Posts by Islander
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Up Front: You're Telling My Child What, Now?, in reply to BenWilson,
You seem to think this situation is new when it is a very old matter.
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Up Front: You're Telling My Child What, Now?, in reply to Emma Hart,
Emma - my father died in 1957 : to recieve a widow's benefit you had to have a*limited* amount of income/and or property. My father had - give him his due (I dont/didnt actually like him) had accrued quite a lot of property for, he thought, support
of his families. He'd also mortgaged all of them to the hilt.So: my mother, as trustee sole & executrix, had - as her first duty - paying off his fucking estate.* Which, just by the by, none of his children ever benefitted from, & which caused my mother a huge amount of grief.
My mother, with 6 young kids, went out to work to feed us.
We went out to work to help. however we could.*O, I am a Labour Party supporter.So is all my family. In the late 1950s, they brought in death duties that really smacked my family. Which is why my mother was also coping with a huge additional mortgage when my father died -
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Up Front: You're Telling My Child What, Now?, in reply to BenWilson,
I can’t help but feel that economic circumstances put a cloud over young families now, which just should not be there.
That has *always* been a factor Ben- when my parents married - because they had to (my mother's family saw to that - and yep, first time etc. etc.)- they had v. little to go on except energy, love, family support & a need to make a go of -things.
When my father died at age 42 - having expended a huge amount of his energy in providing for his kids (rather more than the 6 of us)- my mother, widowed, had only family to rely upon. I was 11- my youngest sibling was not quite 1.
NO BENEFITS
I find your comments, in this personal context, fucking stupid.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Once you fellas promise the world - byebye possums!
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
While there has been some adaptaion, there are still a lot of dead grey trees in South Westland.
They were rata.
I hate the damage possums do.
I hate, much more, the haw-haw people who introduced them.
I can only try & get rid of one lot.Sofie- another option is a Timms Trap?
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Joe Wylie,
heir distinctive heavy breathing antics have convinced a few nervous souls that there’s a resident pervert in their ceiling.
Actually Joe - given their natural inclination to enter into small dark spaces, it's more their scrabbling & shitting & weird chuckling that alert us here....I'm sorry but then we lure them out with tasty poison.
Rats dead in the roof are one matter- possums completely bloody & decaying &maggotstrewn - another
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
...get a good .22 with a silencer(or guests with same!). Lady-down-the-road will hear nothing. Laser-sight is a plus (I use it round here when shooting possums) as it is dead-accurate...
Possums, bless their dear little dame-ednaish souls, are phuquing destructive little beasts and should be destroyed where-ever encountered***
I know it's not their fault for being here!
But we cant wreak deserved havoc on the &^%$@@!**! who introduced them to our archipelago- -
Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Jos,
Here’s a treat, mouse bottoms
Before Joe’s response, I did wonder what terrible engorger has sucked over the tops-
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Up Front: You're Telling My Child What, Now?, in reply to Suzanne Shirley,
I hope that if your kids happen to fall madly in love with their first sexual partners and decide that their life’s happiness is best served by a committed monogomous relationship you will respect their choices. Kinda hypocritical not to
Wellll, why on earth would you not expect someone like Emma - or anyone else on this thread-?not to TOTALLY have reguard to her /their own well-brought up children's decisions?
I note it is your first posting, Suzanne Shirley. I do trust you are not a troll....
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Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to Islander,
And silly me, I thought it was 10%!
And, I thought you were serious!