Pictures of me getting ready and the reception can be seen at: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~drwatson/wedding/wedding.html Note that I was rather distracted during the ceremony so couldn't take any pictures of myself :-) There are lots more photos to come, these are just off my own...

As is traditional at work, we got together for our last "all staff meeting" and hten had a Christmas morning tea, and finished with us singing Christmas Carols inthe foyer of our reception area (it has nice acoustics). Again, this year, we sang a mix of traditional carols and Australian...

wrote in message ... After two months shy of 19 years with Ken as my landlord, he finally decided to get out of the rental business, and sold the building (ironically, he sold it back to the same guy he bought it...

After lots of badgering from family and friends, I'm going to enter a short story writing competition. Since I don't currenly have the wherewithall to write a new one (probably won't until Cary goes to school), I figured I'd just use an old one. But there are so many...... Would anyone care to...

Hi folks, I cracked with Joel's relentless pressure, and finally bought a new PC. It has all the new fangled gadgets and numbers that a brand new "cool" computer ought to have. Quite frankly, I thought all the old one needed was a good hard drive format and re-build, because it ran Outlook...

OK, New PC has old HD installed (yay). I haven't lost all my pictures and I didn't need to burn lots of disks. I even managed to retreive my old e-mails and the old e-mail folders I had. So far so good. Now, what I can't figure is how to retrieve and import / re-install all the mail accounts I...

I was in Big W at lunch doing a spot of shopping. Suddenly a woman ran out of the toy aisle screaming "what do I do what do I do?". She went back into the aisle, and came back out holding her daughter, perhaps 3 at the most, who had blood gushing down her face and was crying loudly. A crowd of...

Jean rang yesterday. She's still sore, but feeling much better, and is now capable of taking a few steps. She wants to thank everyone for the cards - and yes, the nurses wondered if she was famous somehow because she's been getting cards from all around the world. I was goign to visit today, but...

I bought The Yowlet his first set of crayons. He didn't get too far with them, so I packed them up and put them away for when he was a bit older IBKFergus found the stash of crayons, and batted them to the floor. The others lay there where they fell, but she *tortured* the blue crayon within an...

There's a possibility that I could get a long-term posting in China with the company I work for. The oppurtunity would be fantastic, Joel would love it and I think it would be great for Cary to be immersed in another culture and language whilst he can still learn language the 'natural' way. I'd...

I know some of you are fans of the blogger Cherie Priest and her cat, Spainy. Spainy left a "deposit" of blood & mucus on Cherie's floor the other day, and was taken quickly to the vet, who found nothing wrong. He thought that perhaps Spainy ruptured a blood vessel trying to cough up a hair...

Haven't had a recipe thread here for *ages* (which in one way is a good thing, I guess), but I like our recipe threads and felt like starting one, troll or no. Its getting close to the Holiday season, thought we might share a few of our favourite recipes that we traditionally use to celebrate...

Sorry to dump this on you guys, but I need to vent somewhere that is understanding and sympathetic and nonjudgmental. And this is the place. Don't know if you know the story of Daniel, Joel's younger brother. 3 years ago, Daniel had his drink spiked and as a result went off his rocker right around...

Down, Dave! Have just uploaded a photo to Catslaves that should adequately explain why: a) I have queensized bed and b) despite, point a), Joel still sleeps in another room The URL is http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/catslaves/vwp?.dir=/&.dnm=Yowie%27s+be d.jpg&.src=gr

"The Puppy Wizard" wrote. Not Ceasar Salad Baby spinach leaves Crunchy chips of bacon croutons blue-vein cheese, crumbled water chestnuts, in chunks pine nuts

yup, me again, witht he insomnia. Ok, the insomnia started about 3am and hasn't really let off. I've thrown up once, and as a consequence I now have water cracker crumbs in my bed. They do make for an "interesting" lie down. The panic has set in. I go to the obs later today, and I am pretty...

hi everyone just a short note from joel here the baby fine he was 9 pounds 5 oz or from the metric system it was 4 kgs 225 grams aqnd 52 cms long mums fine 2 ohh he was born yesterday the 5th of april at 5:25pm bye for now from joel

A number of very kind and generous souls have given the most adorable gifts and cards to Cary. I've tried to thankyou personally, but the e-mail addresses I have for you don't seem to be working. I'm really sorry I don't have the time to write toyou with a personal thankyou using actual...

Can anyone recommend a "free" photo editor I can download? Fully functioning shareware is good, but the stuff that has a free trial period then refuses to work is worse than useless as they rarely uninstall neatly, and I don't have alot of hard drive space left. The most important features for me...

Happy Independance Day, those who celebrate it. Yowie