"If it's not one thing it's another"

Beaut. day today mate........................... Woke up late, and got to work half hour late. During the morning there wasn't a breath of wind and the temperature gradually reached 26 degrees. Everyone that passed me at the factory was saying...

G'Day Norwich

Was busy last week working back shift, so not up early in the mornings. Just about early enough to hear the posty on his motorbike, rideing down the footpath and the noise of the post box as he slams the lid down. Thats when we know we have some mail....

One year on.

G'Day everyone.. Sunday is the anniversary of "Black Saturday", its the term now used for the greatest disaster this country has ever experienced. The day when we lost over 200 lives in the bushfires last year. All flags will be at half mast and at...

Hy all!..,

Just a short one this week. Been rather quiet this way. Christmas is over and we can see that by the amount of trafic back on the roads, as we go to work in the mornings. I can't wait untill winter, when I take my holidays and get upto Qld. and the...

Its warm here whilst you are all feeling the cold.

Sorry its been so long since I blogged everyone that takes time to read my posts. Well we had a second trip up to Queensland, to Coolum, in November, just a 4 day visit gave me a chance to relax a bit befor the festive season commenced at the factory....

Let us pray for a safe summer.

G'Day.---. With rainfall again this year at very low levels, as we enter our spring, we are being told of extreem fire dangers. Our area of Victoria is a tinder box and we just hope that the clearing of woodland we have seen during our winter will...

Back to the cold weather

G,day everyone. Well we are home again from our l2 day break up in Queensland, at a little town named Coolum. Coolums on the Sunshine coast, a holiday area for us here in the land of surf and sharks.------------Its a two and a half hour flight from...

Thanks Derek, that brought back memories

Received an E-Mail from my sister Diane today, with an article, she thought I would be interested in re. Laurence Scott and Electromotors. Diane forwarded it to me with the photos of the reunion, didn't recognise anyone but that didn't take away the...

The old divi number.

G,Day. Good news I see for those Co-Op workers. that brought back a few memories, as a child I spent every Saturday with our milkman in his Co-op electric milk float around Mile Cross, delivering the Milk and helping him with the his Saturday chore...

Still Cold

Well the weather I mean. Linda arrived home as I said, she was only 1 hour late, had a 1 Hour delay in Kualalumpa. I was so busy cleaning the house and trying to finish the En-suit that I never rung the airport to find out if the plane was on time,...

Wont be long now.

Gd.day.. Well lets see if this Blog punctuate properly, seem to be having problems, once I post as it just seem to turn into one long paragraph ...........................................Yes Saturday I should see the return of my dearest Linda,...

O dearest another year gone

Sitting here tonight, I have not been blogging for a while, as I took a little time away, just the week end and flew up to Queensland. I had lovely weather on the Gold Coast, it was 28 degrees the Friday I landed there and didn't drop below that for...

Happy Easter

G'Day all my Easter bunnies. A busy little holiday I'm having down here, in the land of the Holden Cars and I don't know how much longer they will be able to survive. Poor old Ford are doing even worse but it looks as though our third producer Toyota...

O, whats O, I'll explain

Our English language is full of dialects and Australia isn't any different to anywhere else. Here it is a general rule to add a "O" to the name of a friend, doesn't really shorten it only becomes your nickname. You can walk into your place of work...

Rain at Last

Today is a real G'Day.   Yesterday we finally breathed a sigh of relief, it rained in the afternoon and gave us, over the fire fronts, 4 m.m. of much needed rain. Today we had steady rain up untill mid afternoon, quelling the fire to spot fires,...