Posts by Deborah
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But the victims themselves can, and the Refuge newsletter (which is terrific) regularly features them. The ones published to date are collected here.
My girls have been asking anxiously why I'm crying.
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As David said.
Also, that this type of story is so common - a woman who simply has nowhere to go, and very few financial resources, even if she has all the courage in the world. There can be huge barriers to just leaving. And the act of leaving can be the most dangerous time of all.
Thank you for this, Emma.
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You still pay more tax if you have more than one job.
That's not quite right. You pay more PAYE (i.e. deductions from your wages as you go), but at the end of the year when you do your tax return, you should get a refund. Someone who earns say, $30,000 from just one job should end up paying exactly the same amount of tax as someone who earns $30,000 from two jobs (all other things being equal). However the person who has two jobs may have paid more tax deductions from wages during the year through PAYE, so she should get a refund to bring her to exactly the same amount of tax paid as the person with one job.
The moral of the story? If you have two or more jobs, do your tax return!
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No-one likes a wobbly table, but sometimes you have to ask yourself: "could I be putting that dictionary to better use?"
I paused for a moment before commenting, and wondered whether I really ought to, and then thought, "No! Dammit - I rejoice in my identity as a pendant!"
So... shouldn't that be a thesaurus rather than a dictionary?
<scuttles back to hideaway in Adelaide>
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Lovely coat, Emma.
The old saw about putting a penny in a jar for every time you have sex in the first year of a marriage* and taking one out every time you have sex after the first year is kind of interesting.
Most folks read it as saying after a while marriage becomes stale and uninteresting - the evidence being the reduced frequency of sex.
We would probably have raided the penny jar to pay for something, leaving the jar empty long ago.
I like to point out that twenty years into our "committed long term loving relationship," that although frequency may be down, a little, quality has sky-rocketed.
That's all.
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Here you are, Michael - Derailing for Dummies. You will find lots more tactics that you can deploy there. And congratulations on doing the "You're damaging your cause by being angry" one so well.
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My always-complimented coat, far more so than anything else I wear - swing coat, handwoven wool, black with a hot pink fleck (one strand of pink wool for every two strands of black wool). It's about 20 years old now. I got some repair work done and got it relined a couple of years ago, in hot pink. It's a one-off: my cousin was running her own design and sewing business, and she made it for me.
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Picture of your coat? Please?
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Thanks, Russell.
He's possibly missed on the formation of the PAS Women's XV too. Danielle caught the play nicely, as usual.
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@Jackie
As it turns out, we got Quantum of Solace out today, for viewing tonight, after les enfants are in bed, of course.