Fairy's big Sydney adventure.......

[almitywife]

I don't use a hair dryer....:

excellent as i dont own one and have been wondering if i needed to get one for you

weather update.... sydney is pssssssing down raining today

hopefully it will get it out of its system so when you are here the weather will be beaut!

 

[fairybasslet]

excellent as i dont own one and have been wondering if i needed to get one for you

weather update.... sydney is pssssssing down raining today

hopefully it will get it out of its system so when you are here the weather will be beaut!

Same weather we're having in NJ. Foggy too.

So, any word on the best way to get to the Almity abode?

 

[almitywife]

will get this info today!!!! when exactly do you leave NY again???

 

[fairybasslet]

will get this info today!!!! when exactly do you leave NY again???

Saturday. Which for you is Sunday I guess. Dec. 1. I leave my house at 3pm

 

[almitywife]

Saturday. Which for you is Sunday I guess. Dec. 1. I leave my house at 3pm

OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thats insane... thats ONLY a few days away


:d heheheh - thought i would add to the panic there

 

[fairybasslet]

OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thats insane... thats ONLY a few days away


:d heheheh - thought i would add to the panic there

Just what I needed.You know, I can panic all by myself, thank you very much. Guess what? I read last night about the dude Sydney airport is named after.

 

[almitywife]

Kingsford Smith??? geez, i think he is on the $20 note but im not sure... we're not huge on teaching aussie history here... but me thinks thats aboot to change in the next few years

you should try reading Dorothea MacKellar My Country by Dorothea Mackeller at Old Poetry
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of rugged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me

or Banjo Patterson, OzLit@Vicnet - E-text of The Man from Snowy River (Banjo Paterson)
There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around
That the colt from old Regret had got away,


might even make you watch the man from snowy river while youre here - or the Castle!!!! (LOVE that movie!)

 

[almitywife]

btw, we have warned you about our plastic money havent we???

 

[almitywife]

bugger, just checked - John Flynn is on our $20 (he created the flying doctor service) and Mary Reibey on them also... she a former convict made good and wealthy and one of the very first women businesswomen

some info on our currency Australian $5 Note

 

[rhadamantus]

you should try reading Dorothea MacKellar My Country by Dorothea Mackeller at Old Poetry
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of rugged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me

her beauty and her terror.... awesome.

fairy- do me a favour. tell me how mrs.A's cookies taste like. in worst case scenario, i shall trick her into baking me some when i am there in three weeks' time!