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Listened 2 hubby & went local. Got it from the Holden Dealer in Parkes BRODERICKS

Then listen 2 our darlin daught & got Finance & Insurance locally...

Happy cruizin our son & daught in-law 2 B. 

BTW I had 2 put the – between the letters az BigPond said it waz a naughtie word ~ go figure.

Sent hubby on a mission payday, whlst he waz uptown, 2 buy some 8ply Fluro cum bright coloured wool.

& 2 packs of this, iz wat he came home with…

LUV IT LUV IT LUV IT

Now I can do the leg warmers 4 me minya-(friend) Bunge 4 Chrissy.

He’s gonna look 4 more so’s I can do a wrist band & head band 2. They only come in 5 x 20g balls.

THANK U mine hubby.

Useta not worry ‘bout em & when I did I used small gold safety pins

Got hubby 2 buy some of these…

& some of these…

Afta Googlin I waz amazed how many different ones were out there…

& afta C’n them hubby made these…

How deadly R they & 4 him 2 make ‘em jus 4 ME... THANK U mine hubby. 

& of course those Butterfly ones R me fav… we’ll B on the lookout 4 the Butterflies. Oh & I'd like some done in Koori colours 2. 

WIN $250.00 cash for Christmas

Nine axes McLeod's

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22794324-5006301,00.html

November 21, 2007 01:15am 

WORLDWIDE hit drama series McLeod's Daughters has been axed by the Nine Network.

The eighth series, now being shot in South Australia, will be its last.

Last night, Nine announced the end of the show which began in 2001 and has been sold to 200 countries. It is understood some cast members had not been informed of the decision.

Creator and executive producer Posie Graeme-Evans said: "I have always maintained that the series should finish on a high and while it was still loved by the audience."

She added: "Based on this belief, in conjunction with Channel Nine, we have come to the decision that Series 8 will be the last."

The series centres on the vast property of Drover's Run and the lives of the women who work it.

There had previously been doubts over the series' future but in March, Nine announced the drama would continue after the State Government agreed to a financial-support package.

Premier Mike Rann said the funding commitment would "ensure the program continued to be filmed in our state".

His spokeswoman, Jill Bottrall, said last night the decision would not impact on the $200,000 State Government commitment. Ms Bottrall said the Government had not received official notification of Channel 9's decision last night.

Nine chief executive David Gyngell said: "Channel Nine is extremely proud of McLeod's Daughters and the incredible success it has enjoyed . . .

"It has become an iconic Australian drama and has featured the best of local talent, both in front of and behind the cameras."

Ms Graeme-Evans first pitched McLeod's in late 1992 and the pilot telemovie was shown on Mother's Day, 1996 .

The show's main location is the 14-room Georgian-style, historic Kingsford homestead near Gawler, sold by the State Government - along with 50ha of farming land - to the Nine Network for about $380,000. Just after Easter 2001, cameras rolled for the first shot on location for the series.

The series has also received eight Logies Awards, including two for Most Popular Drama Series in 2004-05.

It was the third most watched Australian TV drama series in 2002 and passed the magical 200-episode mark in 2007.

The producers claim that since 1999 the show has spent about $72 million in SA, $44 million on employing SA crew and "has injected over $27 million into businesses".

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am able 2 post NOT bcause Naughty Pond woodn’t let me… t’was me bod.

Have bean sleepin on & off in 2 hour stints & when awake I’ve not bean able 2 et compy 4 long periods… jus bean checkin & readin me mail.

Can't even get in2 me Knittin & Crochet...

Okie dokie gonna curl up & go 2 sleep… hopein 2 feel betta 2morrow

Jus posted the Link 4 this in 2 comments & thought I’d betta slap it up here 2…

Bitter life of chocolate's child slaves
SOURCE: The Age
Carmel Egan
November 4, 2007

CHOCOLATE: it's the most popular treat used as a reward for our kids, but what most Australians don't realise is that every time they indulge their children with a chocolate snack, they could be unwittingly supporting the enslavement of thousands of abused children in West Africa.

The world's largest cocoa producers - the Ivory Coast and Ghana - have been found guilty by the United Nations and US Congress of exporting cocoa made by trafficked and enslaved children.

It is estimated more than 100,000 children work in the Ivory Coast's cocoa industry under "the worst forms of child labor," and that about 10,000 are slaves.

As the Ivory Coast produces 43 per cent of the world's cocoa, it is likely almost half the chocolate products sold in Australia could be linked to child slavery.

In the last financial year, Victorian chocolate manufacturers alone imported 3 million kilograms of Ivory Coast cocoa paste.

The Confectionary Manufacturers Association - of which Nestle, Cadbury Schweppes and Mars Confectionery are members - cannot confirm if chocolate sold here has passed through the hands of child slaves. But they can offer no guarantees that the chocolate coating Australia's three biggest-selling bars - Cherry Ripe, Kit Kat and Mars - does not contain slave-tainted cocoa.

Association spokesman David Greenwood said it was notoriously difficult to identify children held as slaves or bonded workers because most plantations were family businesses in which children have traditionally laboured alongside their parents.

Adding to the confusion were large numbers of children moving to the Ivory Coast to escape the desperate poverty in neighbouring Mali, he said.

But the Salvation Army's anti-slavery co-ordinator, social justice director Captain Danielle Strickland, says this approach is not good enough. She believes manufacturers have a responsibility to urgently find out who produces their cocoa.

"Given that Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) produces 43 per cent of the world's cocoa you could say there is a 43 per cent chance your favourite chocolate bar has some beans produced by child slaves," she said.

"There is no doubt the issue is complex, but if you are producing something you have a responsibility to find out what you are buying."

The Australian Fair Trade Association and welfare organisations such as Oxfam and World Vision also want Australian chocolate lovers to start thinking about the suffering behind the indulgent treat.

Australians are the world's fourth highest consumers of chocolate, gobbling down an average 10 Easter eggs and between nine and 11 kilograms of chocolate per person a year.

But in the Ivory Coast, farmers earn less for a kilo of cocoa beans than we pay for a Snickers bar.

"Chocolate is the perfect case study for urban awareness of our connection to food producers," said Anne Lanyon, co-ordinator of the Columban Centre for Peace, Ecology and Justice, which promotes consumer awareness to schoolchildren. "It is our responsibility to be aware."

Australian Bureau of Statistics and Customs documents confirm that Australians are among the world's biggest consumers of Ivory Coast and Ghanaian-based chocolate directly imported as cocoa beans, paste, powder, butter and liquor. Additional millions of dollars worth of Ivory Coast, Ghanaian, other West African, Malaysian and Indonesian cocoa is imported via Singapore, the cocoa processing hub of South-East Asia.

In 2001, the international news agency Knight Ridder exposed the use of child slaves on Ivory Coast and Ghana cocoa farms.

It led the US Congress to draft legislation in which the chocolate manufacturing industry agreed to a voluntary protocol to end abusive and forced child labour on cocoa farms by July 2005. But little has changed, says the US-based International Labor Rights Fund.

"The cocoa companies trumpeted a few pilot programs, but continue to purchase and reap profits from child labour cocoa," the fund reports.

"These child workers labour for long, punishing hours, using dangerous tools and facing frequent exposure to dangerous pesticides as they travel great distances in the gruelling heat.

"Those who labour as slaves must also suffer frequent beatings and other cruel treatment."

A recent Pilot Labour Survey in Cocoa Production in Ghana found 2.47 million children aged between five and seven are being used in economic activities across 600,000 small farming communities.

But solving the issue of child slavery will not be simple, according to Mr Greenwood. "(Slavery) is a very emotive issue, so there is a perception that everybody is in an abusive situation," he said.

"It is a matter of a few thousand slaves - which is abhorrent and should not exist - but that is on a scale of 1.5 to 2 million farms.

"Boycotts will not help anybody. Hand-outs to people without change will achieve nothing."

International chocolate manufacturers have pledged to introduce a form of approved labour certification for cocoa farmers from mid-2008.

The Ivory Coast Government has pledged to reform its cocoa sector before the end of March 2008 and last month froze the bank account of the Coffee and Cocoa Farmers' Development Fund, citing corruption and embezzlement of money meant for growers.

peoples.

Bit of a nip in the air this mornin.

Yeah hey, me thinks me spoke 2 soon re sleep in me last post… since doin somethin 2 me back I’ve bean sleepin in 2 hour stints… wakein in pain… havein Voltaren Emulgel rubbed in… stayin focused 4 an hour then layin down 4 a bit & sleepin 4 a cupla hours & it goes on & on.

We have Jaz and Nic this mornin az well az this arvo due 2 their other granparents B’n in Sydney 4 Poppy Michaels knee surgery… GOOD LUCK Mick.

Okie dokie gotta go take me mornin meds…

I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.
--Isaac Asimov

1stly

peoples & wat a luvly day it iz here in Parkes.

I can safely say now, me sleepin patterns back 2 normal… Yippee-ki-yay, M-F

Plans 4 the day – go with the flow BUT want 2 sort out the mess on top the box of stuff 2 sort.

Oh yeah… Sunday mornin when I turned 2 get somethin, I had that awful pain near me right kidney area… have no idea how I did it… am back on the Nurofen.

Whateva ya cross, whateva ya pain, God alwayz sends rainbows afta the rain.

fell asleep @ a decent hour & didn’t wake till jus B4 8ish…

4 the 1st time in a long time I had a cuppa with hubby whilst we had our mornin chat. I jus couldn’t help but ask 4 one when I heard the jug boilin. Only drank a 3rd & now remember Y I stopped drinkin it… makes the ole ticker beat way 2 fast which in turns haz me breathin heavy… 

Okie dokie off 2 check me mail @ Yahoo & knit some more Jingle Bells

gonna curl up & hopefully go 2 sleep...

@ least in Knittin & Crochet circles I am. Y... 'cause of all the unfinished items I have.

Yeah hey, I useta think there waz somethin wrong with me 'cause I hadn't finished this, that & the other.

Afta readin the posts from others in me Yahoo Knittin & Crochet groups they all have 'em & they R referred 2 az UFO's -(UnFinished Ojects)...

I can’t believe it…

I fell asleep last night B4 midnight & woke @ 6.30 this mornin…

Now lets cross all things crossable I will do the same 2night.

Wat eva U do **DO NOT** use Mozilla Firefox bowser when postin 2 ya BigPond BigBlog otherwize U will end up with MULTIPLE posts.

I jus deleted 14 xtra posts 4 the last post usein it.

Internet Explorer iz OK.

AFTER THE DELUGE
BATTLE OF THE BRAVE
BROKEN BRIDGES
THE CAVE
CONNERS' WAR
DANTE'S COVE 2
DARK PORTALS THE CHRONICLES OF VIDOCQ
THE JACKET
THE LIBRARIAN: QUEST FOR THE SPEAR
MEMORY

Do U watch it!!???

I useta tune in evree day way back BUT when I waz in Bloomfield they had a rule NO TV’s on when the Soaps were on & when I came home I jus neva got back in2 it.

These dayz when I click on the TV 2 watch the newz on TEN I’ll watch the tail end of it.

I jus had 2 put it on record that I reckon this new Rick-(Kyle Lowder) iz fugly…

Here B a pic of him & Pheobe-( Mackenzie Mauzy) when they filmed in Sydney… one of the betta shots of him…

All the other times I’ve C’n him they R indoor shots… he really should have a word 2 the camera people.

I've read evree episode & am up 2 speed with wats goin on here at TV.com with the latest Episode bein #5180.

Okie dokie that’s my BITCH 4 the day.

peoples… am feelin a lot betta than last night when I finally wound down, tried 2 get comfortable & go 2 sleep… waz extremely emotional… feelin sorry 4 meself, scared & wishin oh so many things… am still a bit sooky…

Anywayz movin on 2 wat this post iz ‘bout...

This piece…

turns in2 this…

I used Carnival 8ply & 4mm needles.

Tis 6.5cm long from top 2 bottom not includin the loop.

The 1st one I made went home with Nicayden & Jazlyn yesterday arvo.

I wanna make a whole heap of ‘em in different colours & sizes 4 our gunya-(home), our darlin daughts & our sons gunyas-(homes).

Tis easy peasy… luv it  luv it  luv it

& where did I get the destructions from… HERE

THANK U Debbie McGrath.

Aussie Jingle Bells
Brought to you by Jaybee's Entertainment!

Dashing through the bush
In a rusty Holden Ute
Kicking up the dust
Esky in the boot
Kelpie by my side
Singing Christmas songs
It's summer time and I am in
My singlet, shorts & thongs

CHORUS:

OH, JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS
JINGLE ALL THE WAY
CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA
ON A SCORCHING SUMMER'S DAY
JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS
CHRISTMAS TIME IS BEAUT
OH WHAT FUN IT IS TO RIDE
IN A RUSTY HOLDEN UTE

Engine's getting hot
Dodge the kangaroos
Swaggy climbs aboard
He is welcome too
All the family is there
Sitting by the pool
Christmas day, the Aussie way
By the barbecue!

CHORUS

Come the afternoon
Grandpa has a doze
The kids and uncle Bruce
Are swimming in their clothes
The time comes round to go
We take a family snap
Then pack the car and all shoot through
Before the washing up

CHORUS

by THIS MOB

Oh & can’t leave without postin a pic of the Bell me foster Dad Francis bought me on one of hiz trips back 2 Oz from hiz hometown in Switzerland...

MORNING
600mg Potassium on EMPTY TUM x1
CILEX 250mg Anti-biotic x1
40mg Uremide x1
500mg Diaformin x3
30mg Diamicron x2
600mg Calcium x1
5mg Prednisone x1
MS Contin 5mg x1
Fish Oil 1000mg Omega3 x1

MIDDAY
40mg Uremide x1

AFTERNOON
600mg Potassium on EMPTY TUM x1
200mg Seroquel x1
MS Contin 5mg x1
500mg Diaformin x3

EVENING
CILEX 250mg Anti-biotic x1
500mg Magnesium x2
200mg Seroquel x2

The Uremide iz 2 reduce the fluid in me Lungs.

Potassium iz 2 replace wat the Uremide takes.

Diaformin & Diamicron R 4 me Type2 Diabetes.

Calcium 4 me bones & the damage from takein high doses of Prednisone.

I take the small dose of Prednisone 2 help increase me appetite.

MS Contin 5mg iz a slow release Morphine 4 the pain.

Magnesium 2 stop leg cramps.

Seroquel 4 me Paranoid Schizophrenia.

Fish Oil 1000mg Omega3 cause evree one syaz it’s good 4 ya & I reckon Y the  ‘ell not.

Oh yeah... I am... R U a...

I found a leak in the tubin of the nasel oxygen cannula.
NOW I know Y I’ve felt sorta funny the past cupla dayz!!

I’m currently on 2.5

On Monday we got a letter from the Home Respiratory Dept in Bathurst, who finance anyone in the Greater Western Area Health Service – NSW HEALTH - 2 say that due 2 the recent Statewide tender 2 Public Health Departments, Air Liquide Pty Ltd will no longer B the suppiler of our Home Oxygen. BOC Gases will now B doin it. Hope they’re az good az Air Liquide waz…

I am... R U a

kogo is now its third year of operation. Our aim is to knit warm winter scarves and beanies for those in need. This year we will be distributing garments to children in women's refuges and also to those experiencing homelessness. These hand knitted items not only provide physical warmth but also emotional warmth because they show that the community cares.

Australian Country Spinners has given us a generous donation of wool and we are now looking for helpers to knit these items.

Here is an update of our distribution so far - over 1400 items- and winter hasn't even started!

200 beanies and scarves to indigeous children in Arnhem land
120 beanies to "Life Gets Better Camps" for children who are experiencing extreme grief through family circumstances
160 beanies to the children in women's refuges
120 beanies and scarves to the vendors of The Big Issue- these are long term unemployed or homeless
170 beanies and 80 scarves to Open Family
170 beanies and 70 scarves to The Salvation Army

To find out how to participate in this project, please look up our website:

http://www.knitonegiveone.org

I’ve registered 4 Updates & 2 B a Volunteer Knitter. Can’t wait 2 get started.

I got the link 4 this from the...

Cleckheaton Australian Hand Knitting Yarns website in the News section:

http://www.cleckheaton.biz/news/html/kogo.htm

Jus checked me mail @ Hotmail & this waz there…

Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:59:09 +1100
From: contact_kogo@yahoo.com.au
Subject: Re: Volunteer Knitters who live outside metropolitan Melbourne...
To: kirkys-world@hotmail.com

Hi Kirky,

Thank you for your inquiry but we are no longer distributing wool this year as the project finished at the end of August. I would be happy to contact you when we start again next year (at the beginning of March) or alternately if you are happy to knit with your own yarn, you could get a head start for next year!

Regards,
Ros

1st thing in the New Year I will start…

4 me 1st of the Knitted Jumpers 4 New Born African AIDS Babies

The one I had started on, I flucked up on the sleeves & neck bit.

Okie dokie gonna grab hubby’s didge camera & try & take a pic of it az it iz now…

When I turned the camera on nuffin happened… didn’t know where the spare batteries were & hubby wazn’t feelin 2 good last night-(he had wat the sons luv had) sooo I waited till 2day & he put the batteries in… the pics I took were shockers- very glarey – this B one of the ones hubby took…

That blue & white round thingy @ the end of the needle iz 4 countin Rows & or Stitches… I’d B lost without it… I find usein it as well az writin it down makes it stick in me head betta & longer.

tis a B-U-T-E-F-U-L day here in sunny ole Parkes.

Hubby woke me jus B4 9ish when he had 2 go out.

B4 he left Howie & young Jade turned up. He made Howie a cuppa & Howie came in & sat on the bed yarnin.

Afta I’d woken up properly, I grabbed me pill bag & got all 12 of me mornin tablets out. Howie giggled sayin **Oh Aunt, U mean U haveta take all of them???** I jus rolled me eyes & nodded me head sayin YEP.

He’d bought round a Laptop that waz given 2 Janet, 4 Hubby 2 have a look @.

Then Janet & the girls turned up. Had her in the kitchen makein coffee 4 us & drinks 4 the kids. They all left not long ago.

The son’s luv texted 2 say Gage iz 7months old 2day. Time sure does fly.

When hubby waz out he checked our Lotto numbers 4 Saturdayz draw… we won $29.65.

Hubby & Stu have jus gone 2 drop off pics of this car...

Yeah hey, the son iz home sick. He's got wat hiz luv had. GOD BLESS ya son... hope U feel betta real soon. 

Okie dokie gotta go check me mail @ Yahoo.

it's bean a long full day & this lil black duck iz buggard…