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No you won't, because what is an hour

I would be much happier with a metric clock...everything to the base 1 is much easier

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-47252756

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-54237409

The biggest and most upsetting thing that I have been trying to handle, and brings so many tears, is that if only, if only Corrine and I acted immediately asking her to come over and not a week later to have her over for dinner and a sit down together with Carly, she would be here in our home alive, more relaxed and being helped, listened to and supported.

Thank you all for your kind words, thoughts and advice

Thanks OME, I have already done that

https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/breaking-disturbing-texts-from-woman-who-stabbed-her-mum-then-was-shot-dead-by-police-are-revealed/news-story/b6f29723546a0315f4e10b655aecd496

Carly was a petite 26yo girl. The cops didn't have tasers but had pepper spray

Many of those that live in Melbourne would have heard the sad story of a 26 year old girl stabbing her mother and the police then shooting her to death over this weekend. Not tasered, not using pepper spray but shooting her to kill her. The media have been making out the daughter to be a nasty person that has murdered her mother and the mother to have been a saint.

Well, I can tell you that the daughter, her name was Carly, was a good friend of my Son Lachlan. Carly has been over to our place many times and was a kind gentle girl.

Now, the real story is Carly was severely abused throughout her 26 years. Carly suffered mental illnesses as a result and also had ADHD, depression and much more. Because of all this Carly attracted many undesirables in her life and the wrong crowds. Carly was slipping into the deepest, darkest hole over the last couple of weeks that no one could ever have to be in, but had no one to help her. Can you imagine that if you were so far down a hole but wanted to live and needed help to climb out and the only person was the person that is suppose to protect and help you, was the underlying cause of the life you had and failed you. YOU WOULD SNAP and fall down that hole where there was no bottom

Last week Corrine and I talked and we asked Carly over for dinner, suppose to have been last night. We were going to tell Carly that we were here to help and support her. We were going to ask Carly to move in to our home, look after here, get her the medical help she needed, a job and show her all the loving that a parent is suppose to give no matter what. Caitlin who is currently doing her Masters Degree in Social Work was going to be her right hand and help guide Carly. We had it all worked out as Carly had always admired the family we have and adored my son Lachlan.

That was to be all done last night (saturday) but all this was stopped because Carly was shot dead by police on Friday night.

For FuK sake, all she needed was someone to help her

Carly, you can now rest in peace and I am so so so sorry that we didn't step in sooner, even just 2 days sooner

Photoshop alert!!!

That's not Armstrong, that's Aldrin

FE203Y ???

The point I am making is no one can say exactly how they would react in any given situation. There are so many variables like state of mind at that specific point in time. Can you truly sit back in your arm chair and judge with any certainty...I know I can't.

A person plants an IED yesterday and kills 5 Australians. The next day on his way to pick up some more IEDs to plant along the road meets up with an Australian walking along the road. The Australian says, hello, you are unarmed so on your way, and have a nice day sir.

Now turn that around a bit. You are the Australian soldier walking down that street. Those 5 Australians who were killed were your mates. You meet up with that guy walking down the street...how are you going to feel, are you going to be able to hold back your angar, your emotions...or are just going to put a bullet through that bustards head. But wait, he is unarmed!!!

How many dead soldiers do we have and what happened to those that killed them, did they end up in court? War doesn't decide who wins or loses, it only decides who is left!

10 minutes ago, old man emu said:

I've just received a message from my kids asking for what I'd like as a Silly Season gift. What I want is an impossibility. 

My kids are a wakeup to me now...they say "Daddy, what do you want for Xmas other than a 21 yo blonde, 2 x 21 yo blondes or your 2 front teeth" 🤣

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Both but her preference is investigative police work. She has a huge interest in human trafficking so she is hoping to get into the AFP or border force. Caitlin has currently applied for border force although she just wants a little time out first to get some life experience so she is working casual at Adairs the retail linen store.

Thanks OME and Son...Lachlan read the post and agrees and says thanks

15 hours ago, old man emu said:

Ian,

Don't let him think that simply doing a Bachelor's degree will give him a job when he's got it. He is entering into a field where change is the name of the game. Remind him of the time it takes to create course content, and that while a lecturer is doing that, he doesn't have the time to keep ahead of the wave.

 

If I asked my son - who has his own business in this general field - what advice he would give your son, it would be to pester a company already involved in communication design for an internship so that while he is attending Uni and getting the theory, he is also being exposed to the forefront of the occupation. If he doesn't put a lot of time into maintaining currency in the real world, his degree will not help him rise to the top in four or five years' time.

Luckily he has already been told from a local agency that they want to talk to him after he graduates. This company doesn't normally take work experience kids but they were very impressed with his work that he had done they gave him work experience. He worked on very large clients and at the end they told him they want him to come back to them after uni so that is a possible start. His uni course also includes the promotion into internships as well.

But like everything, you never know unless you try

As an update to my Son's art in the opening post I am a very proud father with Lachlan has just been offered his first choice in his VTAC University Placing. Lachlan did Year 12 VCE last year (2020) through the Covid pandemic, sat his exams and over the Christmas break he was given 3 conditional university offers including a scholarship at Monash Uni. His first choice was Bachelor of Communication Design at RMIT University and yesterday he received his first round offer of just that.

So that now makes both of my kids have gone/going to University. Caitlin finished her Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice degree mid last year and now Lachlan starting uni this year.

Here is his web site:

https://www.lachlandesign.com.au/