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i hate getting up at the moment, but no choice. youngest male child goes on the bus at 7.30. if I don't get up, nobody else seems to bother. i have stopped using the alarm clock - golly i hate that thing.. its a beautiful day, not a breath of wind. enjoy love Yvette x

I'm the opposite, I hate staying in bed .. lol Here's some info bumsoddy might be interested in: Census of New South Wales - 1841 Now Online at State Records NSW A household census was taken on 2 March 1841, from which a small proportion of household returns survive. Apart from the names of both the head of the household and the proprietor, only statistical (i.e. aggregated) information about the household. Nonetheless, if you know the likely family structure, it is possible to relate some information to known individuals. Details shown - Householder Name, Place, Proprietor Name, Dwelling Construction, Number of Persons (total and free), together with statistical breakdown by Age, Civil Condition (convict, free etc), Religion and Occupation, all subdivided by Sex and Marital Status. AO ref: X946 - X951, 4/1243, 4/1244 Purple Bar Muster of Norfolk Island - August 1844 Return of convicts only. Original in Tasmanian Archives. Purple Bar Censuses of New South Wales - 1846 onwards Censuses were held on 2 March 1846, 1 March 1851, 1 March 1856, 7 April 1861, 2 April 1871 and 3 April 1881 but have not survived, except in abstracted form. A census taken on 5 April 1891, and the collectors' books survive, but they provide the name of the head of household, but no other detail at individual level. Purple Bar Censuses since 1900 Australia federated in 1901. Censuses have been held in 1901, 1911, 1921, 1933, 1947, 1954, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986 and 1991. Each has been destroyed after statistical extractions have been made, and the same is planned for 1996. There are other censuses and musters - see this site: http://members*iinet*net*au/~perthdps/convicts/census*html This info is probably a bit much for you so early in the morning .. pmsl Jood

Good morning Wattlers, another beaut day on Botany Bay. The sun is ashinin' . . . the waters are blue . . just one little giraffe with his head up, so lots of activity on the docks. Actually the water is so clear and clean, from on the balkooney you can see straight thru it - I could start up shark patrol !! I have a girlfriend and her mum coming for lunch today, so have to go get some supplies. I'm thinking smoked salmon and salad should go down real well, with a nice cold chardy. We will sit back and watch the world go by - tough life, but someone has to do it. My friend has just come back from a trip to Canada, so I am looking forward to the tales and pickles. Well Tony - last look around paradise, just a few hours and you have to be back on that plane. About time Barb won another holiday so you have something to count down to - but then you do have the family increase ahead of you to count down to. I'm sure the girl would love to see a countdown on the fridge door to delivery date!! Ah well better go do some chores - hope you all have a wonderful day! What ever you may be doing - do it with a smile Costs nothing . . . great returns !!!! cheers luv Laurie

Morning Wattlers. Computer problems this morning. Laptop is connected, but the 2 desktops can't find the internet, ggrrrrr. Go Figure!!! Computer Man is coming sometime today. We had a power outage, I've rebooted the modem, but that doesn't explain why the laptop works. Laurie, Farmers Daughters Wines are very good, so go for it. Ah, Merriwa, Cassilis, Dunedoo, you guys are all playing in my backyard, lol. SuzyQ, you're very quiet. Are you okay? Well, I'm off to have some porridge. ~~~waves to all~~~ Lew Lew xxx

Morning all Beautiful day in sunny QLd. Lew - I was wondering the same thing - where is SuzyQ. Suzy - let us know you are OK after the brasso incident. We do worry about you, you know. Katherine still sick with the dreaded lurgy - this is her 3rd day off school and she is still coughing and spluttering etc. Poor babe. Catch up with you all later Love Anna

I was thinking the same thing about Suzy earlier - I rang the house but there was no answer, so I left a message! I will try again later on in the day and let you know! luv Laurie

Good Morning Wattlers, Have had a busy few days, Sunday child minding for the day, Monday, Tues all sorts of jobs to do, hurt my hip doing gardening, but ice pack and anti-inflammatory tablets have done the trick. had our census man call yesterday I said I did mine on line dident they inform you? he said no they are supposed to text me and they did'ent, poor communication, good job I kept the code number. Everybody seems to be very busy, lots of stuff going on, Spring is in the air. Have to go out now so will have to catch up next time Cheers sandra in the Gong Hope all the sickies are getting better.

Hi every, Beautiful day here today..Coffee on the patio and then off somewhere for lunch.. May go into Darling Harbour or somewhere similar..Its a hard life but someone has to do it... Hope all the sickies are getting well again, my cold is improving a lot and I should be back to normal next week.. Do I pack or unpack with our winnings in lottos.. or did we not have enough numbers for a win,,aahhh well ,, Someone else must have needed it more than we did... Welcome home Tony and Barb.. Hope you had a good trip and now its back to normal,, but then would you like to live like that all the time.. I dont think I would..Wheres the next trip Barb has won... Better go and have my coffee so see ya later.. Love Mary xxxx

Morning Wattlers, Mary, while you're wandering around Darling Harbour keep an eye out for my OH, he is measuring up some new shops there. He will be the one in jeans and t shirt and very short greying hair; probably crawling around on the floor...lol Vonny, we should get you to buy tickets more often, well done!! Tony & Barb are not going to be happy when they get in this arvo, its decidedly chilly and looks like rain in Melb at the moment. I have to confess to making a bit of a fool of myself yesterday...lol I tried to use my visa to book some flights for work and it was declined. Thinking Roy must have used it in Sydney I went to the bank to transfer some money into it and the ATM says I have plenty of credit.....so I march into the bank and demand to know why I couldnt use the card when the machine says I have credit. The lady behind the counter checks'Yes there's credit, I'll ring the city office' 'were you trying to book tickets?' 'yes' ' well aparently you entered a date valid to 2005.'.......I was so embarassed, I apologised to the lady behind the counter and got out of there real quick...pmsl Lunch time, back later Flakey

hi lew laurie jood sandra mary. and the rest that pop in and out. (update ) and jude I've been listening to my epidemiology lecturer online. its break time really interesting stuff,and the lady who does it is fabulous. I think she is dutch, great collector of info. like us before I went out I checked archives again. I quite like that site, 'cause they keep adding more. does anybody go to the reading rooms? in the break at the end of the year I'de love to go - can we have a 'wattlers excursion' there? anybody keen. maybe we could incorperate historic place of interest and reading room. I would be keen to do rookwood cemetry if anybody else would like that, mid/end november. or wattlers version of mall crawl. exercise with history. when I went to sydney in the hols. we did the barracks, crime and justice, a bit of the rocks and maritime boats. that was exhausting because of the walk distance and the mental toll of all the stuff we saw. really enjoyable though. we could use some public transport too, or minimise the area covered , with lunch and afternoon tea as predetirmined rests. have had my 10 mins. ergonomic break, back to listening. I pop in every now and then if I don't have to add notes love Yvette x

Afternoon Wattlers, Well we have got a sunny but cool day here today, it rained most of yesterday and the night before, but forecast is for fine days up to Saturday at least, crossing fingers it stays that way as AFL is back in town. I got the mail out of letterbox today and our tickets for the footy have arrived. Guess what we are sitting in the front row of cheersquad. So if any of you get the footy on tv on Saturday and happen to be watching it, just keep a look out for 2 girls and myself sitting in the front row, left hand side of the Hawks cheersquad section as you see it on your tv. Well done Vonny on another winner, maybe we should all just send you our money and get you to put the tickets on each week lol. Tony welcome home, didnt realise how expensive it is over there, is it the same on Hamilton???? As my parents went there back in June, they didnt mention if it was dear or not. Ok better get back to doing more scanning, I obtained a few photos and info from another family member so I copied it to disc but I thought I would also print out a copy of the pics, so I have them, just incase something happens witht he ones saved on puta or disc. Cheers Sue

Hi Just thought I had better look and let you know that I am still alive but not quite kicking. Apart from the head, which is still a bit achy, i have pull my back our again and set the sciatica off. I can't sit for long, so I just been checking my emails. I think the head may be my sinuses. The back I now about. Going to the docs early next week and trying to get in for some more physio. I try and read abit when I can. Hope everything is well in the wattlers world Luv SuzyQ

Hiyarall, Just had an email from Suzy Q . . . she is haveing trubs again with the darn sciatica and can't sit for long - plus her sinus are giving her heaps and apparently plenty of grass fires around to keep her in agony. Hugs Suzy . . . take it steady and tell Neville I said he has to look after you . . . PROPERLY !!!! luv Laurie (PS . . . lunch was great . . nicest fresh tomatoes - home grown from friends house yummy .. . . . )

SNAP Suzy Q . . . XOXO

Ooo, poor SuzyQ. Make sure you take it easy and get my Idle Mate to look after you. (((gentle hugs))) Lew Lew xxx

Suzy Q you poor thing, either the back or the sinus is tough on its own without having both at once. Take care and use a heat pack for the back and wash the sinus out with saline solution. Tassie ...Hamilton Is is only as expensive as Hayman if you want it to be. There is a fish & chip shop, pizza shop, hotdog stand and reasonable restraunts if you dont want to go to the 'toffy' places, there is also a grocery store. 'Hi' Lew, Laurie,Lara,and all the other wattlers Flakey

Oh SuzyQ So sorry to hear you are under the weather. Tell that Neville to bring you martoonies and hot water bottles. Hope you are feeling better soon - it must have been that blooming spring cleaning that set it all off! Hugs Anna

Well we are still home.. The Boss of the place saw us having morning tea on the verandah and asked if we could come up to the lounge and be in a photo shoot for the Club.. We dolled ourselves up and went up and had a good laugh.. We got a bottle of wine for our trouble.. Not bad,, We are booked in the restaurant for dinner tonight so I dont have to cook.. Susie Q.. Sorry to hear that you ar not the best.. do look after yourself and go easy on the back.. Are they going to put you on thr rack again...big hug... We have all gone very lazy so dont know if we will be doing much today but perhaps tomorrow.. back later,, Love Mary xxx

G'Day, the name of that town Cassilisa is nice because it's both my girls names said together hehe cassi,lisa so won't forget that name in a hurry, Lew can you tell me what the Caravan Park in Mudgee is like please? Lovely day here today sunny slight breeze and gorgeous going to take some photos at the beach and will pop them on gc photos later. Have anybody seen this web site quite interesting nobody of mine there though except Mei Quong Tart who gave my great grandmother the silver locket http://www*adb*online*anu*edu*au/adbonline*htm of course replace * with the dots ,its the site for Biography's of prominent Australians who died before 1980 . Suzy take care of your self and some one mentioned the other day about Rawleighs Ready Relief it's great Suzy for sinus headache put teaspoon in bowl that will take boiling or near water and pop towel over the head and breathe deep come out from under the towel now and then and keep eyes closed should really help relief headache, I take Telgfast with the first sign of sinus as the headache it brings on is dreadful but it also could be coming from your back too Suzy as that and my neck which I put out all the time with falling asleep if I don't sit with neck cushion around the neck all the time I drop asleep so quickly after my meds start working off about 7pm unless I take extra tablets so fixing back might fix headache too any way whatever the cause thinking of you and hope you better soon . Have been pretty good re eating (not dieting )no no just eating sensibly , plenty of almonds couple everytime I think of it and huge glasses of water , protein powder and rice cakes with cottage cheese and tomatoe and cucumbers , stir fry for dinner and peaches and yoghurt for dessert could hardly call it a diet eh pmsl seem to do nothing but eat, and I'm sure when some peeps see me they think thats all I do most of the time when it's always been the opposite when I started weight watchers many years ago I couldnt eat the amounts of food they said to eat as my body was so used to me eating like a mouse trying to lose weight it was stuck in 'OMG she's trying to starve me mode' and it stored every bit of fat around even if went by some skinny person walking down the street eating big double header icecream all the fat from their icecream jumped on me when I walked past fish and chip shops cake shops and heaven forbid I walked past a Daryl Lee (sp) shop pmsl my girl friend used to say just say 'this is weightwatchers before you eat whatever you want and your brain will be fooled pmsl didn't work like I said been eating Spec K for years and am going to sue if I don't start looking like the woman on the ads soon must go time for me water again and then have to eat again NO REST FOR THE WICKED bye love to all Lara

Afternoon Wafflers I've spent a lazy morning watching Graeme cook. He has worked his little fingers to the bone preparing his meals for work over the next 2 weeks. He now has beef & black bean and sweet & sour pork as well as the chicken casserole I made the other day. Everything is in containers and in the freezer....a days work well done. I contacted the Country Comfort today. I told them it was our FH group annual get-together. Those of you who put your names down as wanting to stay there should have received an email from me with tariffs etc. I thought about confirming the booking for everyone but my plastic would have melted and some of the names would have sounded a bit odd. Duffy Fluck, Fanny from the Harbour and Princess DIY to name a few PMSL If anyone else wants to stay there then send me an email and I'll bounce you the details. Hi SuzyQ....owww...sciatica....I can sympathise with that. I have a great little massager which would help with that.....that is...if you could prise it out of my hand. :-) Healing thoughts for you dear friend. Anna....give Katherine a hug for me. I hope she is feeling better soon. Crew....when we are on our way to Mudgee Graeme & I are going to stop in at Merriwa. I've never been there and would like to get some pickles. Laurie...smoked salmon....naaahhh...doesn't do much for me. But you enjoy. I think my caffeine level is getting low. i'll be abck. love Trifley X