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Thank you Julie, fortunately she doesn't take after her mother. lol Thanks for the flake offer, but customs would probably confiscate (eat) them.................... if they haven't broken into a thousand flakes. ps, since you seem to be a regular here you'd better add your dob to the birthday list. Leave the year out if you wish. lol!! Rebs x

Rebs The dress is gorgeous and you have a beautiful daughter :-) Juliexx PS PM me your addy and I'll send you some praline flakes lol

Thanks Vonny. The whole dress is made of sequined fabric, and the back of the dress is identical to look at. It looked great on stage, I think because the designs simplicity, although I am still unsure about the design itself. It's the first time I have made one without the traditional celtic knotwork. And it's very green.......lol!! Donna, still raining here. although we're supposed to have a top of 32 tomorrow. We have a fantastic Italian restaurant around the corner from us. My favorite food. I don't think anything beats Totos in Melbourne though. Italian to die for. lol!! Off to get some dindins. Would you believe I've cooked minestronie? lol!! drop in later. Cheers folk xx

Afternoon Wattlers, Lovely day here, really too nice to be inside, but just had to take the chance to look up some dead peeps. Still waiting on a reply from a hot match that matched with THREE of my rellies, so am sure it is a winner. I get sooo excited, and want an answer to my message NOW,... patience is a virtue they say......so I don't have that virtue lol. Spent some time this morning in the garden, and am thinking we should move somewhere where there are NO water restrictions. I am able to water for I hour between 7-8 in the evening three times a week with a hand held hose. Not quite enough. When we built this house we put in automatic sprinklers for the lawn and garden beds and I have not been able to use them yet 2 and 1/2 years later. OK, i am off to look for some more dead peeps. Take care all, Wilson

Afternoon all, I'm all tombstoned out after yesterday! But first things first: WOW Rebs - the dress is gorgeous wow wow wow! I have no idea why you and Tassie are complaining about your photos either! Laurie, reading your stories is next best thing to being there, thank you. I await the next instalment eagerly :) Anna - what a great prayer :) lol Well, we left home at 6am yesterday and arrived at Rookwood for the family get-together at 9.30. Spent most of the day talking with rellies and hunting headstones. Also launched my cousin's book about one side of the family that she has researched. (unfortunately some of her dates are wrong but I haven't told her yet!!) Then hunted for a rellie on John's side of the family and headed for home. Detoured via Liverpool Pioneer Cemetry and spent a further few hours hunting for names on both sides and copying them down. So have lots of info to go through!!!! Finally arrived home at 9 pm. Was it someone on here who gave the hint about wetting the headstones to help see the writing?? Well it was a great hint. Spent my time wandering around Liverpool Pioneer Park with a bottle of water 'baptising' likely looking stones to try and read the writing! pmsl. Now I just have to duck across to the 'naughty corner' to speak to Julie about some chocolate and then answer some messages. looks like I may have a match :) Back later, Vonny

Hi guys. Pic of the masterpiece is on photopage. http://groups(.)msn(.)com/GCPhotospage/ Purple Monkey dishwasher album on page 3 Devley, your photo is great. At least you are photogenic. I always look as if I'm squinting, frowning, snarling or all of the above. pmsl!! Guess we're all critical of our own photos. Sounds like you're having a great time Laurie. Enjoy!! Off to catch up on all the laundry and h****w**k I didn't do last week, and the week before..................and the week before that as well. lol!! Have a great one Folks, Cheers, luv Rebs x

Hi Ken I have sent you a pm Cheers Sue

Morning All Well it is a lovely day here today, Jude from Melb 2, and her friend arrived safely and we had a cuppa in my local shopping centre before they headed to Cradle Mountain. I put a pic on my album on ASL for you to look at, if you dare as I dont know what Rebs is complaining about cause I think it would be one of the worse pics of me, I dont photograph well at the best of times :-( Anyway it is the second pic in my album, I left the convict brick on as the first pic, hoping my album wont disappear before Jude gets back home. Tony firstly thanks for the info you sent I will forward it to my cousin, and commiserations on the footy, Jude 2 was looking forward so much for it to be a Geelong Collingwood match next week :-) Oh well seeing as I have been galavanting about all morning, going on my daily walk, having coffee and a chat, then getting on here to see what we have been up to I had better now go and do you know what that is waiting to be done :-(( Catch you after. Cheers Sue

nudge for Ken *waves to all the Wattlers* in case anyone is interested, Julie has offered to send some praline flakes if you give her your address.!! hehe!!! *runs back to naughty corner*

*wanders In* Hi everyone :-) I was just wondering if you've tried praline flakes yet, they are soooooooooooooooooo gorgeous :-)))))))))) Vonny congrats on your grandchild to be Anna love the prayer and good luck with your renovating Rebs I believe (from Anna's post) congrats are due to you too Juliexx Just one more thing........................................ PRALINE FLAKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-)

Hi guys A short prayer for morning: 'Dear Lord - So far today am I doing all right? I have not gossiped, lost my temper, been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish or self-indulgent. I have not whined, complained, cursed or eaten any chocolate. I have charged nothing to my credit card, but I will be getting out of bed in a minute and I think that I will really need your help then.' Don't you love it??? Have been busy either working at school or helping to paint the renovated rooms here at home. All nearly finished and looking good. Have managed to catch a cold from the germy little Preschoolers! Have been trying to catch up on all the messages from the Wattlers. Lovely to hear Laurie's travel stories - don't you wish you were there! Mary should be heading home soon and good to see Wilson and Gwenda back safely. I hope Lew remembers to get out of the naughty corner for long enough to collect her wandering husband! Congratulations Reb - what a mighty effort to get that dress finished and well worth the effort as your daughter did so well! Vonny - congratulations on your forthcoming grandchild - have you started knitting? Hi to everyone else - shall catch up with you all soon Cheers Anna

Hi again all you sleepy heads . . Just waiting around for Ray to return, what a day I have had! The walk turned out to be a winner - stumbled across a town square trash and treasure market - I wanted to buy so much, but said to moi 'you can only buy one thing to take home' - so I walked around trying to decide on my one thing and got nothing! But had the best time, all the ancient things by our standard - I thought I had an old beer stein - its almost new compared to some of the antiques I saw. There were some of the most beautiful pieces of china, little ornate cupboards, clothes by the truckloads (funny how popular big coats are over here). I sat in the park and listened to the church bells and thought of Von and the Carilion on Valies day. I found all sorts of shops I want to go back to on a weekday - everything was shut (isn.t Ray lucky) Found a little cafe near the park and had coffee and bagel for lunch - talked to heaps of people and had another heap look at me strange (guess they didn.t understand my lingo) Then I wandered down to the hospital and found the two young lads from last night and gave them a handful of Ozi bits and pieces and found out all about them. A platoon of USA soldiers are paying for the younger brother to have ops done on his legs - said he couldn.t ever walk before - now uses crutches and also in his town they only had 4 old wheelchairs, now the troops have collected up over 100 and had them sent over. Both the boys have made themselves part of the furniture at the hospital and are really sad to be going home next week to Kuwait. Met some really nice peeps at the hospital also. Well I.ll drop in tomorrow, untill then cheers luv Laurie

Hi Laurie how wonderful it all sounds , the mass and the pub where you had dinner I feel as though I want to hop on a plane right now , please keep the posts up its lovely to be there with you sort of anyway, Reb that's really great re the dress and the results congratulations to both of you , have you seen the comments re your photo all good . Mary hello glad to hear you are having a nice holiday and hopefully a good rest after all the hard work you were doing before you left. will say nite now and talk some more tomorrow bye Lara

Good Morning here in Godesberg, Its Sunday morning and Ray has gone off on the train back to Cologne for the first day of the Trade Show - I decided some quality time in local area would be the go for me. We spent most of yesterday setting up the stand - 5 of us, and three of them will be lucky if they dont get back tonight and find that their pockets have seen sewn up . . . standing hands inpockets, watching us as Ray and I put it all together. Think of the biggest venue we have in Aust, and multiply by 62 - thats the size of Cologne convention centre. and they are still adding to it. After set up, we went for a walk thru Cologne - know what you mean about 4711 Suzy Q, its everywhere, and how about that Cathederal, we were lucky enough to be there for a mass and have the pipe organs resounding thru the place. We then went and found a little pub near the Opera house for dinner, I asked for a soup and ham & cheese plate, 4 Euro for the plate of cheese and ham and I think I could have feed every wattler. We all left heaps behind, meals are so big (and yummy) We were luck (not) to have half the barracking public for the local footy team on the train on the way home . . . . squashy-smelly-loud-boozy- just like in Aust! The five of us made a human sheild around two youny lads from Kuwait, they are staying same village as us as youngest is having ops on legs . . . talk about laugh, both comedians - I am going up to hospital to visit them this arvo with a few Aussie bits and pieces. The sun is out - the snow is melting and I am off for a walk so will drop in when I can. Hope your all well, and please write smaller messages so I can do other things beside keep up with you ( we are all tared with same brush in that dept I think . . . .) Bye for now and cheers luv Laurie

Awww Rebs if I photographed that good I'd want the world to see Glad the dress and dancing went well - bad luck about the camera - sounds like me - even after daughter told me not to forget the camera for her Uni graduation - I did Take care in that Naughty corner - haha Catch you later Gwenda

Evening folk! Well, the dress is finished.....and she wore it today. The girl did well. 1st in her reel and heavy jig, 2nd in slip jig, and 4th in set dance which was St Patricks Day. Sorry, no photos of the girl in her dress, the camera got left behind. I'll have to take one of the dress on it's own and stick it on a page somewhere. Speaking of photos............Lara, that photo is going to haunt me forever. *shudders* I knew I should have worn my Carlton gear, then you wouldn't have bothered. lol!! Advance notice.....cameras are banned from Y'wonga meet. Off to catch up on some reading. Hi to all the awol Wattlers who have returned to the Aussie fold. Guess I'd better prepare myself for probable disaster in the naughty corner. Cheers, Rebs xxx

hello all welcome back Gwenda gladyour trip was successful and your dear mum was still with us too how lovely for you to be able to still ask her who peeps how I I wish >>>> never mind well I have found my Vivians with lots of help back to 1699 so how's that and it came about because I googled for the name and the went through the message boards right back to 2001 and found one lady who wasn't a yank and she came up trumps for me even though she is not of the same line as me she had heaps of info not only of the Vivians but their cousins the Stocks as my great grandmother and ggrandfather were 1st cousins Henry's parents I think died leaving him a 16 year old boy to come to Australia with his siblings aged 4 , 6 ,10, 12 ,and on the same ship were his cousin Jane- Ann aged 12 and her parents William Henry and Ann Vivian and Henry and Jane Ann ended up when Jane Ann was 20yrs old getting married isn't that just so romantic Gosh I wish somebody on that ship had written a diary like the one I told you about for the lady who came from Wales, also Tony you were right Ann's and Jane's ( henry's deceased mother) parents had come out earlier in fact he was an Aussie and she was from the UK and they came and paved the way for the others to come, sadly I guess Henry's Father and Mother were supposed to come too but something must have happened to them as they were on the 1851 census and not on the ship in 1855 so I will now try to find them and what actually went wrong. so do go and have a look at older messages on the message boards in genealogy .com and rootsweb an you can hopefully have as much success like me Vonny , congratulations on your news I'm very jealous better start knitting hehe what a lovely time it is waiting for a new grand child . will go now folks hello and love to all Lara

Hi all Am using Rupees puta here in Palmerston North.. Some of you will remember him as Rooster... He is a funny guy so the name suits.. It is rather cold here today and the first taste of winter. I am wearing a jumper , the first time since last winter. It is supposed to warm up soon again so hope so. A cold blast from over the Tasman.. Bet Tony sent it as it came from Melb. way.. Be just like him to .....glad to get rid of it... Am off to Auckland next week and will try and pop in there but not sure who still has a puta. Miss you all and tried to catch up on all your messages but there were too many so will just have to say I hope you are all behaving yourselves and will get back if and when I can. Love Maryxxx

Morning Wattlers. Nuther warm one here in Vic. Cant understand this weather at the moment in Melb!!...but I'm not knocking it....lol Its been a very dry summer in Melb, and the house seems to be shifting on its foundations. Doors jambing, windows not closing properly, cracks appearing in the ceiling??..and we seem to have been unindated by cock-roaches this summer. Sue ( Tassie ) Bad luck for the Hawk's mate, didn't watch the whole game, as we were out for tea. My Son-in-law ( daughter number ones hubbie ) is a Hawks supporter, and managed to get him a footy sighned by all the Hawthorn players a few years ago for his birthday. I do a lot of work for sponsors of footy clubs, and sometimes given a footy by various football sponsors. Also do a lot contracts for Emirate Airlines in Melb, so naturally have a Pies one...lol Rebs. Nice piccie on the ASL board....and nice to be able to put a face to the name mate.....:>)) Gwenda. Sounds like you had a great time. When Barb and i are in Tas. cem......we take heaps of Photo's of her relo's and add them to our Family tree album. Hi to everyone else, here and away....:>)) ( sounds like Home and Away.......lol ) I can smell bacon and eggs for lunch ( sniff )....so will go check out the kitchen...as madam is cooking, and i must take a Photo of it.....a very rare occurence.....lol Av a good un. Tony Oz :>))

Hi everyone - I'm Back I've just spent 2 hours catching up and only got back to end of Feb so still have a week's worth of messages to catch up on!!!!! Had a very good trip - lots of success in the cemeteries - about 4 rolls of film to develop - all of headstones or plaques. Lucky I get them done at work and they know my little hobby - pmsl Got wet taking photos at Charleston cemetery - hubby kindly left me to it with the brolly and camera - his excuse - no need for both of us to get wet - how kind. I must have looked a sight - boardshorts, thongs, singlet top attempting to keep brolly over head and take shot one handed - hope the neighbours across the road weren't watching!!! Drive home took 13 hours instead of usual 12 as hubby had CRAFT moment and left his specs at mate's place at Reynella - would be the night before we leave. Had to navigate way to freeway from down there which took 35 minutes plus the 50 minutes to get to Reynella from caravan park at Walkerville. Caught up with my 90 yo mum - don't know how much longer she will be with us - looking very frail and had just had a stomach upset - Lew Lew you didn't send her your salad did you - haha. Came back with a couple of bags full of family history books & photo albums so lots of treasures to go through. Did take some photos back to get Mum to tell me who they were. Sue - did I miss seeing you on TV last night - sorry that the CROWS beat your team - hear it was close for a while tho. Rebs - how could Carlton let that P...r team whip them - wonder which game plan P...r played to - their new plan didn't work against the CROWS but then Chocko said he didn't have the players to play it - what a T....r Vonny - congrats on your news Laurie - hope you're not frrrrrreeezing too badly - did you make the snowman? Have a wonderful time & safe travelling. Hi to everyone else - I really must get a shower and breakfast and catch up on the washing - kids couldn't manage the washing machine and only just managed the dishes so lots of work to be done around here. Will pop back later in the day if son hasn't hogged the net - maybe he will have to go to work. Take care, Gwenda