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it would be a bit hard to see me in the first instance and the second instance didn't happen - although most of the time we were changing on the side of the pitch - you may need to talk to the women attached to the other teams to see if they took any photos

There could have been a bloodied Linus limb protruding or something...

The ladies accompanying your opposing teams took photographs of your team changing on the side of the pitch?





They sound like a bunch of depraved/deprived old biddies and you wouldn't catch me doing something like that...

no, i'm sure we would have no idea you were taking pictures

I would have to get one of those really tiny digital cameras, wouldn't I?

*Pointedly avoids discussing cricket scores and injured knee ligaments*

well you definately wont want to talk about it now!

I hope they improve from this effort. Not too much mind you...

It doesn't look good with two of our chaps injured and having to return home (when one is actually well enough to travel).

I do wish our press would be more supportive and it made me cringe to hear our captain having to apologise on radio interviews.

Still, I understand that your national rugger team isn't doing too well at the moment...

I seen news coverage of the terrible drought, dust and raging fires in Australia. How are things where you are and are you effected much by water restrictions?

no restrictions as yet, but it is only the start of the summer season.

The expectation is that this year will be a horror one for bushfires, however it is unlikely to reach me in the inner city, just the smoke and the dust.

We don't have dust but do have soot and smoke to contend with here during winter months as many people still burn coal fires and Mair suffers with asthma as a result. She didn't have it until we moved to this area...

Where we live is an ex-mining town and like many of the local houses, our house is over 100 years old. It has two bedroom fire places upstairs that we don't use and the downstairs used to have a fireplace in the living room and a coal-fired range in the kitchen. You can imagine the build up of soot and coal dust that was disturbed and used to get everywhere during the house renovation ...

Are you on mains water or do you have a water tank at home?

We were fortunate to be on a mains water supply in NZ from some local bore holes and I used to feel sorry for my sister-in-law who frequently allowed her tank to run dry.

the whole of Sydney is on mains supply. We're really quite civilised here you know

Are you insinuating that the Kiwis are uncivilised and that I'm under the impression that the Aussies are too?

Besides I'm only going on what Mari has told me... She didn't really although she did mention that bu**er seems to be a popular word amongst the Aussies but I'm sure that us Poms invented it first!

i think you will find that bugger has a completely different meaning down here, nothing to do with schoolboys and lords of the realm at all. It's meaning here is more akin to damn or blast or bummer.

In fact there were a couple of ads for Toyota (originally from NZ) where bugger was the catchcry, ie: man trys to straighten fence with ute but pushes it over the other way 'bugger', farmer tries to pull cow out of mud only for it to go flying into the outside toilet ' bugger' and ends with farmer getting in ute and calling dog to jump in the back, ute takes off, sprays mud on washing, wife says 'bugger' and then dog jumps for back of ute, misses, lands in mud 'bugger' ENDS

It's used in the same way here I can assure you!

Personally, it's always a toss up between bu**er or bo***cks when I stub one of my toes or drop my car keys down the back of a chair...

Naturally during my stints down ye Red Cross Shop my expletives are more subdued and tend to be a shhhhhhhugar lumps or fffffffphoton torpedoes!

Raising children does make one mind one's Ps and Qs because small boys and girls have a habit of repeating what Mummy or Daddy said at the most inappropriate of times!

I said the 'f' word once after a minor bingle in the car, and Rebecca was prone to repeat it for some months afterwards

LOL. Hi guys.









Ali*

Ali,

Always great to hear from you although a little more frequently would be nice (hint, hint).

It's nice to know that You remember me. I'm trying to log in every day. I brought a pitcher of v.t.'s and some mushrooms for all.



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Well that is good news

It would be nice to have you back on some sort of regular basis.

Still no smiley though...

LOL. I asked for the smiley. Tell Jim Lynn you neeed a .


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Hi Gwennie.

Hi Ali

How the ffffphoton are you? It's lubberly to see you here again.

I got the smiley, so it must be your turn Gwennie.