General Chat

HOORAY!!!! Glad to have you back Rebs! And you have to come back to the NC. I can't keep them in line!!!!!!! I'm sooooo pleased you've decided to join us again. Be like me, I only contribute to this thread, NC and sometimes say g'day to Our Em & Gwen. Other than that, I don't even read most of the threads. (((((HUGS))))) Lew Lew xxxxx

Well welcome back Julie. I was wondering what happened to you. You poor thing. Stay warm and get well soon. Perhaps a stint in the Naughty Corner will fix you! There's a mexican theme there at the moment and a bit of tequila might be just what the doctor ordered. The moving has started and there's boxes everywhere. It's just like Christmas! Even found the Christmas Tree! Hope all is well with everybody. I'll try to keep up with you over the weekend. Blows kisses to everyone. Lew Lew - The Packing Princess xxx

Hi everyone :-) Haven't caught up with everyone yet, didn't want to end up in bed again from exhaustion lol Well the cough turned into a virus, aching head, aching body, hot one minute cold the next lots of sweating you get the idea, was in bed most of Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday morning, most of it sleeping. Got up Tues pm for a bit then went back to bed in the evening, was up a bit longer Wednesday and have been up most of today but not doing much. Still I'm heading in the right direction and getting better :-). Thank you to everyone for the get well wishes :-) Tony congratulations to you, Barb and of course Melanie and her husband. Just in time for christmas :-). Trifely thanks for the remedy even though I've only just seen it lol Vonny sorry to hear about the engine. Lara loved the cat flu thing pmsl Lew Lew good luck with your move. *waves to everyone* Juliexx

Wots this about a shopping centre in Edmonton,. Canada???? What have I missed out on - I know nothing about a biiiiiiiiiiig shopping centre, please do tell me, someone who has been there!!! Welcome Peta, I vaguely remember your name from long ago. I am stillll soooo tired this morning even tho I overslept 1 hour - think I better have a hot shower and wake up properly - Have a great day everyone Jood

Good morning waffling wattlers . . . and hello Ozzi . . . . Thank you for all your messages, we had a great trip home, I think the jet lag was surpassed by the hangover. We spent Rays birthday in the air so the crews were serving us champers all the way - got the right royal treatment we did! My mailbox has been going hard at it downloading for ages this morning, and that is after I had gone thru and deleted a lot off ther server - Lots of it is Rays work though as he had his mail duplicated in mine with all the problems we were having. Everything happens for a reason, he didn't get to do as much work as he had planned, so he had to holiday more (and do family history). Last Friday travelling back to Kent from Kew Archives with Debs and her hubby Peter, Ray was heard to tell Peter 'Sad thing is, I am really starting to enjoy this research stuff' (Peter was our taxi - dropped us off and picked us up). Time to go get hubby off to work but I have been up for a couple of hours and caught up with a few pages of the thread - so will be back later. Considering we left here on the 1st March, thats the month gone - a twelth of my year - scarey thought isn't it ! It feels like it has gone quickly, but then it seems ages ago that we arrived in Frankfurt to the snow storm. Nice to be back cheers all luv Laurie

Anna my granddaughter is the same and will be ringing my daughter to mke sure no camera as Holly is 10 going on 18 and very intelligent but probably naive too in worldy things although talking to her the other night om msn and gave her a warning about if anyone tried to speak to her as she said a boy did while they were on the gold coast and she got the message nan ok Its cool I wouldn't ever go anywhere with any one as I said what did the boy say how old was he she said' well about 12 and he asked us my friend and I would we go to the games room with him', and I freaked and said 'where was your mother and she said 'well she was with us of course nan you don't think she would leave us alone do you ' lol so a case of nan being over cautious probably but that show on Oprah really made me so sad and scared for all the kids because they're are so vunerable. Peta that's ok mate just didn't want you getting all confused like the rest of us on here all of us have CRAFT, call me what you like just don't call me late for dinner lol. SA that's good, so we are still missing a girl who was from somewhere near Emerald in fnq if you are reading this please say hello so we know you are ok . Heather albury got that girl from the search engine you told us but she hasn't answered the message yet darn I'm very anxious to talk to her Do hope all our friends in WA are safe and not got anybody up at Carratha,Exmouth and Onslow love and best wishes to all up there and hope you are all safe and your homes are surviving Annabel how is Doug? Thinking of you both and especially with the Eagles winning tonight Laurie did you get on the champers on the way home and having big zzzzzzssss? Tony thanks for forwarding the nos to us again and all think positive ok we are going to win a small fortune aren't we and hire the QE2 or something similar to take us to the uk and with us few stop offs to shop and sightsee. Where would each of us like to stop of at? Me it would be Dubais for some gold jewellery, and Edmonton Canada to see that big shopping centre for about a week lol, Got to go to bed now folks so bye, waving madly ,see you all tomorrow love Lara

Oops sorry Lara. Realised about the wrong spelling after I posted it. Didn't have time to correct. I'm in Sth Aust, bout 25km out of Adelaide. It's about 10.30pm here, just kicked hubby of so I could get on for a short while. I have broad band here, don't know what I did without it. We are on the fartherest point for the exchange, so have had a few problems with drop outs,but telstra changed some things and it's not so bad now. Still happens occasionally but it's rare. Had to get a new printer tonight. The one we had decided it had, had enough. Was cheaper to get a new one than try to get it fixed. Where on earth do these service centre's get their pricing from? Well must go. catch you all later. Peta :)

Good evening Wattlers Public holiday here today for the show - didn't go though. Instead we went for a lovely walk with the bushwalking club and had a picnic lunch afterwards - most enjoyable as we had a tiny sprinkle of rain early this morning which cooled the air and made the gum trees smell wonderful. I've probably missed you Gwenda but hope you have a successful trip to Adelaide. Happy hunting!! And hope you work out how to operate the digital camera. Suzy Q - you will not know yourself with broadband - it is fantastic. So much quicker and more convenient. You will probably spend more time on the boards though!! Lara - msn is a real worry for us as our daughter spends a lot of time on there. It is how the kids communicate these days and I hate it. They are losing the skill to talk face to face. If it's not MSN it's text messages. So impersonal I think. We do keep a close watch on it but with all her peer group doing it it is a constant battle. Devly - good on you for doing so well with the diet. Give yourself a big pat on the back. You must be feeling like a new woman with the hair and all. Laurie ??????Coooooeeee!!!! Get out of bed and talk to us!!!! Lew - hope the packing is going to plan and that you haven't packed hubby in a body bag yet! Trifley - It's very sad the bitching that happens on the general boards. I can't understand how people can be so unkind to one another. For some people the boards are a very big part of their lives due to personal circumstances and I think they try to wield power over others by creating fights and nastiness. I'm glad we have our little peaceful haven in here - everyone is so nice and so supportive of each other. Thanks Tony for forwarding our lucky numbers. Tony - if we win my hubby will knock you over in the rush to buy a big telly!! We already have two perfectly adequate TV's but no - he wants an enormous one! Oh well - I'd be able to get a better look at Toby on Dancing with the Stars! He's my favourite! Although I fancy Noeline's partner Camillo a bit also! Hello to everyone else - waving to everyone I haven't mentioned Cheers Anna

Wilson, I have Legacy (and another family History program) - I have the paid version, there is a free version also. If you have the paid for version, you just click on Internet in the top line, and then 'Check for Legacy Update', if there is an update, it just comes down and goes into your program, you dont have to do anything (maybe reboot at the end, but it would tell you). You shouldnt have to go on line to update it. I dont know why you would have got a corrupt file. My family history is in another file, and is not affected by the download. Jood

Hi Joodles I am using Legacy, love the program and just want to up date it. I used to just download from the internet the new update, but last time i did that, i ended up with a corrupt file and have been a bit shy of direct downloads since then. It took me ages ( like a couple of months) to get into my family tree file and even though i had eveything backed up to disc, because my program had a problem i couldn't get access my info. Took phone calls and emails to the US to rectify the problem, so not keen to go down that ally again. I thought i had lost all the years of work that goes into family research. I am much more careful now and have hard copies of everything. Trifley, i have to agree this is a lovely thread, i hate it when i can't check in for a few days. Take care Wilson

Arvo Wattlers Yes we ARE the nicest, most fun lot of peeps on the site. Great to have such good cyber-friends as you lot. I'm not going to bother to read those other threads any more.........it takes too long and it's too depressing. I'll just stick with our lot. I hope you're all fit & happy. I'm off to do the dreaded ironing now :o( Might have a sherry while I'm doing it. See y'all later Big ~~~~~~~waves and <<<hugs>>> to all love Trifley, Queen of the Nile

Just received a text msg from Laurie in answer to my welcome home txt 'Thanks, after a few zzzz I should be right' Wilson - which program is it - I'll check it out Jood

Afternoon Everyone, Sore feet, tired bones.......can't wait til my next day off, was on a late, early (get home at 22.30 and leave at 0630), early again tomorrow, ......go numbers........ thanks Anna for buying the chance to retire ticket. I haven't been on for a couple of days, so hope everyone is well. I am on dial up too, and would love broad band......one day. I have had a couple of positive hot matches, so added with my lucky break from the Bendigo fair, i have soooo much tree to work on, can't wait to get a chance to get to it. Plus I bought an update to the family tree program i use and need a work free day to load it on. The program designer suggests that i delete the old prog and then load on the updated one. He says that the computer will hang on to the info on the old prog. Has anyone done this and is it true. I think i would find him and kill him if i lost any info,lol. I have backed up on about five discs, so should be alright, but still nervous. Nice to hear everyones news. Take care all catch up again soon, Wilson

Hi SuzyQ, Yes it's Glenda blowing like crazy over in the west and not me this time - lol I had one named after me a few years back - was good and didn't cause too much damage. Haven't done any packing yet - but have done a folder of family info. Daughter has just got her birthday pressie off layby - digital camera - so she is playing around with that. I'm taking it with me so I will have the whole drive to SA to read the manual and hopefully understand how to use it. Gotta go, still lots to do. I'll be back next Tuesday, so keep the messages short or I'll never catch up. Good luck to all the footy followers - may your team have a win. Hope I'll be CROWing but Tony won't be happy if I am - lol Take care everyone, cu next week Gwenda

Good Afternoon all, I think we may have the lucky numbers this week., but if not, we must have them for the week after. It's 21 million. or is it the week after/ I am really looking forward to broadband. At the moment I can play a card game while waiting for a page to come up, it's very frustrating. I was told to ring back the middle of next week to organise it, as the exchange won't be ready until the 31st. Then it will take about a week. It will be good to have the phone line free, and it won't cost any more than I pay now, because I won't have the phone calls. Also I get it half price for 9 months, so infact it will be cheaper. Also I get more downloads. Are you home yet Laurie?? Wakey Wakey. Have you thawed out yet? Yes Mary, Neville is okay. How is John? Devely, you are so good. I would like to loose about 15kilos but I am not very good at sticking to a diet. Neville and I are going to see a dietician next week, but what I would really like is a personal chef and a trainer thown in. Who knows, if we win my dream might come true. It's another sunny day here, started out a bit cloudy. Rain forecast for tomorrow so i hope that it comes. We seem to be getting battered from both sides, last I heard was that Gwenda ( sorry Glenda ) had been dowgraded. I hope everyone comes through this one okay. Hope everyone is fine, Good Luck with the move Lew. I would love to move but it all seems like too much just now. Hope you all have a great weekend Love SuzyQ

No no Peta dear I mentioned you to the other girls when we were at the Bendigo meet up saying that I thought you had mentioned on this thread that you might come to it and all the girls there said who??? so I thought I was nuts probably am anyway and its Lara mate so you don't get mixed up with Laurie and I am sure Tony and Judy both will be able to tell you places to visit around there , so where are you please? I have defiantly forgotten that? are you the girl from out of Rockie we did hear from someone up there at one time didn't we peeps or is that too a figment of my imagination cu all later Lara

Hi Laura & everyone else, Wouldn't have been at the Bendigo Meet Laura. Not suprised you got a few strange looks. Prob wasn't on here enough to stick in peoples memories. Waiting for a meet in Adelaide. Haven't been able to spend much time on computer for the last few months. Time keeps on getting away from me. Just been getting on checking email & getting out again. Hopefully things are slowing down now. Son has appoint with centrelink tomorrow. I have my finger crossed for him, but am expecting another mess up. Got a trip to Nunnawadding, Vic coming up June long weekend. Got a basketball carnival to attend ( husband coaches). I expect i wont see much but the inside of stadiums. Hopefully will get some sight seeing in as well. Anyone know the area? Any interesting spots to visit? Well back to work. Time to go on the pick up the kids trip. T C all . Peta

hi Peta I wondered where you had gone to I asked about you at the Bendigo meet up and got some funny looks so thought I had imagined you girl what other excuse have you got for not being on here more often doing your Family history research is not good enough reason, please come back and see us more often LOL Heather Albury thanks for email addie and will get that itinerary to you asap thanks also for the search engine tip found a message on there from a girl whom I have been trying to contact for three years so unreal couldn't believe my eyes, now waiting anxiously for her to reply to my email so many thanks . Laurie are you home yet cooeeee or still on the way??? Leah glad you liked them get so many and some are pretty awful like the other day got an email of snake folks I'm putting a post on the general board that Id' like you all to read please entitled 'this is disgusting and every mum and dad needs to read ' bye for now Lara

Mary - you missed some of our pages while you were away. LewLew has asked us up to camp on her property in Mudgee in February when her OH is away. Remember she was going to organize a drive in for us? And you were going to run round with your torch - hahaha But we will definitely get to the Casino soon - as soon as HM arrives home and gives us a date. Mary, we didnt get samples, only some of the people in the front row (plus all the male staff who rushed up!). The recipes are in a book obtainable from supermarket $2.95 - I'll find it and give you the name of it. It would be about a month later than the show tho, I'd imagine. Jood

Morning all... Sorry I didnt get on yesterday but I decided to ,,besides take hubby to lunch at the club,, to do some research...I am at that stage ,,,everywhere I turn I hit a brick wall...and I just cant seem to move on..very frustrating ... Just reading through the messages and boy you lot move fast.. took me ages just to read yesterdays .. thank goodness there is no agro in this thread.. have just been reading some of the others and cant work out how they can go on that way.. I always told my kids it was much easier to be nice than to be nasty..takes too much thinking working out how to be nasty whereas being nice comes naturally...I have met the nicest peeps on this thread and you are all top class in my book.. Anna Thanks for getting the lotto ticket.. Hope it is the winning one... Sue What a nice person you are and thank goodness for a patient David...LOL...He sounds nice..Have a lovely holiday at Easter and stay well..You are going so well with your diet,, congratulations,, can you let me know what diet it is as it sounds like a good one and I need to loose a lot...ate to much over in NZ... Heather thanks for the tip.. will give it a go.. try anything to break down these brick walls.. Susan.. Glad you had a win on lotto ,, save it for the trip to the uk...Glad you are going on to broadband ,,it is so much better..dont have to worry about anyone trying to get you on the phone and cant get through because you are on the net.. Hope Neville went OK at the docs. and that you are keeping well also.. worry about you a bit my girl.. Tony I think you are a bit down about Sydney winning the Grand Final last year..I wont mind if someone else wins it this year,, we like to share,,we are very generous peeps up here in Sydney.. Hi Peta Nice to see ya back.. Hope your son finds a job soon.. it is a bit of a worry isnt it..glad you are having a little success with the tree, wish I could do the same but my head is getting flatter by the day hitting it against the brick wall. Joodles.. Did you enjoy the TV show.. and did you get to sample some of the food.. I find that show frustrating as they dont have enough time to tell you what they are doing ..It all seems so rushed ...Glad you got a email from Michael,, pity he didnt get in touch while he was here.. but never mind..as long as he had a good holiday...perhaps we will see him on here soon.. Lara Nice to see ya girl.. hope you are looking after yourself.. Leah. I have a site where peeps in NZ will do lookups for you. It is in Auckland I think..I will find it and let you know..I dont know of any site like GR in NZ but if you know where they lived in NZ try googling the town and the council will have the records of the cemetary on their books and my be able to help.. I have the email addy for the chap in New Plymouth if that is where they lived.Will get back to you with the website.. Lew.. Any hints on how to get rid of 40 years of hoarding.. We are hoping to move this year so need any help and advice I can get.. Good luck with the move and enjoy your new house..One day we might be able to have a meet at Lithgow with Joodles and any others who live around the place...the electric train goes to Lithgow so it wouldnt be to hard..???? Laurie Welcome home mate and hope you are not suffering from jetlag to much.. dont need to ask if you had a nice holiday as I am sure you did.. cant wait to catch up and hear all about it..have a rest and about 2 in the morning you will be awake enough to pop on here and put in an appearance as you will be wide awake...LOL Well better go and do some work,, dosent pay to not visit everyday as it takes so long to do a message... Hi Sandra Hope you are well.. Love to all Maryxx