General Chat

Good night Tec

Allan

Page two again!!

Not good enough.

Must try harder!!

Allan

You're right Allan - we are letting the thread down:-))

Won't be able to talk in the morning because we're taking an early flight down to Hobart so.........behave yourselves, take care and I'll see you all later. Love to you all.

Sue xx

Yes, Tec. There are many banana plantations up here on the Tablelands. I personally don't have any banana plants but I do have a few mango trees, guava, Lychee, bush lemons. It's a great growing area up here. There's also places where there are cornfields for as far as the eye can see; we grow a lot of potatoes of all kinds along with avocado. Gosh, we grow just about anything.

P.

Hi Allan and Sue:-)

Sue, make sure you pack plenty of warm clothes, its very cold down south. Its been very chilly here in Victoria so it will be even colder in Hobart.
Enjoy your time away:-))

Carole xx

Sorry, hi Pamela:-)

Carole xx

Hi Carolee. I'm new here as you probably know and am getting a little confused. But confusion isn't an unusual state for me to be in.

Where are you Carolee? Are you and Aussie, too?

I'm in Far North Qld, Kuranda, out of Cairns.

Pam

Hi Pam

In case Carole hasn't seen your post, yes Carole is in Aus in Victoria.

Your area sounds very lush. We try to grow a few things here in the South-west of WA with mixed success.

Our block is only 850 sq metres but as we have a two storey house, we also have quite a large back garden

Allan

Sue, my apologies!!

Enjoy your time with your son :0))

Allan

Hi Pamela, welcome:-)

I'm an ex-pat born in Yorkshire, I came to Australia in 1966 with my parents as a child. I now live in Victoria.
Ive never visited north Qld, I have been to Surfers Paradise on holidays a couple of times, loved it :-))

Must fly, have to pick up my daughter from dancing.

Carole xx

Ohh, Carole, not another Yorkskshire Woman!

I'm now outnumbered :0((

Allan

Off to bed now!

Another early morning calls :0))

People to meet, wheelie ins to talk to, and storms forecast for later

Allan

Where has everyone gone?

It has been rather cool here again today - only 11 C which is much cooler than it should be in mid May. Lots of heavy showers too, although we have had amazing sunsets over the Irish Sea for the last three evenings.

CC has been unusually quiet, which probably means she is sceeming something up, or up to no good somewhere I expect.

Linda will doubtless be going through her wardrobe selecting her most glamourous outfits to take on holiday - driving her OH insane because she can't make her mind up, while she fills three suitcases, while he has to carry his in a carrier bag.

Carole I hope everyone is recovering from their colds now.

Pam, I'm very impressed with the range of exotic fruits etc that you can grow. This is not a growing area - apart from our rather wet climate, the area is very mountainous, so it's mostly sheep farming, and some beef cattle. Tourism is the main industry, and during the summer months the population explodes. We depend on the tourists to drive the local economy and keep what shops we do have open all year.

Well I shall go back to my tree until someone else ventures onto the thread.

Tec.

Ventures onto thread

Allan, what is wrong with Yorkshire women? Think very carefully before answering that.

We have been out and about Tec, we went to see OH's sister who lives on the coast. On the way up Sutton Bank, we actually had hailstones and as we drove over the moors the car thermometer dropped to three degrees.
It would have been nice to go out for a walk and see the sea but they said it was too cold. So after we left them, we drove to Scarborough and parked right on the sea front, the waves were crashing over the wall, but it was sunny,so it would have been nice to walk along the front. Unfortunately when I opened my purse to get some money for the meter, there wasn't a single coin in it. OH had tipped the lot into the Christian Aid envelope when the collector called last night. That was fair enough, but it meant we couldn't leave the car and there was no where to get any change, so we couldn't stay long

I will have you know that I am a fast packer, I do it at the last minute and as we have been to this hotel several times, I know exactly what I will be taking. I have a canvas travel roll which contains all the toiletries we will need, it even has a razor for OH in it. I keep it topped up, so I don't even have to think about anything along those lines. I am a very organised person, I have the annual insurance and all the cards and contact details in one envelope so all I have to do is pick it up,

Good Evening Very Organised Linda,

Sounds like you had a nice day, pity it isn't warmer. I've never been to Scar borough, but then I've never been anywhere up there. I like to walk along the coast when it's rough, I like to walk on our beach when there's a storm, it's great if you're dressed for it, very invigourating sp.
My daughter and her OH went up to Northumberland some time ago to visit his uncle. They loved it, and hope to go back.

Tec.

Up north is very nice Tec, although I am not keen on Scarborough, it is very commercialised. The Northumberland coast is lovely, long sandy beaches with no building

I don't like commercialised resorts either. I've always wanted to go to Whitby, watched a programme about "Jet" the black jewellery fashionable in Victorian times, that comes from Whitby, it looked very interesting. Another place up there, that I can't remember the name of right now, an old monastry on an island just off the coast, looked fascinating, would like to go there - do you know where I'm talking about?
I think the brain is going.

Tec.

Hello all, Looks like I'm coming in at a crook time again. Never mind, I'll have to come back to it later, after I've been to the dentist. Could well be that it will be the only way I'll be able to converse with anyone i.e. via fingers, not mouth. Oh, I don't like going to the dentist even though they are so much better these days than they were when I was 12 and they used a pedal drill in the bush. Now that is something that doesn't meet the criteria for "the good old days" and "when I was your age (this was better)"!!!

I am having difficulty in recalling where everyone comes from so if all you good folk wouldn't mind, in your next posts would you please mention again where you live and I'm going to make a list to keep alongside the computer. Must be diminishing memory or something - or brain overload, as my daughter calls it. She reckons that I have so much information stored in my brain that some of it just has to fall out to make space for the new stuff. Lovely girl, she is.

Yes, Tec, I do have some lovely tropical fruits growing in my "garden" (all 14 acres of it) and the beauty of it is, I don't have to do a thing. They pull off this wonder all by themselves. OH told me that I'd forgotten to include the Strawberry Mango and the Mulberry Tree. So sorry about that.

The other beauty of my garden is that many tropical shrubs grow easily as well. You guys are having trouble with cordylines - they grow wild here. We pull them out because we breed tropical parrots and they are poison to them.

We are heading into our winter here and they're forecasting 16 - 27 degrees today. Supposed to get some rain, too. That would be good because then we won't have to water all the new plants that have only just been put in down the driveway. Each time we water we have to pump from the creek and that costs fuel. At $1.32 per litre and us as pensioners, it all adds up. I won't use the water from the rain water tanks for plants.

So, it's now 7.03am and time for me to go get my breakfast. OH doesn't eat until later in the day so I don't have to get his. He feeds himself during the day I only have to get the evening meal and that's only if I'm at home and not out working. Isn't that great??

Cheers all,

Pam.
From beautiful Far North Queensland, Australia.
Want to see the region where I live? Go to www.cairns.com.

I have been to Whitby zillions of times. One side of the harbour has amusements, but isn't that bad, the other side has been done up to be more oldy worldy and is nice. we only go in the winter when the tourists aren't there.
Do you mean Lindisfarne (Holy Island) on the Northumbrian coast, that is lovely

Tec and I are here in real time Pam.

I am from North Yorkshire. Herriot Country as in the All Creatures Great and Small vet books