I have succumbed to the dreaded Lurgie. I feel like a semi-trailer has run over me. For the last couple of days I have feeling a bit off but this morning I woke up feeling and looking like death warmed up. Even the little blue pills have not helped. I blame the Faded Red Head. I think I caught it when I visited her blog.
For the first time in many years I have given the Festival of Sails a miss. The Festival is a big community party held just up the road at Sutton's Beach. The Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race starts at the mouth of the Brisbane River and the yachts head up to a marker in front of Sutton's Beach and chuck a big U-turn to head out to sea for the race to Gladstone. If the wind is from the south they usually have their spinnakers out and it is magnificent to see the yachts in full flight.
Anyway the Council puts on this big party on the beach with all sorts of wonderous entertainment and events. Singing, dancing, clowns and lots of food. Last year about 10,000 people turned up.
Alas this year I stayed at home, doped up to the eyeballs with all sorts of remedies and potions, drowning in my own misery.
Now onto something more important...
It is time to invade New Zealand, intern all Kiwi nationals living in Australia, confiscate all the property and goats of the a fore mentioned internees. That uppity little land of the long white cloud has gone too far this time. Well not the people of New Zealand but their Supreme Leader John Key.
"It's totally ridiculous for Australians to claim that they have pavlova or Phar Lap or any of those iconic New Zealand items,'' Mr Key said today.
"Everybody knows that they're ours and for Australians to claim ownership of them is quite inappropriate.''
Read the full story here: Kiwi PM lays claim to Aussie icons.
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8 comments:
Yeah, he's RIGHT.
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Big Bad Al...... I so sorry u got the bug from me.. but seeing as I only had a sinus headache and a nost bleed or 3, i really think u grewed it all on ur ownsome.,,honest i do!!!lol.. Hope u get over it soon, its never pleasent being crook..
Hope you get right soon, Al.
How hard would it be to invade New Zealand? What, maybe a platoon to do the job. Git 'er done-don't be takin' no crap from 'em!
Moko: surrender now and we will spare your goats.
FRH: but it was your sinus and nosebleeds that put the idea into my brain. Once my brain gets an idea the rest must follow regardless. Damn Brain.
Hope you have stopped bleeding all over the place and you are on the mend again.
YD: if we intern all the En Zeders in Oz we will need some place to put them and New Zealand seems like the ideal place.
It's like the Australians claiming the Ashes are theres when they now full well they will always belong to the English!
Bad news about the lurgy, just don't infect anyone else!
All we need are a few League and footy players and i recoken it'd be all over before closing time!!
Must have been a slow day for the Keymaster (aka Mr Minit) if his soundbite for the day was 'We rickon Brian could hev hut a sux'. Ut'd hev bun a bug hut to be sux et the MCG un those days. No boundary ropes, a good 100m to clear the top of the fence. And McKechnie was pretty much a journeyman allrounder. He was more famous as a goalkicking outside back for the All Blacks - won them the Grand Slam in 1977 I believe by kicking a bunch of goals against the Welsh.
The pavlova thing is total bollocks. It's pretty clear that it's two independently originated desserts both named after the same Russian dancer who toured NZ and then Australia, hence the NZ one dates from marginally older. The original NZ pavlova and the one from WA which is the basis of the Australian one are different things. Amazingly there's uni academics in NZ dedicated to the study of the origins of the pavlova and other Kiwiana like that. They should be spending their research money more wisely than that. On meeeeee.
yea, doc. I wish I could get a grant for something like that.
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Arrgh!Speak up or hang from the yard arm. Arrgh!