General Chat

Linda

Ha...I laugh in the face of adversity!

The return of the Sergeant Major worries me not one jot!

Berona's report will take months to prepare and will sound so phantasmagorical, that it will be dismissed as a work of fiction.


Allan

I think they are protesting too much, really they are quaking in their boots

OK Barbra. Put me down for western Sydney - about half way between the harbour and the blue mountains. Colin is in Sydney too - a little closer to the harbour than I am. Sue is a couple of hours south of Sydney.
Alison is in Queensland (as is Onwe), and Carole is in Victoria. I think that takes care of the easterners.

Janet is in or near Perth and Allan is south of that. I think we have someone in South Australia, but I beg forgiveness - the brain is very stretched at the moment. Hope they will fill you in.

Persephone lives in another country - even though a lot of Brits don't think so - New Zealand is quite a distance from here (and 12 hours from GMT - unless, of course, they have daylight saving too!).

Now, I hope you can mark us all on your map. That should all be nice and clear . (Yeh, clear as mud!).

I have no boots within to quake,


Saeva Indignatio

Linda,

I am not even quaking in my flip-flops...or to give them their correct title, Aussie safety shoes

Allan

Hi Barbra,
I haven't watched Ememrdale for ages.
Berona, thanks for telling us who lives where. It seems really strange that Australia is so big. People living on both east and west but sort of nothing in the middle.
Pat x

Tec,

Fierce indeed

Barbra,

More an alas than an alias :0))

Allan

Lol Allan, you called them flip flops, for our benefit I suppose. I thought they were called thongs in Oz, which of course are totally different things in the UK

I am off to spend some time with OH before he instigates divorce proceedings.

Have a nice rest of the evening/day.

Barbra,

What in creation is a loose man?

Tec

Pat!

We have Alice Springs in the middle....another example of Aussie humour!!

Allan

Goodnight Linda,
Enjoy the rest of your evening, and sweet dreams,

Tec

Good night Linda, enjoy your quality time with your OH

Regards

Allan

Allan,
I should look at my globe more closely!

Night Linda

Allan,
Where is the biggest population of Aborigine people now?
or are they spread about all over?

Tec

Tec, it's difficult to say as they are spread all over

I'd plump for the Central Desert Regions which incorporate parts of the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia

Allan

Barbra

I'm a bit far from Kangaroo Island.

In the West our closest Island is Rottnest, just west of Perth

Many place names in Australia are reminders of where the early European inhabitants came from, but many also have Aboriginal origins

Allan

Oh dear. I hope there are no South Australians reading this - they might not be favourably impressed.

Linda - we were using the word thongs for many many years before other countries copied them and called them flip flops, etc. They were introduced as a means of walking on the hot sands without getting shoes filled with the sand.
Thong is a word which someone has given to something else, thinking they have made up a new word! Very definitely, the feet were bared in public long before other parts were!

Allan,
Do they have defined Aborigine Lands as they once did.
It's an aspect of Australian history that interests me, I know that attitudes have changed dramatically in 50 years.

Also interested in Aborigine art

Tec

Tec,

To be perfectly honest I am not sure!

When I lived in Leonora you had to obtain a permit to travel through gazetted areas in the Central Desert Region but for other trips such as the Canning Stock Route, no permits were required.

I'll do some research and let you know

Allan

Barbra,

You seem to have caught my Lithpth from the Animal Thread :0))

Allan