Morning all,
Thought someone would have already done a Jan 2011 Chat.

Oh and morning..
I tried to sleep but the fireworks went off from early causing Max to startle and bark. The man had a 6 am start an needed to sleep so I stayed up with my hand cupped around dogs snout telling him no! and shut up! everytime he went to bark. He soon got the idea and I went back to bed just after midnight.
The garden is ok, well the veges are, but the feirce wind’s turned my yard into a compost pile of leaves and small tree branches. Patio looks like a bombsite.
A clean up and sweep is in order.

Happy Potter said:

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I tried to sleep but the fireworks went off from early causing Max to startle and bark.

we put Puta in the kitchen, her cage is occupied by Stray Cat of a night…

I’m cleaning out a box of papers that have sat round the house for about 2.5 years….slack I know….cranking up the shredder as I type.

Lucky1 said:

I’m cleaning out a box of papers that have sat round the house for about 2.5 years….slack I know….cranking up the shredder as I type.

I love a good clean out! lol
It’s like throwing the past years rubbish out and starting anew..

Our shed times 2 clean up turned into a massive house clean out as well. The lounge room looks like a lounge room again, and the store room is tidy.

The girls bedroom is all ready for Yeehah and son :D

Got a huge bag of good clothing for the salvos.
Oven glistening and stovetop like new.. store room fridge and freezer cleaned and UFO’s (unidentifiable fridge objects) thrown, and hubbys gone nuts with a long handled duster on spider webs outside. He cut the lawn and turned the compost heap and it looks fab, nearly ready.

Nobody wants a large bag of shredded paper and my worm farms are full of it. And I don’t want it in the compost, lest it blow all over the yard. Dunno what else to do with it..brians gone blank.

I love a good clean out! lol
It’s like throwing the past years rubbish out and starting anew..
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Heheheheh this is from 1995…those were that days…… good wages coming in and an electricity bill for just over $100 for 2 adults and 2 rugrats. House 100% on elect too.

MrBl’s closest friend is heading to Townsville for a while in the new year. Something about a bridge over the Ross River? He’s head surveyor.

bubba louie said:

MrBl’s closest friend is heading to Townsville for a while in the new year. Something about a bridge over the Ross River? He’s head surveyor.

that would be the Douglas Arterial duplication bridge…

I can’t work out what happened to those first two posts. They never showed in the LHC then a window said i was not connected. So I wrote them again. Sorry if you had to read both twice.

pomolo said:

I can’t work out what happened to those first two posts. They never showed in the LHC then a window said i was not connected. So I wrote them again. Sorry if you had to read both twice.

always happy to read nice comments about my pictures at least twice pom, thanks for that! :)

We have strong sunshine here. I don’t think it even rained overnight either. Possible storm this evening. Got the back house lawn mowed and whipper snipped yesterday. that was an achievement for us. the humidity is a killer for doing anything physical. Heavens, you only have to sit around to sweat bucket fulls.

Today the front yard. Not such heavy going as the back and not as much of it. Then there are the weeds………. It seems now that a lot of weeding I did last year was a waste of time. You can’t just flick them out with a knife blade because they regrow from left over root. I can’t see me sitting for hours in every corner of the yard to make sure I extract all roots. Glyphosate doesn’t work very well on these particular ones either.

I’ll flick through what PM has just posted than off to work on the next garden chore.

pomolo said:

We have strong sunshine here. I don’t think it even rained overnight either. Possible storm this evening. Got the back house lawn mowed and whipper snipped yesterday. that was an achievement for us. the humidity is a killer for doing anything physical. Heavens, you only have to sit around to sweat bucket fulls.

Today the front yard. Not such heavy going as the back and not as much of it. Then there are the weeds………. It seems now that a lot of weeding I did last year was a waste of time. You can’t just flick them out with a knife blade because they regrow from left over root. I can’t see me sitting for hours in every corner of the yard to make sure I extract all roots. Glyphosate doesn’t work very well on these particular ones either.

I’ll flick through what PM has just posted than off to work on the next garden chore.

Veggie Gardens need a good weed, Lawn needs mowing (waiting for the new ride on), Generator decide it doesn’t like building new shed, and packed it in yesterday.

Spud Bake for tea, Home grown spuds as well MMMMMMMMM.

pomolo said:

We have strong sunshine here. I don’t think it even rained overnight either. Possible storm this evening. Got the back house lawn mowed and whipper snipped yesterday. that was an achievement for us. the humidity is a killer for doing anything physical. Heavens, you only have to sit around to sweat bucket fulls.

Today the front yard. Not such heavy going as the back and not as much of it. Then there are the weeds………. It seems now that a lot of weeding I did last year was a waste of time. You can’t just flick them out with a knife blade because they regrow from left over root. I can’t see me sitting for hours in every corner of the yard to make sure I extract all roots. Glyphosate doesn’t work very well on these particular ones either.

I’ll flick through what PM has just posted than off to work on the next garden chore.

add a surfactant to your glyphosate pom, you’ll get better results.

Also, one (and only one) weather model is suggesting a Low over at Vanuatu could turn into a Cat1 TC by the week’s end… it’s currently projected to aim at Fraser Island next week. Now this is a long way off, and things can change in a day, but the SE corner of Qld don’t need a puff of wind next week. :(

Veg gardener said:

pomolo said:

We have strong sunshine here. I don’t think it even rained overnight either. Possible storm this evening. Got the back house lawn mowed and whipper snipped yesterday. that was an achievement for us. the humidity is a killer for doing anything physical. Heavens, you only have to sit around to sweat bucket fulls.

Today the front yard. Not such heavy going as the back and not as much of it. Then there are the weeds………. It seems now that a lot of weeding I did last year was a waste of time. You can’t just flick them out with a knife blade because they regrow from left over root. I can’t see me sitting for hours in every corner of the yard to make sure I extract all roots. Glyphosate doesn’t work very well on these particular ones either.

I’ll flick through what PM has just posted than off to work on the next garden chore.

Veggie Gardens need a good weed, Lawn needs mowing (waiting for the new ride on), Generator decide it doesn’t like building new shed, and packed it in yesterday.

What a bugger Veg. How will you finish it now?

Veg gardener said:

Spud Bake for tea, Home grown spuds as well MMMMMMMMM.

bit early for tea eh veg?

Veg gardener said:

Spud Bake for tea, Home grown spuds as well MMMMMMMMM.

You’re a clever Vegie Veg.

pomolo said:

Veg gardener said:

pomolo said:

We have strong sunshine here. I don’t think it even rained overnight either. Possible storm this evening. Got the back house lawn mowed and whipper snipped yesterday. that was an achievement for us. the humidity is a killer for doing anything physical. Heavens, you only have to sit around to sweat bucket fulls.

Today the front yard. Not such heavy going as the back and not as much of it. Then there are the weeds………. It seems now that a lot of weeding I did last year was a waste of time. You can’t just flick them out with a knife blade because they regrow from left over root. I can’t see me sitting for hours in every corner of the yard to make sure I extract all roots. Glyphosate doesn’t work very well on these particular ones either.

I’ll flick through what PM has just posted than off to work on the next garden chore.

Veggie Gardens need a good weed, Lawn needs mowing (waiting for the new ride on), Generator decide it doesn’t like building new shed, and packed it in yesterday.

What a bugger Veg. How will you finish it now?

Close engouh to the dam pump Shed(spare power points) to run two extension cords down to the new shed. Dads on the roof now finishing the screws off, old drill packed it in and the Battery drill Batteries wont recharge any more. Means where back to the Bunnings drill

pain master said:

Veg gardener said:

Spud Bake for tea, Home grown spuds as well MMMMMMMMM.

bit early for tea eh veg?

Teas about close to 5pm around here on the last day for the weekend.

pain master said:

pomolo said:

We have strong sunshine here. I don’t think it even rained overnight either. Possible storm this evening. Got the back house lawn mowed and whipper snipped yesterday. that was an achievement for us. the humidity is a killer for doing anything physical. Heavens, you only have to sit around to sweat bucket fulls.

Today the front yard. Not such heavy going as the back and not as much of it. Then there are the weeds………. It seems now that a lot of weeding I did last year was a waste of time. You can’t just flick them out with a knife blade because they regrow from left over root. I can’t see me sitting for hours in every corner of the yard to make sure I extract all roots. Glyphosate doesn’t work very well on these particular ones either.

I’ll flick through what PM has just posted than off to work on the next garden chore.

add a surfactant to your glyphosate pom, you’ll get better results.

Also, one (and only one) weather model is suggesting a Low over at Vanuatu could turn into a Cat1 TC by the week’s end… it’s currently projected to aim at Fraser Island next week. Now this is a long way off, and things can change in a day, but the SE corner of Qld don’t need a puff of wind next week. :(

You got any good news PM? There is a certain feel in the air that we have a lot more rain to come. Maybe the predictions are right. Heaven forbid!

I’ll try the surfacant. thanks.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

We have strong sunshine here. I don’t think it even rained overnight either. Possible storm this evening. Got the back house lawn mowed and whipper snipped yesterday. that was an achievement for us. the humidity is a killer for doing anything physical. Heavens, you only have to sit around to sweat bucket fulls.

Today the front yard. Not such heavy going as the back and not as much of it. Then there are the weeds………. It seems now that a lot of weeding I did last year was a waste of time. You can’t just flick them out with a knife blade because they regrow from left over root. I can’t see me sitting for hours in every corner of the yard to make sure I extract all roots. Glyphosate doesn’t work very well on these particular ones either.

I’ll flick through what PM has just posted than off to work on the next garden chore.

add a surfactant to your glyphosate pom, you’ll get better results.

Also, one (and only one) weather model is suggesting a Low over at Vanuatu could turn into a Cat1 TC by the week’s end… it’s currently projected to aim at Fraser Island next week. Now this is a long way off, and things can change in a day, but the SE corner of Qld don’t need a puff of wind next week. :(

You got any good news PM? There is a certain feel in the air that we have a lot more rain to come. Maybe the predictions are right. Heaven forbid!

I’ll try the surfacant. thanks.

8 day forecast suggests falls of around 100-150mm for SE Qld.

I hate plumbing :(

Now I suppose I might as well climb the LHC while I wait for the toilet to be flushable again.

bon008 said:

I hate plumbing :(

Now I suppose I might as well climb the LHC while I wait for the toilet to be flushable again.

I hear ya bon, we currently have totally saturated soils, which means all of our septic soakage trenches are currently full of water which means we flush with prayer.

pain master said:

bon008 said:

I hate plumbing :(

Now I suppose I might as well climb the LHC while I wait for the toilet to be flushable again.

I hear ya bon, we currently have totally saturated soils, which means all of our septic soakage trenches are currently full of water which means we flush with prayer.

I’m a little over my sulk now. It’s just that plumbing is the one thing I want to be able to rely on – I don’t care if the house is tiny or messy or full of cockroaches or whatever, as long as the toilet will flush. Plumber’s due to arrive between 12 and 3pm. Of course it will cost an extra arm and leg what with it being a public holiday =/

Huh. This plumber is the first to find the sewerage junction at the back of the block – it’s about two feet under ground & chokkas with roots. We reckon the pop pipe must be pretty well rooted along the whole length. Maybe this treatment last a little longer than the one before xmas…

bon008 said:

Huh. This plumber is the first to find the sewerage junction at the back of the block – it’s about two feet under ground & chokkas with roots. We reckon the pop pipe must be pretty well rooted along the whole length. Maybe this treatment last a little longer than the one before xmas…

make sure you get his business card, a good plumber is hard to find.

bon008 said:

Huh. This plumber is the first to find the sewerage junction at the back of the block – it’s about two feet under ground & chokkas with roots. We reckon the pop pipe must be pretty well rooted along the whole length. Maybe this treatment last a little longer than the one before xmas…

Fingers crossed bon :)

Bought the fruit, but never got around to making the Christmas cake…so am making a boiled fruit cake now. Haven’t made a fruit cake in years :)

Just waiting for the fruit to cool to finish so I can add the flour and eggs :)

Anyone here no if a Phone is Next G does it go back to 3G when its in Built up areas? Got low phone service out here and I’m in need of a new phone, Old one decide to be annoying.

pain master said:

bon008 said:

Huh. This plumber is the first to find the sewerage junction at the back of the block – it’s about two feet under ground & chokkas with roots. We reckon the pop pipe must be pretty well rooted along the whole length. Maybe this treatment last a little longer than the one before xmas…

make sure you get his business card, a good plumber is hard to find.

It was a big franchise mob, although this bloke’s name is on the receipt. He left us a $50 discount for next time, too – dunno why the last bloke didn’t, would have been handy today =/

Right, that’s that drama done. Back to relaxing…

Veg gardener said:

Anyone here no if a Phone is Next G does it go back to 3G when its in Built up areas? Got low phone service out here and I’m in need of a new phone, Old one decide to be annoying.

The NextG covers everywhere the 3G or 2G does. If in the slight chance that it can’t pick up NextG coverage, depending on the instrument, it may roam to Telstra/Hutchison 3G network (small shared network).

If you’re looking for a new phone with the best coverage go for a NextG with a blue tick, which means it’s best for rural or remote locations.

bubba louie said:

Veg gardener said:

Anyone here no if a Phone is Next G does it go back to 3G when its in Built up areas? Got low phone service out here and I’m in need of a new phone, Old one decide to be annoying.

The NextG covers everywhere the 3G or 2G does. If in the slight chance that it can’t pick up NextG coverage, depending on the instrument, it may roam to Telstra/Hutchison 3G network (small shared network).

If you’re looking for a new phone with the best coverage go for a NextG with a blue tick, which means it’s best for rural or remote locations.

I got a Telstra T90 (the tough rubber coated weatherproof and bounceproof ruggedness) with the blue tick as I travel in the country a lot. The biggest problem is that it is not compatible with my car’s bluetooth. My car’s problem really.

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Veg gardener said:

Anyone here no if a Phone is Next G does it go back to 3G when its in Built up areas? Got low phone service out here and I’m in need of a new phone, Old one decide to be annoying.

The NextG covers everywhere the 3G or 2G does. If in the slight chance that it can’t pick up NextG coverage, depending on the instrument, it may roam to Telstra/Hutchison 3G network (small shared network).

If you’re looking for a new phone with the best coverage go for a NextG with a blue tick, which means it’s best for rural or remote locations.

I got a Telstra T90 (the tough rubber coated weatherproof and bounceproof ruggedness) with the blue tick as I travel in the country a lot. The biggest problem is that it is not compatible with my car’s bluetooth. My car’s problem really.

MrBL thinks that’s unusual.

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

The NextG covers everywhere the 3G or 2G does. If in the slight chance that it can’t pick up NextG coverage, depending on the instrument, it may roam to Telstra/Hutchison 3G network (small shared network).

If you’re looking for a new phone with the best coverage go for a NextG with a blue tick, which means it’s best for rural or remote locations.

I got a Telstra T90 (the tough rubber coated weatherproof and bounceproof ruggedness) with the blue tick as I travel in the country a lot. The biggest problem is that it is not compatible with my car’s bluetooth. My car’s problem really.

MrBL thinks that’s unusual.

So does Ford, but everyone all over the www are talking about how the T90 is not compatible with many makes of cars. In fact I have tried to download a patch for the phone, but that was a failure because the phone is not exactly PC friendly when you try and plug it into a PC.

Veg gardener said:

Anyone here no if a Phone is Next G does it go back to 3G when its in Built up areas? Got low phone service out here and I’m in need of a new phone, Old one decide to be annoying.

I’m no help Veg. Mobiles don’t work here no matter how much “they” promise us.

Morning! Suns is out. Storms are gone till this arvo.

My strawberries are still fruiting but the rain has ruined the flavour of them. Tomatoes are a worry. Fruit is rotting on the vine. Skin still in tact but all water inside. May be the rain as well. Picked a few beans from the second plantings. Lurv my beans.

Meant to tell you that we missed the launching of the Kookaburra babies. Only by one day I reckon because their opening in the ant nest was still gaping when we got back but it was totally covered over within 24 hours. Darn hard working ants that’s for sure.

Got to do my bit at the Centre today. Be back sometome later on.

pomolo said:

Meant to tell you that we missed the launching of the Kookaburra babies. Only by one day I reckon because their opening in the ant nest was still gaping when we got back but it was totally covered over within 24 hours. Darn hard working ants that’s for sure.

what a shame. maybe next year?

been whipper-snipping. more to do but over it for today.

just made an appointment with the vet for Alex. Found a sizable lump on the side of his neck yesterday. Doesn’t seem to be bothering him but will see what the Vet says. He is too old for surgery as he probably wouldn’t survive the anesthetic. It might be best just to leave it alone until it becomes a problem and then help him slip into the big sleep he’s been practicing for.

bluegreen said:

been whipper-snipping. more to do but over it for today.

just made an appointment with the vet for Alex. Found a sizable lump on the side of his neck yesterday. Doesn’t seem to be bothering him but will see what the Vet says. He is too old for surgery as he probably wouldn’t survive the anesthetic. It might be best just to leave it alone until it becomes a problem and then help him slip into the big sleep he’s been practicing for.

:(

Our visitors left early this morning. I should have played Mum and checked their room before they left because they’ve forgotten a few things. We’ll have to post an asthma spacer to Melbourne.

I haven’t done anything yet today. I’m feeling incredibly lethargic. It’d be nice to just sleep the day away but there’s shopping and some painting that needs doing at some stage.

bluegreen said:

been whipper-snipping. more to do but over it for today.

just made an appointment with the vet for Alex. Found a sizable lump on the side of his neck yesterday. Doesn’t seem to be bothering him but will see what the Vet says. He is too old for surgery as he probably wouldn’t survive the anesthetic. It might be best just to leave it alone until it becomes a problem and then help him slip into the big sleep he’s been practicing for.

Hopefully it will just be benign and can be ignored..

bubba louie said:

Veg gardener said:

Anyone here no if a Phone is Next G does it go back to 3G when its in Built up areas? Got low phone service out here and I’m in need of a new phone, Old one decide to be annoying.

The NextG covers everywhere the 3G or 2G does. If in the slight chance that it can’t pick up NextG coverage, depending on the instrument, it may roam to Telstra/Hutchison 3G network (small shared network).

If you’re looking for a new phone with the best coverage go for a NextG with a blue tick, which means it’s best for rural or remote locations.

Old phone had a blue tick so does this phone, only one with the Rural Coverage was a slide phone.

pomolo said:

Veg gardener said:

Anyone here no if a Phone is Next G does it go back to 3G when its in Built up areas? Got low phone service out here and I’m in need of a new phone, Old one decide to be annoying.

I’m no help Veg. Mobiles don’t work here no matter how much “they” promise us.

Get use to the phone then, Something starts Playing up.

bluegreen said:

been whipper-snipping. more to do but over it for today.

just made an appointment with the vet for Alex. Found a sizable lump on the side of his neck yesterday. Doesn’t seem to be bothering him but will see what the Vet says. He is too old for surgery as he probably wouldn’t survive the anesthetic. It might be best just to leave it alone until it becomes a problem and then help him slip into the big sleep he’s been practicing for.

Poor Alex :(

But he’s had a good life, that’s obvious :)

Veg gardener said:

Lol Yeehah, Got paid to help dad by work yesterday due to the Public Holiday.

Yay Dad!

So is the shed finished or did you say the gutters need to go on? Can’t remember and too lazy to go back through the posts ;)

Yeehah said:

Veg gardener said:

Lol Yeehah, Got paid to help dad by work yesterday due to the Public Holiday.

Yay Dad!

So is the shed finished or did you say the gutters need to go on? Can’t remember and too lazy to go back through the posts ;)

gutters and side gear and the front need the doors (our old roll a doors from the big shed). and then the chook pens need building.

Veg gardener said:

Yeehah said:

Veg gardener said:

Lol Yeehah, Got paid to help dad by work yesterday due to the Public Holiday.

Yay Dad!

So is the shed finished or did you say the gutters need to go on? Can’t remember and too lazy to go back through the posts ;)

gutters and side gear and the front need the doors (our old roll a doors from the big shed). and then the chook pens need building.

Righto, off you go then, get off the computer (didn’t you say something about new year resolution being less computer time somewhere, lol!?!?) and out you go and do some more ;)

You’re young, you’re fit, no excuses laddie!!!!

Yeehah said:

Veg gardener said:

Yeehah said:

Yay Dad!

So is the shed finished or did you say the gutters need to go on? Can’t remember and too lazy to go back through the posts ;)

gutters and side gear and the front need the doors (our old roll a doors from the big shed). and then the chook pens need building.

Righto, off you go then, get off the computer (didn’t you say something about new year resolution being less computer time somewhere, lol!?!?) and out you go and do some more ;)

You’re young, you’re fit, no excuses laddie!!!!

Not aloud to touch it while dads at work…… Might Go and play in them veggie gardens, get my hands covered in dirt.

Veg gardener said:

Yeehah said:

Veg gardener said:

gutters and side gear and the front need the doors (our old roll a doors from the big shed). and then the chook pens need building.

Righto, off you go then, get off the computer (didn’t you say something about new year resolution being less computer time somewhere, lol!?!?) and out you go and do some more ;)

You’re young, you’re fit, no excuses laddie!!!!

Not aloud to touch it while dads at work…… Might Go and play in them veggie gardens, get my hands covered in dirt.

aloud = talking out loud

allowed = you have permission.

I expect you to learn that one, now that you’re all grown up and don’t go to school any more and you have to take control of your own education!

Right, get your hands dirty then, I’m feeling kind and I reckon you’re allowed to do that, lol!

bubba louie said:

Our visitors left early this morning. I should have played Mum and checked their room before they left because they’ve forgotten a few things. We’ll have to post an asthma spacer to Melbourne.

I haven’t done anything yet today. I’m feeling incredibly lethargic. It’d be nice to just sleep the day away but there’s shopping and some painting that needs doing at some stage.

Back from the supermarket. Lots of bare shelves, but they tell me thats just because of the hols and will be restocked tonight. Paid $2.99 for a small iceberg lettuce. :(

Bugga. forgot the Moroccan spice mix.

I can ice skate…just… :)

The manager is quite proud of me, this is my second outing to the rinks (temporary setup for christmas new year holidays)…only about 20 of us on the rinks so I was OK about letting go of the rails…

Dinetta said:

I can ice skate…just… :)

The manager is quite proud of me, this is my second outing to the rinks (temporary setup for christmas new year holidays)…only about 20 of us on the rinks so I was OK about letting go of the rails…

I loved skating in my teens. Some of us went once a week.

pomolo said:

Morning! Suns is out. Storms are gone till this arvo.

My strawberries are still fruiting but the rain has ruined the flavour of them. Tomatoes are a worry. Fruit is rotting on the vine. Skin still in tact but all water inside. May be the rain as well. Picked a few beans from the second plantings. Lurv my beans.

Meant to tell you that we missed the launching of the Kookaburra babies. Only by one day I reckon because their opening in the ant nest was still gaping when we got back but it was totally covered over within 24 hours. Darn hard working ants that’s for sure.

Got to do my bit at the Centre today. Be back sometome later on.

shame about the Kookaburras, oh well, keep an eye on them next year eh?

Our Pumikin vines are rotting with all the rain…

bluegreen said:

been whipper-snipping. more to do but over it for today.

just made an appointment with the vet for Alex. Found a sizable lump on the side of his neck yesterday. Doesn’t seem to be bothering him but will see what the Vet says. He is too old for surgery as he probably wouldn’t survive the anesthetic. It might be best just to leave it alone until it becomes a problem and then help him slip into the big sleep he’s been practicing for.

big :(

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

been whipper-snipping. more to do but over it for today.

just made an appointment with the vet for Alex. Found a sizable lump on the side of his neck yesterday. Doesn’t seem to be bothering him but will see what the Vet says. He is too old for surgery as he probably wouldn’t survive the anesthetic. It might be best just to leave it alone until it becomes a problem and then help him slip into the big sleep he’s been practicing for.

big :(

noticed he is limping too, the leg near the lump. Could be causing pain or pressure on the nerves. Will find out tomorrow I guess when we see the vet.

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Morning! Suns is out. Storms are gone till this arvo.

My strawberries are still fruiting but the rain has ruined the flavour of them. Tomatoes are a worry. Fruit is rotting on the vine. Skin still in tact but all water inside. May be the rain as well. Picked a few beans from the second plantings. Lurv my beans.

Meant to tell you that we missed the launching of the Kookaburra babies. Only by one day I reckon because their opening in the ant nest was still gaping when we got back but it was totally covered over within 24 hours. Darn hard working ants that’s for sure.

Got to do my bit at the Centre today. Be back sometome later on.

shame about the Kookaburras, oh well, keep an eye on them next year eh?

Our Pumikin vines are rotting with all the rain…

so are mine I think and we haven’t had near the rain you guys have :(

Dinetta said:

I can ice skate…just… :)

The manager is quite proud of me, this is my second outing to the rinks (temporary setup for christmas new year holidays)…only about 20 of us on the rinks so I was OK about letting go of the rails…

well done! Kudos! :)

pain master said:

Dinetta said:

I can ice skate…just… :)

The manager is quite proud of me, this is my second outing to the rinks (temporary setup for christmas new year holidays)…only about 20 of us on the rinks so I was OK about letting go of the rails…

well done! Kudos! :)

He wasn’t very happy when I hit my head, and I managed not to skin my knee until the very last (blood on the ice)… but overall I gather they’re chuffed with my achievements…

Thanks for the kudos :)

They are only here until the 23rd, but I am stuck here until …don’t know…

The Patrol is over at Gracemere in the hopes of taking it to the Gladstone races this coming Saturday…Only the Mondeo is going back to Emerald today (via Sarina and Clermont), with Sonny Jim (who starts work again next week) and Pebbles, who needs to gather her Passport, documents and a few bits and pieces for her Exchange to Switzerlund…she received and anxious email from S’lund last night, they heard 80% of Emerald was under water, not realizing that “inundated” can mean simply water on the ground as opposed to houses going completely under…so when they say “international news” I guess they’re serious…

My understanding is the Rockhampton mayor (Hon. Brad Carter) has set up a taskforce to find out who is feeding misinformation to the newsmedia…this is causing distress and disruption that nobody needs on top of the heartbreak that’s already happening with property damage…

The road to the north is open and not likely to flood unless there’s a great deal of “local” rain so the logistics people are trucking stuff from Mackay, after it’s been flown there by the Army…I am going on a toilet paper hunt today…we are obtaining our fresh fruit and vegetables from the local FoodWorks as I know the owner sources as much as he can from the local market gardeners…I understand that some of the fuel companies relocated their tankers north of the Roundabout, just before it went over, so fuel can be trucked from Mackay and not Gladstone…I also read where the big Keppel Kat has offered to ferry (at reasonable rates) between Yeppoon and Gladstone, so all this “isolation” crap is just that…

We see where Emerald’s “Dress Circle” went under…who would have thunk it? Poor buggers…

Here is a quote from BoM:

“FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FITZROY RIVER BASIN
Issued at 6:25 AM on Wednesday the 5th of January 2011
by the Bureau of Meteorology, Brisbane.

Major flooding continues along the Dawson, Comet, Mackenzie and Fitzroy Rivers.

The Fitzroy River at Rockhampton was 9.2 metres at 5am Wednesday, steady and
nearing its peak which is expected to last for at least 36 hours. Further small
rises above 9.2 metres are expected during today.

Flood levels will remain above the major flood level of 8.5 metres for 1 week
after the peak. “

Here’s why the road north is still open

I’m also looking for a photo of the Roundabout bull, now looking very much the Lonely Bull, that I can put up….

Dinetta said:

I’m also looking for a photo of the Roundabout bull, now looking very much the Lonely Bull, that I can put up….

This is the best I can do, can’t find any single photos…:

Lonely Bull at Yeppen floodplains

There’s other photos of interest to the locals only…

Dinetta said:

Here’s why the road north is still open

God Bless the engineer who raised the bridge level!

Morning, catching up ..

I’m glad yous are ok Dinetta. I have been reading the news daily on the floods, but it’s great to read your reports on what’s really happening.

Fab vege beds AnneS!!!

It was lovely to have Yeehah and son here, we really enjoyed their company. We walked around the State Rose Garden yesterday.. and I have to admit, despite living in Werribee for over 35 years, and despite visiting W’bee Park for other reasons, and despite it only being 10 minutes drive away..that is the first time I have seen it!! Things got in the way, life, work, kids ect. I always knew it was just around the corner, lol.

The sun has finally come out to play and is staying out..my veges are going gangbusters and great harvests are just around the corner.
Won’t be going hungry here!

Dinetta said:

Dinetta said:

I’m also looking for a photo of the Roundabout bull, now looking very much the Lonely Bull, that I can put up….

This is the best I can do, can’t find any single photos…:

Lonely Bull at Yeppen floodplains

There’s other photos of interest to the locals only…

at least he is still high and dry, and still has some grass to eat! lol!

I’m back there——————————————————>. Went to sleep in front of the puter last night. D woke me with a gentle tap on the shoulder and I freaked. Couldn’t work out where I was.

Be with you soon.

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

Dinetta said:

I can ice skate…just… :)

The manager is quite proud of me, this is my second outing to the rinks (temporary setup for christmas new year holidays)…only about 20 of us on the rinks so I was OK about letting go of the rails…

well done! Kudos! :)

He wasn’t very happy when I hit my head, and I managed not to skin my knee until the very last (blood on the ice)… but overall I gather they’re chuffed with my achievements…

Thanks for the kudos :)

They are only here until the 23rd, but I am stuck here until …don’t know…

The Patrol is over at Gracemere in the hopes of taking it to the Gladstone races this coming Saturday…Only the Mondeo is going back to Emerald today (via Sarina and Clermont), with Sonny Jim (who starts work again next week) and Pebbles, who needs to gather her Passport, documents and a few bits and pieces for her Exchange to Switzerlund…she received and anxious email from S’lund last night, they heard 80% of Emerald was under water, not realizing that “inundated” can mean simply water on the ground as opposed to houses going completely under…so when they say “international news” I guess they’re serious…

My understanding is the Rockhampton mayor (Hon. Brad Carter) has set up a taskforce to find out who is feeding misinformation to the newsmedia…this is causing distress and disruption that nobody needs on top of the heartbreak that’s already happening with property damage…

The road to the north is open and not likely to flood unless there’s a great deal of “local” rain so the logistics people are trucking stuff from Mackay, after it’s been flown there by the Army…I am going on a toilet paper hunt today…we are obtaining our fresh fruit and vegetables from the local FoodWorks as I know the owner sources as much as he can from the local market gardeners…I understand that some of the fuel companies relocated their tankers north of the Roundabout, just before it went over, so fuel can be trucked from Mackay and not Gladstone…I also read where the big Keppel Kat has offered to ferry (at reasonable rates) between Yeppoon and Gladstone, so all this “isolation” crap is just that…

We see where Emerald’s “Dress Circle” went under…who would have thunk it? Poor buggers…

Here is a quote from BoM:

“FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FITZROY RIVER BASIN
Issued at 6:25 AM on Wednesday the 5th of January 2011
by the Bureau of Meteorology, Brisbane.

Major flooding continues along the Dawson, Comet, Mackenzie and Fitzroy Rivers.

The Fitzroy River at Rockhampton was 9.2 metres at 5am Wednesday, steady and
nearing its peak which is expected to last for at least 36 hours. Further small
rises above 9.2 metres are expected during today.

Flood levels will remain above the major flood level of 8.5 metres for 1 week
after the peak. “

A totally unreal situation for the people up there. My heart goes out to them and you Dinetta. Keep yourself high and dry.

Dinetta said:

Here’s why the road north is still open

Amazing flood fotos.

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Here’s why the road north is still open

God Bless the engineer who raised the bridge level!

I wish he would have a chat to our engineer. They raised our local bridge but it’s still the first to go under after a couple of inches of rain.

back from the vet. the lump is a baddie. It is hard, immobile and on the spinal column and is most likely malignant. Nothing to be done except spoil him until it interferes with his quality of life too much then the big sleep. When that will be will depend on how fast growing it is.

bluegreen said:

back from the vet. the lump is a baddie. It is hard, immobile and on the spinal column and is most likely malignant. Nothing to be done except spoil him until it interferes with his quality of life too much then the big sleep. When that will be will depend on how fast growing it is.

Sorry to hear that BG :(
As you say, spoil him for as long as you can

Yeehah said:

Veg gardener said:

Yeehah said:

Righto, off you go then, get off the computer (didn’t you say something about new year resolution being less computer time somewhere, lol!?!?) and out you go and do some more ;)

You’re young, you’re fit, no excuses laddie!!!!

Not aloud to touch it while dads at work…… Might Go and play in them veggie gardens, get my hands covered in dirt.

aloud = talking out loud

allowed = you have permission.

I expect you to learn that one, now that you’re all grown up and don’t go to school any more and you have to take control of your own education!

Right, get your hands dirty then, I’m feeling kind and I reckon you’re allowed to do that, lol!

Put that Information in the Most used Brain cells.

Dinetta said:

I can ice skate…just… :)

The manager is quite proud of me, this is my second outing to the rinks (temporary setup for christmas new year holidays)…only about 20 of us on the rinks so I was OK about letting go of the rails…

One of the girls I went to school Smashed her knee cap, Popped it out of the skin, Been Ice staking once, If I go again Ill be hanging on to the edge.

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Here’s why the road north is still open

God Bless the engineer who raised the bridge level!

Indeed!

Dinetta said:

I’m also looking for a photo of the Roundabout bull, now looking very much the Lonely Bull, that I can put up….

There’s one in todays Courier Mail.

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

Here is a quote from BoM:

“FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FITZROY RIVER BASIN
Issued at 6:25 AM on Wednesday the 5th of January 2011
by the Bureau of Meteorology, Brisbane.

Major flooding continues along the Dawson, Comet, Mackenzie and Fitzroy Rivers.

The Fitzroy River at Rockhampton was 9.2 metres at 5am Wednesday, steady and
nearing its peak which is expected to last for at least 36 hours. Further small
rises above 9.2 metres are expected during today.

Flood levels will remain above the major flood level of 8.5 metres for 1 week
after the peak. “

A totally unreal situation for the people up there. My heart goes out to them and you Dinetta. Keep yourself high and dry.

Thanks Pomolo..I’m staying high, Fashionista lives about 2 blocks down from the Range (eastern side)…Mr D has mostly been sorting the facts for me…I just wish he wasn’t so pedantic about it…I have ignored him for 2 days just now because I would say “I read this report about the floods” and he would yell and tell me what the real facts were…grrrr…

Because of the wides-spread rains which began back in September, nearly the whole Fitzroy basin is in flood and this accounts for the sheer volume of water coming though now…I hope there’s some commensense in the debriefings about future flood mitigation…

On another note, it was sad to see that the Railway Hotel has burned down, in Charleville…

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Here’s why the road north is still open

God Bless the engineer who raised the bridge level!

I wish he would have a chat to our engineer. They raised our local bridge but it’s still the first to go under after a couple of inches of rain.

Yours is such a hilly area, they’d basically have to bridge from hill to hill…

bluegreen said:

back from the vet. the lump is a baddie. It is hard, immobile and on the spinal column and is most likely malignant. Nothing to be done except spoil him until it interferes with his quality of life too much then the big sleep. When that will be will depend on how fast growing it is.

Is this Alex the Cat?

Veg gardener said:

Dinetta said:

I can ice skate…just… :)

The manager is quite proud of me, this is my second outing to the rinks (temporary setup for christmas new year holidays)…only about 20 of us on the rinks so I was OK about letting go of the rails…

One of the girls I went to school Smashed her knee cap, Popped it out of the skin, Been Ice staking once, If I go again Ill be hanging on to the edge.

Ooooh, I didn’t want to know that! :P

I hung on to the edge for the first visit, there must have been easily 100 people there…without the crowds it was easier to try letting go of the edge…

Did they replace her knee cap? (poor kid)

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

I’m also looking for a photo of the Roundabout bull, now looking very much the Lonely Bull, that I can put up….

There’s one in todays Courier Mail.

Thanks Bubba, will go to see if it is online…

bluegreen said:

back from the vet. the lump is a baddie. It is hard, immobile and on the spinal column and is most likely malignant. Nothing to be done except spoil him until it interferes with his quality of life too much then the big sleep. When that will be will depend on how fast growing it is.

:(

bluegreen said:

back from the vet. the lump is a baddie. It is hard, immobile and on the spinal column and is most likely malignant. Nothing to be done except spoil him until it interferes with his quality of life too much then the big sleep. When that will be will depend on how fast growing it is.

:( he’s had a good life with you tho’

We’ve planted out the last dwarf citrus. It replaces the full size lemon tree in the chooks yard. This one can go for broke and won’t need the pruning that the big tree needed.
I put some plastic trellis bits around it and for a meter out, and a couple big rocks so the poultry can’t dig at the surface. The trellis also marks the area for feeding and mulching. Watered in with some seeweed fert, it should grow well.

Just picked a bunch of corn cobs for lunch. Nomnomnom!

Happy Potter said:

Just picked a bunch of corn cobs for lunch. Nomnomnom!

We had some with our dinner last night. Nomnomnom alright!

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

back from the vet. the lump is a baddie. It is hard, immobile and on the spinal column and is most likely malignant. Nothing to be done except spoil him until it interferes with his quality of life too much then the big sleep. When that will be will depend on how fast growing it is.

Is this Alex the Cat?

yes.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

back from the vet. the lump is a baddie. It is hard, immobile and on the spinal column and is most likely malignant. Nothing to be done except spoil him until it interferes with his quality of life too much then the big sleep. When that will be will depend on how fast growing it is.

:( he’s had a good life with you tho’

yes. a good. long life. been expecting him to go for a while now so it is not too bad. he is not in pain.

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

I’m also looking for a photo of the Roundabout bull, now looking very much the Lonely Bull, that I can put up….

There’s one in todays Courier Mail.

Thanks Bubba, will go to see if it is online…

More photos of the Queensland floods

These include Bundaberg, Warwick, Dalby and some Brisbane…the Brisbane ones cut in at #135 (just change the page number in the address bar)…if you’ve ever lived in Qld or know a little bit about these towns in the photos, this is an interesting selection…the captions are at the bottom of the photos…

I believe the Fitzroy has peaked…and is steady…just driving around the airport and the Jardine playing fields, it looks steady, anyhow…

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

back from the vet. the lump is a baddie. It is hard, immobile and on the spinal column and is most likely malignant. Nothing to be done except spoil him until it interferes with his quality of life too much then the big sleep. When that will be will depend on how fast growing it is.

Is this Alex the Cat?

yes.

It’s a b*gg*r when you realize they’re not going to last forever…

Can’t locate the Summer Weather thread so this is it for now.

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20032.txt

Cop this lot. Well, we’ll cop this lot anyway.

bluegreen said:

back from the vet. the lump is a baddie. It is hard, immobile and on the spinal column and is most likely malignant. Nothing to be done except spoil him until it interferes with his quality of life too much then the big sleep. When that will be will depend on how fast growing it is.

He’s had a good and loving life…….. gentle hugs to a beautiful cat…..spoil him rotten for me BG:)

bluegreen said:

back from the vet. the lump is a baddie. It is hard, immobile and on the spinal column and is most likely malignant. Nothing to be done except spoil him until it interferes with his quality of life too much then the big sleep. When that will be will depend on how fast growing it is.

Ah no Beeg. It seems between us we always have some animal in trouble. It’s sad. Hope it doesn’t hit you too hard.

Veg gardener said:

Dinetta said:

I can ice skate…just… :)

The manager is quite proud of me, this is my second outing to the rinks (temporary setup for christmas new year holidays)…only about 20 of us on the rinks so I was OK about letting go of the rails…

One of the girls I went to school Smashed her knee cap, Popped it out of the skin, Been Ice staking once, If I go again Ill be hanging on to the edge.

I’m with you Veg. We’ll both hold on.

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

Here is a quote from BoM:

“FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FITZROY RIVER BASIN
Issued at 6:25 AM on Wednesday the 5th of January 2011
by the Bureau of Meteorology, Brisbane.

Major flooding continues along the Dawson, Comet, Mackenzie and Fitzroy Rivers.

The Fitzroy River at Rockhampton was 9.2 metres at 5am Wednesday, steady and
nearing its peak which is expected to last for at least 36 hours. Further small
rises above 9.2 metres are expected during today.

Flood levels will remain above the major flood level of 8.5 metres for 1 week
after the peak. “

A totally unreal situation for the people up there. My heart goes out to them and you Dinetta. Keep yourself high and dry.

Thanks Pomolo..I’m staying high, Fashionista lives about 2 blocks down from the Range (eastern side)…Mr D has mostly been sorting the facts for me…I just wish he wasn’t so pedantic about it…I have ignored him for 2 days just now because I would say “I read this report about the floods” and he would yell and tell me what the real facts were…grrrr…

Because of the wides-spread rains which began back in September, nearly the whole Fitzroy basin is in flood and this accounts for the sheer volume of water coming though now…I hope there’s some commensense in the debriefings about future flood mitigation…

On another note, it was sad to see that the Railway Hotel has burned down, in Charleville…

I heard about the Railway Hotel. Charleville has or had so many hotels. My parents owned one when I was a teenager. It burnt down as well but we were long gone when it happened.

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

God Bless the engineer who raised the bridge level!

I wish he would have a chat to our engineer. They raised our local bridge but it’s still the first to go under after a couple of inches of rain.

Yours is such a hilly area, they’d basically have to bridge from hill to hill…

Not really. One decent bridge would do the job. I’ve heard on the grapevine that we are to get a completely new one and a new access road to the Bruce Highway. I wonder if that is going to be in my lifetime.

Happy Potter said:

We’ve planted out the last dwarf citrus. It replaces the full size lemon tree in the chooks yard. This one can go for broke and won’t need the pruning that the big tree needed.
I put some plastic trellis bits around it and for a meter out, and a couple big rocks so the poultry can’t dig at the surface. The trellis also marks the area for feeding and mulching. Watered in with some seeweed fert, it should grow well.

Just picked a bunch of corn cobs for lunch. Nomnomnom!

I fancy corn for lunch. I’ll be right there.

bluegreen said:

back from the vet. the lump is a baddie. It is hard, immobile and on the spinal column and is most likely malignant. Nothing to be done except spoil him until it interferes with his quality of life too much then the big sleep. When that will be will depend on how fast growing it is.

:(:(

Bluddy plastic radiators…
I’m changing a radiator hose on the mans car and the connector part cracked..overtightened the clamp. A changeover radiator is needed.
Bugga.

Dinetta said:

Veg gardener said:

Dinetta said:

I can ice skate…just… :)

The manager is quite proud of me, this is my second outing to the rinks (temporary setup for christmas new year holidays)…only about 20 of us on the rinks so I was OK about letting go of the rails…

One of the girls I went to school Smashed her knee cap, Popped it out of the skin, Been Ice staking once, If I go again Ill be hanging on to the edge.

Ooooh, I didn’t want to know that! :P

I hung on to the edge for the first visit, there must have been easily 100 people there…without the crowds it was easier to try letting go of the edge…

Did they replace her knee cap? (poor kid)

not sure it was when in yr 9

http://www.theplantlist.org/

The Plant List is a working list of all known plant species. Version 1 aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts).

Collaboration between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden enabled the creation of The Plant List by combining multiple checklist data sets held by these institutions and other collaborators.

The Plant List provides the Accepted Latin name for most species, with links to all Synonyms by which that species has been known. It also includes Unresolved names for which the contributing data sources did not contain sufficient evidence to decide whether they were Accepted or Synonyms.

Summary Statistics
The Plant List includes 1,040,426 scientific plant names of species rank. Of these 298,900 are accepted species names.

The Plant List contains 620 plant families and 16,167 plant genera.

…

Thought it may be of interest :)

Happy Potter said:

Bluddy plastic radiators…
I’m changing a radiator hose on the mans car and the connector part cracked..overtightened the clamp. A changeover radiator is needed.
Bugga.

crap!

bon008 said:

http://www.theplantlist.org/

The Plant List is a working list of all known plant species. Version 1 aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts).

Collaboration between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden enabled the creation of The Plant List by combining multiple checklist data sets held by these institutions and other collaborators.

The Plant List provides the Accepted Latin name for most species, with links to all Synonyms by which that species has been known. It also includes Unresolved names for which the contributing data sources did not contain sufficient evidence to decide whether they were Accepted or Synonyms.

Summary Statistics
The Plant List includes 1,040,426 scientific plant names of species rank. Of these 298,900 are accepted species names.

The Plant List contains 620 plant families and 16,167 plant genera.

…

Thought it may be of interest :)

Just 5 minutes too late Bon. I have just ID’d a vine that we have had for 2 years. Even a Bris gardening guru couldn’t id it for me but now I know it’s a Faradaya splendida. Has fruit/seed that look like a white egg. That’s how I got the name eventually. Sometimes I excite myself!!! lol.

pomolo said:

Just 5 minutes too late Bon. I have just ID’d a vine that we have had for 2 years. Even a Bris gardening guru couldn’t id it for me but now I know it’s a Faradaya splendida. Has fruit/seed that look like a white egg. That’s how I got the name eventually. Sometimes I excite myself!!! lol.

I’m eggsited, I have just found an intact copy of Pest Plants in Qld…our others are all dog-eared and tatty…

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Just 5 minutes too late Bon. I have just ID’d a vine that we have had for 2 years. Even a Bris gardening guru couldn’t id it for me but now I know it’s a Faradaya splendida. Has fruit/seed that look like a white egg. That’s how I got the name eventually. Sometimes I excite myself!!! lol.

I’m eggsited, I have just found an intact copy of Pest Plants in Qld…our others are all dog-eared and tatty…

We are easily excited Dinetta. Doesn’t take much to keep us happy.

To control Giant Rats Tail grass, the Qld DPI recommends glyphosate (F7) or flupropanate…anybody familiar with flupropanate?

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Just 5 minutes too late Bon. I have just ID’d a vine that we have had for 2 years. Even a Bris gardening guru couldn’t id it for me but now I know it’s a Faradaya splendida. Has fruit/seed that look like a white egg. That’s how I got the name eventually. Sometimes I excite myself!!! lol.

I’m eggsited, I have just found an intact copy of Pest Plants in Qld…our others are all dog-eared and tatty…

We are easily excited Dinetta. Doesn’t take much to keep us happy.

LOL! I would have preferred a Frogs of Queensland or even a Snakes of Queensland…but the pasture pests will do, especially as we seem to have acquired Giant Pasture Grass from somewhere…

Doh…that’s Giant Rats Tail Grass…

pomolo said:

bon008 said:

http://www.theplantlist.org/

The Plant List is a working list of all known plant species. Version 1 aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts).

Collaboration between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden enabled the creation of The Plant List by combining multiple checklist data sets held by these institutions and other collaborators.

The Plant List provides the Accepted Latin name for most species, with links to all Synonyms by which that species has been known. It also includes Unresolved names for which the contributing data sources did not contain sufficient evidence to decide whether they were Accepted or Synonyms.

Summary Statistics
The Plant List includes 1,040,426 scientific plant names of species rank. Of these 298,900 are accepted species names.

The Plant List contains 620 plant families and 16,167 plant genera.

…

Thought it may be of interest :)

Just 5 minutes too late Bon. I have just ID’d a vine that we have had for 2 years. Even a Bris gardening guru couldn’t id it for me but now I know it’s a Faradaya splendida. Has fruit/seed that look like a white egg. That’s how I got the name eventually. Sometimes I excite myself!!! lol.

Hehe :) I’m always very pleased with myself when I remember a scientific name – because I’m terrible at it!

I don’t know how useful this one will be for identifying mystery plants – I think it’s aiming more to be a one-stop place to list all the names of all the plants in the world – and hence clear up confusion where there are different names used in different countries, etc.

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

I’m eggsited, I have just found an intact copy of Pest Plants in Qld…our others are all dog-eared and tatty…

We are easily excited Dinetta. Doesn’t take much to keep us happy.

LOL! I would have preferred a Frogs of Queensland or even a Snakes of Queensland…but the pasture pests will do, especially as we seem to have acquired Giant Pasture Grass from somewhere…

Our landlord ended up with Giant Parramatta Grass here last year (mainly in the paddocks where he has his cattel) so the local PP Boars and Council made him spray. Not sure what he had to use but it must have been pretty toxic cause he had to get rid of all his cattle and couldn’t re-stock for about 4 months (last year). Just as well we aren’t trying to get organic certification for our vegies. I think we might have ended up with a bit of spray drift because our carob tree started looking sick not long after :(

Dinetta said:

To control Giant Rats Tail grass, the Qld DPI recommends glyphosate (F7) or flupropanate…anybody familiar with flupropanate?

Never heard of it but I love the word.

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

I’m eggsited, I have just found an intact copy of Pest Plants in Qld…our others are all dog-eared and tatty…

We are easily excited Dinetta. Doesn’t take much to keep us happy.

LOL! I would have preferred a Frogs of Queensland or even a Snakes of Queensland…but the pasture pests will do, especially as we seem to have acquired Giant Pasture Grass from somewhere…

It’s a nuisance too.

bon008 said:

pomolo said:

bon008 said:

http://www.theplantlist.org/

The Plant List is a working list of all known plant species. Version 1 aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts).

Collaboration between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden enabled the creation of The Plant List by combining multiple checklist data sets held by these institutions and other collaborators.

The Plant List provides the Accepted Latin name for most species, with links to all Synonyms by which that species has been known. It also includes Unresolved names for which the contributing data sources did not contain sufficient evidence to decide whether they were Accepted or Synonyms.

Summary Statistics
The Plant List includes 1,040,426 scientific plant names of species rank. Of these 298,900 are accepted species names.

The Plant List contains 620 plant families and 16,167 plant genera.

…

Thought it may be of interest :)

Just 5 minutes too late Bon. I have just ID’d a vine that we have had for 2 years. Even a Bris gardening guru couldn’t id it for me but now I know it’s a Faradaya splendida. Has fruit/seed that look like a white egg. That’s how I got the name eventually. Sometimes I excite myself!!! lol.

Hehe :) I’m always very pleased with myself when I remember a scientific name – because I’m terrible at it!

I don’t know how useful this one will be for identifying mystery plants – I think it’s aiming more to be a one-stop place to list all the names of all the plants in the world – and hence clear up confusion where there are different names used in different countries, etc.

I agree with that.

Dinetta said:

Here’s why the road north is still open

pity all the trucks are truckin’ the food south from Mackay to Rocky… we want some meat please?

Dinetta said:

I’m also looking for a photo of the Roundabout bull, now looking very much the Lonely Bull, that I can put up….

Is the Bull all at sea?

AnneS said:

Our landlord ended up with Giant Parramatta Grass here last year (mainly in the paddocks where he has his cattel) so the local PP Boars and Council made him spray. Not sure what he had to use but it must have been pretty toxic cause he had to get rid of all his cattle and couldn’t re-stock for about 4 months (last year). Just as well we aren’t trying to get organic certification for our vegies. I think we might have ended up with a bit of spray drift because our carob tree started looking sick not long after :(

Gee that sounds as bad as the defoliant they use on the cotton…s’posed to be OK but only need a small patch on anything (e.g. a nice big tree) and it dies eventually…

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

To control Giant Rats Tail grass, the Qld DPI recommends glyphosate (F7) or flupropanate…anybody familiar with flupropanate?

Never heard of it but I love the word.

Yes so do I lol! It reminds me of the Snuffleupagump’s name in Sesame Street

pain master said:

Dinetta said:

Here’s why the road north is still open

pity all the trucks are truckin’ the food south from Mackay to Rocky… we want some meat please?

Surely to goodness the private (as opposed to supermarket) butchers have meat?

pain master said:

Dinetta said:

I’m also looking for a photo of the Roundabout bull, now looking very much the Lonely Bull, that I can put up….

Is the Bull all at sea?

Complete with palm trees and rippling wavelets LOL!

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

Dinetta said:

I’m also looking for a photo of the Roundabout bull, now looking very much the Lonely Bull, that I can put up….

Is the Bull all at sea?

Complete with palm trees and rippling wavelets LOL!

I’m betting the canna lillies under the water will come up roses after the water subsides…

bluegreen said:

back from the vet. the lump is a baddie. It is hard, immobile and on the spinal column and is most likely malignant. Nothing to be done except spoil him until it interferes with his quality of life too much then the big sleep. When that will be will depend on how fast growing it is.

:(

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Here’s why the road north is still open

God Bless the engineer who raised the bridge level!

Indeed!

Pity he didna build the airport eh?

pain master said:

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

God Bless the engineer who raised the bridge level!

Indeed!

Pity he didna build the airport eh?

Mr D was saying, as he looked at the photo of the tarmac as the water went over it, he wonders why they haven’t built levee banks down one end, where the water comes from…airport tarmacs are notoriously difficult to raise, I believe…

There’s a $2 million hockey field under water here, and a $6.5 million race track… :(

Dinetta said:

Veg gardener said:

Dinetta said:

I can ice skate…just… :)

The manager is quite proud of me, this is my second outing to the rinks (temporary setup for christmas new year holidays)…only about 20 of us on the rinks so I was OK about letting go of the rails…

One of the girls I went to school Smashed her knee cap, Popped it out of the skin, Been Ice staking once, If I go again Ill be hanging on to the edge.

Ooooh, I didn’t want to know that! :P

I hung on to the edge for the first visit, there must have been easily 100 people there…without the crowds it was easier to try letting go of the edge…

Did they replace her knee cap? (poor kid)

a friend of mine fell over ice-skating… he hit the back of his head on the ice. The impact was that great that the front of his skull broke through the front of his face, splitting the skin from the very top of his nose straight up to his hairline. The very very deep red blood on the white ice was pretty bloody gross!

Happy Potter said:

Bluddy plastic radiators…
I’m changing a radiator hose on the mans car and the connector part cracked..overtightened the clamp. A changeover radiator is needed.
Bugga.

You’re a brute Potter.

bon008 said:

http://www.theplantlist.org/

The Plant List is a working list of all known plant species. Version 1 aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts).

Collaboration between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden enabled the creation of The Plant List by combining multiple checklist data sets held by these institutions and other collaborators.

The Plant List provides the Accepted Latin name for most species, with links to all Synonyms by which that species has been known. It also includes Unresolved names for which the contributing data sources did not contain sufficient evidence to decide whether they were Accepted or Synonyms.

Summary Statistics
The Plant List includes 1,040,426 scientific plant names of species rank. Of these 298,900 are accepted species names.

The Plant List contains 620 plant families and 16,167 plant genera.

…

Thought it may be of interest :)

Thank you bon :)

Dinetta said:

To control Giant Rats Tail grass, the Qld DPI recommends glyphosate (F7) or flupropanate…anybody familiar with flupropanate?

nope…

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

Dinetta said:

Here’s why the road north is still open

pity all the trucks are truckin’ the food south from Mackay to Rocky… we want some meat please?

Surely to goodness the private (as opposed to supermarket) butchers have meat?

Spam’s off.

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

Dinetta said:

Indeed!

Pity he didna build the airport eh?

Mr D was saying, as he looked at the photo of the tarmac as the water went over it, he wonders why they haven’t built levee banks down one end, where the water comes from…airport tarmacs are notoriously difficult to raise, I believe…

There’s a $2 million hockey field under water here, and a $6.5 million race track… :(

Not to forget a Bruce Hwy to the south. Me thinks the Qld and Federal Govt needs to cough up some greens after this one. And how come Woolworths moved their NQ distribution centre to Brisneyland? Why does every banana and lump of beef from NQ drive south past my house to go 1400kms to Brisvegas only to then have to drive 1400kms back to my local stupidmarket?

pain master said:

a friend of mine fell over ice-skating… he hit the back of his head on the ice. The impact was that great that the front of his skull broke through the front of his face, splitting the skin from the very top of his nose straight up to his hairline. The very very deep red blood on the white ice was pretty bloody gross!

I’m due for a new bike helmet (the last one has taken a few knocks and is about 10 years old)…do you think I should purchase this before hitting the ice again?

(you’re kidding, aren’t you?)

pain master said:

Happy Potter said:

Bluddy plastic radiators…
I’m changing a radiator hose on the mans car and the connector part cracked..overtightened the clamp. A changeover radiator is needed.
Bugga.

You’re a brute Potter.

They don’t make radiators like they used to…getting so’s I hardly dare do my own oil check these days…not on the Mondeo anyhow…

pain master said:

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

pity all the trucks are truckin’ the food south from Mackay to Rocky… we want some meat please?

Surely to goodness the private (as opposed to supermarket) butchers have meat?

Spam’s off.

I never thought to check the s’market shelves for canned meat…well do I remember spam…the bushies were nearly addicted to it…

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

a friend of mine fell over ice-skating… he hit the back of his head on the ice. The impact was that great that the front of his skull broke through the front of his face, splitting the skin from the very top of his nose straight up to his hairline. The very very deep red blood on the white ice was pretty bloody gross!

I’m due for a new bike helmet (the last one has taken a few knocks and is about 10 years old)…do you think I should purchase this before hitting the ice again?

(you’re kidding, aren’t you?)

no kidding, ice is really really hard!

pain master said:

And how come Woolworths moved their NQ distribution centre to Brisneyland? Why does every banana and lump of beef from NQ drive south past my house to go 1400kms to Brisvegas only to then have to drive 1400kms back to my local stupidmarket?

For the same reason that all the mandies, grapes, watermelons, oranges and lemons from here used to head south …used to be south of the border, has that changed?… and then come back up to our local WW… time was we couldn’t buy local but WW (I think, unless legislation was brought in?) relented and we can now buy at the orchard gate…

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

Dinetta said:

Surely to goodness the private (as opposed to supermarket) butchers have meat?

Spam’s off.

I never thought to check the s’market shelves for canned meat…well do I remember spam…the bushies were nearly addicted to it…

I’m watching Monty Python at the same time, so to mention Spam is de rigeur.

pain master said:

no kidding, ice is really really hard!

ewwwww

Oh dear, no wonder they worry about me :(

I’d still love to go back…

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

And how come Woolworths moved their NQ distribution centre to Brisneyland? Why does every banana and lump of beef from NQ drive south past my house to go 1400kms to Brisvegas only to then have to drive 1400kms back to my local stupidmarket?

For the same reason that all the mandies, grapes, watermelons, oranges and lemons from here used to head south …used to be south of the border, has that changed?… and then come back up to our local WW… time was we couldn’t buy local but WW (I think, unless legislation was brought in?) relented and we can now buy at the orchard gate…

well I cannot vouch for CQ, but NQ had a distribution centre in Towntown for Muckay, here and Cairns… but no longer. As the MAD fold-in once said “ he al ighty ollar”

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

no kidding, ice is really really hard!

ewwwww

Oh dear, no wonder they worry about me :(

I’d still love to go back…

just don’t land on ya head, you’ll be fine.

pomolo said:

Veg gardener said:

Dinetta said:

I can ice skate…just… :)

The manager is quite proud of me, this is my second outing to the rinks (temporary setup for christmas new year holidays)…only about 20 of us on the rinks so I was OK about letting go of the rails…

One of the girls I went to school Smashed her knee cap, Popped it out of the skin, Been Ice staking once, If I go again Ill be hanging on to the edge.

I’m with you Veg. We’ll both hold on.

I’ll take the photos :)

… from behind the barrier. So the camera doesn’t get damaged.

Happy Potter said:

Bluddy plastic radiators…
I’m changing a radiator hose on the mans car and the connector part cracked..overtightened the clamp. A changeover radiator is needed.
Bugga.

Muscles ;) seems you don’t know your own strength!

pain master said:

Happy Potter said:

Bluddy plastic radiators…
I’m changing a radiator hose on the mans car and the connector part cracked..overtightened the clamp. A changeover radiator is needed.
Bugga.

You’re a brute Potter.

lol, I wish.
It’s old and brittle, tis all. Original radiator on a near 20 yo car.
Engine is perfect tho’ : )

Good morning all…

We ain’t gonna starve

Can’t believe they’re barge-ing the produce up from Gladstone…altho’ he does say it’s an extra $100 per tonne freight…

just buried Pythagoras Rat who died this morning :(

bluegreen said:

just buried Pythagoras Rat who died this morning :(

:(

Was that your last rat?

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

just buried Pythagoras Rat who died this morning :(

:(

Was that your last rat?

yes. won’t be getting any more. he was getting old and thin so his time was up.

bluegreen said:

just buried Pythagoras Rat who died this morning :(

Aw, sorry to hear BG.
Your plants are doing better than your animals hey.

Any idea what this plant is called, please ? strappy leafed one with the blue flower spike..
FB friend asked me..

bluegreen said:

just buried Pythagoras Rat who died this morning :(

Oh nooooooo :(

sniffle

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

Dinetta said:

Surely to goodness the private (as opposed to supermarket) butchers have meat?

Spam’s off.

I never thought to check the s’market shelves for canned meat…well do I remember spam…the bushies were nearly addicted to it…

Haven’t had spam in a can for awhile now.

Happy Potter said:

Any idea what this plant is called, please ? strappy leafed one with the blue flower spike..
FB friend asked me..

I’d guess part of the lomadra family

Rains are here now, Looks Like its a inside day for the rest of the arvo. 4am start at work so a 3am wake up.

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

Any idea what this plant is called, please ? strappy leafed one with the blue flower spike..
FB friend asked me..

I’d guess part of the lomadra family

Sorry meant dianella

AnneS said:

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

Any idea what this plant is called, please ? strappy leafed one with the blue flower spike..
FB friend asked me..

I’d guess part of the lomadra family

Sorry meant dianella

No worries :) I was searching and came up with this one..
Liriope muscari ( Big Blue Lilyturf )

Happy Potter said:

AnneS said:

AnneS said:

I’d guess part of the lomadra family

Sorry meant dianella

No worries :) I was searching and came up with this one..
Liriope muscari ( Big Blue Lilyturf )

Possible but it seems to have mutliple flower spikes. The flower spike almost looks like a xanthorrea doesn’t it, but the leaves are wrong

bluegreen said:

just buried Pythagoras Rat who died this morning :(

Oh dear, your pets are having a bad run. :(

Thought you guys might like to see this – my office has just released some imagery of the Qld flooding:
http://firewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au/current_news.asp

And also, this rather speccy (higher resolution) one of flooding in Carnarvon came out recently:
Carnarvon flood image

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

Any idea what this plant is called, please ? strappy leafed one with the blue flower spike..
FB friend asked me..

I’d guess part of the lomadra family

I’m thinking you might be on the right track…unusual how the flowers swirl around the stem in such a pattern…

Dinetta said:

Good morning all…

We ain’t gonna starve

Can’t believe they’re barge-ing the produce up from Gladstone…altho’ he does say it’s an extra $100 per tonne freight…

I must apologise to Woolworths, they do have a distribution centre here in Townsville, but all the NQ products do have to travel to the market in Brisneyland before returning to the distribution centre here in town.

Still doesn’t help when the 747 loaded with gear lands at Cairns and unloads to stores there and the barges to Muckay are all going south. Still no meat, milk and veg in Towntown.

bluegreen said:

just buried Pythagoras Rat who died this morning :(

Just not fair BG. :(

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

just buried Pythagoras Rat who died this morning :(

:(

Was that your last rat?

yes. won’t be getting any more. he was getting old and thin so his time was up.

How old was he ?

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

Any idea what this plant is called, please ? strappy leafed one with the blue flower spike..
FB friend asked me..

I’d guess part of the lomadra family

Haven’t seen anything like it up here.

Happy Potter said:

AnneS said:

AnneS said:

I’d guess part of the lomadra family

Sorry meant dianella

No worries :) I was searching and came up with this one..
Liriope muscari ( Big Blue Lilyturf )

Well we have that but It doesn’t get a tall flower spike like in your pic.

Not to forget a Bruce Hwy to the south. Me thinks the Qld and Federal Govt needs to cough up some greens after this one. And how come Woolworths moved their NQ distribution centre to Brisneyland? Why does every banana and lump of beef from NQ drive south past my house to go 1400kms to Brisvegas only to then have to drive 1400kms back to my local stupidmarket?
—————-

don’t know – doesn’t make sense – maybe that why the term stupidmarket has stuck.

pain master said:

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

a friend of mine fell over ice-skating… he hit the back of his head on the ice. The impact was that great that the front of his skull broke through the front of his face, splitting the skin from the very top of his nose straight up to his hairline. The very very deep red blood on the white ice was pretty bloody gross!

I’m due for a new bike helmet (the last one has taken a few knocks and is about 10 years old)…do you think I should purchase this before hitting the ice again?

(you’re kidding, aren’t you?)

no kidding, ice is really really hard!

he’s kidding – i think?

pepe said:

pain master said:

Dinetta said:

I’m due for a new bike helmet (the last one has taken a few knocks and is about 10 years old)…do you think I should purchase this before hitting the ice again?

(you’re kidding, aren’t you?)

no kidding, ice is really really hard!

he’s kidding – i think?

I hope so.
He should have a spare for getting about his house, garden and shed..

I’m here. Fancy that.

i’ve been down to mannum today. the water is at the level of the banks. anymore – even an inch – and lawn, shacks, public space and toilets will go under.

pepe said:

i’ve been down to mannum today. the water is at the level of the banks. anymore – even an inch – and lawn, shacks, public space and toilets will go under.

i forgot to mention that mannum – is on the river murray.

we get these unexplained messages on the weather reports – ‘flood warning’ along the river murray

so me and the missus went down for a look.

pepe said:

i’ve been down to mannum today. the water is at the level of the banks. anymore – even an inch – and lawn, shacks, public space and toilets will go under.

Are you trying to compete with Q’ld floods or what?

pomolo said:

pepe said:

i’ve been down to mannum today. the water is at the level of the banks. anymore – even an inch – and lawn, shacks, public space and toilets will go under.

Are you trying to compete with Q’ld floods or what?

are youse competing with the river murray?

just an unexplained warning on the weather fprecast every night got the missus and me thinking – is the murray flooding or not? so wees went down to have a look.

we actually visited a couple of old friends on the way.

pepe said:

pain master said:

Dinetta said:

I’m due for a new bike helmet (the last one has taken a few knocks and is about 10 years old)…do you think I should purchase this before hitting the ice again?

(you’re kidding, aren’t you?)

no kidding, ice is really really hard!

he’s kidding – i think?

I think not. I seen the blood.

pepe said:

i’ve been down to mannum today. the water is at the level of the banks. anymore – even an inch – and lawn, shacks, public space and toilets will go under.

There’s a whole world of water yet to head your way pepe. The Murray is going under in 2011.

pepe said:

pepe said:

i’ve been down to mannum today. the water is at the level of the banks. anymore – even an inch – and lawn, shacks, public space and toilets will go under.

i forgot to mention that mannum – is on the river murray.

we get these unexplained messages on the weather reports – ‘flood warning’ along the river murray

so me and the missus went down for a look.

Its a “warning”, not a Harvey Norman Tourism Advert!

pain master said:

pepe said:

i’ve been down to mannum today. the water is at the level of the banks. anymore – even an inch – and lawn, shacks, public space and toilets will go under.

There’s a whole world of water yet to head your way pepe. The Murray is going under in 2011.

i believe ya.

there’s rain all over the murray /darling basin so floods are coming – the pub at mannum had sand bags ready i noticed.

pain master said:

pepe said:

pain master said:

no kidding, ice is really really hard!

he’s kidding – i think?

I think not. I seen the blood.

ok ok – but our dinetta is a bright girl – so once warned twice safe.

pepe said:

pain master said:

pepe said:

he’s kidding – i think?

I think not. I seen the blood.

ok ok – but our dinetta is a bright girl – so once warned twice safe.

most certainly, sage words there pepe. My mate was a brash teenage clown who was invincible… until he broke his face, but dinetta0 is a little more mature me thinks.

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

yes. won’t be getting any more. he was getting old and thin so his time was up.

How old was he ?

about 2 I think. They can live up to 3 years I think but 2 years is typical.

bluegreen said:

just buried Pythagoras Rat who died this morning :(

Poor rattie.

Not a good run for you atm, BG, with ageing pets.

Little guy sure would have had a grand life at your place BG. Some people say eewwww why have a rat for a pet….but I say…why not have a rat for a family member…..Mrs. B’s 2 rats are so cute.

I am sorry he has passed on…hugs.

pepe said:

i’ve been down to mannum today. the water is at the level of the banks. anymore – even an inch – and lawn, shacks, public space and toilets will go under.

What, your lawn?

I could end up at Mrs. B’s house today, cleaning it…she’s had a rough week and is off work today.

Lucky1 said:

I could end up at Mrs. B’s house today, cleaning it…she’s had a rough week and is off work today.

So I had better pull my finger out and clean my house…hoo roo

Lucky1 said:

I could end up at Mrs. B’s house today, cleaning it…she’s had a rough week and is off work today.

I hope she’s keeping well otherwise?

Morning :)
A warm day expected but it’s cloudy out. Nothing terribly exciting happening today, except making a birthday cake for a sister in law.

I checked my crocus saffron bulb pots as they haven’t come up this year. Well it’s probably because I forgot to take the 2 pots out of the big rain we had a couple weeks ago and they have rotted away :( Bugga.
I will get new bulbs soon and, I will remember to put them undercover during big rain events!

Dinetta said:

Lucky1 said:

I could end up at Mrs. B’s house today, cleaning it…she’s had a rough week and is off work today.

I hope she’s keeping well otherwise?

Yes well but tired as she on her feet all day at the bank.

She’s been getting these pains and all is okay as she was checked out. I think its one of those “things” that some pregnant women get……I mean I cried all through Jimbob’s pregnancy.

Morning by the way….lol

Phone has been running hot and I’ve just finished the bathroom…. sticky while cleaning and its stuffy in the house…….

I have my dad and stepmum staying for a while next week. He has to go to the renal part of the Royal Adelaide Hospital about Thursday. He may need dialysis ( or say the family grapevine informed me) Funny bugger my dad…as when mum was having her kidney problem (she died of kidney cancer) he still didn’t believe in organ donations. I wonder if he’s still the same???

Me some days I have an organ transplant as I have balls as big as an elephant when I’m pissed off about something.

I think I had them the day I split my 2 neighbours up , one had a shovel and one had a baseball bat……..Big as elephants that day.

Takes another slurp of diet coke……..could you imagine my ramblings if I was on fat coke??? OMG!!!!!! Sugar rush!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gone…………clean the laundry and loo….not mad….

Lucky1 said:

I have my dad and stepmum staying for a while next week. He has to go to the renal part of the Royal Adelaide Hospital about Thursday. He may need dialysis ( or say the family grapevine informed me) Funny bugger my dad…as when mum was having her kidney problem (she died of kidney cancer) he still didn’t believe in organ donations. I wonder if he’s still the same???

Me some days I have an organ transplant as I have balls as big as an elephant when I’m pissed off about something.

I think I had them the day I split my 2 neighbours up , one had a shovel and one had a baseball bat……..Big as elephants that day.

Takes another slurp of diet coke……..could you imagine my ramblings if I was on fat coke??? OMG!!!!!! Sugar rush!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gone…………clean the laundry and loo….not mad….

OMG Lucky you crack me up lol!

That would have been scary with the neighbours…hell! I only grow horns when I need to.

Give mummy daughter a gentle hug from me :) Aches and pains are a mums lot, bringing forth the next generation. Last month of my pregnancys I could barely walk without a pained expression on my face. Putting one leg in front of the other has a whole new meaning for mums to be.

Ooo arrr! I scored a complete new in box dinner set off a freecycler. With soup, salad and gravy bowls and all the little bits. I pick it up tomorrow morning.
Mine are mostly chipped and I was looking at a new set, but can’t afford just yet, so this will save me heaps :)

Lucky1 said:

Dinetta said:

Lucky1 said:

I could end up at Mrs. B’s house today, cleaning it…she’s had a rough week and is off work today.

I hope she’s keeping well otherwise?

Yes well but tired as she on her feet all day at the bank.

She’s been getting these pains and all is okay as she was checked out. I think its one of those “things” that some pregnant women get……I mean I cried all through Jimbob’s pregnancy.

Standing in the one spot will do it, even with carpet on the concrete floor…those “things” during pregnancy are so hard to manage…I never found a book that dealt with them in a helpful manner…but now we have the internet and forums and sooooooo much information…

Lucky1 said:

Me some days I have an organ transplant as I have balls as big as an elephant when I’m pissed off about something.

I think I had them the day I split my 2 neighbours up , one had a shovel and one had a baseball bat……..Big as elephants that day.

Times have improved so much since your mother had her kidney problems…so have the medical staff, they’re all trained much better in dealing with the people as well as their medical problems…I’ve always been keen on organ donations and often wonder if there’s bits of my (late) best friend out there…gee I hope so…

Who needs Summer Bay (is that Home and Away?) with neighbours like that?…

Happy Potter said:

Ooo arrr! I scored a complete new in box dinner set off a freecycler. With soup, salad and gravy bowls and all the little bits. I pick it up tomorrow morning.
Mine are mostly chipped and I was looking at a new set, but can’t afford just yet, so this will save me heaps :)

Good score! Great for the morale!

Dinetta said:

Lucky1 said:

Me some days I have an organ transplant as I have balls as big as an elephant when I’m pissed off about something.

I think I had them the day I split my 2 neighbours up , one had a shovel and one had a baseball bat……..Big as elephants that day.

Times have improved so much since your mother had her kidney problems…so have the medical staff, they’re all trained much better in dealing with the people as well as their medical problems…I’ve always been keen on organ donations and often wonder if there’s bits of my (late) best friend out there…gee I hope so…

Who needs Summer Bay (is that Home and Away?) with neighbours like that?…

Yeah I know …full colour & no adds…..lol

Medication has come so far…….

Happy Potter said:

Ooo arrr! I scored a complete new in box dinner set off a freecycler. With soup, salad and gravy bowls and all the little bits. I pick it up tomorrow morning.
Mine are mostly chipped and I was looking at a new set, but can’t afford just yet, so this will save me heaps :)

lurv a happy story…..

Lucky1 said:

Me some days I have an organ transplant as I have balls as big as an elephant when I’m pissed off about something.

I think I had them the day I split my 2 neighbours up , one had a shovel and one had a baseball bat……..Big as elephants that day.

ROTFPIMP!

Happy Potter said:

Ooo arrr! I scored a complete new in box dinner set off a freecycler. With soup, salad and gravy bowls and all the little bits. I pick it up tomorrow morning.
Mine are mostly chipped and I was looking at a new set, but can’t afford just yet, so this will save me heaps :)

wow!

took my car to the mechanics this morning to find out why my car overheats at times. he specialises in radiators so I figured he might be able to figure it out. looks like the “clutch” on the fan is not functioning. When the engine is cold the fan freewheels, but when the engine is hot this clutch is supposed to engage so the fan is driven by the engine. with this clutch not functioning everything is fine while on normal roads at normal speeds with the flow of the wind, but as soon as I have to do any long slow driving like when I went up Mt Samaria the fan is not doing the job it is supposed to and there is not enough wind flow to cool the engine. he has ordered a new clutch for me but it was going to come in too late today, so I am going back first thing Wednesday next week to have it fitted and tested. All being well then I will be OK to go driving up mountains again!

He also gave me a useful hint. Apparently if you mix two different brands of coolant it can coagulate and go hard in your radiator causing permanent blockages. He advised if coolant is lost and you are not sure what brand you have to just put water in and then have the system flushed and new coolant put in ASAP. this might be why I had to have my radiator replaced so soon after the previous time. would have been useful to know that before. Also some types of engines (depending on whether they are aluminium or steel, I’m not sure which) can create gunk which settles in the bottom of your radiator and if you do not have it flushed out every 12-24 months it can cause blockages as well.

anyway. looks like my car is in good hands :)

Dinetta said:

Lucky1 said:

Dinetta said:

I hope she’s keeping well otherwise?

Yes well but tired as she on her feet all day at the bank.

She’s been getting these pains and all is okay as she was checked out. I think its one of those “things” that some pregnant women get……I mean I cried all through Jimbob’s pregnancy.

Standing in the one spot will do it, even with carpet on the concrete floor…those “things” during pregnancy are so hard to manage…I never found a book that dealt with them in a helpful manner…but now we have the internet and forums and sooooooo much information…

Way too much partial information I say. Daughter has bought and borrowed every available book on pregnancy, babies and child rearing it seems to me and whatever she read was law for the first few years of parenting. She was a confused mess for a long time trying to be and do everything that the books said. Now after 5 years she is a real Mother and has learnt a lot. No doubt books are good for the occasional reference but I wish she hadn’t thought of them as law. What works for one child may not work for another.

Well I got a bit carried away didn’t I? Sorry about that.

And

Morning to whoever is around.

morning pomolo. sounds like daughter was just trying a bit too hard to be the best mum she could.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Ooo arrr! I scored a complete new in box dinner set off a freecycler. With soup, salad and gravy bowls and all the little bits. I pick it up tomorrow morning.
Mine are mostly chipped and I was looking at a new set, but can’t afford just yet, so this will save me heaps :)

wow!

Double wow! The woman tells me it’s a 20 place setting …20 big plates 20 side plates 20 bowls, ect.
That will do me as 4 × 5 place settings for years! The rest of the set need only come out for big family gatherings!

bluegreen said:

took my car to the mechanics this morning to find out why my car overheats at times. he specialises in radiators so I figured he might be able to figure it out. looks like the “clutch” on the fan is not functioning. When the engine is cold the fan freewheels, but when the engine is hot this clutch is supposed to engage so the fan is driven by the engine. with this clutch not functioning everything is fine while on normal roads at normal speeds with the flow of the wind, but as soon as I have to do any long slow driving like when I went up Mt Samaria the fan is not doing the job it is supposed to and there is not enough wind flow to cool the engine. he has ordered a new clutch for me but it was going to come in too late today, so I am going back first thing Wednesday next week to have it fitted and tested. All being well then I will be OK to go driving up mountains again!

He also gave me a useful hint. Apparently if you mix two different brands of coolant it can coagulate and go hard in your radiator causing permanent blockages. He advised if coolant is lost and you are not sure what brand you have to just put water in and then have the system flushed and new coolant put in ASAP. this might be why I had to have my radiator replaced so soon after the previous time. would have been useful to know that before. Also some types of engines (depending on whether they are aluminium or steel, I’m not sure which) can create gunk which settles in the bottom of your radiator and if you do not have it flushed out every 12-24 months it can cause blockages as well.

anyway. looks like my car is in good hands :)

I hope my brain can remember all that if ever I need to use it. Nice to have confidence in your mechanic though BG.

Well I got a bit carried away didn’t I? Sorry about that.

And

Morning to whoever is around.
——————————————
You on the diet coke or the fat coke Pomolo?????LOL

bluegreen said:

morning pomolo. sounds like daughter was just trying a bit too hard to be the best mum she could.

At the time she was. Now she realises that the best she can do is just be a good Mum. and she is.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Ooo arrr! I scored a complete new in box dinner set off a freecycler. With soup, salad and gravy bowls and all the little bits. I pick it up tomorrow morning.
Mine are mostly chipped and I was looking at a new set, but can’t afford just yet, so this will save me heaps :)

wow!

Double wow! The woman tells me it’s a 20 place setting …20 big plates 20 side plates 20 bowls, ect.
That will do me as 4 × 5 place settings for years! The rest of the set need only come out for big family gatherings!

You must have been crawling to Santa and he sent you a really good extra pressie. Sounds like a good score for you.

Lucky1 said:

Well I got a bit carried away didn’t I? Sorry about that.

And

Morning to whoever is around.
——————————————
You on the diet coke or the fat coke Pomolo?????LOL

Pepsi actually. LOL.

And……….
Neighbour over that way —————-> has a huge peach tree loaded and I can pick as many as want. Take the lot he said, they will only fall to the ground. (introducing bugs and disease to my fruits!!) I tried one and they are so sweet!
Hubby will help pick them. I’ll get the lower ones.
I will share them about with friends.

Now to look up peach jam :D

pomolo said:

Lucky1 said:

Well I got a bit carried away didn’t I? Sorry about that.

And

Morning to whoever is around.
——————————————
You on the diet coke or the fat coke Pomolo?????LOL

Pepsi actually. LOL.

eeewww….you can keep that:)

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Ooo arrr! I scored a complete new in box dinner set off a freecycler. With soup, salad and gravy bowls and all the little bits. I pick it up tomorrow morning.
Mine are mostly chipped and I was looking at a new set, but can’t afford just yet, so this will save me heaps :)

wow!

Double wow! The woman tells me it’s a 20 place setting …20 big plates 20 side plates 20 bowls, ect.
That will do me as 4 × 5 place settings for years! The rest of the set need only come out for big family gatherings!

amazing!

Happy Potter said:

And……….
Neighbour over that way —————-> has a huge peach tree loaded and I can pick as many as want. Take the lot he said, they will only fall to the ground. (introducing bugs and disease to my fruits!!) I tried one and they are so sweet!
Hubby will help pick them. I’ll get the lower ones.
I will share them about with friends.

Now to look up peach jam :D

Boo hoo! How I’d love that opportunity.

Lucky1 said:

pomolo said:

Lucky1 said:

Well I got a bit carried away didn’t I? Sorry about that.

And

Morning to whoever is around.
——————————————
You on the diet coke or the fat coke Pomolo?????LOL

Pepsi actually. LOL.

eeewww….you can keep that:)

I don’t like Coke anymore. Pepsi does it for me.

Happy Potter said:

And……….
Neighbour over that way —————-> has a huge peach tree loaded and I can pick as many as want. Take the lot he said, they will only fall to the ground. (introducing bugs and disease to my fruits!!) I tried one and they are so sweet!
Hubby will help pick them. I’ll get the lower ones.
I will share them about with friends.

Now to look up peach jam :D

oh you are a on a roll today! shame I am so far away with my Fowlers Vacola bottling kit!

pomolo said:

Lucky1 said:

pomolo said:

Pepsi actually. LOL.

eeewww….you can keep that:)

I don’t like Coke anymore. Pepsi does it for me.

I don’t like either! bleah!

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

Lucky1 said:

eeewww….you can keep that:)

I don’t like Coke anymore. Pepsi does it for me.

I don’t like either! bleah!

Well, I’d prefer scotch and dry or red wine but I can’t drink that all day.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

And……….
Neighbour over that way —————-> has a huge peach tree loaded and I can pick as many as want. Take the lot he said, they will only fall to the ground. (introducing bugs and disease to my fruits!!) I tried one and they are so sweet!
Hubby will help pick them. I’ll get the lower ones.
I will share them about with friends.

Now to look up peach jam :D

oh you are a on a roll today! shame I am so far away with my Fowlers Vacola bottling kit!

I never got the preserving kit, pity.
The neighbour knocked on the door and said he has an apricot tree and If I would like to pick the fruit I can have them.

They’re peaches dear, peaches lol!

bluegreen said:

anyway. looks like my car is in good hands :)

Yup, and the mechanic has great customer skills as well…

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

anyway. looks like my car is in good hands :)

Yup, and the mechanic has great customer skills as well…

yes he was very friendly. he owns the business and has been doing all the work over the break while his mechanics are on holidays. he also gave me a lift into town and his wife picked me up again while he was checking things out.

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

anyway. looks like my car is in good hands :)

Yup, and the mechanic has great customer skills as well…

yes he was very friendly. he owns the business and has been doing all the work over the break while his mechanics are on holidays. he also gave me a lift into town and his wife picked me up again while he was checking things out.

Oh how nice is that :D

pomolo said:

Way too much partial information I say. Daughter has bought and borrowed every available book on pregnancy, babies and child rearing it seems to me and whatever she read was law for the first few years of parenting. She was a confused mess for a long time trying to be and do everything that the books said. Now after 5 years she is a real Mother and has learnt a lot. No doubt books are good for the occasional reference but I wish she hadn’t thought of them as law. What works for one child may not work for another.

Well I got a bit carried away didn’t I? Sorry about that.

And

Morning to whoever is around.

You’re right Pomolo: when I first started researching pregnancy and childbirth, every book was my latest bible…I just kept sifting and sifting the info…then I found that some stuff didn’t hold up … the home birth midwife gave me a list of books and said “read them”…so I checked the list and said “done already”…it was a long list, over 17 books of a wide range of authors…

I do agree that reading a wide range of books is critical to good information-gathering…in my case I didn’t have a support group until I started going to a play group…the nursing mothers was not in town when I started having my family…my mother refused to give advice (but criticised me heavily both to my face and behind my back)…I had this one book that was very very helpful if you just had one child, when the second one turned up I was flummoxed and went to playgroup every day it was on, just for company…

I found that talking to other mothers (and the NMAA booklets) gave me a more realistic perspective…and found myself almost “interviewing” the mothers of grown-up children for their practical ideas as well…

One mother told me she treated her kids all the same…considering the wide variety of personality in my 5 offspring, I’d be living in a funny farm by now if I’d tried to do that!

The worst thing when you’re a new “mum” is the “perfect mum” in your circle…

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Ooo arrr! I scored a complete new in box dinner set off a freecycler. With soup, salad and gravy bowls and all the little bits. I pick it up tomorrow morning.
Mine are mostly chipped and I was looking at a new set, but can’t afford just yet, so this will save me heaps :)

wow!

Double wow! The woman tells me it’s a 20 place setting …20 big plates 20 side plates 20 bowls, ect.
That will do me as 4 × 5 place settings for years! The rest of the set need only come out for big family gatherings!

Woot!

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Way too much partial information I say. Daughter has bought and borrowed every available book on pregnancy, babies and child rearing it seems to me and whatever she read was law for the first few years of parenting. She was a confused mess for a long time trying to be and do everything that the books said. Now after 5 years she is a real Mother and has learnt a lot. No doubt books are good for the occasional reference but I wish she hadn’t thought of them as law. What works for one child may not work for another.

Well I got a bit carried away didn’t I? Sorry about that.

And

Morning to whoever is around.

You’re right Pomolo: when I first started researching pregnancy and childbirth, every book was my latest bible…I just kept sifting and sifting the info…then I found that some stuff didn’t hold up … the home birth midwife gave me a list of books and said “read them”…so I checked the list and said “done already”…it was a long list, over 17 books of a wide range of authors…

I do agree that reading a wide range of books is critical to good information-gathering…in my case I didn’t have a support group until I started going to a play group…the nursing mothers was not in town when I started having my family…my mother refused to give advice (but criticised me heavily both to my face and behind my back)…I had this one book that was very very helpful if you just had one child, when the second one turned up I was flummoxed and went to playgroup every day it was on, just for company…

I found that talking to other mothers (and the NMAA booklets) gave me a more realistic perspective…and found myself almost “interviewing” the mothers of grown-up children for their practical ideas as well…

One mother told me she treated her kids all the same…considering the wide variety of personality in my 5 offspring, I’d be living in a funny farm by now if I’d tried to do that!

The worst thing when you’re a new “mum” is the “perfect mum” in your circle…

That’s one of the reasons I’ve spent so long lurking on Essential Baby forums – hands down, the one thing it has taught me is that all kids are different, and you have to work out what works for you and your kid, not try to stick rigidly to one particularly book.

That said, I still thinking reading a few books is good to get some ideas of the different options, and finding parents with the same general philosophy and finding out what books they recommend seems like a good middle ground to me. I’ve got two books on the shelf I’m itching to read, but I’m putting it off until it’s a bit closer to the time. Have to concentrate on getting my pelvic floor fixed for now, and not get too far ahead of myself.

sigh

Happy Potter said:

And……….
Neighbour over that way —————-> has a huge peach tree loaded and I can pick as many as want. Take the lot he said, they will only fall to the ground. (introducing bugs and disease to my fruits!!) I tried one and they are so sweet!
Hubby will help pick them. I’ll get the lower ones.
I will share them about with friends.

Now to look up peach jam :D

Arvo…peach jam…easy…1:1 fruit and sugar, start off on a low heat then when combined gradually increase heat. Years ago I made a yummy peach and pineapple jam :)
I reckon that next I’ll have enough fruit on my plum trees to make jam. Can’t wait. I’m also hoping that I’ll get enough fruit for lilly pilly jam this year :)

Lucky1 said:

pomolo said:

Lucky1 said:

Well I got a bit carried away didn’t I? Sorry about that.

And

Morning to whoever is around.
——————————————
You on the diet coke or the fat coke Pomolo?????LOL

Pepsi actually. LOL.

eeewww….you can keep that:)

You can keep both of them as far as I am concerned. Hate carbonated drinks, apart from dry ginger ale in my brandy and dry :) or soda water

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

Lucky1 said:

eeewww….you can keep that:)

I don’t like Coke anymore. Pepsi does it for me.

I don’t like either! bleah!

snap

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Way too much partial information I say. Daughter has bought and borrowed every available book on pregnancy, babies and child rearing it seems to me and whatever she read was law for the first few years of parenting. She was a confused mess for a long time trying to be and do everything that the books said. Now after 5 years she is a real Mother and has learnt a lot. No doubt books are good for the occasional reference but I wish she hadn’t thought of them as law. What works for one child may not work for another.

Well I got a bit carried away didn’t I? Sorry about that.

And

Morning to whoever is around.

You’re right Pomolo: when I first started researching pregnancy and childbirth, every book was my latest bible…I just kept sifting and sifting the info…then I found that some stuff didn’t hold up … the home birth midwife gave me a list of books and said “read them”…so I checked the list and said “done already”…it was a long list, over 17 books of a wide range of authors…

I do agree that reading a wide range of books is critical to good information-gathering…in my case I didn’t have a support group until I started going to a play group…the nursing mothers was not in town when I started having my family…my mother refused to give advice (but criticised me heavily both to my face and behind my back)…I had this one book that was very very helpful if you just had one child, when the second one turned up I was flummoxed and went to playgroup every day it was on, just for company…

I found that talking to other mothers (and the NMAA booklets) gave me a more realistic perspective…and found myself almost “interviewing” the mothers of grown-up children for their practical ideas as well…

One mother told me she treated her kids all the same…considering the wide variety of personality in my 5 offspring, I’d be living in a funny farm by now if I’d tried to do that!

The worst thing when you’re a new “mum” is the “perfect mum” in your circle…

Playgroup was my life saver too Dinetta and I am still friends with some of the mothers 20 years later (although sadly I don’t see them very often because I no longer live in the area)

bon008 said:

Have to concentrate on getting my pelvic floor fixed for now, and not get too far ahead of myself.

sigh

More important look after your pelvic after you have the bubs. I didn’t do this enough (even though it was stressed at ante-natal classes as being super important) and I have paid the price with my dodgy back being only one of the problems. So if you don’t take any other advice, please take this…do your pelvic floor exercises every day religiously!

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

And……….
Neighbour over that way —————-> has a huge peach tree loaded and I can pick as many as want. Take the lot he said, they will only fall to the ground. (introducing bugs and disease to my fruits!!) I tried one and they are so sweet!
Hubby will help pick them. I’ll get the lower ones.
I will share them about with friends.

Now to look up peach jam :D

Arvo…peach jam…easy…1:1 fruit and sugar, start off on a low heat then when combined gradually increase heat. Years ago I made a yummy peach and pineapple jam :)
I reckon that next I’ll have enough fruit on my plum trees to make jam. Can’t wait. I’m also hoping that I’ll get enough fruit for lilly pilly jam this year :)

Thanks AnneS.
I’ve never had lilly pilly jam.

Mrs. B was told at the doctors today, her body is stretching to accommodate the baby and it should settle down.

She is going to put his feet up this afternoon and do some of the cross stitch she bought herself.

AnneS said:

bon008 said:

Have to concentrate on getting my pelvic floor fixed for now, and not get too far ahead of myself.

sigh

More important look after your pelvic after you have the bubs. I didn’t do this enough (even though it was stressed at ante-natal classes as being super important) and I have paid the price with my dodgy back being only one of the problems. So if you don’t take any other advice, please take this…do your pelvic floor exercises every day religiously!

Opposite problem Anne. Mine isn’t weak, but hypertonic (stuck very much in an “on”/tense state). If I were to do kegels now, I would absolutely destroy my pelvic floor. Starting a long, slow process of teaching it how to relax.

Happy Potter said:

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

And……….
Neighbour over that way —————-> has a huge peach tree loaded and I can pick as many as want. Take the lot he said, they will only fall to the ground. (introducing bugs and disease to my fruits!!) I tried one and they are so sweet!
Hubby will help pick them. I’ll get the lower ones.
I will share them about with friends.

Now to look up peach jam :D

Arvo…peach jam…easy…1:1 fruit and sugar, start off on a low heat then when combined gradually increase heat. Years ago I made a yummy peach and pineapple jam :)
I reckon that next I’ll have enough fruit on my plum trees to make jam. Can’t wait. I’m also hoping that I’ll get enough fruit for lilly pilly jam this year :)

Thanks AnneS.
I’ve never had lilly pilly jam.

I forget the timings, but basically it needs to boil rapidly until a teaspoon of jam placed on a plate an placed in the fridge for a couple develops a skin and is not runny

bon008 said:

AnneS said:

bon008 said:

Have to concentrate on getting my pelvic floor fixed for now, and not get too far ahead of myself.

sigh

More important look after your pelvic after you have the bubs. I didn’t do this enough (even though it was stressed at ante-natal classes as being super important) and I have paid the price with my dodgy back being only one of the problems. So if you don’t take any other advice, please take this…do your pelvic floor exercises every day religiously!

Opposite problem Anne. Mine isn’t weak, but hypertonic (stuck very much in an “on”/tense state). If I were to do kegels now, I would absolutely destroy my pelvic floor. Starting a long, slow process of teaching it how to relax.

Ah..I see. Good luck with it then :)

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

Lucky1 said:

Yes well but tired as she on her feet all day at the bank.

She’s been getting these pains and all is okay as she was checked out. I think its one of those “things” that some pregnant women get……I mean I cried all through Jimbob’s pregnancy.

Standing in the one spot will do it, even with carpet on the concrete floor…those “things” during pregnancy are so hard to manage…I never found a book that dealt with them in a helpful manner…but now we have the internet and forums and sooooooo much information…

Way too much partial information I say. Daughter has bought and borrowed every available book on pregnancy, babies and child rearing it seems to me and whatever she read was law for the first few years of parenting. She was a confused mess for a long time trying to be and do everything that the books said. Now after 5 years she is a real Mother and has learnt a lot. No doubt books are good for the occasional reference but I wish she hadn’t thought of them as law. What works for one child may not work for another.

Well I got a bit carried away didn’t I? Sorry about that.

And

Morning to whoever is around.

I new a girl who refused to read or look at anything to do with labour. She was too freaked out and ended up delivering without any idea of what was happening or why.

I was just about to head in for a shower before heading to town to get my hair cut and do some grocery shopping (#1 daughter and grandchildren coming tomorrow :) ) but MrS has rung to say that there has been an accident at South Nowra and the road is blocked in both directions. Traffic being diverted out around HMAS Albatross and travelling at a snail’s pace.

Am wondering, do I really need a hair cut and need to buy blueberries and strawberries etc for Bubbly Girl?

mmmm

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Way too much partial information I say. Daughter has bought and borrowed every available book on pregnancy, babies and child rearing it seems to me and whatever she read was law for the first few years of parenting. She was a confused mess for a long time trying to be and do everything that the books said. Now after 5 years she is a real Mother and has learnt a lot. No doubt books are good for the occasional reference but I wish she hadn’t thought of them as law. What works for one child may not work for another.

Well I got a bit carried away didn’t I? Sorry about that.

And

Morning to whoever is around.

You’re right Pomolo: when I first started researching pregnancy and childbirth, every book was my latest bible…I just kept sifting and sifting the info…then I found that some stuff didn’t hold up … the home birth midwife gave me a list of books and said “read them”…so I checked the list and said “done already”…it was a long list, over 17 books of a wide range of authors…

I do agree that reading a wide range of books is critical to good information-gathering…in my case I didn’t have a support group until I started going to a play group…the nursing mothers was not in town when I started having my family…my mother refused to give advice (but criticised me heavily both to my face and behind my back)…I had this one book that was very very helpful if you just had one child, when the second one turned up I was flummoxed and went to playgroup every day it was on, just for company…

I found that talking to other mothers (and the NMAA booklets) gave me a more realistic perspective…and found myself almost “interviewing” the mothers of grown-up children for their practical ideas as well…

One mother told me she treated her kids all the same…considering the wide variety of personality in my 5 offspring, I’d be living in a funny farm by now if I’d tried to do that!

The worst thing when you’re a new “mum” is the “perfect mum” in your circle…

I loved Nursing Mothers, they saved my sanity more than once.

Did you have a home birth D?

bon008 said:

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Way too much partial information I say. Daughter has bought and borrowed every available book on pregnancy, babies and child rearing it seems to me and whatever she read was law for the first few years of parenting. She was a confused mess for a long time trying to be and do everything that the books said. Now after 5 years she is a real Mother and has learnt a lot. No doubt books are good for the occasional reference but I wish she hadn’t thought of them as law. What works for one child may not work for another.

Well I got a bit carried away didn’t I? Sorry about that.

And

Morning to whoever is around.

You’re right Pomolo: when I first started researching pregnancy and childbirth, every book was my latest bible…I just kept sifting and sifting the info…then I found that some stuff didn’t hold up … the home birth midwife gave me a list of books and said “read them”…so I checked the list and said “done already”…it was a long list, over 17 books of a wide range of authors…

I do agree that reading a wide range of books is critical to good information-gathering…in my case I didn’t have a support group until I started going to a play group…the nursing mothers was not in town when I started having my family…my mother refused to give advice (but criticised me heavily both to my face and behind my back)…I had this one book that was very very helpful if you just had one child, when the second one turned up I was flummoxed and went to playgroup every day it was on, just for company…

I found that talking to other mothers (and the NMAA booklets) gave me a more realistic perspective…and found myself almost “interviewing” the mothers of grown-up children for their practical ideas as well…

One mother told me she treated her kids all the same…considering the wide variety of personality in my 5 offspring, I’d be living in a funny farm by now if I’d tried to do that!

The worst thing when you’re a new “mum” is the “perfect mum” in your circle…

That’s one of the reasons I’ve spent so long lurking on Essential Baby forums – hands down, the one thing it has taught me is that all kids are different, and you have to work out what works for you and your kid, not try to stick rigidly to one particularly book.

That said, I still thinking reading a few books is good to get some ideas of the different options, and finding parents with the same general philosophy and finding out what books they recommend seems like a good middle ground to me. I’ve got two books on the shelf I’m itching to read, but I’m putting it off until it’s a bit closer to the time. Have to concentrate on getting my pelvic floor fixed for now, and not get too far ahead of myself.

sigh

I steared away from baby clinics after a few visits because “The Establishment” was continually changing it’s mind about the RIGHT way to do things.
My sisters where always telling me to feed solids and “Aren’t you going to give him a drink of water?” because that’s what they did.
I just followed Nursing Mothers advice and my GP.

AnneS said:

bon008 said:

Have to concentrate on getting my pelvic floor fixed for now, and not get too far ahead of myself.

sigh

More important look after your pelvic after you have the bubs. I didn’t do this enough (even though it was stressed at ante-natal classes as being super important) and I have paid the price with my dodgy back being only one of the problems. So if you don’t take any other advice, please take this…do your pelvic floor exercises every day religiously!

I didn’t do it either and you all know how that turned out. :(

bon008 said:

That’s one of the reasons I’ve spent so long lurking on Essential Baby forums – hands down, the one thing it has taught me is that all kids are different, and you have to work out what works for you and your kid, not try to stick rigidly to one particularly book.

That said, I still thinking reading a few books is good to get some ideas of the different options, and finding parents with the same general philosophy and finding out what books they recommend seems like a good middle ground to me. I’ve got two books on the shelf I’m itching to read, but I’m putting it off until it’s a bit closer to the time. Have to concentrate on getting my pelvic floor fixed for now, and not get too far ahead of myself.

sigh

You’re streets ahead of where I started from, then…

AnneS said:

I’ll get enough fruit for lilly pilly jam this year :)

Sounds interesting…v v interesting…

bubba louie said:

AnneS said:

bon008 said:

Have to concentrate on getting my pelvic floor fixed for now, and not get too far ahead of myself.

sigh

More important look after your pelvic after you have the bubs. I didn’t do this enough (even though it was stressed at ante-natal classes as being super important) and I have paid the price with my dodgy back being only one of the problems. So if you don’t take any other advice, please take this…do your pelvic floor exercises every day religiously!

I didn’t do it either and you all know how that turned out. :(

I put the blame squarely on too many ultrasounds and being made to ‘hold on’. My mum didn’t have a prob with multiple kids, and there wasn’t any ultrasounds in those days. But me, I had the test heaps.. and 3 ops so far didn’t work.

Resume went in for a Plant Operator aprentership a week ago. phone call from MEGT on Behalf of Daracon. Interview next thursday.

My birfday cake, for sis in law, is all done :) Giant tiramusu cake..plenty for a dozen people. Kitchen looks like a cyclones hit it.

I think we’ve scared the blokes off lol.

Veg gardener said:

Resume went in for a Plant Operator aprentership a week ago. phone call from MEGT on Behalf of Daracon. Interview next thursday.

Oh heres a bloke! Good luck Veg :)

AnneS said:

bon008 said:

AnneS said:

More important look after your pelvic after you have the bubs. I didn’t do this enough (even though it was stressed at ante-natal classes as being super important) and I have paid the price with my dodgy back being only one of the problems. So if you don’t take any other advice, please take this…do your pelvic floor exercises every day religiously!

Opposite problem Anne. Mine isn’t weak, but hypertonic (stuck very much in an “on”/tense state). If I were to do kegels now, I would absolutely destroy my pelvic floor. Starting a long, slow process of teaching it how to relax.

Ah..I see. Good luck with it then :)

Thanks :) I’ve got a really good specialist physio, as well as my regular physio, so I’ll get there!

AnneS said:

Playgroup was my life saver too Dinetta and I am still friends with some of the mothers 20 years later (although sadly I don’t see them very often because I no longer live in the area)

So do I! Well acquaintances anyhow…this is a highly itinerant (F7) town but even when I see these ladies at odd locations around the state, we gladly chorus “I know you from PlayGroup”! and then we do a catchup…there was all types at our playgroups, from the single mothers receiving CentreLink payments to the engineers’ wives on $X00,000 per annum…quite the little cross-section of the local social fabric…

AnneS said:

More important look after your pelvic after you have the bubs. I didn’t do this enough (even though it was stressed at ante-natal classes as being super important) and I have paid the price with my dodgy back being only one of the problems. So if you don’t take any other advice, please take this…do your pelvic floor exercises every day religiously!

I second the motion…

bon008 said:

Opposite problem Anne. Mine isn’t weak, but hypertonic (stuck very much in an “on”/tense state). If I were to do kegels now, I would absolutely destroy my pelvic floor. Starting a long, slow process of teaching it how to relax.

blink well that’s my new fact for the day…

Veg gardener said:

Resume went in for a Plant Operator aprentership a week ago. phone call from MEGT on Behalf of Daracon. Interview next thursday.

Ooh, good luck Veg!

Happy Potter said:

Veg gardener said:

Resume went in for a Plant Operator aprentership a week ago. phone call from MEGT on Behalf of Daracon. Interview next thursday.

Oh heres a bloke! Good luck Veg :)

Thanks HP

bon008 said:

Veg gardener said:

Resume went in for a Plant Operator aprentership a week ago. phone call from MEGT on Behalf of Daracon. Interview next thursday.

Ooh, good luck Veg!

And thank you Bon.

Dinetta said:

bon008 said:

Opposite problem Anne. Mine isn’t weak, but hypertonic (stuck very much in an “on”/tense state). If I were to do kegels now, I would absolutely destroy my pelvic floor. Starting a long, slow process of teaching it how to relax.

blink well that’s my new fact for the day…

grin It’s a bit left field, isn’t it? I’m a bit peed off that it’s taken so long have to properly diagnosed, but then it’s an odd set of different symptoms and not your usual topic of conversation. So excited about getting it fixed, though.

bubba louie said:

I steered away from baby clinics after a few visits because “The Establishment” was continually changing it’s mind about the RIGHT way to do things.
My sisters where always telling me to feed solids and “Aren’t you going to give him a drink of water?” because that’s what they did.
I just followed Nursing Mothers advice and my GP.

I avoided the baby clinics, only went twice, I recall my mother going and I was a very skinny person…healthy but just muscles and bone…my mother got a dressing-down because I was not fat…but she didn’t listen to them thankfully…and I felt so insulted on Mum’s behalf that I decided not to take my own kids there…there was ladies at the playgroup who used to crow if their children had been given ticks of approval by the baby clinic (wankers)…Like you Bubba, I just stuck to Nursing Mothers (NMAA) and they saved my sanity…along with the older mothers I knew from the service club that MrD belonged to…

Veg gardener said:

Resume went in for a Plant Operator aprentership a week ago. phone call from MEGT on Behalf of Daracon. Interview next thursday.

Oooh, fingers and toes crossed for you Veg!

AnneS said:

I forget the timings, but basically it needs to boil rapidly until a teaspoon of jam placed on a plate an placed in the fridge for a couple develops a skin and is not runny

Boy I wish my typing speed kept up with my thoughts :)
Was supposed to read “in the fridge for a couple of minutes”

Happy Potter said:

My birfday cake, for sis in law, is all done :) Giant tiramusu cake..plenty for a dozen people. Kitchen looks like a cyclones hit it.

I think we’ve scared the blokes off lol.

the blokes’ll be fine…

gee can I lick the bowl(s)?

Veg gardener said:

Resume went in for a Plant Operator aprentership a week ago. phone call from MEGT on Behalf of Daracon. Interview next thursday.

Bravo! Well done veg. Will keep fingers and toes crossed for you :)

Happy Potter said:

bubba louie said:

AnneS said:

More important look after your pelvic after you have the bubs. I didn’t do this enough (even though it was stressed at ante-natal classes as being super important) and I have paid the price with my dodgy back being only one of the problems. So if you don’t take any other advice, please take this…do your pelvic floor exercises every day religiously!

I didn’t do it either and you all know how that turned out. :(

I put the blame squarely on too many ultrasounds and being made to ‘hold on’. My mum didn’t have a prob with multiple kids, and there wasn’t any ultrasounds in those days. But me, I had the test heaps.. and 3 ops so far didn’t work.

Come to Bris and see my doc. Reconstruction is his specialty.

bubba louie said:

Happy Potter said:

bubba louie said:

I didn’t do it either and you all know how that turned out. :(

I put the blame squarely on too many ultrasounds and being made to ‘hold on’. My mum didn’t have a prob with multiple kids, and there wasn’t any ultrasounds in those days. But me, I had the test heaps.. and 3 ops so far didn’t work.

Come to Bris and see my doc. Reconstruction is his specialty.

WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS

http://www.urogynaecology.com.au/

Dinetta said:

AnneS said:

Playgroup was my life saver too Dinetta and I am still friends with some of the mothers 20 years later (although sadly I don’t see them very often because I no longer live in the area)

So do I! Well acquaintances anyhow…this is a highly itinerant (F7) town but even when I see these ladies at odd locations around the state, we gladly chorus “I know you from PlayGroup”! and then we do a catchup…there was all types at our playgroups, from the single mothers receiving CentreLink payments to the engineers’ wives on $X00,000 per annum…quite the little cross-section of the local social fabric…

Mine was the same, but it was a great support, being able to say “oh that’s happening to you too” or words to that effect. It prevented us from feeling isolated. As much as we valued our Mum’s input, being able to share our experience with women at the same stages of child-bearing as us made it all so much easier.

AnneS said:

Veg gardener said:

Resume went in for a Plant Operator aprentership a week ago. phone call from MEGT on Behalf of Daracon. Interview next thursday.

Bravo! Well done veg. Will keep fingers and toes crossed for you :)

Looks Like I got to wear some Interview Clothes, Hope a Nice shirt and my Jeans and good boots will be alright.

bubba louie said:

Come to Bris and see my doc. Reconstruction is his specialty.

can you email me, cabbage patch chook etc please? or Rust E Cutlass on the FB…I’ve been putting it off because I don’t want any old Joe mucking things up…

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

Come to Bris and see my doc. Reconstruction is his specialty.

can you email me, cabbage patch chook etc please? or Rust E Cutlass on the FB…I’ve been putting it off because I don’t want any old Joe mucking things up…

No worries, just saw your other post…

AnneS said:

Dinetta said:

AnneS said:

Playgroup was my life saver too Dinetta and I am still friends with some of the mothers 20 years later (although sadly I don’t see them very often because I no longer live in the area)

So do I! Well acquaintances anyhow…this is a highly itinerant (F7) town but even when I see these ladies at odd locations around the state, we gladly chorus “I know you from PlayGroup”! and then we do a catchup…there was all types at our playgroups, from the single mothers receiving CentreLink payments to the engineers’ wives on $X00,000 per annum…quite the little cross-section of the local social fabric…

Mine was the same, but it was a great support, being able to say “oh that’s happening to you too” or words to that effect. It prevented us from feeling isolated. As much as we valued our Mum’s input, being able to share our experience with women at the same stages of child-bearing as us made it all so much easier.

So true…

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

Come to Bris and see my doc. Reconstruction is his specialty.

can you email me, cabbage patch chook etc please? or Rust E Cutlass on the FB…I’ve been putting it off because I don’t want any old Joe mucking things up…

Everyone I spoke to said he was the best.

Veg gardener said:

Looks Like I got to wear some Interview Clothes, Hope a Nice shirt and my Jeans and good boots will be alright.

Good boots and a good haircut maketh the good impression…as long as the rest is clean and tidy (and preferably ironed…creases in jeans can go a long way too) it says a lot about your interest.

As a general rule I’m not a fan of ironed jeans (this is something I un-learned at college) but for job interviews I’ll relax my attitude…

Dinetta said:

Veg gardener said:

Looks Like I got to wear some Interview Clothes, Hope a Nice shirt and my Jeans and good boots will be alright.

Good boots and a good haircut maketh the good impression…as long as the rest is clean and tidy (and preferably ironed…creases in jeans can go a long way too) it says a lot about your interest.

As a general rule I’m not a fan of ironed jeans (this is something I un-learned at college) but for job interviews I’ll relax my attitude…

Got the Hair Cut. I Better Practice the ironing skills.

Veg gardener said:

Got the Hair Cut. I Better Practice the ironing skills.

LOL! good on you! and the best thing about ironing skills, is you can watch TV or a DVD or whatever while you do it because once you know how, you don’t really need to think about it…

Dinetta said:

Veg gardener said:

Got the Hair Cut. I Better Practice the ironing skills.

LOL! good on you! and the best thing about ironing skills, is you can watch TV or a DVD or whatever while you do it because once you know how, you don’t really need to think about it…

Last time I tried Dinetta, I just Gave up, Didn’t get the hang of it at all. Its not like operating a Skid steer or tractor.

Dinetta said:

Veg gardener said:

Got the Hair Cut. I Better Practice the ironing skills.

LOL! good on you! and the best thing about ironing skills, is you can watch TV or a DVD or whatever while you do it because once you know how, you don’t really need to think about it…

That’s about the only time I do ironing…when I want to watch a TV or DVD during the day (because it is a show that MrS is not interested in) and then I don’t feel quite so guilty watching it at that time of day :)

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

I steered away from baby clinics after a few visits because “The Establishment” was continually changing it’s mind about the RIGHT way to do things.
My sisters where always telling me to feed solids and “Aren’t you going to give him a drink of water?” because that’s what they did.
I just followed Nursing Mothers advice and my GP.

I avoided the baby clinics, only went twice, I recall my mother going and I was a very skinny person…healthy but just muscles and bone…my mother got a dressing-down because I was not fat…but she didn’t listen to them thankfully…and I felt so insulted on Mum’s behalf that I decided not to take my own kids there…there was ladies at the playgroup who used to crow if their children had been given ticks of approval by the baby clinic (wankers)…Like you Bubba, I just stuck to Nursing Mothers (NMAA) and they saved my sanity…along with the older mothers I knew from the service club that MrD belonged to…

I stopped going to mother’s clinic when I was told to feed Mrs. B brains and the woman was single and didn’t have any kids.

AnneS said:

AnneS said:

I forget the timings, but basically it needs to boil rapidly until a teaspoon of jam placed on a plate an placed in the fridge for a couple develops a skin and is not runny

Boy I wish my typing speed kept up with my thoughts :)
Was supposed to read “in the fridge for a couple of minutes”

I understood perfectly :)
Yep I’ve made jam before, but not peach.

bubba louie said:

Happy Potter said:

bubba louie said:

I didn’t do it either and you all know how that turned out. :(

I put the blame squarely on too many ultrasounds and being made to ‘hold on’. My mum didn’t have a prob with multiple kids, and there wasn’t any ultrasounds in those days. But me, I had the test heaps.. and 3 ops so far didn’t work.

Come to Bris and see my doc. Reconstruction is his specialty.

I knocked it back over 2 yeas ago. Maybe one day.

Dinetta said:

Veg gardener said:

Looks Like I got to wear some Interview Clothes, Hope a Nice shirt and my Jeans and good boots will be alright.

Good boots and a good haircut maketh the good impression…as long as the rest is clean and tidy (and preferably ironed…creases in jeans can go a long way too) it says a lot about your interest.

As a general rule I’m not a fan of ironed jeans (this is something I un-learned at college) but for job interviews I’ll relax my attitude…

People.. IRON.. jeans?

Really??

Lucky1 said:

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

I steered away from baby clinics after a few visits because “The Establishment” was continually changing it’s mind about the RIGHT way to do things.
My sisters where always telling me to feed solids and “Aren’t you going to give him a drink of water?” because that’s what they did.
I just followed Nursing Mothers advice and my GP.

I avoided the baby clinics, only went twice, I recall my mother going and I was a very skinny person…healthy but just muscles and bone…my mother got a dressing-down because I was not fat…but she didn’t listen to them thankfully…and I felt so insulted on Mum’s behalf that I decided not to take my own kids there…there was ladies at the playgroup who used to crow if their children had been given ticks of approval by the baby clinic (wankers)…Like you Bubba, I just stuck to Nursing Mothers (NMAA) and they saved my sanity…along with the older mothers I knew from the service club that MrD belonged to…

I stopped going to mother’s clinic when I was told to feed Mrs. B brains and the woman was single and didn’t have any kids.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!

That is all I have to say =/

(yep, I’m a very easily grossed out city girl!! :D )

Lucky1 said:

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

I steered away from baby clinics after a few visits because “The Establishment” was continually changing it’s mind about the RIGHT way to do things.
My sisters where always telling me to feed solids and “Aren’t you going to give him a drink of water?” because that’s what they did.
I just followed Nursing Mothers advice and my GP.

I avoided the baby clinics, only went twice, I recall my mother going and I was a very skinny person…healthy but just muscles and bone…my mother got a dressing-down because I was not fat…but she didn’t listen to them thankfully…and I felt so insulted on Mum’s behalf that I decided not to take my own kids there…there was ladies at the playgroup who used to crow if their children had been given ticks of approval by the baby clinic (wankers)…Like you Bubba, I just stuck to Nursing Mothers (NMAA) and they saved my sanity…along with the older mothers I knew from the service club that MrD belonged to…

I stopped going to mother’s clinic when I was told to feed Mrs. B brains and the woman was single and didn’t have any kids.

Our old GP told my sister to stay away from the dried up old maids. lol

bon008 said:

Dinetta said:

Veg gardener said:

Looks Like I got to wear some Interview Clothes, Hope a Nice shirt and my Jeans and good boots will be alright.

Good boots and a good haircut maketh the good impression…as long as the rest is clean and tidy (and preferably ironed…creases in jeans can go a long way too) it says a lot about your interest.

As a general rule I’m not a fan of ironed jeans (this is something I un-learned at college) but for job interviews I’ll relax my attitude…

People.. IRON.. jeans?

Really??

People..IRON…clothes?

Really?

LOL

Not me.

Veg gardener said:

Dinetta said:

Veg gardener said:

Got the Hair Cut. I Better Practice the ironing skills.

LOL! good on you! and the best thing about ironing skills, is you can watch TV or a DVD or whatever while you do it because once you know how, you don’t really need to think about it…

Last time I tried Dinetta, I just Gave up, Didn’t get the hang of it at all. Its not like operating a Skid steer or tractor.

Ironing follows the construction of the garment…

Dinetta said:

Veg gardener said:

Dinetta said:

LOL! good on you! and the best thing about ironing skills, is you can watch TV or a DVD or whatever while you do it because once you know how, you don’t really need to think about it…

Last time I tried Dinetta, I just Gave up, Didn’t get the hang of it at all. Its not like operating a Skid steer or tractor.

Ironing follows the construction of the garment…

I’m allergic to irons.

When I’m buying new clothes I grab a handfull and squeeze. If it stays crushed I dont buy it.

Happy Potter said:

bubba louie said:

Come to Bris and see my doc. Reconstruction is his specialty.

I knocked it back over 2 yeas ago. Maybe one day.

It’s the 15kg lifting limit after that puts me off…need to be able to lift 30kg to be independent…just speaking for myself…

bubba louie said:

bon008 said:

Dinetta said:

Good boots and a good haircut maketh the good impression…as long as the rest is clean and tidy (and preferably ironed…creases in jeans can go a long way too) it says a lot about your interest.

As a general rule I’m not a fan of ironed jeans (this is something I un-learned at college) but for job interviews I’ll relax my attitude…

People.. IRON.. jeans?

Really??

People..IRON…clothes?

Really?

LOL

Not me.

Hehe :) Takes a job interview or a funeral to get the iron out around here – and luckily they are both pretty rare events.

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

bubba louie said:

Come to Bris and see my doc. Reconstruction is his specialty.

I knocked it back over 2 yeas ago. Maybe one day.

It’s the 15kg lifting limit after that puts me off…need to be able to lift 30kg to be independent…just speaking for myself…

That makes it hard.

bon008 said:

Dinetta said:

Veg gardener said:

Looks Like I got to wear some Interview Clothes, Hope a Nice shirt and my Jeans and good boots will be alright.

Good boots and a good haircut maketh the good impression…as long as the rest is clean and tidy (and preferably ironed…creases in jeans can go a long way too) it says a lot about your interest.

As a general rule I’m not a fan of ironed jeans (this is something I un-learned at college) but for job interviews I’ll relax my attitude…

People.. IRON.. jeans?

Really??

Yair…I avoid ‘em (unless I know they’ve just gone to a job interview)

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

I knocked it back over 2 yeas ago. Maybe one day.

It’s the 15kg lifting limit after that puts me off…need to be able to lift 30kg to be independent…just speaking for myself…

That makes it hard.

Plus for quite a while you can’t lift anything much at all.

Dinetta said:

bon008 said:

Dinetta said:

Good boots and a good haircut maketh the good impression…as long as the rest is clean and tidy (and preferably ironed…creases in jeans can go a long way too) it says a lot about your interest.

As a general rule I’m not a fan of ironed jeans (this is something I un-learned at college) but for job interviews I’ll relax my attitude…

People.. IRON.. jeans?

Really??

Yair…I avoid ‘em (unless I know they’ve just gone to a job interview)

My mother in law irons t-shirts.. I always thought that was a bit masochistic and weird.

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

It’s the 15kg lifting limit after that puts me off…need to be able to lift 30kg to be independent…just speaking for myself…

That makes it hard.

Plus for quite a while you can’t lift anything much at all.

Actually I think he set my limit to 20kg but that’s still not enough for you.

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

I knocked it back over 2 yeas ago. Maybe one day.

It’s the 15kg lifting limit after that puts me off…need to be able to lift 30kg to be independent…just speaking for myself…

That makes it hard.

Yes but I have a feeling I need to do this while I’ve still got a reasonably good healing outcome…

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

It’s the 15kg lifting limit after that puts me off…need to be able to lift 30kg to be independent…just speaking for myself…

That makes it hard.

Plus for quite a while you can’t lift anything much at all.

The old teaspoon rule?

bon008 said:

Dinetta said:

bon008 said:

People.. IRON.. jeans?

Really??

Yair…I avoid ‘em (unless I know they’ve just gone to a job interview)

My mother in law irons t-shirts.. I always thought that was a bit masochistic and weird.

After they’ve been on for a while you can’t tell anyway.

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

Veg gardener said:

Last time I tried Dinetta, I just Gave up, Didn’t get the hang of it at all. Its not like operating a Skid steer or tractor.

Ironing follows the construction of the garment…

I’m allergic to irons.

My iron gets hot and makes me turn into a nasty sweaty so and so LOL

bon008 said:

My mother in law irons t-shirts.. I always thought that was a bit masochistic and weird.

I had an acquaintance who not only ironed T-shirts, she ironed the grundies as well…for everybody…even the recently toilet-trained toddler…she sure was a stickler for “rules” as well…a Dr told her to go and give her kids a teaspoonful of dirt because she kept them so germ-free…

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

It’s the 15kg lifting limit after that puts me off…need to be able to lift 30kg to be independent…just speaking for myself…

That makes it hard.

Yes but I have a feeling I need to do this while I’ve still got a reasonably good healing outcome…

I first saw him about 5/6 years ago and he told me to wait. The op doesn’t usually last forever and he said if he did it then I’d probably be back at 80 for a repeat.

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

That makes it hard.

Plus for quite a while you can’t lift anything much at all.

The old teaspoon rule?

Not quite that bad.

I wasn’t supposed to push a shopping trolley but I could put small items in it.

I DID push the trolley but I did it carefully and didn’t fight it.

Dinetta said:

bon008 said:

My mother in law irons t-shirts.. I always thought that was a bit masochistic and weird.

I had an acquaintance who not only ironed T-shirts, she ironed the grundies as well…for everybody…even the recently toilet-trained toddler…she sure was a stickler for “rules” as well…a Dr told her to go and give her kids a teaspoonful of dirt because she kept them so germ-free…

My Mum ironed tea towels. :(

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

It’s the 15kg lifting limit after that puts me off…need to be able to lift 30kg to be independent…just speaking for myself…

That makes it hard.

Yes but I have a feeling I need to do this while I’ve still got a reasonably good healing outcome…

Have a chat to him. hes a very up front bloke.

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

bon008 said:

My mother in law irons t-shirts.. I always thought that was a bit masochistic and weird.

I had an acquaintance who not only ironed T-shirts, she ironed the grundies as well…for everybody…even the recently toilet-trained toddler…she sure was a stickler for “rules” as well…a Dr told her to go and give her kids a teaspoonful of dirt because she kept them so germ-free…

My Mum ironed tea towels. :(

I do that sometimes, the linen ones…it helps them fit better in the linen press…but mostly I use nappies as teatowels (buy them on specials)…and the pillow cases…but not the sheets or the bath towels…

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

That makes it hard.

Yes but I have a feeling I need to do this while I’ve still got a reasonably good healing outcome…

Have a chat to him. hes a very up front bloke.

He’s at The Wesley and The Mater. I had the op at The Mater and the staff were nice and the food better than most.

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

That makes it hard.

Yes but I have a feeling I need to do this while I’ve still got a reasonably good healing outcome…

I first saw him about 5/6 years ago and he told me to wait. The op doesn’t usually last forever and he said if he did it then I’d probably be back at 80 for a repeat.

I wonder if you can get it to last longer with follow up physio work? Although I know it can be very time consuming and the dollars add up.

Happy Potter said:

My iron gets hot and makes me turn into a nasty sweaty so and so LOL

My mum used to get like that with the ironing…but she sobbed when my bro got married at 35 and took his Gloster double twist cotton shirts with him…I’d even say she went into a bit of a decline…

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

Yes but I have a feeling I need to do this while I’ve still got a reasonably good healing outcome…

Have a chat to him. hes a very up front bloke.

He’s at The Wesley and The Mater. I had the op at The Mater and the staff were nice and the food better than most.

I’ll pass the good news on to MrD…he’ll pressure me for the Wesley (his bro is a gyno there) but if the food’s better I’ll opt for the Mater…

bon008 said:

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

Yes but I have a feeling I need to do this while I’ve still got a reasonably good healing outcome…

I first saw him about 5/6 years ago and he told me to wait. The op doesn’t usually last forever and he said if he did it then I’d probably be back at 80 for a repeat.

I wonder if you can get it to last longer with follow up physio work? Although I know it can be very time consuming and the dollars add up.

Pelvic floor exercise is recommended but I’m hopeless at it. I just can’t do it and breathe at the same time. Drives the physio nuts.

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

Have a chat to him. hes a very up front bloke.

He’s at The Wesley and The Mater. I had the op at The Mater and the staff were nice and the food better than most.

I’ll pass the good news on to MrD…he’ll pressure me for the Wesley (his bro is a gyno there) but if the food’s better I’ll opt for the Mater…

Ive never stayed at the Wesley so I wouldn’t know.

Just me and Fashionista at the office, and she’s gone home (not well)…

I think I’ll go get some lunch (yes I know, 15:00 hrs already)…

bubba louie said:

Ive never stayed at the Wesley so I wouldn’t know.

The lifts reek of phenyle and this gives me sinus = headache…but hey in-house pesticides make me sick (where they spray the house for spiders etc) so obviously I’m just a sook…

bubba louie said:

bon008 said:

bubba louie said:

I first saw him about 5/6 years ago and he told me to wait. The op doesn’t usually last forever and he said if he did it then I’d probably be back at 80 for a repeat.

I wonder if you can get it to last longer with follow up physio work? Although I know it can be very time consuming and the dollars add up.

Pelvic floor exercise is recommended but I’m hopeless at it. I just can’t do it and breathe at the same time. Drives the physio nuts.

Have you tried one with an ultrasound? That’s what I’m doing at the mo. I have similar problems with breathing so I have very precise instructions regarding the timing of the out breath and so forth. I could explain it but it’s probably specific just to me, not general advice.

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

Ive never stayed at the Wesley so I wouldn’t know.

The lifts reek of phenyle and this gives me sinus = headache…but hey in-house pesticides make me sick (where they spray the house for spiders etc) so obviously I’m just a sook…

Humbug, you’re clearly both sensitive and sensible :)

Dinetta said:

Veg gardener said:

Dinetta said:

LOL! good on you! and the best thing about ironing skills, is you can watch TV or a DVD or whatever while you do it because once you know how, you don’t really need to think about it…

Last time I tried Dinetta, I just Gave up, Didn’t get the hang of it at all. Its not like operating a Skid steer or tractor.

Ironing follows the construction of the garment…

I don’t Like standing in the One spot for awhile, Most things I wear hasn’t been ironed, Unless we go out for tea or some wear special.

Veg gardener said:

Dinetta said:

Veg gardener said:

Last time I tried Dinetta, I just Gave up, Didn’t get the hang of it at all. Its not like operating a Skid steer or tractor.

Ironing follows the construction of the garment…

I don’t Like standing in the One spot for awhile, Most things I wear hasn’t been ironed, Unless we go out for tea or some wear special.

Used to iron sitting down, personally. Always gave me sore shoulders though – wonder if that would still happen, now that I’ve improved my posture/muscle definition? Not keen to test it out, anyway :D

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

Ive never stayed at the Wesley so I wouldn’t know.

The lifts reek of phenyle and this gives me sinus = headache…but hey in-house pesticides make me sick (where they spray the house for spiders etc) so obviously I’m just a sook…

Ive visited there and I can’t say I’ve noticed, so the Mater could be the same.

bon008 said:

bubba louie said:

bon008 said:

I wonder if you can get it to last longer with follow up physio work? Although I know it can be very time consuming and the dollars add up.

Pelvic floor exercise is recommended but I’m hopeless at it. I just can’t do it and breathe at the same time. Drives the physio nuts.

Have you tried one with an ultrasound? That’s what I’m doing at the mo. I have similar problems with breathing so I have very precise instructions regarding the timing of the out breath and so forth. I could explain it but it’s probably specific just to me, not general advice.

I just know I’m too slack to keep trying anyway.

Tv is a hard pick tonight looks Like we will record the Movie on prime Called ‘My boy Jack’ about a 18yr old bloke in world war 1, And Axe Man on 7mate, at the same time.

bubba louie said:

bon008 said:

bubba louie said:

Pelvic floor exercise is recommended but I’m hopeless at it. I just can’t do it and breathe at the same time. Drives the physio nuts.

Have you tried one with an ultrasound? That’s what I’m doing at the mo. I have similar problems with breathing so I have very precise instructions regarding the timing of the out breath and so forth. I could explain it but it’s probably specific just to me, not general advice.

I just know I’m too slack to keep trying anyway.

Fair enough :)

I’ve now got so much daily homework from my two physios that I’ve started using a new application to keep track of it all! http://www.rememberthemilk.com/

Which reminds me.. I haven’t done my sitting exercises for the afternoon yet… :D

does someone have a link to in the news thread?
http://au.news.yahoo.com/local/nsw/a/-/local/8607875/xstrata-not-sure-how-long-fire-will-burn/ Fire at dads work.

Veg gardener said:

does someone have a link to in the news thread?
http://au.news.yahoo.com/local/nsw/a/-/local/8607875/xstrata-not-sure-how-long-fire-will-burn/ Fire at dads work.

Gosh.. thank goodness everybody is safe.

Finally.
The washing, drying and folding is under control.

It all stacked up waiting for a sunny day that didn’t happen, so the dryer’s been working overtime.

Damn band shirts the boys are so keen on can’t be tumble dried so the house has been looking like a chinese laundry with stuff hanging everywhere.

bon008 said:

Veg gardener said:

does someone have a link to in the news thread?
http://au.news.yahoo.com/local/nsw/a/-/local/8607875/xstrata-not-sure-how-long-fire-will-burn/ Fire at dads work.

Gosh.. thank goodness everybody is safe.

yep, dads still going to work as normal, he’s in the office. There mine has goes under a couple of names Blake field, Beltana, Bulga
Mostly see all the blokes wearing there Beltana shirts and jeans.
Abit about the pit. http://www.beltanaoperations.com.au/

Veg gardener said:

Resume went in for a Plant Operator aprentership a week ago. phone call from MEGT on Behalf of Daracon. Interview next thursday.

oh good luck with that Veg.

Lucky1 said:

Dinetta said:

Lucky1 said:

I could end up at Mrs. B’s house today, cleaning it…she’s had a rough week and is off work today.

I hope she’s keeping well otherwise?

Yes well but tired as she on her feet all day at the bank.

She’s been getting these pains and all is okay as she was checked out. I think its one of those “things” that some pregnant women get……I mean I cried all through Jimbob’s pregnancy.

sounds like a joyous experience.

bubba louie said:

Pelvic floor exercise is recommended but I’m hopeless at it. I just can’t do it and breathe at the same time.

Ditto! Oh and I’m back home all nicely shorn.

Happy Potter said:

And……….
Neighbour over that way —————-> has a huge peach tree loaded and I can pick as many as want. Take the lot he said, they will only fall to the ground. (introducing bugs and disease to my fruits!!) I tried one and they are so sweet!
Hubby will help pick them. I’ll get the lower ones.
I will share them about with friends.

Now to look up peach jam :D

Hubby’s other job is being an all-in-one extension ladder+fruit picker?

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

Lucky1 said:

eeewww….you can keep that:)

I don’t like Coke anymore. Pepsi does it for me.

I don’t like either! bleah!

The black fizzy stuff is a means to an end … a cold source of caffeine in hot weather, usually for medicinal purposes (driving, mostly!). Only when the weather is too hot for me drink coffee :)