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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Joan on December 31, 2008, 04:15:52 AM
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I thought I would wish you all a good evening, whatever you're doing. Trevor and I are actually doing something this year. Instead of going to bed just after midnight, or sometimes before, we're off to Shark Island at the eastern end of Sydney Harbour, where we should get a great view of the fireworks, etc. Quite excited. So think of me at 1pm, UK time, saying hello to the New Year along with a few thousand other people on Sydney Harbour. If I see a camera, I'll wave.
Son John is off to Bondi to a party on the beach, and daughter Kate is going to Manly (on the harbour as well).
Have a great evening and Happy New Year when it comes to you!
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Sounds great Joan - hope you have fun.
New Year's day is always special for us at it is our oldest son's birthday - he will be 17.
It is supposed to be around -35c here so we will be staying home and doing what we have been doing since last Friday - eating too much; watching TV and DVDs and playing board games.
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Sounds great Joan - hope you have fun.
New Year's day is always special for us at it is our oldest son's birthday - he will be 17.
It is supposed to be around -35c here so we will be staying home and doing what we have been doing since last Friday - eating too much; watching TV and DVDs and playing board games.
Diane, it's -1c here and, apart from Christmas Day (spent with two sons, their OH and three grandchildren) and occasional forays to Sainsbury's for supplies, I've stayed indoors for the last fortnight.
I will be spending New Year's Eve 'baby-sitting', as I've done for the last 15 years - we have a great time, with a bottle of alcopop each, playing silly games, and I'm usually the first one to cave in and stagger off to bed. I'll miss it when they get too old for a 'minder'.
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I will be spending New Year's Eve 'baby-sitting', as I've done for the last 15 years - we have a great time, with a bottle of alcopop each, playing silly games, and I'm usually the first one to cave in and stagger off to bed. I'll miss it when they get too old for a 'minder'.
You have a bottle of alcopops EACH?
You seriously know how to party...!
Happy New Year to all my chums.
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Was the "s" after chums a mistake Peeps.
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Happy New Year to all.
Best wishes for 2009.
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Vulture - when your grandkids are too old for a minder - you can tell them that you need one - it will all work out in the end.
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Happy New Year to all.
Best wishes for 2009.
Cheers, Colin. May I echo that. Happy New Year to all on Sunday. I mean, and sundry.
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Yes, Happy New Year, folks.
As is now customary, I'd like to thank you all for your input over the past twelve months. It's been a joy, as always. 2009 will see the 7th anniversary of this site and I offer special thanks to Nige the Peepmaster for that. Sob. I can't go on.
Have a great 2009.
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Happy New Year from foggy Cheshire... here's to a fantastic 2009 for everyone!
:)
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Happy new year everyone.
You'd have thought one of you cartoonists would have designed a Happy New Year banner.
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Happy New Year Peeps!!! :D
May 2009 bring you all a Happy and Healthy and Prosperous year.
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Go on then happy new year to all my fiends.
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Happy 2009 to one and all - especially Peter's fiends!
May the grass never be greener over the hedge.
Shalom,
Tarks
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Happy New Year, everyone! Happy 17th birthday to your son, Diane! We had a great time, despite having to wait for two hours in the sun for the ferry to the island. The weather was fantastic - not a cloud in the sky and warm - edit, I just realised there are clouds in the photos - there were none when we were waiting for the ferry in the sun of course! We got a good spot looking right down the harbour to the bridge. There weren't too many people either - apparently I made a mistake when I said a few thousand would be on the harbour, they reckon it was up to 1.5 million. I appreciate having paid for our tickets to the island!
A few photos - mainly of sunset and dusk. The fireworks ones didn't come out well - should have taken a tripod.
(http://users.tpg.com.au/pdcs01/sharkislandnye2008025.jpg)
(http://users.tpg.com.au/pdcs01/sharkislandnye2008016.jpg)
(http://users.tpg.com.au/pdcs01/sharkislandnye2008022.jpg)
(http://users.tpg.com.au/pdcs01/sharkislandnye2008027.jpg)
(http://users.tpg.com.au/pdcs01/sharkislandnye2008029.jpg)
And the only half decent fireworks one, which isn't much chop ...
(http://users.tpg.com.au/pdcs01/sharkislandnye2008036.jpg)
There are more here, but pretty repetitive:
http://picasaweb.google.com/bjjktg/SydneyHarbourFromSharkIslandNewYearSEve2008# (http://picasaweb.google.com/bjjktg/SydneyHarbourFromSharkIslandNewYearSEve2008#)
We've had a hot day here today - not that I've seen all of it. I'm not used to going to bed at 3am!
Wishing you all the best for 2009,
Joan
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Fantastic photos, Joan!
Tarks, on a personal note, I was invited to D.D.'s house to take in the New Year----something I didn't fancy as I have to work today. Out of politeness, I made an appearance but left at 11 p.m. This makes me the only person in the world to have escaped this household before 3 a.m. without sampling 28 different malt whiskies. I am so proud.
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Fantastic photos, Joan!
Tarks, on a personal note, I was invited to D.D.'s house to take in the New Year----something I didn't fancy as I have to work today. Out of politeness, I made an appearance but left at 11 p.m. This makes me the only person in the world to have escaped this household before 3 a.m. without sampling 28 different malt whiskies. I am so proud.
.... and so sober!
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I spent most of today sleeping. I spent new year's eve at a friend's house.
Uli and Tracey are our great friends, we've known them since our kids were in playgroup together. My wife Mel had arranged for us to be at their house on New Years Eve for a barbie, but no-one told Uli, who had dismantled the barbie for cleaning, so we ordered in pizzas..
Uli had only just come back from work and was kanckered, but great host that he is, he got out the Guinness and schnapps (he's Swiss) and manfully did his best, but collapsed on the couch at about 10.30pm. We were watching TV at the time, both of us clutching a pint of Guinness (the girls were ooh-ing and aah-ing over baby photos in the kitchen) and I hadn't realised he'd dozed off. He then had one of those sleep "spasms" where you think you're falling, and splatted Guinness all over me.
Joan, those are great photos. I used to live in Jannali, and in 1995 we saw the bridge fireworks from the hill above Como railway station, 20 ks away. We even smelled the gunpowder! Fantastic memories.
Thanks to you all for 2008, I really enjoy this site, I wish you all a happy 2009.
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Happy new year everyone.
You'd have thought one of you cartoonists would have designed a Happy New Year banner.
Good idea!
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Love the photos Joan - especially the ones with the Moon in!
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Joan, I imagine that you must be very glad you decided to stay up for the New Year. It looks so lovely over there.
We spent the evening around at a neigbours with five families in total - just muchies and board games but it was nice.
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How cold is it with you, Diane, and has the moose returned? I know I keep going on about this but I miss the moose.
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Let it go, Roger. Moose are like that. If she was really interested she would have called.
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But she promoosed.
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:D :D :D :D :D :D
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But she promoosed.
Honestly! That's all you caribou... ..0
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It warmed up to -25c today but we still stayed home. It still feels cold and the windows have frost on them.
The moose only stay in the yard when the snow is high (like over two feet) - we have about 8" right now so they can still go and forage in the bush.
I think I am going to take down our decorations tomorrow - we had a live tree - our living room is on a slope with one end being two floors high so we had a 12' tree. We cut them down underneath power lines as the power company comes through every so many years and plows them all down anyway - it seems less like murder that way.
If I see any moose I will tell them that Roger was asking after them.
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It warmed up to -25c today but we still stayed home. It still feels cold and the windows have frost on them.
The moose only stay in the yard when the snow is high (like over two feet) - we have about 8" right now so they can still go and forage in the bush.
I think I am going to take down our decorations tomorrow - we had a live tree - our living room is on a slope with one end being two floors high so we had a 12' tree. We cut them down underneath power lines as the power company comes through every so many years and plows them all down anyway - it seems less like murder that way.
If I see any moose I will tell them that Roger was asking after them.
I think it is just one particular moose, Diane.........
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...and she's a very attractive female moose. There's nothing odd about Roger.
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Ooooh, lookee, it's my photo on the front page! Fame at last - well not for me, I suppose, and Sydney doesn't need any more, but anyway ...
Joan, those are great photos. I used to live in Jannali, and in 1995 we saw the bridge fireworks from the hill above Como railway station, 20 ks away. We even smelled the gunpowder! Fantastic memories.
Thanks to you all for 2008, I really enjoy this site, I wish you all a happy 2009.
Trevor used to climb on the roof of our house in French's Forest to watch the fireworks, Malc. I tried it one year, but wasn't too happy up there. We can hear the fireworks, and see the odd high one from here, but if we want to see them better, we have to go down to Mona Vale Road and down a short trail into Garigal National Park where you're standing on top of the hill and can see right down to Bondi. There's one for you Google Earthers.
Fantastic photos, Joan!
Tarks, on a personal note, I was invited to D.D.'s house to take in the New Year----something I didn't fancy as I have to work today. Out of politeness, I made an appearance but left at 11 p.m. This makes me the only person in the world to have escaped this household before 3 a.m. without sampling 28 different malt whiskies. I am so proud.
Oh, I feel slightly ill, Roger - haven't touched that bottle of Dalwhinnie, or any other whisky since my jetlag folly. Wonder when I'll be able to face it again. Well done, btw.
-25Celsius, Diane? OMG, I thought you meant Fahrenheit! I remember being in Washington when it was -17C and we couldn't go out very much because my friend had just had a baby and even if we wrapped him and his toddler brother up, their poor little faces turned blue with the cold. No wonder the moose are keeping warm in the bush. ;D
Love the photos Joan - especially the ones with the Moon in!
I didn't think it was going to come out in the photos, Tom. It was a lot bigger than that in real life. There was also a very bright planet next to it - some dispute as to whether it was Mercury or Venus, but it all looked very picturesque.
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Here's where you can see the night sky (http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/cities.html) above your city, Joan.
This Chart (http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/help/icons.html) shows the planet icons.
Uranus can clearly be seen alongside, but wouldn't be that bright, I'd have thought. Venus and Neptune are also close by, (relatively!)
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I must not take the cheap gag bait.
I must not take the cheap gag bait.
I must not take the cheap gag bait.
I must not....