Yay let's throw in a few bucks to get him waxed, you wanta volunteer A.F?

Pete

On second thoughts, both you and Justin should be fairly handy with the shaving brush and razor.

Suddenly I need an anti-emetic.



Please donate generously to the 'Shave a Robbie' fund.

Now, now guys, be nice, there's no need to change anything about Robbie.

All of us women know that all of you men want to be just like him

It must be the cocktail prawn in his speedos.

Seriously though, he just drives me crazy.

Mmmmm, he drives me crazy too

I take those comments back. He is a stud muffin and I want his love child very badly.

That's not a cocktail prawn, it's a very young yabbie.

Pete

Better than having crabs down there I guess.

QUOTE(Justin @ Dec 3 2006, 01:55 PM)

It must be the cocktail prawn in his speedos.



So, you guys have something to brag about then??

They don't call me Jake the Peg for nothing honey.

Okay, I'll leave your dreamboat alone now. I still just don't understand.

Do the word "crayfish" ring a bell.

Pete

So whats wrong with crabs?

The quickest way I know to be a millionaire.

Pete

Robbie is not my type of man

On another note I have until Friday to prepare my stuff and house for the fires that are burning in the North East of Victoria. They say they wont stop until they hit the coast. My house is out of town so you expect to be in the path of a fire every now and then, but my home town of 25k people will also be under threat. I am heading to town soon so I beat the rush. Wish me luck.

Best wishes OppKnox and I pray that it'll skip by you leaving you and your neighbour's homes unscathed.

Must be hard having that potential threat there all the time....inner city suburbia has it's safety but it's so mind-numbing at times.

Good luck O.K.

Unless you live with the threat of bushfire, you can never understand, keep safe.

Pete

Hope it all works out for you O.K.

It's the most horrible feeling, I do know what its like, having been under threat 3 times.

I wish you all the best

we are about 200kms from the fires on the Hume hwy,(Glenrowan) high up in the hills so we can see the smoke for miles.
We get a good view of Mt Buffallo.....most days!!!
The red glow in the distance we saw last night was scary....

To be honest it looks worse today then it did Monday
Looks clear towards the south, but we can not see Mt buffallo at all.
Wangaratta and Benalla look clear so head that way if you can.

Opportunity Knox.....best wishes to you....Keep safe, and post an update for us all when you can.

Hey there everybody

How could i of missed this thread Pete.........

Talking of the bush fires, my ma & pa inlaws have a holiday house in Jamieson which they say could come under threat in the next 24 to 48 hours, my heart goes out to anybody that is in harms way!

On a bit of a brighter note, how good is Warny and his champion mates and how good is this series been so far!

Anyhow i will be coming by this thread a bit now as spending time in some of the threads at the moment for to long can leave you very depressed with the amount of ignorant people getting around!

All the best

GP / Mark

Nice to see you here Mark

I've seen you round the place posting here and there.

Am I the only one who doesn't like the cricket??
To me it is as exciting as golf

Just been to another thread that has been going crazy the last couple of days

Noticed a couple of you Aussie guys having a beer....well I don't drink beer, but give me a glass of this, or better still a bottle, and I'll join you too!!



Cheers

Hi there aussiefox,

No your not the only one as my wife can't see what all the fuss is about.

I on the other hand am a typical Aussie bloke who would watch two snails in the garden if somebody called it a sport!

I'll be on the look out for you in the forum know.

See ya later!

GP

haha, I've just edited the above post........(on the previous page)..you must have been answering my post, as I was editing it

Well I must be a very poor representative of an aussie male, since I find them equally soporific as well.



Sort of like a drug-induced sunday afternoon in slow motion with all the associated mind-numbing....well that's what it does to me anyway.

Where's all the Aussies?? It's too quiet in here

My two littlies are changing schools at the beginning of next year, and today we went and had a look through their new school.

It is a lovely school, all the mod cons, the buildings were only built 2 years ago, but I am so nervous for them.

They are leaving a small country school of 50 children, and their new school is in the 'city' and has 350 children, so it is a big move for them. But it is only a few houses up the road, and provides them with a lot more opportunities than their current school.

I'm sure they'll be fine, not sure about me though.

Cricket is about as exciting as watching paint dry!!

Thanks for the well wishes. Today is d-day for us.

Woke up this morning to a lot of noise, looked out my front window and there were 2 fire trucks setting up a swimming pool out the front of my house. Not really a swimming pool but looks like it.

It's raining ash here at the moment and thick with smoke, but we aren't likely to see the fire until late this afternoon or evening. I have to head down the the fire station soon as I am working as a radio operator for the control center, I will be one of the most informed people being there but it is also a bit scary as if I document something wrong I could risk lives. Good thing I had a good nights sleep.

There is a lot of activity.

My thoughts are with you and everyone involved in all of this. It's devastating and scary.

Here in Ballarat, I woke up yesterday morning wondering what the smell was. Outside was thick with smoke, so much so that it was stinging my eyes. And we are a long way from you!!

I've never known anything like it before.....I truly hope the heavens open up, and it pours and pours.

I don't know what to say really, but Good Luck with it all.

You guys, I feel for you so strongly.
I've been praying for relief of some sort, I just hope something happens which ends all this real soon.
Wish I could do something to help, I hate feeling powerless in situations like this.

Warmest wishes for a change and for your safety....

Justin.

I am tuning to the news, and thinking about you all the time. Truly hope that you get a cool change soon.

Pete

Well we made it through yesterday without it hitting us. It came closer but now we have to wait for Wednesday for the North winds to come back and move it towards us. I hope I am not sitting here Christmas day doing the same thing. The fire has to come out and burn to the lakes, it's just when that we don't know.

Very sad to hear that the historical "Craig's Hut" was burnt today. Also 23 or more houses in Tassie.

I was just up at my friends house up the road where we sat watching the flames dance along the ridges. We have had no views of the actual fires, only smoke, until tonight. We have 4 fires burning within 30km's of us which will join over the next few days. In a way I hope we see the fire on Thursday, I can't handle the waiting. We are going to see it some time, i just hope it is with weakened winds.

just heard the tassie weather forecast kinda half heard on
sunrise snow?

raining here at foot of the mts in nsw at the moment, windy as hell all night

bushfire a few ks away from me down here but under control now

Craigs hut yes I had power outage yesterday here so didnt read that to now

have a aussiebound topic on xlo/tft forum mentioned it there

wonder what else we lose this summer thousands of acres burnt already

stay safe everyone

And down by Kosciusko, where the pine-clad ridges raise
Their torn and rugged battlements on high,
Where the air is clear as crystal, and the white stars fairly blaze
At midnight in the cold and frosty sky,
And where around the Overflow the reedbeds sweep and sway
To the breezes, and the rolling plains are wide,
The man from Snowy River is a household word today,
And the stockmen tell the story of his ride.

I feel the same about it I leave them with it urgg

anyone read about the takeaway currys? aussie customs are said to have put salt on that meal

finally it took a while I finished reading back



Never

argg he was in Sydney too my daughter raided her xmas fund
to go see him crazy chick
whats wrong with a cd I ask you?

I am not an Aussie, but I just saw on the news about the fires and what is going on down under. I wish you all the best.

Thanks mate, your well wishes mean a lot to those toughing it out in Victoria at the moment.

Pete

I can't believe that we are getting smoked out in Tongala / Echuca area as it is 3 hours away from the fires, it must be awful and our thoughts are with you.

My mother and father inlaws have a holiday house in Jamieson and i can't believe it but a couple of days ago they drove up there, they must be crazy.........

Well i took my 3 and 4 year olds out the back yard yesterday and we did a rain dance, they had no idea what they were doing but it amused them for a few minutes and we did get a sprinkle that afternoon, so maybe thats what the poor fire men have to do...........

All the best and good luck

GP

Time to call in the Koori Kadaitcha, and look for some relief from this wicked situation, I remember Ash Wedensday very clearly, as , we had moved to Queensland, and the entire region that my wife came from, and the area we lived in were decimated. By all accounts this is worse.

Take care, and good luck.

Pete

well i live near wagga wagga i cant see out 100 meters
in front of me on the road on the way too work
because of the smoke if it is that bad here i would
hate too see how bad it is closer too the fires
we need a cooler change really soon im thinking
of you all hoping that they are under control soon

my mob are spread all over the riverina
wagga ijunee (my dad was born there junee)
near temora
more distant methul adlethham

We have a cooler change since yesterday morning here in nsw.

praying for much cooler change for all of you.

Take care


hi G P

I get some level of smoked out even when its just a back burn

I just am thankful I am down below where they usually are and can at least

offer a bed to the kiddies early in the piece get them out from underneath etc,


. Touch wood/screen it is so far not as bad in nsw where I am

Your inlaws may just want to check things out clear anything away that is fuel etc.

Rain dance well you just never know what can help maybe a group lot of people

just wishing the best or praying can help ,

Watching sunrise here now

Ballarat is 'smoked' out again today, it's very low, and thick, and the bushfire smell is really strong.

Honestly, if you didn't know better, you'd think the fires were only 1 or 2 km's away.

Hey GP, love the idea of a rain dance.....bet your kids had heaps of fun doing it.....

Hope people are coping ok. A friend of mine lives in Mansfield, and I know she spent hours the other day crying.....the frustration and stress, and uncertainty must be so hard to deal with.

First of all. Why wasn't I told about this thread. I was doing some research and found this..

Hello, I am from Central Queensland. I have heard about the fires and I sure hope that the conditions improve down there.

Up here, we have had a drought for so long, there is very little ground fuel. Just dirt, dust... so our chances of bushfire are small virtually non-existant. But I really feel for you all.

I suppose that you also have a great shortage of water.

Dorky

Welcome to the Aussie thread Dorky, we are nearly one year old, slowly growing, and gaining a few more contributors every day.

Pete

Thanks for the welcome. I was considering kicking back and having a beer, but I have to go out tonight. So I had second thoughts.

Dorky

Hi Dorky.
Welcome to our warm little thread!

I wonder how OppKnox is doing?......

Hope she's okay and all.....

Welcome to the Aussie Thread Dorky

Glad you found us

Thanks for the welcome. I have finally found a home. Been flitting around the world on this forum. Sometimes we just need a place where a spade is a spade.

We are definately a mob of our own aren't we?

I didn't catch the news tonight, but by the weather pattern it does not look much better for tomorrow.

Thinking about all those Aussie affected by the fires.


Dorky

Two days from now we will be celebrating our first birthday, we only have 50 pages, but at 1 year old we must be setting some kind of record.

I will try to contact our Scottish, surrogate Aussie, to see if he can spare a little treat for us.

Pete

CAKE AGAIN ARE YOU THERE ?

Hi Pete

I heard you shouting through the ether

I look in here every day to see how folk are getting on. I feel for you guys with flames crackling near your doorstep. No chance of that here just now, the main item on tonight's news was about flood warnings. Many rivers are rising particularly in central Scotland, there were TV pictures of the bridges in Perth starting to look ominous as the Tay rises. Rain is forecast for the whole week and today was just miserable. I was going to go downtown to do some Christmas shopping but I thought everything would get soaked, so I didn't bother.

I didn't realise we share the same forum birthday. I joined on the 15th of December, same day as this thread started - we'll need a double celebration for that.

Good to see Dorky here, I thought we were one Aussie down on the deal.

Take care, all. See you for a party on the 15th.

WOO HOO......I LOVE to party

Cake, that rain sounds fabulous. Next time we have a decent rainful, I swear I will be standing out in it!!

That depends where you are, Cheryl. I'm quite high up so I am not likely to get flooded, but a lot of villages and towns within 30 to 40 miles of me are going to have a worrying time.

Floods in Scotland

As long as the party hats are dry....

Yes of course, I was thinking from my perspective not yours I'm just in the mindset of fires and droughts, but floods can cause terrible tragedy and worry too.

A bit thoughtless of me, sorry!!!

My very first boyfriend was Scottish, from Glasgow, when I met him he had only just arrived in Australia, so he had a 'thick' accent. I was sweet 16, well, I think I was sweet

I've just read that article Cake, it is really bad. I won't be so flippant next time.