General Chat

Three days, Sue? Now you're really confusing them!

Tec - it's still 'today' where you are and 'tomorrow' where we are, but in less than fifteen minutes, it will be 'to-day' where you are and to-day where we are too. Simple!

p.s. I forgot that it will still be yesterday where Allan is - but we won't say why.

Well, now that we have sorted out which decade of the week it is, let us avoid rabbit burrows. :0))

Allan

Now I'm confused:-))

Hello CC - you snuck in while I was elsewhere:-))

Sue xx

Berona I got up awfully early today - my brain cells have expired for today, so I will give some thought to your explanation while I'm trying to get to sleep tonight - it will make a change from worrying about long lost ancestors.

Off to bed now,
Enjoy your day Sue, Berona, Allan,
~~~~~~~~~~to Diane, who I hope is well?

Goodnight,
Tec.
Hello and Goodnight CC

Goodnight Tec and best wishes to your Duchess.

Sue xx

Good night Tec

hello CC

Berona, here in the West we are not a day behind, but twenty years!

that's what happens when you have the most isolated capital city in the world.

the pollies can't even communicate in real time eith thier electorates :0))

Allan

CC I seem to recall reading about a rock-concert held at Stonehenge :0))

Allan

I love Stonehenge. Maybe it's me but I find the atmosphere very peaceful - almost magical. No matter how many people are there it always seems I'm the only one. It isn't a Druid construction is it?

Sue xx

When I visited Stonehenge, we had to walk down on the opposite side of the road and pay our fee, then walk under the road and up the other side - but when we got there, we couldn't go near the stones and anyone looking from the roadway could see all that we could see, without paying a fee.
It might have changed since then ('89), but the fact that I felt we had paid a fee unnecessarily, took the 'shine' off it for me.

Still much the same, Berona. You pay your fee then walk under the road. We've parked at the side of the road and to me it wasn't the same. We couldn't get close to the stones but it was still a lot closer than the road.

Sue xx

Berona, I have several rocks in my garden (as well as in my head!)

I only charge five dollars admission, but that includes all the weed you can pick :0))

Allan

Well all I must be off now as OH wishes to use the computer.

Will try to chat later.

Have a good day or night

Allan

Enjoy your day, Allan. I must be off too to start my day.

Have a good day Berona and a good evening to you CC. ~~~~~~to Diane - go to bed, lady:-))

Sue xx

When we were there CC there was a hippie protest going on. They were demanding that Stonehenge be given back to the people. It would disappear in no time if that happened:-))

Hello Everyone

I am sorry I am not on here as much as I would like to be.

I am sorry Tec that the All Blacks thrashed the Welsh – wasn’t at all sportsman like of them.

I am not sorry that we drew with the Italians…. We have had comments prior to the match from overseas that the Italian team would not be losing any sleep over playing our lot. While we may have only had around 25% possession during the whole game I think our defensive game was exceptional. Do I sound biased? After hearing two members from the Guardian discussing that “NZ should not even be there and that this is an arena for top teams not players from NZ for God’s sake” I have to say pffttt to them.

Pashmina - no CC mine does not have sequins – it is very reversible and is quite large has a shaped neck and it is a true blue dinky die one of the shawl variety. We also have Pashmina scarves here – I probably have one of them it is very Turkish looking has lurex thread of some sort running through it with fringed edging. I would like a shawl one with a Maori design on it.

Colours – Berona I still have a cotton reel of my mother’s and on it is written Ni**er Brown – also got an Enid Blyton book about those Golly W*gs. And talking of colours when I was little I had a donkey brown coat (no I was not a little ass Allan) and my mother would always say put your donkey brown coat on, she would never just say put your coat on – I only had one overcoat.

Day at the Fencibles went very well – we attended the church service and one of the hymns was “Tell me the old old story” which brought back memories as my dad would often go about singing that (his other favourite was I’ll take you home again Kathleen”
After church we got talking to a woman from Perth WA and then could not find Evan – so we went to look in the school and here he was in the front row with his slate paying attention to the teacher – we were late for class and then OH could not fit in the small desk so he went and sat up front on the platform and got asked if he wanted to take the class. He also got told off for getting his cellphone out of his pocket to check the time.
Evan had the brochure with the layout and all the numbers etc of the buildings and he said after class that he was going to no. 28 and promptly disappeared. I went looking for the loos and of course they were no. 28. He is smarter than your average bear. Yesterday we collected him from school and then OH was at a timber yard and Evan says to me Nana I would like to get home soon I am very busy and have lots to do. The truth of the matter was he wanted to be home before his sister so he could play one of his play station games before she took over the TV.
While at the Fencibles I spied on the back interior wall of the church a plaque which included my great grandfather’s brother’s name so took a photo of it for my ancestry.
OH and I talked with the woman who was the teacher afterwards and she had led an interesting and very social life. She left home (Reading) when she was 17 in 1959 and came to NZ (along with a girlfriend) as a nanny to the eight children of our then Governor General Lord Cobham. All in all it was a very good day.

I have always put bread dough to rise in the hot water cupboard but just might try the park it in the car trick - thank you Allan.

The above came to you from my word docs. as once again I had typed up something earlier in Genes and lost the lot – I am a slow learner CC

Cheers Persey

Stonehenge - I have not been there - but OH was truck driving in the UK and whilst he knew his parents were somewhere in England but he had no idea where.(no cellphones in those days) He had a break in his travels one day so decided to go to Stonehenge and there were his parents wandering around as well. So you never know when you are likely to meet up with someone that you haven't seen for quite awhile.

Perse xx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ to Diane and Janet.

Hello Perse - hope you are well. Coincidence! My Dad used to sometimes burst into song as he walked through the house - but he only ever sang the first line of "I'll take you home again Kathleen" - or "The greatest mistake of my life". Whilst I have heard the first one many times elsewhere and I know most of the words, - the second one still escapes me. To this day, I don't know how the second line goes.

I have made a few trips to Australia House in The Strand on both occasions that I was in London - and I have never walked down The Strand without bumping into someone I recognised from my own home town.

For Berona, hopefully the right song

The greatest mistake of my life
Was saying goodbye to you
I’m alone and blue and believe it’s true
I pray you may forgive someday
I’m sorry I want you to know
But if there’s a debt I owe
I feel that I have paid and know that I have made
The greatest mistake of my life.

Perse I asked my OH just before we married if she would like a wedding present and if so, what?

She asked for an animal skin coat: so I bought her a Donkey Jacket :0)) Pity about the WIMPEY on the back :0))

Well it is all going well so far. Famous last words. Except for the fact that the new flue goes out through the wall in a different place, so they have had to drill a new hole. That will leave the original hole in the
wall to make good, but OH is handy and can do that. The largest problem is going to be the tiling. The tiles went up to the bottom of the boiler, but they were part tiles. The new boiler is shorter,so we will need whole tiles to be level with the rest of the room. Unfortunately we don't have any. It is just a couple of years since we did the tiling, but the ones we chose were going out of stock at the time we bought them. The company we got them from had to collect them in from the other shops in the country to make sure we had enough. We only had three left over because the person who did the tiling for us wasted so many in cutting them. OH well I am sure OH will be able to do something inventive.

Good morning Linda

I'm glad that I'm not a handyman!

That sounds too much like hard work, and I'd make a complete hash of it.

I know my limitations.

The old SWOT analysis, in which I am both the weakness and the threat :o))

Allan

What on earth is SWOT analysis Allan?

OH is happily engaged outside, working on his garden remodelling. Sometime today a ton of gravel will be delivered along with some bags of cement. That will keep him out of the plumbers way.