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Post by questa on Mar 21, 2021 8:30:58 GMT
I had to work on capitulate too. How about carpeting...fondling your new automobile.
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Post by questa on Mar 20, 2021 23:26:35 GMT
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Post by questa on Mar 20, 2021 5:33:53 GMT
wooden minarets - the short answer is when the mosques were originally built in the Ottoman period here, in the 15th Century, the small ones were built using local materials - In regions where the the workers toiled at some distance from the village mosque, they built small buildings near their workplace and simply to shield them from the weather while they attended the compulsory Friday prayers
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Post by questa on Mar 19, 2021 22:56:03 GMT
I am really out of my depth here but all I can do is say, "Ask Cheery...she will know how to get that information." We are lucky in that we have a pool of people who can summon up the reliable information for us all.
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Post by questa on Mar 18, 2021 23:30:45 GMT
These are wonderful. Who on Earth sits down to make these up!?
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Post by questa on Mar 18, 2021 23:23:21 GMT
Pretty good on a fine day. A bit sketchy after dark. Try putting it under the porch light, you can see better.
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Post by questa on Mar 18, 2021 23:19:38 GMT
I did a year and was delighted when I could work out a word in English from its Latin base.I liked the teacher who was wise enough to know she only had one year with us so concentrated on vocab and basic rules and less on long translations. Many institutions have Latin mottos and I try to translate them now. a knowledge of Latin has helped when I have been nursing Spanish or Italian mothers...but they have to write their words down so I can 'dissect' them
I was engaged to a chap who was a horticulturist / environmentalist.He taught me about plants and, inadvertently, a lot of Greek and Latin vocab. Things like, the gladioli plant has long spears of flowers...like the spears the gladiators used.
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Post by questa on Mar 18, 2021 15:03:06 GMT
Oh Watty, I am truly discombobulated by your words. Putting me in the same breath as the Desert Rats of Tobruk and the Kokoda fighters is an honour I could never deserve. I will, however carry your words with me wherever I go and read them when things get tough and I start whimpering like a sook. I know that you are having health challenges yourself. May it all go well for you, and thank you for your good example and wishes.
Here is a new word for you...SOOK rhymes with book NounE · (Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
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Post by questa on Mar 18, 2021 14:06:46 GMT
WOW! That is heavy! Do I hear the Nazi or Soviet anthems blowing in the wind. Call for volunteers if it gets impossible, but no secret killings.
Edited to add. My beautiful Uighur people in the far west of China are still being killed by the Chinese government. I have travelled on the Silk Road 3 different times and the people are generous. kind and moderate Muslims.China has killed 1 million of them and imprisoned many more. Ethnic cleansing at its worst.
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Post by questa on Mar 18, 2021 13:52:57 GMT
"Latin is a language As dead as dead can be. It killed off all the Romans... And now is killing me!"
(Supposedly found in a Latin text book on the fly page)
How many ordinary schools teach Latin as a basic subject? Here it is given as a special subject but I don't think many do it. As for the numerals...maybe a couple of lessons to show how the numbers were formed but anymore is wasted time when the school kids are battling to learn their 1st language and mathematics to begin with. Anyway, it would be better to learn Arabic numbers...they at least devised the concept of zero which the world now uses. It was that simple addition of 0 which made trading possible around the world while the Romans were still hammering out their kid's birthdays
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Post by questa on Mar 18, 2021 4:19:15 GMT
It is too late for this renovators delight but some people here have a rope on a pulley which opens the policarb roof to allow breezes in and drain heat out. Only has to open 300mm for a cheap air con. It lowers to fit into the roof timber.
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Post by questa on Mar 18, 2021 0:41:15 GMT
Well done, cheery. It all looks pretty normal to my untrained eye....and vegans can't use the excuse it is animal based.
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Post by questa on Mar 18, 2021 0:26:34 GMT
See? this is the affection and support that keeps us going.
Welcome back LaGatta !
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Post by questa on Mar 18, 2021 0:17:12 GMT
they forgot I could listen and that I could understand most of what was going on around me, it ju This applies to all people, even in the last minutes of life. The sense of hearing is the last faculty to go. Patients who have spent time on life support and have been clinically dead have recovered and repeated what was said in their coma. Patients having a general anesthetic can hear what the Theatre Staff say, so there is a group advising staff to only say positive remarks as the patient can understand what they say. Mich, it must have been hell to be unable to communicate with others. I admire your strength in fighting your way back.
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Post by questa on Mar 17, 2021 23:55:49 GMT
Thank you, but please recognise that it is the support I get from my friends in this forum that gets me through. Kerouac has raised one important issue...keeping safe when in my dream stage. I don't sleepwalk very often and sometimes I am in a state of half dream, half reality. Recently a friend loaned me a floor lamp with 2 LED lamps on a stand. I was worried as the top light kept flickering and asked him to fix it. "It's OK" he said, "Tomorrow" I went to bed worrying about the light, In my dream I walked into the room with the dodgy lamp, found a screw driver and prised the back off the faulty light switch.I can still hear the sound as the plate whizzed past my ear and hit the coffee table. This stopped the flickering so I went back to bed.
Next day my friend went to fix the lamp and said,"Who has been mucking around with this?" I denied any knowledge and pointed out I would have unscrewed the back plate, not wrecked the switch by levering it out. He showed me the small group of screws placed in a "tip pointing in" pattern which I always do. Then it started coming back...I had done it while asleep and dreaming. Fortunately I had unplugged the lamp from the wall before going to bed.
Gives a whole new meaning to "The Lady with the Lamp"
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Post by questa on Mar 17, 2021 13:13:53 GMT
Half way through the year my eldest son and his CPA wife surprized me with a proposition.They had been concerned about my falls and the distance between our homes and their perception that I soon would need a bit of help.wife had worked out a plan with an eye to the strong AU dollar and the drop in house prices.It wound up that they bought my unit in a high demand area and stripped it out and renovated and sold it for a good price.
This went to buying my unit in the retirement village a 5 minute walk from their house. They had everthing drawn up and I wasn't allowed to go through the paperwork...just sign here and here and don't waste time.It was a blur of documents then on a Friday afternoon I was told to start packing we have to have my unit emptied out by Monday lunchtime.Trailers were borrowd, mates called to help and their wives wrapped everything in newspaper and we made it but I an still finding stuff. It took 4 months to unpack and I am still waiting for some things.
You can imagine how upset I was, appreciative for the unit but angry and upset at leaving my friends and house.My Parkie specialist has referred me to psychologist to deal with this and i'm picking up the pieces.I had not been in the planning and psych says that as a normally powerful woman it was my powerlessness that fuelled my anger. Parkinsons carries a fairly common occurrence of paranoia, but I think this was just pissed-offness/
Now for a laugh...sort of. About this stage of the disease some people get hallucinations.I was washing glasses and looked down to see a little girl sitting on the step near my kitchen, We had a few friends drop in and, among them an Indian couple. The child was about 6 and wearing a green sari. I talked to her for about 15 minutes, she just looked at me shyly. Then I thought the parents woudd be looking for her. I started to walk to the back door ....and the whole thing was a wide-awake dream.
My brain had created the kitchen, steps, even the "We'. She has has roles in other scenarios but not as surprising. So far they have been amusing or doing something silly. The worst ones are when I have asked someone to do something for me and I come back and nothing has been done. I realise they weren't there at all.
greetings from another dimension, Anyporters
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Post by questa on Mar 17, 2021 5:36:53 GMT
UTI = Urinary tract infection. Any part of the plumbing from kidney down to bladder.Often follows catheterisation where the bladder is shedding dead cells after the abrasion from the catheter. Also called "honeymoon disease" for the same tendency for newly weds to increase the dead cell count. Remember to empty your bladder soon after the hanky-panky and flush out the dead cells.
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Post by questa on Mar 17, 2021 0:09:39 GMT
Questa, just checking, but you are aware of the facility on Windows to dictate text? Called 'Speech Recognition'. I tried it and it worked more or less ok but you need to train it. Thank you, Mark, I will keep this for future reference, but you do recognize you are talking to the most inept technology failure that ever crashed a computer. I have a clever tech man who told me (when I took my non-functioning PC to him for the 3rd time in a year) that when I foul things up, I do it in a most creative and intelligent way, as if I were trying to make it self-implode without me doing anything wrong. I don't know if this is a compliment or not. I still have to re-learn how to post pictures and how to use a mobile phone.
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Post by questa on Mar 16, 2021 23:13:50 GMT
I have not missed an election, Federal, Provincial or Municipal since I turned 18. I feel good when I vote! I have only missed one election, and it was when I took my parents to Kenya. I have respected and share your diligence to voting Kerouac! These are my heroes. Somewhere in my bloodline is a Suffragette and I silently invoke her when I vote. In a country where it is not compulsory to vote I honour those who thoughtfully exercise that right
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Post by questa on Mar 16, 2021 22:54:40 GMT
Cheery, do you know what is being used in the various bases ? eg Measles immunisations are/were made using egg protein and children were not given this jab until they had shown if they were OK with eating egg. What monetsmum describes sounds more like an allergic reaction than what other people are describing as a reaction to the live virus as a whole. MM, do you get allergic reactions to things? It may turn out that a dose of anti-histamine just after the injection could prevent symptoms like yours. Don't do it without checking with your Dr first.
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Post by questa on Mar 16, 2021 13:19:50 GMT
It is about time I added to this journey along the track as it is a year or so I last checked in. I have been fortunate in that the crazy happenings of 2020 scarcely touched me as I live a fairly isolated life anyway.
With all the heroic work being done by the health workers I cannot blame them for slipping up and not sending my check-up appt time to me. As autumn came I fell into my seasonal miseries and gave myself and friends a bad time. Depression is very common with PD but this was murkier than usual. Another change of meds and back on the merry-go-round.
Strangely, I seem to have recovered a few symptoms that I had lost. My voice has become deeper but more audible to others, my shaking hand has steadied, my eyelids are back in place again(You scared them, Mossie) and Joy oh Joy I have practised and can write again with a pen, Before my script was a mess of tiny letters all running up-hill. It is tiring but I was always pleased to write stuff in a neat italic style.
At one stage I could not stand up from a chair or turn over in bed but I think have put on more muscle. I lost 2 kg of fat so that probably helped. I was still falling over 3-4 times a week scaring the hell out of my grandkids. At one fall that saw me land spread-eagled on a stack of fine glasses the shattering noise and tinkling hurt more than the bruises.
I was losing trust in myself with the falls so started to analyse them. I found that every fall happened when I was hurrying. The part of the brain that keeps balance slows my body down but the legs don't get the message and I am left with legs trying to pass the upper body...like Wil E Coyote and Road Runner cartoons. Easy fix...No Rushing around, let the phone ring out but a steady walk stops falls. I have lost balance several times but not crashed.
Since I first "met" this bunch of adventurers riding out the storm I have been impressed by the correctness of spelling etc. Dear whatagain has his own dialect du jour which I will now follow. Because my fingers hit any key about 4 times I have to go back and correct, and gaps appear for no reason. It is so tiring, so i will be ignoring all the ddoubles and misspels so long as the meaning is clear.
Right now I am nodding off over the keyboard...Part 2 will feature the drama of thee new house and my friendly ghosts that i see and you can;t Good night...Questa.
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Post by questa on Mar 15, 2021 22:59:39 GMT
Every knows it is "yum-yum". Gilbert and Sullivan said so!
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Post by questa on Mar 15, 2021 22:49:20 GMT
The Australian Serum Laboratories which worked with Oxford to develop it's vax has now geared up it's own production of vax. On TV we see thousands of little vials shuffling along and disappearing into the maw of the packing section while the voice-over tells us that Australia's own serum is safe and reliable. I have a deja vu moment, thinking I am watching the 1927 movie "Metropolis". Then I get the chill of "1984" and all the sci-fi I have I read, only now it is all "Sci-" and not much "Fi". Oz is also running way behind schedule...gives me longer to think up a good excuse...
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Post by questa on Mar 15, 2021 22:05:52 GMT
Here we have a saying...titivate...renovate...detonate. Choose wisely!
Actually if it comes out as good as your bathroom, it will be splendid.
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Post by questa on Mar 15, 2021 1:46:34 GMT
Or Australia's famous melanoma
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Post by questa on Mar 15, 2021 1:41:27 GMT
A dentist, here whose surgery was in the front section of his house, claimed as a tax deduction a newly installed security system. The following few years he claimed maintenance, and a bright spark in the tax office wondered why this system needed so much attention. They called into the surgery and found that the security system was a Dalmatian dog, playing happily with the children in the Waiting room. When the dentist was prosecuted he said "The system was turned off when the tax man visited. I challenge him to get into my house or surgery when it is turned on." The tax people tried to get near the house three times but each time the dog barked enough to drive them back. The case was dropped.
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Post by questa on Mar 13, 2021 23:42:21 GMT
Got me thinking...I would like to write a similar letter to my family, but I would write a fresh version every year...on my birthday?? To the son who married the loveliest woman I have ever met, who gave me such thoughtful and funny grandchildren. To the son who has chosen to walk the world, independent of all except a few friends and a love of Nature.
To my distant brother with whom I lost touch when we were kids and his wife and 3 daughters whom I hardly know. I'm proud of you and your success in the world, even though it was not a road I would have taken.
There, that will do for now. There must be a place for the dozens of friends who have kept me going for 78 years. May there be beautiful days for you all.
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Post by questa on Mar 13, 2021 22:35:44 GMT
Using blood thinning chemicals is hours of agony for the mice that eat it...even if they only rub whiskers with a mouse that has eaten it. They bleed to death internally and do go looking for water. Pets are not immune if they sniff the mouse.
In Bali we used "rat paper" which was a strong glue on a cardboard square which was tied to something sturdy. These were put in the mousey areas and the mice would run across only to get glued to the board. They just stayed until we could dispatch them humanely.
The cafe had a grass roof...looked lovely but mice saw it as their nesting home.
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Post by questa on Mar 13, 2021 12:38:35 GMT
very last trap rapidly attracts a mouse for some reason, which I discover after about 3 days when it starts stinking (my own personal covid test). And then four traps get put in place again... It never ends Are you sure it is a covid test...sounds more like a cat scan to me!
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Post by questa on Mar 13, 2021 6:18:09 GMT
Along the east coast of Australia everyone spends time at the beach. Young Muslim woman could be seen standing in the surf fully clothed and wearing head and face coverings. A young women had a bikini business and started making "Burkinis"... a garment like a track suit which covered the ankle to neck rule, and had a fitted hood and a mid-thigh skirt.
The fabrics were bright and light and they became a huge hit even with many non-Muslim women wearing them as a skin-cancer precaution, and Muslim women and girls could enter the swimming competitions and public swimming baths.
Just a little chink in the armour, but it might let in more light.
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