I remember reading 'fair dinkum' in a novel, 'Matthew Flinders Cat'. That is also where I learned what a 'poof' means! (Good book ... I passed it on to my parents who both enjoyed reading it too.)

It has gotten colder so we are getting lots of snow, which is a pretty change from all the rain! Luckily we haven't had to boil our water here. On the mainland though, I've heard they are still boiling water for at least one minute before drinking it.

I have a nightlight .... but that is a little one beside my bed so I can see my way in the dark!

It is my LiteBook that I use every morning for Seasonal Affective Disorder.

"I'm not too excited about the frigoric [fri-gor-ik] but the upside is that we don't need to worry about gallinippers!" [gal-i-nip-er]

I forgot to check here, scrabble.

LiteBook. That's it! I knew it wasn't a nightlight LOL

OK. *thinking
gall might be a wasp or fly or some type of insect.
gall that nips LOL Nah.

frig is sort of like fridge

I'm not too excited about the snow or cold, but the upside is that we don't need to worry about the biting insects!"?

maybe gallinippers is a mozzie.

p.s. forgot to mention. I've not read "Mathew Flinders Cat". I might put that on my long list here.
Wondering if you've ever read any of the John Marsden books? Great aussie writer.

Hi Lara,

You did a great job with that last one ...

"I'm not too excited about the frigoric [fri-gor-ik] but the upside is that we don't need to worry about gallinippers!" [gal-i-nip-er]

frigoric - an imagined, nonexistent substance supposed to be the cause of cold.

gallinipper - a large mosquito.

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Matthew Flinders
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Captain Matthew Flinders. RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was one of the most accomplished navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years, he sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent, survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned as a spy, identified and corrected the effect of iron components and equipment on board wooden ships upon compass readings, and wrote the seminal work on Australian exploration A Voyage To Terra Australis.


Bryce Courtenay wrote the novel called Matthew Flinders' Cat

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Billy O'Shannessy, once a prominent Sydney barrister, is now homeless and living on the street where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library in Sydney. Above him on a window ledge sits a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Into this setting comes Ryan, a ten year old boy, a near street kid heading for all the usual troubles that beset teenagers with difficulties and terrible home lives.

Bryce Courtenay is the bestselling author of The Power of One, Tandia, April Fool's Day, The Potato Factory, Tommo & Hawk, Jessica, Solomon's Song, A Recipe for Dreaming, The Family Frying Pan, The Night Country, Smokey Joe's Cafi, Four Fires, Matthew Flinders' Cat, Brother Fish and Whitethorn.

(I have also read 'Jessica')
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I just did a search on John Marsden. I haven't read any of his books, but they do sound good. I'll have to ask my daughter if she is familiar with his writing. Thanks