General Chat

Hi SylviaInCanada.
Did not miss Janey's earthquake thread. Quite entertaining. And I don't believe there is any connection between said earthquake and our gaining a new PM.


The eathquake still to be felt here will probably occur when the voters go to the polls between now and the end of the year (possible) or before March next year (mandatory). I don't believe there are many Australians who voted for the PM, who has just been tipped out on his ear, would be very pleased with the way the democratically voted leader has been treated.

It remains to be seen whether the voter earthquake is minor, a small tremor, or a major quake of epic proportions which will remove the Labor Party from office. I await with interest.

well



Canada and Australia are on opposite sides of the Pacific .......................................................



but then this earthquake was in the middle of the country

Oh AuntyS. don't tell me you missed Janey's 'quake thread??

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1227173&px=1


Just pondering how the earthquake in Canada caused Australia to have a new PM......lol



Cx

Thank you for the info. Our rivers also flow into the sea, and yes they are freshwater. What was I thinking!! Duh!

I will google maps it. It was something I was interested in at school, long story.

By the way. Canada had an earthquake. Australia woke up with a new Prime Minister. Well we had a new one straight after breakfast.

Go to google maps CA and ask for Sauble Beach, Ontario. Zoom in and put it on satellite view and you'll see what I mean about the beach and lake. Just like the Gold Coast. ;)

I finally spotted the name of the place in Michigan where I spent Labour Day weekend -- Ludington.

Ask google maps for

Parkview Cottages, Ludington, MI, United States

and that was the place. On satellite view you can see how the water is greener than at Sauble Beach.

East south east of Sauble Beach about 20 miles, on the bottom tip of Georgian Bay, is Owen Sound -- where *my* Ernest Hill settled around 1910!

No old boots on this thread Dizzi!

AuntyS, really. It's a lake. It's fresh water.

It's quite lovely -- it's the only Great Lake that doesn't border on Canada, but I holidayed there for a few days about 20 years ago. It was September, on the east shore of the lake, and in the little bay we were on it was beautiful green water (unlike Huron which is blue blue, for instance), and just warm enough still to swim in.

Some Great Lakes shores are just like an ocean -- Sauble Beach on Lake Huron, for instance, is much like Daytona in Florida. The waves don't get so big though.

Water flows *from* the Great Lakes *into* the St Lawrence and thence to the Gulf of St Lawrence and the North Atlantic.

Superior is the farthest west. I've only seen it in mid-February, and that is a sight to behold. Great big chunks of ice that have been battered up against the rocky shoreline, the lake frozen out from the land.

Huron is next. The east shore of Huron and around the Bruce Peninsula that divides the main lake from Georgian Bay is where I spent two weeks every summer with my family when I was a kid.

Actually, Michigan is sort of next. It dips down from where Superior and Huron connect, at Sault Ste Marie. Then there's the St Clair River running south from the bottom tip of Huron, and Lake Erie opens to the east from there, and then Niagara Falls between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. And Ontario feeds into the St Lawrence.

Here, for heaven's sake! www.maps.google.ca will take you straight there.

Do you have rivers in Australia where the water flows into them *from* the ocean??

Probably. Like the toilets that flush counterclockwise.

OUCHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

FRESH WATER






RUNS OFF THREAD AAVOIDING OLD BOOT BEING THROWN

Janey, Hope you are still awake. I need to settle a discussion. Lake Michigan?? Salt or fresh water. Does it change with the seasons. Is it connected to the other lakes and does the water flow down the St Lawrence into it.

"Discussion" arose from a quiz question. Which is the longest FRESH water lake in the world. Options were Lake Tanganyika, Lake Michigan, and another whose name escapes me.

So Michigan, fresh or salt.

Ha I really do love highjacking your threads!!!

So for anyone fretting about No.1 - he's doing just fine

Looks to me they are fretting more about the rude song to do with Popeye JC.

I am glad to hear he is now walking wounded though..{creeps}

GAIL


ERRRR THIS CARAVAN IS THERE A HOLE MENTIONED

So for anyone fretting about No.1 - he's doing just fine. And I did a bunch of dishes last night. Haven't raised the washing machine issue yet. It's a portable in the kitchen, you hook it up to the kitchen tap, and I have no clue how it works.

And the predictable happened. He was talking to his mum this afternoon, telling her all about it. And then: earthquake! so he had to cut the conversation short. He called back a few minutes later when it seemed all clear, and sister-in-law had been awakened when the quake hit there a few minutes later (she works nights) and wanted in on it.

Yes, once again, he'd come up with any old excuse so he didn't have to perform his filial duty and stay with his mother while she and his brother take their scheduled annual vacation -- next week. At that point he hung up the phone. She called back a few minutes later and I answered and said he had walked to the store (bad idea; if he can walk to the store, surely he can travel 5 hours by bus and look after his mother), and she didn't want to hear anything but asked that I pass on apologies. A while later his mum called again, so I guess it will get smoothed over.

My family may be a bunch of pull-no-punches oddballs, but I'll take them over that yap-first-think-later (to the extent she can/does think) sister-in-law any day.

To be fair, she was really disappointed, that their vacation might not work out. They've had a bit of hard times with the recession. And I know what I had to say to No.1 when he decided to pull another midnight medical drama. But I later impressed upon him that he should never hesitate to whine about whatever malady he was feeling. It usually does turn out to be an emergency ...

Yes. Know about the spinach. Usually grow it so we can have it fresh but it was not planted this year. Like the idea of the frozen spinach. Takes up less room in the fridge.

Cynthia I wonder if it is the same rude verse I know? Does he live in a caravan? Who? Popeye of course.

Gail

You could be the new Popeye and Olive Oyl with all that spinach Janey!


Just remember to lift the bottoms of your jama legs before trying to run next time dear! Can't be doing with all that weeping and wailing :))



Actually, I can remember a rude verse of Popeye's song from my childhood which would just about fit that situation. lol

No, I will not repeat it on here - it was very childish :))))


Cx.

Sorry 'bout that!


sleep tight


We're away to open up the cabin tomorrow. Just a quick trip up there and back. Only 8 hours each way, broken by 2 nights at a motel, 1 day at the cabin.


I'll be back on here Thursday evening.


Behave until then!



sylvia

Hmmmm. Talk about yer one-upping, Sylvia. ;)

I need to get us some of those things and also vitamin D, the new wonder drug.

What I really need is to get some sleep ...

I just take mineral supplements ....... selenium, chromium and zinc, one of each twice a week, and have done since 1995

Either chromium or zinc is supposed to help md, and the other helps wound healing. But I can never remember which one is which, so I still take them both.

I was diagnosed with macular degeneration in January 1995, and told I might well be blind within 6 months

THAT is devastating


4 months later I was diagnosed with breast cancer ........ well, that was easy to deal with after being told I was going to go blind. Take it off!

2 weeks after that I went to my GP, and was discussing everything that had happened, and mentioned the macular degeneration. He'd not had a report from the retinologist. He suggested I take the 3 supplements, 1 of each a day.

2 months later I saw the retinologist ...... hmmm says he, I'll see you in 6 months

6 months later I saw him ...... hjmmm, says he, there hasn't been much change. I'll see you in 6 months

6 months later I saw him ...... hmmm says he, there hasn't been any change, I'll see you in a year.

The next visit, he said he didn't want to see me again.


In 2001, I had cataracts removed from both eyes. At the last check-up I asked that guy "what about the macular degeneration?" He said "what macular degeneration? There's nothing wrong with your eyes!"



so was it a wrong diagnosis, by one of the top guys in his field? Or the supplements??


I have no idea ........ but I still take them twice a week!!!!




and anyway ...... I don't like spinach!!!




sylvia

I can just imagine it, Janey

I bet he's rushing around Sainsbury's (or your equivalent)
asking for one cannellone or, indeed, a single of broccolo

Sue x

I knew that.



;)

You should see the shopping list when No.1 has to buy both those things and broc___li.