Author: Kaye

Back in Singapore

Well, I’m back at Number one son’s computer in Singapore but at least this time the keyboard is set to English (last time it was German) and I can now find the apostrophe.

Firstly apologies for the huge email that I sent from Lightning Ridge and apparently forgot to resize the photos….. it didn’t even fit in some of your mail boxes so huge humble apologies that!

Callum and I have had a bit of a whirlwind trip and between us we’ve managed to fit in quite a lot of tourist attractions including Singapore’s famous Botanic Gardens.

Other sight-seeing included the Dinosaur Exhibition, Little India, Singapore Zoo, Sentosa Aquarium, China Town, Gardens by the Bay and even the Light Show, which Nigel and I missed last time. We did it all by public transport and I’m proud to say that we never once got lost…… although I must admit that my grandson has a much better idea when it comes to all things directional!

There were also the mandatory swims in the pool every afternoon – usually after shopping – as well as a chance encounter with a rather large water dragon that luckily decided that it didn’t want to cross our path after all!

Now, there’s just one more sleep before we head off to the airport tomorrow night. It’s been fun catching up (and being spoilt) but now I’m looking forward to some winter weather again. After years in the outback, this humidity has become quite foreign to me, if you’ll excuse the pun.

The Project

Being one of those people, whose worst nightmare would be to wake up and discover I had nothing to do, the first half of 2014 proved to be quite fulfilling, with a town project to keep me busy and ‘off the (half a dozen) streets’.  I was asked to write an application, on behalf of the Enngonia War Memorial Hall Committee, for funding, under the Anzac Centenary Government Grants Programme, to construct a cenotaph area outside the Memorial Hall. The submission was to fund a fenced concrete slab, remembrance wall and plaque and flagpole, as well as display cabinets and an honour board in the Hall foyer.

Continue reading “The Project”

Emu vs Challenger

Okay so this is nothing new to people, who know me but let me just say that it’s versus…. NOT verses. In fact, the word is Latin and means “against” (Saints versus Bulldogs)… so PLEASE, sports commentators, STOP using it as a verb (Saints will verse Bulldogs) because it just makes you look silly! Now that the rant is over, on with the diary entry! Continue reading “Emu vs Challenger”

Mistakes Happen

Murphy’s Law seems to have followed us from house to house for as long as we can remember, with events ranging from the insignificant:  there’s no bed in your hospital room and the student nurse tells you that you’re her second admission (ever!) and then proceeds to write the wrong information on your chart – to the mildly worrying: a fierce storm rips up sections of the highway and blows it away like pieces of paper, leaving you contemplating how to get past the roadblock in order to commence work that day – to the ridiculous: Kaye’s name gets taken off the electoral roll for “sedition and treason” (not a good look for a polling place manager!). Continue reading “Mistakes Happen”

Multiple Choice ATO question

Computers process data – presumably including payslips – at the speed of light so why does it take government computers days and sometimes weeks to process employees’ payment summaries at the end of the financial year?

Circle the correct answer:

A.       Payment summaries are done by hand because the Government       doesn’t trust computers

B.       No one told them it was the end of the financial year

C.       The government needs time to find the money to pay all those tax refunds