General Chat

Morning all, Just looked at my last posting last night. Good typos :-0. Shows just how tired I was :-D.

Enjoy lunch Maz and DET if you go.

Not even the tuba playing woke me last night :-P

Hi all, been out carousing with the girls tonight. Our regular get together. Ate far too much and drank nothing but water. I am sooooooo boring can't even tell tales of drunken revellry.

Floods in Queensland and northern New South Wales. Feel sorry for the people whose livelihoods and house are being destroyed. It is a fairly common occurrence at this time of the year, flooding that is.

You brought back memories with your tuba playing Sylvia. My Mum used to sing ta ra ra boom de ay to us when we were children.

A smart and stylish girl you see,
Belle of good society;
Not too strict, but rather free,
Yet as right as right can be!
Never forward, never bold--
Not too hot and not too cold,
But the very thing, I'm told,
That in your arms you'd like to hold!

CHORUS
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay!
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay!
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay!
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay,
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay,
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay,
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay,
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay!

There are several more verses to the song, but I can only remember her singing the first verse.

Yes my monster counting has been completed and sent off to the hallowed halls of central office so them what hands out the donations can send us our pittance.

Well done on the house inspection LG. Must remember to tell you some of the more original quick fix house repairs we have perpetrated in our time. Chewing gum can be quite a versatile repair substance.

Whoo hoo from tomorrow until Friday I am OIC TV remote control!!! I've made Spot my 2IC providing he does not want to go for walks when I am practising my channel changing.

By the way LG have you heard the rumour, now reported to be untrue, that Adam Lambert was to be the new lead singer of Queen. Heavens he would have to be awfully good to be successful at doing that. I can't say I have heard of him but there was some mention of it on radio the other day.

We had a few inches of snow sleet a couple of days ago hardly lasted but it froze over.Treacherous around these parts under foot.
Hope the rest of you are OK where ever you are.


When I was a boy my Father used to come out with some funny things.Thought he was speaking a foreign language at times.
He used to utter this strange long word that sounded like "Tallyamboo??????bijaga"

Hadn't a clue what he was saying,but it made us smile.

T'was the Oirish in his heritage David!

Funny how we recall the sayings/songs our parents used to say; when my Dad was loosing his marbles, he used to leave verses of song around his house, which he said his mother used to sing to him :-)

Enjoy the peace and quiet Aunty. Pity Spot wasn't included in OH's hoilday, then your TV viewing would have been uninterrupted!

We did go out for lunch, and very good it was to. Except PC phoned with an advance request for a lift back from the railway station. Although coffee was forgone, the rest of the food was eaten leisurley, and she only had to wait 10 mins or so.

Today being the first time we've been out since it snowed, its a amazing how our road seems to still have a lot of snow on the gardens, where as it has melted more in other places. Odd.

Evening everyone.

I had heard that there were floods in Queensland, Aunty, but didn't know about northern NSW. My rellies live at Newcastle, so hope they are ok as that is east, I think!! Not being geographically knowledgeable about Oz, I could be totally wrong!!

I did warn you about DET, LG!! Never thought about the boot polish though!!!

evening DET i had 50% off lol It was lovely no snow in Durham but Spennymoor back to Bishop is still very white

Evening all, :-D :-D :-D

hello ur maj

Boo Maz, LG!!

lol hello there

Hi Maz!! We pass like ships in the night nowadays!!

We do lol but i get more days off in the week these days lol though .I am busy making friends with uniform lol

http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2012/02/04/3423144.htm

Not quite so bad in northern NSW. Newcastle does not appear to be in the flooded area.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/slideshowajax/139318/floods-ravage-queensland.slideshow

This is mostly west of Brisbane, inland. Don't forget our distances are much greater than yours.

its awful aunty hope there are not too many casualties ,We are supposed to be getting really low temperatures tonight so just check the frost setting on heating

Bloomin cold out. Just got back from a very interesting talk at the local historical society. Full moon alert the hairs are springing out left,right and centre. Fangs for the memories :-D.

HOWLllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllL

Oh no, another howling night here!! I must go and find my ear plugs!!

LG, you have reminded me that I need to find out about my local historical society. Thank you.

Aunty, thanks for the link. It looks as though my rellies are ok, but I feel very sorry for those who are flooded.

I'm off to get my hot choccie (getting hooked on it now!!) then bed.

Nite nite zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz <3 <3

Nite nite YG. I am a bit miffed I have run out of choccy :-| :-|. Must get some tomorrow.

Hi all


another lovely sunny day .......... temperature has got up close to 10C :-D



weather change tomorrow



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Lucky you,it is freezing here,literally that is :-(

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I well remember driving in Queensland around the end of February 1976.

We decided to "go inland" through Emerald, etc to get from Rockhampton to Cairns.


There were 2 typhoons coming in, 1 from the east and 1 from the west .... so we were listening to the radio whenever we could.


We stopped in one small community and asked the local polis if the road was clear north to Emerald.

Yep, says he. I've just driven it.


Ha bloomin' Ha



We were driving a little white 1966 VW Beetle


the water came up to the ledge of the door, and was rising rapidly, when ..........


It stopped, right in the deepest part


OH shouts "Get out and push"

I shout back "What about the snakes"

He goes "B***** the snakes. Push"


We got it out of the flood, and onto higher ground.

Then OH waded back to talk with another guy ................... the water had risen from calf depth to knee in a matter of minutes.


The other guy decided to try it ....... and came sailing through, waves of water swooshing up and around on both sides of him


We decided that it was better to be safe than sorry ........ so we took the next turning we could to get back to the coast road.



Our almost 2-year old sat entranced in the back seat watching Mum and Dad!



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