They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them.
Lest we forget
This blog is about my life as a mother and nanna and about my great family.
They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them.
Lest we forget
So, after going through some stuff, I found this book called
Australians Under Fire 1942 and have decoded to use it for my Wednesday
posts. We will start with the
introduction that is in the book because the start of the book is the best
place to start if you don’t want to be all over the damn place, which I do not.
As the title says this book is focused mostly on the year 1942.
It seems like the year 1942 was a dark, uncertain, and
crucial one for Australia, with several events taking place such as the bombing
of Darwin, the battle of the Coral Sea, Milne Bay, Kokoda and El Alamein these where
all major events Australia played a part in.
Since the start of hostilities in September 1939 us Aussies
had fought bravely on distant battlefields in Greece, Crete and the Middle
East.
Then at the end on 1941 the Japanese joined the war, and, on
the 7 December 1941, they bombed Pearl Harbour bringing the USA into the war. Till this time the war seemed far away to
Aussies, however these events frightened many Aussies.
As the Japanese steadily advanced against the British on the
island fortress of Singapore it became obvious that Britain wouldn’t be able to
defend Australia.
Ironically during the first World War Japan’s navy acted as
one of Australia’s protectors and was now a feared enemy.
Japan was in an ideal position to launch an attack on the northern
part of Australia.
More next week.
Hello Tuesday, you are day
for another freaky creature, this week it is the Common Basilisk, have you
heard of it? I have not but it is a lizard that has been nicknamed the Jesus Christ lizard.
It received this nickname because of its ability to run on water. When
it’s threatened it can escape by sprinting towards any water. When they reach
the edge of the water they just keep going.
They run on their back legs with their body upright and arm by its side. They have been clocked at 8km/h on water and 11km/h
on land.
The reason it’s so good on
water is its feet, it has big feet with flaps of scaly skin along the toes
which create air bubbles which then push down which keeps it afloat.
The young can run atop water
for up to 20m, but adults can only manage a quarter of that, not because they
are slower just bigger.
There is little chance of them
drowning as they are great swimmers and can stay underwater for up to 30 minutes.
Monday again, so time for some
more facts, still about sea creatures.
There are a
million known species of plants and animals living in the world’s oceans, with
many more to be discovered.
There are around
65,000 newly discovered species of yet given formal names.
Coral reefs cover
less than 1 per cent of the ocean floor, but support around 25 per cent of all
marine life.
A female octopus
is called hen, The Giant Pacific Octopus lays around 100,000 eggs at a time.
Most of the octopus’s
body is spongy and flexible, but its eyes are more solid. Ost spies can squeeze
through tight spaces that are only slightly larger than their eyes.
An octopus’s eyes
remain at the same orientation regardless of its position, so if it is on its side
or even upside now its gaze doesn’t change.
Another good night, slept till the alarm went off but I did get
up once to pee. Temp is 15 degrees at 5am.
There was an incident in Sydney were a man entered a shopping
centre and stabbed and killing up to 6 people including a 9-month-old, on the
5am news they said the baby was still alive, but the mother died. The man was
shot and killed by a police officer.
Tasha came down and asked if I would like to go to Woolies
myself tomorrow, I said I would.
Had a
really good night, woke at 4.50am with at temp of 12 degrees according to the
laptop or 15 degrees according to my phone.
Tasha
took me out shopping but after half an hour, I start to sweat a lot it was
dripping off me and I felt I was going to collapse.
The rest
of the day has been good.
It is
10.30pm and I can’t settle down, I am drenched in sweat and my body will not
stop moving.
Sam just
walked in and is concerned that I am awake and that I am moving so much.
When I went back to bed
last night Sam sat with me holing my hand and talking in a soft voice till, I
started to relax. I then went back to sleep and slept through to 5am. It was 14
degrees when I got up but reached a top of 25 degrees.
Kathy dropped the girls
off, they have spent a lot of time with Tasha, Tim bought Hungry Jacks for
lunch.
Just before 11am I went for
a nap slept for an hour and 15 minutes, could have slept longer but didn’t that
would be a good idea.
The girls spent a far bit
of time with Tasha.
Had a
better night, although it did take me a while to fully settle.
Temp this
morning is 16 degrees, I do have both front and back doors open but will close
one shortly, I expect.
By 11am
it is 23 degrees.
Tim rang
to see how we go about arranging for a bulk waste collection, as I thought the
Dept of Housing needs to arrange it. I thought Tim was somewhat rude on the
phone but he didn’t.
It is
chilly Thursday morning here in my part of Newie, a decent enough sleep after a
restless start to the night. It is 15 degrees at 5.30am, by midday it was 24
degrees.
Tim went
and brought fresh bread a couple of snags and a bit of bacon and made snags,
bacon & cheese sandwiches for lunch.
It
started to rain at 3pm, the temp was still 22 degrees. The rain was pissing
down but didn’t last long.
It is cold this morning
with a temp of 13 degrees, too cold now to open the doors. I had a good night
better than the last few as I settled down much faster.
Kathy rang as she usually
does on a Friday, but she was in a right mood so didn’t talk, instead I said we
will talk on Monday.
Sam came down this morning
to just chill with me for a while and was here over an hour maybe longer.
I am having trouble
settling again so I got up for a bit, spent 45 minutes talking to Tim, now I am
back to bed.
After returning to bed last night I settled without issue, I
slept till the alarm went at 5am. It is a wet morning with a temp of 15
degrees, I think we are in for a wet day.
Jess came down to tell me about an issue she had with her dad
last night concerning Sam‘s medication and how she doesn’t keep track of it.
When he got up Tim showed me the messages from Jess, they were
not bad messages and a couple of his replies seemed childish to me and uncalled
for and I said so. I know he was pissed that I didn’t agree 100% with him but I
don’t have to.
It has rained on and off all day getting to a top temp of 17
degrees.
Have you heard of borderline
personality disorder?
Do you know what it is?
Well, I am going to tell you.
Borderline personality disorder
is a mental illness that severely impacts a person's ability to
manage their emotions. This loss of emotional
control can increase impulsivity, affect how a person feels about themselves,
and negatively impact their relationships with others.
There are nine signs of the condition.
·
Fear
of Abandonment. You're going to leave me
·
Intense
Interpersonal Relationships
·
Identity
Disturbance
·
Impulsivity
·
Recurrent
Self-Harm/Suicidal Behaviour
·
Affective
Instability
·
Chronic
Emptiness
·
Inappropriate
Anger
·
Psychotic
Symptoms
This isn’t a condition I suffer from, but I do have a sister who
does. Over the next few Saturdays, I will be writing more about this
condition. Explaining a little more about each of the nine signs.
Well, here we are at another Friday so here is a bit more
about Parkinson’s Disease, this week we are looking a bit more at walking with
Parkinson’s.
There are a number of very specific and somewhat strange
symptoms that can affect one’s walking.
The most common would be what is called start hesitancy, this is when
someone with Parkinson’s goes to take a step and can’t, this is because the
automatic movement of lifting one foot off the ground doesn’t happen. The reason for this seems to be that the
disease makes it difficult to induce the reflex reaction to shift the centre of
gravity on to one foot so the other can be lifted and moved forward.
This doesn’t happen all the time but when it does it becomes
near impossible to walk, because it comes and goes some family, or friends may
think the person isn’t trying but the fact is the more we try to move the more
difficult it is to do so.
Oddly many will find using stairs not as difficult as
walking on flat ground.
Sometimes if the sufferer is given a little push to try and
get them moving, they will stumble then start to walk with small steps often
becoming faster an unable to stop till they either fall or run into a wall or
other obstruction. Trust me this is frightening and embarrassing and so hard
for people to understand. It is called retropulsion or propulsion and in a
crowded place can be dangerous.
If someone has this problem often, they should always at
least have a walking stick with them which brings attention to the fact they
have walking issues, making it less likely that other people will bump into
them, as well as the fact having a stick will go a long way in preventing this symptom
from raising its damn head.
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