Anne from Albany W Australia

Anne, Thanks for the birthday wishes.

She was born May 20th. Her Nana is just smitten. I'm taking it pretty much in stride waiting 'till she's a little older when I can start teaching her all the bad habits I was not allowed to teach mine own.

Anne, when the wee tad's father was but six years old, he informed us, at the dinner table, that he could say "I've got the fever for the flavor of a Pringles" in one belch and proceeded to do so. (Made his father proud)! Now, don't you think it only fair that her gran'pa teach her to do her old pappy one better? I'm thinking something from Browning or Millay.

Sorry to disappoint, Anne, that is a different Jeb. I will accept no responsibility for that kid though he does look like a good candidate for teaching arm pit music to. Do I need to de-fuse all the excitement of the other posters?

But...the camera person must have been wearing a funny nose or Groucho glasses or sumptin.

Thanks for a warm welcome,Anne. I believe I am going to thoroughly enjoy this site.

A belated thanks for your lovely birthday wishes.It gave me a thrill to receive so many messages from this site.

Hi Anne, thanks so much for your birthday message. Hope it's not too cold down south. All the best, Thomas

HI Anne - thank you for popping into my page on Sat to wish me a happy birthday - had a good day! That's a lovely beach in the photo you have there.

Hi Anne
Thanks for the cheery call! Sorry John and I missed you, but we will be back to Albany for sure. And Walpole, Denmark, Esperance maybe!! Cheers, Rob

Many thanks for the birthday greetings. I'm well and hope you are too! I usually check the "hard" jigsaws and only sometimes post a comment.

Anne - Realized (too late) that I should have started off with a big LOL! Absolutely no offense taken. Old birds do learn new tricks...

For the wonderfully warm birthday greeting. It is so fabulous to have sudoku-family from all over the world share in my birthday.
Cheers Anne!

Thanks Anne for the Birthday Wishes for Stephen

Anne, for the birthday greetings. My Sudoku family from all over the world is the best.

Anne, so great to hear from you! Yes, the concert was fabulous, and Bon Jovi continues to be quite easy to look at. That smile! I can't believe your daughter has been so remiss to exclude you from the Perth concert. Perhaps you could give her an itemized list of all the sacrifices you've made for her over the years ... then play the health card by saying that if you don't go to the concert, you'll die of a broken heart! Good luck with that, and cheers, Cathy

Am I sending to the right place, Anne?Cheers

Guess so.Doh.Still learning customs and language of Sudokuland

I haven't been to Albany,yet.That's a lovely beach.Shopping for a camera on Thursday,would like to get a webcam/snapshot camera but,I'm limited to a Dick Smith outlet.Must post a photo of the staircase to the moon.Have you seen it?

Hi Anne.Sorry,not being a snob,my steam-driven laptop blew a pipe(New camera & Skype nearly killed the poor old thing).My times are soooo slooow so I'm taking lessons from the Sudoko Professor(I get 4:00,I'm good).Cheers

Thanks for your Birthday wishes. Mom flew up here for the weekend and we celebrated with a huge 10½" Strawberry Cream Cheese Pie. I have to admit it was one of my best and hope you enjoy a piece with me for breakfast/lunch.

It was 100° both days over the weekend - was suppose to go up to 106° today but is now slated for 95° today. Going to a BBQ tonight & sharing ice cold cherries.

PS check the Sudoku Cookbook for the recipe.

Hi Anne, all well here thanks, just about to tuck into an Iranian dish that John is cooking..spiced lamb and quinces with rice and honeyed carrots...then out to an AGM with our landcare group tonight, polling booths tomorrow, then collapse and see what the country is in for the next 3 years!! How are you??

New camera tomorrow,may have to get a phone to get what I want.Have been doing archives and got a P.B. of 3:09.(A Smilie would be appropriate here but I'm still learnin').Warming up here,fans on.Forecast 8 in Albany tonight,Brrrrr.

Hi Anne, Just read your comment on todays hard. This is a native rock, sandstone. It is abundant in this area. Except for some stucco this is stone-rock is all around the house, my fire place if fronted in it also. I use this rock to make borders for my flower beds.

Hi Anne, Got your message and hope all works out finally. Will have to catch up via private message later. Days warming up here, although wind seems to be coming straight off the snow..Ive been gardening flat out to get plants in before the hot weather hits, especially as we are on tank water here. cheers, Rob

Anne - Thanks for the poke. I have played a couple of games. All is well. I am busy with work and teenage children. Will soon have all three as teenagers (16, 14 and 13). Lovely to hear from you and enjoying the odd chance to read a few comments. Hope all is well on your side of the world/country.. Gus

Hello, Anne. Thanks for the welcome. Yes, I'm the old John from Knoxville who had a page, but can't find it anymore!

Thanks again, Anne, for helping me find myself! By the way, the road is a major highway in Alaska.

Hello Anne,I found old photos from my phone and I bought a Canon camera(still learning).Will upload pics from Shingu Parade when I learn how.

hi anne thanks for your welcome, i am pushing buttons everywhere so you have been added as a freind, i was trying to scroll down - go figure. love the site

Hi Anne.I was strolling through the archives and came across the medium for 6th Aug.(12:42 by the way)and saw the lovely pic of the sunset.Some pics of the parade on my page.Cheers Gerry

The Shinju Matsuri Festival is on this week and the parade was on Sunday.The photo quality is just luck.I will learn to use this camera or else.lol.

Dear Anne.
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For your kind wishes to my Birthday.

Hello Anne. Well no doubt I sounded a little peevish in my post!! However I really don't see what on earth Australia is going to gain from this lot; seems to me they had their chance and blew it. Now we have KRudd being offered a place in the cabinet. Wasn't he so incompetent that they had to get rid of him? And we all know where the money for all the promises, or at least as many of them as suits them, will be coming from. WA the only state that seems to be able to keep it's head above water. It's my grand children I worry for. Enough said. Hope you are keeping well in beautiful Albany.

Hi Anne, Thank you, your highness, for your kind note on my page. Once again - tho' a first time for me - you have shown your thoughtfulness to us Sudokuers. In short, you're a 'real doll'.
On my first visit to your page I'm bringing as a goodwill offering some gifts, small thank yous to share with you and your family in celebration of your warmth and fun and photos over the years. As a starter some maté (orange and pineapple juice from up Carnarvon way for your grandchildren) and a box of mangos to recall your visit to Peru. To follow, some Campari (my fav, but negotiable) and nuts, then burgundy with steak a la poivre, frites and a big leafy, garlicky green salad from France. For dessert with sauternes, an Aussie/Canadian Pavlova with passion fruit splashed around and over tiny wild Quebec strawberries topping banana slices piled into thickly-whipped cream. A walk or bike ride to Middleton Bay - perhaps with some whisky (just in case we find a suitable lamp post to hang onto, while we sing "Kookaburra sits ..., etc., etc. and debate the merits of whether he/she/it is gay, merry, happy, sad, or just generally ticked off with all these ****** humans disturbing his morning soliloquy to the sun) - might be in order at this point, before polishing off some L'Orpailleur Vin de Glace from Quebec to sweeten the pot (as it were) of a 'crock' of smooth, velvety, luscious chocolates. Mmmmmm - yummy. Oops, I forgot the cheese. Oh well, next time?

P.S. My actual name is Bev. I'm a widow. My two sons and their better halves have endowed me with three granddaughters and one grandson and another little one on the way.
I guess that photo with the red rock formation struck a chord of subconscious homesickness, hence my perhaps wistful remark (and typo!), bypassing praise for the photo itself and the beautiful scenery. I grew up in the '40s and '50s on the south side of the Swan halfway between Fremantle and Perth, with pet cockatoos, budgerigars, rabbits, dogs, cats, chickens, ducks, my mother's rose garden, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. My childhood was surrounded by baby magpies (dive-bombed many times by proud parents), kookaburras (had an injured baby for a pet until its wing healed), pigface, wattle, ghost and other gums, and leschenaultia, kangaroo paws, bacon-and-eggs?, donkey orchids and other spring wildflowers, and a gum-tree filled park opposite our house in which we children dug out a dirt-bike track (just a wee bit different from the manicured park opposite my place here in Montreal!).

Hi again Anne, Somehow in all that verbiage I didn't manage to saw how I've enjoyed your photos of Albany. Only been there once; makes me want to go back! I wonder if I can actually manage my first ever CP?

Shall we try again?
The missing words in this song keep tormenting me. Would you mind very much - I'm sure that you must know them - reminding me?

"There's a track winding back to an ............ shack along the road to Gundagai,
Where my Mummy and Daddy are waiting for me
nd the friends of my childhood once more I shall see.
And no more I will roam when .............home
Along the road to Gundagai."
The nagging frustration of many years finally erased? - and a CP too?

Sorry Anne, have been busy and dizzy here.It seems the more I do the less I get done.I have a book on Flickr that I have been learnin'.Hopefully this will improve my rather rusty photography. Warming up here,37ºC yesterday,cooler today.Cheers Gerry

Hi Anne. It's been awhile since I have have visited your page, but I see you have had plenty of visitors. However, you need a few more posts....

..... because if you get a few more posts....

.....you'll get to a new page, so here we go....