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[Margaret]

Hello.
My name is Margaret Lynette Sharp, and I'm an author from Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.
My husband and editor is Ronald Sharp, who is well known in the pipe organ world. He's the creator of the Grand Organ in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall; also the organs at Knox Grammar, Wollongong Town Hall, and Perth Concert Hall.
We live in my family home in an outer, leafy suburb; and have a (rescued) young Maltese female named Chicki Rose, and two blue budgies as pets. We enjoy listening to music, dancing and going out to picnic areas.
We both read extensively, and I love words and word games!:)

[Carol]

Hi Margaret, welcome to the fun and games.

[Margaret]

Hi Carol,

Thank you!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Welcome Margaret....good to have another Antipodean!

[Margaret]

Hello, Debbie and Gabi!

[Susan]

Greetings Margaret!

[Margaret]

Nice to meet you, Susan!:)

[Margaret]

Thanks for directions, Gabi! Do they have cafe latte and soft centered chocolates?

[Carol]

Margaret your refreshments are in the kitchen sink thread . Join us over there.

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

[Ken, Moderator]

Hi Margaret. Sorry I'm a bit late in the welcome, but I've been barnstorming New England the past few days. Sometimes I have to remind the sister states that I'm still around.

Anyway, I give you permission to misspell words in a God-Save-the-Queen kind of way. We are Brit Empire-friendly here (despite the "New" in my "England")...

[Margaret]

Hi Newengland, and thanks for the welcome. I have a deeply ingrained habit of spelling words the way I was taught, so your approval is appreciated.:) I'll happily forgive your other way of doing it.:)

[Ken, Moderator]

Happily? That's more than I get from most Canadians/Brits/Aussie/Kiwis/etc.

Does the sun never set on odd spelling?

[Margaret]

I can accept it fairly readily, provided it's still easily recognisable, and has general approval within its community.
I don't like incorrect spelling as a rule, but in some cases, correctness is simply a matter of point of view.

[Ken, Moderator]

It's easily recognizable all right!

[Margaret]

Yes. And my computer has a penchant for changing what I write into U.S.A. spelling.:)

[Margaret]

Yes. It just loves to overrule my intentions!

[Ruth]

When my daughter used to work for Grey Davis, former Governor of California, they used to abbreviate his name in office memos as GD.

Spellchek always insisted that was GOD.

[Margaret]

What did the Governor think of that?

[Ruth]

Margaret wrote: "What did the Governor think of that?"

Who knows?

[Margaret]

Only the Governor, and he's not saying....

[Margaret]

Gabi wrote: "She's one of us!"

:)

[Ken, Moderator]

Words. When they lived next door in our childhoods, we went over to ask if they could come out to play....

[Ken, Moderator]

It's a joke. Words, instead of people, as neighbors. As a kid, you knock at the door and ask, "Can Nouny (instead of, say, Johnny) come out and play?"

Jesu, must I kill everything with explanation. And you KNOW I don't take meds of any sort. Must be the problem...

[Ken, Moderator]

A fan of the Caterpillar, are you?

[Carol]

Gabi wrote: "Definitely, I suspect you need the occasional toke!"

No just mushrooms.

[Ken, Moderator]

Gabi in Wonderland.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Heehee!

[Mikki]

Welcome Margaret!Im also from Sydney originally but now live in Israel I also like music and spelling correctly that is Strine... What type of books do you write?

[Margaret]

Hello Mikki.
I generally write books of Short Stories and vignettes, set in Australia. Three of these volumes have been reviewed. I will put the link up to the book that has had the most reviews. Also, I have a book of short, semi-humorous articles about life through the eyes of a female, Australian baby boomer.
My husband Ron and I love music, both classical and modern. We like to go dancing to live music, and like The Bandits Band, a Sydney cover band who specialises in 50's to 80's music.

Do you miss Sydney?

[Margaret]

Here's the link:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I lived in Sydney for 7 years Margaret....both my children were born there after I married an Australian. Whereabouts in Sydney are you?

[Margaret]

Debbie wrote: "I lived in Sydney for 7 years Margaret....both my children were born there after I married an Australian. Whereabouts in Sydney are you?"

We're in the St.George district, close to the Georges River. It's nice and leafy. Sometimes, Ron drives us to beaches in the Botany Bay foreshores. Lovely.
Whereabouts are you?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I am a Kiwi and live back in NZ, but while in Sydney I lived in Rose Bay and (of course) Bondi!

[Margaret]

Gabi wrote: "I lived in the St George District all my life from the age of 3 until we moved to the Newcastle area in '98.

I have lived in Bexley, Mortdale and Peakhurst, my son lives in Lugarno.

Loved Bright..."

You know the area around where I live, then.
Ramsgate Baths are quite nice, and the dressing shed facilities are about to be upgraded. Looking forward to swimming there next summer.:)

[Ken, Moderator]

Next summer. Sounds funny... in July. POV is everything. Or Point of Hemisphere maybe...

[Margaret]

You're so right!
We've had a burst of spring weather here in Sydney over the last few days, but from tomorrow, it's back to the cold....

[Mel]

Hello Everyone!

My name is Melisa, but everyone calls me Mel, and I'm studying to become an high school English teacher here in my beloved Puerto Rico. I have a book reviewing blog (for PNR and UF books) and I'm also starting an English blog. I'm also an aspiring writer, but I'm concentrating on my degree at the moment. I work as an English and Spanish tutor at the university where I go to (you'd be surprise how many college students don't know how to write an essay in either language) and my native language is Spanish.

I came here today searching for a grammar group because I'm interested in creating a list of idiom and thought that this would be a great place to start. As I opened the group's page I realized that I had become a member on March, but I hadn't introduced myself yet.

[Mel]

Gabi wrote: "Hi Mel, welcome!
There are a lot of topics in this section for you to browse through, have you been checking them out?"

Thanks!

Not yet, I'll be going through the discussions to check them out.

[Mel]

Gabi wrote: "Good idea! You may find some of the answers to your questions - on the other hand, you may find completely useless information (seemingly to anybody) and wonder what that was all about!

We occasio..."

LOL that's ok, I love those conversations. Actually I'm looking to create a list of idioms in English and their Spanish equivalents, since I'll be teaching English as a second language, I think it'll be cool for the kids to see the comparisons. Especially when the wordings are very different, yet they mean the exact same thing.

[Carol]

Welcome , Mel. I hope you find this group useful.

[Mel]

Carol wrote: "Welcome , Mel. I hope you find this group useful."

Thanks

[Ken, Moderator]

Hi, Mel. Not sure if we have an idiom thread, but you can always make a new one if you want. We can be quite idiomatic when we want to -- just not in Spanish.

Also, your path looks much like the one I've traveled in life. I'm still a wayfarer, far from retirement (alas and alack).

[Margaret]

Gabi wrote: ""You know the area around where I live, then.
Ramsgate Baths are quite nice, and the dressing shed facilities are about to be upgraded. Looking forward to swimming there next summer.:)"

Do you mea..."

I mean the baths in the sea! The other ones have been replaced by a supermarket.
The water's still too cold for swimming, but give it a month.....:)

[Mel]

Newengland wrote: "Hi, Mel. Not sure if we have an idiom thread, but you can always make a new one if you want. We can be quite idiomatic when we want to -- just not in Spanish.

Also, your path looks much like the ..."

Thank you for the welcome, I'll be looking the threads to see if find one about idioms.

[Carol]

Welcome Alexander.

[Carol]

Hello Delaney and welcome .

[l]

Hi, I'm Lauren :D

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Oops! Welcome all you newbies:-). I am afraid the mods have been asleep on the job....back now!

[Min]

Ello ello. My name's Min. I'm a 20 year old neuroscience student from Canada. It's nice to meet you all! The main reason I joined this group is that I'm planning on reviewing some books and I wanted to catch up on my grammar. Sometimes I notice sentences in novels that I feel are incorrect or sound wrong to me, but I'm not always sure whether I'm right or not. I'm definitely not a grammar expert, so being able to ask my questions here sounds great. Hope to see everyone around!

[Ken, Moderator]

Ello, Min. We're not grammar experts either. But we play one on the Internet.

Welcome, and good luck with the reviews.