General Chat

Hello CC:

I had a look for your Edward Street Woollahra and found it in whereis.com the site is

www.whereis.com/nsw/woollahra#session=MTA=

You will then find that Edward street is listed in the names of the streets of Woollahra on the right hand side and if you click on Edward Street it will take you there.

Google Earth street view will give you a photo of the street if you type in the full address 4 Edward Street, Woollahra, NSW, Australia, 2025.


Cheers,
Pam.

Hello CC, if you are not in a hurry but would like me to have a look, PM me with the names, and I will have a look in historic electoral rolls at the State Library. Unfortunately, once your people move it will be difficult to find them because before 1990 the rolls were not indexed by name, but by district and sub-district so you really have to know at least the address to find them.
In your case I would guess that the district (constituency in UK terms) was Wentworth but I would have to check the sub-district. It may not be Woollahra.

No problem CC.

I've also sent an email to the Family History section of Penrith City Council asking their help to find out what would be available in the Woollahra area re family history.

I do know there's a Botany Bay Family History Society but haven't been able to chase up a contact for them yet. Will let you know if I have any success. They helped me a lot with mine initial research a few years ago but I'm not sure if they would have anything for the years you are looking at.

Pam.

Hi Sydneybloke,

How's the big smoke today?

Pam.

Joan - I like your style. You'll have to teach your OH to iron - or invite Allan over to your place. He likes ironing.

I know this is mentioned on another thread, but I should just like to express my sympathy to the people of Cumbria in North West England, after the horrific events that took place there today.

I also enjoy ironing - my OH hasn't touched an iron for years. I find it very relaxing and therapeutic. You can just let your mind drift, and be miles away, while still doing something useful.
Maybe Allan and I could go into business as the "Iron Gentlemen".
So ladies - just form a queue with your ironing.

Tec.

Hello all - another quick visit.

Ironing!?! If I haven't mentioned it before you'll be disgusted with me.......I send my ironing out:-)) Have done for years. My mum thinks it's the height of decadence but I don't care. I put it into the shop before 9am and it's back by the afternoon or early next day. I'm keeping a shop employing 3 people in business so that has to be good for the economy. I'd get a cleaning lady in if I could afford it:-))

Sue xx

Hello Tec. Yes you're right. What a dreadful tragedy to have happened in Cumbria. My heart goes out to the victims, families and friends. What was going on in the mind of the man who did this?

Sue xx

Hi Sue,
I hope the class of 2010 is shaping up, and that you have some promising volunteers among them.

Who knows what goes on in the mind of someone like that - a deranged man and a gun? a lethal combination.

Tec.

Good Evening CC,
Good to know your relatives are safe in Egremont. There must be so much sadness in that area tonight, and coming just a week after the school bus crash too.

Tec.

Yes thank you CC- the Duchess is better today. I keep poking her with sticks - that keeps her on her toes LOL.

Just popping into kitchen to make supper, sandwich anyone?

Tec.

Good evening/morning all

I have just seen the tragic news about Cumbria. Whatever motivates someone to do something so horrific?

CC, if you send your ironing over here, I'll do it for you. I'll post it back using a 1 cent stamp.

By the by does anyone know anything about the value of first edition books. I've just been given a set of Winston Churchill's "The Second Worl War" all six volumes of it!

~~~~~~~ to Joan, Pam and Colin


Allan

Allan

Good Morning Allan,
Who can understand such a thing - it seems the first shooting was a rival taxi driver who he'd argued with. Then shot as many people as he could before killing himself. A very disturbed man.

CC. We are fresh out of smoked salmon sorry. Champagne is not recommended before bed. My father used to make us drink cocoa that you could stand a spoon up in. Ugh.

Tec.

Allan,
What a wonderful gift of books.
I have valued some books by looking for them on Amazon, and other book sellers, and to see what they are currently selling for. Much depends on condition of course.

Tec.

CC. Can I come to your Dinner Party - I can do posh if I have to.

Tec.

Hello all.

I’ve decided I’m politicked out. And the election isn’t for some months yet.

Someone correct me here if I’m wrong. But my memory seems to tell me that the reason the Emissions Trading Scheme didn’t get under way was because the parliament wouldn’t pass it. Am I correct? Or is it really a broken promise?? I can’t follow these politicians – they change their minds and tactics more often than they comb their hair for a photo opportunity. Notice there’s never a strand out of place??

Sue: Ah, I remember it well. Those were the days. I worked a full time salaried job and used to spend all of my weekend doing housework, laundry and ironing. OH wanted me to play golf with him on Sunday so the deal was I had a lady who used to come in and do the housework and the ironing and that only left me with the laundry to do whilst he was playing golf on Saturday. Gotta say “those were the days” hehe.

CC: I like your style. I have a friend who is a cleaning lady and had been getting a lot of telemarketing calls. So now, if I phone her, she answers the phone in a foreign sounding voice and tells the telemarketers that she’s the cleaning lady and doesn’t know anything.

Allan: I’m very fortunate in that my OH doesn’t want his stuff ironed. It’s me who’s the one that won’t wear something if it hasn’t been ironed. He laughs at me because I iron pillow slips.

I do feel really bad for those people in England. We’ve had our TV full of it all morning. I, too, wonder what would make a seemingly unassuming, quiet fellow like that snap. It makes me recall what my grandma used to say; still waters run deep. An old saying I know but sometimes in life we find that there’s a lot of the “spilled a bibful” in those old clichés.

ONYA Sam. Sam Stosur, French Open tennis, beat Justine Henin, then last night Serena Williams. Yaaaaay from the banana benders.

Pam.

Thanks folks for the hints and links re the books. They were given to me by OH's friend who is moving to a retirement village in Denmark.

That's Denmark WA (60 kms from Albany) not The Nation of Denmark.

Pam I also iron our pillowslips and the quilt covers. I remember when my mother used to iron the sheets!

Allan

Pam,

Regarding the ETS the prime Minister decided not to pursue at this stage as it was unlikely to get through Parliament. So he withdrew it. A broken promise to add to his others.

I must say that when he was elected I thought he would be good for the country, but he now seems full of rhetoric but no action.

I don't fancy the alternative either!

Allan

CC. If the Duchess is to have that outfit to you dinner party, I will have to come in my tee shirt and jeans, as I will have had to pawn my dinner suit.

Incidently......You really are barking! :))

Tec.

Pam, What's the weather like today in Paradise?, and were the birds ok left outside in the cage the other day?
I was very impressed with you long distance driving, Cairns to Sydney.
Once I enjoyed driving, and could go for hours and hours and think nothing of it, but now 100 miles is quite enough for me.

Tec.