82 Not Out!....

is hanging in there!!! with only two sleeps (at least four toilet trips! during them) before Christmas Day. Believe me hanging in there is the only way for Not  Outers to cope with the mad  speeding farcical  hype treadmill that the season has become...out there...nd out there really means beyond the safety of ones comfort zone!!!! So  Not Outer friends hang on to your  lazy boys, your laptops
your   teabags and your carers because thats the survival strategy for2015.

Yes, 2016 will soon be upon us and don't believe everything THEY (oh you know who THEY is don't you? -its everyone out there who is younger,richer and  more mobile than you!!!) tell you about how marvellous the future  will be for you now that they can land a super rocket and re-use the expensive parts of it...All we seem to hear is  more rhetoric about strategies for getting rid of guns...ending wars and working globally to figure out what to do about the million millions of displaced people, starving babies and islands facing living on the sea floor.

So hang in there Not Outers keep breathing and we can watch what 2016 really brings...like paying out of pocket for your blood tests and scans.
ENUFF MOANING let's actually write a blog today!!!

THE GOOD STUFF IS
Grandmothers are fabulous!!! Grandmothers Against Detention of Refugee Children are making a stand for changes to Government policies...fabulous Go Grandmothers!!!!
Advances in genetic science research have made great strides finding biological pathways that cause muscular degeneration...all great news for Parkinsons....

Just heard that a mans group has been formed in Melbourne to collect women in dangerous violent situations and take them to safety zones and safehomes. Wonderful!!
And here's a true tale about my own protector!!
Having decided against having  a dog or cat I have been taken over holus bolus by a territorial and demading curlew. No one can come down the  path between thebeautiful trees  to the back door of the unit.anymore!!!!!! Amazing...even my Chrissy visitors have hurried away or been rescued ( so no prezzies get waylaid) after being scared off by the wide flapping wings and stance of this protector.

He she or it is feisty bird...it is either a male guarding all femails at No3 or Mum watching chicks some where. This may be a nothing event  for born and bred Aussies but its a new one on me!!!  Ilike the Captainmore than the last snake that called by!!!!

Here’s the pic and gen of Captain Curlow...xxx hzl -so you know  I am not into writers imagination here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_stone-curlew.

BIGGEST WTF IS THIS STUFF?
I can't believe that TWO  applications had to be made to the Immigration Department to allow a dying young man's mother and family to be with him  in Australia during the short  time he has left and to be by his bedside when he passes away.

Well guys it is 5 p.m.and guess thats it for today. Have a simple peaceful Christmas...oh one of the unexpected visitors that got past Captain Curlew  yesterday brought me a wondrous Chrissy gift - one of  the first (still green) lemons of her own planted tree.- beautiful with a shiny silver rosette on the top of it!!! Such a Pagan offering!!!What created device could better that???? Blessings to you and yours wherever you are in the world...tune in again in a fewdays.  Hzl/