Happy New year to all on the list have included some thoughts... DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...? It took five minutes for the TV warm up? Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a shilling was a decent allowance? You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? Your Mom wore stockings that came in two pieces? All your male teachers wore ties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels? You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and petrol pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? Cereals had free toys hidden inside the box? It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? They threatened to keep kids back a year if they failed . . . and they did? When a 57 Holden was everyone's dream car? No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked? Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a..." And playing footy with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? Stuff from the shop came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today? When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. As well as summers filled with bike rides, cricket games, Hula Hoops, monkey bars, jilgying, visits to the beach and "conversation" lollies. Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"? How many of these do you remember? Lolly cigarettes pogo sticks, marbles, Home milk delivery in glass bottles with aluminium tops Newsreels before the movie Sandshoes Telephone numbers with letter prefixes....(ABD 601). 45 RPM records Hi-Fi's Metal ice cubes trays with levers Mimeograph paper Cork pop guns Drive-ins Valliant's Washtub wringers Reel-To-Reel tape recorders houses made of cards Meccano Sets That awful pink slab of bubble gum Penny lollies 35 cent a gallon petrol Do you remember a time when... Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"? "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest? It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"? The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "boy or girl bugs"? Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a shangeye? Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team? Playing cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin? Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!! K ----- Original Message ----- From: Wendy To: AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 5:04 PM Subject: Re: [HC] Spare Births from the North East - chat Hi Dawn, Well, mostly cold... Thanks for your previous email - I will contact you when I work out my timings re AIGS - I have to join it first. Boy, it is hot, ins't it? Happy NY Cheers, Wendy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn Webb" <dawnwebb@optusnet.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 6:14 PM Subject: RE: [HC] Spare Births from the North East > Hope it is a cold meal planned Wendy! Certainly not soup and stew weather > is it!.. Dawn > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wendy [mailto:wendyfensom@optusnet.com.au] > Sent: Saturday, 31 December 2005 3:38 PM > To: AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [HC] Spare Births from the North East > > Hi Ronda and Denise, > I've sent details off-list so please let me know result..... I am going to > try and do the ones from the N/E first. So hang about - there's more to > come - hopefully tomorrow. > Got to get the dinner organised - visitors coming... > Wendy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ronda Shambrook" <shambrookdr@dcsi.net.au> > To: <AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 4:00 PM > Subject: Re: [HC] Spare Births from the North East > > > > Hi Wendy, > > I have found one of 'mine' on your list and would be appreciative of more > > info. > > > > > BIRTHS - MYRTLEFORD and BUFFALO RIVER 1891 (JWM) > > > > > Robert John DRAPER > > > Father: William McMillan DRAPER (Born Arran Scotland) > > > > > > Mother : Martha McKIBBINS (Born Co Antrim, Ireland) > > > > I am impressed that you are organising yourself so well. When people > > contact me for 'spares' it usually takes me a couple of hours of ferreting > > around to find the correct one. > > Sooooo ....... my first job for the new year is to organise all my BDMs > into > > one word document for easy location. > > > > Thanks very much, > > > > Ronda > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.0.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.9/217 - Release Date: 30/12/2005 > > -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.14.9/216 - Release Date: 29/12/2005