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Anthony Albanese and Labor have a plan for a better future.

Australians deserve a leader who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and do the hard work needed to get things done.

But after nearly a decade in office, Scott Morrison still refuses to take responsibility, goes missing in action, blames others and can’t admit his mistakes.

From the bushfires to the bungled vaccine rollout to not securing enough rapid tests, Morrison’s mistakes have held Australians back.

Australians deserve so much better.

With your support at the 2022 federal election, Anthony Albanese and Labor will:

Strengthen Medicare by making it easier to see the doctor.

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Make more things here in Australia by working with business to invest in manufacturing and renewables to create more Australian jobs.

Labor will deliver a future where no one is held back and no one is left behind.

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Tackling job insecurity and low wages

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Rebuilding our proud manufacturing industry

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Supporting schools, TAFEs and universities

Powering Australia

Creating jobs, cutting power bills, reducing emissions and a safer climate

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A stronger, broader, more inclusive & more sustainable economy.

Lower Taxes

Delivering lower taxes for working families

Supporting Small Business

Backing the engine room of the national economy

National Security

Building a more secure, resilient Australia

Safer and More Affordable Housing

Help to Buy: Extending the promise of home ownership to more Australians.

Aged Care

Treating older Australians with the respect they deserve

Equality for Women

Supporting Australian women

Women’s Safety

Helping to end family, domestic and sexual violence

First Nations

Working in genuine partnership for better outcomes

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Caring for Australia’s cherished natural environment and our climate

Fighting Corruption

Restoring Australian people’s trust in their government

People Living with Disability

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Want Better Health? Ditch These 10 Things.

There is a lot of very valuable information for optimum health in this blog.
Thanks, Dr. Mercola, for sharing! 🙂

The Most Revolutionary Act

By removing certain foods, consumer products and behaviors from your life, you eliminate exposure to toxic influences that contribute to disease and malaise, while opening space for the introduction of health-promoting influences in their place.

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Who profits from War? I have a lot of questions!

There’s a lot of spending on weapons that are bought by governments.

Is defense spending to this extent really a good thing?

How should taxpayers’ money be spent? On preparations for more and more wars?

Why not spend more money to work for peace instead?

How can we cope with wars, when there is climate change and Covid infections

to cope with?

So that mankind and advanced cicilisations have any chance

of survival, is it not essential to work towards avoiding wars?

Here you go. I do ask questions. I wonder, will I soon enough get some answer to all my

questions?

It’s raining

https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/24843910/posts/27246

Four days ago, on the 24th of April, I reblogged the first part to: It’s raining!

I copy now the rest of this post from January 2014 and the comments to it! 🙂

So, it is April 2022 now. But it is still quite warm and very wet! Still. I try to put a walk on between showers along the footpath beside Brooks Creek.

Here is the copy now:

Brooks Creek ‘flows’ along beside the wooded area on this side of Lakelands Park. Someone tried to build an access for walking down to the creek.

This is the place opposite our front door.

My umbrella did get only a little bit wet. So I decide to take it inside to dry.

As I enter the living-room I can see Peter being busy with the computer.

Published by auntyuta

Auntie, Sister. Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, Mother and Wife of German Descent I’ve lived in Australia since 1959 together with my husband Peter. We have four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. I started blogging because I wanted to publish some of my childhood memories. I am blogging now also some of my other memories. I like to publish some photos too as well as a little bit of a diary from the present time. Occasionally I publish a story with a bit of fiction in it. Peter, my husband, is publishing some of his stories under berlioz1935.wordpress.com View all posts by auntyuta

PublishedJanuary 21, 2014

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15 thoughts on “It’s raining”

berlioz1935January 21, 2014 at 9:08 am EditIt is about time we had a little bit of rain. The man sitting at the computer is looking through a window to the world.Reply
1. auntyutaJanuary 21, 2014 at 9:13 am EditToo right, it is a window to the world, isn’t it?
  I am glad we have now this change in this weather!
  Still, it’s only January. Some more heatwaves might still come our way.Reply
natswansJanuary 22, 2014 at 4:16 am EditAlthough it’s raining outside Uta , you captured the day beautifully. Brooks Creek looks very relaxing even in the rain.
Take care and enjoy that clean fresh air.
Sheila xxReply
1. auntyutaJanuary 22, 2014 at 9:56 am EditI find this warm summer rain quite enjoyable, Sheila. Brooks Creek doesn’t really look much like a creek at the moment. A lot of plants grow in it and do not let the water run through freely anymore.
  I love the smell of the bush after it has been raining a bit.
  Uta, oxReply
araanz50January 22, 2014 at 8:52 am EditBoa noite!
Sou amiga da Gislinde e vim conhecer o seu WD
AraAbraços….Araan.Reply
1. araanz50January 22, 2014 at 8:53 am EditAbraços…..Araan.Reply
gerard oostermanJanuary 22, 2014 at 9:28 am EditGood pitures Uta. Peter looks a bit like my brother in law who is also German born. The garden looks lovely.Reply
1. auntyutaJanuary 22, 2014 at 10:01 am EditI love taking pictures while I am walking, Gerard. Makes my walks quite interesting for I look at things I would otherwise perhaps not take so much notice of. I do not mind a bit of rain, especially in summer. At the moment I do not fear that our grass might dry out. Reply
giselzitroneJanuary 22, 2014 at 9:34 pm EditDanke liebe Ute für deinen Besuch so schöne Bilder,war bestimmt eine schöne Wanderung ein schönes Stücken Erde,da könnte ich mir vorstellen auch zu Wandern.Ich hoffe das es dir gut geht,wir haben hier in Köln Freuhlingsafte Temperaturen heute war es 13 Grad warm fast wie Frühling.Ich wünsche dir noch eine glückliche Zeit.Liebe Grüße GislindeReply
1. auntyutaJanuary 23, 2014 at 8:27 am EditDanke, liebe Gislinde. Es war eigentlich mehr wie ein kleiner Spaziergang. Heute morgen gleich nach dem Aufstehen machte ich wieder so einen Spaziergang. Ich ging den gleichen Weg entlang, aber diesmal etwas schneller. Ich fühlte mich voller Energie und brauchte zwischendurch überhaupt keine Pausen machen. Irgendwie ging es mit meinem Atem viel besser als sonst. Es war immer noch recht feucht, Temperatur 20 Grad Celsius. Liebe Grüsse, Uta.Reply
rangewriterJanuary 23, 2014 at 5:29 am EditI bet that was refreshing after all the heat and smoke you’ve endured!Reply
1. auntyutaJanuary 23, 2014 at 8:35 am EditLinda, yes, we did have a bit of heat before it rained, but where we live there was no smoke, none whatsoever. So our air is clean and beautiful fresh with that bit of rain we have at the moment.I hope the cooler temperatures and maybe some rain, where there are still a lot of fires, is going to keep all the fires under control. The fires are many miles away from us, but still they stretch over vast areas in several states of Australia. There are literally still hundreds of fires burning. Fires like this usually last for many weeks!Reply
araanz50January 23, 2014 at 11:32 am EditGood nigth!
Kisses….Araan
http://araanz50.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/happy-summer-araanReply
1. auntyutaJanuary 23, 2014 at 1:04 pm EditGood night, Araan, Sleep well! Reply
auntyutaApril 24, 2022 at 10:13 am EditReblogged this on AuntyUta and commented:It was very interesting for me to find this blog from January 2014!

The Old and the New Australia

Posted by Berlioz1935’s Blog on 03/05/2012

The other day, on the First of May actually, we were enticed by the beautiful sunshine to drive into the country site. Not far from where we live, about 70 km is Kangaroo Valley.

On the way there and back we passed through Berry, a town on the Princes Highway. It is “old charm” town where on weekends well to do people from Sydney come to visit and do some shopping for things that do not come from China, like craft work etc.

But before we reached Berry on our way back we still passed through some beautiful scenery of Australian landscape. The Australian landscape is not as much a cultural landscape as much as the European is.

Bottle Brush

Bush track

An ancient hill and an old tree

Watch out for Wombats

A hidden farm

Uta wanted to see Autumn Leaves on the way back. So, we decided to visit Berry again. This is part of the new Australia where introduced plants change the land and town scapes. In the evergreen Australia it is quite a sight.

Autumn in Berry

Autumn Leaves

We drove a bit further and suddenly saw the town’s Cenotaph erected for the fallen of the two World Wars. The floral tribute from the recent ANZAC Day were still to be seen.

I realised then, that perhaps Berry represents, in equal parts, the modern and the old Australia and the fallen soldiers are the connecting element of this duality. Without knowing it they gave their lives for just the Australia we have become. Migrants of the countries that were fighting in the Great War of 1914/18 are now here. The French bakery and the former migrant attest to that.

And I remembered a poem I wrote a few years ago and it contains the following lines referring to Gallipoli:

When Diggers stormed the Cove
They could not know
That many years hence
Men from the other side
Would come to their Land.

Did they fight and die in vain?
Not so. They prevailed
and shared their Land.
Turned foes into welcome friends.

The Cenotaph

Every fallen soldier has a plaque in the wall and a tree planted in his name.

The trees of Rememberance

There was a war trophy, July 1918, too, a German heavy mortar

A fire belching monster from another time

Among all the names I noticed two especially, one airman who was flying for the RAF, perhaps he died on an air raid over Berlin where I come from and a seaman on the HMAS Sydney. The sinking of the Sydney was such a tragic event. What a crazy world we live in. I’m so sorry all this happened. But we should look to the future and recognise that we live in an earthly paradise – Australia!

This beautiful Magnolia is to be seen in the centre of Berry

Magnolias have been around for twenty million years. It has been introduced into Australia but it is fitting for such an ancient plant to be here in Australia.

5 THOUGHTS ON “THE OLD AND THE NEW AUSTRALIA”

auntyuta on 05/05/2012 at 10:23 said:Hi Peter!I am sure this day and the two posts you wrote about it are going to stay in my memory. I had a lovely day. It was such a good idea to go for this drive, wasn’t it?Love, UtaReply ↓
- berlioz1935on 27/04/2019 at 12:33 said:Hi Uta, it was indeed a lovely day and I invite you to do same drive on the 1, May this year. Love PeterReply ↓
  - auntyutaon 27/04/2019 at 13:19 said:Yes, Peter, sure I’ll love to do the same drive with you on the 1st of May this year. So, this is coming up in three days!! Very much looking forward to this. Love, Uta
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First of May

These thoughts about the 1st of May Peter published in 2012, that is ten years ago!

I copy here what I found in the comment section. It is so interesting to see who responded bt writing a comment and Peter’s answer to the comments!

Munira has been a dear blogger friend of mine ever since I started blogging! 🙂

What vivid memories to share! Wonderful.
anneReply ↓

berlioz1935on 02/05/2012 at 08:07 said:Thanks for looking in and taking notice. The past is always with us, accompanying our life like our shadow. For some, depending on the experience, it is a burden But we should not get depressed about it. Quietly observe the past like an old family picture. Have a great day.Reply ↓

Munira on 27/05/2012 at 19:46 said:I love observing the past like it was an old family photo. In fact that’s a great way of describing my other blog. Take a look if you’re interested http://munirazoom.wordpress.com/This post really evoked a sense of your memory, and in such few words. Lovely.Reply ↓

berliozon 27/05/2012 at 20:56 said:Thanks Munira for your comment. This is really what I felt and wanted to communicate. What is missing are the photos. In that time we had no camera and despite some shortages we looked forward to a brighter future.Reply ↓

berlioz1935on 27/05/2012 at 21:18 said:Thank you for the other link. I had already a short glance and it seems very interesting. By recording your family’s history you also recording your country’s history.

When I was still living in Berlin as a youngster the First of May always used to be a beautiful day. A cold night preceded a sunny day with blue sky all over the city. The trams were decorated with fresh green from the Birch trees and they carried the flag of Berlin with the little bear.

Of course, there used to be the rallies organised by the Unions for the rights and a better life for the workers. A couple of times I joined my mother and her colleagues from the post office and we marched through the still bombed out city. Nobody thought of torching the few cars that were parking on the side of the road. There might have been the odd three-wheeled Tempo who belonged to someone who had to earn a crust (this is an Australian expression about someone who earns a little bit of money to feed his family – crust of bread).

Later during the day, when the sun had risen to the zenith and warmed our naked arms – the sleeves were rolled up – we. my friends and I, took our bikes for a ride to the Havel lakes and went for a swim in the still icy water.

The 1st of May was always the start of the most beautiful month in Berlin. Spring was in full swing.

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When I was still living in Berlin as a youngster the First of May always used to be a beautiful day. A cold night preceded a sunny day with blue sky all over the city. The trams were decorated with fresh green from the Birch trees and they carried the flag of Berlin with the little bear.

Of course, there used to be the rallies organised by the Unions for the rights and a better life for the workers. A couple of times I joined my mother and her colleagues from the post office and we marched through the still bombed out city. Nobody thought of torching the few cars that were parking on the side of the road. There might have been the odd three-wheeled Tempo who belonged to someone who had to earn a crust (this is an Australian expression about someone who earns a little bit of…

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The Last Ecstasy of The Forbidden Fruit.

https://freefall852.wordpress.com/2022/04/21/the-last-ecstasy-of-the-forbidden-fruit/comment-page-1/#comment-4573

What I wrote two Years ago

It is very interesting for me to read once more what I did write about the early years of my life. I can’t believe all this goes back for more than sixty years! Quite amazing . . . .

AuntyUta

Two years ago when I had not been blogging for very long yet, I wrote the following about my parents:

‘Your father has always been a selfish person. He doesn’t send any money for you but I bet he sits down for breakfast with a soft boiled egg in front of him. He knows how to look after himself and doesn’t care whether his children have anything to eat.’

The voice of my mother still rings in my ears. When years later I talked to my father about his so called selfishness, he justified himself with a lot of words and by producing the Post Office receipts which proved that he had constantly sent money for us children. True, he never could send much, however Mum’s claim that he didn’t send any money at all was totally wrong, according to Dad. He made sure that I looked at all the…

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Vater, Mutter, Kind; that is ‘Father, Mother, and Child’.

Some Childhood memories

Ja, this goes back to some early childhood memories of mine!

Playing with the children that lived in our street:

I spent lots of time playing with all the children in our street, Bozener Straße. One of our games was playing ‘Vater, Mutter, Kind’. It was understood, that the father had to be a boy. Luckily, there were usually a couple of boys, who did not mind acting as the fathers. If the girls outnumbered the boys, it did not matter. They could all be mothers. Each girl was allowed to bring one doll along. This doll then was a Kind, so that each girl would be a mother with one child. And all tghe dolls would be shared with the boys. We would be very proud, to see the boys showing affection to our dolls, that were our children!

I think, a game like this would probably have lasted for only a few minutes! We would quickly have gone to play any of our other games. We could play all these games in our very small street, that was hidden away from any traffic. Not that there was much traffic yet at this point in time. I am talking of the end of the 1930s and early 1940s, and Bozener Str. is pretty much in the Centre of Berlin.

We loved to play ball games, or hide and seek, or singing and dancing games. I only went up to our apartment for meals. Mum would let me know, when it was time to come up for a meal by calling down to me from our balcony. From that balcony she could practically survey the whole of Bozener Straße!

The house, that I grew up, in is still standing. It survived all the bombings during the war. It just had to undergo some renovations in the post-war period.

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1st of May 2019

We were lucky the cafe was open today, Wednesday, the first of May. We had some good breakfast there and ‘bowls’ of excellent coffee. Then we drove a bit around the backroads of this small town called Berry. Our first stop was here:

DSCN5342 — There were still a lot of wreaths and flowers from Anzac Day.

From Wikipedia:

“Anzac Day (/ˈænzæk/) is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders “who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations” and “the contribution and suffering of all those who have served”.^[1]^[2] Observed on 25 April each year, Anzac Day was originally devised to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who served in the Gallipoli Campaign, their first engagement in the First World War (1914–1918).”

Berry Station is just down this road!

Our next stop was the Berry Swimming Pool that was closed for the winter months from April to November.

Berry

We passed this retirement village. We thought it looked quite interesting.

We took a few more street pictures in Berry and then drove on through Kangaroo Valley to the small town by that name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_Valley,_New_South_Wales

Here is some Wikipedia information about this town :

“As of 2013, the small town has a variety of arts and craft shops, restaurants and cafes, a hotel, club, post office, supermarket and other businesses, including an ambulance station, general practitioner and a chemist.

Kangaroo Valley has a bus service to Nowra and Moss Vale. Priors Scenic Express also provides a long-distance coach service to Bowral, Mittagong, and Sydney as well as to the Shoalhaven and South Coast, as far as Narooma.”

We stopped at a very nice cafe in the main street.

Oh yes, we had not great difficulty pretending it was 1995!!

On the way home we stopped at the Robertson Pie Shop for a cup of refreshing tea and some delicious fruit pie.

Here is a link to a post Peter (Berlioz) wrote seven years ago:

https://berlioz1935.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/the-old-and-the-new-australia/

Among other things you find the following in Peter’s post:

“The other day, on the First of May actually, we were enticed by the beautiful sunshine to drive into the country site. Not far from where we live, about 70 km is Kangaroo Valley. On the way there and back we passed through Berry, a town on the Princes Highway. It is “old charm” town where on weekends well to do people from Sydney come to visit and do some shopping for things that do not come from China, like craft work etc. . . .”

https://www.warmemorialsregister.nsw.gov.au/content/berry-war-memorial

This is mentioned about the war memorial:

“When the Cenotaph was unveiled in 1921, a tree was planted for each of the dead along Alexandra Street, at the base of each of these trees a bronze plaque was set recalling the soldier to whom the tree was originally dedicated. . . .”

Peter also did mention in his post from 2012 the Cenotaph in Berry that we visited again today:

“We drove a bit further and suddenly saw the town’s Cenotaph erected for the fallen of the two World Wars. The floral tributes from the recent ANZAC Day were still to be seen. I realised then, that perhaps Berry represents, in equal parts, the modern and the old Australia, and the fallen soldiers are the connecting element of this duality. Without knowing it they gave their lives for just the Australia we have become. Migrants of the countries that were fighting in the Great War of 1914/18 are now here. . . .”

In my post from seven years ago I mentioned the Berry Sourdough Cafe in Prince Alfred Street:

” . . . we drove on to Berry where we had some pies for lunch. We also bought some cake at the Milkwood Bakery. This is a newly opened bakery in Queen Street. They are a branch of the Berry Sourdough Cafe in Prince Alfred Street, which is famous for very good breakfasts.” So today, seven years later but also on the first of May, we did actually have breakfast at the cafe in Prince Alfred Street.

https://www.google.com/search?q=berry+sourdough+cafe&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjf_87u7fnhAhWaV30KHeXJCOMQsAR6BAgGEAE&biw=1229&bih=603

The above link is to a real lot of fantastic images to what is available at the Berry Sourdough Cafe!!

“QUALITY FIRST: Artisan baker Jelle Hilkemeijer of Berry Sourdough Cafe says small bakeries enjoy strong loyalty from customers.”

https://www.southcoastregister.com.au/story/2604353/small-bakers-focus-on-quality/?cs=4158

And now here is the link to another post Peter wrote seven years ago about our outing on the first of May:

https://berlioz1935.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/1-may-2012/

This blog he started with these words:

“Early in the morning we heard a song about the Hampden Bridge and we thought why not go there today? It seems to be the right thing to do. First of May is not a holiday in Australia. But what the heck, our life is a constant holiday and we can go to the Kangaroo Valley, that is where the bridge is, any time we want. So off we went. The Illawarra is a beautiful part of NSW and we are proud to live here. . . . “

Today we passed Hampden Bridge again, but did not stop there but drove on to the village of Kangaroo Valley.