General Chat

Evening all you waffling Wattlers It has finally cooled down here in beautiful Qld. Temp reached 34* here and the humidity was awful. The storm which passed through about 5:30pm did little to cool or wet things down. I haven't heard yet if other areas of the Coast got more rain than we did. The humidity went up again this evening so hubby has gone to bed with the air con for a while to cool the room a bit. I envy those of you living in the colder climbes. Rebs......hope your feeling better. Although the heat today wouldn't have made you feel any better. Don't worry....it'll be nice in Yarrawonga. Devily........fingers X X X that the puta geek works miracles with your puta. When they work they are wonderful......when they don't they're a bas***d. Hi Wilson......I hope you get some rain soon. My sister & her hubby grow sheep in Bredbo (near Cooma) and they haven't had rain for a while too. Rainy thoughts on their way to you. I've got a busy day tomorrow so I'll trot of now and try to get some sleep. Hugs and ~~~~~waves to all you wonderful cyber friends. love Trifley Queen of the Nile.

Hi Vonny.............LYCANTHROPY very good! Deserves a big <<<<clap>>>> love Trifley

Good Morning Wattlers Its raining again, typical as Dannielle is going to camp today. Anyway got some good news. Firstly the bloke is able to access our bad hard drive, he checked it out on our puta first, but our puta would not access the drive, he thought maybe it was a bit slow, so David went with him to his place and after working on it for a couple of hours, he can get into the drive and is able to transfer the files to his puta, as he has a big storage space, then we can transfer them to DVD discs, as you can get more on them than a CD, them bring them home and put on our puta. The hard drive, he found out had bad sectors which was causing it to play up, so it looks like we may have to get a new one, but I dont care, at least we can get the info off it. The other bit of good news is I got on the scales this morning and I am over the moon. I have lost 10kgs YIPPPEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!! Catch you all after. Cheers Sue

Damn I typed out a message and lost it!!! For the second time ……………………… Congratulations Sue – that is an admirable (and envious) effort. What diet are you on? Good news about the hard drive also. Rebs, hope you have fizzed out now and feeling better. My turn to buy the ticket today – wish me luck. Jood

Morning folk!! Just crawled out of bed, but I think it was only the heat that woke me up. Trifely, what an amazing storm last night. Did it effect you much on the coast? Unfortunately it's left us with very sticky weather. Checked out my homepage for the weather, and they said more sun than clouds, but haven't given a temp rating for today or mention further storm activity. So bloody unpredictable they won't even commit. lol!! And these Qld'ers have the cheek to mock Melbournes weather patterns. Hey has anyone heard from Rudes? Been a bit quiet over the last few days. I'm not allowed to mention a certain football match, but I wouldn't think that was enough to keep him away. ??? Devly, aren't you wonderful. All that weight disappearing....... I can see a big shopping spree coming on. Just rewards for all your hard work. Deffo all fizzed out Jood. The rest of the stew was consigned to the toilet bowl in the boys bathroom. Might do some good and clean it on the way down. lol!! Off to recharge the coffee cup, catch you all later. love Rebs x

Hello fellow wafflers Ooooooh - Jood! Cross everything and go get those lucky numbers girl! A big prize this Saturday - lots for us to share around. Plans back on the drawing board for big tellies etc! Seriously, what would you all do if you won a lot of money? I would definitely do some traveling, back to UK first I think. I'd replace my 1996 corolla hatch for something sporty - I think red! And I'd give some to my son who is always broke. That would be a start. Welcome back Gwenda - glad the family gathering went well. My mother's family have a huge reunion planned for the Easter weekend - our family history book has been compiled and will be distributed at the reunion. We all sent in photos and family stories etc so I'm really looking forward to it. We have hired a hall in the country town where the family settled when they migrated from Germany in the 1860's, the catering is all planned - bbq's etc, the school has given permission for people to camp in the school grounds, there is a reunion dance in the hall on the Saturday evening and on Sunday, the local Family History Society/Museum is opening up their rooms for all of us to visit. Should be great. Devly - glad you got your puter sorted. We have a 'thingy' that backs everything up automatically at 10pm every night. Hubby is into all that sort of thing. And 10kgs - wow - what an inspiration you are! Congratulations - it is hard work but it makes you feel so good when you've done it! Hi Trifley - nice piccy of your son - and his car - on the photo pages. Thank goodness he got his wheels sorted in time - or should I say he's lucky he had an assertive mother who kicked some butt! We had about 8 mls here - missed out on any big rain. Hi Vonny - swallowed a lexicon have you??? You should do 7 word story - it's quite mad! Best get off here and do something else .....won't mention that four letter word that starts with w and ends with k!! Waves to everyone else - hopes Rebs has stopped fizzing! Luv Anna PS Did you see the 'pants' thread on General, asking everyone what sort of knickers they wear? Bridget Jones, thongs etc etc. Well one lady said she wore Harvest Festival Knickers - 'all is safely gathered in'!! Don'tcha luv it??

Hi ya fellow wattlers, Have just caught up with all your ramblings - pmsl at the bi carb Rebs, and you are not going to make us all just wear scarves at Yarrawonga to keep you company are you? - I've changed my mind I'm not coming! lol. (Only 20 sleeps until we invade Yarrawonga). Yeh - Sue congratulations, you will have to change your name to super slimmer sue - whats your secret girl? C'mon - share - Pleeassee. Haven't seen much of Tony - maybe the tattie cakes gave him indigestion while he was scoffing them down. (Oh godness now why did I say that - now my mouth is watering) - change subject - have to think of something else. Have been putting down a floor and building a wall at the cottage on the weekend, and have decided those who do step aerobics can have it on their own. All day stepping from floor level to ground level (75cm) and back again I should have buns like Elle - well at least some sort of visible improvement to make me feel better. Must admit the muscle tone has improved in my legs - Ken reckons its 'cause I'm not sitting on my bum in front of the computer all day - lol. I'm laughing to myself as Ken thought buying a renovaters delight would cure me of DIY - but he forgot that I'm just improving all my skills - more practice makes perfect (smug smile). Mind you at 52 I didn't quite think of building as a part time career change! Thought I just might loose some weight - as an added bonus - but I'm afraid no such luck -as yet. I'm just going to have to put up with being cuddly. Keep everything crossed Jood when you go buy that ticket - what we could do with $21 mill. heh - maybe we could use some to bribe Uk officials into releasing the 1911 census! lol just think of the brick walls we could smash. Well catch you later have to do some w**k while I'm here. Have to pay for ancestry some how! jude 3

Morning All, good God you lot can prattle!!!!!! Well the move is over and I an NEVER moving again. When I die, just heap all my clothes out in the garden, build a fire and plonk me on top! My whole body is aching and I must have walked a million miles just putting things away. Some of the new furniture arrived yesterday and is all flat packed, so a handyman is coming around at 2.00 pm today to start assembling it. Then at 3 the antenna man arrives and at 4 the cable guy is coming to try and hook up broadband. Bloody Telstra, 5 hours on the phone to them and still we can't get online! I'm sick of talking to people, all I want is a technican to come and fix it. Hope everybody is fit and well. Hugs to you all. Lew Lew xxx

Morning All, Thanks for the rain thought s Trifley, looks a bit cloudy, so maybe your thoughts are working lol. I hope so OH starting to get a bit jittery. Devily, 10kgs that is fantastic...i have been making myself walk eveywhere lately, not much weight loss yet, but try to convince myself that i am fitter lol. I usually arrive early to where ever i am going in case it takes me longer to walk than i thought, and i don't want to have to hurry and arrive with red face lol. Fingers crossed,....make that everything crossed for the important ticket buying Jood. This could be the week, ......composing my resignation letter....nicely of course lol. Have a good day wattlers take care Wilson

Hello Wattlers, is it sunny? i should be in bed XXX

Hello Wattlers Firstly fingers, toes and everything crossed for Saturdays lotto, think money when you buy the ticket Jood. Thank you for all your congrats on my weight loss. It can be a hard slog at times. I am about half way there, but I am feeling better for it. seeing as some want to know what diet I am on and all about it I will try and explain, without rambling too much. And no smart comments about the name of the diet hee hee. Firstly it is called Fatloss for idiots, now I am not sure if it makes me an idiot cause it is working for me???? LOL. Anyway I got onto the site and read what I could without paying the join up fee (which wasnt much) of $27 US, I think it worked out to be about $34 -$36 Aus Dollars. I ummed and arrred for a while then David said to try it if I like as it is cheaper than Jenny Craig or weight watchers, which dont always work either. So he paid the money for me and I was able to find out more. You go into the site and go to a menu page and it askes you to pick a food, well you have 4 choices, once you pick one it goes to another 4 foods, which you pick another food and so on. for about 14 picks. Then it does a menu up, which you can print off from the puta, with meals for 11 days. Each day you have 4 meals and you can eat them in whatever order you like to. Then you have 3 days where you can eat whatever you like, of course if you pigg out you will put most of the weight back on that you lost over the 11 days, so it just means to be sensible. Some of the foods that you get to choose from are Fruit Salad, Banana Milkshake, Egg Salad, Mixed Vegies, Pasta with Spagetti Sauce, Grapes, Cantalope, Sandwich, Ham and Pineapple, Chicken, Tuna Salad, Mixed Nuts, Fish Fillet, Egg Omlette, Flavoured Oatmeal, Scrambled Eggs, Mixed Fruit. There are others but this is just a list of the foods I have chosen over the 8 weeks. You dont have to worry about measuring calories or weight or anything like that, you eat how much you like but never over eat. The main rules that they say helps with weight loss and without doing this it wont be successful, so they say, is you must drink about 10 glasses of water a day, this was my hardest obsticle, as I hate water, also to walk 2 thirty minute walks or 1 forty five minute walk. You dont have to walk fast, just enought to get the heart rate up slightly. Which is good cause with my condition I cant do strenuous exercise. You also have to remove fats and sugars from your diet. So I have sugar free coke, and in my coffee I put Frutcose, which is a fruit based sweetener. Also no cakes or bikkies, or chocolate, which I have never been a big eater of those thing so it doesnt worry me. On the website it recons that you can loose 9 pounds in 11 days, I think that is about 4 kg, well I havnt been loosing that much, but I am happy with loosing about 2 kg in that time. Well that is the basis of what I am doing, I hope I didnt confuse or bore you too much. If you want to look, I have added the site below, but you cant find out much until you pay for it, http://fatloss4idiots(.)com/index(.)php Cheers Sue

Hi Wattlers, congratulations Devily, well done,you'll be able to go and get a whole new wardrobe soon. Lew Lew, hang in there it's almost over and you can get back to normal and spend lots of time chatting to us. Joodles , hope you get the right ticket , it's very hard trying to get things done when your fingers,toes and legs are crossed...lol TONY< where is he???? he makes us eat tattycakes then disappears. Better get some wages done before my office gets invaded, back later Jude2

Hi Lemon - are you still there? Why are you up so late? Not sunny here - overcast but no decent rain - still dry as chips. You must be headed for a Scottish Spring - heather blooming on the hills etc etc! But still flipping freezing!! Off to bed with you woman.............. Anna

Hi Lemon Nelly Dont know about the rest of Aus, but it is raining in Tassie and expecting highland snow over the next couple of days. Cheers Sue

Weather update for Melb.... bl***y windy, looks like rain, getting cloudier by the minute about 19degs I want summer back .....I'm not finished with it yet!!!!!!!!! Jude2

Lemsy, what are you still doing up? You should get some sleep, I think you'll be needing it in order to deal with the young pipsquawk. Cheeky git isn't he??? Gotta luv 'im. pmsl!!! Not sunny here in overcast Qld. Very cloudy, hot, steamy, muggy. Another storm brewing for this afternoon I think. over 30 C in the middle of autumn......will this heat never end? Whew!! Count to 100 Lew. Nearly there, and you can finally put your feet up and relax. Anyway, off for a shower. Just blew the cobwebs off the weight bench, and my legs and arms are protesting over the effort. I think some hot water and liniment might be necessary. *slowly wanders off in search of wintergreen oil.*

Hi Anna.....hubby is nights, he works on a local paper.....so I hung about he should be in soon. I was on skype and time just flew in. I will be a half shut knife tomorrow XX

hi Rebs thought I might catch you....been skyping with BC, Hevs and babs.....they can talk for Britain them three...me I'm the quiet one lol So happy to see you matey XX

Cheeky cow, she is just as bad we are keeping her company;;;;;; Hiya Rebs you ok babe;;; where's Tony or have I missed him;;;; if so Thanks son said he will do that if needed;;;; Hiya Lew lew you ok babes glad the move went ok;; so you just gone to mountain region then;;;

Lems!!!! Yeah, I can usually be found here this time of day. How's you?? I see more unrest has occurred on the boards, although I didn't see who or over what this time. Good enough reason to stay in the background for a while longer I think. Can't be fuffed with all the crap that's been happening lately. BTW...I haven't bothered with skype, but my email addy is also my messenger contact if you're ever on there. off for that shower before my muscles seize up any more. Catch you later hon. Take care. Love Rebs x