General Chat

Berona,
We don't have nurses in white slacks here - so it has to be the black stockings, flat shoes, and one of those natty liitle hats
doesn't that conjure up a pretty picture.

Allan in his maids outfit, me in the nurses get-up,
The Two Ronnies live on.

Tec

Colin - my thermometer sometimes agrees with the Parramatta temp and sometimes with Penrith but on Monday, I kept looking at it and it never got above 16 - and felt like it!
I'm just waiting on the OK from the strata manager to get the free batts fitted.
(No comments from the Brits please - batts are insullation here!).

I thought all Australians had a barbie!
I used to watch some Aussie cook on the TV and he had a big fridge!
It's 10pm now.
I'm going to bed.
Pat x

Thanks for trying Linda. I'm thinking she may well have been a suffragette or overseas. I wouldn't have thought so but you never know.

Sue xx

I would never insult you Berona, anyway I remember you talking about batts before. I still think that it is so funny that you think 16 is cold

Most Australians have some kind of barbie and they do go for the biggest fridge they can afford because so much has to be kept in the fridge, particularly in Summer - or it goes off quickly.

Good night Pat

Don't believe all the stories about Australians with barbies, air-con massive fridges etc. However we do have wild kangaroos roaming the streets in packs!

Regards

Allan

Goodnight Patricia - sleep well,

Tec

Trc, the way I was feeling last saturday, it would have been the two runnies!!

Allan

Nighty night, Pat - sleep tight. We have an enormous barbie in our yard. It is well used and on occasion we tease the neighbours by having the family over for breakfast. Eggs, bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms and bbq'd bread. Goes down a treat but the neighbours object because it smells so good. One morning one of the neighbours turned up with eggs and bacon and joined us. His wife brought home made bread and we had a fine time that lasted until nearly lunch-time.

Sue xx

I went down to 71/2 stone when I was 18yrs but that is because my ex was in Army and was sent to Cyprus for 6mth's, I was on my own in army Barrack's houseing with a 7mth old baby and very little money and lived on bread and soup for 3wks, in that time I lost a stone in weight, the reason I had little money to live on was when he went out there, there was a mix up with his wages, he had made 6 check's out to me but the bank wouldn't except them, he should have got the army to make out a payment book for me so I could get money from his wages, it took them 3wks to sort it out. When the family officer found out he asked me why I hadn't gone to them and told them the situation ( no one had told me I could do that ) they must think I was a mind reader lol


Diane

Berona,
It was 14c here today, I worked outside in my shirtsleeves, and we didn't put the heating on until tonight.

Tec

Goodnight Pat. Take no notice of Allan. He is only stirring.

Sue, she must be keeping company with my mothers great aunt Florrie b 1879. She is missing from both the 1901 and 1911 census. I have tried everything to find her. I am now of the opinion that she cleared off to Canada for a while, before she came back to England.
I am determined to find her because I have her egg pan, my mother took it as a memento when she went into a nursing home in 1961,so I feel a special affinity to her.

My cousin arrives in Melbourne tomorrow, and then to Adelaide in a fortnight - I wonder if she will be enjoying BBQs,

Tec

goodnight Pat sweet dream's

Oh Sue that sound's great, would love barbie brekie on a summer morning, what am I saying ( what Summer ) not had a good one here for at least 3yrs.

Diane

Berona, I'm not stirring. WA is known as the Wild West. Business men still ride horse down St Georges Terrace in Perth to get to work

Under the latest Building Codes, all new office blocks have to provide stables and hitching posts!!

Would I fib???

Allan

I hope she does get to have a bbq while she is here. However, from what I have seen on TV, this seems to be getting more and more popular in the UK these days.

Anyway, Tec. I hope she is able to take back a good report on the country. It has changed a lot even since you were here - but so has everywhere else!

Sue,

I have to agree with the barbie breakfast. We don't have them often but whwn we do they are great.

I like cutting holes in the bread with a scone cutter and then putting the bread on the barbie and dropping an egg into the hole to cook. And I love barbied mushrooms at any time

Allan

yes you would fib Allan