Sudokuaholics Anonymous 4

Sorry, was off doing the puzzles!

Hi June will you or I get It?

too wet to bowl today so we just had quizzes and general social day. Rain will save me watering the garden.

hehe I did

Yayyy, Gail! You TOPPed the page!
BTW - Hello!

Gail sneeked in.

It's been a bit cool and showery up here - I think summer's definately over.

Now we have turned over the page we can all go and catch up on other jobs

Our kids had two weeks off Cyn. It started back on the Easter long weekend and they have just gone back today.

Beautiful spring day here!
Somebody forgot to tell the weatherman it was autumn. 25C and very pleasant sitting on the park bench in my front yard after fertilizing all the plants.

Stella - sorry I've been chattering on here and I meant to say - that's awful what has happened to your niece. I hope she finds a cheaper way of having the vehicle repaired. What a mess for her.

I agree Cyn. I remember the days when we would have to choose between car repair costs and eating.
I feel for her too.

Usually school hols start up here after Easter but this is the first time ever I can remember it not being until 2 weeks later.

BTW I think I have met that dodgy repair guy!!!

Gail, when my son was 6 months old (37 years ago) the automatic transmission in our car went and the cost was $150 - we raided his bank account to pay for it and repaid the money to him as it became available.

Unfortunately, my daughter and I didn't get much achieved these holidays. Usually we fit a lot more in. Didn't even go to the flicks!
Her first week was a social whirl. We had the lunch with Bean and Son of Bean, then drove to a friend's house in rural Vic to spend the night. next day I drove her and her friend back so they could go to a concert they have been talking about for the last 4 months! At least now I dont have to hear about it anymore...

I'm going to have to love you and leave you - I'll check back later if I have time. Bye Gail and June. Bye all.

Lucky he was young enough not to know. My son was always generous like that...he didn't know it but he was!

Me too Cyn. Have to go defrost the steak for tonight's dinner-Beef and Noodle Stir Fry.
Catch you later.

We've eating but now off to a meeting so things may be quiet here for a while.

folks...
All those flood stories sound familiar.
Growing up in Deni we were accustomed to the Edwards flooding every spring as the snow melted. [a thing of the past...not enough snow now to melt let alone flood the Murray and its annabranch - the Edwards]. We used to step out the side door, jump in the canoe and go sailing off down the creek, [usually dry], over the submerged fence and into the golflinks. There we had a wonderful water world to explore. A kids paradise.

More recently I blame the last 'indoor' flood on Sudoku. Did exactly what I was always complaining about my husband almost doing... Turned the taps on to run a bath and decided to play a 'quick' game of sudoku.....took me an hour and a half to clean up the mess!! Thank goodness we don't have carpets!!!

Bean!! Sounds like something I would do....

MORNING SUDOKULAND, coffee tea and choccie at the ready.

Flood stories, Oh I have had a few here in this transportable home! House was built with a "new" type plastic pipe. They find out it does not last over time. Lawsuits all around, and different companies ordered to replace all plumbing in all units they built or supplied pipe to builders. Of course no company can survive that kind of cash outlay, so companies went bankrupt. I was on the list for new plumbing three times, and they never got me. So, with increasing frequency, we get a break in a pipe and a flood.

First one was the worst I think. Hot water heater is tucked into a corner of my closet, barely accessible, think remove clothing and then remove an access door to find it. Pipe sprang a leak, and sprayed through a crack around the access door, soaking my clothes, the closet carpet, YUCK. I start to get dressed and find my closet resident, automatic clothes washing feature in mid cycle! hehe Can you see hubby removing soggy clothing happily? To gain access to the fountian of HOT water? THEN he decides yes, there is a problem and turns off all he water to house.

I fed my washing machine for a day and a half, getting everything washed , dried and back in closet again!

Many other flood stories available, and none of them pretty! Ask Rolanda about my babbling brook.

Hi MizT, would love a hot choccie. Bit late here for a coffee. I would be up on the computer all night because I could not sleep.

ROLANDA, thank you, could not remember " whipper snipper", although I have heard it often. I might have to find mine today and do some trim, since hubby did not get a roundtuit yesterday.

He is forgiven, sort of, as he did repair and put up my market umbrella on my small front deck. Gives me some much needed afternoon shade at my front door, and helps even my sun loving flowers need less water to survive.

Did I say our afternoon sun can be brutal? So called "sun loving" plants need some afternoon shade. VERY few plants can survive full sun here. Vinca, zinneas, salvia, moss rose, IF they get watered daily and sometimes twice a day (in containers)

GAIL, the lurker. she has a habit of showing up just in time for a TOPPS! You have to watch for her hiding, ready to pounce hehe.

Still have one small leak from the gutter where hubby has moved a tile or something BUT will not be getting back on the roof tonight.
Your flood certainly was quite a catastrophe.

BEAN, what a flood story! overfilling the bathtub, Oh My, and cause you fell into the computer! Happy you have not made that a habit!

HI JUNE! I did not see you come in, and how are you this afternoon?

It is strange, all of you talking about hot choccie at bedtime! chocolate keeps me awake as much as coffee does! I cannot have any chocolate after 2 pm, so any chocolate deserts I make are served at lunch! Eat chocolate candy, when I have it, mid morning with a coffee break.

Happy to hear you are reduced to one small leak now! Hope even that one is resolved soon, in the daylight hours!

One more for a CP? Since noone is here to STOP me and it is too far to go for a TOPP alone.

Sorry June, the more you do the chatroom, the easier it gets!

Hi Gail, the more time I have to think what I want to communicate the better. The old Brain gets tired!

Gail my kids are all in their 40's so I am not getting any younger.

MizT I drink a hot chocolate if I wake up and cannot get back to sleep.

Has Gail gone back to the chat room?

Or lurking for a TOP

I am so sorry MizT, I didn't see you leave.
Bye till next time.