General Chat

To Lara in particular, but anyone in general : Just a quick note to any interested parties that a commemorative plaque will be unveiled this Sunday, June 11, at 3 o'clock at the road side rest stop, approximately 17.5 km west of Yarrawonga on the Murray Valley Highway, for PADDY BOURKE. Paddy was one of the early pioneers of Burramine and Boosey, buying land when the area was first open to farming settlement in the early 1870s.He ran the Burramine Pub, and inadvertently provided Ned Kelly and his men with the boat that took them across the Murray River on the way to Jerilderie in 1879.There were three main branches of Bourkes that settled in the Yarrawonga/ Boosey/Burramine/Tungamah area in the 1870s....one originally from Geelong, one (Paddy's) that came via Moonee Ponds and Kilmore and one from Melbourne, then Kilmore and Bylands. All arrived from Tipperary in the early 1840s, and as far as we can determine were not related. Paddy Bourke married Margaret Bourke at Kilmore in 1869, thus joining two of the three bloodli! nes. There will be a sausage sizzle and tea and coffee, and a group of Bourke descendents ( through the Sheridan family) and locals who all love to talk family and local history.We would love to have a yarn with anyone who would like to drop in. Jen Sheridan Lamond( on behalf of her uncle, Jack Sheridan, who has organized the whole show!)

Nice to see you again Heather, and glad you got some more info from the cemetery. One thing I noticed, Heather when I went home from Bendigo via Albury (through Wagga) (just once) was the number of unattended rail crossings, usually on a bend. . It put the wind up me, I now prefer going home through Echuca, and up through Narrandera. Lyn .. and exactly who has been doing nekkid rain dances hmmmmmm??? Anna .. was that pluddy cat Number 3 again, or am I getting confused with someone else's cat? Top o the morning to you all. .. I put the aircon on at 5-ish this morning, so nice and comfy here. Jood

Good Morning All, I have not dropped off this mortal coil, merely occupied with varied duties too numerous to mention. But up early this morning to check GR as I have been contacted by UK and have found another cuz x 4, I am chuffed because I am determined to find at least one desccendant of each of the families left behind when my ggg's emigrated. Dr Lew, my parents had A J Cronin in their bookshelves as I grew up and I loved his books. Ohh so many travellers getting ready to move. Firstly Brisvegas, have a most fantastic day everyone (I realise SOME of you are stretching it out for dayes lol) you'll be hoarse afterwards, with your brain spinning from meeting everyone ! My DD14 is going to NZ with school choir on 26th June, just to Rotorua for a week but her first overseas trip. Tony you and Barb are plotting and planning I guess, what date do you actually go to UK? Joodle I finally got a bit more information from Beechworth Cemetery, thank you for the contact, also discovered that Burke Museum will probably have more too. Awful train meets car here yesterday afternoon, 19 yr old dead, trouble is the roadworks for the bypass (throughpass?) at Albury have resulted in lots of changed traffic conditions, people are having to drive on roads they are not used to, also much more traffic in some places. Trains have had a very bad couple of weeks with derailments too - is it lack of maintenance? Must keep moving. Have to throw a bucket of cold water over the car before I can go anywhere AGAIN today -clear blue skies, bitterly cold. Have a fun day everyone..' waves'....disappears under chore list....glug glug..... Hz in Albury

Ooops Tony sorry............I amended my reply before lol. When I said idiots I thought the decision came from faceless bureaucrats not the gay/lesbian community. Then Laurie pm'd me to tell me it came from the gay community itself so I changed it slightly. Still think it's stupid though. To anyone who thinks Tony is losing it (again lol) he isn't. I just changed the wording of my post lol.

Exactly Julie. Idiots is the correct word. Even Gay/Lesbian couples are born with a Father/Mother or Dad & Mum. Then genetically as they grow they make a decision hormonally. I have no problem with accepting society as it is today, and each to there own, but to try and take away the wording from a child's book, and not give that child his/her right to learn and distinguish that they were born from both sexes Male & Female aka..( Mum & Dad ) just to appease 20,000..against 21 million, kinda gets the blood-pressure up a little. Its just political stupidity at its highest level. Pam. lol...Someones gotta barrack for the Lions, otherwise it takes all the fun outa it when we beat yas.......:>)) Its a great game, and love me footy. Friend and foe.......***** Imagines Michael Voss in a Magpie jumper playing alongside Buckley**** O'h well, i can dream...cant i.........:>)) Tony Oz...:>))

Hi Lyn You snuck in before me - how are you. Lucky thing getting rain. Still as dry as up here. I'm off to bed - got to get my beauty sleep so I'm in top form for Brisvegas :>)) Anna

Hi Pam (Kicks the pluddy cat out of the way) What time did your folks go to US? My brother left Brisbane this morning on Qantas at 11.00am! He's going to do the touristy things - Disneyland, Universal studios, then fly to Seattle , picking up a mobile home and drive up through Canada. Hope you can get to Brisvegas meet up on Saturday. I'm very quiet and refined and I'll be staying sober to make sure the rest of the mottley crew get home in one piece! 'Oh - 10 flagons of sherry Hanging on the wall 10 flagons of sherry Hanging on the wall And if we empty all of them we'll surely have a ball 10 flagons of sherry Hanging on the wall.' Bye Anna

Oh did I forget to mention.............. it's lovely and warm here with lots of sunshine pmsl ;-pppp as for the parent thing, what about the rights of the hetrosexual parents??? Pam I'm the cat they're talking about declawing/spraying/spaying lolol Cannae imagine why. *looks angelically innocent*

Hi Guys Have been going through the messages for the last couple of days and had lots of questions to start with. Can't remember them now - must be a brain overload. Tony - Please don't hold it against us for supporting a really really great footy club - they are the best. (bloody magpies - they really attack me on my morning bike ride, especially near the Bribie cop shop).Go LIONS !!!!! Grandma, grandpa, mum, dad - politics gone mad -get rid of all of them ( the pollies). Triffley - I was going to ask 'what time is coffee' but I kept reading and know , now, I am too late. Mary - Been there, done that, but the effort is worth it. Moved from Bris a couple of years ago and if you put the effort in, you reap the rewards. Anna, I agree - no money, no stress. We are also on a pension, not really managing, but a lot happier. SuayQ - Richard Champion gets my vote. Rebs - Don't think you will be the really quiet one at the Brisvegas meet - I'm still trying to get used to this mad mob (or should I say the real nut cases). Hopefully I'll be there !!! Laurie, thought of you today - Qantas Lounge - Had to take my Mum and Dad to the airport today. They are on the way to U S A (travelling Qantas) for a Bromelaid conferance in San Diego and then visiting my daughter, Melanie in Tampa Florida. Did have comments for other wattlers (wafflers) but can't read my own scribble - maybe one too many vinos. If anyone has any rain whatsoever, please send it this way-desperately need it. Hoping to meet lots of you guys in 5 sleeps Pam Bribie Island, q Cat ?????

Huuumph! Night all, sweet dreams. Vonny

No...no !! I don't do cowhide Rudes. Eeeew!!!

lol..Laurie. I don't think your far off the mark. Love the singing Anna....:>)) Sounds like this Brissie meet is going to be a ripper. Maybe Rebs better wear a cowgirl suit, and have a lasso ready to rope everyone in....LOL Night Joodle...:>)) Tony Oz....:>)) whos been left with the dishes, as Madame has gone shopping with girlfreind.

Just had another thought no more grandmother or grandfather Tony hence forth it will be grandincubator and grandspermdonor or greatgrandincubator and greatgrandspermdonor On that note sweet dreams luv Laurie

PMSL Good thing we can laugh about it Tony - No more will you see Mother and Father on official forms from this day forward we will use the terms:- Incubator, Sperm donor and partners Cor blimey Anna - will you be singing on Saturday ???? We all have to cross our fingers that Pam's son doesn't have to work on Saturday so that instead of being mum's taxi she can Wattle away at 'Brisvegas'. Night all - calling it a day cheers luv Laurie

Oooaaaahhhh ... sounds like its going to be a wild ole party on Saturday ....... Lucky b********s, but have fun just the same, as long as we hear the stories and see the pics (Not Pickles Dr) Off to bed. Hope your OH gets better soon Anna, and all the other sickies. See you all tomorrow. Jood

Evening all Blimey Tony - what a bleak outlook! Evening Dr Lew - better get some of your little magic pills up to Queen Trifley so she can dose Mark up on them. We can't have Trifley coming down with the dreaded lurgy before the weekend! Trifley - you'd better get on your mask and wash your hands in antiseptic after you tend to the patient. And tell him to keep his rotton stinking germs to himself! Better still - send him off to the girl friend to look after him. That will test the depth of her feelings for him - man flu!!! Helooooo Jude up on Hamilton Island - why don't you rub it in about getting sun burnt!! Everybody else is freezing their buts off and you're swanning around getting sun burnt! Poo to you! Hubby is still delicate after his man flu - the antibiotics - all 4 lots of them have upset his poor wee stomach. He was only able to manage a few plates of home made pea and ham soup today. 4 sleeps to go!! Singing 'We'll be queening it round Southbank when we come We'll be queening it round Southbank when we come We'll be queening it round Southbank Queening it round Southbank Queening it round Southbank when we come. Singing I will if you will so will I Singing I will if you will so will I Dum dum de dum de dum tra la la la....... XX Anna

Love it Tony! pmsl Jood

Do you think they might also scrub Grandad & Grandma from the Kiddies books also....? This is what the future may hold for us Geno nutters,and what might be found on a 2200 birth entry....... if we keep going on, and scrubbing our past away. Marriage:Males Surname: Hull Forename: Michael Partner: Mick Surname: Williamson Place of Marriage: Saint Puff the Magic Dragons. Child of above: Surname:Mettersoven Sex:Male Forename: William Fathers: Michael and Mick Incubator: Metter's oven. Serial No5 model 2100 Birth Place: Warehouse 6 Docklands. Year: 2200 Receipt No: 2000000 *************************************************** Marriage:Females Surname:Not telling Forename: Jane Partner:Janet Surname:Cant remember Place of Marriage: Church of Les-be freinds forever. Child of above: Surname:Safewaycoles Sex: Female Forename: Mary Mothers: Jane and Janet Sperm cell: Vial no 7000 Safeways special (50%off with petrol docket) Birth Place: Unknown Year: 2200 Receipt No:1111111111 Tony Oz...:>)))

I'm lurking Dr Lew, on my lappy, doing h*******k on my big pc tonight .. but I'm watching, watching. Jood

Have just watched 'The Citadel' by AJ Cronin (1938) great movie, brilliant book! Quiet here tonight. Dr Lx