General Chat

O'i.... Marie. I'm here....lol

But then i'm always lurking around somewhere....:>))

Normally find me reading the... "Trying to Find boards" or the "Records Boards"

Congrats on not losing any of your marbles. Dont surpose you could lend me a few...........i seem to losing mine on the odd occassion.....hee hee

Tony...:>))...** In a cold old Melbourne with the ducted heating on **

Well this is my second try at posting..I went off line for a minute and lots the lot..

Glad you are not missing any marbles Marie..I dont think I would do so well...lol..lol..Daughter from Orange is coming down next weekend so it will be nice seeing her..miss them all and wish I lived a bit closer..

We have sold both cars and are waiting on a new one to arrive in 2 to 3 weeks..We are getting a Hyundai i30 hatch which has more leg and head room for John so that he dosent get cramp in his legs on long trips,,.If it is a goer we might even get a holiday..

Merle Hope you are ok...big hugs..xxxxx

Johns legs are getting a wee bit better and he is walking each day to get the muscles stronger..am ever hopeful that the doc has the meds worked out and they are now starting to work..wont count our chickens yet..

Have a nice weekend..and June I have put you on my email list,,dont know how you got off it,,sorry hun..craft again..hope you are still working and being paid.....we need money to buy food,,or didnt your boss know that..lol..

Well have a nice weekend all...

Love Mary xxx

evening all, from a very wet and windy Adelaide.......

lovely to see the rain, we certainly need it here, they reckon we could have another dry summer, possibly worse then last year....

I had a lovely afternoon with JA, went to a great cafe in Queen St and chatted for a couple of hours, it was lovely....

its been a couple of very trying weeks with the stepson now home all the time after finishing at his job, the girls have been making him get out of bed by 2pm beofre I get home!! .................however I have got him to agree to an assesment for Aspergers, so booked one.......its in august so just have to stay cool till them..... this might sound awfull but I really hope it is aspergers because the alternative is that he is a lazy little so and so................... and his life expectancy could be very short!!!

We have put responding to the council off till end of november (we were granted an extension) will give us time after Anne gets home to prepare proper responses.........

well time to have tea, yummy slow cooked casserole...

Love June x

Hi everyone..We have had a lovely day today..Quite mild and sunny..but its not gonna last. Tomorrow is wet and cold ..lol

June
glad you met JA..She is a lovely lady isnt she. And can imagine the chinwagging as usual..Sorry that I didnt have your email addy on my list but I was sure it was there and got quite a shock to see that it wasent.It is there now so that is the main thing..So many people say they are going away on holidays and to take their names off the list untill they get back I always forget to put them back..I did send you something one time and it got sent back as undeliverable,,cant remember why but was probably not important..Hope the dragon at work is not making your life a misery..and is paying you..Sorry to hear that stepson is not working again..That test sounds a good idea..

MArie How are you going up there in cold Bathurst..They say you might get some snow this week..Should be lovely if not driving anywhere..Dont like driving in that sort of weather..keep warm..

Merle Hope you are ok..Big hugs lovey..xxxxx

Well I am off to bed..

Love Mary xx

Hello to you all , Its been awhile since anyone has posted I guess its just to cold & wet for you all.
I have been busy helping my daughter, she has sinus very bad again she has had 2 burst eardrums in the last 3weeks she has spoken to her doctor and they are going to try and arrange for her to have her sinuses redone sooner than later which was to be in Nov when University closed.
Both of her girles have been sick Abigail is teething and Emily caught School sores so they have not been able to go to child care for more than a week.
Barbara thinks she must have killed a chinaman as the old saying goes.
I am hoping we may get a nice fine sunny day to-morrow ( one can always hope)I am tired of this overcast &( chill you to the bones winds)
I need to get my hands in the soil and also do some repotting but this weather just wont allow it.
Well thats my moan for this week.
I hope you are all well, Hugs to you all, Marie.

Marie, I hope all the family are improving - a bad year for colds and flu and sinus
Happy birthday to dear Lew today

It was like meeting an old friend meeting June, and in true Wattler style we talked and laughed for over two hours. She is one lovely and dynamic person with the bestest of sense of humours
Cold and dark here on the Limestone Plains but tomorrow is supposed to be sunny and bright if cold.
Little news from here. I am taking some well needed time out so should hae a bit more time to post rather than just look to find out what everyone is doing

Take care all

JA

Hello everyone,

Just checking in to say hello as I ahvn't been around too much. I've had bronchitis and husband and daughter have been sick too. So much for going away over the school holidays! were going out to Narrabri and further west. Now staying at home and will go to the movies and have a day shoping for lostof stuff we need. Not as good as going away!!

Hope all are well.

Alison

Hello everyone, well this must be the wintery-est winter we've had for ages, hard frosts here again this week and quite a few days of rain, sometimes even hard wet rain not just drizzly stuff lol ! School holidays have been a bit ordinary though, fortunately DD has been able to go to Art room at school and continue her piece for HSC, and she has been doing something each day even if it's coming across Hamlet on Austar and watching it. Her HSC trial exams are early August. We need to sort out what she is going to do next!
Mary a new car sounds very exciting, so rapt for you and lovely that John is having good improvement in his leg strength, hopefully this is an upward trend.
Tones that solar heat sounds fantastic, isn't it funny how satisfying "solar heat" sounds...... hope it saves you plenty money too.
JA and June, could almost hear the chatter over coffe from here! Glad the traveller got home safely JA.
Well to all those with the lurgy or similar, get well, eat oranges my dear old Mum would say!! ~~ Hz

Hello to Mary,JA, Alison & Hz, lovely to read the posts, I have had a very trying Week, Barbara is a little better her Dr. gave her some antibiotics he said she had an infection, Emilys School sores have gone but now she is coughing a lot and Abigail wasnt looking good either and on it goes.Kathleen and her family seem to have recovered.
I am sick to death of this weather, we have Finally had a lovely sunny day to-day the first in ages, I am praying we get a few more.We had the biggest frost on saturday then down came a very heavy fog that took awhile to lift and then came the heavy clouds once more ,plus the biting wind.Brrrrrrrrrrr.stop with the whinging you say.sorry folks but I'm feeling a bit sick myself may have to get the bucket so best go.
Please has anyone heard from Merle?? I am thinking of you Merle ((((Hugs for Merle )).Love Marie

Arvo....:>))

Very windy Monday in Melbin.
Sun is shining though, and the weekend just gone saw us out in the front garden doing some weeding.
We ordered 2metres of Mountain sandy loam to dress up the front lawns. They dumped it on the nature strip, and then i shoveled each load by wheelbarrow into the property.....That got my back into shape, and tested me out....lol
Took me nearly all day to move 2metres by wheelbarrow, but our spa bath got a good working out that night.......:>)))

Our 4 Camelia trees are in full bloom, and even the smaller one that was burnt to a crisp in Feb...with the Hot 47- 49c Victoria received last summer has kicked on. Its still showing signs of wear and tear it received last summer hot winds........but they are tough these camelia trees and have survived....:>))

I'm not really a garden person meself.........( Prefer my Vege patch ).. but do love our Camelias when they bloom in Winter. Two are higher than our house rooftop and about 7 - 8ft wide, and have hundreds of flowers about the size of a small saucer. Our Golden Bunny roses are full bloom also, and the perfume wafting around the back yard makes for a pleasant smell.

Only a few weeks to go, and we fly out to Thailand ( Bangkok and then transfer to Phuket ) for a bit of R&R.
I will be thinking of you all, as i lay back in the Bar pool and sip on a few Cocktails during happy hour......Well, i will try to think about you ......:>))))

Looks as though the Wattlers are in the process of planning the next big meet for Feb - Mar 2010........ in the Sunshine State....Q.L.D ( Toowoomba is on the cards )


Wishing all who are not 100% best wishes and positive thoughts.

Av a good un.



Tony...:>))

Just a quick drop in to say hello and that I spoke with Merle today -she is doing OK and some great work with prisoners at a local high security jail. Health Ok apart form an eye prob and see shes specialist in mid Augsut, misses her beloved Derrick and her lovely dog but still our lovely Merle upbeat, and asks to be remembered to everyone.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~all

JA

Hello to you all,Mary and Tony put me down for the meet especially if it is in Toowoomba.JA on the limestone plainsThank you letting us know about Merle Good on her keeping herself Busy.
I have been feeling down in the dumps lately I think it is the cold weather that is doing it .
We are having a sunny day to-day after several miserable days of rain and icey winds.
I am off now to do some potting up .
Love to you all
Marie from Bathurst.

Morning Wattlers all from a cold but sunny Limestone Plains
Seems we have all been heads down and b... up so no posts.

Marie hope the black dog has gone out the door, it seems to thrive on winter and little sunshine big hug for you

Quiet here. I have been doing FH, trying with my two cousins (our great, greats were siblings and we only found each other last year -up until then I did not know we had any relatives in the US) to go backwards and find the parents and family of great great great George as well as the wereabouts of one of my great s sibling s daughter. Work all that out id you can lol

Cheers

JA

Merle Big hugs and lotsa love..xxx

Marie you have email ..

Life is a bit busy at the moment..but I hope it gets better by next week..

June you still getting paid..hope so..

Got a thumping headache so am having a early night..

Lotsa love
Mary xxx

evening all,

crappy day, went to a funeral of a work collegue/friend who died last week at the age of 56 from complications from pneaumonia/swine flu. Place was packed over 300 people there, standing room only.

tired now so going to bed

ANNIE GETS HOME TOMORROW......YIPPEEEEEEE


nite all sleep well.....

love June x

hello everyone its sunny and lovely here in Hervey Bay have been head down and bum up that's for sure as a rellie of the my Day relative in Gosford is writing a book on the Day Family History including my Wards and I am trying to help where I can with giving her what I have too its hard yakka sorting out my research as I am a messer I have two Ward families as ancestors one on my grandfathers side and one on my Nan's side they are not connected .
Tiger is playing lots of golf here at Hervey Bay Golf Club and is a happy fellah
June sad about you work mate its dreadful this swine flu is silently creeping thruout Australia they have just announce there are three people in Hervey Bay ICU with it really scary here as mostly seniors up her and lots of Victorians come here in winter to get away from Victoria's cold and hopefully the caravan parks are a bit isolated from the general population
but then if one person in here gets it we are in trouble all so close to each other, the only good news about it here is when the schools went back there was not a lot of cases presenting there .
We have been to the golf club for tea here and they have great steak nights where a steak you have 5 choices and five different sauce choices served with veges or salad for $12.50 and you can't beat that for a lovely meal.
We are off tomorrow night to the Boat Club where we have had a few meals when we were up here in 2007 and it has reasonable prices and decent food too
One of Mike's mates he met here in 2007 he's also a Vietnam Vet and they play golf together,his wife Angie invited me to go with her to Veterans Partners association meeting it was great they had a short business side of the meeting and then a speaker from Carers Queensland and she was terrific I learnt a lot of her re Wills and Enduring Power of Attorneys which we all should have for each other and also the Medical Power of Attorney and up here they have a form that you get your Dr to do for you re whether you want to be put on Life support or not I am going to check that out when we get home to see if we get that from our Drs in Victoria too as I don't know about you but I sure don't want to be kept on life support .
Nice subject sorry but was very interested as never heard about all things this lady told us about .

Hope you are all going along well and happy hello to Merle if she is reading
Great about Wattlewoomba in 2010 get there if you can we are booked in and now have another trip to look forward too .
Better go now and do some work on my elusive ancestors
~~~~~~~~~Love Lara

Marie, I thought of you this morning as we had freezing fog, this winter has definately been cold! Can't be too long till the days get longer and warmer can it? Lara you've got a better spot, no wonder you migrate north in the winter. Baz and I actually had an hour together at the garden centre the other day and bought a dozen ground cover grevillias to edge the lawn outside the garage - the word "lawn" being used to describe the clumping weeds we mow in that area lol ! Think we will let the ground cover encroach and then put down broad stepping stones and gravel in the middle pathway in due course - less mowing, and no water for lawns here any more anyway.
My dear cousin closest to me in age had a specialist appointment for Monday, she once had a small tumour on her aural nerve, and has been dizzy again, I'm really hoping her symptoms don't mean the growth has come back. We had just begun doing some FH together, I'm trying to plan a visit in the spring ( she's 5 hours away).
Can hear the garage door, hubby home so will dish up tea, keep in touch everyone! Happy days in Phuket, Sir Tones, have a nice holiday! Hz

Happy Birthday dear Lara, Happy birthday to you - bit late to add in my thoughts

Love

JA

HZ thiking of you hard time with a friend, your driver and now your favourite cousin prayers for all and you too and your lveoly family

Love

JA

Hi All , Mary thank you for letting me know about the T/woomba meet I got in touch with the convener whoes name escapes me for the moment, she is going to send me the information.
Hello JA, and ** Happy Birthday ** Lara ***Sorry to hear about your cousin I hope all goes well for her.
I am very tired must go another big day in the garden to-morrow
(((((((Hugs to you all )))))))))
Marie from Bathurst.