Peter Pullar

I looked online for how to learn the multiplication tables better.

The learning resources all had games and other distractions but I just wanted to do plenty of practice drills.

I wrote a program to do that and have fun getting as many correct as possible in the minimum amount of time.

It shows the number of correct answers and the amount of time.

If I give an incorrect answer, it shows me and gives me the opportunity to enter the correct answer.

Please feel free to share this program with others.

I would like to know any improvements that would make this more useful.

From the feedback that I have received I have added a bell sound each time a correct answer is entered.

There is also another version that shows a drawing after 2 correct answers. The drawing changes after 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30 correct answers.

I also have a similar program for practicing addition.

Visit www.lifereactivationcoaching.com
Then download the free worksheet and fill in at least some of it.
If you are not certain that is what you want to start working on right now, you may want to put it aside and fill out another worksheet for a different area of your life.

Contact me with your questions about filling in and working through your worksheets.
I welcome any feedback.

I like going up steps quickly, easily and safely rather than slowly and laboriously

Frank used to produce pears. Trevor and Chris sell Hi Fi audio and video. Kay produces flowers.

However my product is individually customised for each client.

It can include a more workable solution, Increased productivity, Better communication, An improved relationship, Greater environmental sustainability, Co-operation, Health, Education, Safety…

It consists of a number of sessions.
Part of the first session is devoted to determining what results you want to achieve and putting together a plan.

Then, and in each of the following sessions we work towards activating the areas of your life that you want to activate.

I have moved into a two bedroom unit near Flemington Bridge railway station and the 59 tram.

All my belongings are moved out of storage and I now have all my books and self development materials to hand.

After a few weeks of sorting and organising, with a new computer that is 20 times as fast as my old one, and multifunction colour printer that does double sided printing, I am ready to create, promote and deliver.

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The Queenslander was the prestige train of Queensland Rail’s fleet in 1993. It alternately travelled the Brisbane – Cairns and the Brisbane – Proserpine return journeys. They have now upgraded their fleet and run more frequent services.

Installing a new sound system in the Daintree Lounge carriage, I realised that I would be working all night. I rang home and invited Claudine to come to the railyard to practice her singing as I was working alone.

Claudine was still singing few hours later when other workers started arriving.

Several weeks later I received a phone call from Queensland Rail. They said the entertainment for the Proserpine run had cancelled and could Claudine provide the entertainment instead.

Claudine enjoyed performing. First class accommodation, great service and meals were provided for Claudine, our daughter and me.

I love great train journeys like this and the Indian Pacific Sydney – Perth trip. The highlight for me this time was sitting with our daughter and looking out the window of the train as the sun rose.

Queensland Rail also paid us for this trip.

William Ricketts created this sanctuary with its sculptures amongst the trees in the forest on Mount Dandenong.

I had visited it years ago when William Ricketts was still alive and water flowed in the water features.

The years since my previous visits have made me value that spiritual experience and William’s message even more.

I again felt deeply moved as I experienced lifelike sculptures of the people and the animals amongst the huge trees of the shady forest.

The intricate details and they they blended into the rocks and the forest showed me a connection that I have been missing.

I had heard stories of Aboriginal people and a brief intense connection with a few. This sanctuary helps me to feel more at peace with that and to feel a deeper connection.

I believe that the message that William Ricketts is communicating through his creation is very much needed in our society at this time.

The water is not flowing now. The tank is almost empty and a falling tree has damaged some pipework. A donation may help to speed up the restoration of the flow that is part of the experience.

Meanwhile the staff and volunteers are taking great care of this valuable treasure and its visitors.

The object in mixing these fruits is to save the necessity of buying a number of small packages of each variety.

Time is thereby saved the grocer in serving and the housewife in using.

The pantry is tidier and a considerable amount of waste is prevented.

Should the contents of this pack become too dry pour boiling water over what is required before using.

The contents of this packet are ready for use. In all kinds of milk, suet, and steamed puddings, cakes etc. and wherever currants, raisins or lemon peel are usually required

Several table-spoonsful of the mixture in apple pies or milk puddings is appreciated by children.

Added to porridge or breakfast foods it improves the food value as well as the taste

Packed by
PULLAR & PULLAR Pty. Ltd.
Ardmona, Victoria, Australia

I believe that this was invented by my grandfather, Mr Frank Pullar Senior, and that he was told that it was a silly idea since nobody else was making such a product.

I never saw packets of these in grocery stores. I only saw some of the remaining packets in a shed on his orchard.

Grocery stores sold similar packets of mixed dried fruits produced by other manufacturers.

I was about 7 years old and my chore was to sweep the concrete paths, all the way from the driveway to the side gate and from the back gate to the house.

The paths seemed very long as I was comparatively small. To me it seemed such a pointless exercise and I was doing it slowly and unenthusiastically.

My mother, noticing that I was taking too long, came to reprimand me. I was not giving her my full attention.

We lived on the family orchard.The house was on a large block in Minchins Road, Ardmona.

I noticed that a swagman was walking along the road and I was thinking how good it would be to just go wherever I wanted to go and not have to sweep concrete paths that I don’t think need sweeping. Lesley, my mother, noticed that I was looking at the swagman and said “you wouldn’t like to be like him would you!”

I paused for a moment and I said “Actually I would like to be like him.”
Lesley was furious. She valued diligent work and abhorred indolence.
She firmly demanded “Walk over to the pole.”
She followed me and commanded “Lean over!”
I heard and felt each stroke of the garden hose.
Then I started feeling the pain.
I dropped to the ground and started crying.
I had learned to never say what I really thought!

Nearly 30 years later Claudine moved into my house. I had not at that stage unlearned that lesson.

Claudine became pregnant but she did not want to have a child. I was not going to support her in her having an abortion. If she wanted that, I considered that it was up to her to get it done.

It was horrendous for her as I was still unwilling to say what I thought and felt.

Claudine decided to give up the child at birth instead of having an abortion. The birth was an amazing experience for me.
At the Hawthorn birthing centre with the midwife and the rebirther. Doctor Bruce Sutherland was on hand and it was a beautiful water birth.

However instead of coming into a loving family home, there was the partially renovated house on busy Burnley Street in Richmond, an inner Melbourne suburb.

I was not communicating much with Claudine. I stopped earning sufficient income and our daughter suffered. Claudine’s family stepped in and looked after the child instead of giving the child away. They wanted the child to live with her parents.

Our daughter didn’t feel safe at home. I had still not unlearned that lesson from 30 years before so there was insufficient communication to sustain a relationship.

Yet I looked good in front of my family and friends.
I worked hard and Claudine was judged for the way she spent her money. They didn’t notice that I was attempting to dictate how we should allocate our money instead of co-operating with her in creating a financial plan.

It cost us very dearly, physically, emotionally and financially. It cost our daughter her childhood and it is still impacts her and her son to this day.

One day in 1981 I volunteered to install two security cameras below the space frame above the top floor of the Wentworth hotel.

It was the hotel on the top 15 floors of the 50 floor 35 Collins Place tower. The hotel is now named Sofitel Melbourne on Collins.

I was working for Australian Video Engineering as an electronic technician at the time and nobody else in our team wanted to do that task.

I didn’t have a safety harness though I did have a rope tied firmly to the spaceframe. I felt very uncomfortable lying on the catwalk leaning over the edge while screwing the camera bracket into the attaching point on the spaceframe.

Looking down at the floor of the atrium 15 floors below It took me a while to locate the mounting hole. I was scared of dropping the bracket on somebody. I felt very relieved when its thread firmly engaged. Then I held on to the spanner very carefully as I tightened it in place.

Even though I had somebody firmly holding my feet, I felt as though I was going to plunge to my death. I was determined to complete that job anyway. I still had to mount the cameras on their brackets, and that was an even greater stretch.

Going back up with the cameras and looking at the 15 floor drop, I knew that I might die. I also knew that the cameras had to be fitted and nobody else wanted to do it.

I wondered what is really important to me. Some people. Some things. The things really aren’t very important.

Then I considered the fact that I might survive so, with some difficulty I installed both cameras. Fitting the connectors and plugging them in the cameras was also a challenge and it was not until I went down to the security room and saw both camera images on the television monitors that I felt relaxed.

The other team members very gratefully thanked me for installing those cameras and I felt extremely satisfied at have done such a challenging job.