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Wren

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  1. That scripture did come into my mind and then ... Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds".
  2. Oh boy, I'm in this pre-diabetes zone too. I need to get my act together!
  3. I was off work for a few weeks after catching an upper respiratory tract virus( It was so bad I called it a Clayton's COVID, the COVID you have when you're not having COVID) . When I returned to work I was given a document to sign either giving consent or refusing to have the vaccine. Because the memory of being really ill was so fresh, I didn't think twice about accepting the offer of getting the vaccine. It's easy to forget that feeling of an acute illness, when it's been a while since being ill. I'm kind of glad that I was reminded of my own mortality.
  4. Off topic: I have a lot of gadgets and in all honesty the best is the robot vacuum cleaner. Even if my husband thinks it's a Chinese spy.
  5. I haven't used my google with JW.org. Perhaps I should as it starts doing its own thing in the middle of the night. It started broadcasting a news story about space travel. I got up and told it to stop. Got back into bed and it started again. I have Alexa as well, my husband told me he's heard it play music randomly. Sometimes they speak without being called upon. I guess they get bored as they are mostly sitting around doing nothing.
  6. We were encouraged to pray for our imprisoned brothers and sisters by name. So now we can at least add "67 faithful witnesses in other lands". Even though we have known about those in unmentioned countries before, I feel like this makes it more personal.
  7. I'm currently watching elephants in Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa https://explore.org/livecams/africam/tembe-elephant-park and Tau Waterhole, South Africa https://explore.org/livecams/africam/tau
  8. I've heard about smurfs walking out of a kingdom hall. (this was doing the rounds years and years ago, smurfs must be particularly evil as they feature in quite a few stories) The witnessing bag in the river story. (heard this one too) The dog being wacked with a witnessing bag containing a brick story. (this was told as a true story happening in a nearby cong. but I've heard it related as from another country too) Demons seen sitting on the cars in the kingdom hall car park. (told to me in a previous cong. 20 or so years back, with great sincerity) Some like to tell stories, maybe there is some basis in truth. I know my husband loves embellishing stories. Nothing he relates is as it happened and if he can use a thousand words instead of 100 all the better. When I'm impatient I have to tell him to just get to the point. Other times I'm entertained. But I often ask questions like: did they really say that? Did you really do that? Sometimes I wear earphones 😄
  9. Ours mentioned viber, whats app, wechat and telegram. We have a very small invite only daily text group, but by the time I'm up and moving the discussion is over 🙄
  10. 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate - unbelievable. Poor humankind the suffering never ends. I try to console myself this way - we will have more to people welcome back into a beautiful paradise. Soon.
  11. That is funny!! But hey, what a lovely brother he still brought you the eggs. I had text mishap a while back. I was checking a text from an elder about hall cleaning, then sent a text to my cousin saying "ring me now" as she was waiting for a good time to talk. The brother rang, said hello and then there was a long silence. I finally asked him why are you ringing me? He said you sent me a text. He told me he thought it was something serious and had taken the time to say a prayer before ringing. We laughed so much afterwards.
  12. I remember staying in BILLETED accomodation for a convention. I was very young and totally freaked out by their taxidermy snakes. Wonderfully strange 🦕 times Another time camping in tents en masse on a farm for a convention. Storm and snow meant we all evacuated during the night. Sitting on wooden benches into the night, wrapped in blankets at conventions.
  13. Well i've had it with relatives...so at least for today, someone I'm not related to. I don't want to wait in the Noah queue, so maybe one of his sons. Abraham, Terah, Sarah - I'd like to know more about daily life in Ur
  14. Gnats. We've being suffering a plague of fungus gnats around Sydney, Australia. On a cleaning group on Facebook people from all over are asking what these new pests are. First time I've noticed them.
  15. Shake off the pressures of this system once and for all. Feel good. Anything else is a bonus.
  16. Our zoom memorial went smoothly with Jehovah’s blessing, no glitches
  17. My husband is a postie. They have reduced their hours (supposedly because there is less mail, I don't think that is the true reason why), so at one depot ( not my husband's) to finish on time some mail doesn't get delivered and is taken back to the depot to be delivered the next day and so on. It may well end up around their ears.
  18. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ This site has a running tally of statistics related to the coronavirus, worldwide and a country by country breakdown. There are other running tallies such as public healthcare expenditure and public military expenditure.
  19. Methylated spirits is 95% alcohol, so maybe adjusting the spray so the alcohol content is increased. as per the following: Science teacher reveals how you can make a hand sanitiser with just two ingredients in an empty sauce bottle https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8124251/Australian-science-teacher-demonstrates-make-sauce-bottle-hand-sanitiser-home.html Not everyone has aloe vera though and the aloe vera gel has been shopped out. Metho might still be available or sitting in the back of the cupboard.
  20. I hear where you're coming from, but, people in my family didn't fare very well. My grandfather (on paternal side) died of TB leaving his twin sons aged 6. Going back a quite a few decades most of my males ancestors died in their early fifties due to heart disease. My grandmother (on maternal side) died of TB. My mother grew up in the time of polio when kids who were healthy on Friday were dead on Sunday. There are now treatments that control heart disease, treatments for TB, vaccines for Polio. If my family members lived today they could have used these treatments and their lives wouldn't have ended prematurely. I would be very unwell if not on my way out if I didn't utilise the expertise of the medical community. That doesn't mean I haven't had doctors that have been really awful, because I have met them too, probably more than my fair share. Colossians 4:14 Luke, the beloved physician, sends you his greeting, and so does De'mas. 🙂
  21. I don't think we have any food shortage at the present time. The panic buying has taken the distribution system by surprise, they're not geared up for extra deliveries. And there are truck curfews so they don't violate noise laws when people are sleeping etc. But I think seeing empty shelves is a shock and they've lost touch with reason. That being said, I remember my father telling me that cats were called "roof rabbits" during WW2 and fair game.

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