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That was me, it double posted, I really am going now

Any one left?

Hi Berona~~

Yes I've just come on ,but your'e probably away for the day now ..lol

So many pages to read thro, been a busy night... and I wasn't on last night either !

I'm back again, after reading pages of posts! My goodness, some people can talk!

Linda - I think you had better discuss the idea of a 'white' wedding, with Amanda's OH.

After nineteen years, he might not feel that the significance of a 'white' wedding is very flattering to him.. lol

I've been onn other threads and haven't yet managed to read 2 days postings on this one.lol

Must be off to bed now:))
Nite
Have a good day down under~~

Sandie.x

Hello - goodnight Sandie. Talk to you later. Sleep well.

How amazing is this thread, I'm so so lucky to call you lot my friends....

I needed a laugh, Knew where to look.....


Love each and every one of you, thank you....



Carole xxxxxxxx

Hi Carole,
I read your earlier posts and you did seem down. Glad to see you seeming much better.
I get up and down when anniversaries come around, no matter how old they are. I lost both Mum and Dad within five months of each other in 1980 and I still miss them. I would love to be able to tell them when things happen in my family - I've never lost the way of thinking "must tell Mum about that", but I suppose it's more "would love to be able to tell Mum about that".
We learn to live with it, but we never forget.

You've no doubt gone, too Berona - but I know what you mean. I lost my Mum in 1988 very suddenly and I still 'wish I could tell Mum that'. I also lost my Dad in 2002 and I really do miss him. I was much closer to my Dad than my Mum. Dad had such a sweet temperament and my son, Roger, was just like him. Mum could be quite caustic when she wanted and could turn the air blue when upset, too. haha. I used to tell everyone that my mother went to school in the Naval Reserve where the sailors learn to swear.

God love her.

Anyway, Tec, I have both rats and crocs up here. The rats, though, are a protected rainforest species called white tails (because they have a long white tail) and they are ferocious. You aren't allowed to kill them or put baits out for them and that's a real pest.

Pam.

Got my dinner one so I'll go attend to that. Got fish, tonight with potato, carrots, and beans. I'm hungry, too, so that helps. I'm cooking differently these days with James not here.

Spoke to him this afternoon and he said he was up a ladder cleaning off a roof that has to be painted and it's 44c (which equals 110f for those who need conversion).

Cheers, Pam.

((((((((( Hugs for Carole }}}}}}}}}} because it has been a sad time for you and you deserve them.

Looks like have just missed you Pam, so enjoy your dinner.

Berona, it is Sunday morning here as as per usual OH has just brought me a bacon sarnie, the smell of the bacon is still drifting through the house. Not that I am trying to entice you into eating one of course, I know that you are on your healthy diet

That was soooo mean Linda:-)) We've just had steak for dinner with garlic and rosemary (from the garden) potatoes and cabbage (from the garden), peas and carrots. Very nice.

What have you planned for the day?

More ((((hugs)))) for Carole - not an easy time.

Pam - did you get time in the garden?

S x

Your dinner sounds nice Sue, I have never tried steak with garlic and rosemary, I would usually do lamb with them.

I don't have any plans for the day, except I have just had an email back in reply to one I had sent yesterday and that will involve a fair amount of admin type work to do with the new proposals for the TIC
.It simply isn't going to work. The present place is a full scale retail outlet and runs a full TIC service. I takes a full time manager, other paid staff and a pool of volunteers to run it. Now they are expecting the volunteers to run it on their own.It is a huge time commitment, but non of us are willing to do any more than we currently do,Oh happy days

Actually it was the potatoes cooked with garlic and rosemary - I worded it wrong. I saw it on one of the cooking shows and it looked good so I gave it a go - lovely:-))

I'm trying new recipes and they seem to be appreciated. I get fed up with the same old same old. Our daughter's fiance loves cooking so we often challenge each other to find something different. He's even got the children eating well - quite a feat at their ages.

S x

Linda - are you trying to be mean? It won't work. I'm thinking of going to bed and I don't eat at night!
Of course, I do have the makings of a bacon butty so I hope I don't have any dreams because that's what they will be - and by the morning, I will think I can smell the bacon cooking. So if I fall off the wagon, it will be YOUR fault!!

Pam - I thought it would be nice to live as far north as you do - but rats and crocs?......Never! When my neighbour's grass is cut (which doesn't happen very often) it disturbs the vermin in it and they come under the fence en masse. I put the cat out to attend to any field mice and I spray the area leading into my back door, then sweep up the dead cockroaches next day. That's my limit on size - and I don't even like them, but rats and crocs - sshheeeeesh!

Hi folks~~~

Just a quick look in as I'm doing lunch.
Haven't been on other than last night for a few days, blast of the blues !!

But ' rat ' caught my eye ::((

We all used to put food out for the birds, neighbours I mean.
Next door n'bour had rats climbing up his bird table, and then trod on one at the side of his garage.
Hubby saw one run across the bottom of my garden and I had the environmental health in straight away.

Pam I wouldn't give a toss how endangered they were, don't care about the colour of their tails, they carry disease ,and if necessary I would buy a legal gun to kill them, or poison.. who knows it came from your garden .
I hate them with a vengeance and am also terrified of them !! Stupid I know!

Timer is going on my food in the oven.......
Speak a bit later:))

Sandie.x

Well Linda and Sue , if I'm going to be high-jacked into some sort of shot gun wedding ( with fancy hats and salmon nibbles ) can I at least wait until my Grandson is old enough to carry the shotgun ? He is eight at the moment so that should give me at least another ten years to decide if I really have found Mr right ........lol

Your postings have amused me mightily .....lol x

Oh Amanda, we were so looking forward to a wedding.

Well we will just have to turn our attention to Berona's birthday on the 28th.

Hmm, as she was in charge of the cake for your wedding, she can't really be expected to make her own, so maybe we could have one of those paper ones with someone hidden inside.

It will have to be a man of course.

Tec, where are you? You will be required to hide in the cake and then leap out clenching a red rose between your teeth (you can pinch on of the ones you are buying the Duchess for your anniversary) You can then sweep Berona round the floor in a tango,

Linda , you forgot to ask Tec to leap in the air ( with the rose between his teeth ) and land in a doing the splits position .........this all sounds much more entertaining than a wedding : )) lol

I think the splits might be just a step too far ( he is slightly older you know)