OT: TC in OZ

Trish lives about 2 hours north of Sydney. Manth is in the Melbourne area and I forget where Amanda is. Bobbie V.

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I e-mailed Trish and all is OK. She did say she is waiting to hear from Amanda because she is rather near the area where the cyclone hit. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

This cyclone was quite a long way north in Queensland. I don't know of any rctners in that vicinity, but someone else.

It's 3 days later now, and I haven't heard of anyone being killed although a lot of property has been destroyed. They've been a bit slow getting enough tarpaulins to them. Maybe it would be a good idea if all places that were ever at all likely to have a major cyclone had a super-safe storage place full of tarps, so they'd be prepared in advance.

Rosemary in Melbourne (where we're hosting the Commonwealth Games at present)

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I was watching the water display on the river last night, not particularly into sports, but loved that ! Lovely city Melbourne. My city is bidding along with two others for the games, I am hoping they don't win as I see our property taxes zooming up. We are only a city of just over 750,000 last time I looked, too expensive lol

Sorry to be so slow responding. Melbourne is a lovely city. I'd probably visit Canada for a games one day, but hope to get there anyway. I used to have a friend from Pugwash back in the eighties.

I'm not hugely in sport either, but I just turned the TV off when the event had no interest factor. One thing I enjoy about the Commonwealth Games is seeing the athletes from the really little places I never hear of in the years in between.

Bye again.

Rosemary

still in Melbourne, where it's Grand Prix (no interest whatever) this weekend

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Pugwash is still there and going strong lol It's one claim to fame back in the 1930s was as the venue for some very heavy peace conferences, let by T. Eaton at his 'cottage'. I believe they still host a peace conference every so often.

Fortunately Halifax was not designed well enough for that malarkey and they gave up several years ago. We lived downtown then and it sounded like the invasion of angry wasps. The one good aspect of it was that young people could go down and they would be given menial work in the pits and for my eldest grandson, then early teens, he thought he had died and gone to heaven.

Looks like your games have been a great success - congratulations.