Rural Aid was founded in 2015 to provide support programs to rural Australia. Their grassroots beginning touched a nerve with the Australian public with the Buy a Bale campaign which saw the distribution of fodder, fuel vouchers and hampers delivered to rural communities.
Rural Aid have recently advised that in January 2020 they delivered 463 domestic water orders across Australia. Water requests have since slowed down due to rain, though hay is still in short supply with the drought. They delivered 4234 bales of hay on 104 trucks to 262 farmers to 25 locations, with multiple deliveries within these areas in January. So far in February, they have delivered hay to 38 locations to 159 farmers, with some being multiple deliveries within these areas.
Thank you, Rural Aid, for your accountability and transparency.
Makes a change, though I refuse to make any further comment on the current dog fight happening over the hundreds of millions of dollars in bushfire donations – other than I told you so.
So a girlfriend with a crafty bent attended a Workshop over the weekend to learn how to crotchet pouches and sacks to assist injured wildlife. The money she paid for the three hour course was donated to a wildlife organisation and she is now busy crocheting birds nests. Apparently, the needs of koalas, wallabies and possums have changed – it’s all about releasing them back to an area with plentiful feed and shelter which is now proving the problem.

The emphasis is now on birdlife injured or homeless because of the fires: owls, curlews, magpies, kookaburras, and cockatoos etc.
To fellow blogger, Gee Jen, who recently knocked the complacency out of me – thank you. Though my skill set does not include knitting needles nor crochet hooks, I can most certainly make a decent pot of tea. An afternoon of bird nest creation coming this way soon……

NOTE: I just gotta say that I sat through last weekends 10 hour Fire Fight concert on the tele to raise further funds, and OMG, hasn’t 72 year old Alice Cooper still got it!

Are you and your hubby rockers?
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Hahahahaha. That’s hilarious.
No, very staid, sorry.
But I enjoy music. Most music. Still have my vinyl collection which Ifought for in my divorce.
Never owned an Alice Cooper LP though I did buy Welcome To My Nightmare for a friends 17th birthday. She bought me Best of the Hollies:)
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I thought you remarried and was happy you were not alone anymore. Or if not, I guess that is why you always tell me I am a lucky gal. Thanks.
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You are a lucky girl: you have the support to allow you to be in a companionable relationship whilst still retaining your independence and pursuing your own needs. It’s rarer than you know:)
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I do know myself and I married after being in the workforce and educated. True. I also didn’t raise children as the stepchildren were mostly already raised and teenagers…we saw them for 2 weeks in the summer one summer, so I had zero influence. I hope you have someone in your life now. There I have said my good deed for today!
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It was a fantastic feel good concert… Now to see what they do with the money, and if they ever let us know….
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It was indeed a feel good concert, from Lee Kernaghan to Farnsie. And I’m still pea green over Brian May’s curls despite them being grey.
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I always enjoyed the Jerry Lewis Telethon and the parade of talent – some new and some old… Seems the movie stars and TV personalities as well as the musicians all age slower than the rest of us regular people. I suppose it has a lot to do with being able to afford to have “work” done on their faces… also doesn’t hurt to have a personal trainer too!
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Probably, but I also wonder how come all those drugs, booze and wild women don’t age them.
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Funny your title has “rats” and “Alice Cooper” in the same mention. I always think of Ozzy when rats are mentioned.
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🙂
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I meant “Bats”, but you get the drift. At least if you understand Ozzy’s background you do.
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😀
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