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  • Something funny in the state of Denmark today (for those that know what that means) I have been cut off while reading e. mails could not get this to download for ages, I think I spent a long time reading all the e/mails …

  • Kept off the phone all day didn't sell a darn thing I think credit cards have killed the second hand market place Still I have decided I don't want to sell half of it now and we are still not settled with scooters yet I …

  • Just a quick hello as I must keep off phone as I have a lot of gear advertised, don't know whether I will get any calls but you never know trying to clear lounge a bit to make room for scooter and eventually my wheelchai…

  • Well I finished my story for their medical stories, right from my fall ,to my last visit to surgeon, I took a scan of part of my X ray, so thought you all, might like to see what is in my leg/hip even the pin marks show.…

  • Thank you to all commentators. I will not stay long, as I am typing a true story hoping a magazine will accept it, I like my moments of glory, I feel I haven't time to get really famous but every litle bit helps me grow …

  • Well here I am, calmed down as usual, it is not often I stay angry for long, not like my daughter Paula, she can go for weeks not speaking to her husband, when I have made mine squirm a bit, I always speak quickly, and h…

  • Well I have been to the Hospital the specialist is such a big head he said "I don't like being told what to do I am the specialist" so I screamed back at him "Well don't blame me I am just telling you what my doctor told…

  • This was my invitation to Hove England. Thought it was quite colourful. Being that I am over here I am surprised they bothered to invite me. If I don't hear in a few days it will mean I am not short listed. Can't even re…

  • Picture on left unusual to have a cockatoo come down for bread this was at last place. Here we have more variety of birds but no Cockatoos which is just as well as they make an awful noise en-masse. Now if you are a Libr…

  • I was playing with my paint section never dreaming it would come down as it was bitmap. Just my style of painting except you can't seem to mix colours in paint ,so a bit restricted. Cheers with a laugh, and my we all nee…

  • Well Matt and I are now the proud owners of a scooter each similiar to the above but the latest models, ours have a small basket on front and a bag for documents on the back. Although top speed is only about 6 kilometer…

  • All Love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Cheers Portia

  • I have delayed coming on as I had to go out today, then I got interested in a film and then the war pictures started. As they keep showing the faces of the captured men and women of the USA forces being questioned, and t…

  • I wish !!! I wonder how many times people say that. I wish I was still that young 20 year old at the left. Knowing what I do now, and changing my life completely. Sadly I believe in Fate. I think we are put here by somet…

  • No I have not got many now. I held several auctions and am left with a few trios,(Matching plates,cups and saucers) a few ornamental plates and a few odds and ends plus my Wooden puppet from Jakarta and my large leopard.…

  • Have scanned pics but forgotten to add them to pictures. I expect you are all asleep by now or waking up. shall try and visit for now Cheers Portia Some of what I was lumbered with when I started collecting, I was down…

  • Alright you have persuaded me I will be back later I have to do some scanning I have used all my photos up and I won't bore you again with ones already seen. I have decided not to look at our T.V. war programs, then I wi…

  • I am so enraged by some remarks on Xanga ,that I am too afraid to post anything or answer anyone for fear of what I say will offend. So all I will say is, I am against this senseless war which could with patience and los…

  • This was the one I was trying for yestetrday of my Mum, Ronald aged 8, and me newly born. Notice she has had her hair cut short after the baby one with Ron, and more modern clothing, 1923 that was .That one of my brother…

  • My brother Ronald who was 8 years older than me bet he hated it when I was born. We really only got to know each other after the war then we became good friends. I love these old photos will put the one of us both on h…

  • No nasty thoughts today just a few symbols to make your day feel happy. love Marj/Portia

  • The person in pink is me walking along Brisbane shopping mall a small place full of interesting small shops. We spent several hours buying a camera ,chose one we liked, then had to find our way up and down streets tryin…

  • Hello, all Thanks for all the comments. I see the majority agreed with me, a couple of Americans who cannot see that it is better to wait and get U.N. sanction but that is their perogative which I respect. Seems MSB as …

  • I listen to Bush on our T.V. Live, and nothing will come up on Xanga. I am speechless at the Man's effrontery to stand there so glib. I would like to see all these politicians in the front line, not hidden in bunkers in …

  • Canterbury Cathedral England Portia really is the last one as I cannot get an Edinburgh street to download.

  • Hi! friends very tired been out all day, shopping and looking at electric wheelchairs and scooters at the independent centre where you look but cannot buy .Matt and I have decided what we want now, and on Thusday after a…

  • Polzeath, Cornwall. son had been fishing, while we had a drink in a pub. Not sure I have spelt the place correctly but it was a lovely little spot. Trying to get a picture of top of Table Mountain usually it was covered…

  • Nothing to report life is still the same no phone calls Yes nancy I can give the projector away but no one unless like me they have a lot of of slides want one as people put things onto tape and discs these days. I think…

  • Not one phone call all day, so dealers next thing, then give away if they don't offer enough. I am trying to make room, have a useless divan 6ft long which takes up too much room plus a 34cm remote T.V. as Matt bought a …

  • Saturday Morning 9.50 must get off phone, have paying advert, in local paper no one will be able to get through to me. See you all later.Cheers Portia

  • This is Framazz's go at making my tattered photo better, I think she succeeded. I wonder why I looked so miserable then, had probably just been to cinema and seen 'Camille' or something like that, and thought I could loo…

  • I feel I am being bogged down by Xanga ,so I have spent an hour entering some new venues ,ones to make me Famous .I don't think Xanga will,although I shall still keep in touch with my friends on here. This is a photo of…

  • While I am on the Oldies I have here my Mother-in-law in her back garden with Angela, Gillian who alwaya hated her photo taken and Paula, a Clearer picture of MIL is on right she was a lovely woman although she did spoil…

  • This is one of the few tattered pictures I have of myself aged a gawky 14 with my Mum right, Dad and sister-in-law behind me. It is lovely to see my parents together ,my Mother always being so ill in hospital so often. S…

  • Durban Countryside A Durban Street. Having paidf to put these rotten slides on a disc. I am determoned to eventually show all 22 of them, have done a few, much to my readers disgust although you try to be polite. What a…

  • Last Motor Cycle before cars Above a Chrysler Centura below a Ford Fairmont Falcon our last car but there were many in between. Now Matt daren't drive after his stroke which is nearly 2 years ago. we have to taxi everyw…

  • I see my photo of me taken about 4 years ago is up now on left. I never know which one it will be, as I have called all mine Marj something, so they could be from long ago or fairly recent but all before I fell and becam…

  • Sorry folks cannot comment today. I think my day out upset me, and I ate too much after so little ,and at 7.00.pm last night began to vomit and when that was over about 11pm I had atrocious diarrheao. Then at 2,27am I to…

  • Went out today was out for the longest time yet. Hired a wheel chair and Matt pushed me until we got to a large supermarket, then I had to wheel myself with the piece on the wheel, blooming hard, my poor thumb joints are…

  • This was the sex street in Copenhagen, Denmark. It went for ages Nick )son) and I walked along the middle. Matt being more nosey had a good look at all the shops and sideshows. It was very near the Tivoli Gardens but as …

  • This one is definitely just outside of Lisbon, Portugal and is a monument to dead sailors. Right opposite is a magnificent Carhedral ,the best I ever saw ,although Toledo in Spain also had a good one. I have one more of …

  • Sunday again Motor racing in Melbourne not my cup of tea, just watching cars go round and round when it was in adelaide our road cxircuit made it more interesting. Coming on here every day makes it harder to find topics …

  • Sunday again Motor racing in Melbourne not my cup of tea, just watching cars go round and round when it was in adelaide our road cxircuit made it more interesting. Coming on here every day makes it harder to find topics …

  • This is one of the quieter prettier places in Spain called Tossa de Mar. We had to go down a steep road to get to it and also to leave it. We much preferred it to the usual crowded South, where mainly English tourists us…

  • Sunny Ron has posted again. Please visit him to encourage him to keep it up. Whoops sorry I mean the writing. Cheers Portia. Have you seen these bluebells at Warwick Ron, I love Bluebell fields. P again

  • This was me at Widdicombe, Devon. Famous for its Fair. No fair while I was there but a choir was practising in the local Pub. There were a few Novelty shops. I didn't buy anything with Widdicombe on it. But my dear Aunty…

  • Yet once again no pictires will down load. I just can't understand why one will come up and then nothing, why on earth can't xanga get it right.My scanner will be wasted if I can't put anything on when I want to, that's …

  • I have been sorting out all my old stories to re submit where they were not wanted, and came across a whole heap of letters from Magazines, reminding me of prizes I won, and money I earned. Since joining Xanga I have …

  • THE MAGICAL AIR There is magic in the air, Wondrous feelings are emanating From all around, those who have care. Coming forth, weariness, pain, vacating The coldness their bodies have made. Going into the Ozone, fi…

  • Well I have deleted the other 3 that was obviously Xanga, me trying to get pictures uploaded, and they printed my message 4 times, what doozies they are at times. Still better more, than nothing. I will see what the pict…

  • I see my left picture is now poppies, which makes me think of a poem we used to say at school. " In Flanders fields the poppies grow, between the crosses row upon row". I can't remember the rest but that is obviously why…

  • I have just had a load of groceries delivered. I am sure the girls who work in these stores are illiterate. I specified exactly what I wanted and said don't send if you haven't got it. So up comes the woman they charge $…

  • This was us in 1973 staying at my Brothers House in Wimborne, Dorset. From left Brother Ron, Son Nick,Sister-in-law Trudy, Son-in-law Jeffrey, Daughter Gillian, Matt, front Rachel then 5 , Ben 3 . Now grown up and Rache…

  • Biarritz Beach France The beach at Malaga Spain.is below, mainly American tourist here. Had to pay to sit on beach. I have downloaDED SOME PICS BUT SOMETHING NOT QUITE RIGHT SO WILL HAVE TO DO THEM AGAIN MAKING THIS THE…

  • To those of you who used to post to Aussie Angel she is now back on line but she was away so long people haven't tried lately. I am off for my eye test soon then I will be back with my new pics I can't wait. See you late…

  • The little boy on the left is an early picture of my only Busby Grandson Kym. when he was quite young. I really don't know how old he is at the moment with 12 it is hard to keep track but he is engaged to a girl we haven…

  • No muse the one in the hat is Gillian daughter no2.I am at back left and feeling very sick at that moment in time. The yellow trees are wild Frangipani and the red, Bottle brush, this was our front two houses ago. Bo…

  • This is my family at Portland Bill on the South Coast of England. It was Paula's 10th birthday and soon after we all were sick we had treated us all to cream cakes and they must have been off, so we all remember Paula's …

  • This is thr end of the roses which my husband grew when we had a larger back garden. We had all roses they looked a picture. Adelaide is a good place for rooses Cheers Portia

  • Roses may be flowering in Picardy but there is one rose that will always remain in my heart Cheers Portia

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