General Chat

Hi everyone..We had a bit of rain this morning..rrrraaaayyyyy...

Been to my water jerks this morning and now feel like I need a rest..I am so out of condition,,due to a very quiet life..I led a very active life before John stroke and now it is the reverse..I will have to get out and walk more,,
Am so looking forward to Bendigo..That is my annual holidays and am in need of it...Sorry you cant make it Sandra..and Marie.. It is a great time to catch up on the Wattlers and have a lovely relaxing weekend..We stay in Cabins in a nice caravan park which makes for a very social atmosphere..some have their own caravans and so take them which is like taking your home with you...hee hee hee...

Merle Where are you...Speak up girl...hope you are not in hospital having the other knee done..without telling us....??????????????

June How is your back,, Hope it is better...don't work to hard...

Have a lovely day all...

Love Mary xxx

Hello everyone,
Things here are a bit quiet, mainly because we are so dry, I seem to drive home to the full weather report from the Meteorological department on the local radio at 2.55pm each afternoon and they ALWAYS seem to say cloud build-up, possible wind change, trough coming, change
on the horizon, winds building, temperature dropping, thunderstorms imminent............ I'm sick of it, nothing has happened in four months, we have had fantastically beautiful, hot, sunshiney weather day after day for far too long !! Local Hume Weir 10% ( maybe less by now), lowest
since I've lived here 25 years now. OH and I are thinking we will retire to the wettest place on the planet, wherever that is, just to hear the rain fall. RANT OVER ! LOL !

Marie well done getting some hard-to-get information, sometimes the good old pen and paper yields . In due course you will get to meet the Wattlers one by one, it can be surprising how often our paths cross.

Hi Mary, so glad you can get away to the Bendigo meet, you are a good soul getting the freezer filled for John! So sorry he can't make it, but you will have tales to tell on your return!

Sandra, what a thrill to be going to Perth to see the grandies, easy to choose where to be in my opinion, they won't be this age again. It is a wonderful chance for them to travel at this age, they learn so much that can't be taught by books getting out into the real world, serves them well
in later life even if they don't keep up the sport. Good Luck for their endeavours

June, hope you are over the worst of your back crisis, hope you've had some lovely rest and recouperation, of course that's not easy when you have to work for a living. All the best with the house permit too.

Mwah to all, Hz by the shrinking river !

Hi June,Gosh you are having some bad luck,especially with the house and now your back it sounds like you could with a holiday.
Nice to hear from you Mary,My brick wall is still there, Tony tried to bulldoze it for me but was unable to get any further than I have.
I got a nice suprise in the snail mail last week 10mths ago i wrote to the Warwick Historical Society asking if they could find the graves of my ancestors in Yangan which is a very small town near Warwick QLD.and yippee they managed to find some of the graves also sending me copies of the Grave Stones Plus a page from the School centenary Book on the Zackeresen Family, I was chuffed it was so nice to receive the information.
Hi also to Sandra in the Gong, Hope your back is better .
I managed to get to the Rehab Exercise class last thursday, I will be going back on Mon, to do some more i am hoping to get back to the jym in a few weeks.
My son-in-law Brian is getting the retaining walls up so it wont be long before I will be able to plant my English Garden, I have been keeping the girls in tomatoes and I have a no.of pumpkins on my vines,I will leave them till the 1st frost.then out come the vines. My native Garden is looking very nice I hope it will survive our winter frosts.
I hope both June and Sandra your backs are better.
Mary how is your husband? I must go Hugs to you all Marie from Bathurst.

Hi to everyone that comes on here now. Have had lots of pc problems got a new one a couple of weeks ago and 2 weeks down the track they had to replace the hard drive, what a pain.

have been busy with all sorts,hurt the old back so no gym for a few days but seems ok now.

We are of the Perth in late April got some good deals on the net with accour,so am going to Grandies bmx national titles and also meet up with a 2nd cousin.
Sorry can't make the bendigo meet but its all about dollars and cents,so had to make some choices.

Have to have a tooth out Monday not looking foward to that it ,hurts the old pocket as well.
Well time to veg out a bit
~~~~~~~~~ to all looking in.

cheersSandra in the Gong

Hi everyone..Didn'T realise it was so long since I had been here..How time flies...

Marie What a pity you cant get to Bendigo..You would have had a ball...Perhaps next years meet..

June What a butter about your back...and about the land also...crikey were you really meant to build on that block ...you have had so many obstacles put in your way...hope the back is better soon..keep resting...

Merle. How are you my love..you is very quiet lately...hope you are ok..and that pesky knee also..big hugs xxx

Haven'T done much FH.. but hope to get back into it soon..have to get back to the FHC and order more films...

Have a nice weekend all..

Love Mary xxxxxx

Hi All,Tony,HZ,Vonny,Ian ,Ronald and Mary,Nice to read your posts, Yes Mary I known what you mean I think My John O'Brien may have changed his name so that he couldnt be found.
Tony I do hope that rain keeps coming down,we got up to light rain and a gale,the rain petered out early and now the sun is shining winds still high.
I would love to join you all in Bendigo but not this year maybe next year.It would be nice to meet you all.

What a wonderful job all the firefighters have done , 3 cheers for them hip hip hurrah,hip hip hurrah hip hip hurrah.
Love to all Marie from Bathurst.

afternoon all

rain rain lovely wet stuff falling from the sky.................

trying to type lying down, leaned across a desk at work yesterday to pick up a file and my back went into spasm, could not move, pain was so intnese could'nt speak!!! eventually my coworkers helped me into the gar and down to the doctors...................I have strained muscles in my lower back, came home, took the drugs and slept for 14 hours......still sore today and not at work......so typing lying down......


had a bit of a set back with the house building......got the CFS report recommending that the council not allow us to build on the land.........so now round 2 ...............

still trying to work out if i can get over for the meet, waiting for the roster to be organised.

time to sleep now ............drugs.........!!!!!!!

loe June (CG) xo

Evening...:>))

Rain has finally arrived in Melb after a long spell of hot dry weather.

News reports on Tele to-night saying rain in Victoria's south region is easing the threat of fires.

23 days till the big migration from the north and west heading to the south ( Victoria ) for whats becoming a regular yearly all in Wattler meet, and this year will be the largest with approx 40 people plus, the majority coming down from the south Q.L.D and N.S.W ...A.C.T ....and from the west S.A......and also our Tassie Sue from the Apple Island Tasmania...........to the lovely City of Bendigo in Victoria. Some arriving as from the 25th Mar and all arriving by Friday the 27th March.....for a Wattler get together of Family History, Sight seeing, Cemetery crawling, and general chit chat.

Looking forward to catching up with everyone again at Bendigo.

This meet was planned early last year, after the Tasmania meet......and If anyone else is interested in meeting up with our group in Bendigo...let me know.

Tony...:>))

I keep forgetting we are in here too. only here because i finally have a direct link to someone in Scotland to do with a twig in my family tree.

Cya at Bendigo.

Evening everyone,
Just see Melbourne is getting rain at last from the weird front coming through today, still dry here in Albury, Hume Weir 11% which is not good news for those downstream hoping for water allocations for autumn crops. They may have paid for water rights, but it's all fanciful if there's NO WATER !!
I have Sydney friends heading for Lake Eyre - he's a photographer, I have to say that's the one event I'd love to see in my lifetime, the waterbirds of Australia just congregating by the rising flood water in the shallow saltpan - a uniquely Australian event.
I am looking forward to the change in season to get back to some FH at last, I haven't done much this summer. I might not get a lot done this year actually, I'm concentrating on D(arling) D(aughter) doing her HSC, that is challenging enough!
Marie your trip was a good one I see, when we go to Bendigo at the end of the month I plan to do the same as you and put some $'s back into the local community. We are gearing up to a pretty Big Wattler meet it seems, can't wait for a big chinwag! Don't know how much FH will be done, but I have some Kangaroo Flat deaths to follow up and I'm happy to mooch around the odd cemetery lol -
Time to hit the hay, overnight winds might be a problem methinks and the following cold air quite a contrast to the last eight weeks..... will be easier to sleep well, sweet dreams all, Hz

Good Morning All (just)
It's a bit overcast here and quite breezy.
Mary I've stopped transcribing full parishes as it's too time consuming. I thought I was going to have a quiet couple of weeks at the FHC as I'm awaiting a new film - however I've been corresponding with someone who shares ggggrandparents with me and I still have the film of the parish records for some of his family at the FHC so I'll be chasing them for him.

Best wishes to all.
Ian

Hi everyone..We have dull again today but nothing in the rain department.. butter...Autumn is here so hope the weather cools down soon and gives the poor people down south some rest from those pesky fires..this week doesn't seem a good one where heat and wind is forecast..

Life is busy but quiet.. been trying to do some FH but not getting very far..next month I will have to start going back to the FHC as it is my only hope..

Marie Glad you had a nice holiday,, Its nice to get away but always nice to get home..

Ian Are you transcribing any more,,,Enjoy your time with the kids..

Sandra.. Hope you are well ...

Well better get my A into G and do some housework as got visitors tomorrow for lunch and a big meeting of the Residents Committee of which I am treasurer..

Have a nice day all..

Love Mary xxxx

Good Evening,
It's been a beautiful day today after thunderstorms last night. I've just grabbed the computer between daughter and grandchildren - I'm spending a couple of days with them as it's the long weekend in WA this weekend.

Best wishes to all

Ian

Hello all , I am back in Bathurst ,How awful everything is in Victoria From the time we left Cowra all we saw was dead grass (if there was any )dead trees,most of the cherries trees in young were dead which is usually a lovely area, and it got worse as we went along. we saw some of the devastation as we went past Kilmore we could see where the fires jumped the Freeway and many homes burnt down. From Geelong to Warnambool which is usually a lovely area exactly the same dry as chips.
The biggest shock was the very large Lake at Colac , it was dry as a bone.
Warnambool appears to have fared a little better, the dairy heards are being hand fed and they still seem to have enough water to irrigate some of their paddocks.It was a shock also to see Lake Wendoree also bone dry and the beautiful gardens suffering.
Despite all of this it was wonderful to go back where I spent so many years and where all my children where born I hope the next time I get back the heavens have opened and Vic., is the beautiful Garden State that it used to be.

We all ate far to much on our trip and we tried to put as much money back into the economy of all the little towns as we Sailed along we also drank a large amount of Wine each night.
Despite our sad feelings for the Victorians and the farmers in NSW we really had a very nice time.

I hope you are all well .Regards to you all
Marie from Bathurst.

Hello everyone,
It was only 28 degrees today and so I felt chilly !
Quite smoky on the border here today because of the newest lot of fires
around Daylesford ( I have second and third cousins in the area still farming the original blocks settled in 1851 - 1861). But the days are shortening, so OH and I are tidying up the yard getting ready for the first rains - unblocking drains, cleaning gutters, and using a bit of water to get the soil ready to absorb a rainfall in areas which usually run off - ground is otherwise as hard as bricks. We have been keeping some newly planted shrubs going and the blackbirds arrived this week and spread the bark mulch and underlying shredded paper all over the back yard!
They knew where the moist soil was !

Ongoing thoughts for the Victorians still facing fire - mwah to all - Hz

Morning all..We have had some nice rain but it seems to be petering off..

June How is the house going,,Bet you haven't done to much due to working to hard..slow down girl....

Marie Hope you have a nice time away..

HAven't done much on the FH front for a while,,Got so many brick walls I think my ancestors must have all made a pact to disguise themselves with false names and identities..Must go back to the FHC and order some more film..

Life is rather boring at the moment..so nothing much to report..Have a lovely weekend all..

Love Mary xxx

Evening all,

just popping in to say hi. Hope you get your computer sorted out at home, Hz.

Glad things are moving on your house, June and hope you get some rain. We need some here too, it has been cloudy but just spits - nothing decent for ages. however, it has been cooler which has been nice.

~~~~~~~~~~~~ to all,
Vonny

Hello everyone,
Dare I say it out loud, but we’re currently having a few spots of rain, enough to dampen the back of a postage stamp even !! If it washes some smoke out of the air that will be marvellous!
Have a lovely trip down memory lane Marie, it really sounds like you are looking forward to your travel.
All well here but our home computers have been playing up, I think Telstra has something to do with it, or maybe we have a modem that’s dying, anyway I haven’t been able to do much for a week but I put OH on the job today, to research the problem, I can get my emails (just) but not get Firefox or IE, very slow too.
Better keep doing my chores at work, it’s “keep the accountant happy” day today – not my fave, a bit of a slog. Oh well, ~~ to all, Hz

hey Marie

if you've got rain following you drive our way after Victoria okay!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HI All,just wanted to let you know I will be away for a week, taking a bus tour to Vic going down to Warnambool will be spending 3nights there , will be going along the great ocean road also to Port Fairy, its been appox.20 years since I lived in Colac I did a lot of day trips all round the district I think it is
one of the lovelest arears in Vic.

Unfortunately as Tony said the smoke is bad so it may not be very pleasant.I am hopingTony that the rain follows me If I could I would lasso it and drage it behind the bus.

I hope you are all well ,I will be back on the 26th Feb.
Marie .