General Chat

Please do excuse me if I disappear now and then. Two of my lorikeets escaped from the aviary last week. I put food out for them and I'm trying to capture them. But I don't want to scare them away. They were bred by us but aren't all that tame so won't come to me however, they are having to learn how to survive on their own in the wild which worries me. I'd hate them to get taken by a goshawk or a snake.

P.

Nos da Tec~~
Nite Linda~~

Sleep well and keep warm ,the temp certainly has dropped,but we have a beautiful starry sky :)

Berona, he was a truly marvellous performer. So much energy. I went and saw the show Boy from Oz years ago and Tod McKenny played the part of Peter Allen. Truly, he was so much like him it was uncanny.

Every time I see Tod McKenny these days on judging panel of Dancing with the Stars I remember seeing Peter Allen live.

Tod McKenny, by the way, is an absolutely brilliant dancer himself so what he has to say as a judge is often true even if it is cruel.

Pam

Yes,Pam. Bob has had cancer for a few years now but keeps going. He was recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday honours and I believe he turned 80 around that time.

I know he has it all written down, but once he gets started, he can tell us things we didn't know about the celebrities we idolised - and he can also tell us what happened to them in later life too! You probably weren't born when he was interviewing some of them!

There was just a huge crash on the roof and I thought a whole limb had come down off the raintree out the front onto the verandah roof. I went upstairs and looked out the upstairs bedroom window to check with dollar signs flashing in front of my eyes, only to find it was a small piece of a branch about 2 foot long. Gee, it made a huge noise, though.

P.

Hi Berona and Pam~~~

Pages flyingby tonight ,I'll have to go and have a quick check on what i've missed, changing from my Pc to this lappy,
Won't be long:)
$ x

I didn't see the show, but I recently saw Tod in a segment of it on Danding With The Stars.

Yes, a butie is a sandwich (toasted) and the 'u' is pronounced 'bootie' as in took/look/book/put

Not sure about not being born, Berona. I just turned 68 and I do remember Bob Rogers and a lot of the people that you mentioned whose music is on 2CH. I loved that station too when I lived in Sydney. So soothing and calming after a hard day at work to listen to on the drive home.

Are you in Sydney, Berona? I've lived in most parts of it. Born at Ryde, grew up at Wahroonga then lived at Lindfield, Casula, Hurstville, Bexley, Ramsgate, Oatley, Kings Park, Macquarie Park and I seem to recall a short stint house sharing with another girl at Blacktown.

Sorry I'm late to say this but got called away and when I returned you had gone, Amanda, Tec and Linda so a late good night to you all, and Amanda I hope you are successful in getting an appointment hun sleep well.

Bye Sue and enjoy your day.

Pam, yes a butty or buttie's are sandwiches, a british slang for Sandwiches lol.

Well as it is now 23-55pm here I too must be off to bed


Good night Sandie sweet dream's hun and keep warm

Enjoy your day Berona and Pam

~~~~ to anyone who look's in after I have left

Diane

Thank you Berona. So it's a toasted sandwich. I gather though that it's sort of fried in a pan though is it? Rather than grilled as I would make a sandwich.

Just thought. I've got some fresh mushrooms in the frig and I think I'll make them up and have them on toast for lunch. I find my stomach doesn't give me so much trouble if I have my main meal at lunch time.

I've started to buy gluten free bread and that seems to be making something of a difference.

Hi Sandie. Pity you have to keep juggling the computers around. But it's lovely to see you whichever one you're on.

Pam.

Nite Di~~

Hope you have a good nights sleep,which is warm..you haven't got long !!
Get to bed girl!!...lol...........byeee

Sandie.x

Diane - You said 'goodnight' to all of us one night this week - then half an hour later, you were on Facebook!!!

Sandie - if I say anything to Diane about her hours, I can't say it in capitals because she thinks I am shouting at her!
(I probably am!).

Pam and Berona ~~

A buttie is not usually toasted, it's just a sandwich, a toasted sandwich is called a toastie...in my neck of the woods anyway I...Either done under the grill or an electric toast maker,which fold down on the sandwich,flattening it , like you close a laptop.lol
Ordinary toaost's done under the grill or in an elcctric upright toaster I
Does that make sense, or am I saying something you already know..?lol

I think the preparation of a 'butty' could vary. They were all talking on here a couple of days ago about bacon butties and there I was, (hadn't had breakfast) and drooling and the idea of a bacon butty. I was well aware that I had all the ingredients too, but I'm proud of myself - I had the breakfast dictated by my diet - fibre cereal, banana & skim milk. Doesn't that sound exciting?
Well, I wasn't in the brightest of moods after I had my breakfast, but at least I didn't have a guilty conscience.

I had a bacon butty for lunch!

No, it's not something I already know Sandie. It's just interesting to see what things are called in different parts of the world. Here, in Aust., a sandwich is just 2 pieces of bread buttered with a filling. In the US, a sandwich is a bread roll buttered with filling as well as the 2 pieces of bread etc. We have the toaster that folds down like the lappy, as you described, as well which to me is similar to a jaffle. We have a jaffle iron when I was a kid and the only difference is the shape, and that the jaffle iron wasn't electric. You had to put it over the fire or the gas jet on the stove. Over the fire was the tastiest. Somehow the ones over the gas jet always tasted of gas to me. A toasted sandwich is just that - a sandwich made and then toasted under the grill. And, of course, the ordinary toast which is the bread put into the toaster and the butter and filling added later. Mind you the very best toast of all is the toast that is made on a long fork held up to the flames or coals of a wood fire. That's really tasty. Has to have proper butter though. Not margarine. Effects the taste.
Pam.

Berona, I love you. You really made me laugh. That thought of the bacon buttie must have stayed with you all morning. I'm sure it didn't do you any harm to have it for lunch. Just think, you could have had it for breakfast and then had the cereal, banana etc. for lunch. haha.

Pam

Thanks Pam:)
Re switching of PCs
I finished work early at 50, got totally fed up and disalutioned with the way things were being run.
Hubby's 2 yrs older than me and was made redundant when the Steelworks closed, after a yr out of work he now works for local government..financial accountant.
Whilst we all have our own computers mine is in our bedroom, it's an'old' PC compared to the rest, hubby and dau have laptops.son has a modern 17inch flat screen, so cos hubby works when he wants/needs to go to bed I have to close down my PC and switch to hiis laptop in the lounge !!
Excuse ans spelling mistakes as I can't find spellcheck on GR on this thing!! mine does it automatically.

Edit ..mine is also the 'control centre' to them all.lol..

Don't worry about the spelling, Sandie, not a problem.

I've always been fortunate that spelling was never a hassle for me. Won all the spelling bees as school etc. Just seemed to make sense to me. Had learned to read by the time I was 3. But Maths.......... foreign alien language.............. Algrebra??? Surprised I can even spell it.

Wonder if they'll ever get systems that all work the same? Or is this some sort of selling ploy to get you to trade in your old PC on something new. Hmm. Marketing seems to be all the go these days, doesn't it?

Pam.

My old PC,which hubby built is the best of all of them ! Just depends on what software you have.
Oftenshop bought PCs are buit in such a way that you can't upgrade them..as you say a ploy to buy a new one. Hubby upgrades mine regularly ,it doesn't need a huge memoery tho cos I do not downlad tons of things like son does !!
Oh I can spell OK ,just can't touch type, so am looking at the keyboard and often get the letters the wrong way around.lol

Sounds like you have a very clever man for your hubby.

You mention that you retired at 50. At 55 I retired for 3 days. Got bored - done all the things around the house I'd been wanting to catch up on, so got the paper and went and found another job. Still working now at 68 although not in full time work as I used to. I work casual now which is enough to keep me busy and allows me time out to go and visit my kids who live 3,000 klms away.