Ian from Sydney

Have a ball on your grand adventure, you two, and Happy Celebrating!

Ian and Anne, have a great time on the Ghan !!

See you.



Have a great time.

I know this is too late and I have missed you bo9th, but Scott and I went to 'our' favourite restaurant today and drank to your health.

Well Ian and Anne, I wonder if you are back from your great train ride yet. How was the trip? I hope you enjoyrd it! Cheers!

Welcome home Ian and Anne. ♥

Thank you Ian, I am very pleased that you told her to contact me. Fi has always been someone whom I would love to meet. Here's hoping it happens.
I almost had the chance to meet up with Margo last July when we were over in Adela but again, it was a case of schedules not matching up. I will be going to Adelaide quite often from now on to keep an eye on my father so maybe...
I hope you are both well. When is the next great adventure? Scott passes on his regards. Love to you both from us both!

Hello Ian, thanks for confirmation on yesterday's 'Dubbo' picture. I liked the photo, and thought that it was so different from much of the usual 'australian' scenery we get photos of. The background and the lamp post looked very European or American I thought.
Couldn't resist a little dig
I really enjoy your photos. Hope you had a good trip recently. See you around.

Hello Ian and Anne, it was lovely to see you both again today!! We both enjoyed the afternoon very much, and June was a wonderful hostess, and her avian friends provided such lively entertainment!! Laura is also a little gem, and it is good to see Sharon looking so well.

Thank you also for your birthday visit and wishes the other day, it made the day even more special!

Hi Ian...Looking forward to seeing another photo from today...no doubt without Suzy...feel free to email me....

Hadn't realised how long it is since I'd dropped in...lots of wonderful photo's...I just LOVE train travel and look forward to doing the Ghan.
Regards to Anne.

Hi Ian, Wishing you and Anne a

Dear Ian.
Wishing you and your family a very ,

" HAPPY EASTERN " .

Hello there Ian and Anne,

It was great to catch up with you in Darwin and it seems you have been busy catching up with lots of Newsouthwelshmen and Yanks :) over Easter.

I've been down with my Mum but am back up in Darwin once more. This trip was devoted entirely to family - I didn't see any of my freidsn who I usually visit - even the ones in Bendigo.

IT's Drue's birthday tomorrow and he suggested that we went out to the Jetty for tea. I told him that he had missed his chance last week.... but we wil go out somewhere.

I also wated to send my Easter blessings to you. I hope that you have enjoyed your Easter break (if you have had one).

You are probably aware from the odd comment that I throw, that I am a Christian and Easter has special significance to Christians.

If you would like to paste the following link into your browser, I have prepared a christian Easter card and message for my sudoku friends.

http://www.dayspring.com/ecards/card.asp?ID=01c7d960-ffm

If not - Blessings anyway and it's great that you have been having such a lovely time

Fi

or for a more lighthearted Christian Easter message try this link instead :)

http://www.dayspring.com/ecards/card.asp?ID=01c80cd9-ffm

Regards Fi

Love all your photos Ian. Thanks for coming on Friday. I enjoyed catching up with everyone. Sorry I did not get enough time to spend talking with you all.

Ian, I thoroughly enjoyed looking through your photos from your last adventure. I never realised the Ghan was so looong!
Looks like you have had a wonderfully exciting time lately. Keep it up.

Hello Ian, just had a look through your photographs. You have some wonderful shots, especially the falls, and of course Keith and Lynne. I hope all is well with you both. Have a Happy Easter, cheers x

Hi Ian, I have been checking out your gallery great shots of Darwin in fact they are all fantastic. Left a comment on Keiths new hat lol

Ian - As always, your photos amaze and amuse me! Loved the playful shots of Keith and Lynne.

You'll need to see today's Medium. Your photo behind the puzzle triggered the memory that I had dreamed about you last night. Evidently in my mind you were the metaphor for what I like about this sudoku site: global friendliness and world photography. Doing the puzzles every day is like getting into a plane and making little trips here and there. In fact, in my puzzle comments yesterday I even said it seemed like I was taking a trip around the world. Also, I had just phoned my mom and we talked about doing puzzles, hence all the elements that came together in the dream.

Ian, thank you for the Mark Vincent video. I listened to all three songs, the semi-final and the final. That man (with his talent and voice he is no boy) has a wonderful career ahead of him, and he will bring joy and tears to many people in the future!

Ian, I just went back to your page one and saw that I was quite involved in the redecoration that happened when you were away. I remember you telling me in Darwin and knew that we were into "that sort of thing back when pages started" but had forgotten my own involvement in Your particular room- Knew that I had redecorated Cols and Rosemary's. It had slipped into the recesses of my middleaged memory but all came flooding back to me. ... and CP too. What a hoot that we have all caught up in Darwin in the past month.

Hi there Ian,
It will be good to see you on your return, McAthur. Surely you can do better than him. He never did I think.

That poem that I keyboarded (doesn't sound as good as "penned" does it)yesterday, I sent around to my family and cousins whose Grandfather he was.

Have just heard from my sister that my cousins son is in the airforce and marched in Melbourne wearing his Great grandfather's medals WW1, and his great uncle's Military Cross WW2.

My mother at 88, marched too. Apparently it was very moving as men and women applauded as she passed. I guess at 88 to march in the ANZAC march, one deserves some applause.

Thanks, Ian for the YouTube of Mark Vincent. I missed seeing the Grand Final on TV so I am glad you posted his songs on your page. He really sounds very good.

Maureen, Mark did all the hard work. He has a spine-tingling voice and I think he will go a long way - provided he husbands his talent wisely.

Thanks for the video, Ian -- that is indeed an outstanding young man. What a gift!
Hope this finds you well. All the best, Judy

Thanks Ian for the info about Keith.

Ian, hope all is well.

Take care,
Love to you both from us both

Ian, things are going great. We enjoyed Uluru and Alice Springs very much. We loved the Kuranda train, the skyrail over the rainforest, and the Great Barrier Reef, but are starting to get pretty tired. Hope things are well with you.

Thank you for your kind words and thoughts, Ian.

David and I thank you for the 40th anniversary wishes, Ian! Our two sons and their wives held a beautiful outdoor celebration reception for us. It was picture-perfect Spring weather... sun shining, birds singing, flowers blooming, etc. Celebrating with over 40 friends & family was truely the icing on the cake of our wonderful life together. Even my 93-year-old mother was able to attend from 200 miles away.
And a belated congratulations to you both on your milestone anniversary, also!
(Enjoyed your photo gallery very much!)

Ian, I forgot to follow this up: "Hi Judy, I'm doing reasonable well - for an old feller. I have an appointment with my cardiologist tomorrow which will tell me more about recent tests. Thank you for asking.
How are you doing?" I hope you got a good report from the cardiologist, please let me know. I'm feeling better these days, especially on the sunny ones -- dry air is so much easier to breathe, of course. Cheers!

Great shell photos Ian, beautifully presented.

Thanks so much for the information about resizing photos--I'll follow through and put a range of photos up

MUCH APPRECIATED

Hi there Ian,

I'm not often on site these days... am on a borrowned laptop... My own crashed and after a month is back but I haven't configured it yet.

Hope that you and Anne are doiing well. I just posted this for you on TOUGH but to save you looking it up ... here tis...

Things is Crook in Tallarook was a hit album released in 1952. by Jack O’Hagan who was one of Australia’s most prolific song-writers who also penned The Road to Gundagai ... so whether the saying preceded the song or not... I reckon you would have been a school kid in 1952 when the saying was at it's hey day.. Tis still used from time to time in Aussie slang.
http://brightoncemetery.com/HistoricInterments/150Names/ohaganj.htm

Hi, Ian! My goodness, you're fast! I love your shell photos - particularly the Venus Comb Murex. I will have to take pictures of some of my shells. I mostly have whelks, but I've picked up some interested murexes (sp?) and a conch or two. As I mentioned on "Easy", most of my shells are packed away in boxes, but perhaps today's discussion will motivate me to go dig them out!!! I'll let you know when I've posted pictures.
Cheers!
Jane

Ian, it was a nice surprise to find your note on my page - thanks for stopping by. I have looked at your shell photos & can tell you right off that few of the shells we have can come close to the beauty of yours! We have never taken any photos of them, but maybe we should some day. I used to have them displayed around our Jacuzzi tub in the master bathroom, but we packed them all away when we remodeled in there. I'm actually not sure where those particular boxes are - we have so MANY boxes of stuff sitting around right now! After the current kitchen work is done I hope to finally start unpacking & arranging things again. Eventually when I find the box of shells, maybe I'll ask Rob (he's the better photographer) to take some photos. But I'm sorry there won't be any to share with you for quite awhile!

You have been tagged see Glindas post, page 4 easy 12th June

Hi Ian - thank you so much for your birthday wishes. How are the eyes doing? Hope you're feeling better - as I'm sure you are already. Cataract surgery seems to work so well you'll be seeing things you'd forgotten about!