Gail from Cockatoo Vic AU

Gail, I'm sending wishes for a happy holiday season to you and your family.

Gail,
Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
Thank you for caring.

Love to - anytime..
This place, my place, your place....[cryptic?]

Have a great Christmas mate and a
Here's hoping next year brings many wonderful things your way
P.S. I will back in town about the 5th Jan, so lets do lunch.

Hi Gail,

Thanks for the welcome wishes,

May you and your family enjoy a joyful Christmas with the traditional gifts of peace and hope (rather than tinsel and rampant consumerism which always threatens to pervade).

I always do lemon cordial for Christmas pressies. Love that home-made feel. I used to have a lemon tree in Victoria but up here we have a lime. I'm actually going to make another couple of batches today and maybe mix some lemon and lime.... so here's yours
LEMON CORDIAL
Ingredients:
Juice of 7 large lemons
Grated rind of 5 large lemons
1 kg sugar
1.5 litres of water
25g citric acid
Method:
1.In a large pan, boil up sugar, water, grated peel and citric acid.
2.Take off the heat and add juice, If preferred, this may be strained.
3.Bottle whilst still hot into clean, sterilised (in oven ) bottles

Enjoy!! fi

Dear GAIL.
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Wish You,
Merry Christmas,
and,
Happy New Year.
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Hi, Gail!
I wish you and your family Merry Christmas

And a Happy New Year.
Cheers, Vera.

Gail, just stopping by with the Banff report -- fantastic! A winter wonderland, and the skiing was excellent--no crowds, but very challenging, long runs and we took one very scary route to get to the intermediate slopes, but somehow, we made it in one piece. Took a run for you at Lake Louise and had a glass of Prosecco at the bar while the horses and sleigh toured around the glacier. Sublime, I tell you. Now, I'll wish you and all those you love a very Merry Christmas and here's hoping that 2008 brings much joy, laughter and good health your way. Keep dreaming big and wait for the miracles to happen!

Hey Gail, Just thought I'll pop in to let you know that I'm back from holiday - did send you a few drops of aqua ocean water and some snow white sand from the Maldives - did you receive it?? Wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas and a very prosperous 2008! Love Helena

Hi Gail
Know what you mean about reality interfering with Sudoku! My mother is visiting and sleeping in the room with the computer! Sure puts a dent in my sudoku time....

Gail, Knock! Knock! Anybody home? Have you any room for a little bubbly? Well, then. I will leave this case of Veuve Clicquot Brut. I hope this messsage finds you and your family in the best of health and spirits. You are always a delight on the site. Celebrate the season.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Hey Twin
Wish you, Scott, Jed, Chloe, Beth and Hannah a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year

Gail.
I thought this day would never come, now it has, thankfully.

I am sure it will hit me in January when the new semester begins and I do not have to go. Yippee!

Gail Lam sure l will enjoy this .Are you getting washed away at cockatoo?. l am just down the road from you in Boronia.ITS pouring at the moment. wish you your family and friendsa wonderful xmas and new year cheers heather

Thank you for the birthday greetings for my grandsons, Gail. At 14, they've both grown past their grandparents and are no longer those cute little boys that we played with just s few days ago, it seems.
I hope that you enjoy the celebration of Christmas in the company of those you love.

Wishing you and yours a merry merry and a happy happy!

click or copy and paste to see your Christmas Card:
http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=1017129949136

Gail,
Wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas and all the best in the New Year!

and Holiday greeting to you and your family - the wind is pounding the house this morning and snow is in the air. I do believe I may be ready for Christmas - my to do list is finished and my fontanini village is up and running, the North pole village has some issues with lighting - but should be an easy fix. I would also like to thank you for your thoughts and prayers for my Dad, he's now in a skilled nursing center for therapy - He very tired and quiet - but is close to my house. My son got home from college and enjoying the company. Enjoy your day and Thank you once again Mary

Hi Gail,

Thanks for your well-wishes! Merry Christmas and all that jazz to you, too.

Jenn

Merry Christmas Gail

Here's wishing you a wonderful Christmas filled with peace, joy and a multitude of blessings. May your blessings overflow and be multiplied as you journey into the New Year.

Merry and .

Didn't think I'd get on the site today, but caught a few spare minutes and just had to stop by for a visit to wish you and those you love a truly Merry Christmas and I hope that 2008 brings tons of wonderful things your way! Cyber Holiday Hug across the continents!

Merry Chistmas Gail and to all your family

MERRY CHRISTMAS and have a wonder ful day with your family

HI Gail,
Hope you are having a great Christmas. My kids have all disapeared and left me with the Wrapping paper.

Thank you for the birthday blessing and hope you had a wonderful Christmas.

Wee fish, ewe, a mare, egrets, moose, panda, hippo, gnu, deer

Gail so much.
I have 2 sisters and tomorrow we taking half of mum's ashes up to Deniliquin to join my father [he died 20 years ago - I think]. It is his birthday and I felt it fitting that mum finally join him on this day - when I'm not joking and larking about I'm very sentimental. I haven't been home to Deni since mum left over 3 years ago and I'm not sure how I'm going to handle it. Think I'd better keep to neutral territory that doesn't share a lot of connotations with mum - if there are any such places. Brothers can't make it and it is sort've nice for her daughters to take her home. She wanted the other half of her ashes to return to her birth place which we shall do on her birthday and I'm sure they will join us the.
for allowing me to bore you senseless with this personal waffle but I'm being very selfish - it has made me feel better.
I'm sorry I was in bed by the time you joined the chat room - will catch you again some other time.
Ciao for now

Gail thank you so much for my birthday gifts. The bubbly went straight to my head, the cake has planted itself on my hips and the flowers went directly to my heart.

Hope you had a wonderful holiday.

I did enjoy myself, and I got up the stairs just by hanging on to the railing. Nice xmas with no littles. I gave the son-in-law remote controled airplanes and they had a ball.
I remember what it was like when school was out. My sister was a teacher, and she taked me into putting the Dewey number system into the library. It took months, I even did the card catalog. Then the school system had me convert the High Schools (4 years) I quit when the girls got out ot school. If they had paid me, maybe I would have stayed.

Hi Gail, thank you for dropping in. I should not answer messages when I am half asleep as I typed the answer on my own page!!

We had a lovely Christmas and as I did not have to prepare the food it was very relaxing.

Today Sharon dropped by and started to clean up our computer room as it was becoming a museum. The old computers, printers, books etc are all ready to be disposed. I think Hubby could see Sharon was also making some work for him to finish so he kept asking when she was going home!!!.

Laura was in daycare!

I hope 2008 is a wonderful year for you and your family and hopefully we will catch up some time when we get to Melbourne

Hi Gail
No more organised than you I'm afraid. Most of the gifts given outside of the immediate family were handmade from stuff I already had, which helped in my house-bound state. I made 28 pin cushions using log cabin squares I made probably a year ago and over 20 snowflakes, bells and wreaths. I'm not sure how many of those I made as I kept having to make more as I ran out of the ones I'd done. Some candy canes, some cellophane and ribbon, a few things from Darrell Lea, and you have christmas gifts! As for Xmas messages.... oops! I only sent about a third of my Xmas cards this year. I figure I'll scan in a picture of our girls and send e-mails to those whose e-mail address I know, and send letters to others. The problem is, I don't remember who I sent cards to and who I didn't!! Another oops!

Hope you have a fun new years eve!

Gail, I'm sitting here on a snowy evening enjoying the birthday treats you left for me. Thank you.

Have a wonderful New Year's Eve and a happy, healthy 2008.

Glad you enjoyed my pics, Gail. We were at my son's house on top of Cape Liptrap. You didn't get to see his views across to Wilson's Prom from the other side of the house.

Hi Gail thank you for your wishes for 2008 we certainly need them after the year we've had. I'm sending best wishes to you and your family for a happy and healthy 2008.

Hi Gail
676 messages since you joined in June ain't a bad sort of a record...Its good to get around but this busy little 'B' isn't going to try to beat your record.
Your 'cyber' hugs were very much appreciated on Thursday. from my friend and I.

In April the other half of mums ashes will be returned to her birthplace and that closes another chapter. Thank heavens for photos and memories. It seemed very strange to leave her in Deniliquin - she has been sitting with my first dogs ashes on my sisters dresser. She always said she wanted to sit on my hearth with my dog and not be buried. It seemed really strange and not quite right to leave her there but at least dad isn't alone now. The logical part of our brains was confirming how idiotic we were being but emotions are strange things.
It has been an exceedingly busy and very different sort of year for me - my 'annus horribilis'.
By far the best thing that has happened to me this year was discovering this crazy world of Sudokuland. A chance go at finishing off my husbands sudoku has become an obsession... So many wonderful, interesting people out here and you are one of them.I do look forward to catching up with you in 2008 when the frantic pace of our lives slow down.
I hope that you, hubby and family bring in the new year happily, safely and in the best possible way. We are having a quite one at home.
[that's if I don't melt taking the washing out - what a scorcher]

Thank you Gail, for your birthday wishes. I've just got back from a short break at sandy cape. cheers.

Stopped by to wish you good cheer
Brought a little bubblie here
May your toast be great
For two thousand eight
May you have a very

Hope your Christmas was blest.
No resolutions to obsess
It is not too late
For to celebrate
Our Lord Saviour’s Righteousness

hi Gail !
best wishes for the New Year ! Cheerfulness, luck, love and healthness for you and your familly !

Ps : I have seen in the beautiful christmas poem german words...I will keep the text for the next christmas !

Bonne Annee Gail