General Chat

Well put it this way Gwenda, it didn't cost me to join The site was http://www(.)privatecellar(.)com(.)au/default.asp There are others of course, David Jones Wine Club sells the same wine too. (the storberry stuff) .. It's supposed to be cheaper if you buy it on the net, but then you have delivery charges. .. For me, in the mountains, or to my daughter's place in Bendigo - it is $11.95 I suggest you shop around the different wine cellars http://www(.)google(.)com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&q=wine+cellars+on+line+in+Australia Think its time I went to bed. Night all Jood

Night all I told you Jood that Matthew Newton was a grub. See - I was right! Happy birthday to the Wattle children - Fanny's and Vonny's. Ducky says to watch out for the bed bugs. XX Anna

Anna I was reading an old WW in Perth about Lauren Newton's wedding and her brother Matthew was posing as if he was the groom. It's gone to his head all this celebrity status, - just like Bert & Patti. I forgot to tell you when I was at the Hopman Cup, and the end of a round, someone from the other side yelled out 'aussie' - and the crowd from the opposite side replied 'oi oi oi' - this went on quite a few times!!! C'mon rise' n shine you guys - its 7:06 - I bin up for ages. Bar-code Barb, enjoy your week of tennis - it looks soooo exciting! Jood

Morning Wattlers - wishing many blessings on your day, especally well blessings for not well people. Hi Jood, they are sleepy heads this monring -if I do not go I will be late for work lol Thanks for the no biting bed bugs last night Ducky Thinking of you and Trfley and Merle I wonder how the streaming south .....................is going. I trust Wattie is behaving himself that was Mr D on the keyboard!. He is bored as he is grounded until his paws heal and is not happy! JA

Whats Mr D done to hisself now JA??? .. He is a terror when he's outside isn't he !!! Bet the temp is getting colder and colder for Miss Lew, Petee, and Wattie. Only one day left before my sojourn down south. .. Busy meeting today, then a dash down the mountain to return some sandals which were a bit too big for me - 14 days to exchange and I won't be home before then :( Speaking of shoes, Miss Vonny Imelda - my sister heard from a friend in Canberra who said there was a new discount store out near the airport. ..Is that where you went? Jood

Good morning Wattlers A lovely sunny day on Botany Bay, just 3 giraffe heads reaching for the sky, and the sky is very busy with planes coming and going from the airport. There are several little boats out looking for the catch of the day, and lots of peeps enjoying their morning constitutional on the beach. Hard going getting up early to get TLR off to work, order of the day will be the dreaded and then when the mailman delivers the held mail it will be catch up on snail mail and bills. I wont even try to add to what I have read, would be here all day and I have heaps of catch up this morning. Hope you all have a lovely Monday, special wattler thoughts for those not feeling the best this morning, With a little luck I will get some spare time this afternoon to do some much needed sorting of my files on the puter . . . been neglected this past few weeeks, looking forward to some time for some FH. Must away to the dreaded luv Laurie

Morning all, Up and fed and polished as the plumber is comming today to put a new tap in as the old one wont stop dripping and nothing worse than listening to a dripping tap.. I will give my search one more day and see if someone comes up with a result.. I will bump it up in case someon in other parts of the world can help..what a shame as I really wanted to help these 2 . Going to be hot today and may have a swim if I can.. Ducky Good to know you are OK.. Love Mary xxxx

Dear All, Laurie has kindly pointed me in your direction :o) I am completely stuck on a branch I have found in Tasmania. I've just no idea how I would go about tracing this lineage forward/if I can order certificates from overseas/ what happens if i can't find people on passenger lists/searchable records online (i've tried a few) etc etc. I'd really appreciate some guidance. Thanks, Claire x

Dear Claire, One of the 'resident clever clogs' will eventually turn up and help out. I'm not too hot at this kinda stuff, others have all the equipment with bells and whistles. So don't disappear. Good morning to everyone. I didn't sleep in, just my puter. love yvette x

Morning All Claire, welcome to the thread, Im from Tasmania, and not sure if I can help as Im reasonably new to this family history stuff, and I cant find some shipping details of a couple of my ancestors, but I also dont have paid membership to the sites needed to lookup these things, but if there is anything else I may be able to help with with me being in Tassie, especially if it is in the North of the State, just give me a holla. Well picked up my girls from airport last night and ended up having a late night well after midnight, but it was sooo warm over here, not getting any better today, expecting 28. I see where Vonny and Yvette had children born on the same day, and thier Birthday was yesterday. My eldest has finally turned 18, sometimes I think he is lucky to have made it this far :-)))))) Miss him especially today with him being on the mainland, but we have organised to ring him tonight. The girls didnt get to see him while they was in Vic, but thats a different story. Ok Im going to go and catch up on the rest of the thread since I popped in yesterday. (((((hugs)))))) to Trifley and Ducky, thinking of you both. ~~~~ to all~~~~ Cheers Sue

Claire . . . post what you have and we will see if we can help you Laurie

Morning All, very warm and humid here, sorry Claire don't think I can be of help either, don't give up hope I'm sure one of us will be able to. Off to do some of the dreaded, catch you later. hugs to Trifley and Ducky luv Jillx

Arvo Wattlers...:>))) from a sunny Melbum. Mary. Sorry i couldn't help further with your Sidney Page, but could only post what i could find. The Cambridge U.K and the U.S.A post.Without knowing what Country he was born in makes it a very difficult search. Your friend seems to have the marrige Cert.?..... Newport M 11a 444 .......and I'm surprised on the marriage certificate it dosent give at least a Country where Sidney was born, or his mothers maiden name. Hi Claire. Welcome. As Laurie says, put what you know, or what your looking for on this thread, and at the very least someone will have a search for you, if not myself. Only to happy to help if we can. Barbs gone Tennising, and i noticed she took her binoculars.?? She mumbled sumthing about tight butt-ers or sumthing to that affect as she left. Lunch time..:>)) Best wishes to all the sickies. Av a good un. Tony Oz...:>)) the tennis widower..lol

WOOOHOOOOO !!!! Following message just received from the LublyLew Greetings Prinetheth from Way Down South. Have been at sea for 2 days and it has been very, very rough. Wattie and I are fine, but Petee has succumbed to the dreaded sea sickness, as have about 75% of the people on board. But no, not I!!! Strong constitution. Please pass this message on to the Wattlers and also ask them to remove me from their emails for the time being. Will try and chat again with you soon. HRH Dr Lew Lew xxx Trust Lew to outstay the lot of them teeheee luv Laurie

Afternoon Wattlers, Have been doing lots of jobs, like the ironing but was watching the tennis while doing it gets it done much quicker. Good matches the ones I watched. Have a safe trip to Bendigo Jood . Welcome to Claire, . Have been good and went to the gym,now it's time to watch a bit more tennis, better than cricket any day ( thats my opinion anyway lol) Hope all the not to well are feeling better ~~~~~~~~~~~ To All~~~~~~~~~ catch you later Cheers Luv sandra in the Gong

I haven't done much at all, enrolled for the year at the learning place. hopefully this year will be very laid back. no work at night time takes the pressure off somewhat. Actually have been extremely relaxed for some time now. must be all the afternoon sleeps. Haven't done anything today either, mmm, lew must have cooked up a really good batch of pills before she went and is not sharing 'em by the sounds of it. What a legend - go girl. love Yvette x

Hurray for Lew and Wattie. Have begun to plan our own trip. Any of you peeps been to Coober Pedy or Wilpeena Pound? I am thinking of planning a small :o side trip. hee hee I don't really want to stay on a boat for 4/5 months!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vonny

Ooooh Vonny. ( puts hand up )Take me wif you, take me wif you.....lol Coober Pedy is my second home....lol Well.....not quite pehaps, but i been there a few times in my life. Lovely spot if you have a facination with the moon and craters. Last time i visted Coober ( last year ) they asked me if Elvis was dead...hee hee On Page 14 of GC Photo board ( Tony Oz ) is a few pickles of Coober. ( page 2 ) http://groups.msn(.)com/GCPhotospage Tony Oz...:>))

Ok Tony :) the moon, stars and other things celestial is John's province. maybe I will use that fact as bait to lure him off the boat! tell me the best - and cheapest - places to stay. What is the underground camping like? What tourist stuff should we do? Also - have you been to Kangaroo Island?? We are going to Goolwa and I've just discovered that Kangaroo Island is quite close. Vonny

'lo L'OZ :) definitely. Some friends of ours have conveniently just moved to SA and they have a large 4 car garage :) Vonny Just checked out the photo's, ta Tony. looks good. actually we went down an opal mine at lightning ridge and I was amazed at how clean the miner kept it. This wasn't a tourist mine but someone John met at the hot springs.