General Chat

Well, that was clever of you, Little Duck. You might have come across our Jood before. She is a well known Chicken Herder, but may have done some ducks in her time, lol. Shaz, tell Faye she's welcome anytime and, of course, after Friday, I'm available for any trips to Bathurst. Only about an hour and 20 from Mudgee. Lew Lew xxx

No - Pam doesnt know me from a bar of soap :-)) As long as I'm a chicken herder, and not a chicken plucker, I dont mind. .. I was a chick myself once (ho ho ho) Jood

Evening all Not much has happened here over the last couple of days been busy doing stuff around the house, had visitors coming and going all day today, or thats what it seemed like, settled down tonight to catch up on here. I am happy to just share pics between us and not on photopage as I have had trouble with the albums dissappearing anyway. I have done as others have mentioned and made a folder with just Wattle pics so I know what everyone looks like. Well I am going to watch a bit of TV with David before bed. Catch you all tomorrow. 47 Sleeps. Cheers Sue

Night all Off to bed. Hubby is going to watch the soccer but I'm weary and as we are having visitors tomorrow night, I'd better be bright eyed and bushy tailed so I can do the hostess thingy. Had a look at cameras Lew, but will probably go to one of the camera shops in Brisvegas as they have a bigger range and are more competitive. Sleep tight everyone Anna

i'm grumpy, gotta go to bed - night all x

This little duck has a wonderful passionate love affair with her bed and that passion is now rising. Night grumps Nighty nite, don't let the bed bugs bite Luv Pam

Good evening Wafflers . . . I have spent ages trying to catch up - but have given it up as a bad joke! We had a lovely time at West Wyalong, Neice was sickie, so we didn't stay at the farm, still got to go out and annoy her though. Good thing I stayed at sister Maries house, we had a big find - bit like yours only not as organised Vonny - we found a folder of Dads that we didn't know existed - full of family photos. When Dad went to live with Marie, he had one of the front rooms while his addition was being built - we found the folder in the cupboard, must have been missed many times over the last couple of years! I have brought them home with me to go through and turn them into an album. Going to enjoy sharing this little lot! I ended up driving most of the way home today, arrived in at about 6.30pm, had a bite to eat and promptly fell asleep in the armchair. 5 hours later I'm awake and not one bit sleepy. His nibs probably tried to wake me and gave up . . . Glad you had a great weekend Sandra, belated birthday wishes to Heather & Flutterby. Nice to see Tony and Barb are having a great time, by now they will be in Paris - and before long Barb will be camped out at Wimbeldon. (heehee) Well back to trying to empty out the mailbox - might even watch the Soceroos . . . . nah then they would surely loose !! Night all luv Laurie

Hello, belated birthday wishes - HZ & flutterby HAPPY BIRTHDAY thank goodness youl ot only chatted for 14 pages, must be the winter weather slowing you lot down. Just missed Laurie Perhaps I should say good mornin as its 12.38 am melb time- thought I would catch up on wattlers before i shuffled off to my bed - I wanted to stay up and watch the socceroos but then thought omg what if they loose! so have decided to hit the sack.Jonathon is waiting up for start of the match - wish I was in Lygon st - (boo hiss Italian team - chewy on ya boots - na, na,- na,na - raspberrys thththththth-----blurt ) update OMG just found out Harry is on the bench- s**t, s**t,b****r!!!!! Have decided to go to bed - can't stand the drama I might jinx them. Had the drama (very stressful) of choosing new kitchen for the money pit today) not happy with price so will spending 'my day orf' visiting more kitchen places - p****d orf as lots of h*******k to catch up on, Why doesn't it just disappear? Where is a good fairy when u need one? Dr Lew can I have a pill (hopefully technicolour) to make me immune to any outstanding hous****k. Ta very muchly in anticipation - I know you will be sooooooo busy this being your last week like - and bein very concientiouse like, but can u find time pleeeze. night/night/good morning jude3 catch u tuesday after the socceroos win lol

Socceroos, Socceroos, Socceroos...who's gunna beat Italy?? Aussie, Aussie, Aussie...oi...oi...oi Hi Joodles, Shaz, Little Duck, Yvette, Devily, Anna and Lew.....think I've got everyone. We've got Graeme's brother and sil coming for a visit tomorrow so I probably wont be able to spend much time on here. I'm going to watch the start of the soccer then off to bed. I'll catch up with you all later. Night all Trifley X ~~~~~waves to Laurie and JudeDIY

Night Trifley :-) ROFPMSL :-)))))))))))))))))))))))) Oh dear Pam you didn't really think Kaz was me did you??? hehehe ;-) I can safely say that Kaz, who is a very lovely person, is definitely not me lololol. I was safely tucked up in bed, fast asleep, at the time as I had a presentation to do this morning lol. Speak later :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~to all~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Well we lost gamely, it was a tragedy really, 'cos the socceroos played their hearts out and Italy did not shine - one disappointed Hz off to sleep some more zzzzzz

Can you guess who I'll be talking to in a few days' time when they are staying in London ? .... :-) I don't know an Australian accent - I am getting quite excited!!! Joy PS Well, I've heard some Australian accents in a pub in London but they might be completely different from Tony's and Barb's!

Hi Joy Say hello to Tony & Barb from all the Wattlers here. Bad news this morning, youngest daughter emailed me to say 'Its Official - diabetes' ..... She had gestational diabetes while she was carrying Lucas, and has just had another test and it has been confirmed. ..... Such a shame. .... Other daughter also had gestational diabetes, even went on to have a second, but was cleared afterwards. .... I feel sooo sorry for her. ... I hope she can cope ok - she is vegetarian to boot. Had a rotten nights sleep last night (must have been because the Socceroo's lost - it was around that time). 1 hour later, I was still laying there. .. Turned the light on and tried to read for a while .. No luck - eventually I did drop off, and of course, slept in. .. Don't you always feel like s**t when that happens? .. Even half an hour later I feel lousy, but nothing a hot shower wont fix. Jood

Morning All Looks like everyone is sleeping in after the Soccer, I didnt watch it, but it is dissapointing that Socceroos didnt win. Well we have rain again today so I might drive girls to school, then pop back on here. Cheers Sue

Morning All, Jood, your poor daughter, what a blow, (((hugs))) to her. My youngest daughter has just got blood tests back confirming that she has glandular fever, coming home to mum today to be cared for. Not sure how long she will have to take off work, she is a midwife, so can't afford to take risks. Has everywhere been having these terrible frosts, i have plants on the veranda that have been frost bitten even though they are not even near where frost should be able to get them, and plants inside the fernery have suffered as well. Brrrrrr Ok i am off to stock up the cupboards, for the next round of working week. Have a good day. Take Care Wilson

Morning all, Hubby almost stayed up for the soccer but decided not to. Aust must have played very well :) Laurie, my daughter also had gestational diabetes last time and is hoping all will be clear this time. She was told it must be in the family but I have no knowledge of it, not parents or grandparents anyway and I don't think great-grands either. Is it in your family history?? Hz, have sent you an email, thanks for yours :) Ok. My directions must have been very unclear. Just hover your cursor over someone's name and look at the very bottom of the screen. At the end of the black writing is their number. You don't have to click!!! (but you can if you want! :) Today is the day I start to pack. So if you see me on the computer just ask me how much I have done!!! have decided to take over the kid's spare bedroom and lay out everything on their bed :) ~~~~~~~~~Vonny Hi Wilson :) Julie, how did your presentation go?? Were they interested? Did they ask questions??

Morning all..Beautiful day in the capital today.. only went down to -2 last night I think.. not to bad.. Had a good nights sleep last night as Ben(dog) didnt ask once to go outside so that was a bonus for me.. he is missing his master who will be home this afternoon. Daughter and SIL sounded like they had a good time as this is the first time they have been away without the kids since their marriage.Eldest G/daughter is an insulin dependant diabetic and they could never leave her on her own for long. Now she is 17 and does everything for herself so mum and dad feel they can now have a few days off. Well must go and drive eldest G/daughter to work so back later.. Love Maryxxx

Vonny - its me whose daughter has gestational diabetes. (Laurie has sons!) No, no history of diabetes. Ex husband got mature onset diabetes, thats all. Older daughter is ok after 2 kids. .. I'm hoping youngest daughter will improve in time. She seems to think not. .. Have a nice day everyone, hi to Wilson, sorry to hear about your daughter too. Vonny - how's that packing going?????????? Jood

Hi there Wattlers, reporting in for the day Lew, have told Faye you are retiring this week and to get in touch with you, am going to email her today to remind her and nag her until she adds on here tonight in fact I will gr you with her addy, she wont mind Vonny, just as well poor John didnt stay and watch the soccer, good game though, B****Y ref, never mind we'll eventually get there, and hows that packing coming along finished yet lol Heather, so you stayed up and watched too, I couldnt have watched it, I get too boisterous and my nerves would have been shot, so I just listen on radio, was bad enough when my daughter used to play in reps netball, thank god she gave it up Mary you clever little duck you, driving around Canberra, sorry, couldnt do it myself, would end up in the looney bin, I keep going round in circles LOL Jood sorry to hear about daughter, seems to be getting a little more prevalent these days Wilson sorry about daughter also, not nice when your kids are sick even though they are grown, still tend to look on their mums for support dont they Hi Joy have a nice day with our lost baggage wattlers, great couple Marys joke for the day coming up A wealthy man was having an affair with an Italian woman for several years. > One night, during one of their rendezvous, she confided in him that she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he paid a large sum of money if she would go to Italy to secretly have the child. > If she stayed in Italy to raise the child, he would also provide child support until the child turned 18. > She agreed, but asked how he would know when the baby was born. To keep it discrete, he told her to simply mail him a post card, and write 'Spaghetti' on the back. He would then arrange for child support payments to begin. > > One day, about 9 months later, he came home to his confused wife. Honey, she said, 'You received a very strange post card today'. > 'Oh, just give it to me and I'll explain it,' he said. The wife agreed, and watched as her husband read the card, turned white and fainted. > > On the card was written: 'Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti. Two with meatballs, one without.' ~~~~~~Shaz xxxxx

Morning Again Jood I missed your message earlier where you mentioned about your daughter, hugs for her hope she copes ok with it. I have sent you a pm. I had an email from Jetstar, for the sale that was going to start when Aus got out of the world cup, and I'm glad I didnt wait for the sale as it was only on selected flights as in Launceston to Melbourne, but nothing to Sydney, closest was Newcastle, and it was only for travel on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday which would have been no good. anyway only 46 more sleeps :-))))) Cheers Sue