Morning forumites.
Dam it wrong key hit again lost the lot , bugger ,we will have a smile now thank you bern

smile

A kindergarten class had a homework assignment to find out about something exciting and relate it to the class the next day. When the time came to present what they'd found, the first little boy walked up to the front of the class made a small white dot on the blackboard and sat back down. Puzzled, the teacher asked him just what it was.

"It's a period," said the little boy.

"Well, I can see that," she said, "but what is so exciting about a period?"

"Damned if I know," said the little boy, "but this morning my sister was missing one, Daddy had a heart attack, Mommy fainted, and the man next door shot himself."

thanks Barry for the info. on the book. I am saving my quarters and should have enough in a few weeks.....
Bern that smile was a good one :))
pat

SORRY bern you didn't win oz lotto.
it ended up being $106 million shared by 2 tickets.
it is nearly midnight & i am sitting with my daughter whilst she does some uni work.
i must be crazy as i am usually asleep on the lounge at 9 o'clock.
yippee she said is finished so off to bed i go
good night everyone :)

Pam

Bern

I have read 77 pages of the book. They are still planning and preparing for the trip.

Sorry to see that you didn’t have the right numbers for lotto. The money went to Qld and SA.

What would you do if you won it, Buy a new fly for the tent?

I didn’t win as I was one of the few without a ticket. I have heard it said that Lotto is a tax on people who are poor at maths and can’t work out the odds.

James has now put his holiday snaps on the website.

For the gallery of 30 photos of James Castrission’s and Hugh Ward’s climb on Mount McKinley look at:

http://www.crossingtheditch.com.au

and look for the link in the Mt McKinley Wrap up.


If you can’t find the link, go to:

http://www.crossingtheditch.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106:gallery-8-mt-mckinley-expedition&catid=15:gallery&Itemid=7&utm_source=CTD+EXPED+Subscribers&utm_campaign=7d163482e8-Mt_McKinley_Expedition_Newsletter_15_25_2009&utm_medium=email

Barry

What's happening?

Okay..I lapsed again.

I want to get a copy of the new book, but there aren't any options for ordering outside of AUS and NZ. Anyone got any suggestions?

If you get bored, come on over to my blog site at www.raggedmountainvoice.org. Leave a comment so it looks like I have readers from all over the world.

Patrick, would like to write a little piece and link to your site with perhaps a shot of the book cover. I should email you.

Bern, thanks for the jokes, you funny man.

AT

I think you can order the book for the US on http://www.crossingtheditch.com.au

Before you press the yellow Buy Now button, change “Orders within Australia $37.95” to “Orders outside of Austraia and New Zealand $52.95”
(They took the L out of Australia).

Now press the Buy Now button.

Change Country from “Australia” to “United States” and keep going with your order.

The book was officially launched in Australia on June 25.

My copy arrived by post on Monday June 29.

The book went on sale in Australian bookshops today July 1. At Aust. $32.99.

Today I had a look at your

http://raggedmountainvoice.org

Barry

MORNING FORUMITES
It cold this morning ,I just seen a brass monkey carrying two round things and he knocked on the window and asked if I had a welder ,
the book should get to the tent today

smile

Keith comes home from an exhausting day at work, plops down on the couch in front of the television, and tells his wife, "Get me a beer before it starts."
The wife sighs and gets him a beer.
Fifteen minutes later, he says, "Get me another beer before it starts."
She looks cross, but fetches another beer and slams it down next to him.
He finishes that beer and a few minutes later says, "Quick, get me another beer, it's going to start any minute."
The wife is furious. She yells at him "Is that all you're going to do tonight? Drink beer and sit in front of that TV? You're nothing but a lazy, drunken, fat slob, and furthermore . . ."
Keith sighs and says, "It's started . . "
bern

while all you people in oz are sleeping I worked half the morning pulling weeds in the yard and garden, or small tomato patch would be better to describe it. There are lots of green tomatoes, my mouth is just waiting for them to ripen. Of course I could do fried green tomatoes, oh so good too, but that will happen at the end of growing season. I have already picked one green bell pepper two more almost ready. Next year there will be a bigger variety of veggies, I hope. Having company tomorrow night to celebrate Independance Day a day early....
To you all, have a great weekend and stay warm (it is quit strange saying that when it is so hot here)! Have a good one...............
pat

Bern

I think that Beky and Pam are working.

Pat

I have enjoyed growing and eating home grown tomatoes when I have had room for a garden.

I now live in what we once called a flat. When I bought it, it was called a unit. Estate agents now call it an apartment.

I have a nice sunny balcony. Because of the vines at both ends, things I try to grow get eaten by friendly furry possums that recently ate the fruit off my small orange tree.

When I lived at Kempsey, just north of where Bern lives, I grew tomatoes, capsicum (bell peppers), pawpaw (papaya) and eggplant (aubergine). Most of these came up wild from my compost.

I found that due to high humidity and fungus disease, it was difficult to grow tomatoes there after Christmas.

Where tomatoes were once grown in glass houses, on the way to the Sydney Northern Beaches, where Pam lives, houses grow now. The tomatoes we now buy have to be picked earlier, and have tougher skins as they have to travel further and for longer.

Barry

Bern,
I should introduce you to my friend Sid who has even more jokes than you ... I think you two would be like Laurel and Hardy.... only thing is, he lives down here in the land of the long, long drought, and you live up there where you get lots of that wet stuff from the sky and have the advantage of being near that lovely fishing/oyster town called Forster

When we lived years ago at Castlereagh, just west of Sydney, I used to grow tomatoes the size of a baseball (only one slice needed to cover a piece of bread), corn, beans, peas, lettuce, strawberries, watermelon, pumpkin, capsicum, and had chooks and ducks for eggs ... it was wonderful to eat such fresh veges. My kids picked them when they were playing, so they all grew up very healthy and strong. Now, guess what they all give their children ... tomatoes, capsicum, fresh peas etc., all the same things they grew up on

Pam - I like your joke too.. I think I would react the same.

Barby

MORNING FORUMITESM happy4th of July our U S A forumites __no wait its the 4th here so your on the 3rd , please read this in the morning
,Nan and self went out to dinner at aclub last night with the Son and Family ,
after we had eaten the band started playing out at the dance floor , I asked the 2yr Princess if she wanted to watch , Daughter in law .said" I dont think she will like it Pop ,to loud "
Pop done what every Pop dose and took her out ,time 7-30
half hour later they all come out looking forPop and Princess here she is in the corner dancing to the band when they stopped playing she would claplike crazy, 9-30 much to the princess"s discust she had to be carried protesting out of the club, I will never have trouble getting her to a club again, might leave her Mum and Dad at home.
never got far into the book yesterday liking what I have read so far

smile

Out of the blue, the girl asked her mother, "Mommy, How old are you?"

The mother responded, "Honey, women don't talk about their age. You'll learn this as you get older."

The girl then asked, "Mommy, how much do you weigh?"

Her mother responded again, "That's another thing women don't talk about. You'll learn this, too, as you grow up."

The girl, still wanting to know about her mother, then fired off another question, "Mommy, why did you and Daddy get a divorce?"

The mother, a little annoyed by the questions, responded, "Honey, that is a subject that hurts me very much, and I don't want to talk about it now."

The little girl, frustrated, sulked until she was dropped off at a friend's house to play. She consulted with her girlfriend about her and her mother's conversation.

The girlfriend said, "All you have to do is sneak a look at your mother's driver's license. It's just a like a report card from school. It tells you everything."

Later, the little girl and her mother were out and about again.

The little girl started off with, "Mommy, Mommy, I know how old you are. I know how old you are. You're 32 years old."

The mother was very shocked. She asked, "Sweetheart, how do you know that?"

The little girl shrugged and said, "I just know. And I know how much you weigh. You weigh 130 pounds."

"Where did you learn that?"

The little girl said, "I just know. And I know why you and Daddy got a divorce. You got an 'F' in sex."

bern

HEY Barby,get the super post hole maker to grow his square tomatos , now he has run out of holes

bern

HAPPY BIRTHDAY U S A
MORNING FORUMITES
ITS A COLD ONE AGAIN TODAY, cant wait for that SUN comes a bit closer
the book has been put down for 2 days too much sport on the wackie box

smile

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What is politics?"

Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I'm the breadwinner of the family, so let's call me capitalism. Your Mom, she's the administrator of the money, so we'll call her the Government. We're here to take care of your needs, so we'll call you the people. The nanny, we'll consider her the Working Class. And your baby brother, we'll call him the Future. Now, think about that and see if that makes sense,"

So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what dad had said. Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parents' room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed. The next morning, the little boy says to his father, "Dad, I think I Understand the concept of politics now." The father says, "Good son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about." The little boy replies, "Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the Future is in deep shit.

bern

Deborah

There is a good chance that the DVD will be released at the time of the Boat show, Darling Harbour Sydney. July 30 to August 3.

http://www.sydneyboatshow.com.au/activities/crossing-ditch/index.html

Bern

You complain about the cold in Taree. Perhapse you should come south.
Today, SUNDAY, was a perfect winters day in Sydney.

Barry

Good morning everyone

thank you for your 'smiles' Bern
Like you I also spent the last 2 days & nights watching sport.
(even though i was dozing on & off during the tennis)
It is not the swim that is crazy after all it is warmer in the water - it is when you get out.
You turn into a ice statue!!

Still waiting for my book.
Hopefully it will arrive this week.

Pam

KNOCK KNOCK
Who's there?
Parcel Post.
YIppee - my book has just arrived.

The BOSS said I can start reading it today IF I finish my work :)

Pam

MORNING FORUMITES
jAMES you bring memorys of my youth back to me ,its a very good read .
funny thing out side the tent yesterday ,I am out the front making out I'm busy in case Nan was watching , and the cars started swinging to the wrong side ,WHY you ask? here are 3 wood ducks asleep standing on one leg the 3 of them , I went over and the buggers never moved untill I got to2 feet away from them ,>> I ask are"nt hey suppose to be WILD ducks ???

smile

It was Paddy and Seamus giving the motorcycle a ride on a brisk autumn day. After a wee bit, Paddy who was sitt'n behind Seamus on the bike began to holler ..."Seamus ... Seamus ... the wind is cutt'n me chest out!" "Well, Paddy my lad," said Seamus, "why don't you take your jacket off and turn it from front to back ... that'll block the wind for you." So Paddy took Seamus' advice and turned his jacket from front to back and got back on the bike and the two of them were off down the road again. After a bit, Seamus turned to talk to Paddy and was horrified to see that Paddy was not there. Seamus immediately turned the bike around and retraced their route. When after a short time he came to a turn and saw a bunch of farmers standing around Paddy who was sitting on the ground. "T'anks be to heaven, is he alright?" Seamus hailed to the farmers. "Well," said one of the farmers, " he was alright when we found him here .. but since we turned his head back to front .. he hasn't said a word since!"

bern

Bern

Winter drawers on?

The forecast is for some more good weather for ducks. So keep your winter woollies handy.

Searching for sites with information about the Crossing The Ditch Book, I found Beky’s site.

See Beky’s Live Journal with Crossing The Ditch book and also a photo of Mr Chip 88 floors up overlooking Melbourne and more.

http://bekytg.livejournal.com

Barry

I hope that you all enjoy the CTD bedtime story. I found it riveting.

While Justin and James have plans to go to the Antarctic, there is another intrepid adventurer planning to head out from Forster aiming for Taranaki New Zealand next November, rowing solo without assistance.

Shaun Quincey plans to be the only solo rower, other than his father Colin Quincey, who completed the first ever Tasman Crossing in 1977.

He will battle a distance of 2200km as well as 10m swells and one of the most treacherous seas in the world.

Taking an estimated 50 Days, Tasman Trespasser 2 will be another epic adventure.

His website is: http://www.tasmantrespasser.com

also see the start of his forum set up by Patrick Rush:

http://www.rushlabs.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=33&page=1#Item_6

Barry

Hi everyone,
My daughter grabbed my book and is reading it.
She told the BOSS not to let me read it at work as I won't do a scrap of work cause I won't be able to put it down!!!
SO I will wait until she finishes it and read it over the weekend.
Another miserable wet day today but in a couple of years when we go bush I suppose we'll be praying for rain.

I don't know if it is a great idea to go solo across the Tasman.
By the sounds of it J & J kept each other sane by having company.
But I wish him all the best and no doubt he will get support from the forum set up by Patrick.

Pam

Last few mornings thick ice on our cars ...... check the weather station ... 0 deg outside, and not much more inside ... Taree, here we come!

from Barby to you all
Did you receive this email ?

If not, on the ABC (Australia) the boys are having a yarn to Richard Fidler tomorrow!!

Tomorrow morning Jonesy and I will be guests on Conversions with Richard Fidler. The interview will start at 11am and go for about an hour. He's a phenomenal host - in fact, out on the Tasman, we listened to close to fifty of his interviews!



How to listen?
1. Jump on the ol' radio: In Brisbane its on ABC 612 or in Sydney on ABC 702. If you don't live in the big smoke, most of the local ABC radio stations around both states will be playing it.

2. If you are at work and don't have a radio near by, live streaming will be playing on:
http://www.abc.net.au/sydney/

3. If you miss the interview and really, really want to hear it, download the podcast mid afternoon tomorrow:
feed://www.abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/conversationspodcast.xml

Find out more?
The program's web site is www.abc.net.au/brisbane/conversations/

MORNING FORUMITES
JAMES ,JAMES, I am reliving that merry go round ride again [ shut up bern]
time for a

smile


A police officer came upon a terrible wreck where the driver and passenger had been killed. As he looked upon the wreckage a little monkey came out of the brush and hopped around the crashed car. The officer looked down at the monkey and said "I wish you could talk."

The monkey looked up at the officer and shook his head up and down.
"You can understand what I'm saying?" asked the officer. Again, the monkey shook his head up and down. "Well, did you see this?"

"Yes," motioned the monkey.

"What happened?"

The monkey pretended to have a can in his hand and turned it up by his mouth.

"They were drinking?" asked the officer.

"Yes!" the monkey motioned.

"What else?"

The monkey pinched his fingers together and held them to his mouth.
"They were smoking marijuana?"

"Yes." the monkey confirmed.

"What else?"

The monkey motioned "Screwing."

"They were screwing, too?" asked the astounded officer.

"Yes."

"Now wait, you're saying your owners were drinking, smoking and screwing before they wrecked."

"Yes."

"What were you doing during all this?"

"Driving" motioned the monkey.

bern

Barry it was a very good interveiw,I liked the bit at the end when ask what next , "MUM and DAD turn the radio off now" pause " we are going to the south pole"
MUM and DAD , their been on the grog again .

silly buggers But go Rats go
have a good trip Barry
bern

don't disturb me for the weekend, i'm reading ... can't put the book down