Oh Gosh ... I need an Aussie's help!! I have been listening to an Aussie radio station here at work during the day (yeah, I'm homesick, okay?!) ... I have totally, and absolutely, fallen in love with a singer and Gosh darn HAVE to find a way to get her CD's. Can any Australian's on board help me out, please?? I absolutely ADORE Missy Higgins!! I have GOT TO get her CD's!! Now I did an Ebay search, and found the prices to be simply unacceptable - especially when combines with exorbitant Shipping rates - $35 for a fucking CD??? Nuh-uh .... Anyway - of any of our Aussies with a paypal account could help a desperate Swan out, I'd be deeply deeply and life longingly devoted and appreciative of it. I just love all of her music!! Gosh - I have to have it!! Please ... anyone???? SJ

What's the song's name SJ? If I find them I'll download them and send them to you in an e-mail!

Ahh Amy ... I love all of her songs ... Steer The Special Two Scar Are my current favs, but I love ALL of them!! She's incredible! I just played some of her songs from you tube to some people that work here, and they absolutely love her too!! he just HAS to release in North America! Noone I've played her music to has anything bad to say. ARGGGGHHHHHHHH I gotto get it. I have a friend who works for Warner - she's going to look into it, but with her being on a different label it'll be hard to get them... sighhhhh SJ

Steer The Special Two Scar I've downloaded those. I'll try to send them to you via E-mail. They're in mp3 format and I listen them with winamp.

GASP!!! Where did you find the downloads???!!!! IF they are MP3, they can go on my iPod!!! How about Ten Days Don't Ever This is how it goes Where I stood All for Believing Love ya forever!!! SJ So excited!!

Originally posted by SJ_SwanJun GASP!!! Where did you find the downloads???!!!! IF they are MP3, they can go on my iPod!!! How about Ten Days Don't Ever This is how it goes Where I stood All for Believing Love ya forever!!! SJ So excited!!

Yes, digital piracy . I love it! Now let's wait to attach them in the e-mail.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Thankee!!!! I am going to, also, bite the bullet and pay the $50 to get her CD shipped here from Australia - it'll take about a month to get here ... Sighhhh SJ

SJ, better download a peer to peer program like ares (sorry cep!) and get them for free!

www.Amazon.ca has her CDs listed, wouldn't that be one of the cheaper ways for you to get them? Canada Amazon Missy Higgins search

:raises brow: That looks like it would be a better plan. I checked on the HMV website and they wanted, like $32.99! BEFORE shipping! I nearly choked. God, I usually get my CD's for under $20 for a new release at Future Shop ... $33 feels pretty painful. $50 for ten songs ... Hmmm ... maybe I'll check my iTunes store instead and digitally purchase it .... I'll look into it more (it's currently distracting me from War angst for a bit) THanks! SJ

$10 on iTunes - will download her albums when I get home! $1 a song is just perfect for me! SJ

Missy Higgins! Shes the best! I love her music too. I have her album, Sounds of white. You should be able to get through Virgin online store. The whole album is great! ?She won the music awards last year for best new talent. She even sings with an Aussie Accent!

Sj, babe, you know if you need something from Aussie, all you have to do is e-mail me! And if you're a good Swannie, I may even send you tim tams for Christmas.....

Should have seen the packs of Tim tams in duty free! They can see the Aussies going overseas coming from a mile away with the amount you can by in one hit!

You can buy tim tams in the uk have brought them for my other half. There is also a shop over in london for aussies.hat somewhere.

I bet they are expensive firebird! My Eagle helped with a site when it was first being put together, that you buy all Aussie made stuff and have it shipped out to you. He worked with the guy who started it, the guy offered him a job to run it for him, but my Darling Husband decided to stay with Telstra because it was not enough money. I can't think of the name off hand at the moment, I will when I ask DH though... but it is still around and doing very well. I rememeber the meeting they had about it, and talking to the guy about it at the Friday night Telstra after work drinks... (I worked in the city then, and that is what you on a Friday night after work, I met all his work mates then, good times!)

The shop I am referring to is this one Homesick hamper company

THATS IT! I could not think of it for some reason! Nice to have someone on here at the same time as me! Wow they have a Kiwi shop now!

Tim Tams?! TIM TAMS!!! Oh, GOD!! About two months ago a girl here at work came back from an Aussie holiday and brought me a pack of Tim Tams ... I did my best to try and ration my intake to make them last ... And then ... Josh found them. I ate only two of them ... he destroyed the rest. I was mortified! And now. I am out of Vegemite (again ... sighhhh) ... I did find a nifty site called something like homesick aussie .com or something like that. Tee prices were actually pretty decent for their baskets. It's the shipping that's brutal. In some instances the cost was about three-times the cost of the basket. I couldn't stomach paying $100 for a handful of chocolates and a Woman's Day mag. I did browse the Arnott's site and considered paying the $50 for a case of Tim Tams .... I mean, Flash would let me ... But ... Sighhh I am such a cheapskate. I suppose that comes from working in a retail corporate office and actually seeing just how ridiculous mark-ups really are .... Anyhoo - I may get off my ass today and buy Missy's CD on iTunes ... But, yeah, if any of you Aussies are feeling pity for this little transplanted sheila, feel free to spoil me with yummies - LOL! I'll send over some maple syrup yummies!! SJ

you can also buy tim tams in tescos in the uk

oohhh 100% Maple syrup for my buttermilk pancakes! that could be a trade off worth considering mmmm Negotiations are underway!

Maple syrup is DA BOMB! Just remember to heat it on the stove - you get the best, yummy results when the syrup is hot. WE have a Sugar Maple here at work I have been eyeballing to put a little tap in to. I even asked Flash (my Tree Surgeon) when is the best time, blah blah. He - for some reason - wouldn't give up the instructions. Meanie ... SJ

ooohhh a coctail made from it???mmmm what would go best... Baileys goes with Everything almost...mmmmm You could put 30ml cream 30ml warm syrup 30ml port In a brandy glass garnished with mint leaves.(and... yes I used have cocktail parties!) see how that goes and get back to me!

Oh ... I will try that - and seeing you're an Aussie and have access to this stuff, let me give you a cocktail recipe.. 30ml Cadbury Creme liquer 30ml Kaluha 30ml Dark Creme De Cacao Blend with milk and icecream put it in a glass that you've dribbled chocolate sauce down... Sprinkle chocolate shavings on it. When I worked in the nightclub, we called it "Death by chocolate" ... It is like a chocolate milkshake - only with a butt-load of alcohol in it. I also have a massive list of shooter recipes, too. I loved working th bar!! SJ

oohhh I have had one similar to it! Death by Chocolate didn't last long here! Why I don't know...bad management! I have had liquor coffee tim tam explosions ....just let me melt here from the ecstasy of it..mmmmmmaaaaaa YUM! Ebony puts her hand on her forehead as she melts to the floor from the desire for it! P.S while your around SJ Amy needs a discussion thread for her fics...I think she is lost in clubhouse!

Oh honey - I am about to step in to a meeting. When I get out, I will jump in and help out my dear girl. Sorry ... I actually have to work today ... LOL SJ Oh and the tim tam explosion thingie. PLEASE send across some to this little swannie!! I gotto TRY THAT!!

Originally posted by SJ_SwanJun WE have a Sugar Maple here at work I have been eyeballing to put a little tap in to. I even asked Flash (my Tree Surgeon) when is the best time, blah blah. He - for some reason - wouldn't give up the instructions. Meanie ... SJ

I use to help my parents tap their maple trees SJ. Unfortunately one tree is probably not enough to make maple syrup. The boil down of sap to syrup is something like 40 to 1. Can't remember exactly. I do know we use to fill 3 green garbage cans and boil it down to about 10 1 litre jars. My parents found out the hard way you do not boil indoors. Must boil outside - over open flame is best for that special taste. We would spend a whole weekend in March to boil. These days I belive the sap flow is earlier though, what with the weather being warmer earlier.

I've never been that big on Maple Syrup, but I LOVE maple sugar! When I was a kid every year we'd take a school trip to a tree farm in the spring and watch them gathering the sap from the maple trees. Afterwards they gave us fresh cakes of maple sugar.... yummy!!!!! Oh... I'm drooling now just thinking about it....

Canada is known for Maple syrup, I have not heard of maple sugar! We have very few maple products out here. Ons small glass jar of Canadian 100% Maple syrup cost almost $10 here! So you don't waste it! But I do like it on my pancakes with whipped vanilla bean cream and strawberries. It is a special treat to have it.

Hey ... Maple syrup is pretty cheap in Australia ... You should see how much it costs in Dominion here ... Maple sugar, maple cookies, maple chocolate - YUM!! Maple drumsticks, however - yucky. I like to get my Maple syrup in either Quebec or at the markets in Belleville. I prefer the dark syrup as opposed to the lighter stuff. It's more rich and yummy ... So to jump back onto my original topic of Missy Higgins. Amy sent me a few songs that I have been playing on the CD player here at home ...yayy... And then I popped in to iTunes to download her album. The damn thing was like Jump Rope for Heart! Not one song didn't have moments of skipping in it. I am kinda ticked at that! I figure if I actually pay for the music it would be good quality ... nope ... very disappointed in iTunes right now .... Hey. At least I still Have Zeppelin, the Who, Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Cream, Clapton, Lennon, Blonde, Jimmy Barnes, Cold Chisel, Aussie Crawl, Divinyls ... et al to listen to ... Bad iTunes. Very Bad ... Sniffs the air as a sudden acrid odour of Toddler wafts past with said toddler Excuse the pun, but my son smells like shit - looks like I'm on diaper duty .... Grunt ... It aint Maple syrup I tell ya .... Shudder SJ

Edit: Wrong Thread. Carry On. I am not the droid you're looking for... * delete delete *

SJ the fake maple syrup is cheap, the small bottle of Queen 100% Canadian Maple Syrup is about $8.00 on adverage... Anyway can you download the album from torrents sights???

Yess, it's all free on torrents!

Torrents are good!