Just lost a long post-not doing it again............Richo.

Aaawwwwhhhhhuuuuu?  I feel cheated Richo 😞

Did anyone else go to school holiday camps run by the Churchs or the YWCA or YMCA. I remember going to a number of them.

No moon I didn't but some of the older kids I was helping to raise did... wasn't too sure about one of the masters 😞

We stopped after that.... bloomin' blazers X-(

Well my wood is sort of burning - kinda - sigh!.. still he is bringing another load for free on Monday and he suggests salting it in with this lot..

Probably last me a couple of years the way it's going.

Yep, cold and overcast here today.  Some days 15˚ is sunny and beautiful to garden in, but this is not one of those days.

Do kids go to Sunday School any longer?  I did when I was about 12, but don't hear of it any more.

Its quite cool here, I am sitting here in a tracksuit with my Uggies on.

Not cold enough to light the heater yet.

I remember going to a school camp when I was about 12....Kids from all over came for about a week in the school holidays.  We had to take our own metal plate, cup and knife spoon and fork and sheets...

Will never forget this...60 years ago....me trying to socialise asked this girl where she was from?

Belligerant attitude:.."Surrey ills, any obs????":^O

Needless to say, we didn't become friends.

Hahahaa  Gil :^O

I worked in a inner city office in Sydney for a little while and the Ozzie accent ruled.

My accent is more English because my mother was English, so I was considered a 'bluddy pom' until I learned to speak Oz and then I was accepted.

Can still drop down into Oz if required, but haven't had a reason to for years 😞

Thinking about that office, it was for Bennett & Woods who made a lot of machine parts and everyone sat in little cubicles on their own watched over by a superior and updated cards with the machine numbers on them...

Can't remember the finess of it, but my god it was boring.  Didn't last in that job.

I left my job at Bushells to go to a job at a shipping co.   It turned out my new boss had known one of my rellies and started to make advances...I was 20 and he was 50!  So I decided to ask my boss at Bushells if I could come back...At least he was only 35!  He agreed....don't know what happened to my successor? He remained a good friend for 20 years...when I got divorced I stayed with him for a bit, which was handy.

Cleaner just left.   boo hoo:_|she's got a job cleaning in the mines and starts next Wed...fly in fly out and $1K a week net.  all airfares, food on site accomm. free...

I tried to climb up the ladder....my weak old knees wouldn't let me thank goodness so she did the climb for me instead...I'll miss her...she's a gem.

<<<<hugs>>>>

I hope you can find another who is as good.

I hope so  too grandmoon...I have subsidised cleaning $10 per fortnight through ACAT....Trace was perfect, a jolly always happy soul who had no sense of smell  (lucky her, because of my cats and dogs ) B-) I'll be sent someone...hope they are as nice.

Poor Gil 😞 isn't it hard when you lose someone who really has been a help and a happy one at that.

I do hope your next one is as good.

I had my mower men here today... in fact I had FOUR of them.  The place was like a bee hive with whipper snippers and ride ons going flat out for two and a half hours...

It's done my outlook on life a lot of good as I was beginning to feel I would never get it done .  Now I don't have to.

I was at lunch with friends today and I was about to tuck into a Caesar salad when one of them observed "Isn't it funny, not so many years ago we would never have thought of food like this."

So right!  We are all so conservative back then weren't we.  Now it's anything goes and hasn't that altered our foods and what we buy and cook now.

The days of the meat and three veges has almost gone I think.