Morning all.

Morning Jean...just read your story on another thread.....I was 8 when an employee tried to molest me.......he was taken  to court, but everyone laughed at me and made me so embarrassed, all the men thought I was lying and didn't believe me.......so I can empathise with you♥

I can't even remember what we did to pay when the babies were born, can anyone?

Well Darki, it couldn't have been much.  I can't remember anyone complaining about the cost.  Also the mother was given 35 pounds (a lot of money in those days) towards the first babe to buy babe things. lesser payment for subsequent children as things were handed on, and a weekly child endowment payment until aged ???.

Jean, I remember when I was about 10, an attempted abduction.  I ran away and hid and watched where he went.

Went home and told my father, who was a tough rugby player.  My father found him. After he had a 'word' with him he took him (battered) to the police station.

The bushfire season has started and I have just finished packing my survival kit.  Papers, change of clothing, photos, thumb drives and my wee doggie's stuff.  A whiff of smoke and I am off.  I am keeping my gas tank full too. Sure I may lose things, but as somebody on the CS

said.....they are only things.  However, I have packed 10 pieces of my Italian glass each worth over $10K in a box too.  But I can't take everything...our three lives have priority.

I got one of those shopping pull along carts on wheels in case I need to walk (or run) if I need to.  I have left room in the top for my wee babies.

There is only one road out of our bushland village....and I am going to be on it with the first warning of level extreme.

I''m just throwing my 5 furbabies and us in a car and skedaddling....don't care about the rest.

Gilly...please make sure you have your insurance policies, banking details, property titles, etc. with you.   I went to a bush fire brigade meeting last week and they advised that people who cannot supply documents are put at the end of the claim investigation queues.  Just photcopies will suffice.

It is so easy putting them into a bag by the front door.

I am not taking my laptops.  I have just loaded everything onto thumb drives.   As the brigade said....it may be a false alarm and you can go back the same day.....and always lock up your house when you leave because of potential looting.  Evidently this is common....opportune thieving.

I am ready to grab my babies and leave without thinking about what I need to take with me....including water for the wee ones.

That new advert on tv about planning to leave really hits the nail on the head.  

Another thing Gillie....there is no safe refuge area in our village.

Not even out onto the lake - this is a no no.  The fire sucks up the oxygen from the surface and you can suffocate.

So, our only choices in the event of an extreme threat are to leave early or stay inside the house and hope for the best.

I have already decided to leave early.

If a fire occurs during the tourist season, our village is packed with city mobbers who have no idea of what to do, and only one road out.....and I am outa here first thing.  The best outcome will be a false alarm. One advantage I have is that I am in the middle of a rain forest, thick with non flammable trees, and with a ridge on both sides of me......fires burn up, not down  And the more the  trees the slower the burn.  But I am really worried about my critters who live around me.

Thank goodness I went to that RFB meeting.

I remember in the 70's when the Bank of NSW became Westpac and they had that ad with the song Hey Big Spender.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYtJ8kAgZvQ&feature=bf_prev&list=PLD02CE2416E604497

Like you freshie, I am well prepared.  Been through one fire, don't want to do it again 😞

This time people will find me down on the sports oval near the marina...

Haven't had a fire in this area since the 1967 bush fires, just hope it stays that way.

Best thing to do is take your computer so long as all your informatio re insurance etc is on it.  That way you can access the information on line too.

How are the curtains going? 🙂  Gotta ask... how's the wrist?

Not fire season down here - yet... I think our wet winter has probably delayed it for this year, but it's a matter of watch out next year when it is all grown thicker and dryer.

Hopefully I will have moved by then.  I am somewhere tired of living in bushfire areas...

The last man who molested me got an elbow in his stomach that seriously winded him... Thankfully those who wished to molest me when I was small failed... I had a nasty tongue even back then and they hated me for it... X-(

I was molested when I was about 28 by a guy I couldn't shake off.. bit right through his tongue till my teeth met.. grrrrr 

Gee Darki....I'll never give you a tonguey.  :^O:^O

Thank god for that freshie :^O

No, damn it, I get thoroughly fed up with men who think they can rule and abuse.

Little kids have no defence against it, but the older we get the more we have weapons.

I live on my own down here and have had men say to me, "Oh, you are very isolated aren't you, doesn't it worry you?"

Yeah, roight!  My answer?  "Well if someone can get past the electric fence, two barking dogs and an angry woman with a rifle they are welcome to try"... X-(

I have had all three male neighours come on to my land, two of them abusive and one who seems to think it's okay to put tin around my gum trees to stop possums getting into his place or to 'fix my electric gate' that was clicking.

I 'punished' him for putting the tin around my trees by getting him to paint it green so I couldn't see it :^O

Ofcourse as far as the gate was concerned, he had no idea how to fix it, but stood there with a little bit of grey plastic in his hands fiddling with the gate when I saw him...  JAYZUS!

Never a 'may I please?' or 'can I help'... nothing.  They have all been given short shift.  

I have some lovely men friends I have known for years who would never dream of not letting me know they were coming, but this lot around here.... grrrrrr X-(

Hi ho, such is life :^O

On a new tack... I have just been looking for some DVDs for my son and his daughter to have over Christmas while his wife and her daughter are back in Ireland.

Who can remember 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' with Alec Guiness, or 'Arsenic and Old Lace' with Cary Grant?

I have found both of them and ordered them as the cub loves old b&w films...  🙂

16 yo granddaughter is into sci fi and horror, but has probably seen all the new ones, so have found 'Children of the Corn'  anyone remember that?