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Hot Chocolate Anyone ?

Hot Chocolate Anyone ?

Hi All

There is a thread operating on the Lived Experience Forum under Night Shift where members who are having trouble sleeping for any reason give a bit of a shout-out, to see if there is anyone else sleepless and looking for company. It's been such a great thing, I thought I would start one over here too.

I have had the odd few nights where I have woken up on and off, and my kids have been having a bit of trouble some nights too, depending on what has happened during the day.

Being a carer can be lonely too, so if you are making an after-midnight cup of something hot, and wonder who else might be doing that too, maybe have a look-in here and see if anyone else is about.

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@Shaz51 @Adge

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Excellent, perfectly organised @Former-Member

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Hi @Former-Member 👋

Saw on another thread that you have popped by here .....

Feeling sleepy and just vegging this afternoon .....

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We just assisted one of these regal creatures who had exhausted itself trying to get through a window in our carport. It even let Mr D stroke it's back before it flew off.

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Trust the quiet afternoon refreshes you @Faith-and-Hope

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My grandma once declared that there were no convicts in our family, promoting her daughter in law (my Aunty) on a search into our family history just to prove her wrong. She was proved wrong and we learnt some cool things from the research. Always thought it was funny a Australian woman with an Irish Catholic background declaring we had no convicts 😂

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Having a convict past was thought of as being quite shameful in one era @Anna88, I think people now quite interested in finding out why a distant relative was sentenced to come to Aust.

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I had my neighbour over for a cup of tea, ginger wine, cheese, olives, crackers, & hommus dips this afternoon.

We're still taking it in turns to invite each other over, every few months.

We both seem to have cat behaviour issues, so we talked about that too.

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Evening Peoples. Been out most of the day- church, then a friend's place.

@PeppiPattyafter grocery shopping is a good cuppa time, but that's usually after our once every 2 weeks shopping trip, so that's a bit infrequent... 10 o'clock I'd be reluctant to do because he's self employed and usually getting into the swing of it by then. Bills are all on direct debit. Maybe we'll just have to set ourselves one morning a week as cuppa morning.

I've been poking around the internet looking into family history as well, partially spurred on by my sister and I taking posession of the family photos and documents, now that our parents are in aged care. Having full names, dates of births, deaths and marriages goes some way towards finding info.

For years we've known that a famous 1700's composer was a cousin of one ancestor, and I found out recently that another cousin of another ancestor founded one of Australia's well known wineries. They're on Mum's side. I'm pretty sure there's no convict history there because they were from a European country, and basically they all married their fellow countrymen/women.

Dad's side, I haven't found any convict history either. The ancestors I've tracked down were Irish and English, but appear to have come out around about the time of the gold rush. We've heard that one great-grandfather came to Australia from America, but haven't been able to find confirming information. I have found some interesting photos of another set of great grandparents, one of which included our paternal grandfather when he was a 6 year old boy. He died when I was about five, but the memories I've got of him are pretty good, so that was a lovely discovery. It's on a genealogy site that I'm not yet signed up to, so I've only seen it as a thumbnail. When I think I've got enough information to make it worthwhile, I might sign up for 3 months worth of access and get a look at the proper full sized version.

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Dearest @Smc

My mum doesn't like talking to me about the past, actually about anything so I will get that test done for ancestory.com.

When I bring up family stuff she gets pretty elusive but she tells my brothers stuff and I just might need to get that test done. I've got some pretty gutsy info on my Mum's parents......

Pretty exciting stuff that you have found! I would really enjoy reading how you are going on that actually....

We go shopping once per day, we try and make it $5 per meal....last week we found...wait for it......fish sausages! yay! I love love eating fish. Most of our bills are taken out of centrepay and I pay my oldest son 50 per week while he is going through a difficult time and church. Hubby's (Little Buddha) Dad gets a bit too because little Buddha, my husband keeps on borrowing money from him even though we don't need it........there is nothing I can do......I think he calls out of habit........what is it about that ???

Coffee's at cafes are needed but are time out for me. I like going to a cafe or to the beach and having a cuppa from the petrol station. Arlo, my dog runs around.

Oh by the way, someone told me in a shop that she did her whole family, all for free, she found a site called um.........I'll get back to you on that, I've got it written somewhere ..........

Thank you so kindly for the lovely message......

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