Happy Australia Day

pellicle · Jan 25, 2023

Today is (until they change it to another day) Australia Day here in Oz, and while personally I look to the date of Federation as being when we became Australia (1st of January 1901, starting the millennia of the 19thC) this is the date we choose to celebrate our nation

There's lots to love in this fledgling nation ...

Australia, Australia, Australia we love you amen! ...another tube

(*wish I could still drink ... sigh)

Superman · Jan 25, 2023

Hurray for Australia!

Thanks for The Wiggles!

Do you have Fireworks and grilling out and all that good stuff?

pellicle · Jan 25, 2023

Superman said:
and grilling out and all that good stuff?

fireworks are verboten (Nanny State Safety Police) but grilling out totally ... about to go to the local park where there's entertainment and a sizzle

LondonAndy · Jan 26, 2023

Whilst we have St George's day on 23 April for England, St Andrew's Day (30 November) and St David's Day (1 March) for Wales, only Scotland's day is a public holiday. We could do with a day to celebrate the United Kingdom perhaps, but that would most likely be 1 January and we could really do with any extra holiday being in the summer months

. Sadly the 4th July seems to have been taken ...

I hope you had a good Australia Day

pellicle · Jan 26, 2023

LondonAndy said:
but that would most likely be 1 January and we could really do with any extra holiday being in the summer months

just like Race Horses ;-)

Thanks day was good (for me at least) and while it was a 36C stinker, a storm in the evening plunged that down to 18C in short order