General Chat

Good morning, Colin,

With 4 feet of rain in Sydney I think that I will stay in arid WA!

Persephone posted on a thread today so she is still active. Many people just pop onto this thread to say hello or to enjoy the sanity compared to some other threads


Allan

Hello Colin,

Well now it's gone midnight here, I had best go to bed.
Perchance to dream of Nellie Melba - not really.

So my friends down under, enjoy your day, and if I'm spared, I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Goodnight,
Tec.

There were about six posts while I was typing. I can't keep up.
Have a good day. Colin.

PS Another four or so!!!!
More recordings of Melba have turned up, been remastered and released. I did hear one on ABC Classic FM, though she's not quite my cup of tea. I do like the spectacle of a live Opera performance though.

Goodnight Tec. I'll have your nightcap started very soon. It will be ready for the winter!

Hello all:-)

Happy Birthday Sue, Hope you enjoy your dinner tonight, I'm sending a nice bottle of (cyber) Cabinet Sauvignon from the Hunter Valley, enjoy!!!

I went to the local market today and bought a nice jar of WA honey, I thought of you Allan... its delicious!!! I also bought a tree, its a grafted orange (large) flowering native, I don't know the name of it though.. I will have to look it up.

The animals we have here are, Koala's, Kangaroo's, wallabies, echidna's, fox, rabbits, snakes, blue tongued lizards, wombats and possums. We have an assortment of birds too.. Magpies, black crows, rosellas, white cockatoos, galah's, eagles, wily wag tail's, Indian Minors, (Which I hate), and lots of others that I cant name.

Enjoy the rest of your day Aussies/ sweet dreaming Poms :-))
Stay beautiful!!!

Carole xx

Yes Colin

I am still active, OH not so active, he is on crutches, I read this busy thread every second day it seems to be always top of the page.

Sheep - would you believe we even have them in the city of Auckland. For some reason the black ones are in a separate paddock/ well little field.
There have been comments about the segregation in the newspaper.
Nothing very colourful that one would make a nightcap/beanie out of. We also have cows grazing in the suburbs. That's no bull.

Birds - two tuis come into our backyard and sit in the totara tree and regularly have a chat with me they are quite good with their mimicry. My father was a bushman and he used to talk with them and taught the whole dining room at a hotel in Queenstown once how to talk to the birds.

Platypus - saw three of them up at Beauty Point in Tasmania - their antics were very amusing. They are very clean little creatures, and each night would go out the back door from their separate tanks and up the stairs to their beds.

I didn't want to bore you with my trivia, so will just pop in now and again to keep up with the goings on of you all.

Linda, my thoughts are with you and all you are going through.

luv Norma

Hello Persephone - nice to see you are still with us. I can understand you saying that cows graze in the street 'and that's no bull'. Of course not, - they're cows!......Sorry, I've been around Allan too long!

I think I'll use baby blue wool for Tec's nightcap. It should go with his brown Labrador eyes, don't you think? Allan's beanie is almost finished - Jacob would be jealous!....Colin still hasn't told me what he would like me to make for him.

I have seen all those lovely animals and birds - unfortunately only in Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney. Wouldn't it be lovely to see all of them in their natural habitat?

Hello everyone. Persephone - nice to see you again. I thought you'd got fed up with us.

I've had a lovely day and thank you again for your birthday wishes. Carole thank you for the bottle of wine - it went well with dinner. We had the family over for dinner. My mum, our daughter, partner and the children, my son and OH and I. I cooked dinner - roast chicken with all the trimmings and then we had cake. The candles were lit 3 times so the grandkids could take turns blowing them out. They all sang Happy Birthday to me but then my 3 y.o. grandson sang "What do you do with a drunken sailor" and "Barbara Ann" taught to him by my daughter's partner. We couldn't stop laughing:-)) Then I sat in the lounge with my mum and a cup of coffee while everyone cleaned up. What better way to spend the day.

Linda and Diane I'm thinking of you both.

Sue xx

Now that Sue sounds like my kind of party. Glad you have had a fully deserved enjoyable day.

I have just watched the All Blacks win and it is about time they did. They had it playing at a 21st I was at tonight.

Cheers
Norma

Persey, a nice bonus was a gift voucher for the local garden centre. I had a quick look in there the other day and they have some beautiful pots that have just come in. I think I'll go and have a look tomorrow:-))

Sue xx

If I was clever with the ability to draw a flower on here I would.

: > ) : > )

I've tried to do that kind of thing - the drawings I mean - but I can't get the hang of it.

Sue xx

Now what is this thread doing way down on page 3?

I am glad that you enjoyed your birthday Sue, I assume that you were 21 again.

Mum is doing amazingly well,considering that on Tuesday they told us she would not survive the day.

It is still one day at a time, but she is much perkier. She has decided to start eating again, to that end,she has managed two whole bowls of custard today.I tried her with some puréed dinner, but she just couldn't swallow it.

One thing which is making it less tiring for me is that yesterday she insisted on being moved out of the single room, they agreed because she was becoming really distressed about it.
Most of the ward is four bedded bays, but they have a few single rooms for the most seriously ill. Most of those rooms are fairly pleasant with large windows so the patient can see out, but it was unfortunate that they were all full,so the only single room they had empty only had a small window which was effectively behind the bed. All mum could see was a wall running down each side and a wall immediately in front of her only three feet from the end of the bed. She hates being in enclosed spaces and was panicking in case any one closed the door.

At the start of the week,she wasn't really aware of it, but for the last couple of days,she has been pleading to be let out,so yesterday they moved her back into one of the four bedded rooms. She is much happier, but because of the privacy of the other patients, I am now restricted to normal visiting times, although they are letting me stretch them a bit. It is difficult because when I went back tonight, she grabbed my hand and said that she was so glad I was back because she feels safer when I am around. On the other hand, you can't have some one who suffers from claustrophobia shut in a tiny room with no windows.

Good Morning /Evening Everyone,
Whichever way up you are,

Sounds like you had a lovely birthday Sue with your family around you. How good to have gift vouchers for the garden centre, able to spend on the garden, without a conscience, as happens to me, although I don't I don't see why it should really. As I've said on here before, I don't drink, don't gamble, or run after wicked women. Have to get my pleasures somewhere, if only in a garden centre. Oh how sad! : > )

I was surprised Colin that Sydney gets twice as much rain as London.
The sun always seemed to shine on me in Sydney, but as I always had such happy times there, maybe it seemed sunny always. I have to say, not wishing to offend anyone, that it mostly rained on me in Melbourne.

Carole you have a lot of wild life too - could you not send Allan some koala's and wombats as he doesn't seem to get them. By the way, I've informed Montgomery that you're on the way. He gave me an evil look.

Allan, The beanie hat is nearly finished Berona said. I wonder will it create the right impression on your business trips? Will it go with the frog tie?
Will it endear you to your OH? Awaiting a photo!

Berona, I am so excited about the nightcap, and baby blue will go with my eyes perfectly, you have such exquisite taste. I have also seen a lot of your native animals at Taronga Park Zoo, what a lovely place that is - I wonder if it's still the same.

Persephone........... I think I may be surrounded by more sheep than you. I see them all around me. The noise is horrendous when they separate the lambs from their mothers, and carries on through the night.
There is a line in a well known hymn "Where sheep may safely graze"
What a load of codswhallop that is. They get no peace, always being chased by sheepdogs, rounded up for this or that. There should be laws against sheep harrassment. Then they get ate!
I have also been to your lovely country many times. Been to the Bay of Islands, went to a Maori Hangi, where they roast a pig in the ground, and so enjoyed an evening of Maori traditional singing and dancing - loved it.
Milford Sound on South Island is just so beautiful, and I remember how lush and green the entrance to Hobart Harbour is in Tasmania.
Where I now live reminds me very much of parts of NZ.

Regards
Tec

Good evening Tec, i am sure you will look lovely in your new night cap. Do you have a long white nightgown and a candlestick to complete the outfit? I imagine you as wee Willy Winkie

Hello Linda,
Been thinking about you, and wondering how things were. Isn't it amazing how your mother has rallied round. Maybe now she is eating a little, the nourishment, however little, may make her feel better.
I can understand how she would feel about that room being claustrophobic. (sp) Peraps it is better for her to watch the activity on the open ward.
I hope you are now getting more rest, you must be worn out.

Take care Linda - it is good to hear from you.

Regards
Tec.

Thank you Linda,

I will send photographs of me in my Wee Willie Winkie outfit

Tec.

i shall look forward to receiving it, but I hope you don't have spindly legs

I have much better legs than the maid with hairy legs,
but as the nightgown will be down to my ankles, you'll never know!

Tec

Spoilsport, I shall just have to ask Mrs Tec,I am sure she will tell all