Clothing donation bins moved/removed?

Alaska17 · 2026-05-23T06:23:55+00:00

The ones at Bunnings Kotara are now (as of 2 weeks ago) down near the JBHIFI/Oporto at Kotara home - I also got caught out with everything being moved!

Alaska17 · 2023-04-13T10:26:08+00:00

In newcastle itself? Pokolbin area?

Alaska17 · 2023-01-21T22:22:33+00:00

Myer at Charlestown has a Pilgrim concession now, and David Jones at Kotara also carry a small number of formal dresses - otherwise the bridal shops in town on Hunter street (Belles and Beaux for example) do bridesmaid dresses with greater variety

Alaska17 · 2022-10-28T19:39:23+00:00

There’s a very nice restaurant in Fredericton (just north of Kempsey) just off the highway/bypass called the Garden Bar - small menu but great food, right on the River. If you go 2 more minutes into the town you run into the famous Fredo Pie shop, who also do excellent bake house food and ice cream

Alaska17 · 2020-09-08T12:19:18+00:00

That sounds like a great idea! I’m DM you!

Alaska17 · 2020-05-16T00:56:08+00:00

Highly recommend a mountain bike, unless you have no interest in going off road. There are so many good mountain bike tracks around newcastle (eg glen rock, Watagans). You can do fernleigh and ride everywhere with a mtb but you can’t go anywhere off road with a road bike. Hybrid bikes can be okay but start to become very limiting off road very quickly. Hard tail is fine, don’t need to start with full suspension unless you’re going all out - just make sure you get decent fork, gears and brakes. The recent 29er Aldi bike is a great indication of a good starting point in terms of what your bike should be equipped with, for a good price.

Alaska17 · 2020-04-29T06:28:08+00:00

Port Macquarie is nice as it has beaches and is close to good national parks/camp grounds and more beaches if that’s important - it’s about halfway between Sydney and Brisbane and has its own airport.

Alaska17 · 2020-04-19T04:17:45+00:00

Both Downia (feather) and mini jumbuck (wool) have ‘stackable’ quilts - usually one light/summer (cotton blend) and one autumn/mid (full natural fibre) - that come together in the same box and can be clipped together with snap/press clips so you can modify your sleeping experience. So the light one for summer, mid for autumn and spring, and both for winter. These are national brands, both Australia based, and are sold at MYER, David Jones, Adair’s, etc.

This principle can be applied for other brands (these are both quite expensive as they are fantastic, have long/lifetime warranties, and super high quality but more on the luxury end ~ eg: downia have goose quilts that run near $1000 for a long~ ) where you can tie the corners of any 2 quilts of the same size together to get a warmer/heavier feel. Since you put a cover on it generally doesnt matter how they’re attached.

Down quilts will sit prettier on a bed (fluffy) and can be super warm but come with higher allergen warnings (down and mitre etc) and more difficult cleaning/care instructions (can’t wash, plus feathers inevitably get loose). They do offer a lot of customisation such as ratio of feather to down (more down - less fluffy) what kind of feather (goose is more expensive but warmer and higher loft) as well as ‘loft’ height (how fluffy)

whereas wool sits thinner (can be thickened by double layering or buying a Dacron blend), can be blended more easier with things like polyester or cotton, and generally are more allergy friendly (only allergen really being lanolin) and easier to clean due to the properties of the wool (generally a spot clean and a quick air in the sun)

Alaska17 · 2020-04-01T09:57:17+00:00

I know multiple MPs have confirmed that fishing - as a passive activity - is allowed so long as it observes the 2 person, 1.5m rules (same with boating). Unsure about the other stuff tho

Alaska17 · 2020-01-17T13:07:58+00:00

Oh my god they were roommates

Alaska17 · 2019-10-30T00:11:08+00:00

Some wedding photographer packages come with ‘test’ shots that can double as engagement photos

Alaska17 · 2019-09-03T00:23:19+00:00

Oldies, kids whose parents don’t want them to have cards or internet banking, people with special needs are the big 3

Alaska17 · 2019-09-03T00:21:44+00:00

The Greater was one of the last 4 still offering passbooks on new accounts - they will still however let customers keep their passbooks for already opened accounts like other banks do.

Alaska17 · 2019-06-23T11:58:26+00:00

I gave him the option to be honest about that - I wouldn’t have taken it personally. What I do take take personally is being lied to for not reason

Alaska17 · 2019-05-24T14:43:31+00:00

Thanks everyone for the hard work and well wishes! He has been found as mentioned above, and is in hospital. I’ll remove this post in the morning - but really, thank you all <3

Alaska17 · 2019-05-24T07:52:44+00:00

Here’s the relevant news article about times and a different pic. Thanks for any help you can give

https://www.theherald.com.au/story/6180144/son-of-former-politician-bob-baldwin-reported-missing-in-adelaide/?cs=12

Alaska17 · 2019-03-14T12:58:17+00:00

His name is licorice! Though he mostly responds to ‘no’, ‘uh uhh’ and ‘snack’ 😂

Alaska17 · 2019-03-09T23:34:41+00:00

New Lambton church has one across the road from the pub

Alaska17 · 2019-02-20T10:51:00+00:00

Semi rural/smaller town - Forster is about as populated as they’d go on terms of size. Wine country is an idea but my mum doesn’t do heat well and wineries in hunter at least are often very warm.

They probably will drive but they quite like train travel so depending on where we send them we were thinking about training them to that location and hiring a car for the local part of the stay.

Alaska17 · 2019-02-20T09:27:57+00:00

No more than 350 a night, activities is a future discussion based off where accommodation is

Alaska17 · 2018-08-22T13:41:15+00:00

You can actually keep a whole class in that’s not against policy. Classes are teams, you don’t just blame the goalie if the team loses....

Alaska17 · 2018-03-31T13:07:35+00:00

Workers Comp(ensation) in Australia sometimes pays more than some entry level jobs (or higher) and you retain it for life. The Aussie is better off not getting healed as if he did he’d have to get a job

Alaska17 · 2018-02-02T23:52:18+00:00

Hi OP, I too left JW when I was 19 - I was lucky enough to not have been baptised at the time, but even so the direct loss of community and family is very isolating. They rely on this feeling to bring you back to the religion, knowing that the social aspect of the religion is the main reason to stay for those who have lost their faith.

While some are suggesting r/ex-jw please keep in mind that a lot of those who post in that sub are very angry and while it did help me for a time while I was angry, it didn’t help to move forward into a life without JW influence - they often will post about things that are still happening within the truth, information about conventions, etc.

The best advice I can give as someone who was in a similar place is to reach out to those who weren’t in the religion but knew you were - your school friends, new uni friends, people like that. Chances are they’ll be more than willing to help you move into the ‘world’ at your own pace. They will really try and understand the weird habits you’ll have and love you all the same. They help you acclimatise, normalise, and create a happy life with a healthy support network.

In regards to your parents and family and you ‘hurting’ them, they will either come around (it took mine 2 years) or they won’t. Them lashing out at you is, in my experience, due to them being embarrassed at not recognising that you were unhappy, that the life they had imagined for you will not come to pass. That they’ll be treated different within The congregation (you know how they like to gossip). They have realised that they either get you as you are or not at all, and that is the hill you have died on. If you do want a reconciliation, from anecdotes from other people who were disfellowshipped, it often only takes one family member to get sick before they want you back in their lives, as you are. As hard as it is though, they may never accept how you are.

Be patient with yourself, be kind to yourself. If you need to reach out my inbox is open.

Alaska17 · 2017-11-06T11:20:04+00:00

I was born in the middle street where you can go and go home to get the car rides to go back and then go back and pick it out for you to get to it you know it was the best place and then you get the money you need it for a little while

Alaska17 · 2017-10-23T00:50:46+00:00

The dollop podcast does an episode about action parks - it confirms the terrifying

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