local Newspapers and TV news</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As you can imagine... true to our usual form we have a cast of thousands... well 70 in fact but all need at least one costume change so start with 140 costumes and add on from there...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There has been the usual drama and attempts at in-fighting with the costume team but they haven't got much traction I have politely refused to get drawn into attempted power plays rising above all the drivel and bitching and just getting on with the job. Far more satisfying</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back in May I found myself making a Bridal Gown for a private customer amid the planning and confusion of costumes for the show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can't say it was a breeze as the bride had picked out a style of gown more suited to an amazon like stick insect... which she wasn't.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So after much discussion, pattern engineering and many many ajustments and fittings later... she finally looked a picture of lovelyness and floated down the aisle...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Huge success in the end despite many a sleepless night working out a pattern that was eventually most flattering and caused much positive feedback from guests at the wedding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">During this time I was also interviewed by the local newspaper as they were running a series for "Volunteer Week" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We talked about my </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">work at the opportunity shop and my costume making for Nexus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The next thing I know there's a half page spread about me in the local paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The costumes for Nexus have been fun to make with multiple full circle skirts, pettitcoats, bloomers, waistcoats and chaps.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The bulk of the costumes have been sourced from the op shop the cowboy shirts are op shop sourced and then I've sewn western looking yokes on to them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is a ballet scene in the show that includes can can girls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The costumes for these have been real fun to make... It's amazing what one can do with old circular tablecloths! And finally after 5 years of owning an overlocker with a differential feed i discovered how to gather fabric on it to make ruffles for the inner lining of the can can dresses. (usually i'd be sitting for hours pulling miles and miles of thread to gather the fabric into frills...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So much quicker and easier... duh!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm coming up the home stretch and the show opens in three weeks...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There a few bits and pieces that still need to be completed but the bulk of the work is finished...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Apart from the fat suits... Did I mention I'm also making fat suits for some of the guys in the cast that need to look like old men... I guess skinny old men just don't cut it any more.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Life is good, Thanks for the Birthday wishes on Sunday just gone, i spent a relaxing day doing absolutely nothing...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Empress remains in good health but gets frustrated that she can't do what she used to and needs to take a day off in bed occasionally...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Having celebrated her 76th birthday the week berfore mine I think she has earned the occasional rest day...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently I read in the local rag that there had been a marked increase in the numbers of people participating in the weird persuit of "Upskirting" in my very own city!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seems that all this "upskirting" or... as I'm lead to believe... surreptitiously slipping ones camera or cellphone up under a ladies skirt so as to obtain a photograph of said ladies knickers... (Though I can't think for the life of me why one would engage in such a tawdry and uncooth activity)...is being directed at one lady in particular...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To add insult to injury it seems that this activity has taken the city by storm with hoards of interlopers arriving via train and bus just to participate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I thought I would have to get Princess on the case and investigate these vulgar reports myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Imagine my shock on arriving at the site of the alleged shenanigans to be greeted by this!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No wonder Queen Victoria has turnd her back on such unseemly behaviour... I guess "We are not amused"....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And being the intrepid reporter that I'm not... I figured I had best get some more snaps of the hoards of interlopers around her statue...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And being that this is my first attempt at "upskirting" I'm quite pleased with the result... although I'm not quite sure what the gentleman in shot is attempting?</span></div>
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Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021504621181130629noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459059251716959307.post-59441709079397600422016-03-22T10:24:00.000+11:002016-03-22T10:24:00.812+11:00I'm Not Missing in Action.... I'm just very very busy... <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't really blame you for thinking that Princess has probably fallen off the face of the earth... Been abducted by aliens or banged up in an offshore detention centre... (Something of which I am not at all proud)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But really Darlings... I've just been flat out like a lizard drinking... or for those of you not familiar with the ozzie vernacular... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Auditions for <a href="http://nexusbyt.com/" target="_blank">Nexus Bendigo Youth Theatre's </a>production of "Oklahoma!" were held in early March</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have ended up with 68 kids in the cast and thisyear includes a Dance/ Ballet troupe of 25 dancers for the all important "Dream Sequence"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been busily gathering together, various denim jeans, plaid shirts and vests suitable for either cowmen or farmers through my 2 days a week volunteering at the op shop. The bulk of my work there involves developing systems to manage clothing donations and training other volunteers working in the clothing area. Due to the sheer volume of clothing being donated is enormous and the quality of goods varies greatly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm sepnding much of my time culling clothing that is too far gone for resale, Dirty clothing, stained collars, broken Zips, missing buttons, rips tears and pulls, all go into the rag recycling bins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have so much stuff donated that we are now in a position where we no longer need to wash or repair clothes which saves a lot of time and resources...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm still having trouble convincing some of the other volunteers that stuff needs to be culled and am still finding clothing put aside for mending or washing... All of which when discovered by me gets thrown straight in the bin!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When not at the op shop I'm busy at the phaff running up Full Circle skirts for the show and multiple frilled pettitcoats to go underneath them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is plenty of work still to do costume wise and volunteers are coming out of the woodwork to offer their assistance and once organised will make my workload lighter...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Empress remains well and is keeping herself busy and getting out and about... Some days even on her own!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I still continue to take her to doctors appointments at various clinics regularly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At other times she tires easily and continues to bemoan the fact that she is getting older and can't do what she was able to when yonger...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She too volunteers at the same op shop one day a week but tends to focus more on the shoes that come through the place... again volumes are an issue... but I must say she has become quite brutal in her culling skills, anything with the slightest skuff or wear on the heels or soles goes straight to the bin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are both helping a friend get through some ongoing mental heath issues... things are slowly getting better for her but we have been kept quite busy over the past couple of months supporting her though this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Empress became a great grandmother for the third time back in February</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Maisie Jane" joins her cousins "Annabelle" and "Zoe"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's pretty much where Prinny is at at the moment folks....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought I'd just creep through quietly into 2016 so as not to wake any of the old dears from slumbering out the old year in front of the telly....waiting for the fireworks to go off or the balls to drop or what ever it is they do on the eve of another year...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry for my absence but you know how it gets at this time of year and this year has been crazier than most!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Empress and I have been flat out during the festive season busying ourselves with volunteering at the op shop... packing food hampers for the poor and unfortunate... visiting the elderly and bringing them some Christmas cheer along with all the family commitments that the season brings.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the middle of that add preserving fruits and vegetables given that the season for apricots came 2 weeks earlier this year but fortunately with much less fruit so we had less to bottle than in previous years and none left over for jam and preserves. Just as well we had a bumper crop last year and still have apricot jam in reserve from then!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They have successfully trashed all the plum trees,So that put paid to making plum jam/sauce this year... they finished off the apricots and have now started to consume the apples that still remain struggling to grow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The garden has become a challenge given that we have had very little rain all year and it is difficult to keep the water up to everything that needs it so sadly I've had to let some of it go in the hope that it is tough enough to hold out until we get decent rains... The only areas to continue to get regular water are the vegetable garden and fruit trees though the parrots seem to be winning that battle!.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year in the vegetable baths I've planted tomatoes, lettuce, zucchini, bell peppers, bok choy, basil, silverbeet and climbing beans, the tomatoes are starting to crop well along with the cucumbers and zucchini, the lettuce continues to struggle and given the intensity of the sun I have resorted to covering their bed with shadecloth to at least try to give them a fighting chance before shrivelling to crisps... As for the Bok choy well it got consumed overnight by bugs of some sort, one day thriving the next spindly skeletons</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes I've had a busy year what with costuming for shows and travelling with the Empress... Clothing commissions, adjustments and repairs trickling in all year have been keeping me on my toes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Both of us remain fit and healthy and we both have a lot to be grateful for</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The carpet laying was not without drama and became a Saga in itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the day it was due to be laid we had a phonecall from the company saying that they couldn't go ahead as planned as the person laying the carpet refused the job... something about old stock and poor quality... did us a favour by walking out on the job really. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I cancelled the order and went to another supplier who came around that very day, quoted, and had the job completed within the week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Suffice to say... the job is done and the Empress is very happy with the result and the fact that the house is now back in order.. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There has been a "New"... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(and I use the term "New" loosley as the Emperess has had it in sorage for about 10 years) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Wallpaper border print put up above the picture rail...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Imagine my delight on discovering that the pre pasted glue had lost its stickability.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">After running the first length through the waterbath... climbing up the ladder while wrestling with a length of drippy wet wallpaper...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I'd just get the length smoothed out and in position climb down then turn around to find the other end peeling gracefully off the wall behind me...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Frustration Central!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Finally finding a roll that still had some workable glue... I eventually got the job done but not without just a bit of swearing...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Tiling in the laundry... I'll be doing myself... I've tiled before and it's a job </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">that I like doing...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The purchase of the tiles is a whole other story... To save some money on the budget we secided to look for "End of range" tiles on sale</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I found the right quantitiy of tiles in a colour and size suitablefor the job to cover 2 and 1/2 square meters of wall behind the washing machine and laundry trough between the window sill and floor in the laundry area.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3 boxes at $8 a box... $24 total</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bargain!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Empress was impressed with the find and very happy about the cost... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the way out of the store she managed to spy a sample of some small glass mosaics </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Oooh" she cooed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"I like these Princess" her eyes lighting up... and "I think they'd make a lovely border along the top of the others... Don't you?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"How many sheets would we need"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After some rapid mathematics with the helpfully hovering sales woman we decided that 5 tile sheets would suffice if they were cut in half...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"There goes the budget" I grumbled as we finally left the store</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The Empress almost skipping her way blissfully to the car announced...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Well... We saved so much on the other tiles... I may as well have what <br />I wan't!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Needless to say that 2 weeks and the best part of $150.00 later... we have some lovely looking albeit expensive mosaics to go with the real bargains...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm just hoping that the left over glue from my Brothers' recent tiling adventure will stick them to the wall and we won't have a repeat of the wallpapering fiasco!</span><br />
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