General Chat

Hi Sue, Ron's doing okay thanks, still taking things easy but getting there. Yeah it was a pity about that auction I think what we'll do now is just give them the money and let them choose their own. How are you doing? any idea yet when you have the op, gosh those Balcooonie revelers are making a noise aren't they. I've got to go shopping but can't summon up the energy, better make the effort I suppose or the animals won't get fed, catch you later. luv Jillx

Haa haa, soooo the surprisers got surprised, good one Mary. hope you have a great day....................... no let me rephrase that. I know you are gonna have a great day. Cheers Sue

Hi all Wattlers and party goers. Hope everyone is safely away from the fires, they are really terrible, lets hope they don't get the temperatures and winds that are expected. Has the balcoonie colapsed yet? Hope you are all having a great day. I am sure Printheth Loz has many surprises in store for you. Trifley, hope you are feeling better today. Did you get home yet Lew, we have missed you. Sue, hope you have a good lunch with your friends. Tony, I put my tree on tribal pages. What a great site I spent most of yesterday looking through it and Have managed to add a heap of ancesters to my tree and get some details that I didn't have. Thanks No Baby yet, hope all is well. Jill, how is Ron? Sorry you didn't get anything at the auction. Maybe next time. Vonny, I'm glad I'm not the only wattler who doesn't like shopping. I find it very frustraling. Thank goodness for online shopping. Did you have a good time at your dinner. Well, it's almost lunch time in not so sunny Queensland. To date we are having a really good summer, temps below average, it's great, con stay like this all sumer for me, but I don't think we will be so lucky. Bye for now Luv SuzyQ

Well a lovely good afternoon from Botany Bay! My Balcoonie is slightly crowded, I have the Lovely Lara from Vic, The Fluffy Duck Pam from QLD, Leah, Sandra, Lyn, Shaz, Joodles, Yvette all squished out there haveing a lovely Wattlers time. Was so lovely to have Mary come over and suprise the suprisers yesterday .. . . we sat out and had a lovely feed of prawns and a few glasses of . . . umm um mm uummm was it water Mary ?? Well I had best go feed this lot . . . teeheee they think they're getting prawns .. . . and they are . . . luv Laurie

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ to all on the balcooonie. Don't make too much noise! :) Morning all, (just) I was called out early this morning to help with the breaky club and then went shopping. grrrrrrr I'm not a shopper! At least I'm home for the day now. Hot here again. Only about a dozen spots of rain yesterday. Trying to keep the roses alive, have given up on everything else. Have booked lunch at the Tradies restaurant Woden for Sat for 12.45pm - table for 10. Meet in the foyer at 12.30. Gwenda, hope that gives you time. Will send an email or message to everyone also. Looking forward to it :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vonny

Hey you noisy lot on the balcoonie, to many martoonies me thinks, are you having fun yet, bet you are! luv Jillx

Morning All Well been out done all my shopping and now I can rest for the rest of the day. Mary thanks for holding the fort haa haa, I hope you get results, and good ones at the Doc today. You would think all these on holiday and going off to meets would still at least sign in to say hi instead of having fun haa haa, only joking, just jealous that we are not wilth you maybe I could grow wings and fly quickly to the balcony and be a fly on the wall :-))))))))) Jill yes I do have help, it is a christmas Luncheon for the group Im in called Ladies Glade, we cook and serve a lovely Chrissy lunch, complete with 3 meats, and then about 10 different types of sweets and of course Chrissy pud. The members of the Glade, about 15 of us, do all decorating of hall, prepare, cook and serve up the meals to our partners, RAOB Brothers, and friends that have came along, we also have a few Chrissy drinks and finish off the day with a bit of entertainment, if thats what you can call it lol, a few of us do little skits, all for a laugh, and yes we even have a good ol sing along with Chrissy Carols. ~~~ to Trifley, thinking of you Pam are you ok???? I bet your friend is showing you a real good time and you havent had time to get near a puta, Im sure you are enjoying yourself look forward to all the goss when you get back on here :-)) Hello to all the balcony mob, hope you are having a great time, welll when you get there that is, I guess you wont be far away if you are not there already as it is after 11.00. Must be Coffee time :-) Cheers Sue

Morning all, Just bringing us back from page 3 or so - not that most of you are around today to add Hope all those on the balcooney have a fab lunch, lots of laughs, loads of chat and we want piccles too To those not feeling the best (((((hugs))))) Mary - hope John gets some results this time The snow on the rooftop has been replaced for 6 weeks - bit darker than usual - oh well change is as good as a holiday they say Now off to clean up the bathroom before that turns dark brown too - lol Have a great day all - hope bub arrives today cos you're wearing a hole all the way to China Tony with all that pacing Gwenda

Top O' the morning to you all, Thanks Tony for those sites will have a look at them today. Only one more sleep and that baby will be here, you can't loose anymore hair.lol Tassie thats a huge party you're having hope you've got some help, enjoy the day, hair looks nice too. Mary best of luck today at the docs then you can really enjoy your trip. Trifley thinking of you and you too Fluffy One, everything okay? To the Balcony Lunchers have a great time, lots of pickles please. To everyone else I haven't mentioned have a great day luv Jillx

Mornign all.. Well its quiet today on here.. Would have been about the 3re or 4th message by now but had to search for us way back. All you mob on holidays and going to meetups and not feeling to good and waiting for babies to arrive, NEVER FEAR MARY IS HERE TO HOLD THE FORT,,lol Hope all our off colour peeps are getting better and doing what they are told,, Hope the Meetup mob have a lovely day on the Balcoooney,,,wirh cameras in hand I hope... Rudee Hope the lovely daughter gives you your christmas preset of a new grandie soon. I have to take the OH to the doc today to see if they can find out what his problem is so will check in later to catch up on all the news.. Off for some brekky and a coffee.. Love Mary xxxx

Tony, it must have been a really really BIG barbecue last night, we're getting all your smoke up here lol !! Very bad here today smokewise, my eyes itch, no wind though and quite cool. Just heard Bracksie talking about the weekend coming up, they are really preparing for the worst. The NorthEast burned through to the coast in 1939. I see everyone is blinging up for the weekends festivities, how gorgeous you all are lol. Hope you all have a good old gabfest with lots of laughs, Mwah to all, Heather

Hello my lovelies Oh - busy, busy, busy. Took Katherine shopping today so have done over all the fashion outlets and eventaully come away with 2 pairs of shorts and a new t-shirt! (for Katherine - not me!) Two items from Target and one from Jay Jays so didn't break the bank fortunately. She's quite sensible - won't buy anything from City Beach as she says it's way overpriced for what you get. Good sensible girl that she is! Good news --- tank man came today and our tank will definitely be connected on Friday - so then let it rain, let it rain, let it rain! Door bell was finally fixed also so now we just have the treadmill and the turntable for playing our old 33 records to go. It was 5 weeks ago today since the power surge came through so it has certainly been a saga! Hope you have a lovely party on the balcoony Laurie and Co. We want pickles please! I wonder which Aussie cricketer Lew Lew has smuggled out in her handbag!! Probably Warnie would have been keen to go but I'm sure our Lew would have higher standards! Whatever - he's a very good bowler and has no doubt bowled many maidens over in his time - oops! I meant maiden overs....... Donna - thinking of you and sending positive thoughts for your op. It will be lovely to have a pain free Christmas. Our dear Queen - I suspected you may have been under the weather but didn't want to bother you if you were feeling poorly. Sending lots of BIG hugs your way ((((((HUGS))))))))) Hope you're much better by tomorrow. Lots of caramel lattes will do the trick. Tassy - I can see from here how swoosh you look! Hope the weekend goes beautifully and hope Tamika is feeling better by then. Hope it's not glandular fever as that hangs on for such a long time. Not much more news from my neck of the woods. Have a lovely evening everyone X Anna PS - Wonder how the Fluffy Duck is getting on - she musn't be near a puter or we would have had a progress report from her. Big waves to our Duckers.

Evening Peeps..:>))) Cooler night to-night in Melbin, so lit the Barbie and threw a few chops on. Also some chicken and Beef satay sticks. Sarah made up a nice Potato salad. It was her first try at it, and didnt do a bad job, so she is now the official Potato Salad maker. Jillaroo. Not going to find much in the way of passenger list after 1900 for New Zealand. The best link i know, is this one ( below ) and you may or may not be lucky. It does show some passenger lists after 1900 but most passenger lists for NZ ( on the net ) are pre 1900s remove ( ) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb(.)com/~nzbound/lists.htm or http://library.christchurch.org.nz/FamilyHistory/PassengerLists/WhichPort/ You could also try cyndislist for NZ. http://www.cyndislist(.)com/austnz.htm Best wishes to all the sickies. Rudes...:>)) waiting, pacing, pacing,waiting....:>))

haven't had much time to get on the puter, seeing the cricket's not on , i have to share with the kids. chucked a wobbler before , now they're all in bed. train leaves at 8 in the morning to venture north to the royal viewing platform... just a bit excited. see you on the train Sandra and Joodles at the station thinking of you Donna, Trifley and Merle, love to all those too feeling a bit under the weather. figured the baby still hasn't had a look at the world tony, and wondering has Lew managed to tuck an aussie cricketer into her bag to smuggle back home? hi Marie from soggy? Kent yvette x

Evening Wattlers Well hair is cut and dyed, all is in readiness for our weekend, last count has 60 people for Luncheon. Laurie do you think your friend Amanda will ever get over meeting the Wattlers that are coming to your place tomorrow?? Or is she going out somewhere while your Balcony party is on :-) Please can we have pickles of your party also of shazz's on Saturday. Mary hope you have a great time in Canberra, with your Grandaughters ceremony and also the Canberra meet. We also want pickle of that too. Tony are you still waiting waiting waiting???? If so you dont have long to go now. Tamika has been to Doc and he just gave her more antibiotics, but wanted her to go for a blood test to rule out glandular fever. Well it is a bit cooler tonight which is good, it was already 16 degrees at 6.00 this morning but it only got to 21 during the day. Trifley hope you are up and about soon, get the coffee into you and you will be better :-)))) ((((hugs)))) Cheers Sue

Hi everyone.. had a busy day relaxing today and enjoyed it,, Tomorrow is back to docs and then friday it is off to Canberra. Its been a lovely day and so warm and I should have gone for a swim but didnt make it..perhaps tomorrow..after the docs. Donna I hope everything goes well for you and all settles down before christmas so that you can enjoy it..big hugs... Queenie Hope you are feeling better now that you have your coffee machine back,,lol big hugs for you to.. Jood and all the others going to the meet at the Printhessess house have a lovely time and be good and have a drink for me..I will be thinking of you and DONT FORGET THE PICKLES... Well I have to do some copies of census for my newfound distant half cousin who is more confused than I am,,then that is to hard at any time...lol Back later Love Mary xxxx

Good evening Wattlers, Just checking in as we await the arrival of Amanda (young friend from Brissie) . . . TLR has the BBQ ready to go when she arrives. I was talking to the Great Queen Trifley today, poor love has had her head in the bucket since Monday, but starting to improve. Had to have a maxalon injection yesterday. Actually, its nothing to do with the kemo . . . more the fact that the coffee machine has been away being serviced . . teeheee, but its back now - so she will be up and at 'em in no time , , , PMSLing. It was a lovely sunny day on the Bay, till the wind started up about 5pm, hopefully we will be able to eat out there tonight. Looking forward to seeing those that are able to be here for lunch tomorrow . . . . Sending you heaps of good wishes Donna, and ((hugs)) Amanda is here . . . Dinner is about to be cooked Luv Laurie

Tony, a question for you, oh wise one, how could I find out if a person emigrated to N Z anytime from 1914 to, say 1920. There's just a chance my gdad left Ireland during that period. Thanks Jillx

Hi All, The best bit about summer is the stone fruit peaches, nectarines, mangos etc., oh and the grapes, how could I forget the grapes, yummy Best Wishes of the Season to you and your family Donna, fingers crossed all goes well with your shoulder. Well I didn't buy anything at the auction, bit of a disappointment really, what were there were badly scratched too scratched to give as a present so I didn't bother. So my girlfriend and I went out for lunch, only thing to do really, lol. luv Jillx

Hi everyone, Not so smokey here today but heard that Mt Buffalo National Park is closed because of fires. I guess the same country can’t burn twice this summer. Donna all the very best for your surgery, let the others do the chores you can be royalty (others do it I believe, lol) and just give kindly orders !! Suzy and Vonny, all your talk of berries has reminded me to try to get to the berry farm at Stanley near Beechworth soon – it’s a yummy yummy day out to go and pick your own, all kinds of berries plus apricots, plums etc, I must watch out for the ads in the local paper. Jood keep me posted about Bendigo in late January as I may be able to get there!! Tomorrow is Speech Day for DD15, then she’s free for the summer. I’ve put her back on laundry duty! Will pop in later to see if the baby's arrived eh Tony ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heather