Jump to content

Menu

Melissa in Australia

Members
  • Posts

    17,726
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    33

Everything posted by Melissa in Australia

  1. I am just over half way through a crocheted flower cardigan. I decided to make a linen lining and attach the flowers to it and to each other, so there will not be any sagging and stretching The good thing about this is I have pinned all I have made on and can see how many more I need to make, and can move them around to spread out colours and flower designs as I go Hoping to have it finished by the end of this month
  2. Fish Don't Catholics eat fish on Fridays? All hospitals in Australia serve fish on Fridays or at least have it as an option. I think because some religions eat fish on Friday
  3. My boys take either jam Vegimite Nutella sandwiches Or raison bread with butter Occasionally mini pizza we all make together the evening before They also have in their lunch box dates, an apple, biscuits , small yoghurt. Their lunch boxes are the no rubbish kind, with little compartments for each thing. Lunches are not provided at the school and every single student brings lunch from home Because the boys have an 1 1)2 hour bus trip each way they take a seperate lunchbox of things to eat on the bus usually prepackaged musli bar and some grapes
  4. Other We don't have a dining room
  5. It wouldn't be a silky. Their meat is a very dark purple almost black
  6. It is not accurate at all. Here they are ripping out all gendered public toilets. And what we are left with is supposedly unisex toilets . I have posted about them before. There is no seat at all just the bowl. And the men just urinate all over it. You can't get even close enough to hover. They absolutely stink and now if I go out I have to not drink any liquids or hope there is a bush. If you have a child there is no way at all they can use the toilet as there is nothing to sit on. But as long as we aren't making people feel uncomfortable about their gender who cares if females can't use the toilets
  7. I don't have any friends who would look after the boys or bring a meal or drive me somewhere. My family don't even do that unless I beg . I have neighbours who brought cakes for DH when I was in hospital though. 😄 Tomorrow I have a 6 hour train and bus trip each way for a 15 minute specialist appointment. I will have to travel alone because there is nobody who can look after the boys. I will have to spread the trip over 2 days to make it manageable. it is just the way life is. I am imagining how I will feel after the trip, satisfied that I managed it. It helps. Mind you, when I was booking the hotel room I couldn't remember how to spell my last name. She wanted me to spell it like r for roger. Which got me so confused . my last name is only 4 letters long I was up to 10 letters and still racking me brain for what word goes with each letter of the alphabet before she interrupted to tell me she had found me in their records. So it might be a very interesting trip🤪
  8. I am your friend I have counted you as one of my very few friends since very shortly after you started posting
  9. You are lucky. I have had more than 6. 2 times I almost crashed. one time I almost made DH crash, but that time it was running up my leg. I have had a huntsman run across the outside windscreen numerous times. But I was able to stay calm when it is outside Once My sister opened the car door and almost jumped out. My mum was driving. Luckily they weren't on the highway My son has had 11. One time he almost had an accident. My brother has had 5 The home help person coming here had one in her car yesterday. I could go on and on with a huge list. I guess it is more common if you are living in the bush
  10. Actually huntsman in the car is in the top 5 of leading causes of car crashes Speed and or alcahol/drugs are the leading cause of fatal car crashes.
  11. Could your mum have cataracts? I personally know a few older women who's house got to such a state, then they had cataract surgery and were absolutely shocked at the state their house was in. They couldn't see it beforehand
  12. I highly reccomend pacing My brother had chronic fatigue after getting glandular fever. He was around 15 at the time. He was so fatigued he couldn't go to school anymore. It took him about 10 years to recover My husband has Multiple Chemical Sensitivities. Started as a workplace accident. And is so deliberating he is on a disability pension. His symptoms are very similar to Chronic Fatigue. He has had it for 25 years. He does pacing. Plus we have modified our living environment and live pretty isolated from other people. so his exposure is reduced which helps I have sarcoidosis affecting multiple parts of my body and have crippling fatigue. My body is forcing me to do pacing. The whole day is broking into tiny activity then rest. By around 3 I am so completely exhausted I have to lie down for mostly the rest of the day.
  13. I got married just before turning 19. DH was in his early 30s and already had some land. We lived in a canvas sided pop up caravan for the first 12 months while DH worked full time, I worked part time and DH started building a cottage. We rented for one year when we had our first child Then moved into our house when it was just plastered , 2 children then We lived without electricity for the next year while we saved up to get it connected We owned the house completely. Just put every cent we could towards building it .Never had a mortgage. it was a very small cottage for the first few years, we did a big extension 10 years later, doubling the size of the house
  14. Kareni. Your bookmarks are so beautiful. They are more magnificent each time.
  15. One of my children responded well when young to positive touch to help ground them. It was a very slight tapping with 2 fingers on the inside of the wrist or a gentle stroking of the back . So lightly it was a caress. The child was barely aware that it was happening . It was used for grounding/ promoting self regulation. It wasn't discipline at all but a calming down thing.even more effective if done before child needs to calm down
  16. I can't see how you can press gently on a misbehaving child to get them into this position unless the child was being compliant. And then they probably wouldn't be misbehaving in the first place. Wouldn't some sort of wrestling be needed ?
  17. I use fusible one sided interfacing for applique because the double sided stuff here is $20 metre. I haven't had any problems with it. Apart from needing to pin and make sure the applique doesn't shift when hand stitching I have never used a dryer for anything , line dried my whole life so I have no advice on that part
  18. The state government here purchases some houses in new developments for "affordable housing" sounds good in theory but in reality -- humans While I was in hospital the lady in the bed beside me was telling me about the apartment she lives in. She bought into a small apartment block, 4 stories high with mostly single middle aged women. It was marketed to that group. It is new, 3 years old. 2 of the apartments were bought by the department of human services as affordable housing. She said one was let to a man that turned the apartment into a meth lab. It was a dramatic story of when it was busted. And she said the apartment was pretty damaged The other apartment was let to a person who worked from home. Sounded great until they all found out that she was a prostitute and bringing her clients home all hours of the night. So people like the idea of having affordable housing for homeless but don't really want to be living right beside them
  19. We have done this. Bought a cheep older house to rent. It is one of the lowest rents in the town. After paying property and water rates. Out total income is $5000. Then because DH is on a disability pension he gets his pension docked because he has an income. So that is reduced to $ 3000. Income from the rental. It has been ok- ish . Until the current tennents. They backed a ute into the fence, breaking the concrete post. DH had to fix it. A few hundred dollars . They signed an agreement when they went into the house that they would keep their one dog outside. It is a fenced yard and has open shedding for the dog. They decided afterwards that they would get more dogs and currently have 5 very large dogs inside. They rang us the other week to say all the carpets are ruined and could we pull them up and maybe put down hardwood flooring 🤣( hysterically laughing) as if we could do that while they were living there. As soon as their lease expires they will be homeless. No way do we want to have such destructive tennents. We can't afford it
×
×
  • Create New...