Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Australia Day, and Kangaroo Snags
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January 26, Australia Day, marks that glorious day in 1788 when the glorious "First Fleet" sailed into glorious Sydney Cove with a glorious load of stinky, wretched, and terrified prisoners. So Australia was born.
There will be festivities. There will be barbecues. There will be champagne. There will fireworks. There will be thong-throwing contests. (Not at all what it sounds like.)
I started off the festivities myself last night, with a couple kanga bangas (click on pic to enlarge):
They're sausages (snags) made with kangaroo meat. Australia: the only country where they eat their national symbol.
Happy Australia Day everybody!
There will be festivities. There will be barbecues. There will be champagne. There will fireworks. There will be thong-throwing contests. (Not at all what it sounds like.)
I started off the festivities myself last night, with a couple kanga bangas (click on pic to enlarge):
They're sausages (snags) made with kangaroo meat. Australia: the only country where they eat their national symbol.
Happy Australia Day everybody!
Happy New Year, and Prawns on the Barbie
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Happy New Year, or New Year's Eve, depending on where and when you are, to everyone from Tin and I, and her friend Di from the Northern Territories, who has spent the New Years festivities with us. Cheers! We had a fantastic time walking he beach with a few thousand locals, having some discreet beverages and watching the fireworks show. All around mellow and wonderful.
Had a New Years swim - it's about 90° F - this morning, got some work done, right now listening to Penguins on a Rock (which I will be seeing shortly in Sydney), having a frosty beer, and life is good and better.
New Years beach:
And we got a barbie. And I learned that it's not "shrimp on the barbie," as Americans know it, but prawns on the barbie:
So cheers to you from all of us:
Had a New Years swim - it's about 90° F - this morning, got some work done, right now listening to Penguins on a Rock (which I will be seeing shortly in Sydney), having a frosty beer, and life is good and better.
New Years beach:
And we got a barbie. And I learned that it's not "shrimp on the barbie," as Americans know it, but prawns on the barbie:
So cheers to you from all of us:
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