General Chat

Hi All,

Took me long enough to find you all, but back on track now.

This all looks very swish.

Congrats Ron, how lucky you are a little girl :-)))), my grandaughter just turned one, very special!

I am at work so better get back to it, before the boss sticks his head in the door lol.

Cheers Wilson

Happy Tuesday everyone . . .

trying extra hard to keep the grin gear intact but my puter is making that a difficult thing to do.

Whenever I am lucky enough to get a page to load completely I feel like throwing a party . . teehee . . . techy canny find the problem . . puter is clean as a whistle and drive near on empty so scratching head here . . anyone with any tips ????

Apart from that . . everything is great, only a matter of days (how many I am not sure yet) till we head up home to QLD - goodness me 2008 went by quick.

It was fantastic to catch up with those that could come on Sunday, I thoroughly enjoyed myself . . and stuffed myself big time. The girls brought the freshest bread rolls, salads, cheesecakes, trifle and plumpud ahhhh it was a meal fit for a Printheth . . . teeheee . . not to mention the little mixture of Marrrrggaarreeettaaassss . . teehee

Congratulations to Ron, Carole and family on the safe arrival of another female to keep Ron on track . . . I am sure Abby will have you under her spell in no time Ron. You lucky thing . . .
*^*^ (stomps feet) . . I want a grandie for Christmas . . *^*^

Sounds like you have been busy little bees in the garden Hz . . . hope you get to go to the carols tomorrow night . . . and that you get to slow down and have an enjoyable Christmas with your family.

Well I had better get the A into G and get some more jobs done, TLR is coming home for lunch.

Stay well, safe and enjoy - OH! . . and exercise that grin gear

luv Laurie ;)

Good Morning To All,
Congrats to the new addition Ron.
Lots of lovely rain over the past week the plants are fair bolting out of the ground lol.
It was nice to catch up again with those that went to lauries a very pleasant afternoon and again Ray's B.B.Q cooking was top class.

Lots of lovely convicts tony for barb lol

Have a great Day sandra in the Gong

morning all

a lovely very damp weekend here in SA, in fact it rained so much and hard on friday I dinged the work car........boss has'nt seen it yet..........

Congrats Ron, welcome to the world Abby hope you have a great life......

Went to thte first of the family xmas parties on sunday, nice to see every one but a bit exhausting with kids noise dogs etc

Had the grandies over the weekend as well, took them to see a "ginger bread house" village at one of the big hotels in town, they were very impressed and then wathced the big tree in vistoria sq light up......... xmas is such a great time with grandies .........

hope everyone is keeping happy and sane in the mad rush, remember to spend a little quiet time each day in order to appreciate fully this xmas season...


Merry Christmas

Love June xox

Morning....:>))

Welcome to the world little Abby Linda Roberts.

Congrats to the parents, and the grandparents Poppa Ron and Nanna ( Grandma) Carol.


Cheers Guys.
Tony & Barb

baby born C section 0838, 13th Dec 2008. 7lb 13.3 oz, 51 cm long and 31 around her head. a little girl gymnast for daughter jackie, called her Abby Linda ROBERTS.

a real cutie, and takes after her Grand Father aka Poppa, loves the boob!

Thinking big celebwation thoughts for the wattlers meeting today up north, also hoping Ron that all has gone well for your exhausted daughter and that you are a grandfather again by now ?? ??
Damp weekend and cool too, must say it is energising. Hopped down to Spotlight with DD17, have got to use up our fabric stash and needed some bits to help do so. OH also got heaps of little somethings to make a hedge with in the backyard - he was so pleased that it rained so much, they'll get a good start. Loz you wouldn't recognise the back yard now we've really moved ahead with revamping it. All my spuds are flowering and I'm picking the cherry tomatoes and the climbing beans ( lol found some big ones lurking in the foliage!). Must get shopping this week and should even get to community carols night on Wednesday at this rate. Hope all is well with everybody else lurking ~ ~ ~ Hz

Morning...:>))

Still raining in Melb. and has been since Friday. Although its constantly O/cast and grey skies, its nice to see us getting some decent wet stuff, and probably had more rain in the last 48hrs than we have had all year.

Working my little butt off as we approach the silly season, ( everyone wants everything yesterday )and not getting a lot of time on the net to do research, although for Barb i picked up another convict 4x great grandmother in Tasmania ( Sarah aka Sally Newton born 1798 Salford Lancashire ) who was sent to the Tassie colony in 1822 on board the "Mary 111" and listed at the "Hobart female factory"
That gives her 3 direct Greats as convict settlers now, and two 3 x great cousin convicts sent out as well. I always thought Barb was a crook, but i couldnt prove it until now......LOL
Also picked up another 5x great convict grandad for my grandson on his fathers side. So he now has 4 Convict greats and two first fleeters. ( well documented )

Cant even crack it for gaol bird meself.......My lot were goody two shoes.....:>((((

This is an excellent sight for anyone that had female convicts sent to Tas, and run by a group of ladies in Tassie . ( Female factory research group ) It list just about everyone and anyone that had female ( forename and surname ) convict relos sent to Aussie.
Its also a great read, in general, of our convicts,and lists all the female convict factories in Tasmania ( on-going )

http://www.femalefactory.com.au/

Ron and Carol. Best wishes to daughter and hope new grandie has arrived safely.

Have our 4 grankids coming down next week to walk the streets, and see the Xmas lights decorated on the houses. ( pending the weather )
Christmas carols at our local White horse council to-night, ( a 4min walk from us ) but i feel it will be a wash out, as the area where the 100s of peeps normally sit with their famlies in the council park, is saturated and under water....lol

Jude. Best wishes for a "Sale" at Alexandra. Barb and her sisters have received an offer on her mums place ( yesteday ) and they are going to take it.

Bacon and eggs sizzling away in the pan, and the smell tells me their ready....:>)))

Best wishes to all who are not 100%.


Tony...:>)))

Merry Christmas!

Allo, Allo - do you remember me then? lol

I (shamefacedly) haven't been in for a while, and everything has changed - completely.

could someone who is retired, explain how each and every day disappears quicker than when one is working full time? BTW what is retired?

Never been busier since our enforced retirement, cottage is on the market and on real estate.com.au - if you want a peek - Alexandra, Vic. $250,000 - 260,000 bracket -34 Bayley St. This is what 3 years of hard graft has achieved lol. I will be so sad to say goodbye to it, however if you wan't it - its yours! lol

Merle glad to see you are feeling spry, keep up those skate boarding lessons.
Ron hope the new bubs has made its arrival and DD is okey dokey. How is grandad feeling?

HZ busy as usual, what a find on the Kiwi front - yippee

How is our lovely Lara and Mike? mwah to you both

Hope the BBQ is ok tomorrow and they don''t get rained out.Couldn't get there, as its our DD's 33rd birfdy (and we have missed too many over the last 10 years - while she has been travelling around - not to be in Melbourne for this one) best bit is her OH is doing the catering! and not me.

Will look in again soon ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ooo roo

Jude Diy

Finally got back on here. 3rd Daughter Jackie has been in Horsepiddle all night trying to have her baby. Its being stubborn and is facing up. They are taking her to a Theatre to acess her, could be block and tackle pull out or caserian. Hopefully tonight I will have a well mended loving daughter and a healthy Grandchild again.

Thanks to All Women; we men never ever fully understand what you go through to give life to this world.

Ron and Carol

Well here we go again..around in circles...

Having a quiet time at the moment..Looking forward to the BBQ on the weekend..Will take my camera to get some picks I hope..will be lovely to meet up with some of the Wattlers after quite a long break of not meeting..They have been so busy flitting hither and thither that it is hard to keep up with them.. lol..

Hope all are well and have a nice weekend whatever you are doing..

Love Mary xxxx

Oooh yes, nice and wet in Albury all day, warm and gentle just the way I like it LOL ~~ Hz

Morning Wattlers
~~~~~~~Vonny, lovely rain here too :)
thanks for the message
have a good day all, by the way you need to click once on latest reply, let the page come up and then click on it agaon, must be a code error I think
JA

Ok - finally made it.

Hope you have a good day today L'Oz and are not too worn out.

it is raining (lightly) here this morning HZ so I hope that means that you got it first. We really needed it as it has been cloudy here but no rain for a while and i was shocked to see how much of my front garden and lawn had died.

Expecting Daphne from the Uk to visit next week and i think the front will have a very "Australian look" - ie bare and brown!

Going to have a look around.

Tip from canucks, double click on last reply and it will take you to the last reply -- for the moment anyway lol
HZ you and yours are one out of the box OOOXXX
Good to see you Cow girl
Ohh hard Maire take care of you

and I cannot keep up with Merle on the skatebaord lo

lara how goes things
Take care all

~~~~~~~~~~all wattlers

JA

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wattlers wonder if this will bring up last posts lol

JA

Oh my gosh, this is a bit different!!

Hello everyone, last day of school year today for DD17, she
cycled down the street and worked 2 hrs on the front counter to help us out this arvo as we were so busy I couldn't even get away to speech morning, it has been frantic all week.

I think we are organized for xmas, just have to accumulate all the bits we have decided on. I think my sister and partner are coming from Adelaide.

I had a delightful discovery this week via Ancestry, and as some of you may know my OH is a proud Kiwi. Well it appears I have an ALL-BLACK in MY family tree pmsl ! From around 1900 - I am drafting an email to the Ancestry contact to nail it all down lol. Now we have to go the the All-Black museum in Wellington and I'll be only too happy to do so ! OH was very amused ! I always thought this particular bloke's father had emigrated somewhere, as he simply disappeared after 1851, but I never ever found him in Australia with his cousins, and now he has popped up in NZ. Once again, the young men all left home leaving their sisters in the UK. Life must have been very difficult in the UK during 1845 - 1865 as so many males emigrated....

Here's hoping we get the predicted rain down south here this weekend, it would be marvellous to add to the dams. I have promised to get the sewing machine out this weekend, to run up some summer dresses, DD is suddenly interested in fashion and tired of her jeans and sneakers - so she wants to learn to sew! She has been googling some funky fashions and is determined to be a bit "different" - the things she likes look very 60's to me - just my period of fashion expertise as it turns out LOL ! I've got all my paper patterns from back then too - this could end up being real FUN ! I've even got fabric stashed .......

Better go and get some steak under the grill as OH will be home after a very long day soon - Elmer Fudd realises of course that the govt gets gst every time the dollars turn over, no wonder he wants us to spend spend spend.....

Hope the week has been kind to all, mwah, Hz

Oh Dear, just start getting used to the system and they go and change it again, have to put my learning cap on again, must admit, I liked the old style better

Big hug to Marie son, ((((((HUG))))))


toodles
Shaz

Well, I certainly HATE the way that your tree looks, how in hell do we know the exact writing of siblings and such now, with such a small amount of space to do it, or am I, AGAIN too computer illiterate to understand

Ding - A Ling
Hello everyone, I hope you are all A ok and ready for Xmas, I am slowly getting there.
Hi Tony,did you get the info i sent through Genes R.?
My son went Back to Castlemaine early this morning I didnt get up to see him as I knew i would break down and this would upset him, my heart is aching for him as he has marriage problems that he has to confront. I feel saddddd.I have managed to do some shopping for xmas but no cards yet oh well maybe to-morrow
Love to you all Marie from Bathurst.

Yeah right . . . . well I am going to have to explore and see what else has changed . . teeheee

Howdy Wattlers . . . first day of the conference down . . two to go
I managed to get them all fed on time, but tomorrow will be both lunch and BBQ here at the house . . as well as two smokos so I am going to be plum tuckered at the end of the day tomorrow.

Hope your all well and giving the grin gear a good workout

luv Laurie xoxo