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Women of the Outback
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retirement
and ageing - margaret here - Tue,
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How
difficult are the issues surrounding ageing and retirement
in isolated communities.
Do you worry about what would happen if you had a
major life event such as a partner dying or disability
through stroke or something like that.
Do you plan for retirement and if so what plans would
a person who has been in a remote community make?
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most
irksome?
- Ann Clancy - Mon, 25 Jun 2001, 21:15
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what
is the most irksome thing about living in a remote
area? And what is the best thing?
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Re:
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Hi
Ann, for me having to send our children away from
home to finish their education when they hardly seem
old enough to be leaving home.
The best thing is being able to do everything together.Work
and play, the good and the bad sometimes the lines
are pretty fine but we do it together.
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Re:
most irksome? - sally - Tue, 26 Jun
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most irksome thing for me is the travel. Every time
we go somewhere it involves long trips on rough dirt
roads. To get away involves mammoth planning, cooking
to leave food behind for workers and often to take
with us, and packing...everything except the kitchen
sink! Sometimes it seems that too much effort is needed
to go away and it would be easier to stay home, especially
with young children. Once we've got to where we are
going, it's all worth it. The best thing is Family
Quality time. We do everything together, even grocery
shopping.
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most irksome? - Colleen M - Mon,
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Hi
Ann, The most irksome thing I think is not having
24 hour power. It is very difficult in the summer
to keep freezers and cold rooms at the temps that
are suppose to be!I think we were better off with
32 volt lights and gas fridges - at least they were
constant. The best thing is the family life. We do
everything together, school, station work, eat, talk
and laugh - I wouldn't swap it for all the tea in
China. The next best thing would be watching it rain!
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medical
advice - how do you get it? - Ann
Clancy - Mon, 25 Jun 2001, 13:21
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How
do you get emergency medical advice? I know with my
own kids we often have to call the doctor to do a
home visit - especially for middle ear infections
which seem to get symptomatic in the middle of the
night - our kids wake up and scream with the pain.
We can call a doctor out and then drive into the city
to the all-night chemist. What do you do? Is it frightending
when you can't get a doctor in a hurry?
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Re:
medical advice - how do you get it? - Colleen
M - Mon, 25 Jun 2001, 21:44 |
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We
telephone the RFDS at Port Augusta. Medical times
are at 08:00, 13:00, and 17:00. You explain the problem
or describe the symptoms and if medication is required
the Doctor directs us to the RFDS medical chest for
prescribed medication. All medication is numbered
and if something is prescribed then we fill out a
form to replace the item and it matches the Doctors
request. If their is an emergency then the RFDS base
is open 24 hours and you can speak to a doctor or
be picked up by the plane. If it is in the middle
of the night then you need to light flares along your
airstrip so that the plane can land. In the past we
have used large tins with rags soaked in kero to act
as flares.
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Re:
medical advice - how do you get it? - sally3
tangello - Mon, 25 Jun 2001, 16:15 |
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We
have a Flying Doctor clinic on the third Wednesday
of every month only 10 km from home for routine medical
issues, and the flying doctor can get there in forty
minutes,(or so he promised me when I was pregnant!).
We have had a rush trip to Hawker(105km) one afternoon
for a child who had fallen off a motorbike and knocked
both top front teeth into the gum! The trip normally
takes 1 h 10 min but that day we did it in about half
that! When the kids were babies I worried a lot about
our distance from hospital, but touch wood we are
all in good health. We can ring the Flying Doctor
at any time and there is a medical kit in nearby Blinman
which we can access on the doctors advice. I feel
that we are as protected as possible considering the
distances involved.
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What
about doing the shopping? - Anna
Pasini - Mon, 25 Jun 2001, 01:48
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I
know...sometimes it can be boring and you often forget
to buy something important, but where and when do
you buy food, for example? You have to be very well
organized, I think...
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Re:
What about doing the shopping? - carol
W - Wed, 27 Jun 2001, 00:36 |
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Our
shopping is done mainly on trips to Port Augusta which
vary in frequency but generally about once in 2-3weeks.
Other shopping such as station requirements at Elders,
Mitre 10, Northern Motocycles ect are done during
regular shopping hours while the food groceries are
left till after 5:30pm when other business' are closed.
As a family we then take a trolley each and head in
different directions up the isles with a fairly detailed
shopping list each. I write up the lists with full
detaile of size, quantity required but there are usually
a few surprises when we get home and calls of it was
on special or i thought we might need!!!!!
Green groceries we tend to fax an order in and just
pick up all beautifully packed from the local vegie
shop.
As to forgeting to get something,if you havent got
it you cant use it, no good worrying!.
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Re:
What about doing the shopping? -  sally
henery - Mon, 25 Jun 2001, 11:26 |
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I
live on a sheep station near Blinman in the Flinders
Ranges. Being close to a small town(pop. 18) means
I have access to a weekly fruit & veg order and other
perishables such as milk, bacon etc. For non-perishables,
clothing etc we do a trip to Port Augusta for school
or RICE about once every 6 weeks or so, sometimes
more often, sometimes less, so we do a Huge shop then...at
least 2 trolley loads! If we run out of something
we have to dream up alternatives or just do without
for a while. I have a perpetual shopping list, as
soon as something gets low I write it down. Willing
visitors are handy to buy emergency things. The store
covers some items too but it is limited and would
be very expensive to do all the shopping there.
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talking
with other women - Ann
Clancy - Sun, 24 Jun 2001, 22:44
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what
do you do when you feel like a bit of GTO (girls'
talk only). Say if the kids are worrying the life
out of you ... Do you ring someone, or do you hop
in the car and drive out for some company?
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Re:
talking with other women - sally3
tangello - Mon, 25 Jun 2001, 16:26
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If
you saw my phone bill you would know the answer. I
reward myself for the successful completion of another
school week, or day, with a phone call or an email
to friends. I love a long chat with someone with empathy.
My friends live too far away to see often.
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Re: talking with other women - beth
gaba - Mon, 25 Jun 2001, 21:15 |
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would
it not be great if more women had time to email and
to do it without guilt. i keep in contact with people
all over the world as do lots nowdays and it is all
empowing
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Teaching
Your Own children!! - Colleen
Manning - Sun, 24 Jun 2001, 17:40
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I
have supervised my three children through School of
the Air over the past 15 years. We have had lots of
fun times and not so fun times. Our classroom is in
the homestead so that I can cook, wash, answer the
telephone and teach at the same time. We have shared
our classroom with sheepdogs, budgies and a pet galah.
Our normal school day is sometimes interrupted as
we often need to help out on the station run.It is
a busy life but totally rewarding.
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Re:
Teaching Your Own children!! - Lorraine
Lorraine - Tue, 26 Jun 2001, 15:05 |
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Well
it would be good to know how you manage to juggle
all those tasks and does anything suffer. If so. What?
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Teaching Your Own children!! - sally3
tangello - Mon, 25 Jun 2001, 16:36 |
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I
teach my two children, currently years 4 and 1, through
School of the Air. It's very busy and sometimes tempers
are frayed, but mostly it's fun and very rewarding.
Both my kids are highly motivated which is half the
battle I think. I learn a lot too and it's nice to
be so involved with their education. I'd much rather
do school with them than employ someone to do that
so that I am free to do boring housework! Sure, the
house would be spotless and I'd get to do more on
the station with my husband, but it would not be as
fullfilling.
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Re:
Teaching Your Own children!! - beth
gaba - Mon, 25 Jun 2001, 14:24 |
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i
didn't mean to send two copies, i got errors in sending
both times but anyhow , how do you copy with the extended
variety of topics that students study and at what
age have your children opted out of studies.
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Re:
Teaching Your Own children!! - beth
gaba - Mon, 25 Jun 2001, 14:23 |
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i
have gone to school with my children at a regular
comprehensive school and thoroghly enjoy every contact
with them and the time shard, others don't always
share this experience and it's so good to read that
you appear to appreciate this. i'm not familiar with
this forum stuff so do you reply via an email or i
guess i look the forum again later.
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Safety
on the station! - ralf
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I
would imagine workers on your station may often be
many kilometres away from the homestead during the
day. Are you able to keep in touch with them? How
do you do this? Has any worker ever had an accident
- What did you do?
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Safety on the station! - sally3
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Our
station is a tiny one in the Flinders...only 120 square
kilometres of pure mountain. It's very rugged country.
Some of the paddocks are so rough the stock have to
be mustered, and fences checked, on foot. We use UHF
handheld radios and a repeater tower to keep in touch.
This works really well. To my knowledge, say in the
last 15 years, there has never been a serious accident
here. If there was we'd call the Flying Doctor. Mobile
phones don't work here.
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Washing
Clothes - Roger
Edmonds - Sun, 24 Jun 2001, 10:28
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What's
it like washing clothes for the family on your property?
Is it a once a week chore? Do you use bore or rain
water? How clean is the water?
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Washing Clothes - sally
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Because
I am teaching my own children from 8.40am til 4pm
I have to wash on Saturdays...and it is a huge job.
I hate it. We recently upgraded from a twin tub to
an automatic, but now it takes longer. At least I
can do other things during a cycle now. We use rainwater
all through the house which is nice. We catch rain
water in tanks off nearly every roof on the property.
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Creature
Comforts! - Karen
Raymond - Sun, 24 Jun 2001, 10:14
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I'm
not sure I could cope without instant hot water at
whatever time I want it, I love going to my gym through
the week and I visit my massage therapist weekly.
I would love to know how women in the remote outback
cope without all the creature comforts of the city.
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Creature Comforts! - sally3
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We
have constant hot water with a gas hot water service
which runs off cylinders...very expensive. It's rain
water too which is nice for clothes and hair! We have
240 volt power, 24 hours a day. We have internet access
almost as fast as the city. We have satellite TV which
means crystal clear SBS. We have a fantastic restaurant
5 mins away which does the best pasta and thai food
for over 200 km. We don't have a gym but we have 120
square km of beautiful mountain ranges to walk in.
We have a generally laid back, uncluttered lifestyle
with lots of time for family. We are happy!
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