General Chat

Sandra,

Well done to your grand-young 'uns ......were you the rev- head they inherited the dare-devil spirit from LOL !

It has been a calm weekend here, OH and I got up early this morning and watched a movie followed by bit of Rugby, then BOTH of us went back to bed for a nanna nap. DD of course came out of her room once she smelled lunch ( bacon, eggs, hash browns, toast etc) at about noon !! LOOOOXURY !
I sat in my garden for about an hour with the SMH and watched the beans grow another inch this afternoon - more loooxury!

A little bit of ironing to do and that's it for me - chops and salad for tea, and a bit of consultation on water rights for the legal studies student - does making people drink recycled water contravene the basic human right to clean water............... OH said "just ask someone in Somalia" - DD is quite energised now, with a new dimension to bring into her essay.......... Must away, love to all, ~~ Hz

PS is it John's 60th Vonny ? WOW, hope he had a great birthday, mwah from us.

Afternoon All, Its a lovely day in the Gong today after the storm we had last night, nice drop of soaking rain for the garden.
Am picking salde veg for tea, so worth while isent it to pick your own.

Just had a text msg from Daughter Hz,7year old Grandaughter 1st in all races and now no1 in Victoria as well as NSW.
Grandson 10yr old crashed in one race and spent 30mins in ambo but recovered to go on and get 10th place in final in VictorianState .
They now have to drive home,but they love it.

Friday night going to watch Grandson 14 in a school show where he is the principle singer and actor , should be a good one.

Well ~~~~~~~~~to everyone looking in

Cheers Sandra in the Gong

Afternoon All,

Haven't made it to GR for a while, so thought i would stick my head in for a look around. Nice to see you all.

Nice sunny day here, perfect for the vegie patch, better get out and enjoy the day.

Cheers Wilson

Marie, Almost forgot HZ by the river.

I watched the Lakes District show on SBS also ,would love to get to England once more ==== just Dreaming must go midnight has come and and my computer is turning into a pumpkin.Lol to yous all.
Marie.

Marie from B/hurst,
Hi to everyone on this page.
Mary we had the worst storm at 4pm yesterday.
My daughter lives on a hill in Windradine and the wind was blowing the rain up the road ,also could not see the houses in the next Street, I havent seen rain like that in Years.
Tamworth coped it also.....Tony and Mary I have had baby sitting duties and havent had time to do a list on John ,hopefully I will find some time tomorrow to write out the Information.
Best wishes to you all Marie.

Happy big birthday for Vonny's other half, big party tonight
happy birthday to you

JA

Evenin' All,
Wonderful weather this week, nice and wet in patches, stormy, windy, sunny in turns, garden going ahead in leaps and bounds like yours Tones, lifted my garlic coupla weeks ago and now it has dried nicely am handing out bulbs to friends, yum so great when fresh.
Just caught SBS show about Lake District, where Dad's side of the family were from, he went in 87 and saw the village and the pub his great grandmother worked in before marriage and emigration - can't wait to go myself one day.
Ooooh er Merle, new duds, nothing like a new wardrobe to make ya feel on top o' the world ! You and Mary make a good pair with your watercise!
Sanda it's quite warm here even if a bit windy today, your grandkidlets will be having a fine time in Wodonga.
Yes a nervous time for those in Bombay, terrible events, plus everybody stuck in Bangkok at the moment, must be throwing airline schedules out of whack all over asia ! I'm sure your dau in Bangalore will be just fine June, you'll be glad when she gets home though.
DD made yummie choc chip biscuits this afternoon, anyone want one with their cuppa? ((hugs)) to all that need them, ~~ Hz

Arvo...:>))

Sunny Saturday in Melbum. Got some reasonable rain over the last few days, which fillled our water tanks up.

June. Hoping all is well with daughter in India at the moment. Some places are not where you want to be right now, and safe travels to her returning on Sunday.
Funny enough its a country i have always wanted to visit on my to do list. My grandmother was born in Ajmer 1888 ( Rajasthan ) near Delhi.

Summer Vege garden has profited from the rain and sunshine, and my seedling tomato plants that i planted in late Sept are 4ft high on the stakes so far, flowering nicely, and small fruits popping up all over.
Didnt plant to much this year as last summer was a disaster with the heat................I put in One Gross Lisse......one Red Cloud......one Big Red.....one Apollo.....one Beef steak....and two cherry sweet bites to toss into the mixed salads.10 Lettuce "Iceberg" 40 Spring onions, 2 Garlic, 3 varietes of Capsicums ( Red & Green )" Love to eat them straight off the plant"...Lots of Vit C.......Yum ....or stuffed with mince and onions and Babequed............and also 3 plants of Cucumber.......soooo i just have to keep the pesky possums away, and we will have a nice tossed salad come B.B.Q's during summer.

Wishing all a great weekend, and come Monday ( 1st Dec ) a merry Christmas season to all.

Hope everyones done there Chrissy shopping?.....lol

Av a good un.

Tony...:>)))

O'h well......If nobody wants it....mine...100

Tones.....:>))

Hi all.. We were supposed to have a big storm front come over but it all fizzled out,,Some went north and some went south so we got zilch...That happens all the time...

Had a lovely salad for dinner tonight and must have more of them,,I love salads and when we did a trip to Europe 25 yrs ago they took us to the worst places for lunch and I was getting heartily sick of bratwurst and chips..I craved a salad,, Then one day someone asked if we could stop over the border of the next country to change some money,, There at the border was the best restaurant with the best salad bar I had seen since I had left home..and we had just stopped 10 minutes earlier at the worst place ever for the usual bratwurst and chips...I was so angry,,we had the worst tour guide in Europe I think and she gave you the impression that she didn't want to be there..I hope if I ever go again I don't get her..perhaps she has retired by now..hee hee hee ..after all the bratwurst she would not be very healthy..

Hoping to have a little holiday on our way to Orange for Christmas..stopping off here and there..not sure when we are leaving yet , as its all up in the air..

Merle So glad you are in the pool.. Are you gonna do acquarobics when it is all over,,I think you would enjoy it..easy on the body but good exercise..keep up the good work..

Well am off to bed..~~~~~to June Marie Sandra. and uncle tom cobley and all..

Love Mary xxxx

Morning All, It is very humid and stormy looking in the Gong, they keep forcasting rain, thunderstorms ect but have fizzled out before it does much.

hello marie bathhurst. and june BB.
also Hz and of course pearl and not forgeting Mary.

Went to see the stage show My Fair lady on Wed we enjoyed it but was a bit slow at first, John ????
having a senior moment the sergant (boss) from Blue Heelers (you know who I mean lol played the part of Eliza Dolittle's father he was quite good.

My Grand children are down your way this weekend Hz at Wadonga (sp) for the Victorian Open state BMX, we were going to go but a lot of travel for just 2 days, they take the carvan so no probs with accomadation.

Marie I get those ultra sound done on arteries every 2 years as have had problems in the past am now on blood thinning tablets.

Well ~~~~~~~~~ to all not mentioned and hope all are well.
Cheers Sandra in the Gong

Marie from B/hurst
Hi All, Nice to see your Happy posts.Tony thank you for your offer also Mary from Syd, I will get some facts to-gether and send them to you.
I havent had the results of the HalterMonitor ,yesterday they did an ultra sound on the artries in my neck and a scan on my Head,I now have to wait for the results.
Im sure they will tell me my brain has shrunk
as I am getting so forgetfull.
Nice day here to-day some cloud but a lovely breeze.
Badger that bacon burger sounds good its
almost 3pm and i havent had lunch so i will say Goodbye to you all . Marie.

Hi Everyone, Just a bit panicy at the moment -youngest daughter is working in India!!! Just had a text, she is in Bangalore -says thats OK -although in the same chain of hotels as the ones bombed -security with machine gun at the gate. Thank god she is due home on Sunday. These kids sure give you heart ache at times.
Still looking at photos of our trip to UK, and remembering all the fun we had -especially the narrow boat on the canal in Warwickshire.
Have to save hard to do it again in a year or so -although the dollar would have to improve!
Lovely day here in Batemans Bay -but they say there are storms on the way.
Ccheers to all, June

Morning/afternoon folks. Yes Mary am in the pool. size 18 bathers.Really finding it a great help too. My d-i-l works at a small shop in Mt Barker and came in yesterday with three (18) tops and three pairs of jeans which are for giants, lengthwise, and I'll have to lose a little bit more to do two of them up comfortably, and a top and jacket set which is size16 but fits. All brand new. They just didn't sell over the season. Very exciting so someday soon I'll put a photo in for you all to see.
Badger, I'd love one of those bacon Sandwiches please
Finally got my followup appt with the specialist. Sat 6th dec Catchya luv me

Howdy all,
Yesterday DD and her Drama class had a fast trip to Melbourne to Melb Theatre Coy to see a play and get a tour of the premises ( because of the prize they won earlier in the year), so I got to sit up till their 1.30pm return to meet the bus and therefore decide to attack the spare room .... which is full of FH...... lounge room floor was arrayed with files and papers etc etc BUT I think I have finally begun to get a "system" PMSL - maybe !! ha ha - but it was such fun to spread out and see how far I've come in three years! When DD got home she was very very excited to tell that Geoffrey Rush was in the audience with them last night, they saw Moliere's 'The Hypocrite", a funny french farce, and really enjoyed themselves.
Don't mention the war er, walking - on Mon morning my neighbour went a over k and splat on the pavement beside me, had x-ray, got called today to say they think she has a torn tendon in her shoulder and may need surgery ! She is unimpressed to say the least, being also a small business owner trying to do everything herself, this is not a good thing. Meanwhile I have become a bit converted to the early morning walk thing, and I didn't go today because of my very late night, but I think I will keep it up at the moment because it's so great in our suburb at this time of year, temperature is good, gardens are lovely, I'm really having a good time.

Sir Tones, how fabulous that you are spending time at Raheen ( i'm reading sgr but not posting), drink it in mate! Also all the best with Ch...ie - same things happen here on Tuesdays with Family Court across the road from our shop every Tuesday - she will rise to the occasion when she's with you and behave, especially is she wants a better life ( which she does I'm sure). ((hugs)) to you and Barb and Sarah for doing what you are doing.
Cuppa time, I need an early night, not as young as I used to be lol, ~~~ to all, Hz

Morning all.. We have a boootiful day today...

Marie Ancestry have some Cork Ireland records so send me the details and I will have a look for you..Also send me any other ones that you are having trouble with and I will have a squizz for you..
I have had a halter monitor 3 times and each time it showed nothing..hope yours is the same..

Hi Merle the Pearl ,, are you in the pool yet...

June You working to hard again.....

Sandra Did you get blown away.. we got very little wind or rain...

Well its back to the grind so see ya later and have a lovely day..

Love Mary xxx

Morning to Fred.

Yes..the spelling of various surnames always throws me whilst checking through the census and birth records.A few years ago my Williamson lot in Essex i had found on the 1841,1851, 1871,and so on, following their progress through to 1901....but had lost them on the 1861 ( scratches me head.? ) So went back and double checked the 1861 and eventually after using various forms of spelling found them under Wilkinson, and some under Willerston....lol
Enjoy your bacon badger for lunch and have a great sunday. We are just about to start cooking for tea....lol... 7:00pm here

Marie. Not sure if your John O'Brien you cant find after 1890 was lost in Aussie or Ireland. I have a lot of resources for Australia and happy to search if you like. Ireland can be very hard and sometimes tricky to track your ancestors down i have found over the years. Barbs great, great grandfather ROACH ( Convict sent to Tasmania in 1843 ) were from Co.Cork in a small town called Ballyvourney, and in 2005 we holidayed in Ireland to visit the town and its history. To our surprise after enquiring at a shop there, Barb met a 6th cousin Roach ( still living in Ballyvourney ) and to our surprise they still lived in the origional farm house that Barbs G,G, grandfather Roach was born in....in 1823. They took us to the Farm house, invited us in, and showed us around. It was Barbs highlight of the trip, as it was the least expected thing to find a cousin....... let alone the origional house and farm handed down through the generations from son to son. Many photos and Video were taken that day i can tell you......lol ...Think about 100 Photos all up......hee hee.........To bad about my lot in Limerick, and Killkenny.....and Yorkshire, Lancashire and Essex in England, ....they took a back seat that holiday, and to think Barb was not all that keen on F.H......well that little meeting sure changed her mind.......cor
This holiday to the U.K was s'posed to be my chance to visit the Towns and Villages of my lot......but it turned out to be searching for her lot.....LOL
As ol Ned Kelly once said: "Such is life".....lol

Evening all,

Many thanks for your well wishes for OH, he is very relieved and of course after last nights Rugby win he is now on top of the world (being a Kiwi) lol.......

~~ Marie - OH watched the game on tape this morning
he goes to bed at 7 pm ish due to shift work, we are all well trained not to let him know any results till he's had a chance to see the games. And the Wallabies beat France too ....

Blustery old weekend, my bro's family in Brissie is all in one piece, and s-in-law's mother's place is fine too, she was in between two badly hit suburbs, and edged on bushland

It's warmer here this afternoon, but we had a video day - had to watch Moulin Rouge for DD's study purposes, then "310 to Yuma" for OH then "Lars and the Real Girl" for me and then "Hot Fuzz" for DD !! I'm yucked out cos I got the munchies and demolished too many Doritos, but it was fun, and I'm going to bed early so i can email my walking minutes to Lara at 7am tomorrow !!!

Good sleuthing Tones on your Burns family, sometimes the 1841 takes guesswork, but nice when the rellies live close together, has happened more than once to me.

Lara one of my friends got Andre Rieu tickets for Sydney extra concert in couple of weeks she is thrilled, son got them for her..
Might watch "Who do you think you are", funny how a lazy day makes you feel tireder than usual !
Cheers all, HZ

Marie i know what tyou mean about Ireland too,'eck ,i had such a job trying to get back into County down Ireland looking for my grandma Rowans family ,but i did eventually pin them down to a date in the 1700s,ireland is such a lot of trouble,specially where the land clearences in scotland saw many scots shift to ireand ,and some even to America.
Think i will make a Bacon badger for dinner today,something to really warm us up lol,we needs it he he.,might even give the cat a slice lol.Fred.

Whoooo Hooooo ,Tony ,it sounds as though you had a great time on ancestry,,and i have to agree ,the two ways of spelling the name can be very confusing.
My lot come from Barns,[hence the spelling] ,in London ,where there is an actual district called Barns ,and Berkshire& bucks, where the immediate family came from,and i have a list going back to 1560 in Great Marlow.
I even have a branch in Carlisle ,cumbria,after one rellie decided he had had enough of the south and opened a greengrocery shop just outside the city walls.
I would be chuffed to bits if i could find a link to Lancashire.
I couldn't believe it when i ssaw the weather channel reporting on your weather,cor ,what have you lot been doing to deserve that?,don't envy you at all,i would rather have the snow and high winds we have ,that will do me.
I opened the door to Hissy this morning he he ,she took one quick look ,and shot back into the front room,No way will she go out to see her boyfreind in that lol.
Never mind ,it won't be that long before your sun returns and you get your spring proper,us poor Brit's are on the slippery slope into mid winter.brrrrr.
Be back later ,time to take the missis her cuppa ,while the heaters start to warm the place up properly.
Fred.