bitsandbobs
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:32:24 AM
nettak Roast Lamb!!!!
Tom Cruise will have to wait for his golf game. I'm coming to your place instead!
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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nettak
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:34:03 AM
What is your table made of? It looks lovely, mine is silky oak and your table has the same sort of look to it. 
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nettak
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:35:47 AM
Hello Bob, I would choose to have dinner with you over Tom Cruise any day. LOL I wonder if the Americans will get that joke. 
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bitsandbobs
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:39:06 AM
nettak, We'll probably have to explain it to them!
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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nettak
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:40:49 AM
Wait and see who asks first.
Are you still with us Mouse?
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mouseslayer
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:41:25 AM
Hmmm, I will have to ponder that question! My mom has or had a trunk that my grandfather built with his bare hands. I'm not sure what ever happened to it, I will have to ask her. That would be one. My desk is pretty special to me too. Mom hates it and thinks I should trash it. It's an antique, but it's horribly damaged and not worth a penny probably. It's been through a fire and a flood and not taken care of very well. When we last moved, someone had the bright idea of taping the drawers shut, rather than take them out. When we pulled off the tape, a lot of the veneer came with it!  But it's been in the family for years. I don't think there's anything big I would grab, just a lot of little things.
There's the little folding chess set (have no idea if it's worth anything) that was my grandfather's. Pictures of course! Three little carved (ivory?) elephants my other grandfather got along his travels as a merchant marine. Both of my grandmother's jewelry, one piece apiece. Wedding momentos. That's about it really. There's more I'd like to hang on to, like my grandmother's eterge (sp?), but there's other stuff I would grab first.
~^~  Hippy wannabe  ~^~
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nettak
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:42:44 AM
So I will ask you Bob, what would you try and save out of your house if you had a fire, As I said before I would try and get my gramophone out and my leather lounge, they are my most prized possesions after my photos' that is.
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bitsandbobs
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:44:07 AM
Finally we had an uninterupted nights sleep last night.
No more possums!
It was so nice that we all slept in until real late this morning.
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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mouseslayer
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:44:18 AM
Well, I would think it's because he filed for divorce from your beloved Nicole?
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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nettak
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:46:26 AM
It really makes you stop and think, hmmm I guess that if and when the time were to come, we would just think ourselves lucky if we got out with our lives and with no injuries to anyone. I always made sure that my mother had copies of most of my photos' when the kids' were little, so I guess even those could be replaced if they were lost, I have often thought of getting a fireproof container to put all my photo albums in, just in case of fire.
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bitsandbobs
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:47:55 AM
Hi mouse, Way off the mark!
It relates to a clever advertising campaign here a year or two ago in which a young lass turns down a date with TC because her mum was doing roast lamb for dinner on the night she was supposed to be going out with Tom. The inference being that you wouldn't miss a roast lamb dinner for anything!
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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nettak
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:49:09 AM
No Mouse, that isn't what we are talking about.
Years ago we had an advertising thing over here and it showed this girl winning dinner with Tom Cruise, and then she found out her mother had cooked a lamb roast for dinner, and she said she could not have dinner with Tom because Mum was cooking a Lamb Roast for dinner.
The meaning is that a lamb roast is better than dinner with Tom. LOL I guess you have to be Aussie to really get it.
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bitsandbobs
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:50:28 AM
nettak, I'm not that emotionally attached to objects.
I'd probably grab my golf clubs, fishing rods and cigarettes.
I suppose if there was time I'd go back for the missus!
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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mouseslayer
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:51:32 AM
LOL, so have I Netta! But a decent size one is around $100 or so I just wish I could find my grandmothers jewelry. They seem to have gotten misplaced when we moved last time and I can't figure out where they are!  I have my maternal grandmother's engagement diamond which she had reset into a pendant after Grandpa died. I also have the original setting too, I know where that is. My other grandmother gave me a diamond heart necklace that she had cleaned and repaired to give to me for my wedding. I had something else picked out, but needless to say I wore the heart with pride as it was given to her by my grandfather who had passed away before I got married. So it was like he was there too.
So are you guys brave enough to see my garage too? Remember, there are 2 family's worth of stuff in it!
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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nettak
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:51:57 AM
See it was such a good advertisment that we all know what it is about straight away, if you mention Lamb roast to an Aussie they usually will say something about Tom Cruise. LOL
Bob I am so glad that your possum is gone, I hope it is for good. LOL Did you take it drivies ?? hahaha 
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pharlap
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:53:01 AM
Hey everyone!!!
Nettak - you were right - my ISP wouldn't let me back in last night
Mouse - LOL!!! The state of your desk is similar to mine! Except that you can no longer see my printer or scaner behind piles of books/papers etc.
If my house was on fire I would save my cat and all my Phar Lap stuff (that stuff doesn't come cheap!!!)
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nettak
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:55:31 AM
ROTF Bob, I love the bit about you poor suffering wife. hahah
When we were smoking we probably would have counted the smokes in the first things to save. LOL
We have no gone almost 6 months since we gave up, I am very proud of myself.
Okay Mouse show us your garage, we are brave folk in here. LOL
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nettak
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:57:25 AM
Hello Pharlap, I thought you might have gotten locked out of the house last night.
How are you tonight?
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bitsandbobs
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:57:41 AM
C'mon mouse, show us the goodies. I'm on the way with the ute and I'll take the lot off your hands for $20!!!
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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pharlap
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posted on April 13, 2001 02:59:24 AM
I'm fine thanks Nettak - all rested up after a lazy day...
Ok Mouse - I'm game, show us the garage...
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nettak
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posted on April 13, 2001 03:01:26 AM
LMAO Bob is that $20 US or Aussie dollars. hahaha
Now don't get too greedy leave some for the rest of us. LOL
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bitsandbobs
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posted on April 13, 2001 03:03:32 AM
Don't you just hate garage sales that don't open on time?
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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nettak
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posted on April 13, 2001 03:05:32 AM
ROTF yes but I try never to get there 2 hours early Bob. LOL You could have slept in longer. hahaha
I get dibs on anything that is nice.
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bitsandbobs
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posted on April 13, 2001 03:06:37 AM
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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mouseslayer
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posted on April 13, 2001 03:07:24 AM
Ok, here's the view from the back door, showing my very narrow passage way 
Here is my box area (and a few other things thrown in for good measure!)
There's more, can ya handle it? LOL
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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nettak
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posted on April 13, 2001 03:07:40 AM
Geez Bob hold the fort at the top of the line, and don't let those pushy people in, I have to run out to the car. LOL
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pharlap
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posted on April 13, 2001 03:09:31 AM
Ohhhhh, bags I the Christmas deccys
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nettak
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posted on April 13, 2001 03:09:34 AM
I will have that fan up the back please. LOL I am still checking to see what else. Any china in there?? LOL
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nettak
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posted on April 13, 2001 03:10:53 AM
I don't mind the lights on the ceiling, are they for sale.
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bitsandbobs
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posted on April 13, 2001 03:12:19 AM
ARRRRGH! Whose elbow was that in my face?
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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