General Chat

Congrats puddy tat, well done. Jill When we were leaving I meant to thank you once again for the lovely piece of wattle you brought each of us today. Really appreciated. Jill gave all of us a piece of wattle made out of sugar (sweets) today. Made by her own little hands. She is one clever little chook. No SuzyQ, not one of yours. Welcome Maureen, I is the only sane one. Be careful of the Doc. Hi Tony, did you find the tin of spag? Oh bu**er, how did you mangage to 'over cook' it. Hi Fitz, what is the weather like at the moment. 25 deg C here today in sunny Queensland and we are in our winter season. Would love to visit Anchororage. Hi Vonny, glad you had a good trip apart from 'the getting home part'. I also need to be a bit tougher re bargaining. Jood, I agree with you. Us Queenslanders don't waffle as much as some others I could mention. Taken me ages to catch up. Tassie, we all have craft moments. Sign of the age. Donna, I'll be in that - trying all the eating places on the coast. No Donna, don't be sorry, the lunch was not cut short by you. Family do come first. Softly, softly - SuzyQ, do you know of anyone who can do a r**n dance. Had a good trip home, only saw one little camera bug, hope he didn't see me. Ahhhhhh - history and geography, loved them both but unfortunately the subjects my parents wanted me to study at high school - hist and geog were not included. nuff said !!! Had a great day.We were all very well behaved, and we didn't even get thrown out of the place. lol The poles, we won't talk about. oh is cooking prawns for dinner. Love seafood, but tonight am not really hungry. Any bites Back later Pam

I agree with you wholeheartedly Vonny - I loved geography, hated history, but didnt really take it all in (or forgotten it, one or the other!) I never knew that I would end up living in the Blue Mountains. As you know some of our towns here are Blaxland, Lawson & Wentworth Falls. Even my town of Springwood is historical - and I live in Macquarie Road too (My maiden name was Lochlin, hmmmmm - but not spelt Lachlan). .. I appreciate Australian history so much more now, and often visualise how our ancestors coped when they first arrived in Australia. Jood

Funny, I loved geography as a kid and thought history was booooooring. NOW, I find history fascinating, especially as it impinges on my family history. Somehow it all fits together when you have an ancestor living in it!!! Maybe I ought to write a new history curriculum!!! At least for Australian history. I'm sure I would have appreciated Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson's efforts to find a road over the Blue Mountains if I knew then that my great great grandfather was going to travel on it to Bathurst! Vonny

Morning everyone :-) Hehe and I though my geography was bad. At least I usually get places in the right country lolol. Welcome to Maureen :-) Hi Fitz I think you should know I'm the angelically innocent one :-) Well GB was picked up in Wigan by Gloria Gloria and taken to Diane and Lee to continue on with her travels. Then last night I had to go to Alex's parents evening where I got a good report to go with his excellent school report so with my college results (thank you for the congrats everybody :-) ) it was a good day. Vonny thanks for the report on Chaing Mai :-) Glad to hear that those who went had a good time at the meet :-) ~~~~~~to all~~~~~~ Catxx

He He - lurved the pathetic excuses as to why they thought Alaska was in Canada .. ho ho ho .. I refrained from mentioning a state as I couldnt remember !!! But I have the clock up now, and I can tell you that at 5:08pm Thursday evening, it is now 1:08pm on Wednesday afternoon in Anchorage, Alaska. Glad you girls had a rip roaring time today. .. Sounds like you are a little hoarse SuzyQ???? Waiting patiently for the pickles now. Jood

Hi, good to see some of you got home safe and sound. Trifley, you been in the internet cafe. I thought that I would beat you to it. Had a lovely time again, nice to meet Donna Gina and Jill at last. Jill, the wattle was a lovely surprise you are very talented. The photo of the wattle turned out nice but the other photos weren't so good. A bit blurred I mustn't have had enough to drink. never mind I am sure that the others will have done better. It wasn't cut short Donna, we had to get home to our dog, who is seldom left and suffers from separation anxiety. She was fine though we could have stayed longer. Also the others had long drives home especially Pam. Yes we will have to think about organising a christmas do. Any suggestions. Haven't had time to catch up on the thread yet, will do it tomorrow. It's a bit cold here now, looks a bit like r**n. I am whispering now, if I say that word too loud it may hear me and run away. Well must go Luv SuzyQ

lol..Vonny. Yea'h shouldnt have had that 2nd V.B tablet mate. *writes 100 times on blackboard, Alaska is not in Canada*...lol My excuse is, that the thread was moving pretty fast and i had 4 windows open on the puter..and chattin on msn as well..LOL Lew. You have email. Tony Oz..:>))

Hey Donna it wasn't cut short at all soppy, it was lovely wasn't it as you say to be able to put faces to people whom you have grown to care about. Luv Jillx

Hi Wattlers, we had a great lunch, mind you I don't know where we found time to eat as we didn't stop talking and we were all good nobody swung around any poles though we did think about it, hopefully my piccys will be screening soon at PC near you. Did I see a message from my sis earlier, yeah at last! ring you later Mossie. luv Jillx

pssssst Tony, Lew, Just read back over Fritz's conversation with you. Hmmmm Alaska is USA not Canada!!!!! No wonder he asked if you were 'taking the michael' (micky) Pmsl - *Vonny adds atlases to her christmas list for Wattlers*

*Jmood you left me standing alone* Yes Jood, just remember that beautiful song Tony sang for you!

*All smiles now* Ok - he can leave his boots where he likes and his sox too, coz he is very nice and sings to me when he has had lots of tablets. .. Hee hee JMood

Afternoon Wattlers Geee I think I had better go back to bed and start the day again :-(((( Only thing it is too late for that now. I woke DD up at the usual time of 6.50 this morning, got my usual good morning cuddle and she went to kitchen and got her breakky and got herself ready for school. I, on the other hand felt like all I wanted todo was sleep, I dragged myself out of bed at 7.30 instead of about 7.00, realised I had 2 loads of washing to do, I didnt do much else, took DD across the road to the bus and then went for my walk, paid billa, went to the city and done some FH stuff. DD came home from school holding her belly. When I asked what was wrong she said she had hunger pains as I didnt pack any lunch or recess for her :-((((((( How could I forget to do that?????? Anyway hello Fitz, Im nearly as far South as you are North, Im on the little island state of Australia, called Tasmania. Trifley, so glad you all had a good time at the meet, we wait on edge of our chair for pickies lol. Any poledancing??? Well better go and get washing off line before night air comes down as it nearly is. 30 Sleeps Cheers Sue

Oh stop sulking, Jood! That bottom lip looks very unattractive, dangling down like that. Now don't you pick on Tony 'cause he's been doing a mammoth job sorting out my irish ancestors and I don't want him upset! He can put his smelly shoes and shoddy sock wherever he likes! lol And I didn't purposely dump you, I just got, well, ummm, sidetracked and we retirees are allowed to do that, ppppppppp. I went to Alaska and Canada last year and cruised the inside passage on the Seven Seas Mariner. It was the best time! Then went on the Rocky Mountaineer railway and met a wonderful couple from Florida. We're still in touch. In fact, we're in touch with other people we met on a cruise from Tahiti to Australia back in 2003. It's a great way to meet people and we've even been to visit them in their native countries and they, of course, have been to visit us! Lew Lew xxx

Hmppphhh - *Hands on Hips* - so she dumps me on msn and comes on here .. pbbbbbbbb Lew Hi Fitz, nice to meet someone from Alaska, I used to have a netpal from there years ago. I'm one of the unlucky ones who hasnt visited there - lots of my friends have and they love it. Geez - you talk about ME waffling on - you lot have taken up nearly 2 pages since I last waffled .. pmsl Tony get those smelly boots away from the thread and cover up your bare toe in the presence of .. uhmmm us ladies! Lew - werent you gonna tell me about the Qld meet - me thought I was gonna get me own private email :-( .. Never mind, Im a big girl, I can cope. Jood

Pm me Vonny and I'll send you her email address and info.

Lew lew, I'd like to meet your friend. Maybe next year as I think we are going to make it an annual event in Chiang Mai instead of changing countries each year. Vonny

O'h...a Canuk. Well then your only on Wednesday evening time Fitz. Its thursday afternoon here. London is just waking up to Thursday morning ( abt 6:00am ) If you work for Shell..then tell E'm to drop the price of Petrol mate...its killing us...lol Hi Jara... Hi Jude ( Melb ) Hi Trifley. Sounds as though you all had a great time mate. Look forward to seeing the pickles. Tony Oz....:>)) Gotta go get me spag..its burning

Jarra, it was a conference for my voluntary work. I teach English as a second language to Korean missionaries who work for an organisation called YWAM - Youth with a mission :) The department I 'work' for is called BRIDGE International and we major on research skills (in English!) before sending them on their way. They have a conference in a different country each year - usually in Asia as it is cheaper for them to get to it. I haven't been to one of the conferences for three years so thought I'd better go to this one :) Vonny

Sorry, Fitz, you must have changed your hairstyle, lol. Trifley, great to hear from you. Sooo pleased you all had a good time. Wish I'd been there. Cna't wait to see the photos Vonny, I should have given you the address for my friend who runs an orphanage in Chiang Mai for hiv bubbies. She's an incredible person. Lew x