Comments on: “You’ll never take me alive”, said he.

By: Jill/Twipply Skwood

Jill/Twipply Skwood — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:52:02 +0000

Oh my gosh, that last photo is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry…but it is.
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By: admin

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:09:45 +0000

Gillian,

I was definitely teasing the Kiwis.

By: Gillian

Gillian — Thu, 06 May 2010 10:08:03 +0000

I can’t tell if you are teasing the Kiwis with your “less importantly” remark….we don’t see it like that at all over here. According to http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/the-gallipoli-campaign/introduction we also lost thousands of soldiers.

It’s a day of remembrance on both sides of the Tasman.

Congratulations on your 2 year immi-versary

By: arizaphale

arizaphale — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:23:00 +0000

I for one am very pleased you made the move, although I don’t get to see you guys half often enough! And also, did you know the ANZAC thing was a big deal because, like Dunkirk, it was a shifty and clever retreat. There are great stories about the Aussies setting up machine guns to randomly fire so that the Turks thought they were still there…and they slipped away under cover of darkness with virtually no loss of life. Interesting that we celebrate this aspect of our nature/culture.
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By: Courtney

Courtney — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:46:41 +0000

aw, lovely post. Australia sounds like home. Despite my love for Pittsburgh I still feel restless sometimes, but maybe I just need time to work its magic on me. Or, since currently I am in Florida and smitten with the gulf coast maybe I just need to live by the ocean…

By: IrrationalDad

IrrationalDad — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:17:10 +0000

Happy Anniversary. For some reason, I thought you’d lived there much longer. C’est la vie, I guess. I tell the wife that if I had no strings here, I’d live there, but with what I’ve been reading lately with internet censorship there (I WISH I could remember the name of the bill), I’m starting to wonder.
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By: Coal Miner's Granddaughter

Coal Miner's Granddaughter — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:37:05 +0000

Whoops! “That last picture…” Singular. Not plural. Can’t friggin’ spell.
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By: Coal Miner's Granddaughter

Coal Miner's Granddaughter — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:36:31 +0000

That last pictures makes my ovaries weep. PRECIOUS!

And, that’s it. I’m a bit late, but I’m making me some ANZAC biscuits this week. ‘Bout time I tried them.
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By: mickey

mickey — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:39:08 +0000

I recently read Bill Bryson’s Australia book. Good stuff. I’m rather taken with your adopted country as well, and I’ve never been. I’ve read some Ed Abbey stuff about his travels in Oz, too, and they also did nothing to dissuade me from the idea that I must make the trip down under some day.

Get out of the way and let. Something tells me that’s good advice.
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By: Kevin C Jones

Kevin C Jones — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:46:59 +0000

I have been all over the world as a Yank, and I’ve been twice to Gallipoli in 1981 with Aussies and Kiwis. And once, coincidentallly, with Turks. The defender of the penisula went on to found a secular state to override the Ottoman empire.

In America the Just, about 1982, I lost my faith in The American Dream. I went back to Australia to work my way back into the Australian Dream. I’ve now got it.

But it itches and bothers me, since I became an Australian citizen back in 1984 and was forced to give up my USA citizenship, And even the right to vote in my former electorate was terminated soon after, I still have outstanding warrants for non-attendance fo jury duty back in TX.

I know I can get my US citizenship back by denying a lot of things I have said about about my friends in the Australian Communist Party, Because I said nothing. Because there was nothing to say..