General Chat

Just old Fred looking in to check up on all you people in warmer climbs ,lol
You take time out over the next few weeks Tony ,and get some relaxing time in ,those steps will still be there when you get back to it .
In case i don't get back before the big day ,have a good'un all of you ,and stay safe .Fred :-D

Congratulations Tony on the new gbaby.

and best wishes to everyone all over the country.
its Warm and wet here in Albury/Wodonga.
Hume dam now at 95% capacity. with no severe water restrictions this year.

Hello Everyone, It has been awhile since I last posted, Sorry about that but Life hasn't been going very well for my Family, and what happens always affects a parent .
I unfortunately am not looking forward to Xmas I can't get motivated and I am feeling rather depressed, however I have 5 grand children under the age of 6 so we will make the effort for there sakes. :-(I see you have a new Grand child Tony &Barb, Congratulations, Grand kids are wonderful,and make life worth living <3 <3
Hello to Badger ,Nice to see you stick your head in I hope all is well with you and the wife, Merry Christmas to you both.

To Moombi, Tony ,June and Barb have a Wonderful Xmas and I wish you Good Health & Happiness in the New Year.
Kindest Regards
Marie from OZ :-) :-) <3

Hello Marie .
hope things improve for you .whatever has happened .we care on here xx
Enjoy the company of your GChidren .Best wishes to you love Barbra xx :-)

Evening - Morning to all :-)

Only a few days to go ( Thursday ) and the company i contract for closes till the New Year, so will enjoy a small get to-gether for drinks on thursday arvo.
Company hands out to all either a slab of Beer or Ham leg ( on the Bone ) as a token of good will for all those that are either employed or contract for them. The slab of Beer would be nice...BUT..under strict orders from OH i have to put my order in for the Ham.....lol

Thanks peeps for the congrats on my latest twig ( Grandaughter- Julia ) to our family. She is a little ripper <3.......and now coming up to 5 weeks old.

Looking forward to my Christmas lunch this coming Sunday.........and the forecast prediction for my neck of the woods ( Melbourne ) is 30c...so a nice day hopefully. Grandkids will bring their swimming togs for a dip in our pool,( weather permiting ) so that will keep them happy...;-)

Wishing all a fantastic Christmas day, however you spend it.

Av a good un.

Tony :-)

Have a great Christmas with All your family .enjoy your Break over the festive season .
Congratulations .on your new grandaughter 5weeks old .Bless her .
Best wishes & kind Regard Barbra
:-)


Merry Christmas To All ~~~~~~~ xx

Merry Christmas to all looks like a warm one here in Vic this year .

Best Wishes and good luck with your research next year..Let's hope we all make some new discoveries . :-) :-)

A happy Christmas to all on this thread.

Huia, who will greet the day before you do. :-) unless you get up early.

Happy Christmas to you Huia .Thoughts go out to people in Christchurch .

Well so much for me saying we were going to have a warm Christmas .I will update and say it's a wet one ,oh well on the upside better for eating and preparing food .

Hope evreyone has a great day . :-)

Happy Christmas, Wattlers :-)

Merry Christmas to all from Bunbury WA :-)

slaps wrist, norty me. havent posted for eternity but htought I would get one in before 2012.

hope the New Year brings health and happiness to all
xoxoxx

A very happy new year to all, lets hope we can all break down some brick walls, I need to it doing my head in. I am getting no where.



Annabel xxx

Morning from a warm Melbourne.... :-)

4 day forecast is 32c...36c...38c....35c so summer is here ;-)

Hopeing everyone had a great christmas.

Barb and myself took two of our grandies down to Barb's sisters farm in Gippsland on boxing day. She lives on 50 acres of some of the most beautiful country side in Victoria, that over-looks the valley's and rolling hills of the East Gippsland region. The grandies were in their element riding on the tractor,and exploreing every nook and cranny, and young grandson James ( 5 year old ) was very surprised when we took him into the chook house to collect eggs. The look on his face was priceless when he discovered that eggs were not born in Woolies/Safeways and in cartons.....lol
Barb's sister and myself put on a display of "Stock-whip" cracking for them, and the sound of the whips cracking echoed through the valley's was a sound they have never heard before.
Took me back to my teenage years on the dairy farm where i spent some of my own years growing up,learning that milk comes from cows, and not made in bottles.....lol.
A 40 min walk down to the duck ponds and to see Margs horses, and as we went we Cooooeeeeeeee'd.......through the hillsides much to the grandies laugh's, as the echo's came bouncing back to them. ;-)
Barb decided to stay/wait at the house, as she has a fear of Joe-Blakes ( Snakes ).....lol
Marg's 5 kelpie dogs ploughed the way sniffing out any potential threat of any snakes, and would bark loudly to warn us of any danger. A great day was had by all.

Off to eldest daughters to-night to see in the New year celebrations, and for a spit roast with all the side salads and trimmings.

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year.....for the upcoming 2012.


Av a good un....aaaaand see ya next year.:-D

Tony ;-)

A very happy New Year to everyone
from Moonbi in Albury/Wodonga where the days are long and hot.
nights cool for sleeping, so thats nice.

Any chance of resurrecting this thread? I think it would be great. Let me introduce myself. My name is Pam, I live in far north Qld, 14klm out from Kuranda which is up in the mountains from Cairns. I live on the Great Dividing Range near to where the rainforest meets the Great Barrier Reef. I work as a research interviewer for a well know Australian company - 3 years with them but 10+ years in the business. Love meeting people and talking to them about their likes and dislikes. It's always good for people to have a voice. Shame that so many people mix us up with tele marketers. We don't sell anything - just give you the opportunity to say what you think usually to the manufacturers of good, council, government and others.

Well I'm hoping that someone will reply to this. Although no one's been here since July 2011. Maybe someone will see it because this post will put it onto the first couple of pages so I'll cross my fingers.



:-S

Hi Pam.

Not sure what you mean by resurrecting this thead, as its active, and the last 3 postings were only a week ago on the 30th Dec.

Perhaps you are reading the thread from the day it was started?....July 2011Page 1 ( Wrong way round ) and not from the last message posted 30th Dec....Page 7 ;-)

Welcome to the thread anyway, and wishing you a happy new year.

Tony ( Melbourne )

Tony, I feel like such a dill. Yes. I now realise that I was in error and has made my comments after only looking at a couple of pages. Please accept my apologies. You are absolutely correct. Am I allowed to beg 'gone troppo' or somthing? lol

A Happy New Year to you tony and to all. We are certainly faring better this year than last. By this time we'd been flooded in since 17Dec with several metres of water over the causeway. Cyclone Yasi was yet to happen but we were watching many possible cyclones forming off Fiji and Vanuatu on the .net. I've become quite the weather watcher since I moved up here from Sydney in 2001.


Thanks for the welcome and I'll certainly enjoy coming in here when work allows. have 3 days off at the moment which will no doublt soon fill up with house duties, I'm sure. :-P

Pam

Pam.

You are only allowed on this thread if your a bit troppo,
mate...LOL ;-)

You did have me worried there for a minute though when i read your post. Thought perhaps you posted on the wrong thread...or that i had slept through January....and we were now in July :-D

Take care up there in the north,and can only hope there are no repeats of last years Cyclones... :-(

Off out to work myself......so Av a goodun ;-)

Tony :-)

G'day guys and gals. I have driven down to Hamilton today (from up near Auckland) to see my gt grandson who was b on New Year's day. I took one of his other gt grandmothers with me. I took lots of photos and had somebody take some on my camera with 2 ggs, mother and son. I now have to crop some of them and lighten them up a bit.

Huia.