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Tony ;-)

Good on yer Tony,once you pick up your paper work ,that sort of makes it official .lol,now you need to fill a large football sock with your ill gotten gains ,he he. ;-)
We arn't so lucky with our tree leaves .with only a few cherry trees over the road,so we have to go foraging in the local countryside for ours ,but we don't do so bad.
The new Nectarine tree arrived this morning ,so i unpacked it straight away,and got the two big square pots this afternoon ,one for the tree ,and a spare ,to transplant the rhubarb into.
Hope everyone over there is okay with the colder weather,i just wish ours would warm up too ,the driest ,coldest late spring we have had in many a year.
have a nice weekend all of you .Fred ;-)

Hi everyone..back from my rest. Hope all are well and lovely to see Lozzy back on here..
Hope you are saving hard Tony for that holiday.. ya gonna need it with all those females around you all expecting Dad to pay..LOL

HAve a lovely weekend all..

Mary xxx

Hi Mary :-)

Love ya avatar. Is it at Dunolly!!

Yes, saving hard mate, but its all mine i tell you...allll ,mineeee...lol
There are 3 other males in our family of 16 that are going, so we will have a boys day out at the local market and buy up big on Cd's and Dvd's ( $2 ea ).. :-) :-)

Yep Tone.. That is Dunolly, and me minelab and a nugget in my hand,,

Glad you got some male backup mate.....pmsl..ya gonna need it....are you gonna give Barcode the credit card...LOL...time she had some retail therapy..lol..

Love Mary xxx

O'k.

This was me with my first hunk of yellow stuff, found just out of Wedderburn 1980s...( Gold in Quartz ) with an old Whites 6000D coin master.....

And no....Barb is not getting me credit card....LOL

:-)

AH Tone...Isnt it such good fun detecting for gold..I loved walking the forests even if I dinny find anything,,the gold was a bonus..do miss it so.I think it is time you upgrade ya machine though...pmsl...


Love Mary xx

O'hoooo Mary..me old Whites detector has gone long ago to that great Mullock heap in the sky mate....lol

Yes, loved walking through the scrub too on a beatiful spring morning, even if we found nothing......and the old Kookaburra would laugh at us, when we dug up that old rusty nail. Found enough nails to build me own house...pmsl

Great fun and good memories..plus learnt a lot of history to boot about the old miners of a bygone era.

Photo was taken by my brother in law...now sadly passed on. A great mate, and we would take off three times a month to Vic's gold fields and detect, pan or sluice box the rivers.....and we were fortunate in some cases. If we found nothing in the rivers we fished them, and had a good feed of trout on an open camp fire. :-)


Tony :-)

Hello, me Maties, Oh Mary & Tony your photo's do remind me of Good old Castlemain. We used to take our pans down to the creek and pan for gold, Michael and Kerry all found specks of gold. I never found anything :-( but fools gold.

Mary it is good to see you back I hope you are well.I am busy with the Hayward Reunion but it is going well. :-)
We had several nice sunny days so i spent it in the garden I got almost all my Daffodils in also the winter veggies and some primulars, and polyanthus.
My sweet peas are coming up :O ,even though I am so late with every thing.
I am finally over my viral infection and my knee is much better I can actually kneel down to pull weeds.
It began raining here on Sunday afternoon and it continued all night, to-day was very overcast but dry and not as cold as it has been the frost's have been like snow, bad so early in May :-(

I don't have an avatar yet , and will need some instruction or help to put what ever on the site.
Badger , I also expected to see you post a badger on the Post. LOL,
Seem you are very busy with your garden, our days are so short now it is hard to fit in all the work I need to do in the garden

I must close,, ave a good sleep my beauty's <3 to you all :D Marie

Hi everyone.. A bit nippy here tonight but good for sleeping..

I have had to change my board name after 7 years as my account now tells me it is a invalid name..I couldn't add my names of interest unless I changed it so had no alternative.. A bit crazy if you ask me as I have never seen another Mary in Sydney on the boards..I contacted support but they said someone else has the name so I had to change it. ggggrrrrr...Oh well.. whats in a name..
Hi Joy and Persie..nice to see you..Marie it must be getting cold up your way now,,Have you had any snow yet..Had my daughter from Orange come down for a weekend visit which was lovely..but to short..still better than nothing..My eldest granddaughter is off to Spain in August to study at the Uni there and teach English in return..she is so looking forward to it..
Hope Merle is ok and has had those ops she needed..let us know how you are Merle...xxx

Have a lovely weekend all and hope that volcano isn't dropping ash on the poor people of the UK..stay indoors..

Love Mary xx

Aussie girl sounds lovely but you could always be a bit more exotic and be a Melaka lass. Cant stay on have to get some serious sleep xxxx

Morning from a cold and wet Melbourne.

Work has gone a bit quite at the moment, but not unusual for this time as it moves towards end of financial year ( Taxation )

Marie. I used to love going out and do a bit of fossicking around the Vic. goldfields. It was more for recreation rather than a get rich quick...lol
Mind you we did find our fair share,but nothing to make us instant millionaires ( Drat )......lol
There are still the die hards finding heaps of gold in them thar hills,with all the new technologly detectors these days,but like all professional gold seekers once they find something decent they keep it to themselves until they do a thorough clean up.....then they announce it to the newspapers 6 months later. ie: "Big nugget found at such and such town"......and the rush is on. The small towns love it, as it brings tourism and dollars. I still have my very first nugget found at "Whipstick" near Bendigo 1970s and have it framed on my wall. ( about the size of small fingernail ) The second was gold in Qaurtz which hold more value................not because its bigger, but gold found in quartz is a little more rare, and more valuable to a collector. We sluiced the Goulburn river and tributary's from Mansfield down to Marysville, panned the Bendigo creek, and metel detected the Golden triangle in our younger years. When my best mate and partner in crime BIL passed away in the 90s i stopped going out..........but it was great fun, and great memories. I had hoped that now he was beyond the pearly gates he might have a little more throw with some added devine intervention, and lead me to the mother lode....but alas, not to be.....lol :-)

Mary. Love ya knew name mate. Seems very fitting....hee hee


Yvette. Your not connected to the surname SHAW in Surrey are you?
We have just found Barbs 3x great grandad living in Redruth, Conwall on the 1841...with his birth place listed as..... Ewell on Thames, Surrey.
His son was born in Redruth and maried a girl from St.Day ( Gwenap ) Cornwal and they immigrated to Victoria in 1857 and they were Copper Miners.

Wishing all a great weekend.

Av a good un

Tony :-)

Hi Tony
I loved the time we spent in Castlemaine as we often went out to the Pine Plantations, and if you were lucky you might see a Wombat ,we also went to the Koala area occasionally spotted one, but you had to have good eyes.

I Luv ya name Mary.

Hi Yevette,
We have a Betty Baldwin in the Hayward family her Mother was a Hayward.
I'm off, till next we meet, Love & Hugs Marie

Good morning all ,seeing as so many people expected a Badger avitar ,i have found a pic ,of said Badger,a grey one ,as it shows it's age ,the same as me ,lol.:-)
No pic of me in a goldfield though ,they take a dim view in Wales if you invade the mining area with a pick ,or detector ,he he,you lucky lot ,spoilt for choice ,you are, :P
I took the wife out yesterday ,along with the grandson ,and she spotted one of these new Rotary clothes lines which has four arms instead of three ,meaning more hanging space in the same area as the three arm version.
That's for me says the missus ,so ,sigh i hauls out the wallet ,shakes the moths out,he he,and says [are you sure this is the size you need ,] so as she says yes ,i buy it for her ,but getting home we find that the pole is a lot bigger ,grrrrrr :D so i say to the wife [what part of are you sure it's the size that you want ,don't you understand] :-(.
How ever ,me ,and Sean set too in the pouring rain to sink in a new pole liner ,to which i add some mortar mix,so we now have to wait another couple of days until it all hardens up.
If this is no good ,i will dig a square hole after lifting the turf,sink a new metal spike in the ground ,cement it in ,refill the hole ,and replace the turf.
These women can be a lot of hassle ,lol,good job i love the old biddy ,he he.
The contractors have finished the roof ,repointed the chimney ,so all is finished apart from the waterproofing over the chimney to complete the job.
Now ,if anything happens up there it's up to the contactors to do the repair free of charge for ten years,other than hurricane damage ,of course.
The garden is going great ,only a couple of replacement veggies ,and two herb bushes to go in ,and i am done,apart from feeding growing ,and of course ,eating them he he.
After much T L C ,even the diseased [as was] Tree is showing signs that it may still be alive ,so i may yet land up with Two nectarine trees which will gve us a wide range of fruit's throughout the growing season..
Getting near the weekend again ,all ,so i hope the holiday weekend kicks off well for you all,here ? ,huh ,wouldn't you know it ,rain ,rain and yet more rain ,he he ,just a normal holiday in Blighty . :-) Fred

Evening.. :-)

Nuther cold ol day in Melbourne. Sun popped out about 10am but it hardly was worth the wait. ( No warmth )

First day of Winter to-morrow ( 1st June Oz time ) an will be a birthday boy again 14 days into the month.
Some bloke rang this arvo doing a survey on travel, so i thought i would help him out. Dont do many surveys over the phone as the questions can get to personal, and i told him i would happily do it, but wont answer to personal imformation. The survey was about travelling from mainland Aussie to Tasmania, and basically about the "Spirit of Tasmania" ship/ferry that travels between Victoria and Tassie. Bit like the ferry between Dublin and Wales, although...the Spirit of Tasmania is a liner.
We were going through the questions on a scale of 1 to 10 and we came to the part where he asked me "What age group am i..!!!! " ..13 to 20 ( nup )....20 to 30 ( nup ).....30 to 40 ( nup)....40 to 50 ( nup ) by now i was starting to realise i was getting on up the youth ladder, and said to him..."Ya getting close"...lol........60 to 70....Yup i said thank god, as there isnt to many decades left....LOL :D
It was then i realised, i dont wanna do birthdays anymore.......lol

3rd eldest daughter is in London at the moment on her European tour with best girlfriend from her school days. 25 day/night from 25th May till 19th June travelling. Left Melbourne on 25th May for Dubia, then to Spain, and arrived London yesterday. From here its London to Paris,(Ferry ) then Paris to Switzerland,then to Rome Italy,then Venice....then off to Austria and Germany, then Amsterdam, and back to London, Singapore, and home to Aussie.. :-) This is her first trip O/seas....and wouldnt you know it, she found out she was pregnant in late April....so i hope for her sake no morning sickness on her trip of a life time....poor kid....lol
This will be her 3rd child, so i guess she knows what to expect.
Hope the waters are not to rough and rocky on her ferry trip from London to Paris... ;-)

Well the suns gone down 5-30 pm so time to turn the heating up a notch, and see what magical performance i can knock up for tea, as the better half is working her fingers off out in the salon.

Av a good un


Tony :D

Wow, its only taken me all of 40mins, to post, still having problems with this site since being updated

Noticed a few updatged avatars on here, very nice

Crikey Sir Tones, another notch on your tree, at this rate, your either going to have to get a second job or win the lotto with all these grandies to buy pressies for :-D

Ive noticed in some of the researching names on here that some of us are researching the same, Barnes, Baldwin and such, talk about 3 degrees of separation.... :-)

C....T, this site is really giving me problems, site does not completely download, have been on since 8.30 and it still driving me up the wall. Has anybody else had problems with it, and are you using Firefox or Explorer

YAY, my little tirade must have shocked it into correcting itself, :-) it seems to be working now ;-)

Hi ***Shaz,*** Tony & Badger.
I have been having problems for weeks, if I can get on to genes re. it then stops dead , I refresh , click where I want to go, dead again, takes for ever.I am wondering if it is my computer. I use Firefox, and have Google gold, I also use avast anti virus. :-(
I hope you are all well it's 8. Pm but I am feeling very tired so will say Bye bye :-D Love & Hugs to you all ,
Marie <3

hi there, got a spare 5 so having a squiz.

Tony, I havent seen any Shaws in amongst the names - those miners sure got about.
Shaz, I will let you look at my tree, it hasn't been updated for quite a while now but you can search the Baldwin family on there if you like

need coffee, sorry to yak and run xxx