Pom in Oz

HO HO HOOOOOOOOOOOO

robertramsbottom@hotmail.com — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:55:00 GMT

G,day all back home.

Here we are again coming up to that time of the year where the general public are going rather insane and spending all that well saved cash for Christmas, yes christmas again,, less than 4 weeks and it will be on us again. Now I hear you asking,"whats christmas like down under", well lets try and explain.

Christmas that time of year when it can get very warm, and it makes you much warmer if your in the city and theres these Idiots outside the shops dressed as father christmas in all the robes and hair, when its a soaring 40 degrees centigrade, makes one sweat. Christmas dinner, yes turkey or boiled ham with all the trimmings, roast spuds, boiled greens and xmas pudding and cream for afters,,, in 40 degrees centigrade, makes one sweat.

Well we don't do anything like that we normally take a B.B.Q. and disappear somewhere and celebrate the day not all this drinking and eating to excess but just a few Bangers and some Chicken breasts, steaks, salad and a good bottles of wine and a beer and relax and enjoy our selves. Don't know what the boys are up to, but we will emjoy the afternoon with friends at one of the local parks.

I remember Christmas day, in my teens, jumping on the bike and cycling from Mile Cross to West Earlham, up to see Linda and her mother and father and to spend the day with them, and the journey home on the bike again, and you wouldn't see more than a dozen cars travelling the roads that day. Over here its bedlem, traffic wise on Christmas day, every one heading off for their summer holidays and the roads travelling along at snail pace. I always think the same thing as I sit, board to tears, in one of those holiday traffic stalemates. "I wonder if the guy at the fronts lost and didn't bring a map." well must go for now will chat later,,,,.

Well bye for now and have a drink for me this christmas

Robert, Linda and the boys

Its the day in November that stops a nation

robertramsbottom@hotmail.com — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:20:00 GMT

G'day all.

Well I am not talking about the presidential elections in the States, if you were a gambling man I'm sure you'll know what I am talking about. Its the Melbourne Cup, a horse race, yes a horse race so popular here in Victoria and around Australia, that we have a bank holiday to celebrate it.and as its always on a Tuesday, we don't bother to work on the Monday so to have a long, long weekend.

We really are the sporting capital of Australia and one of those sports we enjoy is horse raceing which culminates today, always the second Tuesday of November for the Melbourne cup. There are acounts of this meet as early as 1810 with reports made in the Sydney newspapers of the meet in Melbourne taking place but the first actual cup race was held in 1861 and won by a horse named Archer and in 1877 it was held for the first time as a public holiday with an estimated crowd of over 7,000 inside the racetrack and a further 150,000 sitting on hillsides outside the venue of Flemington, where every race meeting has been held. There are traditions that have grown from that day and I imagine from that first public holiday the tradition of the picnic has evolved, the crowd always arrive at the track with a picnic lunch and this picnic is always consumed outside of the racecourse. As you arrive and park your vehicle you jump from the car and from the boot remove your table and folding chairs and out come the picnic and heaps of wine and the feast begins, making a few too drunk to get into the racecourse and many that arrive there only with the intentions of a picnic anyway.

"Nowhere in the world have I encounted a festival of people that has such a magnificent appeal to the whole nation. The cup astonishes me" these words were writen by Mark Twain after visiting Melbourne in 1895.

Up until 2003 there had only been two horses that had won the cup more than once, in the 1890's a horse named Carbine won twice and in 1932 and 1934 a horse named Peter Pan. In 2003 we saw a small horse named Makybe Diva win this race and then in 2004 and 2005 she did it again and astounded everyone and is now another legend of this event. The horse that everyone knows the name of and every child can relate too through the history of this country is a horse named Phar Lap, whose story is told to all that arrive here and is a legend to the Australian people. Phar lap was born in New Zealand and trained and stabled in Australia, he won 37 out of his 51 starts, including the Melbourne Cup in 1930 and was a love affair with a nation who at that time, in the early thirties, with so much hard ship and poverty needed something to cling too. In 1932 Phar Lap was sent to Mexico for the richest race in the world at that time, the Agua Caliente, he won this race and sixteen days later was found dead in San Francisco, believed to be from a poison overdose. His body was returned to Melbourne and now is exhibited in the Victorian Museum. We have a saying here "you have a heart as big as Phar Laps", a saying which comes from the fact that when they removed the heart of this horse, to preserve him for show, they found it weighed 6.2 Kilo., where a normal heart from a horse of the same weight would normally weigh 3.2 Kilo.

The race is a culmination of a day that is so special here in this hot country, a day where the Bruces arrive dressed in a suit and a shirt and tie, rather than the singlets, shorts and thongs. The Shielas in frocks and hats, rather than track pants and tee shirt.

Robert, Linda and boys.

What sort of a world do we live in??

robertramsbottom@hotmail.com — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:08:00 GMT

Not such a g"day this week, switched on the comp, last night, and saw on my home page an article of news which showed me how charity in some of us can be desrtroyed.

The article was in respect to a Queensland doctor who had a verdict upheld in the courts of 12 months wholely suspended sentence for writing 166 unautorised prescriptions for medicines to elderly patients, who could not afford medicines. These prescriptions were writen against subsidies obtained from the "Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheem", a scheem that allows eligible people to access a range of drugs at a substantially subsidised rate. However the "P.B.S." specifies that subsidised drugs must only be used to treat specific illnesses.

The living standards, of our pensioners here in Australia, has turned extreemly sour in the last few years. Pensions have not been kept in line with the rising cost of living. It is known to all that if a pensioner is wholly relying on the state pension, by the time household bills are payed for, most elderly pensioners are not able to buy a weeks groceries to live on, let alone the petrol to put in a car to travel to a supermarket to obtain those groceries.

The doctor involved had payed back, from her own purse, the $28,000 that was owed the "P.B.S.", from her writing these prescriptions. On average it related to approx. $170.00 per patient. Her reasons were that she had become so dissalutioned with the Medical authorities in the past few years.

Now I would say that those that have struggled and worked all their lives in this country were Eligible People wouldn't you?

Robert, Linda and the boys.

Gooooooooooodmorning Norwich

robertramsbottom@hotmail.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:28:00 GMT

Well a month now since my last chat and whats happened here since that blog,, well weve been told the worlds going into a meltdown,, . As the 52 state of the union Australia will of cause take head of whats happening elswhere in the world and follow suit and suffer also. Our banks allthough hurt with this global "MELTDOWN",, don't you love that word, "MELTDOWN",, was given a boost yesterday with a 1% fall off the official credit rate from the Bank of Australia. That boosted everyone to start pumping money,, they don't have,, into things they can't afford and the Aussie stock exchange said it was good. Don't you love all this rubbish,, lets get back to life folks,, how are you, and let me tell you what we have been doing here in the land of surf and red desert

Deans just home from a field study in the Little Desert, yes Little Desert is the name of it, we have two desert regions here in Victoria and, you have guessed it one is called Little Desert and the others called Big Desert, now thats originallity, aint it. Lindas getting excited about her visit in February back to Norwich and her reunion with her family, I try, as I can, to let her visit Norwich as you never loose the love of the place you grew up in. I will become head chef and bottle washer for all in the house whilst Lindas away and it will give me a chance to do some alterations indoors, dearn't get into replaceing the kitchen whilst her indoors home, it would be a nightmare, trying to work around each other, well you know what I mean.

I told you all of a little apple tree I planted a few months ago, it looks as though this year will be a bumper year for the gardens here as we have already a mass of apple blossum and sprouting of summer vegetables in the garden ain't going to be any meltdown in this house. We have three main suppliers of seeds here in Oz. the one I've become familiar with and use mainly is, Mr Fothergills As I was planting some seed, I found that these seeds were packed in the U.K. The majority of seed we use here are Oz grown and packed and it surprised me, so off to the comp I went and looked up Mr Fothergill's home in the U.K., well wasn't I surprised to find that he is only just down in Newmarket in Lillie Langtries old stables, where hes set up his buisiness, now if you don't know who Lillie was, find out, theres a patch of good english history.

all for this week chat later.

Robert, Linda and the boys.

arrival of spring

robertramsbottom@hotmail.com — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:03:00 GMT

Springs arrived at last, the flowering cherries are abundant with pink blossum, just like they were when we first arrived here 27 years ago. We have a Christmas Cactus on the porch, in a large pot, it must be nearly 3 feet in diamator and has been in flower for nearly 2 weeks. I planted an apple tree the weekend, it has 2 variety of fruit, Granny Smith and Golden Delicious, a perfect shape to allow me to fan the branches. I planted one years ago but I'm affraid I let it go a bit, in fact I let the whole garden slip a little with work and everything, just never got the time to relax in the garden. Took some real big Lemons from the tree also,they are doing really well with the rain weve been having.

The vegetable gardens seems to be slowly coming along, the soil is very heavy and reminds me of when we first moved out too Wymondham, after we were maried, along time ago. I enjoy telling friends here about that little 2 bedroom bungalow we had, but you never call it a bungalow here, as a bungalows a small shack in the garden, its a house here. Here they measure houses in squares, a square is 100 Sq. Ft.and our little house over at Wymondham worked out to 6 Squares. The house we live in here is by ozzy standards not a big house and it measures 16 Squares, you don't see much under 12 Squares. Then theres the other extreem here where you get double storey houses, built in the suburbs 40 Squares big and if you want to realise how big that is, calculate the floor area of your house, in feet, devide it by 100 and just compare that with 40.

Well enough for now, chat later.

Robert, Linda and the boys

Stonehenge in Australia

robertramsbottom@hotmail.com — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:57:00 GMT

There is a region of New South Wales, a plato of high country, which during the early days of the colonies was squatted, a term used here for the selection of land, in those days by migrants. The squatters were a mixture of Irish, Scottish and Cornish Migrants and are a proud people who recognise their celtic traditions.

In the mid 1990's they undertook the task of building a stone circle in the ways of the Celts and as we have just had the winter solstice, down under, the sight of the suns rays piecing the ring and striking the centre stone was portrade to us on the television with enthusiasm.

Although there are many medievel reworks here in Australia, castles, Tudor styled buildings, churches etc. There is one old structure that the orthorities still havn't been able to explain a section of stone wall, as you often see around the north of England, found in a remote part of the north of Western Australia. Nobody can say how it got there, they think it could be from a sailor shipwrecked.

Well thats all folks.

Robert, Linda and the boyd'

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Silver cup in the cold

robertramsbottom@hotmail.com — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:04:00 GMT

G'day. Middle of winter here and the cold weather has stopped us all this way from getting out and enjoying ourselves. My son Chris offered me the chance to go and watch him play ice the other night, so off we went down too Oakley rink where I thought my trousers were going to freeze to the seat I was sitting on watching him play hockey.

This weekend was a little warmer, he was playing inline hockey in a bi-yearly tournament we call the Silver Cup, which is played for by the senior players from all over Melbourne. The tournament lasts for nearly a weeks play and finished today in the finals. Chris has played in this contest for many years, throughout his junior and senior comp. and this year he has finally managed with his team to get his name engraved on the cup after the team he plays for won the finals in extra time with a final score of 5 goals to 4.

With water restriction and conservation a major concern at present, the icerink, as we know it, is becoming like the dinasaur, rather extinct. From three ice rinks around Melbourne we now only have the one and this looks as though it may be the last we see. City planners are now reluctant to issueing licences for rinks due to the amount of water and energy needed to run these venues.

Now comes N-Ice, a little different from ice as its not cold and wet, yes in November we should have the first N-Ice rink finally layed and ready to play hockey on here in the northern suburbs, this will make him happy as it is only 15 minutes from home rather than 1 hour to the rink hes useing now.

Well enough of this cold talk, will let you all know whats happening here next time.

Robert, Linda and the boys.

Tigers and Devils

robertramsbottom@hotmail.com — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:22:00 GMT

Just home from a little break in Tasmania, well we really needed a little break from the boys, its been such a long time since we had some time together on our own. We flew over to Hobart, its not a long flight, you know, like a trip to Amsterdam from over your way, by the time the seat belt sign goes off and you have your coffee then the seatbelt sign comes on again and it time to land.

On arrival we picked up the motorhome, I had hired for the 5 days we intended to stay and off we went up the east coast for about 140 Miles untill we got to our first nights resting place in Coles Bay, a small holiday area with fine white beaches and very few people to worry you.

Our second day took us too Launceston, the second largest city on the island. We spent the afternoon in the city and resting after the 2 days driving. The next morning we went to a beautiful park on the western side of the city where the river feeds the estuary, where Launceston is built, the river forms 2 large basins of water the first is on higher land up in the hills and the overflow from this basin raws down the hillside into another basin where the main section of the park is built. There was a choice of two restaurant areas in the park, the first close to the entrance and the other was on the other side of the lake. Well you guest it Linda wanted to go to the far restaurant by chair lift that takes you the complete trip across the lake it was a pleasant ride on the chairlift and took us approximately 15 minutes to cross. Launceston was one of the first cities in the southern hemisphere to receive electric lightssome bright sparks had the idea to divert the fall of the river over three generators which gave the power for the city.

On leaving the camp site we returned to Richmond , just outside Hobart befor returning to Melbourne yesterday. It was a very pleasant 5 days to ourselves and we enjoyed the short time away from all the noise and the rat race here in Melbourne. We didn't get to see a Devil, maybe next time we go and the poor old Tigers been extinct since the 30's.

Well all for now chat later.

All our love to all.

Robert Linda and the boys.

turning to winter

robertramsbottom@hotmail.com — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:50:00 GMT

Well here we are, gradually going into winter down here in Melbourne, tonight its only 5 degrees, after a fine day which reached 21degrees around 3-00 O'clock this afternoon. Weve had one or two days with a little rain but not enough to really make the water restrictions change. Life carries on the same all over the world, you wake in the morning, get yourself ready for another 8 hour day at work and return in the evening for dinner and to relax befor starting the following day.

Spent a nice familly day out last weekend, down in the southern suburbs of Melbourne at the new Australian gardens, which are a part of the Melbourne botanical gardens. This new garden is set up to show the native Australian plant species and this time of year there is a lot of colour in the native flowering plants.

only another week and we'll be away over in Tasmania, Its almost 20 years since I was over there last and I immagine the Isle would have changed a lot since the last time I was there but this time its purely a holiday, where everytime i've been there befor it was for work. I will have to keep a diary of our little adventure over there and fill you in on our exploits, in the Apple Isle. we really want to visit the west coast of Tasmania as this area is purely wilderness and somewhere I have never been, never know may find a Tasmanian Tiger or a Tassy Devil, much more chances of the Tassy Devil as the Tasmanian Tigers been extinct for nearly 100 years now.

The remains of a Tasmanian Tiger was found, quite well preserved within caves in the deserts of South Australia, these remains have been carbon dated to a time prior to man setting foot on Australia. The tiger is believed to have enjoyed a colder climate and therefor prefered the southern landscapes of Australia. The island of Tasmania was once a southern landmass of the continent and prior to it breaking away from the mainland it was inhabited by aboriginals, the aboriginal people never travelled by boat and now as the Tasmanian tiger, the Tasmanian Aboriginal tribes are also exstinct.

Its getting late now so must say farewell and chat later.

All our love from Oz.

Robert, Linda and boys.

Quite bazaar, wouldn't you say

robertramsbottom@hotmail.com — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:36:00 GMT

G'day mate.

Here in the land of the red sand dunes, you hear some funny things, don't you Sheila. I have a work mate, well hes a big fella a bikey, you know got himself a Harley. He was showing me some court papers , he'd received, from way up across the state border in New South Wales. These papers were in regards to a incident he had around 2 years ago when him and a mate were driving upto a rally in N.S.W.

What appears to have happened was that as they drove to the rally, in their car, plus a trailer with 2 Harley Davidson Motorcycles. A Kangaroo hopped out into the road in front of him as he was doing around 100 Klm/Hr, the police have no problems in respect to speed ( and I mean the speed of the car, nothing he was taking at the time). Now what would you, a responsible driver of a motorcar do in this predicament, well through instinct you would swerve to avoid the animal and to avoid injury to ones self,,, wouldn't you.

Well at certain times this doesn't work, especially as it seems in the dumb location of N.S.W. As he swerved the trailor jacknifed and the finished up in the fence of a field on the highway, luckilly both him and the passenger were uninjured but the car and the 2 Harleys were distroyed, over $60,000 of damage.

Now the charge he got was one of "Negligent Driving"????????? Whats that I asked, never heard of that befor? Then he told me that its not a valid charge here in Victoria and is only a charge in, crazy N.S.W. Now the penalty for trying to avoid killing your self whiles hitting a Kangaoo, What was it Bruce??, O yes, 2 demirit points off your licence and $110 fine,,,,,but hang on, you can't have 2 N.S.W. demerit points on your Victorian driving licence, no so this increases the fine for interstate drivers too $1,100. "Another way for a copper to get her name recognised and another way, for the state, to grab your money." So remember Shiela just tell Bruce, next time hes up in N.S.W. and a Joey jump out in front of him , hit the bloody thing and you wont get pingged for Negligent driving and hopefully you wont spill the V.B. you've got in your hand at the time".

Can't remember the driving laws changing as we drove across Hadrians wall into Scotland, or across the Seven bridge into Whales, do they? why the hell do they change here in Australia, well thats a question I've asked myself since I arrived here, why we suppossedly live in this great country, thats what we are told, yet its not a country at all but a mixture of seven states and teretories trying to be inderpendent.

All for now.

Robert, Linda and the boys

go on, lets give it to you.

robertramsbottom@hotmail.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:06:00 GMT

Beaut. weather here at the moment,,,,,, 25 C. today,,,, not a cloud in the sky and no wind, now thats what I call heaven here in Melbourne, I hate the wind if I can sit on the porch on a day like today and drink a cup of coffee and have a fag and reflect on life, what more can anyone ask.

Well Easter came and went, had one or two wet days but nothing too bad, still have the water restrictions here in Victoria, Lindas car will have to go with out a wash for another few months. Was supposed to reset the clocks last weekend, but the goverment put it off a week as they think they didn't give people enough notice to correct all their computors, what a giggle, remember when the only thing you had to reset was the clock, well they tell us its mainly for the farmers but do you think it effects the time the chickens will lay an egg or the time the cow needs to be milked,, still don't understand the theory,,,,,now it seems just an awfull lot of time adjusting the setting on someones computor.

Last weekend wasn't bad, Saturday morning, I worked, up on the roof of the factory changing the refridgeration fluids for the freezers, in the afternoon took Linda and her cousin over to a scrapbook exhibition down at the Caulfield race track, well their both in to that sort of thing, you know,. It was a pleasant day very quiet around the race track with no horses. The wife was busy buying a few back sheets and novelties for her scrapbooking. Spent the whole day there wandering around, will be down there again at the end of the month for the Camping and Caravan Expo., did I tell you that we are off too Tasmania in May for the week of our anniversary and hireing a Motor home so that we can tour the Island, well it used to be tents years ago but getting a little old for that now.

Lindas cousin left on the Sunday, gone over too New Zealand for a short trip befor heading home to Norwich. We are both missing her, its such a lonely feeling when you have family stay for a while and then have them leave and you know they have that distance to travel back home to England.

Well better go, chat again soon, all our love ......

Robert, Linda and the boys.

Drivers #!

robertramsbottom@hotmail.com — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:38:00 GMT

Rebecca, Rebecca, just read your report "The Danger Drivers Gambling With Lives". Although I found myself a little confused in the presentation of the heading[:^)], I read the article and thought it very much like the driving conditions here in Oz. The peole we see here holding telephones too their ear as though its a status symbol to drive in discussion with friends or buisiness clients, or trying to reset these new, electronic, satelite navigation units leaping out from the tops of the dash boards. In my day a street directory was all we needed to find our way around a city and telephones were still in the homes and not able to be carried in cars.

I remember always being told to watch the road, use your eyes and concentrate on what is happening on the road, well we should tell that to the idiot in front of you that always seem to be driving along talking to the passenger, every time he speaks he looks at his passenger and not at the road. Or the one in the lane beside you that refuse to overtake and seems to be trying to fix a cd in a slot he can't see unless he ducks his head under his steering wheel to find it, then theres those chicks that can't get up early enough to administer the make up on to their face in the bathroom and allways seem to try and do it in the mirrow in the car.

The answer is simple as well as all the other safety requirements we now see in the car, lets have a simple device that scrambles the signal of telephones, once the engines switched on[:P].

Love you all.

Robert, Linda and the boys.

Sunday 2nd march 2008

robertramsbottom@hotmail.com — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:14:00 GMT

Hi Mum.

Hope alls good back home, as everything seems to be here. Heard you had a earthquake back there in Norwich, Linda was speaking to her mum on the phone and she told us the noise woke her at 1 O'clock in the morning and it sounded just like a steam roller running down the road, well it couldn't be a steam roller, could it, they don't work that early, do they. Linda also said that her mum told her that Jarrolds Printing have closed, we miss a lot of the news over here, all the years Linda worked there befor we were married.

It sounds as though we have gone a full 360 degrees. Here in Oz., when we first settled here, industrie was made up of many smaller producers and relied on import barriers to ensure their production targets. Now with the freeing of import controlls most small production has stopped due to cheaper imports being allowed into the country, the major industries were the clothing and footwear industries here in Melbourne, now this has all ceased and everything we purchase now are mainly sourced from asia. Our industry thats survived has been those that have grown and been able to export their produce, which are mainly in the food and mining industries, well we all have to eat and Asia need our minerals and iron ore to manufacture what we want to buy back off them. What goes around comes around as they say and it wont be long befor we are the poor man of asia and their produce will be too expensive for us to buy, therefor the industry will return here to be made with cheaper labour supplied throughout Australia.

Called in on Noel and Roxan after doing the shopping at Aldis last night, Ziggy was running around outside playing with their dog on the lawn, hes growing fast. We were watching the news of more floods up in the north of Queensland. You wouldn't believe we have had nearly 6 years of drought all over Oz. and this year its been flooding up in the north nearly all their wet season, still haveing it dry down here, only the few wet days, we can only hope we get a change soon.

Well all for this week.

Robert, Linda and the boys

Saturday, 23/2/08

robertramsbottom@hotmail.com — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:51:00 GMT

g'day.

Lindas cousin is visiting Oz at the moment and have arrived in Melbourne for four days on her way around the country. So after she rung us, to let us know she was here, we arranged to pick her up this morning and take her over to Ballerat, to visit Sovereign Hill and give her a day at the Gold Museum. It was cold up there, well it always is colder than Melbourne. Every time we have been there with visitors it has changed and grown much bigger, you really need 2 days too amble through the reconstruction of the streets of the old Ballerat which has been rebuilt to make the museum. There is a new section that portrays the way the hundreds of Chinese gold miners, that came too the gold fields, in the mid 19th century were housed and treated by the goverment. It seems they were not treated too well and forced to pay extra taxes for them to mine in the area but many of the Chinese families became extreemly wealthy due to the finds they made, it seems an awfull lot of them returned to China, where they helped their families, that stayed at home.

The Welcome Stranger is the largest gold nugget ever discovered and was found on the outer edges of the Ballerat gold field. It weighed over 2,200 Oz. and at todays prices would be worth well over $ 2,000,000 American, approx. $2.2 million Australian. I should buy myself a miners licence and a metal detector and wonder around the area on a weekend. If I found one or two small nuggets i'd be very happy.

Well all for this week.

Robert, Linda and the boys

g' day

robertramsbottom@hotmail.com — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:21:00 GMT

Read your local news last night, shed a little tear for an icon of my memories, Dairyland and O what memories that brought flooding back to me. blue and white ice cream van turning around at the bottom of the road, in Mile Cross, mum getting the purse out and all running outside to get a threepenny cone. Its good to think back and remember our youth, the saturday nights walking up to the Firs stadium to watch the Speedway, checking out the bikes at the Boundry cafe on the way home. The seasons I rode for the Galley Scorpions cycle speedway club, Never managed to progress to the seniors, the Pirates, when I met Linda everything changed.

Why Dairyland remains so much in my memory is that when I first arrived here, with Linda and the boys, the local ice cream vans were Dairybell and just the dairy bit makes the the old brain work, Dairybell had, I imagine hard times here with the van sales and have now, in every suburb, an ice cream parlour where we can sit outside and enjoy an ice cream or coffee and return home with a tub of good fresh icecream not that squirty type neither but the scoop styled ice cream like I remember from Dairyland.

its good to remember the happy times.

Robert, Linda and the boys.

Pom in Oz

HO HO HOOOOOOOOOOOO

Its the day in November that stops a nation

What sort of a world do we live in??

Gooooooooooodmorning Norwich

arrival of spring

Stonehenge in Australia

Silver cup in the cold

Tigers and Devils

turning to winter

Quite bazaar, wouldn't you say

go on, lets give it to you.

Drivers #*!*

Sunday 2nd march 2008

Saturday, 23/2/08

g' day

Drivers #!