billy from Perth

Hi Billy. I'm long overdue for a visit to you, so I just dropped in to wish you well. The site benefits from having your wit, tongue-in-cheek comments and thoughtful input. I also know you are in contact with André and I would ask that you pass on my best to her. Hope all is well with both you and André. Cheers, take care and stay smiling!

You also chose one of REM's best songs to put on your You Tube!

Ah, billy...

Hanging out at the corner of Chat & Room at seven o'clock in the morning?

Gday Billy, we haven't been introduced so I thought I'd pop in to meet you. Brought along a bottle of bubbly and a plate of nibblies to break the ice. Just going around Australia to get to know other Sudoku community members.

hello, billy! have been thinking about you, and wanted to say hi.

hey nonny frickin' ho - how the hell are you yonks?! You have been missed... i shall be posting an incredibly deep poem next week and would appreciate your analysis if you have the time, can't do it now as i know em is away and her input is invaluable...catch up soon and thanks for popping in xxx

Hi Billy! Thanks for your note on André's page. I went there today to see if I might find out what had become of her. I really do miss her & so do lots of other people, obviously. If you are in touch with her, please tell her I send her a hug & one for you, too! I'm not sure what you're studying, but it sounds like lots of work. Hang in there. Hope you're done with it soon.

Billy, I thought I would stop by your place and say Hi! Hope you're having a good day! Here are some flowers to brighten it! Hope all went well with your poetry exam! Drop by the SA2 page sometime! Take care! PS: Have fun at your hot hocolate get together this week, have one for me! It's too hot here to have one!

CSL! CSL! CSL!

say CHE-----ESE nup ...no cheese!got to find out about that one

Billy, It is hilarious Seriously, I will go home from work and check my bed lol Did I sleep in it last night? CRS! Thank you for a great 4 days, it was so much fun xx

OMG Everyone looked GREAT and having a wonderful time!now Billy JJ what were you going to do with poor ol' Ned
Roseee looked like she was giving a bit of wise wisdom to and Queen Kym!

What a fun loving gang! Thanks for sharing some views of the good times with those of us who were stuck at home thousands of miles away . Looks like it was mighty cold there, though. Did you all have long undies on unerneath your party duds?

Oh Billie...thanks for sharing those wonderful memories. The fun and loving friendship was so visible from all of your faces. What a great time it was, so many special memories, and the pictures helped make me ALMOST feel as if I was there in more than spirit!

Billy - I love the photos of Melbourne and Rosemary's birthday party.
Everyone looks great and it's nice to see a few more 'unknown' faces.
Thanks for putting them on here.

Billie, Great pictures, Thanks for sharing. Looks like everyone had a great time.

Glad everyone is enjoying the pics - I'm sorry, but there are a few faces that were not captured on the Pub Tour, at some point i forgot to take pics...it was soon after we got 'found' again.

I have to say again, the hospitality that was shown towards Em and myself is beyond words - Jaz, you are a legend woman! I don't know how many times we roared with laughter and thought I needed to buy a pack of Depend...
5 of us girls hit Bridge Rd for a spot of shopping the day after the pub tour, to be able to cater to everyone's needs after only just having met 'face-to-face' - speaks volumes of the friendships that have been forged through this site - shopping harmoniously is a true indicator!
Rose's birthday bash was such a blast. The amount of subterfuge that went on beforehand, MI5 would have been proud...we were still ducking for cover until the last minute!
Rose you have a wonderful family - who, even though bemused by the sight of us in boas and tiaras - took it in their stride.
The laughter even continued after we had been told that our plane had been cancelled - Em and I found the business centre in the hotel where we could log on...we were interrupted by someone asking if we were ok. Well we're just fine, but sorry to be living so far away...
Many thanks to everyone for your friendship and love.

thanks for the birthday message Billy! love the photos of last weekend's bash - you look like you had a great time;

just dropped in very quickly to say ...I miss you already for a great weekend.

You gals party hearty. You've been off the air since before Saturday, André is nowhere to be seen after her bash. It makes me think twice about joining in a sudoku gathering. If I disapeared for a week after, who'd feed the cat? Is there sorcery involved?

Billy
where do I begin. for you and Em to come far across our country to share my special celebration has me speechless. I miss you heaps and wish we were all around the corner from each other. you are a special lady with a special place in my heart. I do hope you had a great time with all the sudoku friends.
thank you for the lovely birthday wishes and gift for my 50th birthday celebrations. I have great memories to keep.
receiving messages from all around the world is very humbling. I love to send the messages to others, but receiving them is something very
special.
we share a lot here on site and I love the feeling of the huge 'sudoku worldwide family'.
To share my family clebration here in Wangaratta with some of my special 'sudoku family' was more than I could possibly ask for. We are lifelong, family friends and I cherish that.
huggles and cheers
water of course

Generosity: I have a wonderful friend in Florida who taught me all about generous hospitality!

Billy my Friend ~
You are friendly, kind and caring
Loyal and understanding
Humorous, fun, secure and true
Always there... yes that's you.

Special, accepting, exciting and wise
Truthful and helpful, with honest brown eyes
Confiding, cheerful and bright
Yes that's you... not one bit of spite.

You're one of a kind, but like some others
Generous, charming, but not one that smothers
Optimistic, thoughtful, happy and game
You are one extraordinary lovely dame (hhmm not quite Shakespeare).

Appreciative, warm and precious like gold (Not King River Gold)
Our friendship won't tarnish or ever grow old
You have left your mark here in Victoria,
Oh! by the way, did you ever find Gloria?


You know the rest xx

Ah, billy, there you are again, hanging out on the platform at Chatroom Station, but the trains have stopped for the night.

how are ya? Haven't chatted in awhile,saw you on and when I came back you done disappeared! Hope your well,and glad you like the naughty smilies

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Hi Billy. Great photos from your weekend in Melbourne and Rose's party. It looks like everyone had lot's of fun, and isn't that what life is all about? Thanks for sharing the photos.

Hi, Billy - See Page one in today's 'Easy' for my post on our film discussion yesterday. I copied it in order to paste it here, but only the first part of my message got copied.

Hey Billy, I like your idea of incorporating all of the arts on a page...I just didn't see any area where book lovers could exchange ideas, books etc...no matter who starts it, just that one is there! Please be my guest, and I will gladly join in...love your title too...lol

An ode to Electra (My fridge)
Through ice stacks heaven and chocolate store
Never wanted or asked for more
Cool night passions she ticked away
Melting moments not gone astray
Temperature stored forever she did keep
This wonderous lady not a peep
She hummed and worked with nare a care
My humble fridge never bare
Must I say goodbye at last
As she whirled her solitary task
She stands alone all gleaming bright
My Electra, Queen of the ice night

Hi Billy,
Many thanks for the welcome. Any name will do, really. Babybeast is the name I usually use in such cases, but this site said that was too many letters!
It is really fun writing to people from such far-away exotic places. How I would love to visit Australia someday...

Hi Billy, thought I would stop by to thank you for posting the pictures of the last gathering. It's nice to see the people on here.

Hey Karen - deleted your comment, any personal details you can now send thru msgging. Looking fwd to seeing your pics.x

Love this song, haunting melody. The Roberta Flack song is wonderful isn't it, you will have me in tears now ;) Take care xx

I love to tell people when they are right. And billy you were right.
The other day you mentioned something that there are some questionable people on site.
Well, for the last two months I have fallen into false security on this site. Everyone I have met seems to be wonderful and truthful.
Last night a person came on and from the moment he/she signed in I felt bad vibes. Though the conversation was pleasant I felt uneasy. A few minutes into the conversation he asked me to go to another site, he would take my email address and take me into a private chatroom. I had the feeling as if I was in person to person with this person. If I was in person with this person I would have screaming my lungs out, that is how uneasy I felt.
Thank you for reminding me I am on an open internet site, so I did not become too chatty with guy.
There is nothing on his web page as of last night.

Hello Billy, thank you for Kalleb's birthday wishes, he had a good day

Billy: ''Shared,'' in context, means ''endured together,'' ''lived through,'' not just divulged in conversation or even talked about intimately. Talk's cheap, as they say.

Interesting picture. I wish I could see the after section of the boat. The roller on the bow makes me think it's a ''bow-picker,'' reeling in a gillnet over the bow. But the winches confuse me, because one is athwartships but the other is fore-and-aft. Is it what's called a Danish (or sometimes Scottish) seiner in Oz?

Ian - I thought so..and I do know what you are referring to, and i understand what you are saying when you say 'talk is cheap', but it does not exclude shared experiences, 'girl's talk may not be as horrific as war experiences(god help that it never be) but for those living in fear of death in their own home, abuse, r*pe - are these not as real? I suppose it is all relative, but fear is fear in all matter of shapes and forms...

I can't help you on the boat front - Wivenhoe is a small village in Ess ex Englnad - it used to be a small ship building village - may still be. But it is a beautiful little spot, many centuries ago smugglers would use its port. A witches coven is also reputed to have existed.

Ian - what I was trying to say was that 'shared experiences' are across the board...i guess I'm trying to understand what you're trying to say: that men only communicate effectively when the experiences are shared and the person they are talking with can empathise with them?

Vocabulary needs to be agreed on here. The notion of ''sharing'' as conversation is a relatively new use of the word, as in 'thank you for sharing that with us.' ''Empathise'' is another tricky one, quite rare historically but fashionable now, and very different from ''sympathise.'' Perhaps a new element needs to be introduced: mutual interdependency. The fact that you and I may have each endured similar experiences is not the same as saying we went through those things together, and depended on each other to get through those things. That is something that words will never equal, or replace.

Ian - going back to your original posting:

''For instance, girls share just about everything about their personal lives with their girl friends''

For men, it is shared experience...living through things, sometimes horrific things, together.

Having read that, I feel you imply an exclusivity to men, even if we use the term 'mutual interdependency'. However, it is my interpretation of what you have written and we know how words can be misconstrued whether said or written.
Ok -I'm off with the fairies right now as yoga does that to me, so I don't know if what I've written makes any snese at all...