Just loping around. Extremely fond of roast boar in particular, meat in general and cooking on the barbie. Fish is good too.
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18 thoughts on “Happy Australia Day”
Happy Birthday Australia.
Long may we rule over her. 😉
You beat me to it, Araminta. I have been preparing a post for several hours, but real life keeps getting in the way. 😦
🙂
I know the feeling, Bearsy.
Stephen Fry’s take: (Don;t agree, BTW)
Oh dear, Burns Night AND Australia Day? Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up deep-fried koala . . .
But OZ beat me to it too.
Australia Day is on my calendar: I wonder who bought that then? 😉
Happy Aussie day, enjoy your barbie.
It’s miserable cold here, some of your summer weather would be welcome.
You’re welcome to our rain, LW. 🙂
Whoops, sorry OZ. This is your post, not Araminta’s. Definitely a senior’s moment.
Thanks, mate. 😆
No worries, Bearsy. Chuck a hog on the barbie for me.
OZ
Happy Australia Day! Long my we settle there and get skin cancer because our Germanic pallor just can’t tolerate the sunshine.
(Backround music) Neigh-bours, tumty-tumty tum neigh-bours, tumty-tumty tum neigh-bours….. 🙂
Sipu – A question. Why do democratically elected ‘leaders’ need armoured limousines and 24/7 security provided by a ‘grateful’ taxpayer?
OZ
How very uncivilised. I agree with Abbot, by the way. It’s not 1972 anymore. Australia’s changed a great deal. This sort of behaviour will not help anyone get anywhere.
Sipu – A question. Why do democratically elected ‘leaders’ need armoured limousines and 24/7 security provided by a ‘grateful’ taxpayer?
OZ
Well, OZ, I suppose to protect them from people like those nasty protesters. I love the fact that they describe the 40 year old tent embassy as ‘sacred’. Just goes to show how cavalier they are with the use of that word. I reckon Australians should go back to calling Uluru, Ayres Rock.
Nah! If they were as good as their publicity they wouldn’t need protection from a sullen and disenfrachised electorate. If they weren’t so sure then they shouldn’t have stood for office in the first place.
OZ
And another thing. Neverending talks on nuclear disarmament, global warming and suchlike are a waste of time – it just gives the fekkers a raison d’etre. Rather than ban the bomb, ban the taxpayer-funded bunkers into which said fekkers would scuttle at the first sign of a nuclear escalation.
There again, just imagine it. A post-nuclear world with all the taxpayers dead and all the ‘leaders’ who kicked it off in the first place emerge from the bunkers with nothing to govern and only a cave to live in.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Happy Birthday Australia.
Long may we rule over her. 😉
You beat me to it, Araminta. I have been preparing a post for several hours, but real life keeps getting in the way. 😦
🙂
I know the feeling, Bearsy.
Stephen Fry’s take: (Don;t agree, BTW)
Oh dear, Burns Night AND Australia Day? Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up deep-fried koala . . .
But OZ beat me to it too.
Australia Day is on my calendar: I wonder who bought that then? 😉
Happy Aussie day, enjoy your barbie.
It’s miserable cold here, some of your summer weather would be welcome.
You’re welcome to our rain, LW. 🙂
Whoops, sorry OZ. This is your post, not Araminta’s. Definitely a senior’s moment.
Thanks, mate. 😆
No worries, Bearsy. Chuck a hog on the barbie for me.
OZ
Happy Australia Day! Long my we settle there and get skin cancer because our Germanic pallor just can’t tolerate the sunshine.
(Backround music) Neigh-bours, tumty-tumty tum neigh-bours, tumty-tumty tum neigh-bours….. 🙂
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/9040394/Australian-Prime-Minister-Julia-Gillard-rescued-by-riot-police.html
A titter ran round the room.
Sipu – A question. Why do democratically elected ‘leaders’ need armoured limousines and 24/7 security provided by a ‘grateful’ taxpayer?
OZ
How very uncivilised. I agree with Abbot, by the way. It’s not 1972 anymore. Australia’s changed a great deal. This sort of behaviour will not help anyone get anywhere.
Well, OZ, I suppose to protect them from people like those nasty protesters. I love the fact that they describe the 40 year old tent embassy as ‘sacred’. Just goes to show how cavalier they are with the use of that word. I reckon Australians should go back to calling Uluru, Ayres Rock.
Nah! If they were as good as their publicity they wouldn’t need protection from a sullen and disenfrachised electorate. If they weren’t so sure then they shouldn’t have stood for office in the first place.
OZ
And another thing. Neverending talks on nuclear disarmament, global warming and suchlike are a waste of time – it just gives the fekkers a raison d’etre. Rather than ban the bomb, ban the taxpayer-funded bunkers into which said fekkers would scuttle at the first sign of a nuclear escalation.
There again, just imagine it. A post-nuclear world with all the taxpayers dead and all the ‘leaders’ who kicked it off in the first place emerge from the bunkers with nothing to govern and only a cave to live in.
Result!
OZ