For the last 13 years of my teaching career I taught at a very nice Senior High School which was proud of its multi-cultural mix of students. In all that time there was, at least to me, no evidence of any racial or religious discrimination. The one exception was practised by a group of students who were members of a sect named The Plymouth Brethren. They believed that their members should not eat with non-members and each lunch time, cars came to the school and transported them away from the mob. Later they purchased a house opposite the school and their kids walked to the house for lunch. Then they opted out of the school system and got their education from Distance Education which caters for students in isolated locations. I don’t know how they convinced the Education Department that they deserved special treatment. These days they have their own schools as does the Muslim cohort.
I know I won’t be offending any Plymouth Brethren by writing this because they aren’t allowed to use computers.
Yesterday I offered to help my brother fix his toilet cistern. He had purchased a new flushing mechanism for $72 (plus the usual 99c). When I tried to replace the new flushing bit it was obvious that it wasn’t going to fit into that model of the same brand. I went to Bunnings Hardware and bought the whole tank with all the bits for $59. A bit of mucking around drilling new anchor holes through ceramic wall tiles and it was all up and flushing in about two hours. At 72 years of age I am starting to feel my age and felt pretty tired when I got home. I had planned on an early bed, but bro turned up with a couple of bottles of wine and we bought in fish and chips. I slept very well.
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Wine, fish and chips along with your brother's company - I would say you had a nice evening. It seems you are always helping someone Kevin, and that my friend is a good thing.....big hugs:-)
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