General Chat

Bob - love that one. :-D :-D :-D

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No problems, Bob ;-)

as an aside Allan, hope you don't mind.....


One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he
asked about his bill, and the barber replied, 'I cannot accept money
from you, I'm doing community service this week.'
The florist was pleased and left the shop.
When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a
'thank you' card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.
Later, a cop comes in for a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill,
the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you, I'm doing
community service this week.' The cop was happy and left the shop.
The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a 'thank
you' card and a dozen doughnuts waiting for him at his door.
Then a Member of Congress came in for a haircut, and when he went to
pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from
you. I'm doing community service this week.' The Member of Congress
was very happy and left the shop.
The next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen
Members of Congress lined up waiting for a free hair cut And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between
the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it.
If you don't forward this you have no sense of humor.

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Well on that,,you wont want to venture too far from a dunny...... :-D

MR will be heaving with people that weekend :-0

Maybe a Chinese take-away, or I'll do a beef vindaloo and we can eat it while sitting on the front door step watching the sun go down ;-) :-D :-D

get a picnic and go to the Margaret River...... :-D :-D :-D ;-)

Sylvia, I've not checked prices for the following week as that is the Lodge Installation date, also my son's shift roster would not allow him to join us.

We'll work something out :-D

Allan ..............

what about the following week?? Is that any better?

You and OH could have a quiet celebration on THE day.

Our anniversary is also in August (the 12th), and we had our 50th in 2017. That is also the high season here, and everywhere was highly expensive. I wanted to go to Quebec City as I had never been there. As we only have the one daughter and all but one of our very close friends had died in the previous 3 years, we didn't want a big celebration.

We compromised .......... daughter and grandson came over here (high price air ticket), and we had dinner at a nice steak house on the day. Then the 2 of us went to QC at the end of October, had 6 days in the top hotel there at a much lower price than in August (no-one believes the deal we got!!), and had a great time. We went there and back on the train as usual, so we were away for about 3 weeks in total, celebrating our 50th together.

I had my big birthday on the 7th, but the restaurant I love to go closes for the first2 or 3 weeks in January.

I managed to persuade OH that I was very willing to wait until they re-opened .... so my birthday celebration will be 3 weeks late.

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They'll probably be greasy and soggy the way my luck is going in trying to organise something :-( :-D :-D :-D

Hope you can find something suitable to do Allan. When will you know the football fixtures, always a chance they won't affect you.

Fish and chips sounding better and better....

Ann, there are still many alternatives for us. We could go to Tasmania, a place which we have visited a few times and which we really like, but the other problem is that our anniversary also falls at the end of the Australian Football league build up to the finals, and depending on who is playing domestic airfares also go through the roof.

We do have the cash, but would prefer not to be ripped off through no fault of our own :-| :-D :-D

We did arrange our marriage to avoid August Bank Holiday, the first Monday in August then. It is now the last Monday and inevitably is in any holidays we take over our anniversary (27th). This year, being our Diamond wedding we thought we would go back to Jersey (where we spent or honeymoon and a couple of subsequent holidays). The hotels we were looking at were horrendously expensive since the last time we went ten years ago. So we are going to Lanzarote instead and compensated by going to a more up market hotel than we would usually go to there.

Very romantic, Barbra, but oysters are what caused the cruise misery :-D

I did suggest renewing our vows a few years ago, at the Ukrainian Church in Perth. I only just survived the attack ;-) :-D :-D

Get champagne oysters red roses. For your OH you can have fish & Chips now how about renewing your vows . :-)

Cruises are out, Barbra, after our last one and we didn't even leave Australian waters.

With our anniversary actually falling on the Fathers' Day weekend, most venues are already booked out :-0

Congratulations on your up coming Golden .maybe a nice meal Allan cruise later. Its our 54 th in September were do the years years go I was child bride ;-)

Kay, we were planning on going to Canada for our fortieth, but that got tangled up as well :-S :-D :-D

Sharron, this definitely our fiftieth, and even though my son was born two days before our anniversary, the two events were six years apart :-D :-D