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Sori Berona

Gloria - she was sick on the bus on Monday. Have you not been paying attention? They could do with one of your perfumed candles on the bus eh Allan?

g'night norma-persey-the goddess. sleep well. I have to work tomorrow at a building site and not looking forward to it. 8 am start so will leave here about 7.30. The site office itself is air-conditioned but it will probably be muddy underfoot after the ten spots of rain we had this afternoon. Colin.

Waves to Barbara. Colin. And so to bed.

Well where is everyone? I suppose some are tucked up in bed ....ah I cannot sleep must have been that sleep I had earlier in the day...lol

I do hope that you post again on here Linda...enjoy your time with family !!

Alison how did you go with the silverside for tea?? Did you mange to eat a little more?

Barbra...My last house the front garden was full of different colored roses that I had picked it was such a beautiful picture of colour. When we sold the house I really missed seeing the roses and a very large frangipani that was just beside the front veranda. Went past the old house the other day and the owners have completely taken out the front garden and put grass in there is no colour but the green grass....and have also built another house out the back garden...I could have cried :(. Suppose there are more interested in making money.

Enough of me waffling on...Take care all...xxxxxxx

Good morning/evening everyone. I hope all are well.

It's going to be another hot and steamy day here. OH is hoping to cut the grass as it's knee-high and I'll need to take a hunting rifle with me when I hang out the clothes - I don't know what beasts I'll find lurking in the grass:-)) Luckily our son watered the plants and gardens regularly so I haven't lost any plants. The veggie garden is going well and we'll have fresh tomatoes for Christmas. The lilies that I repotted flowered while we were away as I knew they would. They are still beautiful if a little faded but when I bought one lot of tubers I was told they were different colours. They are all white.

Sue xx

Where are you all? Oh well, will check in later, my friends.

Sue xx

I'm here Sue. Good morning to you! I keep going off to get something done before the heat hits us again. My temperature gauge IS working fine - so it really was 52 around 11am yesterday - in the sun - 42 in the shade, and still 35 at 5:30! Looks like to-day could be a doozie too! And we haven't even got to summer yet!

Just had a look at a thread which seems to be a regular weekly performance on here. It's a pity they can't pick an interesting subject. Gets tiring, doesn't it? I wonder how it affects newcomers?

It's a wide country, Barbara. Different time zones - and to make it more confusing, not all of the states have Daylight Saving! Allan and Janet are in the west, where they don't have D.S. The rest of us seem to all be in the east, so we are two hours ahead of the West in winter and three hours ahead of them now until next March.

We live south of Sydney with a cold to mild winter and usually pleasant summers. We have rarely had temps. over 30 but in the last few years we've had some unpleasantly hot days. This year it looks like we're going to have some stinking hot days. We generally get a decent rainfall but we've had some dry times too.

Berona I think it gets hotter where you are than here. When we came along the freeway past Newcastle etc. we stopped near Peats Ridge for a break and it was stifling. We arrived home at 2.30 in the afternoon and it was hot but bearable. Having said that I went outside to at 8.30 to get something we'd left in the car and it hadn't cooled down at all. Thank goodness for air-conditioning in the car and at home:-)

Sue xx

Where's Tec and Allan and all my other friends? Come on guys - you're worrying me now.

Sue xx

Don't know where Allan is - maybe chatting up someone on another thread, although I thought he would be on his best behaviour for you.
Tec is no doubt running around with buckets, or up a ladder.

Good night Barbra. Sleep well. (No, I didn't sleep well last night - kept waking up sweating).

Where I am, there seems to be some kind of a trough coming from the south across Smithfield, Wentworthvile/Greystanes, Northmead and Westmead and we don't seem to get the same weather as those areas around us. About ten years ago, we had healthy trees blown down, roof blown off the local (modern) school, and streets flooded - even with our wonderful underground pipes. It all cleared rather quickly, but no other part of Sydney got it at all! Then, we have the opposite, where we see on TV that torrential rain fell in some suburbs not far from us - and we didn't get a drop!
I have been in touch constantly with my SIL in Newcastle and their temperatures are similar to ours - but they have the advantage of a sea breeze. I was born there and spent a lot of years there and have never known it not to have some kind of wind blowing. Here, we do get wind, particularly in August, but we also have a lot of times when there is no sign of a breeze - like NOW!

No breeze here either, Berona. I've found that I can bear the heat a little better out west - at least if I'm not in it all day. It is dry compared to here at the moment. It's not that hot yet but the humidity is stifling. I've been sorting out the washing etc. and I'm sweaty all ready - I had a shower only an hour ago but don't feel like I have.

Sue xx

God whatever all

No need to send out a search party...or would you just leave me lost?

When I booted up my computer this morning a message showed that my antivirus program was disabled. I don't know how that happened as I never change the settings.

Anyway, no matter what I tried I couldn't enable it. So, back to basics I had to re-install it and it then scanned every file on my computer. As I have the data from my old drive on there as well it was effectively scanning two systems and took well over an hour.


Berona, those urban myths again appear very real: today on my return from my walk a kangaroo was scurrying down the laneway at the side of the Senior Cits and took off into the shopping centre!

Allan

I suppose the sight of a human at that hour of the night/morning, was strange. You frightened him!!

I get messages like that almost every morning on my P.C. I usually just stay off the internet for a little while and whatever was disabled or turned off, suddenly enables itself or turns itself on, then I can use it OK.

Good morning Berona

We did both stop dead in our tracks!

This is the first time that I have experienced this particular problem.

I've had different problems from time to time but have ususally managed to fix them

Allan

All part of the learning process Allan. Most of my learning has been from having to fix problems and finding new things in the process. Of course, I did work in a big computer environment with plenty of experts to get me out of trouble, but I always tried to do it myself first and only asked for help when the frustration became too much!

Berona, when both children had left home, if I had a problem with the computer I'd just phone my son and ask him to come and fix it....sometimes it would take him a couple of days to get here as he was busy. So I eventually decided to try and stand (or wobble) on my own two feet.

I will have to say goodbye until later OH and myself are going to a couple of local Garage Sales and they start at 8.00am.

I hope that the weather is a bit more clement for you

Regards

Allan

Hi all it is lunch time around here.

Allan
My Kapersky must've jumped into your computer and told it off for all your misbehaving and punished you. hee hee. Told you it has ways of finding out what you've bin up to.
The Kangaroo was probably off to do its shopping - we should take notice of why animals do these things. My daughter couldn't believe it when she was in Tooting Bec and going for her morning jog and there was a fox at the end of her street. Boom boom. They have had to move closer to the towns because all their hedges and bushes are disappearing. Take Sherwood Forest for example - Robin Hood could fire his arrow straight through it and nothing would quiver.

OH is calling me so will be back later to discuss the weather and Sue's back lawn - maybe it is ready for haymaking Sue?

Cheers

Perse who could be worse.

Allan, getting the family to help doesn't always do me any good! I have lost count of how many computers I have owned over the last twenty years and each one was set up by me.
My current Dell was delivered to me by my son on a day when other family members were there, so he and his wife set it all up whilst I chatted to the others. They did absolutely everything for me, including the phone calls to Microsoft for registration, etc...At the time, I thought that was lovely of them - and it was - except that the first time anything went wrong - I had no idea how it had been set up, or what to do about it!