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Catdownunder: I am wondering what it would be like
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Saturday, 1 August 2015. I am wondering what it would be like. When the MH370 flight went missing I heard people who must love conspiracy theories claiming that the Chinese wanted someone on board so they had hi-jacked the entire plane load and were holding them hostage in the Himalaya. There were other wild theories as well, some of them aired in the media. But, people want to know. We know what happened to Flight MH17 too but people, understandably, want to know "who". There are people unaccounted for ...
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Catdownunder: Cricket? Dare I even
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Sunday, 9 August 2015. The Senior Cat has a number of cricket crazy cousins. They are not happy. One of them in particular may still be pounding the walls in frustration. We can't b. play! What's wrong with them? And (I suspect) worse. If there is cricket or Aussie Rules football on when he comes to visit he dashes for the remote control for the television set. Why aren't you watching? The Senior Cat smiles and says, "Yes, I know. It's important." The word "not" is never said but it is thought. This was ...
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Catdownunder: The "gay marriage" issue
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Wednesday, 12 August 2015. The "gay marriage" issue. Issue went to a special meeting of the government party room yesterday. Party" seems an odd word to use in that context. There was no party. The coalition partners were brought in. There were presumably earnest, and undoubtedly heated, consultations. People spoke up for and against. In the end the vote to change the party's stance on same sex marriage failed. The official line is that they are still opposed to it. His sister is in a same sex relationsh...
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Catdownunder: May 2015
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Sunday, 31 May 2015. The Senior Cat's i-pad. Cover is looking a little worse for wear. I noted this last night when Youngest Nephew came to pick us up. He was home for the weekend to see his mother (Middle Cat) and we had been invited over for the evening meal. I want to know how to do something," the Senior Cat told Youngest Nephew. While they were talking Middle Cat, who was lying on the couch with a purring cat on top of her, consulted me about another problem. Middle Cat, as is her wont, dobbed me in...
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Catdownunder: April 2015
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Thursday, 30 April 2015. Rather than a credit card. I have a "Load and Go" card from the post office. It works like a debit card. You can put money on to it at any post office and then use it wherever you would use a Visa card within Downunder. There is a different sort of "Load and Go" for use overseas. Or rather, it should be a good idea. My card got "blocked" yesterday. It got "blocked" for the second time. Now, at this point, I have gone into the security and given the computer at the other end the "...
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Catdownunder: June 2015
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Tuesday, 30 June 2015. So if Greece defaults today. What will happen next? I don't know. I don't have a crystal economic/social ball with which to see the future. But, I do know some things. My sister, Middle Cat, married into the Greek-Cypriot community. Her husband's parents came from Cyprus. Her mother-in-law is no longer with us. Her father-in-law is in a nursing home. They came from "peasant" stock. Her husband's paternal grandfather was a shepherd. Some of them are anxiously watching the Greek dram...
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Catdownunder: July 2015
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Friday, 31 July 2015. Is an "Aussie Rules" footballer of mixed race heritage. He has recently been the subject of what can only be described as vile behaviour by some football match attendees. I won't call them "fans" because lovers of the game don't do anything to jeopardise it or those who play it. Their behaviour is, quite simply, unacceptable. It has to stop. But, from the time of his acceptance speech, I felt a mistake had been made with Adam Goodes. He was divisive rather than uniting. The son of m...
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Catdownunder: August 2015
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Monday, 31 August 2015. The difference between a migrant and a refugee. Should be obvious but it still seems some people don't want to understand it. A lot of my working life has been spent working with people who work directly with people who are - or become - refugees. I have been told many stories about them. I have also met many refugees and talked with them. Some of them were refugees in the far distant past and others are raw, new refugees. We should all be doing more to support refugees. We ne...
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Catdownunder: Oh right, that thing called "cake"
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Tuesday, 4 August 2015. Oh right, that thing called "cake". Has appeared on the menu in the Clan Cat house. I rarely make cake. We eat very little of it. I did not make this cake. And so we go hunting in the supermarket in the section I usually ignore completely - the cake and biscuit and bun bit. She found the macaroons. It consists of a layer of pastry. This is followed by a thin smear of "jam". (I am not sure whether it is supposed to be strawberry or raspberry.) After that comes a layer o...It was ni...
