hello all...

nice to see you here Dea♥

7.9 degrees at the moment!  bluddy hell!

Evening seniors----half way down the second page again!

~~waves to PH and Gilly-the most recent posters.

You must still have some---war stories and things

from the past to post--------some posters with nothing to do

and all day to do it in needed..................Richo.

Evening all

I have been busy racking up the leaves I now have 2/3 of a trailers full.

Someone made the decision to plant oak trees on the nature stripe.

I now have 2 very large tree in the front of the house and there is another very large tree in the yard behind so I have to rake both the front and back yards.

Hi Grandmoon-its like painting the Sydney harbour

bridge---start one end then when you have finished-

start again.--just wait for a real strong wind!

-Your now in charge --im hitting the cot.

Darki or someone else will  relieve you soon.......Richo. 

Morning Richo  and the other early risers.

I am waiting for it to warm up here to go and do some more raking of leaves. 

Good morning gerries.

Hi Grandmoon---do you burn them or compost?

No need for Oaks and Elms in Australia--

they just make a mess.....................Richo.

We get far to many to compost them we have about 4 large trailer loads a year. 

 We are able to take them to the garden waste recycling area.  They compost them there.

At least they get used Grandmoon.

Im getting ready for work-going to-"rake the leaves"

then do it again tomorrow-lol.

Catch up........................Richo.

Good early morning all 🙂

Yes Richo I was thinking of the war years just a little while ago.  My memories are, of course, from the point of view of a littlie, but I do remember my first neon sign after the war was over.  It was a bear on a bike licking an icecream and was on one of the buildings in George street I think.

The black out curtains in my grandparents' home is another memory and the Royal Navy in Sydney Harbour.

I also remember the first cracker night after the war ended with fire works from Fort Denison which were wonderful if nothing like the displays they put on now from the bridge.

Talking about the harbour bridge, I am well into Ancestry research at present and have found so many ancestors they are making me feel as if I am knitting a scarf for the harbour bridge... there are so many of them, but the history is wonderful and I am enjoying it.

Hmmm... raking leaves, leave them and pray from a strong wind I say :^O

Down here they just fly in all directions and finally settle in corners of the fence line.

Hope you all have a good day xx

'morning all.

At least Plane and other non-native deciduous trees only shed once a year. Australian natives (which I adore) shed all year round. Raking is a small price to pay for the beauty of trees when wall to wall concrete is not an option.

Darki, when I was a littlie, there used to be a Destroyer spanning the gap in the netting across Sydney Harbour and the Manly ferry could just squeeze through.  The kids used to line the side of lower deck and the Destroyer crew used to throw us lollies.

Can anyone remember the School Dentist?  A team used to regularly visit all government schools and give free dental treatment to the students.