"meee" wrote in message
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"Yowie" wrote in message
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"meee" wrote in message
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sorry guys, I've just had a bit of a blue week, so I haven't been
keeping up with you all!! I've just panicked and decided to catch up
with posting as we have a category 4 heading our way and likely will be
offline for a few days. So I just read all your posts, but I can't reply
to all, I have sent purrs to some, but purrs to all the rest of you who
need them. If you have any to spare, I'd appreciate it, as Jasmine is
trying to escape to the outdoors every bloody time the door opens, and
Cougar is going through another 'I'm too good to eat cat food so i will
starve myself until I go mad with hunger and leap onto your plate and
steal your dinner' stages, and I've had a sinus infection for the last
few weeks, and now we have a cyclone.....sorry guys I'm a bit stressed
ATM. The main prob with the cyclone is that DH won't be working, and I
will have trouble with bills, etc. Anyway. If I disappear, it's just
power outages and I'll be back online soon hopefully. All our lines here
are underground here but if it hits a station down south we'll be out.
Ok purrs and hugs to all...

OH, you are in *that* bit of Queensland. Beautiful part of the country,
but I wouldn't like the cyclones. I have very fond memories of Cardwell,
Innisfail, Cairns & The Atherton Tablelands. It was a lovely holiday, and
I really want to go back sometime.

Yowie

Yes, lovely country!! Oh, and Innisfail's about to get hit Well, come
up for a holiday...in about 6 months when we've rebuilt... no,
seriously, we should be ok. the warnings are always in plenty of time.

Joel is from Miallo - a small town near Port Douglas. He still yearns for
that part of the country, so when we get the money together (I am always
hopeful, although just as it starts to look promising, there is always some
emergency which means we have to spend it on something mundane like a new
fridge rather than go on holidays) and when The Yowlet is a bit more
amenable to long drives, we'lll be going up there and he can scare me to
death, because I am *not* a bush baby and no nothing about how to survive in
the forests. He snorts at anything that is "categor 3" and under... thats
not a *real* cyclone he says.

(Did I mention that he was effectively a 'feral'? His mother lived on a
hippy commune up there, and the kids pretty much went feral as the adults
firmly believed in 'lettign them find their own way'. Thankfully, Joel
doesn't agree with that method of raising (ignoring?) kids and insists of
education, discipline and being a family unit. Oh, the tales he tells of
growing up 'wild')

Yowie, who still remebers "Walsh's Pyramid", and how freaky it looked, and
how it always rained at 3:30pm, and how wonderful the nights were.