General Chat

My timing is impeccable as ever, I type away and just as I submit Tec has said good night a minute earlier. LOL does he have ESP?

I have never taken much notice of the Eurovision contest, and don't take much notice of advertising either. I see the adverts but often it does not register as to who or what the advertiser's name is... Hence I can watch a bank advert and nominate the wrong bank.

I do surveys quite often where the surveying company send me the data by e-mail. Very tricky when one does not pay attention.

We have one annoying advert where women are trying to stuff themselves into ill fitting bras... but I don't know the name of the product that is supposed to be successful and that ad has been on soooooooo many times.

For a long time there was this butter ad and you followed the family and watched the little girl grow up. I answered a telephone survey and named the wrong butter company.. yet I enjoyed the adverts.

Persie

Yes I believe ABBA did start in the Eurovision. I can't see any of todays lot going onto great things like Abba did, who's songs are still very popular here.

Well I'm off to bed now that's over - :-D

Enjoy your day Sue - Take care,

Hello Berona, and Persie,

Goodnight,
Tec.

Of course years ago singing in the Eurovision contest was a springboard to fame. Isn't that how ABBA started?

I can understand that would irritate you Sue - there is so much talent in Australia to choose from. One would think that an Australian bank would want to promote everything Australian - especially to the home audience :-(

None of this years Eurovision songs stood out as something to remember to me.
Ours was very lack lustre in all respects.

Scraping the barrel comes to mind :-(

We have an advertisement here for an Australian bank. This bank is only in Australia but they are using one of our actors who is based in the U.S. and have shot the ad in the U.S. complete with his now American accent. For some reason I find that irritating.

I hadn't heard of Bonnie Tyler for many years until she was asked to do this years Eurovision. She did have some good hits in her day, though she is 61 now.

Last year we had Englebert Humperdink ? :-0

It has often been said how political the voting is. I've watched bits of it here and some of the acts are woeful. I should have a look at this years. I used to like Bonnie Tyler - is she still popular in the UK?

As predicted, the voting in the Eurovision is totally political :-D the same countries vote for the same countries every year, regardless of the song.
It's so funny to watch, as we know what's coming. The UK is doing very badly, but we don't have many friends in Europe.

Just noticed your post Emma - the grandies :-) are coming along very well. I love looking at your avatar - they are lovely little girls.

I always keep my keys in my handbag because I know that I won't forget to take my bag with me. OH and son leave their keys on keyhooks on the inside of the front door. They are handy but both have walked out without their keys. My next door neighbour and my brother both have spare keys so all is not lost - as long as they are home :-0

Good Morning Sue,

Glad that you had a nice afternoon yesterday with the craft fair and lunch out, nice to do things like that.

it is a horrible feeling when you lock yourself out of the house and there's no one home. We've done it a couple of times.
I recently left my bunch of keys on the checkout at the supermarket. The cashier ran out into the carpark to look for me, but I hadn't reached the car, so didn't realise.
It was kind of her to run after me :-)

Hello Tec - nice that it was warm enough to potter in the garden. My geraniums are looking a bit straggly so I think I'll cut them back although they are still flowering.

My daughter enjoys Eurovision - she looks forward to it. I doubt if she'll watch it live but I know she will watch it later in the day.

I had a nice afternoon yesterday (Sat.) There was a craft fair in town so I went to have a look around. It was good and I enjoyed watching a couple of demonstrations. Then I met up with OH and we had lunch. It was mild and sunny until about 3pm and then it cooled rapidly.

Just as we were about to have tea my daughter rang in a panic because she had locked herself out of the house. She was on her own as the children were with their father and SIL had gone to the rugby. So of course I went off with the spare key. Poor girl was nearly frozen solid :-D

Hello :-)

Been quite nice day here today, sunny and dry, though a little cool. Tidied up the front garden, where I have lots of pots. Surprisingly some of the geraniums have survived the winter, and putting on new growth, so I shall feed them and see what happens. Normally I discard the remnants of last summers plants and buy new ones.
Watching the Eurovision Song Contest - the UK has done very badly in recent years, and I'm not very optimistic about this years song either, but good luck to Bonnie Tyler, I'm sure she did her best with what she had.
So much of the voting is political which makes a farce of the whole thing really.
I believe it is going out live in Australia too, but a bit early for them to watch.

Thanks Persie will keep that in mind :-)

Emma

Emma if you have a lot to tell us... put it on a document and copy... if your update disappears as Huia says back arrow and refresh .. you just might get it again.

Persie xx

Problems getting into this thread this morning, when I did wrote a whole
lot of an update for you and it just disappeared, emoticons vanished and
now they are back :-( :-)

The gremlins are at work, my grandies (think Sue called them that and now
whole family do) :-D are coming on well, Amelia was one in April and talks
non stop baby talk, Brogan is more serious at the moment, she is 9months old.

Take care all, I do look in even though I don't add to your thread :-)

Emma

Ok....IGP's clearing caches...now how do I do that? I'm using Firefox.

I get the error message just about every time I post.

Eve woke at 4.30, so I had to get up and settle her. She shouted out at 6.30 which woke me up, but she just went back to sleep. It was 7am when a chirpy little voice was shouting for grandma. I am getting too old for this lark.

I'll try anything...I'm game :-D