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and last updated May 13th., 2001.
WELCOME TO MY DAY..
IT IS NICE TO HAVE YOU SHARE IT WITH ME...
Hmm....May already....that interlude between the Easter holiday break and the June Long Weekend, and after that it's all countdown to Christmas!
I used to like to go North when we still had our school term holidays in May, (they changed all that), but there was always pressure from the family to be here for Mothers' Day and the husband's birthday on the 19th. Course, these days, if I stayed home for EVERYONE'S birthday, the way my kids are begetting, I would NEVER get away!
And well I remember when that beautiful meat was delivered to our shop, the Wednesday before Christmas, 1999, so very fresh that it appeared to be still quivering, with the butcher and his wife unpacking it on the counselling bench and explaining each cut so very enthusiastically that several of our vegetarian customers in the shop at the time have never been quite the same since! !
The son is always wanting me to visit HIS part of the Northern Hemisphere instead of continually going back to USA, and he sent a video and digital pictures of the Expatriates Club, complete with pool and private beach, which he joined, at crushing expense, he says, to help his family settle into their new environment.
"Is this your kind of place, Ma, or What?" he wanted to know, thinking he knew the answer already.
Well, er, yes, Son..looks like my kind of place..except for having to cover my hands, feet, and head every time I set foot outside it!! As you know, I like to get the sun onto my limbs!
And this year the junior son has messaged his intention of bringing his wife and daughter home from Abu Dabai for a brief visit from June 19th...their last, he stresses, "as a single child family". He said he thought he should give us warning in case I had planned to "take off' between mid-June and early July..to make sure I don't ! Sigh..it's all a PLOT!!
Which means we need to get two or three weeks' supply of Halal meat from the butcher at Meredith, the next town along the Ballarat Road from our Bannockburn shop, but we don't mind because, though it is higher priced than our usual heathen meat supply, it is such superior quality that we really do know what the butcher meant when he said his Halal slaughterer kills only the best beasts!! 
Also, doubt your new country would take too kindly to my declared interest in the study of Judaism!
Work has been fiendishly busy. I had some bad days and nights with two computers when I realised the background midis to my webpages were not playing,and I dismantled and tested and reloaded almost everything trying to find a version conflict, only to discover they weren't playing for any of YOU lot, either ! (why do I ALWAYS assume anything like that is MY fault?). Anyway, it was a good way to get everything streamlined and working faster.......I guess!!!
But I do heavy buying in early May-- three months supply of giftware and perfumes, and this year, with almost supernatural timing, EVERYTHING was delivered in one 48 hour period BEFORE the senior staffer went on leave, so that we JUST had time to get it all checked off, priced , displayed and put away before she left.
And the timing seems to have been right in other ways , too. I had planned to keep the "Ancient Egypt" range under my office desk until after Mothers' Day, and then use it for a window display, but somehow, with my librarian's training, I had made so much room, and it was so spectacular, that we decided to shelve it for the interim, and I was astonished to find I had an audience of primary school kids as I set it up. ..
Seems the local school is about to start "Ancient Egypt" this week...
Folks, you can get some of it right, some of the time!!.
She will get quite a shock as to how our working environment has altered since she last toiled there..
But Marilyn's leave left me kind of scraping the barrel to fill out the week's roster, and daughter Fiona had to be dragged from maternity-leave semi-retirement, (if coping with 5 kids and a restless partner can be termed any form of retirement) to work one day.
Have you ever SEEN the guidelines an employer must follow to employ pregnant staff?
Not that the "roomy and suitably tailored uniform" will be a problem. She can wear one of MINE, since I tended to allow room for improvement with the last outfits I selected for myself, being so sick of things looking and feeling TIGHT!
In fact, there will probably be some doubt which of us is actually expecting!
At least the road to work is much improved and open again, aftrer heavy equipment had worked for weeks to remove the parts of the hill that were most likely to fall.
Photo from the Geelong Advertiser, May 3rd., 2001.
But the "long way" round the mountain doesn't actually take much longer, really, and I realised how much safer it is when I was followed around it by a siren-blaring, lights-flashing ambulance, and found room to pull over to let it pass...a feat just not POSSIBLE on the Deviation, where the "side of the road" is either a sheer cliff UP or a sheer drop DOWN. AND there is an extra lane which gives one a nice secure feeling, too.
Of course, driving through the grey-covered streetends dominated by the huge silos, through miles cratered by quarries and dustcovered, I tended to think of some of the parts of Dante's Inferno, and the opening chapters of "The Great Gatsby" and bits of "Bladerunner"......
But I'll keep you posted!
Love to everyone ,and everyone on our side!
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