General Chat

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

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 :-)

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'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

:-)

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

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 ).. :-) :-)

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

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 ;-)

1000 Posts...Y'aaaaaahh :D





Tony ;-)

Evening... :-)

Another cold ol day in Melbourne.


Picked up our paperwork today for upcoming trip to Thailand, and looking forward to having a nice relax away from the concrete jungle of Melb city.

The large Pin Oak's have covered the footpaths and roads with autumn leaves and the council truck sweeper is coming every 3rd day now to clean up with its big rotating brushes as it works its way up and down the streets sucking up the leaves. Not before i grabed a few hesian bag loads first for my vege garden,as it makes great mulch..... :-)

Wishing all a great weekend.

Tony :-)

Aggggghhhh, Ive been having nothing but problems, since this site was updated, driving me B....Y crazy

Evening still trying to figure out this thread... :S, funny, I havent had any hot matches for months..., looks like I may have found all my lost rellies after all these years
Honestly, we have the telly on Channel 1, USA COPS show, no wonder these kids get into trouble, No respect for the police, and full of obsenities, cheeky little gits... :-(

Nah peeps ,i got the nickname from childhood where i spent most of my time wandering the local woods [Kingswood] in Bucks ,lol.
I spent hours in a single day watching the badgers coming and going ,and after a good while ,i was able to get pretty close to them,whistling as i got near ,so that they knew i was approaching ,ahhhh ,happy ,innocent days Fred. :P
Might just think of that for Christmas though ,he he.

I thought he was going to put a badger up as well. LOL

Fred. I was 99.9% sure if you added an avatar...it was going to be a Badger....lol

;-)

Evening :-)

Much cooler days and cold nights for Melbourne.
Trying hard not to turn on the heating to early, but when i cant feel me toes any longer, it goes on...lol

June ( Cowgirl ) No offence was taken by me either mate.xox
Thanks for removing your post. Its just that i felt it was irellevant to GR Wattler club. I was talking to Lara Linger Longer ( thread holder ) who with a few others started this thread/group back in 2004, and its been around now for 7 years, and holds some good memories in its archives that i have saved throughout the years since 2004.( my threads ) Many Wattler members and o/seas posters have come and gone since then, and in 2006 most had not renewed their membership with GR, for whatever reason, and started up on different web sites.
There are now 3 or 4 seperate Wattler club groups ( 99% on Face Book ) and only a few drop back here on the odd occasion to post now or do FH.
Speaking for myself...i have always enjoyed the GR Wattler Club as it allows me to do my FH........ and have a friendly chat with peeps all over the world.


Dizzi. Yes, the first 36 pages of this thread are blank. It happened when GR changed/upgraded there web site back in 2008 and all our posts dissapeared up to page 36!!!
It happened also on the Wattle club number 3 thread too.


Persie. I also like your Avatar, and Joy's as well..... :-)

Fred. Looks like you have been busy. I never drink Foster's mate...lol
Being a born and bred Victorian,there is only one beer for me, as was my father.
V.B ( Victoria Bitter ) ;-)

Time for Tea...and home made Pizza will go down well.... ;-)

Av a good un

Tony... :-)

Boooo,a photo at last [hangs head in shame for trying to load for days using Google] he he.
Amazing what trying via I,E does aint it ?
Fred now happily goes into the garden singing ,Come into the garden Maud[or ,in my case] Fred.lol. :D

I got stung by a hornet when I was on my honeymoon, it nipped me on the wrist and I was swollen from just below my elbow to where my fingers join my hands. i had to take anti-histamines and the tablets made me dopey..... well dopier. Nearly had a divorce before we had hardly started. LOL :-)

Persie

Fred has been very busy :-)

My photo was taken on our honeymoon, thus the happy smile :-)

I was born in Kent, the "garden of England" :-)

Morning Marie.Mary [when you come back] Tones[who is no doubt busy planning the yearly family migration] he he.and all you other lovely Wattlers ,no matter where you are.
Marie ,Fred was on holiday ,but came back last week ,since when ,he has been ultra busy in the garden ,front and back ,and ,thank goodness is now up to date.
All that is left to go out now is the winter cabbage,which hopefully i will get out before the weekend.
Looking at the threatened drought here ,after the driest spring in 250 odd years,that has cost the farmers dear already ,i think i may have to get the shotgun out later in the year and sit on guard over the veggies,he he ,joking apart though, i mean what i say ,we have a load of migrants in the area that have already cleaned out the local parks of lake fish ,swans ,ducks and other wildlife and if they think they are going to strip my land ,they will find wilder life yet ,lol,wildlife with a 12 bore ,loaded for bear.
My new Nectarine tree was so badly diseased that it died within days of delivery,and i contacted Bakker who i have dealt with for years ,letting them know that i was far from pleased with what they sent me,sending them pics of the plant before i burned it,not wishing the disease to spread to my apple ,and plum tree.
Anyway ,there is another in the post ,and i will make the courier wait while i open it to make sure that this one is as it should be .
The break down Lancashire was fine apart from the weather which was terrible.thunder storms ,freezin' cold winds,and plenty of showers ,lol,but at least we did get out ,and i got a few [very few pics of the ongoing work in Fleetwood ,and Blackpool .,which ,by the way is a ruddy mess.
Got into Blackpool at 9.30 am ,and spent no more than 20 minutes ,before we hopped a bus to Cleveleys ,you couldn't even cross the road to walk on the sea front ,all the shops were being gutted ,and new shop fronts being erected ,the whole [place was like a war zone] ,rubble every where,even the tram lines ,being taken up again in places towards Fleetwood because the space between the rails was wrong [someone is now into the penalty clause ] ooooops, he he ,they reckon it will all be finished by July ,yeah ,next year maybe,not this year ,that's for sure.
Pic Marie ,what pic? oh ,i reckon you mean the Avitar ,Humph i isn't as clever as you lot .lol ,tried loading it for four days ,and gave up in disgust he he ,like Tones roo though ,lol.But i hope it is drinking better Lager than that Fosters though ,you lot only send it over here because it's rubbish,he he.
Time to go for now ,things to do and all that.
Making a curry today for dinner to warm us up ,lol, madras ,and Biriyani with saffron rice ,naan breads ,and a nice home made Bombay potato.
Catch you all later Fred.