Australia Day!

[Windsock]

Thanks for the wishes Smithy et al...

We had a great time and celebrated in the typical manner, little kids leaping over the backyard sprinkler followed by beach and dinner at the Surf Club. Great stuff....

 

[Windsock]

Godfrey, I'm with you, that was very ungenerous and not particularly charming from the Sherman Tank

Poor chap can't even spell murderers...

Hope you boys and girls are having a great day and wish I was down there for it!

Just to prove we are not all felons, I recently found this priceless quote which referred to the Passengers aboard the Ship my Great great Grandfather showed up here on. So I can't claim some form of notorious past but at least i'm not decended from nobility...


(The SOUTH AUSTRALIAN on March 19th 1847 reported "The arrival of three large ships from Europe within the present week - two of them with emigrants numbering in all upwards of four hundred souls - has been hailed with great satisfaction by the colonists. The Bremen ship HELOISE brings a large number of the better class of the German peasantry. They have all paid their own passage, and they bring, we are informed, more money than the emigrant ship has for years imported.
They are healthy, and respectable people, and we doubt not they will do well".)

...and indeed we have.

 

[cookie]

Just wanted to raise a glass to all the diggers and Aussies we have here (Windsock, Mojito, Benny Holiday, Cookie and anyone else who I may have missed).

Hope you all have a great day in the Lucky Country!

:cheers1: from (Kiwi) Smithy!

Thanks Mate

It was a beautiful and perfect Sydney day which I spent at a garden party for a friend who was given a gong for community service! We followed up with a street cinema party and was caught dancing in the street at an unrespectable hour and volume.