Oh wait...
We're paying for this debacle.
Showing posts with label boat people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boat people. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Boating... spending my inheritance
Good Lord! I forgot!
Friday morning through the fog of the pre-alarm wakefulness I heard my phone's distant (it's only in the faily room, but it is distant if you're half asleep), bleat... a message...
After I'd woken and faffed around for half an hour I remembered the message on my phone.
Mum SMS: I'm at the airport. My bag hasn't got enough stuff in it. I don't know what I've forgotten.
Me SMS: Where are you going?
Then the phone rings (the terrible noise of a "dive" alarm on a submarine - appropriate for my Mum's calls!).
It's Mum, of course. She's on her way to a European cruise, the one she was supposed to go on when she had her surgery in May this year. We chatted for a while. I asked when she'd be back, early September she'll be back. I asked her to send my postcard as soon as she got there so that it would beat her back... I also told her, like everyone else, that if she'd forgotten anything she should be able to buy it at a pinch. The weather should be lovely over there, coming into autumn.
MDFD said that I should have told her that the space was for all the pressies she'd be bringing back for us (which is what my sister in law also said!).
Friday morning through the fog of the pre-alarm wakefulness I heard my phone's distant (it's only in the faily room, but it is distant if you're half asleep), bleat... a message...
After I'd woken and faffed around for half an hour I remembered the message on my phone.
Mum SMS: I'm at the airport. My bag hasn't got enough stuff in it. I don't know what I've forgotten.
Me SMS: Where are you going?
Then the phone rings (the terrible noise of a "dive" alarm on a submarine - appropriate for my Mum's calls!).
It's Mum, of course. She's on her way to a European cruise, the one she was supposed to go on when she had her surgery in May this year. We chatted for a while. I asked when she'd be back, early September she'll be back. I asked her to send my postcard as soon as she got there so that it would beat her back... I also told her, like everyone else, that if she'd forgotten anything she should be able to buy it at a pinch. The weather should be lovely over there, coming into autumn.
MDFD said that I should have told her that the space was for all the pressies she'd be bringing back for us (which is what my sister in law also said!).
Monday, October 26, 2009
Tamil terrorists arriving by boat?
Heard on 2GB thismorning, interview between Ray Hadley and Dr Victor Rajakulendran, Secretary of the Australian Federation of Tamil Associations...
Tamil Tigers among asylum seekers
Dr Victor Rajakulendran, Secretary of the Australasian Federation of Tamil Associations, tells Ray Hadley Tamil fighters are likely to be among boatpeople arriving in Australia.
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