Easy Sudoku for 1/December/2007

Now over the top - Wheeeee

Nola, all the positive vibes from Sudokuland must have helped! I'm happy everything turned out well

Val! Have a great day!

looks like a Western Australian Christmas Tree.. not Wattle.

Nuytsia floribunda, commonly known as Western Australian Christmas tree, is a parasitic tree found in Western Australia. It is known for its bright yellow flowers around Christmas time (summer). It can grow to 10m tall. It is a member of the Loranthaceae or mistletoe family.

Nola
pleased all was okay
Georgia, So Cal
wishing you a very happy birthday
and because I wont be on till really late tomorrow
Floss from hawks nest
wishing you a very happy birthday for the 2nd

and
Amber (Renas' daughter)
happy birthday also for the 2nd

i love SUDOKU

1.37 lovely australian flora
off to geelong today and back tomorrow to meet up with melbourne (and surrounds) sudokuists for our christmas get together
enjoy your weekend and stay safe

Despite our good wishes I think Val may be having a terrible holiday. If the weather in Bolton is anything like here she is busy holding onto her roof.

RayRay and others, it seems this is the second time I have mistaken Australian wattle for our goldenrod. Here is a link with a ophoto of our goldenrod and short article from the state agricultural colege.

http://www.auburn.edu/~deancar/wfnotes/gldrd.htm

Interesting tidbit, bright colored flowers usually do not make small light weight pollen that is dispersed by wind, thereby causing allergies. It could be that both Goldenros and wattle get a bad wrap, both are bright colored flowers. Huumm, maybe I should do a look up and see if australian wattle has light weight or heavy weight pollen.

BTW, there are many varieties of "goldenrod" in the USA, England and Europe, all closely kin to each other but with different flowers.

Keith...Judy does that to me. I just get so flustered when she comes around the site.
Rayray...enjoyed your mouse story...

Eve is going to love my new avatar... GO USC, beat the Bruins.

Thanks, Dave.
I often wonder what would happen if time went backwards !
I like your mouse picture.

Earlier in the year, Linda from MN had a little church mouse problem and we had a lot of fun with it. Linda worked in a church office and left to work somewhere and we have not heard from her. Anyone have an update???

G'day all, Rolanda I think you are right. The Christmas trees are starting to bloom now, they are quite spectacular this year. What about the Jacarandas, haven't they been magnificent this year?

Jane - Did you win your tennis match? Great new neologisms you came up with!
Rayray - thought sure you would come up with some, too You're not gonna let Jane outdo you are you? Sorry about your bad weather. Hope you are keeping comfy & cozy.

Dave: based upon the performance of my Bruins lately. I have to agree with my Cal alumni cousin - we don't have a very good chance (maybe 20-1). But, we won last year - SO, anything can happen. USC (University of Spoiled Children). GO BRUINS!

Any tennis fans (Jane, Keith, Mel, others?) out there watching the Davis Cup matches like Rob & I are? Roddick won the first singles match & Blake is up a set in the second match. They are playing out in Portland, Oregon. Go USA! Beat Russia!

2:29 Good Morning everyone.

Lots of lovely rain here.

This weekend is the begining of Advent. Today (OZ time & now at GMT) Dec 1st, it is time to start the Christmas Holiday Season - with songs - greetings - so lets "DECK THE HALLS WITH BOUGHS OF HOLLY" - enjoy the Christmas lights that are now all up - sit back and enjoy MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER.

Come on over and with me through out the Holiday Season.

Will be changing videos daily througout the Christmas Holiday - searched U-tube for some of the best to entertain you. They will be changed around midnight GMT (8 PM EST). Kind'a midway point of the day between OZ time.

♪♫♫ Fa La La La La ♪♫♫ Fa La La La La ♪♫♫ Fa La La La ♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪ Fa La La La La La La La
Merry Christmas to all and to all a

all you wongerful people in our world.

Val Hope you're having an incredible day

Can anyone please tell me what "good mAen"? I have been reading comments daily and see this quite a bit.

Deb: good Maen - is Good Morning, good mAen is Good Afternoon, good maEn is Good Evening & good maeN is Good Night. The capital letter represents the time of day in the area of the poster.

Thanks Eve - very clever. I enjoy the pictures also.

Florida Kathy:
I thought Jane's words were marvellous, but I feel a little burned out and jaded right now and can't keep up.
Also the weather here is most unsettling - 70mph gales. I couldn't sleep because of gable-howls - very spooky.
By the way I always thought that, stricly, a 'neologism' was an entirely invented word rather than a new meaning for an existing word - which is a pun. Am I right or being pedantic?

(still morning in Qld) 2.06
Nola: Happy your tests went well.
Rayray: Thanks for the lowdown on the real Miss Muffet story.
Gail & Lynda (Perth): I suspect the allergies this time of year may be caused by jacarandas. My high school used to have lots of them and every November - exam time - I'd have to suffer through Hayfever. In the 60's there was no over the counter antihistimines so I just sniffled and snuffled through interminable exams.

And that avatar flusters ME, Dave! Beep beep! :)

Judy - that is Dave's dark side showing up (almost).

you're right, rayray. (and it is possible to be both right and pedantic, too... or is it pedantic to point that out?)

How about a neologistic game, though... make up a new word for a phenomenon, quality, etc., to be named...

Here is the first one, to get things going.

The act of typing with one's fingers on the wrong keys.

- just taking a break in the shopping - and I got some Jelly Belly black licorice - just a little fix - just crave it once in a blue moon - enjoy your day, mary

I was referring to Dave's outstanding antenna, Eve! Hey, I'm with you and UCLA on this one ... ANYone who beats USC is great in my book!

Mymare: The Licorice ones are the best - then the cinnamon.
Judy: Add Texas & Notre Dame to that list of teams to cheer Against.

halloooooo annie!!!!

phalangeserratica
- hap[ens to me a;; the time...

slang usage: s'cuse my "phlanger"

helllooooooooooooooooooooo billy!!!!

nay nay, you are ne'er a phalangeserratician, so far as I have ever seen.

To continue Eve's Fa La La's a little further into the season, an offering from the late great Walt Kelly as reportedly sung by Churchy.

Merry Crispness!

Lyrics by Walt Kelly, Music by Traditional (whoever he is)

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezin' on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley'garoo!

Don't we know archaic barrel,
Lullaby lilla boy, Louisville Lou?
Trolley Molly don't love Harold,
Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Polly welly cracker n' too-da-loo!
Donkey Bonny brays a carol,
Antelope Cantaloup, 'lope with you!

Hunky Dory's pop is lolly gaggin' on the wagon,
Willy, folly go through!
Chollie's collie barks at Barrow,
Harum scarum five alarm bung-a-loo!

Duck us all in bowls of barley,
Ninky dinky dink an' polly voo!
Chilly Filly's name is Chollie,
Chollie Filly's jolly chilly view halloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Double-bubble, toyland trouble! Woof, Woof, Woof!
Tizzy seas on melon collie!
Dibble-dabble, scribble-scrabble! Goof, Goof, Goof!

I have a pedant. It is a carrot. But I think I mentioned that already.

went to the gelato shop this morning - had 6 tastes/tspoons and went for 1kg of mango and raspberry, went to the healthfood shop, ate a mince pie straight from the display stand, went to the fishmongers and tasted their pepper squid, went to the supemarket and ate my way around all the food tasting stands - I'm quite full now, although I could go a choccie....

yes you did Glinda, but I think you missed an "n" in there. How many carats is it?

er, billy, did the proprietors mind you eating right from the display stand? Did you at least use a fork? And was it one of those glass cases so that all the other customers could watch you feasting away?