Reflections: World Humanitarian Day

I think this a very informative post by Elizabeth Obih-Frank for World Humanitarian Day.

“The moral authority of the United Nations depends on its ability to help people most in need and it must do so with the highest ethical standards and professionalism.” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Council of Foreign Relations, New York, May 2006

Reflections: World Humanitarian Day, August 19th – Honor Each Other

World Humanitarian Day 2014 Message

Today is World Humanitarian Day and it is particularly poignant because another brave soul, James Wright Foley, a photojournalist who dedicated his life to bringing photos and news to the rest of us from war torn zones was brutally executed today. My condolences go out to his loved ones… RIP James. Where is our humanity? What must we do to find common ground and respect for each other on this planet? Are you familiar with this important day? Do you know what it is all about? I’ll shed some light and, hopefully, you will…

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More Photos from our Holiday Weekend

This is one of the photos we took on Saturday morning when we walked to the Lone Pine. Our “camp” was of course some distance away. Where we stayed there are modern units now, but we still call it camp. The site belongs to the RAIL TRAM AND BUS UNION. When Peter was a member it was just a railworkers union. Since 1985 we have often been staying at this holiday park. All our family have treasured memories about this place. It is situated in a National Park that belongs to the Capital Territory. After a 13 km dirt track we reach the “camp” which is right at the Sussex Inlet. If you want to reach civilisation you have to go by boat from the inlet to St Georges Basin or drive back along the dirt track until you reach some sealed roads.

We noticed that quite a bit has changed about this place over the years. For instance when we came to the inlet after our walk along Bherwerre Beach we could see a lot of devastation along the site of the inlet. They must have had big storms there. There was no space to walk on left near the water. We were tired after the long walk and me, old great grandma, needed some help to get through there. Nobody thought of taking pictures of this devastation along the water. Here is one picture that Caroline took of Matthew, Peter and me after we had made it through and were close to where our camp units were.

Caroline soon produced some lovely lunch for us with some quiche.

Caroline and Matthew had brought along lots and lots of food and stayed in our unit with us. They did keep us beautifully fed. All in all it was a great holiday for us. Friday night and Saturday night the whole family gathered for barbecues. There was an excellent place provided for this.

This is what Caroline got ready for breakfast on Saturday morning.

The salads are rock salad and pickled cabbage. To this a fried egg was added. We probably had some toast and butter too, as well as a good cup of coffee!

Caroline had brought bags of rock salad along. Delicious! — Caroline had brought bags of rocket salad along. Delicious!

I think I did not take many pictures after our arrival on Friday. But here are a few more pictures from Saturday morning:

This holiday park is right next to ours.

Bherwerre Beach

It was a good idea to take the shoes off.

I think the beach picture up to here were taken with Peter’s camera, whereas the following pictures were taken with another camera.

Holiday Weekend

Including the photographer we were 14 people at this stage. A few hours later two more people arrived. Here in this picture the Sussex Inlet can be seen in the background.

We are the last ones on our way from the camp to the Lone Pine.

On that same morning, which was a Saturday, we walked on to Bherwerre Beach and from there back to our camp, which was a long, long walk. We took of course a lot of pictures. I’ll publish some of them in my next post.

Ramblings of an Old Man

I reckon it is very interesting to see how past generations grew up. These are wonderful memories by Devon Texas. I very much enjoyed the read. Have a look and enjoy! 🙂

Legacy Tales

I come to this blog site when I’m done with all my other work. In spite of being retired, I find I’m busy every day. It might be nice, I speculate, to be back working where I could spend some time resting! LOL But, it’s the way I’ve always been. I’ve worked most of my life and that’s the way I like it. I don’t like being idle.

When you’re young, you don’t think of much beyond what you see. I didn’t anyway. When I’d take a moment to speak with the old man that ran the store near the highway, I didn’t think to ask him to tell me something about his life. I just spoke to him long enough to gain his confidence that I wouldn’t turn him in for selling me Cherry Bombs and M-80’s.

On a hot summer day about 50 years…

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RENOVATIONS?

I looked the following add up in wikipedia:
http://www.serviceseeking.com.au/new-job/painters/painters.html

Painter Wanted! Step 1

1. Tell Painters What You Need

Step 2

2. Painters Offer Quotes & Prices

Step 3

3. You Choose The Best Painter!

I once published under “pages” a post with the title: “Who is Moving?” Originally I probably wrote parts of this already in 2008. Presumably I saw then in the paper that a low priced house was on offer in Goulburn. At the time we had this idea that if we relocated we might end up with a bit of money left over for our travels.

We did not relocate. Actually nothing much has changed since then. We still look after ourselves, meaning we are not at that stage yet where we do need some home care. I glanced in “pages” today at what I published under the title WHO IS MOVING. I did mention then that we could not very well move to a new home such as the one that was advertised in Goulburn because this particular low priced place seemed to need some renovations. My thinking then was, that we were too old to do the required renovations ourselves, and to pay somebody for doing the renovations would be too expensive. So we concluded we were better off just staying put where we were, namely here in Dapto.

We moved here into our present home on my 60th birthday in September 1994. It was a brand new home then. All the walls had been freshly painted of course. Peter has painted the walls only once since then. This was towards the end of 2000. He painted the walls and all the woodwork in all the rooms. Only the ceilings did not get any fresh paint. They must have been done with good paint for even now after having lived here for twenty years they still look fairly good. Recently Peter started contemplating that a new paint job is kind of overdue. He wants to do all the rooms again, and this time including all the ceilings as well.

So far so good. Peter is pushing 80 now. I ask him, do you think you can stand on a ladder and do the ceilings yourself? Well, he says, he wants to give it a go. He reckons, maybe he can do the ceilings standing on a table. And he thinks if he does everything at a slow pace, he may eventually be able to do all the rooms in the house, one after another. Yea, let’s hope it is going to work out all right. 🙂

8th Sunday after Trinity

I find there is a lot of truth in this blog. I reckon it is worth thinking about the issues that Berlioz raises.

Berlioz1935's Blog

Today is Sunday. It is supposed to be a day of rest and recuperation. They used to say, it is the Lord’s Day. A day that belonged to something other than ourself. And, in a roundabout way it is for our renewal.

We have to get away from the daily grind and our struggle for existence. That was the idea of the Sabbath of the old Jewish calendar. Even God needed a day of rest after the Creation; and he saw, all was good. Was it really?

When I was a child and looked out a window I noticed straight away when it was Sunday. The streets were quieter and emptier. People were dressed differently than they were on weekdays. Today I can’t see the street. I look at the bush as it always looks. It is green and the birds are flying from tree to tree as they always…

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Going back to 2006

Peter and I had our 50th Wedding Anniversary in 2006. I tried to find a picture of it in my blogs. But there seems to be none so far. The day of the Anniversary was 21st of December. Here are three pictures from that day:

Peter and I with our son and three daughters

Here we are with all our children and grand-children on our 50th Wedding Anniversary. — Here we are with all our children and grand-children on the day of our 50th Wedding Anniversary.

We had lunch with the whole family. Two long tables were set for us. Here is one of the tables, the one with Peter and me in the middle, Gaby and Monika at the end of the table, David next to Monika. The twins, Ryan and Troy, can be seen with their three sisters, Roxy (in the front), Natasha and Krystal. In the back at the other table can be seen Liz and Martin, Caroline and Matthew as well as grandson Tristan with Stephanie who as it turned out was already pregnant at the time. Also at the back table are Martins daughters Justine and Lauren.

Soon after the Wedding Anniversary there was of course Christmas. The other day I came across some pictures from the 25th and 26th of that year.

We went there with Caroline, Matthew and Matthew's daughter Alex. — We went there with Caroline, Matthew and Matthew’s daughter Alex.

The following day, the 26th of December, which is called ‘Boxing Day’ in Australia, we went with Caroline, Matthew and Alex to Gaby’s place in Merrylands West for some Christmas celebrations.

Photos for David

https://auntyuta.com/2013/08/18/photos-for-david-2/

These are the photos I gave to David two years ago after Gaby had died.

In Memory of David

This is in Memory of David. He died exactly one year ago.

Here is David with Gaby and companion dog Bonnie. This picture was taken many years ago when David was still full of energy.

AuntyUta

David died on the 5th of August 2013. Tomorrow, 19th of August, is to be his funeral at the Catholic Chapel, Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney.

I just reblogged some pictures of David and Gaby. David survived Gaby only by one year and a bit. Gaby’s funeral was on the 24th of July 2012, also at Roodkwood Cemetery.

May they both rest in peace.

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