Tonight we took her to the airport. Alistair Wuth came with us and his mum met us at the airport. Dan towed Sarah's very heavy bag. We took some photos and hugged and waived.
All the best Sarah.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Goodby Sarah
Sarah left tonight on a plane. Very sad really. She lived with us for 10 months. Attended Corinda high, went on holidays with us. Now she is gone.
Tonight we took her to the airport. Alistair Wuth came with us and his mum met us at the airport. Dan towed Sarah's very heavy bag. We took some photos and hugged and waived.
All the best Sarah.
Tonight we took her to the airport. Alistair Wuth came with us and his mum met us at the airport. Dan towed Sarah's very heavy bag. We took some photos and hugged and waived.
All the best Sarah.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Sunday Observances
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The first observance for Frank was rowing. Up at 4:30ish. On the water at 5:30. Off at 7am and away from the shed by 7:30.
2
The second observance was church.
It was Flashpoint Sunday (Last Sunday in the month). We started in Church and at about 9:20 the kids leave. As a full immersion baptism was planned to be held at Tim and Ro's place as part of the morning church service, we decided to have the kids walk there.
During church, I (Frank) got up and let the parents know that we would be walking and handed out a map so they knew where to find their little darling after the service.
Flashpoint was based on the John
13:31-35 reading. “A new command I give you: Love one another.....". More detail here.
We started with a prayer at the church and walked to Hives Park where we sang a couple of songs. Bob had his guitar and Paul and Dan had djembe.
We then walked to the other end of the park. There Paul told the story of Mother Teresa. The theme here is looking out for others. We continued our walk to Francis Lookout. There we reread the bible reading and talked about greeting others with a smile. Then we looked through binoculars and the telescope that Bob had brought. Not sure how he carried it along with his guitar. (Next weeks theme will deal with the sin of jealousy and coveting others goods and chattels.).
Then on round the corner to Tim and Ro's house. As had been walking, the oldies had finished off the service in the church and driven up.
We gathered round Tim and Ro's pool. An absolutely beautiful day. Warm and sunny. The pool was .... how do we say this...
$#%$&^%$@freezing.
Being quietly thankful that it was not us who were about to freeze caused a little sing song.
The lady in White (how appropriate) is our new minister. And the lady in the pool with her back to us is Claire. She was inducted earlier in the day as an 'elder' and that qualified her to be drafted into pool duty as well.
We had a Husband and wife dunked. Their two children were also baptised but they stood beside the pool and had water poured over them.
It was really fantastic to see and I wish them all the best for their life as it unfolds as a family.
A nice picture of Chris
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The third (religious? ) observance of the day was a trip to the dump. To dispose of half a mulberry tree that Chris had demolished with axe and machete.
4 Good by to Sarah.
Our exchange student Sara has been with us 10 months but on Tuesday she leaves us to fly by to Deutschland.
We had a gathering of friends and family to farewell her. Actually only one of many farewell parties. She had one on Saturday with some of her friends and there seem to be several more at school tomorrow (Tuesday).
The first observance for Frank was rowing. Up at 4:30ish. On the water at 5:30. Off at 7am and away from the shed by 7:30.
2
The second observance was church.
It was Flashpoint Sunday (Last Sunday in the month). We started in Church and at about 9:20 the kids leave. As a full immersion baptism was planned to be held at Tim and Ro's place as part of the morning church service, we decided to have the kids walk there.
During church, I (Frank) got up and let the parents know that we would be walking and handed out a map so they knew where to find their little darling after the service.
We started with a prayer at the church and walked to Hives Park where we sang a couple of songs. Bob had his guitar and Paul and Dan had djembe.
We then walked to the other end of the park. There Paul told the story of Mother Teresa. The theme here is looking out for others. We continued our walk to Francis Lookout. There we reread the bible reading and talked about greeting others with a smile. Then we looked through binoculars and the telescope that Bob had brought. Not sure how he carried it along with his guitar. (Next weeks theme will deal with the sin of jealousy and coveting others goods and chattels.).
Then on round the corner to Tim and Ro's house. As had been walking, the oldies had finished off the service in the church and driven up.
$#%$&^%$@freezing.
It was really fantastic to see and I wish them all the best for their life as it unfolds as a family.
The third (religious? ) observance of the day was a trip to the dump. To dispose of half a mulberry tree that Chris had demolished with axe and machete.
Our exchange student Sara has been with us 10 months but on Tuesday she leaves us to fly by to Deutschland.
We had a gathering of friends and family to farewell her. Actually only one of many farewell parties. She had one on Saturday with some of her friends and there seem to be several more at school tomorrow (Tuesday).
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Saturday
Saturday is a big day for children's sport.
Started by driving Dan to soccer at Athos park.
Then back home and took Jemma to Netball. Stayed and watched the game.
Meanwhile Dan had managed to garrotte himself on a low strung rope. Not sure if Garrotte is the right word as the offending rope caught him across the eyes. Never the less he did not play and Megan took him to the Doctor and then drove back to pick up Dom (friend of ours child).
Back home yet again, picked up Marcus. He had a driving lesson to Northgate where he played half a game against state high. He bailed early and we drove home. Then he went off to work. It was 1pm.
Chris pruned the Mulberry tree.
Sara and some of her friends met down the Arboretum to farewell her.
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Started by driving Dan to soccer at Athos park.
Then back home and took Jemma to Netball. Stayed and watched the game.
Chris pruned the Mulberry tree.
Sara and some of her friends met down the Arboretum to farewell her.
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Flashpoint Sunday 28-4-2013
It's Saturday afternoon and sundays coming and we have not prepared Flashpoint. Slack dog I am.
The exciting thing about tomorrow is that our concervative old middle class church is going to wander up to the Solomon's to engage in a full immersion baptism.
Figured that the Flashpoint kids would walk up during flashpoint. A sort of progressive church service for kids. I guess any parents who go to collect their little darlings from the hall may be somewhat disapointed. Of course any misbehaving kids will get a full immersion baptism of their own!
The lectionary readings are:
Thinking thinking.....
Hmm the John reading is the 'easiest'
Megan has arrived and will have all the answers. :)
The exciting thing about tomorrow is that our concervative old middle class church is going to wander up to the Solomon's to engage in a full immersion baptism.
Figured that the Flashpoint kids would walk up during flashpoint. A sort of progressive church service for kids. I guess any parents who go to collect their little darlings from the hall may be somewhat disapointed. Of course any misbehaving kids will get a full immersion baptism of their own!
The lectionary readings are:
| Psalm 148 | Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights above. 2 Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all ................. |
| Acts 11:1-18 | .....in a trance I saw a vision..... |
| Revelation 21:1-6 | Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth, |
| John 13:31-35 | 34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” |
Thinking thinking.....
Hmm the John reading is the 'easiest'
Megan has arrived and will have all the answers. :)
| Church car park | Gathering prayer Song: 10 9 8...???? |
| Hives Park 1 | Prayer of Confession Song |
| Hives park 2 | Bible reading Song |
| Francis Lookout | Song Talk / discuss / drama? |
| Solomon House | Song Final Prayer |
Friday, April 26, 2013
Linux
Trying to get Linux going on the old LG laptop.
Could not get it to boot from USB so resorted to creating a DVD and using that.
Now we have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS up and running.
I forget where I am up to.....
To inquire what version of Linux: (in keeping with the bizarre naming of commands in linux)
To inquire what what my ip address is:
Open a terminal window (Keyboard short cut Ctrl+Alt+T)
Enter the command ifconfig (Windows uses ipconfig. Again linux has to be just odd)
I think I am 192.168.1.48
But a nicer option seems to be on the "task bar" down the left hand side,
choose "System Settings" (Has a cog wheel and spanner)
choose "Network"
We find a nice window opens and tells us we are indeed 192.168.1.48 wired and connected.
Is Apache is running
run phpinfo.php. And yes php is running. This is good.
How about mysql
phpinfo tells me something. I think phpinfo() tells me it is running.
phpmysql
SSH & PUTTY
Tried to get in with pytty. No luck.
Followed these instructions and Installed Putty
The nice thing about Linux is one can just install things from the net
The relevant command was
WINDOWS SHARING
To make windows sharing work I had to install Samba
Could not get it to boot from USB so resorted to creating a DVD and using that.
Now we have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS up and running.
I forget where I am up to.....
To inquire what version of Linux: (in keeping with the bizarre naming of commands in linux)
- Open the Terminal (keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+T)
- Enter the command lsb_release -a
To inquire what what my ip address is:
Open a terminal window (Keyboard short cut Ctrl+Alt+T)
Enter the command ifconfig (Windows uses ipconfig. Again linux has to be just odd)
I think I am 192.168.1.48
But a nicer option seems to be on the "task bar" down the left hand side,
choose "System Settings" (Has a cog wheel and spanner)
choose "Network"
We find a nice window opens and tells us we are indeed 192.168.1.48 wired and connected.
Is Apache is running
- Open a web browser.
- Type localhost
run phpinfo.php. And yes php is running. This is good.
How about mysql
phpinfo tells me something. I think phpinfo() tells me it is running.
phpmysql
SSH & PUTTY
Tried to get in with pytty. No luck.
Followed these instructions and Installed Putty
The nice thing about Linux is one can just install things from the net
The relevant command was
WEBMINsudo apt-get install openssh-server
WINDOWS SHARING
To make windows sharing work I had to install Samba
sudo apt-get install samba smbclientsudo apt-get install smbfs
Thursday, April 25, 2013
2013 ANZAC Day
Frank, Marcus, Chris & Dan headed for the city. Marcus marched with BGS. Chris and Dan marched with the boys brigade. (Video still being edited)
Jemma, Megan and Sarah stayed local.
Girl guides marched - Jemma is in there somewhere.
So did Oxley State School.
Jemma laid a wreath.
2013 Brisbane City ANZAC Day Boys Brigade March
Chris and Dan both marched with the Boys Brigade.
Starts with Chris and Dan walking down from BGS to the city.
Video
Times
1:50 Chris carrying "Royal Australian Engineers" banner
2:15 Dan carrying "paddle" number 1
5:19 they march off
Chris is in the "colour party". He is in the row of 3 just behind the banner on the far side.
Dan is about 2 or 3 rows back on the far side. Very hard to see.
Jemma, Megan and Sarah stayed local.
So did Oxley State School.
2013 Brisbane City ANZAC Day Boys Brigade March
Chris and Dan both marched with the Boys Brigade.
Starts with Chris and Dan walking down from BGS to the city.
Video
Times
1:50 Chris carrying "Royal Australian Engineers" banner
2:15 Dan carrying "paddle" number 1
5:19 they march off
Chris is in the "colour party". He is in the row of 3 just behind the banner on the far side.
Dan is about 2 or 3 rows back on the far side. Very hard to see.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Sunday observances
Today started (for Frank) with a leisurely drive to the GPS boat shed to meet our crew's new coach. It looks like a good thing as each of us in turn sat on the ergo and had our stroke corrected. I had leave early for church and so I am not sure if the rest of them managed to get on the water.
On the way back, I saw what I initially thought was a garage sale of old pedal cars. Weird I thought as I figured one with such a collection would find a better way to convert it to cash. Those thoughts were right. It turned out the collector was simply putting it on display.
Now this one caught my eye. Basically a leaf spring with a seat and tiny wheels.
I had an idea to create a snow bike of this design. nothings new I guess.
Love the snail. Of course I am sure political correctness would prevent any toddler from experiencing such as this these days. Imagine the proud mums doing the one-up-man-ship thing. My kids got the latest super charged carbon fibre doodad. My kid rides a snail.
Passing the peace.
Catching up with friends.
Meeting new people.
kids having fun.
Chris did the power point. And a very good job he did too.
He put up a slide. decided the colour did not look right on the projector and without the audience noticing, he jumped out of power point, fixed it and re ran the presentation - all fixed.
Megan played the Organ. (Paul giving advice)
Megan the mechanic - You may have heard me comment that the phrase "German Engineering" is actually a swear word.
Chris helped me put lights on the trailer.
I have to fix it up to meet current regulations in order to change the rego across.
On the way back, I saw what I initially thought was a garage sale of old pedal cars. Weird I thought as I figured one with such a collection would find a better way to convert it to cash. Those thoughts were right. It turned out the collector was simply putting it on display.
I had an idea to create a snow bike of this design. nothings new I guess.
Love the snail. Of course I am sure political correctness would prevent any toddler from experiencing such as this these days. Imagine the proud mums doing the one-up-man-ship thing. My kids got the latest super charged carbon fibre doodad. My kid rides a snail.
Catching up with friends.
Meeting new people.
kids having fun.
He put up a slide. decided the colour did not look right on the projector and without the audience noticing, he jumped out of power point, fixed it and re ran the presentation - all fixed.
Chris helped me put lights on the trailer.
I have to fix it up to meet current regulations in order to change the rego across.
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