General Chat

Mary there were four major outbreaks of typhoid from 1830 to 1836 and an outbreak of cholera from October 1831 to mid 1832. There was also a smallpox epidemic from 1837 to 1840.

Evening all - Miss Piggy dropping in to say you dont want me to do your sorting for you - I have piles of paper everywhere!!! The names in the family tree are easy to sort - its the social history I have gathered along the way thats made the mess . . . (I know I have a file on epedemics Mary, on a disc - will yell when I get to it) Finding all sorts of things I have collected along the way and forgotten. Trifley, not offering to help move the tub I know how heavy they are, son dropped a wrench when he was doing the washers, and chipped my old claw foot tub big time - it needs to come out and be recoated, but I think after the dramas we had putting it in I will let the professionals come and get it, recoat and reinstall for me - I have vivid memories of friend and I collecting it in a trailer the first time we had it sand blasted and coated! Everyone is getting sicky . . . come on, get stuck into the Vit C (1,000mg per day) and drink plenty of water - take the pressure off your immune system and flush out the bugs !!! Its the darn change of season - hope your all feeling better soon. Lots more chances to have a big win this week, well done Vonny - got the list of certs I want here in front of me - trying to choose which one to order for my weekly fix - it be great if next week I could just say hang it and order the lot! Everything crossed !!! Thanks for sending through the photos - they are terrific Well, night all talk tomorrow cheers luv Laurie

I have a picture of us all in 6 months time with 500 - 1000 lines to go through each week!!!!!! :0 Mary - piccys sent. Coffee and chat would be lovely as long as JA is happy too. Let me know nearer the time. Shazz and hubby should be in Canberra today - at least it fined up for them. Vonny

Vonny You done well girl.. This time make it a bigger win...LOL I would love the picks of the baloons so I will send you my email addy..Whe I come down to ACT in june we might be able to get together with JA for a coffee or lunch..I will only be ther for 4 or 5 days but I will let you know beforehand.. Love Maryxx

Some of you have mail, the balloon photos. I could only send them to the personal emails I have so if you want to see them just pm me your email. They are georgeous. I went and bought the extra ticket today too Gwenda - I got 50 lines for $27.50 cents. Will have to wait till son comes home to scan them to Tony. :) Vonny get better soon folks. ps hope it was ok to use up all the money - except $1 - cos I thought if I didn't then we would have lots of small amounts left over.

Trifley Your papyruss looked like platypus and I was wandering why you wanted platypus on your pond..LOL till I read it again.. Must need new glasses,,or perhaps alzymers is setting in..LOL Love Maryxx

Evening all The spot for the papyrus feature has been prepared so now all we have to do is get the tub from FN's place. I believe it weighs a ton so who is going to volunteer to give us a hand to carry it to the ute? Just pm me with your names and health insurance details and I'll work out a roster. Mark (little angel) came home from golf early.....'I don't feel well' looks like he's coming down with something. Who coughed and left germs on his puta today? Come on.......own up so I can send him to you to take care of! Must go and have a shower after gardening.....big <<<hugs>>> to all those feeling under the weather. ~~~~~~~waves from me on the Barge love Trifley

HI everyone :-) Well the bank holiday's over but the sun hasn't come out of hiding yet :-( Lew hope you're feeling better soon, don't overdo it and don't pass up your excuse for not doing the h*******k lol. Laurie loved the card trick and the guy playing with his balls lol will check the rest out later. It's back to college today for me but a short week this week as well as having yesterday off I'm also off Thursday because of staff training. Lara hope it went ok. Mary there were a lot of epidemics around in the 1800's is typhoid, cholera, TB to name but a few mainly due to bad diets and poor living conditions. Will check my file later to see if anything was around in those years. Better get going I'm going to be late. *waves to all* Juliexx

Hi all Wattlers, A big get well to Lew, Rebs & Sandra - hope you're all feeling better soon. Lew Lew what were you thinking doing all that work when you weren't feeling the best - you were meant to be resting and enjoying your day off work - lol Mary - we have a garage that needs cleaning out - when are you free? pmsl Laurie - how's your sorting going? You could come and do mine too but you'd have to tidy the dining table before you started - keep saying I will do something about it but it just doesn't happen. The lotto is bought for this week - let's hope some of Vonny's luck has rubbed off. Lara - hope things went well for your M exam. Hope the sun stays shining in your neck of the woods as we are in for more grey stuff by the sounds of it tomorrow. Sun was nice while it lasted tho. Time to think about the next meal and maybe make a start on the ironing later. Have a great night everyone, catch you later Gwenda

Hi Wattle mob.. It has been a busy day and have just sat down for a rest and called it a day till tomorrow.. Cleaned out the garage of a lot of junk but still more to go but it looks a lot better..Room ready for Unc arriving on friday and raked the leaves up in the front garden and got them on the compost heap went to the shops and did some food shopping and bought a new mobile phone as the old one went back to the archives...ready for the dustbin...and best of all the car people rang up and said the car was here and we can pick it up on friday afternoon...Thank goodness as I just couldnt see 3 big bottoms travelling around the countryside in a little mitsabishi Mirage..plus luggage..very cosy if nothing else.. It seems we have a few ailing peeps here so do take care and stay in bed and keep warm,, Tony Do I start packing ,, with all those games in Lotto we should surely win a good prize...Glad you and Barb had a good time at the meet..Lara is surely the hostess with the mostess...A nicer person is hard to find.. Lara Have you been for your squeezy test..orrible arnt they.. but necessary ,, Hope all the lady peeps on here are doing the same..Loved the Piano .....and didnt have a heart attack,,LOL laughed myself silly.. Laurie Can I bring mine over for sorting too...I have a huge bundle of papers and I keep saying I must eliminate a lot of them but when I go through them to do that I end up putting them all back just in case I need them,,,LOL I have a feeling that I may have a slight hole in my brick wall.. working on it at the moment and will get my uncle to see what I have found and if he agrees. Was there a epidemic in the uk of sorts around the 1825 to 1830s as I seem to have a lot of orphans and widows..making it hard to search.. Sandra Stay well... Everyone else dont breath as it is dangerous .. you may pick up something.. Back later.. Love Maryxx

Hi Sandra, hope you're feeling better. I now feel a bit wacked. Think I might have overdone it. Got up, changed sheets and vacuumed house throughout, but now I'm feeling all achey again. Might just go and have a little lie down. Lew Lew x

Afternoon All, Must be the week for sickness, I have not long got out of bed, coughed all night, full of the cold and aching limbs, but hope to feel bettersoon. Glad your feeling better now Lew. Lara hope the horrible M went ok, a necessary evil. Well My head is still a bit fuzzy, so will catch you all tomorrow Have a nice evening Cheers Sandra in the Gong

Show Off, Vonny, lol

Thanks Tony and Laurie, AVRI working just fine. cuwl Vonny

Afternoon, Pleased to hear that you are feeling a bit better now Lew Lew. I have been meaning to mention for a while now, if any of you have any microfische records, but no reader, I have one and would be happy to help out. It's one we kept from Neville's last business and it has come in very useful. Laurie, just kidding about victoria's Secret, but thanks for the offer. I think you really just want to embarrass Ray. Bye for now SuzyQ

Boy Tony, can you just have a vegemite sandwich for lunch for once! lol. You always make my mouth water! Ooo I hope our luck holds out for the Lotto! Very exciting. Have a great arvo everyone. The landscaper is arrivng shortly and the earthworks started yesterday. All falling into place. Lew Lew xxx

Arvo. Sunny day in Melb......and just having a hot Chicken Schnitzel and bacon sanga for lunch. Vonny. Have Emailed you mate. Laurie....:>)) You had me going there for a minute with the card trick..lol But worked out how they do it......good one.....but not so good if your not observant....he he Also loved the bloke using his pink balls to play the organ...( did i say that !!! ) ...lol Lara. Hope things go well mate, and agree that it musta been a bloke who invented those machines. Dont want to sound morbid...but having lived with a wife who had breast cancer for 6 years, and eventually dying of the disease, at the young age of 39 i cannot but stongly recommend check ups. Easy for me to say i know..........but to late for my Wife now. And yes....i do have prostrate check ups......as should all blokes. Well we have a double chance this week on the Lotto....:>)) and 72 lines, so fingers crossed, as a spare cuppla hundred thousand dollars woudnt go astray......lol Well back out on the roads i go.....as... i owe ..i owe...i owe Cathcha ron. Tony Oz...:>))

I haven't been on my puta today so I haven't got my emails. Will do it soon. Am getting annoyed with this lap top.....Mark has it set up for him and it keeps doing strange things. Have to go surpervise the garden dig now. See y'all later. Thanks in advance for the emails luv Trifley

Ahhh now I get it! deerrrrrr!!!

I'll have to get on my puta later.this bloody thing of mark's keeps 'hibernating' on me! What the hell is that supposed to mean?