Tootsie55: Tootsie55 is closing should be gone already.


Tootsie55: Ah well looks like I wasted a heap of funny money again.


Tootsie55: I changed me(my) mind!


Tootsie55: Many thanks to a very dear, longtime FS friend and great writer form hi9s kindness in donating to Tootsie55 helping us promote her one and only book on this site. Thanks mate. We are working to further edit and improve and get it up for those of you who wanted to know more about Australia. Thanks dear Bro in the Lord for your great help.
    Brett Matthew West: You are welcome. That is what FanStory is all about. Helping each other out. Merry Christmas. -


Tootsie55: Two more chapters of "Our Trip Book" are up for all you folks lamenting Sankey's lack of details of Australian trips...more pictures added!


Tootsie55: Tom tells me Tootsie55 runs out on January 20th, 2016. If you wanted to have a look at Our Trip book and have not done so I suggest you get to it as it is quite big. Thanks to all the friends who have given some great reviews for Louise's writing. Merry Christmas and happy New Year.


Tootsie55: Tootsie55 is going 'bye byes' soon., It was great in here for a long time but sadly we see the need to move on.
    mrsmajor: Well, the door will always be open, come on back, whenever you want!
    Take Care! -


Tootsie55: Our Trips book is complete. We will, at a later date put it up for a complete Book review. Thanks for all your support, everyone.


Tootsie55: As we come to the end of Our Trip Book an edit has been done to the Introduction. We have recommended to all reviewers that it was a good idea to come back to the start. So here we are with some slight additions. Only one more chapter to go at the end.


Tootsie55: Sometimes missing out on Rewards for reviews. Anyone else the same?


Tootsie55: After a lot of pain and angst and frustration finally discovered why the URL's I was including in Author notes would not work. It is imperative that all HTML commands be complete with nothing left out or they just will not work. Apologies to the more expert in these things. Also thanks to Tom for his patience. I had to find the error myself of course.


Tootsie55: Chapters 39 and 40 of 'Our Trips' Book have now gone up. Thanks to my hubby for his Promotion, editing and photos added.


Tootsie55: Chapter 38 of my 'Our Trips' book has just gone up. A final trip to South Australia, with some sadness and nostalgia, but not the end of the book yet. Hope you will enjoy and thanks to my hubby, Sankey for all his help.


Tootsie55: Chapter 37 of Our Trips book is now up for reviewing. Hope you will all get in on it.


Tootsie55: As promised I finally got 2 more chapters of our Travels in Australia up for your reading and review just now!


Tootsie55: Just letting you all know 2 more chapters of "Our Trips" Book are getting ready for your interest SOON!


Tootsie55: Chapters 33 and 34 of my "Our Trips" Book are now up for reviewing folks. Thanks for all your support.


Tootsie55: Another chapter has gone up in "Our Trips" book, today. Thanls tpo the first 2 reviews I have received. Another chapter of the book is hopefully going up today or tomorrow.


Tootsie55: Hey everyone. We got the last chapter up today in Our Trip Book of our big 3 chapter trip to Central Queensland of 2008 in Australia. The last two still have reviewing rewards on them if interested to read and comment.


Tootsie55: Another chapter of "Our Trips" Chapter 28, our 2007 trip is up. We had major renovations here in 2006, no no trips for that year. Sorry so long getting this on.


Tootsie55: Latest Chapter 27 of "Our Trips" now up on Tootsie55's Portfolio. Corrections done on last one as well.


Tootsie55: Second try! Seems all the Rednecks, Coonasses, Rebels and Yanks can't get it when we Down Under Aussies write Pies we mean MEAT pies not Fruit mince pies. Poor old Jay Squires reviewed our Chapter 26 of "Our Trips" book and was running to the potty for bombs or Number 2's over the much mentioned Pies. Seems no one "Up over" knows the great old song from Australia " Football, Meat PIes, kangaroos and Holden Cars!" Seems I have to put a note in my book about our MEAT PIES!
    Annette Gulliver: Hi Tootsie. I'm a fellow Aussie (and a Queenslander), and I know how you feel. I'm afraid a lot of people in the USA don't quite get our Aussie slang. Best thing to do is to explain our sayings in the authors notes. I find a lot of words are spelt differenty as well, but I won't change them to the way they spell. I love Pie and Peas, especially Yatala Pies.

    cheers
    Annette Gulliver -
    bizzygirl: Hi Tootsie55. I have some friends who are Aussie and the easiest thing to do if you don't understand something is ask. They are very generous with their explanations. I am a Hillbilly(Michigan potato farmer) Blessings on you and I am going to look for your work. I did not know pies in Aussie land were meat pies either. Thanks for the educational note. What a great world it would be if everyone was pleasantly curious rather than vocally mean. G'Day! Bizzygirl -
    Donya Quijote: Well, as an American who teaches foreign language to other Americans, I can tell you that for some if it ain't American it's a foreign language. So, if you got a handy list of good ole Aussie-isms drop them gems into my box. I've got a good long list of Britishism already. Looking for some good Canadianese and the other unique phrases from other Anglish (I mean English) speaking places. My students always try to convince me that they are experts when it comes to English and I retort with there IS a lot more to learn about English and break out these lists of words and phrases from the Anglophile world. We have a grand ole time. Before the exercise few tell me they want to visit these places, but when all has been said and learned, more of them announce their intentions of trying those words and phrases out when they get to England or Australia. All I ask is that you keep them lists clean. I teach 13 year olds. Of course, some of the things they say could make an old salt blush. Thanks a bunch.... -


Tootsie55: Chapter 26 of Our Trips has now gone up for review.


Tootsie55: Well folks Geoff (sankey's) main computer is going away for a few days. So can't add anymore chapters of my trip stories sorry. See you on the Mobile or Louise's Lap top.


Tootsie55: I have edited the pictures on the 2002 trip to Queensland. Reason being, we mention some of the events in the 2004 trip coming up related to those particular pictures. Thought better to remove them. We did no trips in 2003, as we had a "Discipleship" Course on at church that pretty much took up all of the time we normally use for our holiday trips.


Tootsie55: I have edited the pictures on the 2002 trip to Queensland. Reason being, we mention some of the events in the 2004 trip coming up relat4ed to those particular pictures. Thought better to remove them. We did no trips in 2003, as we had a "Discipleship" Course on at church that pretty much took up all of the time we normally use for our holiday trips.


Tootsie55: A comment has been added by sankey (my hubby) helping me with these stories. to the effect that all my holiday stories are just for your reading enjoyment (especially those of you who read his autobiography on sankey account and wanted to know more about our country Australia. As we are not looking for deep serious criticism with a view to publishing. Some will observe some chapter number changes. This was due to an error with one of the posts, now removed.


Tootsie55: Chapter 23 or the 4th part of our Across Australia trip is now up. We do plan to break them up a bit after you all get a look when we finish the last chapter some time today. This last chapter size is pretty good I think.


Tootsie55: Ok folks chapter 22 Part 3 of our big trip Across Australia in 2000 has just gone up hope you will all take a look. We had an FS foible on one of the other chapters that is now fixed. Had hoped to get another chapter up today see what happens.


Tootsie55: Chapters 1 and 2 of our Across Australia drive are now up for viewing. If you consider yourself a professional reviewer you may not like how I and my hubby have done the set up. There are 3 more chapters coming. 2 tomorrow and the last day after.


Tootsie55: I know many of you are waiting patiently for Louise's big Across Australia story. We will be starting to get it out real soon. Geoff has now finished all the proofreading and editing (you will probably find something else to point out hehe). It is FIVE Chapters after all 3,500 klms is a long way to cover plus some extra klms for some diversions. Only coming out as permitted by our illustrious Web Site Captain, Tom - 2 pages at a time. So hang on- just the pictures to sort out. WARNING some of the chapters are inordinately LARGE sorry.


Tootsie55: For anyone that missed them I just put up our two 1998 trips today. Only one photo sorry but it is a good one thanks to Fan Art.


Tootsie55: Central Australia 1996 Trip has just had a photo re-do. I did a much better job and changed some of the photos! Have a look I think you will be pleased.


Tootsie55: Hi everyone we are now up to Chapter 16 and our first 2 trips in retirement. Appreciating the wonderful support of both Aussies and overseas readers.


Tootsie55: Just to let you all know Chapter 13 of Our Trips Book went up today. It is about a trip to our National Capital, Canberra. Then down through country Victoria to the coast and the Great Ocean Road again and more.
I also did some editing to the previous story about our trip to Broken Hill.


Tootsie55: hey folks Chapter 12 of Our Trips is up for your reading enjoyment.


Tootsie55: thanks to all my new friends for reviewing parts 1 and 2 of our Perth Trip in 1993. I promise there is more coming even another Perth trip on 2000 a bit different.


Tootsie55: New chapter 3 has been inserted folks. Please check it out!


Tootsie55: Check out Chapter 6 of Our Trips I have added 3 links to three of the places in that story.


Tootsie55: It has been suggested we add links to more info on the places we visited check for the link to info on Forster or whatever in Author notes if they are not on they will be soon.


Tootsie55: Trip Number 6 I think it is; is now up for review folks. Hope you enjoy it. A lot longer this one through 3 states of Australia.


Tootsie55: Apologies for lack of detail on these travel diary stories. As I (via sankey)said in the first chapter you must remember I (Louise) am in a wheel chair and a lot of places are not accessible to wheelchair bound folks. If we could access special places we will write about them. One more thing: All of the pre 2000 stories are written from memory as I was not keeping a Diary until 2000.


Tootsie55: Hey everyone first of 2 posts up for today about our Anniversary trips to Forster. Short story this one. More excitment in next chapter we hope.


Tootsie55: Hi all now 2 Chapters of my first book now on. Trying to promote the second chapter from the other account of hubbies as he has all the Member dollars atm. (He wants to help me get off the ground.) Hubby is the 'ghost writer ' of all my hard work behind the scenes ok. Just a reminder this is NOT a Novel. It is just a record of all our trips in our country. Someone once said all our works are novels but I differ in that this is more like an Autobiography of our trips and is being written as it happened. mainly for the many FS friends who wanted more detail on our trips around our country.
    Selina Stambi: Popping in to say hello, Louise. Sankey sent me!! Welcome. -
    Tootsie55: Thanks Sis try to get more trips up soon. -