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Melissa in Australia

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  1. Me age 5 my brother age 4 and my sister age not quite 3 were picking blackberries along a riverbank . We were camping. My brother fell. I somehow dived on-top of the blackberry bush and grasped his hand. He was dangling over the riverbank with the river right below. I can still remember he had on a red knitted top. I yelled for younger sister to run get help. She seemed to run very slowly, well I guess looking back she would have had very tiny legs. It seemed to take a long time. then I remember seeing my future stepdad ( then my mum's boyfriend) running fast and saving my brother. The river apparently was over 8 feet deep . I remember was very ill from all the scratches that evening and couldn't eat the special blackberry tart that was made as my reward . Why on earth did my mum let small kids pick blackberries along a river with no supervision. I guess it was the 70s and strongest will survive mentality.
  2. Personally I wouldn't think it anyone else's business what diet a person tries, as lo g as it isn't risking their life A cleanse is only for a short time. When I was on hospital I was put on a no fiber high fat/protein diet for a couple of days by top medical specialists specifically to run some tests. I was basically only eating lamb chops and boiled eggs for a few days.
  3. Was telling my neighbour about the pigmy possum going down the back of my dress. She said she brought her laundry in once, and put on her fresh undies and didn't notice there was a baby pigmy possum in them until after she had them on...😱😱😱 So so glad I have never had that happen before.
  4. The year I was 11 my mum had twins, number 7&8 she had had number 6 just 12 months earlier. So she had 3 children in cloth nappies. She also had 3 foster teens that were coming and going lots. They were somehow related to my step brother.so there was a lot of people in the household. My job was laundry. I hung up a load and put a load on before going to school. Had a shower. I made my own lunch. Helped number 5 girl (aged 3) get dressed and did her hair. Ate breakfast. One of my brother's was porrage maker. Walked just over 1 km to highschool.I was in year 7 School all day. Walk home. Bring in washing , peg out a load , fold mountain of washing. Iron clothes. Eat tea, wash or dry dishes. Squeeze in some homework. Get changed ready for church. Help mum get little ones into church clothes. Go to church for 2 hours. Help get little ones into PJs and everyone off to bed. I was also in charge of cleaning the bathroom but that wasn't every day I remember laundry was a huge focus. The urgency to get nappies dry so they could be used by all the babies the following day. To this day I need to do laundry every day. To keep on top of it. It is ingrained in me. The following year mum made a roster for cooking tea, myself and 2 of my brother's having a particular day. And a particular dish. I always made spaghetti, one of my brother's always a roast
  5. Wow! Freight has gone way up . Just got quotes to get a new washing machine delivered from Melbourne Asko clearance centre. Freight was quoted at $1000. We were thinking just over $ 100 like it was last time......... Talk about inflation Where is the fainting emoji DH was halfway home from picking up the van from the other side of the state. He decided to turn round and head to Melbourne to pick it up.
  6. We don't do a budget. Never have. DH and I are very frugal. We spend a minimum and any extra at all goes straight into savings. Both of us hate spending money and enjoy talking ourselves out of spending . Just as well cause this week we had to buy a new car, that now needs fixing before can be used and a new washing machine.
  7. Age 11 low income family. 8 children plus various extras sort of like foster children Breakfast oat porridge Lunch Vegemite sandwich. Tea mum bought a side of lamb every few weeks. One day we had roast, the next leaf over roast warmed in gravy or Shepard's pie next several days stew made from bone. Then a few days of lamb chops. We had a lot of very watery stew. Occasional minced beef fried with onion, or corned beef, occasionally smoked cod. Sunday we had canned baked beans on toast. She wasn't a very good cook or creative. I remember we had MacDonald's once in my entire childhood w all thought it pretty discusting .We had fish and chips lots just after birth of next sibling..that would have been the days Dad came home from work and mum was frazzled and hadn't cooked. For veggies we had either boiled cabbage or cauliflower, lots of onions, carrots and either peas or beans. Desert every night. Was way to fill up hungry kids. It was either self saucing baked chocolate pudding, stewed fruit and custard like rhubarb, plums or apples, a plain cake or sago The very first time we had broccoli or capsicum was when I learned about how to cook these in cooking class at school.
  8. how delightful I can just visualize a little girl twirling in the tutu
  9. Now I am wondering how and why did mouse squeeze through the tiny gap in the timber and drop from the ceiling. Those hopping mice are nocturnal . And I have never had one in the house before.Was it being chased by a snake? I like snakes but don't fancy one falling on me
  10. I think I am glad It is very hot here today. I get so exhausted that each day I have to lie down for a few hours in the afternoon Because it is hot I have a very summery dress on. Half backless. I was laying on the bed. And dozed off. In my dream I heard a russling sound. Then in real life something fell through the ceiling landed on my back and I woke up. It went down my dress 😱😱😱😱 Cause I was half asleep and I could feel something moving down the back of my dress I started screaming . A native hopping mouse came out of my dress and hopped along my bed. Not sure if it is in the bed or if it hopped down to the floor Both twins burst into the room to rescue me from whatever I was screaming about. None of us can find the mouse. Though we all saw it I have never screamed with a mouse before, but I have never had one go down my dress while I was half asleep either So glad the mouse came out of my dress. So glad it wasn't a huntsman. I can't find anything else to be glad about it though
  11. You know it is time to stop sewing for the day when you finish assembling the garment and then notice that every single french seam is backwards. 😱😱😱 How did I manage that feat I don't know. Not even going to post picture. I am not going to unpick. It is a petticoat so no one will see it anyway hopefully.
  12. DH is very glad it just looks like it is the alternator not working in the new car. So he will be able to just replace it.
  13. Had a messy visitor during the night. So glad I worked out the bath plug almost fits into the laundry trough so I could hand wash the kingsize sheets. So glad it is another hot day to get hand washed clothes dry. So glad I am a bit stronger than last week cause I wouldn't have been able to do it then So glad that dripping wet handwashed sheets hanging on the verandah with the breeze blowing gently through them acts like an air-conditioned for the loungeroom
  14. Mine thinks when I am in a car going down the bumpy main road that I am running a marathon. It sends encouragement messages and adds thousand of steps 🤣😂🤣
  15. Native rats do that here lol the time. They particularly love tractor fuel lines. DH had to fix the tractor fuel lines for the 5 th time just last week. Glad he is handy and can do things like that himself, but it is such a pain. Apparently it happens to campers around this part of the state often. They camp in the bush for a day or 2 and their car won't start when they are ready to leave, rats chewed the fuel lines I have an overactive imagination and picture rats gathering fuel to run an underground city
  16. So glad you found some positives there My brother had esophageal cancer he was pretty crook for a good 12 months but is 5 years clear so far
  17. I need help I am to not be stressed at all for medical reasons. I am trying to keep it all together. I need to find the smallest good in things. To keep completely calm on the inside. To focus on that. I don't want to end up back in hospital
  18. So glad that twin2 thinks I am having such a great time handwashing that he wants to get into the action and wash his 🤣
  19. Heaps of glad this morning So glad that our other car is the other end the state, otherwise I might be tempted to drive to a laundromat and I am medically not allowed to drive atm So glad it is hot day because the hand washed clothes will get dry. Stiff but dry Supper glad that when I hang up the wet clothes after handwashing I can put potted plants underneath and they will get watered from all the dripping Oh I am having the most glad morning ever Poor DH spent the night sleeping in a broken new to us car on the side of the highway. So my morning is going so much better than his . His phone has gone flat so I don't even know what is happening. Haven't worked out the glad aspect of that yet
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