Oh goodo Linus, so she's from Ponsonby in Auckland, near the top of the North Island. Not sure about the Westies bit tho! I'm from further south and to me a Westie would be someone who comes from the West Coast of the South Island. generally called a Coaster and therefore is a living being not to be confused with any other form of New Zealander. They are a wild lot on the West Coast. I have a friend who was a Policeman and he got sent down there to the Coast. Seems the only use for a copper down there is to bring on the oranges at half time in a fight in the pub. The Coasters tend to sort themselves out!!!!!
Mel, we definitely do not all sound English - even half the English do not sound English. You may well start WW111 if you lump us all into the same sound box!! Linus' lot have spent countless years trying to get away from the English, so have Mooz's mob. We managed it by coming 13000 miles around the globe. We also use words like car boot and bonnet rather than trunk or hood so the Canadians are not alone.
Peacock, the raucous Aussie male was probably raucous because no one could understand what he was saying - so he said it louder. The implication being that the listener is both deaf and daft - not the Aussie. Yes many of the Aussies have that upward inflection at the end of the sentence, particularly in North Queensland. It can be amusing and confusing. I've also noticed it in some Americans. The New Zealanders tend not to have it - instead they put eh on the end of everything. 'Just off to the boozer for an hour or two eh.' You have no idea at times whether they are asking or telling! They also use the words Bro or cuz in the sentence - particularly those who live within the Maori tradition. Hey bro, just off to the boozer eh. You wanna come and bring all the cuzzies and bros. (or maybe the cuzzy-bros) Bro tends to be inside the family or tribe, cuz is anyone.
You lot are my bro's - or in this case broesses.
Enough of this. The day is moving along. I have weights at the gym today.
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I'm off there shortly.
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DS place is moving along and the first coat of paint will go on the bedroom today. Need to make a list of stuff to take over there. Son is dutifully impressed with my progress. DS friend will probably be able to move in some of her stuff this weekend. Although they will need to move the pile of carpet currently residing in the middle of the living room.
Then I am about to tackle something I have not done before and that is to mark up and cut the fibro cement board for around the bath. So wish me luck! I picked up a couple of new tools yesterday - the fibro cutter and a mitre box and saw. Jeez I'll have a well stocked tool kit shortly. Can you see me clanking around the house with one of those tool bags on my hips.
Roseblush you seem to be having such a good time. Long may it last. The time will come when you are ready to knuckle down and get serious about your weight loss. In the meantime, just try to keep it in check and keep coming back here. We love the stories of the deer and the woodpeckers and the birds and bees etc.
Peacock it is good to hear from you again. Where have you been?
Mel, shame about the waterfront, but there will be other times, I'm sure. Just look after yourself, you hear. We can't have a bruised and battered person around. I'm sure the people in the office will miss you. It's probably a bit sad that you had to give it away, however if it was the sort of situation where you had a small job that took up maybe one or two part days of your time, then I would have said hang on to it. But like most places, the more you do, the more you get to do and you just can not keep up the pace anymore. Maybe in the future, you might like to volunteer for something like Linda does, where you can strictly control the time given and the work done. It's too much to ask you to retire from life. We all need some stimulation and purpose in this world.
Linus I'm glad you liked the photos on my webshots site. I must admit that I have a lot of pleasure putting them there. Sometimes it's almost like going back to the holiday and I think of the people I met and the places I went and the fun I had.
Teel I think should be home tomorrow. I'm waiting, waiting, waiting to hear how things went.
Time I was off here and off to the gym. Weights - errrrrr yes and maybe a time on the rowing machine. Okay, thats a plan.
Since I am here and I speak both Aus and Kiwi and very few can pick me these days - I don't have an accent!!! 
I knew diet and eyes are related as is almost everything else. "We are what we eat." wherever that came from. Food does play a big role in rosacea but this time I think it was more the stress than food or both.??? I looked at my rosacea journal and saw too many stress days last week with the retirement thing and to be quite frank, when I go down to get on the bus there is still some unrest and unhappiness. I know it will end soon but one of them just got back from vacation and she is taking the burden of the mess now. It won't be easy for her to handle alone. Why am I writing a book about this?!?!?! Sorry, I am rambling now.
MEL its my spelling that gives me the accent i type how i speak my english proffesser would be horrified but i am who i am and its no point changing now hope the legs better soon my kids cant wait till i have to use a chair cause they are going to take me to one of our many thousand hills and let me go one very good reason for me to fight to stay out of one also i think id be a terrible driver as i tend to stop mid acction and go into a wee trance as when things pop into my head i tend to examine straight away otherwise id forget all about it 
my husbands gran was a twin and her and her sister married twins so his family are all really close and we all live within 30 mins of each other 
HAPPY your dh must really love his butterflys as it really shows in his photos they are really beautiful and so detailed i loved them and your grand canyon pics were amazing i had such a wonderfull time looking through them so ive bookmarked both yours and shads pages so i can escape more often the only travel programs i ever watched were the ones with billy connolly ,s world tours he goes into places and meets people that your ordinary travel programs would edit out and it makes you feel like your really seeing the real place and your photos were the same thanks again well ladies ive done the housework and the cooking benjy and cleo have been brushed teeth cleaned and nails cut and now benjy is not talking to me as he hates getting his teeth done but my god talk about doggy breath the dog will not chew so he waits until cleo chews the nyla bone till its soggy and then pinches it hes so lazy the goldfish have been cleaned and the topical fish have had there partial water change so im now going to go and plat settlers for a while the kids bounced out of their beds at 7.45 this morning well conner and jd did but craig was bodily dragged from his at 1.55 so they are being very qiuet and relaxed so hopefully early to bed for them and ME 
Hello To You Too!
