Folks from us to you, hope you have a happy and safe new year, we are off to Echuca until next Tuesady the 5th Jan 2010.

Have a good one.

Like Michael I'd like to wish everyone a happy and safe New Year, all the best for 2010.

No trip to Echuca is complete without a visit to the big camping shop there, not much they don't carry.

Where are you camping Michael, out at Christies Beach ?

pd

A big Happy New year every one!! Get amongst it. Stay safe and bring on 2010.

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Cheers
Jono

Happy New Year to all.

Lots of Potjie's in those shops at Echuca - hopefully the river got some of this rain we are having up here.

Happy new year everyone. I lift my glass to one & all.
Take care on the roads & here's to 2010


All the best
Skip [smiley=chris.gif]

& a Happy New Year from up here to you down there.

Carolyn, you have mentioned rain and I know you all need as much as you can get without flooding.  We've had reports up here about fires near Perth.

But for me, at this time of the year, rain is a crying [smiley=cry.gif] matter. Here we are already 10 days officially into winter and 3 out the next 7 days say rain.   & I'll grant you I'm not apt to go snowshoeing in a gale, but pleasure walks in rain @ 2' are also a bummer.

I sure hope the new year has  some white.

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Best wishes to everyone for the New Year....have fun, take care and if ya cant be good be good at it ;)

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all the best to you all for the coming year, and thanks for all your help with my questions

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All the best for 2010 everyone! Cheers to all and sundry and may the new year be everything you hope it will be! [smiley=party.gif]

Happy New Year peoples.  Gonna be a quiet one here  :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR to one and all  ;D ;D ;D

 will be quiet here to of to work we go  :'(

all the best Daryl

Just wondering what anybody is cooking in a black pot on New Year's Day? Or New Years Eve for that matter.
We have a family gathering at Lowood on New Years Day and plotting to do some cast iron catering.
Happy New Year to all COCIA members.

KD and Beryl

Nope, no cooking for me.  Did enough over Christmas.

We were in the car ont he way to our NYE party and the goodly other half started vomiting....  Now I am spending a quite nite at home, tending to her needs..  (she had best sleep now)

Sorry about the missus Rastas hopes she picks up quickly, lot of that going around I hear.

Sparky cooked his fish he caught yesterday and said it was great, the fridge and freezer are still full of food and this year we have no children, grandchildren or extras stopping the night.    
We are in our granny chairs, drinks in hand, t.v. one side, Sydney Skyline and Botany Bay on the other (wireless laptop of course :).  We could have gone out to parties but we are just soaking up the peace for the moment.

This year no neighbours home for two houses on either side so all is quiet.  The front is filling up with cars and people for the 9 p.m. fireworks but they usually pack up and go afterwards as its  quite windy with the noreasterly blowing and no shelter.  Some will come back at midnight and again leave after the fireworks.  A few fishing as they wait.

Only seems yesterday when we had our first New Year here in 2000 how time flies.

Best wishes to you all

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Happy New Year everyone, it is going to be a quiet night here as well, although the rain we are now getting is good.
Saltbush Lil do you think it is going to be one of those years. ;D
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Rastas000 wrote on Dec 31^st, 2009 at 6:22pm:

We were in the car ont he way to our NYE party and the goodly other half started vomiting....Now I am spending a quite nite at home, tending to her needs..(she had best sleep now)

Tending to your Pie Irons................
Just give her a book to read mate when she wakes up.
Happy New Year anyway Bob and Fiona.

KD n B

Please accept my blessings unto all for the turn of the calendar & trust the solstice has offered great joy & rejuvenation. I shall draw upon the last years challenges and building a positive foundation for next year. It is with sadness I reflect on the losses of last year. Sadness is mixed with the joy of meeting many of the ...challenges thrust my way. And I shall not let any sadness over-ride the positives of the year.

Above all, I am blessed to have a cadre of family, friends and colleagues who are the basis of support and thankfulness for the year passed, and in turn, the year approaching.

Remember to tell those you love that you do, and do so often, for I am oft reminded that sometimes we procrastinate, and that is the basis of deep regret.

I also think of my colleagues who have spent the holidays working away from their families to provide the mantle of protection to our communities.

And to all herein, I thanks for the interactions, smiles, giggles and downright gut busting guffaws this forum has offered in the last year.  Thanks heaps, and onto the future of COCIA Forum!!

Kingsthorpe David wrote on Dec 31^st, 2009 at 9:08pm:

Happy New Year anyway Bob and Fiona. KD n B

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Happy New Year to all my mates on the forum.
I hope that dreams are fulfilled for all of you.

Aart

poddy dodger wrote on Dec 31^st, 2009 at 5:51am:

Where are you camping Michael, out at Christies Beach ?

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Just got back home PD, hummmmm, yeah we camped ( camp site above), with the boys away in tassie, me and mum roughed it.

While I didn't have time on the way home to stop and snoop ( animals to pick up) I did identify some likely locations (shops and collectibles ) to be searched through, hoping to get back to these in the next couple of weeks, as they are all within 1.5 hrs of us. I will give the towns as a tempter, Rochester, Bendigo, Castlemaine. I have phone numbers.

I haven't cooked for a while, but I have a Turkey Hind-Quarter in the CO as I type.