General Chat

Sleep tight, Linda.

Diane - bananas and custard at this time of night? You'll get indigestion:-))

Berona did you get your fruit and vegies yesterday? I can't believe the weather can be quite different when we really don't live so far from each other. It's dull and grey here with a little weak sunshine now and then. I'm debating whether to wash or not because when it does rain it pours. We overlook the house next door from our kitchen window as we are on a slope and their roof is finally washed free of red dust so I assume ours is too. Having said that our garage roof is horrible but it isn't just red dust - there's lichen and leaves too.

Sue xx

Tec - trust you to find some rope. Now, I'll have to think up another excuse!

Amazing...I was just looking out at the Estuary, and bang, the view disappeared. It's now quite misty.

Tec, you just reminded me of when I was a child with all the skipping games, and if there was only two of us we'd tie one end of the rope around the old gas street lamp (yes, I do remeber them before they were converted to eletricity: they two short cross bars just under the lamp ehich made fantastic swings) we would tie one end of the rope around the lamp and one of us would swing the other end and the second one skip!

Allan

Berona,
If I came over on a visit, I'd get you doing all sorts of fun things,
climbing trees, ab-sailing, para-gliding, just image the great time you would have. Then at night we'd be out dancing 'till the small hours.
Bet you can't wait.

Tec.

It's now foggy...I can't see the houses opposite!

Allan

Sue - it's getting nicer as the sun gets higher.

About ten years ago, we had the most violent storm which caused much damage, including healthy trees crashing down through rooftops, etc. and yet, it was only our suburb and part of the next suburb which were affected. Some parts of Sydney didn't even see any rain. The storm didn't last long, but created havoc!

At other times, the inner suburbs of Sydney get torrential rain and we might only get a light shower, if anything. We are only a stones-throw from Parramatta and Westmead hospital - they can get weird weather too - but there seems to be some kind of a trough - and we are in it!

I remember that, Allan. We would tie one end around a pole on the swing set and skip when there was just too of us. It was easier to do that than listen to my little sister bleating about how we were going too fast. Now when I think about it we probably came close to ripping her arm out of the socket.

Sue xx

Tec there are no lump's in my custard hun thank you

Sue, I should have had it earlier but wasn't that hungry, thankfully I don't suffer from indigestion.

I am still eating while I'm posting as I don't want to get to far behind with all the post, it take's ages to catch up with what's being said lol

Diane

Allan,
I remember doing that off the gas lamps. Simple pleasures.
I also remember making little boats and watching them sail along in the gutters after rain, only to disappear down a drain hole.

Tec

Berona - we've had that here just the other day. A young fellow came to fix one of the blinds and he said he couldn't believe that it was pouring one suburb away and dry here. An hour later we got a little hail and then talking to a fellow in town was told that on the other side of the highway they had a lot of hail which caused a fair bit of damage to roofs and cars. The difference in temperature in the area just below the escarpment is amazing. We also get more wind than the western part of our suburb.

Sue xx

Tec, you have a way of bringing back memories to me.
I attended a film night at the Scout Hall years ago, and the Scout Master showed films taken of the various activities that scouts do.

On showing us the abseiling from an extremely high cliff, I was awed by the fact that they let boys do that and I remarked "I would be afraid to let my son try doing that!"....The Scoutmaster then said to me "Mrs...B.. that IS your son!".....I almost fainted!

Morning/Evening

Its Friday!! WooHoo the weekend is near!!

Night Linda..sorry I missed you...x

Bananas and custard Diane sounds great a breakfast treat for me...:)) Hope you had a good nights sleep.

Must warn everyone about that scamming that is being done at the eftpos machines...I know of several people that have had it done to them over the past few days...Please check accounts often..

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It's strange, but nice, the memories which you all evoke.

I loved the gas lamps in winter just after a fall of snow, everything with a yellowish tinge to it and very light

Allan

Good morning, Janet...any fog in Perth? There is down here.

Regards

Allan

All these past memories of the game's we played, You don't see the kid's today playing game's like that, all there interested in is computer's, I pod's and the like. You don't see them playing hop-scotch,off ground tick, Jack's do you remember them, throwing the jack's on the floor and then working your way up from one at a time pisk up when you bounced the ball right up to picking them all up in one go { damn hard at the end } lol

Diane

Morning Allan NO fog here Allan.. overcast tho!.

I remember the jacks game Diane still see the game in the shops now..


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Allan,
I had forgotten about the gaslight on the snow, a lovely memory of days long gone.

Hello Janet,
What is an eftpos machine? just wondered.

Tec

Hi Janet
excuse me if I sound dumb, but what are eftpos machine's hun, I'v never heard of them.
Goodnight sleep except for my coughing

Diane

Yes, Sue - I stocked up on more fruit and veggies. Still have some left over from two weeks ago - and still OK- but anxious to use the fresh ones now. Don't know how I'll get through all the fruit that I bought (but I'll manage, somehow!). I'm not supposed to have more than two pieces of fruit per day, so I'll have to work something out there. I'm afraid I can't leave it alone when it looks so nice. I'll just have to exercise self-control!

Diane - ATM's or Teller machines. Hole in the wall money!EFTPOS is Electronic Transfer of Funds at Point Of Sale.

Hello Tec...sorry an eftpos machine is when you are buying goods at a store and you use your bank card and swipe through the machine....

Diane...at my sons school they have hopscotch drawn on the concrete in front of the classrooms so the kids are always playing there waiting for the doors to be opened to go onto class.

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