Today saw a quick dash up to my parents' home, "Wattle Creek", featured in previous posts.
The main purpose of the trip was to see my "little" brother, who lives in Kununurra - waaaaaaaay Outback for my international readers. He lives in real crocodile country, enjoys the relaxed lifestyle and only comes south of the Tropic of Capricorn when he has to. He is "home" for a couple of days, in between a fishing trip to Tasmania and some business.
"Wattle Creek" was looking its usual lovely self.
Worth the trip, just to see green grass!!!
Then a quick trip back home for a real dinkum Aussie meal - yep, prawns on the barbie!
BTW I was listening to the radio in the car on the way up there and found out the real story behind our Australian war-cry "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie ........ oi oi oi!"
It comes from Cornish tin miners via a soccer chant. Apparently, Cornish pasties are called "Oggies". In the olden days, the miners' wives would cook oggies for their men for lunch and take them to the mine at lunchtime, they would stand at the top of the mine and call "Oggie, oggie oggie" to which the men would reply "Oi, oi, oi" to signify that they had heard and would be sending the bucket up for the food. It was then adopted as a chant for soccer, and we pinched it and changed it to "Aussie, Aussie Aussie"
So, there you go - a new fact to drop into your next dinner party conversation.
Well! There you go! Hummmm Pasties for dinner one night this week - sounds good to me!
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Wattle Creek is just beautiful! An amazing place to run to if you need to see green!
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I adore reading about life in Australia. Wattle Creek is stunning and makes me long to live there... especially now with our snow, blowing snow and -12C temperatures. Thanks for the interesting tidbit of information too. I'm ready for my next dinner party! A belated Happy Australia Day to everyone in that beautiful country.
ReplyDeleteHe sadi he caught "a few" - he is master of the under statement so that could be anything from 2 to 100. Was fly fishing somewhere in the central plateau area.
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