Forum Thermomix
Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: cookie1 on September 04, 2010, 01:38:17 pm
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I do hope Judy, Amanda, Trudy and other SA thermomixers are all ok with the nasty weather you are having. I'm thinking of you. Take care. :-* :-*
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Thanks Cookie, you are a sweetie :-* :-* I'm fine here but it was the windiest I have ever experienced as we live in a sheltered area and rarely get huge winds. Others may not be so lucky but I certainly hope so too. It seems as if most of Eastern & South Australia is copping it at the moment but I noticed Perthites wearing short sleeves at their footy match today.
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I'm so glad you are ok Judy.
Yes it was a bit warm here today. A little overcast. They keep forcasting rain but it never comes. Perth got next to nothing out of the big front that is shaking everyone up over there. It came in from the north and didn't really come down to us.
Meganjane how are you going for rain?
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Where we are, we had 44ml of rain in 24 hours. That is such a lot for us, well needed though but I feel for people who are getting more rain than they can handle.
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That is a lot JulieO, we got 24 mls here in our suburb (others always get a lot more than us) but I think there is more on the way today sometime. The Royal Adelaide Show will certainly suffer in attendances this year - who would want to go there in weather like this. Mind you, people did but some of side-show alley was closed down for people's safety. Pity for both the stall holders and the children as they look forward to it each year.
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Yes I saw some brave souls on the news who had gone :o Hopefully the weather will dry up for a few days especially next weekend to give people, children especially a chance to enjoy all it offers. :)
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Hope everyone in SA is OK and that the weather calms down soon!! :-* :-*
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Hope you are all OK. Hard for us to imagine bad weather as Perth was beautiful & sunny today. Perfect for fathers day B-B-Q
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Have been hoping all our SA people were ok. We ran out of computer space/time so haven't been active until today. I think I may have been posting too many recipes ;D ;D ;D. Weather doesn't look too bad for next few days but there is always some flow on. The good news is that the Bush fire season will start later.
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Keep safe everyone. :-*
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We had about 40mls all up, but so windy! We have a couple of trees down in our driveway. My husband went surfing on Thursday, he said it was raining on him whilst he was surfing, and hailing on him when he got out.
The footy finals have started here for local footy, luckily hubs game was today. Yesterday, the A Grades final score was 5 ponts vs 1 goal 5. It was so windy, they couldn't kick a goal further than about 2ms away! They had to tape their ears up so they didn't get damaged, and a few netballers and footballers were taken to hospital with suspected hypothermia.
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Forgot to mention - I was doing a demonstration on Saturday, the power went out 6 times!!!!!! It was usually just a flicker, but the last time we waited an hour, and it still wasn't on, so we called it a day. The bread was just ready to go in the oven, and the sorbet was about 5 minutes cooked. Disaster!
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Forgot to mention - I was doing a demonstration on Saturday, the power went out 6 times!!!!!! It was usually just a flicker, but the last time we waited an hour, and it still wasn't on, so we called it a day. The bread was just ready to go in the oven, and the sorbet was about 5 minutes cooked. Disaster!
Next you will have to be carting a BBQ with lid!
Gretch
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Forgot to mention - I was doing a demonstration on Saturday, the power went out 6 times!!!!!! It was usually just a flicker, but the last time we waited an hour, and it still wasn't on, so we called it a day. The bread was just ready to go in the oven, and the sorbet was about 5 minutes cooked. Disaster!
Next you will have to be carting a BBQ with lid!
Gretch
or a generator.
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Just rereading my post, in case anyone was wondering, my risotto was 5 minutes cooked, not my sorbet!
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Noticed that Kimberley, it did have me wondering what you meant :D :D
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JD, in answer to your query about rain here, we were absolutely desperate for rain yesterday and Mother Nature blessed us with 10 mm last night! (http://www.thedishforum.com/smilies/happy-clapping/bliss.gif)
Still not enough, our dams are very low and we won't get through summer without carting water and feed for the sheep. We had no summer rain from cyclones this year, so sub moisture is nil, meaning our crops have been really suffering.
It's unbelievable that on one side of the country there's too much rain and on the other there's a drought.... :-\
My heart goes out to all those who are dealing with the aftermath of flooding.(http://www.thedishforum.com/smilies/sad/console.gif)
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JD, in answer to your query about rain here, we were absolutely desperate for rain yesterday and Mother Nature blessed us with 10 mm last night! (http://www.thedishforum.com/smilies/happy-clapping/bliss.gif)
Still not enough, our dams are very low and we won't get through summer without carting water and feed for the sheep. We had no summer rain from cyclones this year, so sub moisture is nil, meaning our crops have been really suffering.
It's unbelievable that on one side of the country there's too much rain and on the other there's a drought.... :-\
My heart goes out to all those who are dealing with the aftermath of flooding.(http://www.thedishforum.com/smilies/sad/console.gif)
My Country
The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies
I know, but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!
The stark white ring-barked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops,
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When, sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze ...
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand
though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.
******
©Dorothea MacKellar
This is why we love this country, with all it's faults and why I am Gertbysea!
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Thanks for that reminder Gretchen. :-*
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SAID HANRAHAN by John O'Brien
"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
In accents most forlorn,
Outside the church, ere Mass began,
One frosty Sunday morn.
The congregation stood about,
Coat-collars to the ears,
And talked of stock, and crops, and drought,
As it had done for years.
"It's looking crook," said Daniel Croke;
"Bedad, it's cruke, me lad,
For never since the banks went broke
Has seasons been so bad."
"It's dry, all right," said young O'Neil,
With which astute remark
He squatted down upon his heel
And chewed a piece of bark.
And so around the chorus ran
"It's keepin' dry, no doubt."
"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."
"The crops are done; ye'll have your work
To save one bag of grain;
From here way out to Back-o'-Bourke
They're singin' out for rain."
"They're singin' out for rain," he said,
"And all the tanks are dry."
The congregation scratched its head,
And gazed around the sky.
"There won't be grass, in any case,
Enough to feed an ass;
There's not a blade on Casey's place
As I came down to Mass."
"If rain don't come this month," said Dan,
And cleared his throat to speak -
"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"If rain don't come this week."
A heavy silence seemed to steal
On all at this remark;
And each man squatted on his heel,
And chewed a piece of bark.
"We want an inch of rain, we do,"
O'Neil observed at last;
But Croke "maintained" we wanted two
To put the danger past.
"If we don't get three inches, man,
Or four to break this drought,
We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."
In God's good time down came the rain;
And all the afternoon
On iron roof and window-pane
It drummed a homely tune.
And through the night it pattered still,
And lightsome, gladsome elves
On dripping spout and window-sill
Kept talking to themselves.
It pelted, pelted all day long,
A-singing at its work,
Till every heart took up the song
Way out to Back-o'-Bourke.
And every creek a banker ran,
And dams filled overtop;
"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"If this rain doesn't stop."
And stop it did, in God's good time;
And spring came in to fold
A mantle o'er the hills sublime
Of green and pink and gold.
And days went by on dancing feet,
With harvest-hopes immense,
And laughing eyes beheld the wheat
Nid-nodding o'er the fence.
And, oh, the smiles on every face,
As happy lad and lass
Through grass knee-deep on Casey's place
Went riding down to Mass.
While round the church in clothes genteel
Discoursed the men of mark,
And each man squatted on his heel,
And chewed his piece of bark.
"There'll be bush-fires for sure, me man,
There will, without a doubt;
We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."
Around the Boree Log and Other Verses, 1921
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Wonderful CreamPuff. Donchya love it?
Gert
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Thanks girls, it brings a lump to your throat.
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Oh ,beautiful I only have to go out and see a lovely golden wheat crop and I get a lump in my throat.
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:D
Love both poems.
We call my DH 'Hanrahan'!
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our family have been supplying farmers with concrete tanks for years, and as a young kid have always had to watch every drop of water. have always been mindful of rainfall, and how long we could turn the tap on. i remember this poem from when i was a kid and there was a really bad drought and this poem was on the abc overlaying a drought documentary, and l personally loved the aussie drawl for this genre of aussie poem and agree it does bring a lump to the throat. there appears to be a lot of extremely talented poets back in those days, but i don't think that i am up with todays aussie poets because they don't seem to have struck a chord with me as much as the old ones.
MJ I think there is a Hanrahan in every farmer, but I admire that you have depicted DH as the most pessimistic farmer of them all. of course I say this while i chew me piece of wheat. (or grain that I managed to scavenge in the city)
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Ok CP63, own up. Where are your family from? Maybe my family bought concrete tanks from them.
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glad to hear you are all ok..we have had alot of rain over here too but nothiing to affect us where we are..just flooded our local train station underground and the garden is getting a really good soak :)
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Just rereading my post, in case anyone was wondering, my risotto was 5 minutes cooked, not my sorbet!
Just reading through and about to comment. LOL didn't see cooked sorbet in my book ;)
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Of droughts and flooding rains.
I said that to MrsT as we drove through the driving rain last week listening to the flood news. Never rains but it bloody well pours.
Cruel.
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Please send us some. I think we're in for massive water restrictions. I've almost forgotten what rain looks like. :'(