General Chat

Good Morning - cold and frosty as it is. No -I haven't finished packing, but thank you all for asking! PMSL Going to the bank today to organise American Dollars (it's alright, apparently we have negotiated a very good price with the hotel but need to pay in $USA) I have the fantastic plastic for use in shopping. (at least I hope it works as it is a new card and I haven't used it yet :0) I might buy something today, just to see if it works! :) Might get back this arvo but I also have to shop for John for next week. (he is wonderful but def the older model - he can boil water and that is about it). ~~~~~~~~~~~Vonny

MORNING! One more sleep, yiipppeeee. Heather, it only got to -3.6 here *we're havin' a heatwave, a tropical heatwave* brrrrrr. Vonny, like your excuse to use the plastic, good one! lol. Sounds like an exciting trip. Please take notes 'cause Terry and I will be spending 5 days in Thailand in February, so let me know all about the place. Mary, congratulations on the sale. See, I told you the Pain in the Bum wouldn't get it! Karma. Has anyone spotted Barb & Tony at Wimbleton yet? Should have made them a Wattle sign to hold up. That would have confused the rest of the world. I think I overdid the housework yesterday. I've got aches and pains all over. I knew it wasn't good for you, lol. Well must away and prepare for the day ahead. One settlement and then lunch, heeee, heeeee. Take care and love to all Lew Lew xxx :-)))))

Good morning Wattlers, Hope you all have a lovely day. The sun is streaming thru my window, though it is a little hazy out there - so I have perched in the sun and intend to sat here whilever it is about! Really too hazy out there to tell you haw many giraffes are up - not good on the eyes this time of day looking straight into the sun and the haze. But at least I am nice and warm. Heather, Marie is my sister, though her children are more like my siblings. Trifley, yes I think I had that thought too - that Artie might not be able to put a book together, but it was written with an offsider, Marie is as interested in football as me, so she is just reading the bits not related to the footy. Despite the footy though, Arthur is one of the goodguys - football has been kind to him and given him a life he had no chance of at home with the family, not many good role models around. Yes Lyn, I totally concur - love those Grumpy Old Women . . . best show on the box! I totally crack up ! (So does the lovely Ray) Gwenda, I will take up your offer re SA . . . as soon as I go through what I have and sort myself I will be in touch. Von, you should have a visitor today !! The lovely Ray was naughty and forgot on Tuesday when I gave him custody - confessed last night that he only got the yellow express post bag off yesterday ! OH Yes . . . try the card - Marie & Oni had to send me an SOS from London last year, when they got there the new card wouldn't work and they had been advised to carry most of their finances that way. They had left all their old faithful cards with me and I nearly got a quick trip to London to deliver (bugger) - lots of drama to get money to them could have been avoided if they had checked the card worked and taken a back up plan. Just a friendly reminder to talk to all you know about the 2006 census return - make sure everyone you know ticks the box to save the data for public access in 100years !!!! Its up to us to put the topic out there as noone else seems to be doing it! Might be the last chance to change the current process of destroying the data. Off shopping this morning - Ray and I have a custom of buying a nice gold pen and getting it engraved for weddings of those special young people in our lives, and the one we are going to in Bris in Sept is one of those. My God mother did it for us when we got married, we used it to sign the register, to send out thank yous, and it lives in a writing case - is only used for 'us' things. Lew, enjoy your day today - let them fuss over you. That office is going to be different with you not lurking about, spare a thought for the poor girls who are loosing such a bright spark in their day. I'm with you housework is def bad for the health !! Just got this through from Honey Ann . . . QUESTION: You are driving in a car at a constant speed. On your left side is a valley and on your right side is a fire engine travelling at the same speed as you. In front of you is a galloping pig which is the same size as your car and you cannot overtake it. Behind you is a helicopter flying at ground level, Both the giant pig and the helicopter are also travellint at the same speed as you. What must you do to get out of this highly dangerous situation ?? ANSWER: Get off the children's Merry-Go-Round, your pissed! Have a great one and will catch up later cheers luv Laurie

Morning All Feeling a lot better today, have done 2 loads of washing 3rd one in machine, then I have to go and pay rent and buy groceries, and go for my walk, mmmm sounds like I will be busy for a while. So we are still waiting on the goss from the meet in Qld with Lara and the others???? Well ......... we are waiting!!!!! Ok I had better go and hang out last load and get my b*tt down the street. Catch you when I get back. 44 Sleeps, Cheers Sue

B**gga* .. Decided it was time I did the h**********k after a prolonged rest. .. Didnt get very far, did washing, hung out, did dishes, mopped floor - I have had it!! Absolutely and totally. .. I am going to have to get a cleaner in I think. .. I hate doing that, feel like I have to run around and do everything first. .. Oh well. .. Truly, I did have the best of intentions! Jood

morningWafflers Just a quick visit....we're spending the day with Graeme's brother & SIL. It's cloudy and cool here on the G but not as miserable as some of you poor peeps have it OPDATE: a little ray of sunshine has just slipped through the gloom....yaaayy. Have a great day folks.....Ill see you this arvo. How did the unch go lara loe and hugs to all Trifley X

Morning Wattlers beautiful day but chilly here. Jood you dont have to do everything in one day, do a little bit each day and you will soon have it all up to date. Its only H****K it wont hurt anyone if it isnt all perfect,,,as the kids would say ...CHILL Stuck in the office again today, have to balance the books and get the group certificates done, so I will be watching but vewwwy quiet. Have a good one Jude2

Morning Wattlers, Have just had email from another GR member, and Guess what, she lives just around the corner from our Joodles, an still awaiting reply from her, think I might have frightened her off, hope not. Hi to all my insane wafflers, hope some of you are not working too hard Luv Shaz XXX Couple of questions please 1. When you now get messages from GR, do they only come through the GR site and not into your Outlook Express box any more 2. Can anybody just go down to BDM in Sydney and look up for names or do we need proof that we are related, eg, if I needed to look up a persons name that was born after 1905, or can I just go through the files they have Ta Shaz

Mornin Shazz, I'm slogging away,balancing books for the end of the financial year....poor me....lol Very quiet in here this morning

Morning Jude, yep a bit like me, Im slogging my way here on the net having fun, hee hee only thing is, you have something positive to keep your brain balanced, must admit, i miss working, mainly because you have people to talk to thru the day, very quiet here, although I did really like my job in accounts, kept my brain active, LOL well I tried to anyway Shaz

Well hello all ..... I have been picked on again for my punctution NOT , and so you are now going to get punctution for this message only O.K. As I said to the ladies NOT who I had lunch with yesterday b**** er you all put the blasted commas etc where you reckon they should be and get a life will ya lol Reb's where's the photo's ?????? we want to see how beautiful we looked and that your puppies were confined to their proper place . Mary glad to hear you have sold your house and hope it all goes through ok and also the moving bit is nice and smooth Well off now to MT.Coutha and out for lunch and dinner before the Menopause musical yippee ok love to all and welcome Faye you are with your right mob here by the sounds of it, and Julie Cat were we all subjects for your Physcology (spelling) omg they wouldn't believe such nutty peeps exist. love Lara

oops lost it. where does the reply go when you accidently press the wrong key? hi busy wattlers. i'm having lazy day. just got out of the jim jams. done minimal h********k, so what. the sun is out and everybody is home vegging just like me. i love it. haven't got any more shocking jokes. my friend richard usually sends me heaps but they really need editing. met a girl on gr same name, same area of birth. 1 year off. don't think there's anymore in it but strange. its good because where we came to australia when i was 6 she lived there all her life. hoping she will send some pics of what its like now. My punctuation and grammar and spelling leave a lot to be desired, but better than it taking all day to write have a lovely rest of day from yvettte

Hi all Had a wonderful day yesterday. Nearly didn't recognise Rebs as she was 'dressed'. Terry would have been most disappointed. Didn't meet Sandra, but we had so much fun, lots of talk and lots of laughs. Will have to do it again when Lara is on her way back home. Hi Faye, I used to be normal, till I arrived here on this thread - lol. Mary, wonderful news about the house. Glad that creeply little man didn't get it. Tassie, how is your back today. If you can find a heated pool, go and soak for a couple of hours. Does wonders for my back. I go to hydrotherapy Mondays and Thursdays conducted by my physio and I look forward to these sessions especially when my back is bad. Then again I am sure Nefer could do lots for you. GC meet is fine with me, hopefully Rebs will come with me. Hi ya cat person. Lew Lew is not in shock, the poor house is lol. Lew, have a wonderful lunch though I don't expect you to read this for a day or two, thats probably how long the lunch will last. Have a good one tomorra. Trifley, if the cat person becomes our resident psychologist, do you think a certain other dr (other than your good self) might be a tad put out and spit the dummy? Enjoyed the jokes Yvette and Vonny. Jood, how ya going? Just let that b***d loose with us and he'd know what pain was - bl****y coward that he is. Death is too good for him, let him suffer !!! Stuff the h*****k. Don't over do it. Vonny - packed yet ?????? If Tony and Barb had our little wattle mascot, they could hold him up at Wimbledon. Jude 2, nearly at the end of the financial year, maybe things will quieten down then. Shaz, surely family history is keeping your brain active. Must get ready for hydro, will pop back later. The little duck

hi Shazz, no you didn't scare me off, I'm just trying to work my way through some e-mails and dealing with two little demons with colds. on other days they seem to resemble my children. Louisa

Arvo to all things yellow and fluffy, I packed me pj's :) Got to go and pay bills etc, I'll definitely be trying the card out Jood :) Vonny Ps Ducky, I just pressed the wrong button too but this time the back button worked:) Who was having the download problems?? Just some things to watch - do you have a radio link?? or do you leave computer on when you are away?? If you have a radio link (like to a laptop) and you haven't limited the area then sometimes peeps several houses away can use your link. If you leave your computer on then it can download updates all by itself! to say nothing of other computers using it if your firewalls are broken into. OK that's about exhausted my words of wisdom. off to shop :) ~~~~~~~~~~~Vonny PPS Shazz, I'm still getting 'you have a message' to my email account. Sorry, don't know the answer to your other Q. But we had to go through the solicitor to get John's mums birth details.

Hi Louisa, welcome to the wafflers. Shaz, I've been wondering about GR mess too, not all of them are going to outlook only some ....very weird HI Pam, Vonny,what did you lot do to Rbes she hasnt been in to visit today...lol

Afternnoon Wattlers Well everything has been done, shopping, walking, even visited parents while on my walk, Paid bills, had lunch and shower, all ready to go back down to the shops when DD gets home as they are having a 5hr end of fin. year sale in the local shopping centre, you never know might be able to pick up a bit of a bargain. Welcome to the nuthouse Louisa, not sure where your from, Im from way down south on the lovely island state, as my name hints at. Shazz sorry I cant help with your query on emails still going into Outlook Express to alert you to Gr messages. I use Internet Explorer browser to go to my email, we still receive them through that. We did try to set up Outlook Express so you can have more than one email addy going into it, as David gets his mail through it, but we couldnt seem to get it to work properly, so we gave up, not worth the hassle lol. Pam, yes the back does seem 100% toady, which it always does, it is only something minor, I think, as it plays up in the afternoons/evenings and after I've been to bed, I can get up in the morning and have no signs of it playing up. My mum has some form of degenerative disc problem and she swims about 3 times a week for that, so yes I know swimming can be benificial and we do have an indoor swimming center just 5 mins away. Ok off to check my emails, hopefully I might have some pics from the get together that, by the sounds of it Rebs has. Cheers Sue

hi Sue, I live in the Blue Mountains. Thankyou for the welcome Louisa :)

Good afternoon Wattlers, First to those who I promised a copy of the wattlers list, my scanner has decideed to go on stike, it is an all-in-one and the rest of it works so I am not sure what has happened. I am going to connect my old scanner, so will send it to you then. I would send it direct from the database, but I am not sure if my program will work for any one else. I have Star office. Second, some one mentioned that they thought they were using too many MB with Bigpond. Please let me know how you go because I also think that I am being diddled. When i had dial up I never used more than 200MB, even when I spent days on Ancestry etc. Since I got Broadband and now have 500MB I can use it all up before the month is out and I am not doing much research. It seems a bit strange, especially now that I know some one else has the same problem. Glad you had a nice day yesterday Pam, Lara and Rebs. Look forward to seeing you on the 13th. Trifley, did I make a mistake asking Donna if the 13th suited her? I thought we had wanted that day because it is a sort of Wattle anniversary. I don't understand why Lew's New house needed a 9 hour clean up, please explain. A house only needs a good clean up once a year, a Spring Clean LOL And are you expecting your visitors to go into your bedroom. What kind of a dinner party are you having LOL Did you see whre Schappel Corby and the Bali 9 might be spending their sentances in Australia. Well that's some good news. It will be Schappelles birthday this next week, it's around the 8th. I do feel for that poor girl, I have always thought that she was innocent. Hi Louisa, are you another one of Shaz's friends? You will fit in here then. Sue, please take care of your back. Don't end up like me with sciatica. Laurie, you are having a lot of luck with your family. I think you may be from a very important gene pool, because some one some where wants you to find some thing out. You must have lots of spirits out there helping you along. And I don't mean gin, whisky or vodka LOL Well, I had better try to fix this scanner up Love to everyone SuzyQ

Hi Everyone, will get to know all your names in time, I'm blonde,also bit scatterd, thats course I went to school with Shaz oh sorry dear!!! no we were saints back then, really, hey Shaz so bear with me. Hi Judy, sorry haven't sent Email to you for while, been bit busy, but think of you, have to tell SHAZ get f***er out and arrange this lunch, well over due hey,but we do know what she's like!!! Wish me luck, going out to Rydal this afro, and on my own to, Awww scary, never no WHO I might meet, will show you-no-who are you pleased Shaz, Going to work tomorrow, need moneyyy--- so everyone have good day .....