General Chat

Hi Janet
We were both pedalling at the same time so two posts at once.

Well it is put out rubbish wheelie bin night tonight and the recycling wheelie bin which is done fortnightly. I will give them a good dusting Berona, plus I will pass on your thoughts to them Allan.

Put me down for waffles - like mine made with buttermilk thanks.

By all

Persey.

Hello to Persephone, and to Janet,

Janet, I think that we are out of kilter with our Eastern States friends. Our long week-end is not theirs!

Enjoy the weather until Tuesday..storms forecast.....but!

A fine weekend....

Enjoy

Allan

Many thanks Persphone!

Just line them up and they can march with me tomorrow! :0))

Allan

Hello, everyone. Re Colin's post - I'm often amazed at how generous people are. Allan's right the good far outweigh the bad - unfortunately we always hear about the bad.

I'm concerned that we haven't heard from Linda or Tec. My thoughts are also with Diane.

Sue xx

Perse: I know where Spike got that description from. His Mum used to live here at Woy Woy, on the NSW Central Coast and he stayed with her often.

My 'reply' box often jumps around after I have typed a few lines, so I took some advice from these boards and downloaded Google Chrome, then used it instead of Internet Explorer and it doesn't jump around any more. Only problem I have with that is that I reduce the screen to 80% in I/E and I can't do that in G.C. I can reduce it - but it gets too small for me to read it!

Hi Allan, thanks for the comment about -up. Perhaps it only applies to a language group in the Perth region. Here, warra- and -gong seem common. As for woiwoi, I suggest that the clue is the doubling of a word indicates an intensifier. It works if woi means water. Lots of water at Woy Woy. Also Wagga- crow, Wagga Wagga (place of) many crows. I haven't got to the bottom of Tumbi Umbi, Kangy Angy or Woolloomooloo. My favorite names are Upper Ferntree Gully near Melbourne and Pitt Town Bottoms, in the Hawkesbury district where my ancestors lived for generations.
What must the English make of all this? They have slightly strange place names, too.
Nice to see Diane, hope we hear from Linda soon, but I think she has her hands full.
Should we worry about Tec? He was having computer problems the other day, but has been gone a while now.

Allan...Yippee to us then for the long weekend !! Hope this weather sticks around...cold mornings but sunny days..

Grand final weekend who is going for who??? I am out to the shops lol Always quiet there when its grand final weekend !!

Busy Busy its all good !! Cant have me sitting at the puta all day...:)))))

Have a great weekend all...

xx

Good Morning/Evening Everyone,

I'm back where I belong.............

I've had the most dreadful experience.
Night before last, I hitched Montgomery the Llama to the buggy, and set off to inspect the perimeter fences - just in case they had been breached by the wretched peasants again.
All was well - so I decided to call in at the local hostelry in the village, for a little liquid refreshment. Overstayed the time that the archaic law allows, but what are laws for? other than to be flouted.
Making my way home, through the darkened mountains, all was well until I reached the Druids Pass. Known to be the haunt of the forcesof evil, I told Montgomery to get a move on.
Suddenly, and without warning, I was set upon by a band of the most feared and evil creatures of the the night - TROLLS - Nasy little green men, with orange hair, rotten teeth, and foul smelling breath. They emerge from Troll Mountain on murky misty nights.
I fought like the very devil, ordering the little varmints to unhandle me, but it was no use, there must have been a hundred of the blighters.
They overpowered me and Montgomery, and dragged me off kicking and screaming into the bowels of Troll Mountain, past the furnaces, past the huge vats of green gunge they spread on the fiels to destroy our crops.
Taken to the Court of the Chief Troll, I stood accused of being a human bean, being kind to children, and old ladies, courteous to my staff, and a generous benefactor to the community.
For these crimes, I was sentenced to hard labour for life, confined to Troll Mountain for the rest of my days.
Montgomery was taken away, to be processed into banana llama burgers.

In the depths of despair, I was being led away to my cell, when suddenly, out of the darkness, my dear friend, Theophilus the Welsh Dragon appeared. He growled and hissed, and breathed fire and brimstone at my captors, who fled before him in terror. Not even a troll is a match for such a dragon as Theophilus. I leapt on his back, and we were soon out of Troll Mountain, into the frest night air that smelt so sweet after that foul place.
Returning home to the Manor, I awoke the Duchess to tell her of my terrible experience at the hands of the evil trolls.
But alas, no sympathy, no compassion whatsoever.
She merely turned over, and yelled........

"Go to bed you old fool - you've been drinking again"

So I did - and here I am - back where I belong.

Regards
Tec.

Tec - I just knew we had reason to be concerned. What an experience!!! Hope all is well now and that the Duchess is being somewhat more sympathetic. If not - then you know you can always come here and we'll believe anything you tell us:-))))

Sue xx

Good Morning Sue, Hope you are well,

Thank you for your concern, and thanks for your kind offer, and I know you would believe anything I tell you - well nearly everything.

OK, back to reality, I was missing because OH has been quite unwell, so I was up for most of two nights, too tired to come on-line. She is much better now, and we both had a reasonable night last night.

Once upon a time I could stay up all night and not feel tired, but not anymore - must be getting old or something.

Tec.

Hi, Tec - I thought as much. I do hope the Duchess is feeling much better - a good night's sleep works wonders.

I'm such an early riser that I don't often have a late night. If I do I find myself waking up at the usual early hour and then I'm exhausted by the afternoon. Of course if I have a nap then I can't sleep that night and so it goes on. I used to be able to go out until late and get up for work or babies without too much trouble.

Sue xx

Sue.....
Early days yet I know, but have you had any feedback from your radio interview?

Tec

Not yet Tec - as you say early days. I have to tell you I've received a lot of ribbing because I was seen on the telly:-)) I also had my photo in the paper. I think it's gone to my head:-)

Sue xx

Sue.......
Fame has a price.........you may have to resort to dark glasses, and a headscarf, or baseball cap.
Mobbed in the supermarket? plaqued by autograph hunters?

Tec

Tec and anyone else who would like to have a look at the Uni website article on our donation here is the link

http://media.uow.edu.au/news/UOW066853.html

If you click on the photo it will be enlarged. I'm the person in the centre between the two professors.

Sue xx

Good morning/evening all,

Tec I do hope that your OH is now feeling much better. I am not suprised that she had a few bad days if you told her your tale of valour and magic.

there is room for two in my padded cell, you know

Sue, don't mind the ribbing, people are jealous of your celebrity status.

Good morning to Colin

Good morning, Allan. Yes you're right people are jealous of my celebrity status - I can't blame them:-))

Sue xx

Sue, I have just checked the link you gave...the Professor onyour left looks as though he has had an operation to remove his sense of humour: everyone except him smiling.

Well done to you

Allan

Good Morning Allan,
Thankyou ,yes my OH is much better now.

Thank you for the kind invitation to share the padded cell - I think it could be fun - sure we could spin some ripping yarns, my weird and wonderful experiences, your moonlit conversations with wheeliebins.
I can't wait............

Tec

Tec, I think that we would be the only two sensible people in there!

Allan