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Post by questa on Mar 13, 2024 0:05:43 GMT
I won't hog all the boards with my weird trips and narrow escapes until I have sorted out the time-line. My brain is working OK but when I am in an OFF day things get a bit vague, I'll post in Parkinson's thread anyway. thanks for your greetings, I missed you all so much.
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Post by questa on Mar 11, 2024 11:09:05 GMT
Is there anything this man can't do? Many thanks, mon Capitan.
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Post by questa on Mar 11, 2024 10:37:04 GMT
Damn and Blast! I meant to use a capital R in the middle of my new name so you would all know Questa is still bringing sunshine and heat waves from the Great Southern Land. Is there a way that you can join Questa with QuestaR? I'd better go and get my notes...an intriguing few months starts...
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Post by questa on Sept 30, 2023 22:32:39 GMT
Evening Mick, G'Day all. I'm back again...a little more knocked around but get my priorities right...cricket first, THEN the rest of the world's woes. The various codes of "footy" finished their seasons last night leaving their fans jubilant or not,, and tonnes of rubbish at the grounds. We fans of the willow and leather (Work it out for yourselves..).[Not you Mick!]) maintain the beauty and graciousness of bygone days and bin our rubbish.
Well, I have a lot of catching up to do, see you on Parkies track when I can get there myself.
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Post by questa on Apr 15, 2023 0:42:46 GMT
Don't be embarrassed...you have delivered one of the most beautiful photos I have ever seen. Definitely for the "muted colours" thread, with the smudges of lilac and yellow, and contrasting traceries of bare branches and twigs just perfect. Also, it is a "Festival of diagonal lines" I love it!
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Post by questa on Apr 1, 2023 13:06:30 GMT
Cambridge Satchel Factory...That is pinging a few bells...wasn't that a drop place for spies around the time of Burgess and Maclean?
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Post by questa on Mar 31, 2023 21:34:28 GMT
The media has a lot to answer for. Create an expectation that you are helping someone who needs you desperately, then not have back-up to help both parties meet each other's way of lifestyle.
No matter what happened in your case, whatagain, remember that YOU did the right thing, at the right time, in the right place.
Good On You, Mate!
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Post by questa on Mar 31, 2023 21:16:49 GMT
Thank you, Lugg. Secret to local snippets-gathering is to wander around on your own. If you are with another person, move apart. The citizens don't like to interrupt couples (usually) but some of the best info I have received has come from shy or polite onlookers wanting to share their country with me.
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Post by questa on Mar 31, 2023 20:57:27 GMT
Adelaide still gets reminded on a daily basis that "it" hasn't gone away but is building up all the better to hit again when we have any outside events...sport, entertainment, demonstrations etc. We are told that if we get symptoms stay home but it seems that after 3 days we can return to work.
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Post by questa on Mar 29, 2023 22:02:08 GMT
Terence Milligan aka "Spike"
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Post by questa on Mar 29, 2023 5:10:40 GMT
Me? watching TV? well I made a point of watching "Butterfly"...3 part series about a 12yo boy wanting to dress and be a girl. Family dynamics interesting. Anyone else see this? What did you think of it?
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Post by questa on Mar 29, 2023 2:42:29 GMT
Autumn equinox...how I hate it. From now on things go down hill and the place is drear and boring. I think I should hibernate until October.
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Post by questa on Mar 26, 2023 4:13:40 GMT
When I was in China I saw this kind of display and a nearby chap told me that *new mountains are still rising in the mountainous west. *Stones get trapped in their movements and get 'damaged'.*Rivers carry stones thousands of km before the slow shallow water leaves them for people to collect.*the stones now have beautiful shapes and colours. As he only had rough English and I no Chinese, I think we communicated pretty well.
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Post by questa on Mar 26, 2023 3:48:48 GMT
Maybe "the Bible told him so"...so he did it.
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Post by questa on Mar 25, 2023 3:59:47 GMT
Difference was...3 of the Beatles were highly skilled musicians and songwriters. They didn't need to dress up or down, wreck hotel rooms or get in the press for bad stuff. Recently a group of musicians (?UK) judged the best song for the 20th century to be "Eleanor Rigby" I love the Stones and the energy and passion of the whole world of music at that time, but The Quartet Practising in the Park was way over their level.
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Post by questa on Mar 20, 2023 20:42:59 GMT
So glad you are back again, Whatie. Bravo!
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Post by questa on Mar 20, 2023 9:39:51 GMT
Years ago I had a very large grey male cat. He needed steroids for a skin condition which caused him to grow...10kg and 1 metre from nose to tail tip. He was a goofy, clumsy cat, used to fall down the back of the fridge or dryer etc. I called him Japhy Ryder and he lived until about 14 years. When he died I put him in a very old pillow cover and we dug a large hole. As we lowered him, the worn out cover ripped and the dull thud told us that he could still made us laugh.
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Post by questa on Mar 19, 2023 0:27:11 GMT
dear whatagain, with parkinsons you have so many pills you don't NEED to have whiskey. When those multi-syllabically and unpronounceably named chemicals hit the right spot at the right time I find myself bopping along to Doors, Dire Straits et al.
Thank you all for your encouragement...it is what keeps me a-bopping
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Post by questa on Mar 18, 2023 23:47:41 GMT
I can just see a little child nuzzling in that bushy moustache and giving kisses! No mistakes here, just unexpected variation from norm.
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Post by questa on Mar 18, 2023 11:26:46 GMT
Set in the middle of the central plaza in Ulaan Batar, Mongolia...an Irish pub.
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Post by questa on Mar 18, 2023 2:27:49 GMT
Hello again...let me shower you all with positivity The Ballet lessons are going well and I have gained back some lost height from practising the ballerina style walking. I am going back to my Indonesian Language lessons to keep me busy as well. I have re-designed my front and back gardens and work on them, weather permitting. I still get pain in my back and legs on a daily basis but eases with simple analgesics. I have taken up doing a 2km speed walk each evening...One of the support workers here does "beep test" running and is teaching me the method.(Google it). It feels good to be totally exhausted after being "cotton-wool" treated. My GP has found a heart murmur in the region of the atrial valve...we are waiting for an echo cardio test result. I'm not getting worried about it yet. I am on meds every two and a half hours X 6 which are keeping me my usual self mentally and verbally. I twist and writhe at times - a complication called Chorea or St Vitus Dance. It is an old malady and Terpsichore was the ancient goddess of Dance. My involuntary 'dance' only happens when I am relaxed so I can manage it when needed. This condition has layer upon layer of changes every day. It is about 17 years since my diagnosis and still each day is different.
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Post by questa on Mar 18, 2023 1:03:28 GMT
It is so long since I brought you up to speed with my Parkies. I'll put it in the Track thread...Strange goings on!
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Post by questa on Mar 17, 2023 10:47:49 GMT
Back in 1980'sthe Census revealed that every family which had 4 or more generations born here had Irish ancestry.
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Post by questa on Mar 17, 2023 10:30:55 GMT
Hi Whatagain, I've been away as well. Not that there was any great dissension or drama to move me on but an overdose of meh. I'd rather see fireworks than the drone of predictable posts. I don't like arguments but debates can be fun if kept light. Would anyone like to take a side for the argument "That cats make better pets than dogs"?
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Post by questa on Mar 15, 2023 10:13:04 GMT
I saw the title and thought Kings Cross, Sydney. Now there is a place that needs a historical photo shoot! From the gentry to the Bohemian population, the sleaze years and now genteel, if eccentric, current residents enjoy the Harbour and Park.
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Post by questa on Feb 23, 2023 23:21:57 GMT
"The Weather where you are"...a bit self limiting, isn't it? While it is of interest for the majority of readers from the northern climes, there is a lot happening between the equator and S Pole. I have tried to give account of the big stuff...Black Summer fires and the current Murray Floods.
Do we have any readers/writers in New Zealand? That beautiful country is tearing itself to pieces. Has anyone seen anything in the media about this? It has been some weeks now but computer time limited for me.
Story...terrible cyclone, followed by earthquake. Utilities still out leaving thousands of victims "Uncontactable". High death toll for NZ...75 I last saw.
Maybe this is not the correct concept for a local weather thread, but it seems that Southern climate is about 10 years ahead in climate changing, beware...you may be next!
PS I am OK folks, health-wise...just no time!
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Post by questa on Feb 12, 2023 1:10:40 GMT
It has little to do with good fortune, Tod. Compulsory voting means that our governments are elected by ALL the people and our representatives have to earn their positions, not be somebody's son or an old Bishop. If members fail to do what is expected, they are OUT. If the population is presented with a plan like our Medicare, most will see the benefit for the nation and themselves and it is accepted. If we were a democracy that did not have compulsory voting, the rich (who have private insurance anyway)would make sure the whole system died an early death. The funding for the system is from a Levy on the person's taxable income...less than 2% when I was working.
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Post by questa on Feb 11, 2023 10:40:31 GMT
Mick also exhibits a very Aussie sense of repartee...poor bloke!
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Post by questa on Feb 11, 2023 10:28:13 GMT
You would have to swear allegiance to ACC, not MCC...but who would want to wear those awful ties anyway?
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Post by questa on Feb 11, 2023 3:28:09 GMT
The Health system in Oz has received a large increase in Govt funding aimed mostly towards Aged Care. For once I am in the social group that is benefiting from the taxes I paid for years. I have support workers to clean my house twice a week, help with gardens, shopping and company as they set out my meds for the 6 times a day I need to take them. I can arrange for a driver with car to take me places, Doctor visits to walking my dog on the beach. My medications are at no cost as are podiatry and physio. My GP and specialist are covered by Medicare and I have recently been able to see my GP for two hour-long consultations on a week's notice.
Last week I developed an abscess in my left middle ear. It was 5pm and my carers called an ambulance. Since Covid there has been a great exodus of workers in the Health system and the ambos are the worse hit. I had to wait 4 hours at home but they kept phoning to check on me. Another wait at the hospital emergency where they did all my tests then a quiet bed to sleep in until morning. As I slept the doctors went through my Parkinsons regime and "tweaked" it to save me another visit this month.
I am not a private patient...I think that our public system is all I need. What I can't understand is why USA and GB citizens have not risen up en masse and demanded a similar system. "Too many hogs with their snouts in the trough" I am told.
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