General Chat

Hi everyone... Gosh where are you all. Away I presume.. I know some of you are and some of you have to go back to work,,you have my sympathy..

Some sad news..Some of you remember Sylvia in Perth who used to post on the OLD thread..Well her husband Norman has past away, she posts on the Canada thread now so let us know the news on that thread,
She had a hard life looking after him but she is a lovely lady and he passed away quietly and peacefully..

Hope you are all enjoying the holiday season and having the kids home and trying to entertain them and not murder them before school goes back in 4 weeks time..hee hee hee...

Love and hugs for all..

Mary xxxx

Happy New Year to all...May the New Year bring lots of good health and happiness for you all..

Hope you are all now ready for the New Year dieting...hee hee hee...

Lotsa love Mary xxx

Well, we just had Christmas today - just got it in before the New Year! :)

Love n hugs to all and many blessings for 2009!

~~~~~~~~~~~ Vonny

I second JA's wishes - Happy New Year for everyone. May 2009 be kind to us all.

Have a great night, a few wines, but no hangover to get 2009 off to a great start.

Catch up next year

xxxxxxxxx & (((((hugs)))))

Gwenda

Wishing Wattlers and those who pop in a Happy and blessed New Year

JA

Two, no 3 days Post Boxing Day - I think......... hello everybody, congrats on surviving, it's all over tooooo quickly!
I'm loving the coool temps here, we had a lovely Christmas day, my sister was here from Adelaide and we had tempura seafood and some fabulous wine and then stopped! On Boxing Day we resurrected the roast and ate again but moderately. Sis has now gone on to Falls Creek for New Year ( 2 - 12 degrees expected lol) and DD17 has gone out of town with friends also, leaving Ma and Pa Kettle to look after ourselves for a bit - bliss to be so quiet, but the cat is pacing the joint wondering where the action has gone. I think we will party at a neighbours' for New Year like last year, easy to stagger home !
Sis was amazed at Ancestry when I showed her what I've been up to re family tree, might get her interested yet!
I've just stumbled across a Paul Newman doco on Austar, so I might just watch it before an early night. mwah to all, I'll be back before New Year
~~~ Hz

Hello To All.
As I will be offline until Friday Wishing You All A Happy healthy and safe new year.

Going down the coast to my daughter who is camping there at nelligen but we are camping in the pub across the road from the caravan park.
They tell us we are going out in boats on Wed down the Clyde River so should be fun.

Anyhow will speak again next year lol
have a good one ~~~~~~~~~~~~ and ((((((((())))))))))))))))))))))))) to everyone
Cheers Sandra in the Gong

Hello All,

hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a relaxing few days following........or did you all hit the sales...........

We had a great family time over the past few days, watching the little grandies open the pressies is wonderful.......lots of food and lots of leftovers............hehe always tastes nicer the next day

unfortunately back to work tomorrow , however the work load is quite light at the moment so not to much to do......

~~~~~~~~~~ and (((((((((((())))))))))))) to all

Happy New Year

Love June (cg)

Arvo....:>))

Lovely sunny Sunday in Melbin.
Had a great Christmas day with family.....Mum,siblings, kids and grandies, cousins, neices and nephews, grand nieces and newphews....so a great day by all.

Boxing day just lounged around and tucked into the left overs ( as ya do ) and i think iv'e had about 10 helpings of plum pud since Xmas day...lol
One of Barbs clients wrapped up a boiled fruit cake for me, as she does each year, so i scoffed that down too.......:>)))
My kids bought me about 3 jars of chocolate scorched almonds ( light & Dark ) so that should see me through next week...... at least..!!!!.
Barb said i will get pimples from eating to much chocolate.?...I wish....lol

Not back to work till the 5th Jan.....so just going to relax and do absolutley nouthing. Among other gifts, Barb bought me a book "Kingdom of the Dead"....voyages through time... by Peter Ackroyd.....so a few VB tablets on the decking while watching the cricket, or pottering around in me Vegie patch......what more could a bloke want?.

Hope everyone had a nice christmas.

Tony...:>)) *On Holidays*

HI everyone.. Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wishing you all a Very Happy New Year..

Happy Birthday Dave... Hope you have a good one and get lots MORE pressies...

Lovely to see our friends drop in from other threads..Lovely to see you and know that you are always welcome here,,so do come back if you want to chat..

We got back from Orange yesterday,sat. and the traffic was very heavy,,There was a accident at the foot of the Blue Mountains near Hartley so we had to do a detour,,but was so glad there was a detour to take otherwise it would have meant a trip all the way back to Lithgow and up the Bells line of road,, a very big detour..our lucky day...

My puta could get on line at Orange but it didn't like receiving emails on another IP address, so had to wait till I got home ...Funny that as I could get on the Internet no problem,,Ah well must be glad for small mercies....

Lara So glad you are having a good time ooop north..hope Tigers knee is holding up ...John got bad while we were away so we came home early..would have like a few more days there but ..never mind..

Merle Hope you had a nice Christmas day,,and you are taking it easy on the knee...xxx

Well must away and unpack the ports so have a lovely relaxing Sunday..

Love Mary xxxxx

If the somebody is you know who - happy brothday to you and hugs
JA

Greetings all

Happy Birthday to Dave . . . hope your all having a lovely time down in Cranberry celebrating

After a really lovely day yesterday, we capped it off with another today. For lunch we ended up taking all the goodies down to the beach, and cooking up the sausage sizzle for Pauls life saver patrol. Now really need a nanna nap . . . before we head out to the surf club for dinner tronight.

Hope you are all well, happy and enjoying the festive season

L xoxo

Happy Boxing Day To Everyone.
Had a nice day yesterday with youger daughter, going to son's this afternoon.
Hope all had a nice Christmas Day and whats left of Boxing Day.

Cheers Sandra in the Gong

Happy Boxing Day

Still can't get into the sandpit - funny cos I can read but won't let me post although I was able to answer one of Mary's yesterday.

We had a quiet day. I had 3 loading of washing and ironing done before lunch, so now we can have a day out for someone's 60th birthday.

Back to work tomorrow until days off on Wednesday and Thursday.

Hope you're all working off yesterday's lunch and not got too many leftovers.

Catchya ron

Gwenda

Merry Christmas all . . . hope you have all had, or are haveing as good a day with family as I have had

It has been bliss . . everything has been so stress free and enjoyable - big long walk on the beach with all the family and the dogs - masses of lovely food . . and ooodles of laughter.

Must go and see if I can leave a message in the sand . . . . on sons puter and not sure of what I am doing

luv and blessings to all

Laurie xo

Lovely sunny day here - complete change from yesterday.

OH has already bought my present - he just doesn't know it yet!!!! LOL We are having family Christmas on the 31st this year - one whole extra week to keep quiet about my present to the grandies - a photo book!!!

Love and Joy to all who pop in - hope your day is just what you ordered. :)

Merry Christmas and God Bless,
Vonny

Good Morning Wattlers AND Merry Christmas :-)

I hope today finds everyone well and got all that they wished for today, whether that be presents, a lovely family day or just a quiet one, enjoy.

Lara yes I got your card, but for some strange reason Im not sure if I opened it, was a flying visit yesterday to my emails. Hee hee I am a bit like you when it come to my present from David, had to go shopping with him as he could not think of what to get, so I walked into a couple of shops and then said oh this is nice and cheaper than the ones I looked at the other day in another shop, well that was it he bought it for me, even had to wrap it myself, he was only going to tape up the plastic shopping bag the shop put it in. Wonder what he would have done if I had of gone to the jewelery shop and started looking at um ......... say wedding rings :-))))))))) Im sure he would soon find another present then haa haa haa.

Merle (((hugs))) for you and do hope you knee gets better soon, I have a friend who had a reconstruction and she keeps on getting a recurrence of an infection in the knee, but please come on and chat to us and dont bottle it up inside, we are here to listen, no matter how much you winge, it does good to let it out.

~~~~ to everyone, tried to get in sandpit this morning to wish everyone there Merry Christmas but cant get in, must be doing site work :-(

Anyway had better get ready for the girls and David to wake and the rush for the tree lol, I've already been and watered Raspberries, had shower and breaky, now waiting for everyone else to get ready and then we can go to Nans :-)))) Enjoy your day everyone.

Wishing all the lovely Wattlers and those who pop in a blessed Christnas and 2009,
~~~~~Joy and Bear, thank you for your good wishes blessing wished for you

JA

A very Joyous Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all "over the ditch"

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas. Hope everyone has the best day possible.

Marie - we're supposed to be in for a storm this evening - of course that will depend on how much wasn't dumped on you. Hope your car isn't damaged at all.

Merle - sorry the knee's not as good as you hoped - don't think the skateboarding was the right physio!!! Have a great day with the family on Christmas Day and hopefully the New Year will be a lot brighter for you.

Lara - all the best for you and Mike for Christmas and the New Year. Hope things go well for Cassie in her new venture.

June in BB - best wishes for you too for Christmas - watch out for our leftover storm.

One more 4 hour shift and I can relax for 2 days. Got a reprieve as it has been decided that we will not be opening our store at 7 am on Saturday - thank the gods for that as I would have had to be at work at 6 am

There are still people out doing last minute shopping - hope they realise we are closing at 6 tomorrow night.

Nitey nite for now
Gwenda