General Chat

Hello to you all,

Berona, I’ve heard of W.I.R.E.S. Up here in Qld we have the Wildlife Rescue Service and it, apparently, comes under the auspices of Parks and Wildlife. However, the people who represent Parks and Wildlife up here are great, so long as they are working in a town and not in the bush. A Parks and Wildlife ranger told my friend that when she released the repaired animals into the wild, she was to take them back to precisely where they’re been picked up. Now, Betty takes them to the general vicinity and lets them go in a safe place. But this person said no, it must be precisely where they’d been picked up from. I wonder if she really meant alongside the road where mother had been killed by a car passing at 100klm per hour and the joey had been recovered from mothers pouch?????

I just don’t understand these people.

Just to make you feel jealous. It’s currently 9.30am and we have brilliant blue sky, I’m sitting here in a t shirt and lightweight ¾ length pants and sandals.

Pam.

Thanks a million Pam - I am jealous:-))

Sue xx

And it's only gotten better as the day has progressed.

Aren't I nasty. How has your weather been today?
P.

Yes you are nasty....keep rubbing it in:-))

We were supposed to get an enormous storm - strong winds, heavy downpours, flash flooding. It was overcast and miserable but warmish. I don't know if we'll get the bad weather overnight but hopefully it went out to sea.

We continued our clear-out today. I can't believe we've accumulated so much rubbish. The garage is looking good. The laundry is more "workable" and the spare room looks like one instead of a storage room. Why do we insist on keeping things in case we need them. My OH is such a hoarder but even he was amazed at the amount of stuff we've thrown out.

Tomorrow I won't be on in the morning. It's the first of 4 days of a training course for new volunteers. Hopefully I'll catch up in the evening. Take care.

Sue xx

Hello everyone

Sue, I was watching the news this morning they mentioned your area. They were saying you will be getting some wild weather tonight and maybe heaps of rain with gale force winds. It sounds like you are getting our weather from a couple of weeks ago, very scary!!

Ive just finished making some banana bread, I had some very ripe bananas siting in the fruit bowl and decided not to do as I normally do and throw them out - I'm way too wasteful at times.

Carole xx

Hello everyone,
It's Sunday morning here. I've just watch a programme about Dunkirk. It was very moving.
I'll be watching the football later on.
Carolee, banana bread sounds nice. Sue, I hope you didn't get flooded out or anything like that.

I love warm banana bread. Sometimes I get over-ripe bananas just so I can make bread or muffins.

Pam - we didn't get the wild weather that was forecast for today although the south coast further down from us took a battering. It could still hit us. I hope not.

Sue xx

Sue, I hope you didn't get the nasty weather - bad weather can be so damaging. We get horrendous gales here in the winter, which is why we have some very affluent roofing contractors in the area.

Pat, I hope you enjoyed the football, result was a bit bizarre, 2-1 to England, considering we didn't actually score a goal. Doesn't look good for the World Cup.

Carole I saw the footballer Russell Robertson being interviewed on UK TV, he said he played for Melbourne Demons, but I didn't realise he was retired.

Pam are you the Pamela that was enquiring about Halogen cookers?
I use one quite often.

I wonder if CC has been abducted by Aliens?

Perse - Montgomery asks for you every day - now he's stopped eating - what am I to tell him?

Well time to take the Wheelie Bin up to the road - will we find Allan lurking up there I wonder.

Tec.

Hi Tec,
The football wasn't very good. I feel asleep half way through it. I had a glass of wine with my meal!
Hopefully England will improve! All you need is a bit of luck.

Hello All.

I know that Sue will not be on the Thread this morning, but I hope that the wild weather in the South East has not affected her area.

Allan

Good Morning Allan,

Hope you are well, and that your weather is fine - also that Sue isn't getting the bad weather in her region.
Nice day here, though only 13 C with a cool wind, supposed to be warming up again during the week - amazing how our daytime temps can fluctuate by as much as 10-15 deg in just a few days.

Tec.

Good evening Tec,

We are used to major temp fuctuations. Ironically, our daughter and her partner brought a trailer load of wood round yesterday for our fire. With the current mild temps it should last us all winter, which starts tomorrow!

Allan

Hi Allan,
That wood will be very useful when your temps drop. Some winters we have not needed to have a fire, just central heating, but last winter was so severe that we had a fire almost every day, and got through a vast amount of wood.Fortunately I hoard wood, but it came in very useful last winter. We also burn coal, but that, like all fuel, has gone very expensive too.

Tec.

Tec, it's the same with fuel prices here. Even a trailer load of wood which only a couple of years ago was about $50.00 is now $120.00

We dont have a trailer, otherwise we would collect our own. There are many tracts of State Forest near us, and with the correct permits you are allowed to collect fallen timber.

Allan

Just a quick pop in this morning from me. Hope everyone is well. I can't stay because I have an appointment for yet another blood test.
I'll try again later in the day - or evening.

Good morning Berona.

Allan

We get people knocking at the door in the winter selling logs by the trailer load, cost about £100 a load - we are surrounded by forest here, but I'm not sure if we are allowed to take fallen timber - not that I have the means to carry it.

I noticed on Ancestry today, that someone had a tree with lots of my family on their tree, so I had a look at their public tree. They do indeed have a large chunk of my family on their tree, including grandparents, Gt, Gt Gt Grandparents etc, but it's all wrong. It seems they started off with someone who married into their family (we'll call him John Smith) but it's not my John Smith, consequently all sunsequent information is wrong.
They have most of my uncles and aunts as having lived in USA, when I know for a fact that they never set foot in America.
Now I am in a quandary.......do I contact them? it's a very big junk of their tree that is wrong.........what would you do?
I would be mortified if someone told me half my tree was incorrect.

Tec.

Good Morning Berona,
Don't give them too much blood.
Tec.

Tec, I'd be inclined to contact them and ask for some verification regarding your family relationship to theirs. This could be done as a general query such as :

" I have noticed from your tree that we appear to share the same ancestors. I also note that several of our ancestors appear to have lived in the States. In my researches I have been unable to trace any movement out of the UK. I would be interested to check the passenger lists for dates of leaving and arrival"

It may not be necessary to be blunt and say Sorry you have it all wrong.

Allan

Good evening (morning) CC

Once, when in the Goldfields I took a sample of water from on of the miming towns.

The results came back showing contamination by salmonella. Likely cause, frogs. Request from state healthe dept for me to oversee the decontamination of the water supply and if I could see any frogs, send them live to Perth, for examination.

This was duly done with about 30 frogs found in the main storage tank.

Three weeks later a phone call from Perth: the frogs were the cause of the contamination, and were being returned live to me for release in the precise location in which I found them!!

Needless to say, I just released the things in my own back garden.

Allan