Thankyou

[Odie]

Originally Posted by AussiePam

Spring is indeed sprung and the local jacarandas and bougainvillea and jasmines just take your breath away..

oh my to have jasmine there......so sweet.

[AussiePam]

Spring is indeed sprung and the local jacarandas and bougainvillea and jasmines just take your breath away.. (Photo taken near my local Italian cafe in Kirribilli. The harbour view is the other direction).

[Chezzie]

big hugs Pam

Sorry its early here, not been up long and the weather change has brought on my hay fever so not feeling totally tickety boo but didnt want to ignore your great thread.

I suppose forum world will always bring these type of people, not content in just having fun and ignoring the people who stop them having it...FG used to be the be all and end all for me, first place I logged on, was like going out for a night, something I dont get to do often so was great, so many fab people like Carolly, Kaz, Kay, you, Mrs K, Kathy and Ducks but to mention a few. Nomad and Jimbo the funny peeps, the great mods I work with plus stacks of others I like.. Now, I try and log in each day!!!! Im online daily, using facebook and their games, I get no hassle, no bitching, no backstabbing ......NO DRAMA...

I hardly ever turn my email on, usually go and delete hundreds of spam and NEVER have msn on, just cant be bothered with hassle, I have that in real life, I come online for FUN, nothing else lol..

I wish it was like that back here, couple of years back this place was THE place to be.

[Kathy Ellen]

Big, big hugs to (((((((((((((Pam and Chezzie))))))))))))))) xxx

[Kathy Ellen]

Pam,

Your pictures of Sydney Harbor are beautiful. Do you ever go to the Opera house, and if so, what operas have you seen? My favorties will always be Madam Butterfly and La Boheme.

[Carolly]

Sometimes people stand out like a bright star and one you so wished you could reach out at times to just hug and say....sod em ....your a very ok person and jealousy has to be the worst thing possible online and in the RW.Well Pam I cant be there but the hugs are there and my love

[AussiePam]

Thanks Kathy, Carolly, Chezzie, Betty Boop and everyone !!! I'm feeling cheery again tonight. It's a full moon and beautiful.

Chezzie - I hope your hayfever improves. That is a pain. Is there something in particular which sets you off?

Betty - yes, I think I love that pic. It nips my waistline in in a way our laced up great grandmothers would have been proud of.. well I'm sure they wouldn't have been able to breathe of course.... CHOCOLATE.... ahhhhhhhhhhh


I shall go in a minute and play the song about the Woman made all of Chockie. You know Guylian Chocolates?? They run a cafe at Circular Quay (five minutes by ferry) - and serve awesome coffee, French croissants and dipping bowls of melted chocolate.. SWOON

http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/1245542-post13.html

Olivia Ruiz has just put out a new album.. HOORAY.

Kathy - I am embarrassed to say that I have never been to a performance at the Sydney Opera House. I too love Madame Butterfly - especially the Maria Callas version, and La Boheme, Tosca, Faust, Lucia, Carmen..

OpenMind - your daughter is beautiful. I'm sending a hug.

Has anyone read "The Time Traveler's Wife"? I just finished it. Kind of weird, but ORIGINAL !!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Traveler%27s_Wife

The film should be out here soon.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by AussiePam

I had a grouchy day yesterday. Stuff is pearshaped back at the ranch here - yet again - and this time so totally unnecessarily. And my longsuffering partner and I end up, as always, picking up the pieces, drying the tears, sorting the consequences and trying to get everything back on track. We are weary.

BUT today is a new day, and the first day of the Celtic New Year. The first day of November - white rabbits... Samhain... All Saints Day. Whichever tradition you follow, or whichever hemisphere you happen to be in.. it's a joyful time.

Thank you - those fine FGers who wrote to me for your kindness and understanding.

And for those who offered me other chatrooms, FaceBook etc... thankyou too.

I had a hard think last night. From reading some of the emails I've found that I should be even more confused than I thought I already was.

I do have a page on FaceBook, but gee if there's this much confusion of white and black hats just in FG - I might, if I make the wrong decisions, merely transpose all of that to my little FB oasis - so far shared only by my family and a few people I grew up with and actually do really know.

Also, just out of the blue, I got messages somehow which were blasts from the past. In other words, people in different forums monitor what goes on in here nad just coincidentally make contact when there is an implosion. So my new paranoia may be reality based.

Anyway, really I suppose it doesn't matter that threads I start just die and I end up wittering away in a merry monologue. Those threads probably deserve it and monologues aren't so bad really. I mean it could be lots worse.

And if all the action is in fact going on behind the scenes, maybe that's okay too. If I monologue inanely on and just stab the arras like Hamlet did with an occasional sword thrust to show I know but don't care, no harm done. I haven't seeen Dr Parnassus's Imaginarium yet, but I believe that's trippy too.

It's cool to live in a parallel universe.
Surreality is the way to go.
Alienation can be fun.

Guys - you're all the best!!! And I love the lot of you!! Thank you again .... and let's party on...

Aw hunny...you okay?

[shelbell]

I do understand what you mean. Log in to have some fun chatting with friends, but there will always be pot stirrers. Sometimes I'll come across someone on FB that insist they bring fg stuff over there...I politely tell them that if I wanted all the fg stuff going on, I'd be signed in there. I've also had people there try to drag me into it, and no, I've not always been successful, but have noticed when I tell people that that's not why I'm there, to bad mouth others, they will usually leave me alone.

I hope it gets better for you Pam.

[Odie]

Originally Posted by shelbell

I do understand what you mean. Log in to have some fun chatting with friends, but there will always be pot stirrers. Sometimes I'll come across someone on FB that insist they bring fg stuff over there...I politely tell them that if I wanted all the fg stuff going on, I'd be signed in there. I've also had people there try to drag me into it, and no, I've not always been successful, but have noticed when I tell people that that's not why I'm there, to bad mouth others, they will usually leave me alone.

I hope it gets better for you Pam.

your right sis, fb has become the worst for pot stirrers.:-

I block those ones

I have no time nor patience for people who try and drag me into their drama lives.

I will not tolerate bad mouthing on fb, we are adults not children.

I just rise above them.


Fb is a really nice place, to just have fun, relax, play the quizzes and be yourself.