General Chat

....and anyone else who wishes to pop in and say G'day.

All peeps are welcome :-)

The origional Wattle club thread ( Wattlers ) was first formed in 2004..between a small group of 6 or 7 Aussie's and one pom ( Ann'e Honeyrum ) who was visting Oz at the time from England....it was decided to form a thread ( Wattle Club ) on GR where Aussies could chat during our day, while our U.K mates were sleeping.......Over the years it had grown to 30 plus that were members or past members of GR.
The Wattler group hold a meet (BBQ )once a year covering most states.


The Golden "Wattle" is the Floral Emblem of Australia.

http://www.anbg.gov.au/emblems/aust.emblem.html




Tony ( Male Wattler ) :-D

G'day Tony. Can I join your club? After all Australia is a suburb of NZ.

Huia (tongue in cheek)

G.Day Tony .how you diddling ? ;-) Barbra

lol... Huia.

Thats what the Tasmanian's say.. ;-)

Seeing that New Zealand broke away from main land Oz some 60,000 plus years ago....i guess you have the right to claim a suburb :-D


Morning Barbra.....O'w the e'll are ya mate!!!..;-).

Tony ( on the big island ) :-D

Hey Tony, nice to see a new thread....

how do I add the research info at the bottom of your message? J

Hi Cow Girl.

You have to log in to your account.

There you will see among other things: Research names and places


Tony :-)

I am fine .ta chuck . havent spoke to you for ages . hope you & your family are all well .we are enjoying our summer at the moment . :-D Showers & thunder storms >more showers .the sun is shining just now whew .only one cardigan today . its so hot !! Take care Barbra :-)

Fit like from Bonnie Scotland.

Emma x :-)

thankyou Tony, and thanks Joy for providing the link.
trivia
If I was in the UK this week I would be going tho the Hampton Court Garden Show, not today though because someone told me its peeing down .

xx

Wattle club No 5 - terrific, thank you Sir T and Lara and Joy.
:-D

HELLO UPSIDE DOWNERS
FROM
ME THE OTHER WAY UP PERSON... ;-)

cor ,i no longer complain about the time genes are taking to sort out the last wattlers thread ,than the boss sorts it out for us :-).
All this in fighting though,he he ,i thought you colonials reserved all that for us ignorant poms ,lol.
nice to see 5 is ALIVE ,Fred :-D

Tony, New Zealand moved away from Australia because our beautiful song birds couldnt get the kookaburras to stop their maniacal cackle and sing in tune.

Huia who was once one of the beautiful song birds but is now extinct :-(

Hello, Wattlers :-)

I read about the Huia on Wikipedia.

Is that your interpretation of what happened or a real story. I actually like hearing kookaburras, but understand where you are coming from . lol
when you hear them it means its going to rain.

good morning

Morning from the East coast of Oz 7:30am Friday.....2hrs behind NZ 9:30am but 2hrs in front of the Aussie West coast 5:30am ...:-)

Forecast is Cloudy,wet and miserable 14c ( Melbourne )

Fred. Yes, i had spoken to the boss lady ( Lara ) a few weeks ago, and said about starting a new Wattlers thread, as the old one was missing posts from the first 100 pages!!

Kia Ora Huia.
Yes, was given an education regarding the now extinct Huia bird when we holidayed on the north island some years ago. Caused by deforestation, hunting, ect..... by our early european settlers.
Our tour guide told us a Huia feather once sold ( Auctioned ) for NZ$8,000.....amazing!!


G'day to everyone else that popped in....:-)

Time for some breakfast, then off out to work. There's bills to pay :-S

Av a good un

Tony :-D

G'day everyone

I guess seeing as Melbourne was founded from Launceston makes me the older neighbour :-D

~~~ to Tony, Huia, Barbara, Cow Girl, GoldenGirl1, Yvette, JA, Dizzi, Badger and Joy, think thats all so far.

Cool here ATM great footy weather, and that all we will say about that pokes :-P at Tony.
Actually on that subject, Later this month Im going to a bit of a collection of interesting articles and stories of the great man himself, Roy Cazaly, as he coached my two favourite teams City and Hawthorn, it is well worth a look, even if he didnt have anything to to with those teams would still be worth seeing.

Hope you are all having a great time and look forward to chatting with you all on here :-)

Hello Wattlers

Nice to see you back :-)

Howdy folks .I know i am an english rose .hmm but will keep popping in on here .have read about your flower the golden wattle x wasnt around on threads in 04 but did partake on sue maids .for a while in 2009-10 ..so ahm kinda .know one or two of yous`e .Allan.Collin.susan no,s & the big man tone ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~To All speak soon Barbra xx PS .will write all your names down .for next time .as i get confused .com :-S