Sudokuaholics Anonymous 7

Chat away Bean 'cause we all do it.

Great TOPP eaa!

Eight Babies! Oh! you poor woman. Six boys two girls.

Broni, now that one was completely out of the blue.

Am SOO not here, just popping in the say [GoodMaen1.JPG.
Wednesday today, back into routine, take mum home, go to curves, do Grocery Shop.
Stay safe Gail up in thar hills, and stay cool all you Melbournians.
Perth twas quite warm overnight, humid, and heading for max temp of 30C.
Au Revoir

Yeah right eaa, I beleive you! Thousands wouldn't!

Brenda, will have to go back thru the 3 weeks of comments I missed to find out what is happening with your roof and insurance..
or I could email you a newsy email, and you could email me back with a newsy email !!
mmm will have to wait till this afternoon when I am home again.

Thanks Broni, I knew you would beleive me.
Hi/bye Rolanda.

Hi Rola, bye Rola.
Yep gotta go and do ffuts while it is realatively cool. Catch you later.
Heidi, let us know when you are back.

Cuppa time.

Good morning lovely SA7 people.
Melburnites - thinking of you in those hot temps. Try to keep cool, drink plenty of fluids.
Viv, if you're around, my hubby is down your way at the moment picking up a trailer for our new mowing business. His mate bought it in Sydney for us and now he and his mate left Brisbane/Sydney at some ungodly hour during the night heading towards one another. They met up at the roundabout at the turn-off to Port Macquarie. Then, poor beggars have to turn around and head home - another 6 hours or so.

I haven't left. The power has been out here for hours. I don't know how long it'll stay on.

I'll be leaving for the airport in 45 minutes, if the airport is still open and flights are coming in.

Good luck on the way, drive safely, Heidi.

I'm back! I ran into a friend at the school so we just had to go and have coffee, then I ran into another 4 or 5 people and we chatted more about changing schools etc...

I spoke to Ally during recess, she was giggling and in a rush - still can't read her timetable! They are very complicated, show where everybody in all 7 classes have to be, and you have to know how to find the buildings in a very rambling school... Hopefully she'll think to follow people from her class around all day! She is in 7U, which is one of the graded classes - yay!! That means they will be less disruptive....

So, Suzy, did you get to take the photos and embarrass her??

Yes! I told them all that it's a mother's job to embarrass year 7 kids as much as possible and they told stories about their mothers hugging everyone etc....

Gail - I keep thinking of you in Cockatoo and worrying about bushfires. Ash Wednesday is still so indelibly in my memory that even when I first came to this site and first saw 'Gail from Cockatoo' - my first thought was - Cockatoo, bushfires. Take care and I hope all remains safe.

Cyn, I just checked the Victorian incident report and there are only 'small' fires listed, not biggies... good news so far!

Here's the link if you want to keep track...

http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/incidents/incident_summary.htm

Suzy, Glad everything went well for Ally. Big step starting High School.

Heidi should be just about ready to leave now - be safe Heidi!!!

Bean, sorry I missed you this morning... see, I'm a chatterbox away from here too.

Hi June, she's giggling which I take as a good sign! Ebob and I can help her work out the timetable thing tonight. I felt like I was feeding her to the lions this morning! I must not have been the only one as there were probably 50 parents wandering around the area in front of the hall - where the kids had to go first. I don't remember seeing that many when Ebob started!

Thanks Suzy - have saved that site.
We never seem to get bushfures as badly up here and even though I live in a semi-rural area - I've never heard of them happening around here. I suppose there's always a first time. It's the stuff of nightmares, isn't it?
June - I just read on Easy about you having a baby during a Melbourne heatwave - that must have been an experience! But, I guess there's women in Melbourne and Adelaide giving birth today.

The lady is coming this morning to clip Jewel - poor little fluffy ball she is. It's been hot for her in this humid weather. She'll be frisky all day after that!!

Hubby is on his way back from Port - he'll be a tired soldier when he gets home - up at 1AM to leave by 2AM. Not for me. I would have gone with him but no room for the dog in the ute and couldn't leave her alone here for that long, 12-15 hours.

Cyn, we were evacuated the first year we lived here - 2002. Luckily I had all the chrissie pressies in suitcases and just threw them in the car. Things I forgot: passports and birth certificates, oil painting my mother did, computer stuff, school report cards and other trivial things like that! I did remember the Baltimore Quilt my grandmother made for me, most of the photos, and the kids' trophies.

I assume nothing happened at home while you were evacuated.
It's understandable that you weren't organised that time, I guess you are now. I wouldn't know where to start if we were evacuated. I've never had a plan and should learn to keep important stuff in one spot - passports, certificates, photos etc.

Nothing happened Cyn - thank goodness! Lots of other people lost homes, but not in our immediate area. I still don't have everything in one spot, but I have a better idea of what I need to take. I figure I'll just run around and throw things at hubby and get him to load the cars.

When we got home we went for a walk to see where the fire reached. Our property is long and thin, goes back about 280m from the house. The fire was pretty close to the back fence. That's a long way, and at the same time, too close!

Good evening all. I had a nice chat with Gail today on facebook. It is amazing how easy it is to communicate with people from the other side of the world.

Suzy, glad to hear that the fire did not come too close to your house. I agree, that was close enough.

Kate, sorry to hear about Shultz. Losing a pet is not easy but I hope that knowing we are thinking of you helps.

I am glad to see that Rayray is back.

eaa is getting too close to me on the TOPP list. Should I CP and get another one. Got to keep her behind me.

Only 4 more to go. What should I do??

It is almost my bedtime but I hate to go to bed this close to a TOPP.

Hello Tami.

But if I keep posting I am liable to annoy all my friends.