Australia

[learner]

I would like to congratulate the Aussies on their new snooker world champion. Neil Robertson, he beat Scot Graham Dott 18-13 in the final last night..erm nope..this morning (4th) I watched the whole game and it was nailbiting. They were evenly matched and stayed within two frames of each other all the way until Neil pulled away from 15-13.
I think they would agree the tension affected both of their games making it even more thrilling.
I think Neil is only the third player outside of GB to win the title. Good on him. well deserved and very timely, apparently he was down to his last 500 quid. He now has 250000. Eddie Charlton the long potting Aussie would be proud. He was a contender in the early eighties but never quite made it.

 

[HawaiiBigSis]

I should've bought the canister of sugar sprinkles shaped like dolphins and whales and sea stars at the store a couple of weeks ago, but even at $6, it seemed too much to spend on shaped sugar...

 

[Akhenaten]

I would like to congratulate the Aussies on their new snooker world champion. Neil Robertson, he beat Scot Graham Dott 18-13 in the final last night..erm nope..this morning (4th) I watched the whole game and it was nailbiting. They were evenly matched and stayed within two frames of each other all the way until Neil pulled away from 15-13.
I think they would agree the tension affected both of their games making it even more thrilling.
I think Neil is only the third player outside of GB to win the title. Good on him. well deserved and very timely, apparently he was down to his last 500 quid. He now has 250000. Eddie Charlton the long potting Aussie would be proud. He was a contender in the early eighties but never quite made it.

Thank you, learner, for the post and for your kind thoughts.

BTW, I can't recall if I've mentioned it before, but that tatt (of yours, I'm guessing) is absolutely awesome.


Cheers, Cobber.

 

[Akhenaten]

I should've bought the canister of sugar sprinkles shaped like dolphins and whales and sea stars at the store a couple of weeks ago, but even at $6, it seemed too much to spend on shaped sugar...

Reckon! Anyway, as far as my experience goes, fairy bread is generally made with standard NATO Hundreds and Thousands.

 

[learner]

Thank you, learner, for the post and for your kind thoughts.

BTW, I can't recall if I've mentioned it before, but that tatt (of yours, I'm guessing) is absolutely awesome.


Cheers, Cobber.

Thank you. It is in memory of my brother, Poetry reciter and Macaw breeder extraordinaire. Died much too young.

 

[Hallo Alfie]

Re: FAIRY BREAD

I was SHOCKED to discover that this is only an australia thing. I got heckled performing stand up comedy in Edinburgh but managed to win the heckler around (a fellow aussie) by discussing our mutual love of fairy bread.

Really?!
Is there no such things as 'hundreds and thousands', 'chocolate ants' or the like abroad? What do they do for lunch at kiddies parties?

I shall now think of homeopathic pills as fairy medicine.

If I think badly of fairies I often get called homophobic.....



..Oh, wait.... different things, right?

 

[Skwinty]

Really?!
Is there no such things as 'hundreds and thousands', 'chocolate ants' or the like abroad? What do they do for lunch at kiddies parties?

That's we we South Africans call it

 

[learner]

That's we we South Africans call it

Same in the UK. The little buggers are all over the place at kids parties. Nice on Icecream.

 

[arthwollipot]

Yet another way that I'm not a Real Aussie. I don't particularly care for fairy bread. Oh, it's okay and all, but I've never been nuts about it. Hey ho.

 

[icerat]

Yet another way that I'm not a Real Aussie. I don't particularly care for fairy bread. Oh, it's okay and all, but I've never been nuts about it. Hey ho.

Hmmm ... well I had to google what it was! No thanks, too sweet

And I don't like beer either ....

but still gettin' the vegemite shipped over regularly

 

[Audible Click]

Some facts about Fairy Bread:
• It inspired (or perhaps was inspired by) a Robert Louis Stevenson poem by the same name.

• Fairy bread has such a following that it even has its own Facebook page. The page currently has 153,925 fans!

The poem:

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913.

Fairy Bread


COME up here, O dusty feet!
Here is fairy bread to eat.
Here in my retiring room,
Children, you may dine
On the golden smell of broom
And the shade of pine;
And when you have eaten well,
Fairy stories hear and tell.​

 

[MG1962]

Eddie Charlton the long potting Aussie would be proud. He was a contender in the early eighties but never quite made it.

He was an interesting character - played in three world championship finals in both snooker and billiards and never won any

 

[Orphia Nay]

Some facts about Fairy Bread:
• It inspired (or perhaps was inspired by) a Robert Louis Stevenson poem by the same name.

• Fairy bread has such a following that it even has its own Facebook page. The page currently has 153,925 fans!

The poem:

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913.

Fairy Bread


COME up here, O dusty feet!
Here is fairy bread to eat.
Here in my retiring room,
Children, you may dine
On the golden smell of broom
And the shade of pine;
And when you have eaten well,
Fairy stories hear and tell.​

That was interesting! Thanks!

He was an interesting character - played in three world championship finals in both snooker and billiards and never won any

I didn't know that. We used to watch him sometimes on "Pot Black" on the ABC. I always thought Eddie Charlton was a champion. Now I'm sad.

 

[Akhenaten]

A Day Off, Headwinds and What Next?

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Yesterday I finally got the day I wanted for a long time. Clear skies, small seas and light winds. What a novelty not to have to hang on for grim life 24/7, well that's a slight exaggeration, but still it was a real treat.

First off I had the best sleep I've had in a long time and was eventually woken up mid morning by a friendly voice over the VHF radio as another customs plane dropped by to say hi. I spent the rest of the day being really lazy with the sailing side of things

linky


Go Jesse!

 

[Akhenaten]

Fairy Bread

Come up here, O dusty feet!
Here is fairy bread to eat.
Here in my retiring room,
Children, you may dine
On the golden smell of broom
And the shade of pine;
And when you have eaten well,
Fairy stories hear and tell.

- Robert Louis Stevenson ​

Thanks, Cobber.

 

[Skwinty]

Go Jesse!

Yes, go Jesse go and don't let the mother grundies get you down

 

[HonestConman]

Does it have Fairy Bread recipes?

No. Hoax Nation is available internationally and we don't want outsiders getting the secret recipe.

 

[Akhenaten]

No. Hoax Nation is available internationally and we don't want outsiders getting the secret recipe.

All of the online reviews indicate that it's a terrific read, and it's now on my wish list.

Any chance of some short quotes or a paraphrase for us? A bit about Ern Malley would be cool, if you've a mind to do it for us.


Cheers, Mate.

 

[Akhenaten]

The Mountain Pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus)

As the Australian Alps come alive to the sound of the ski season, the continent's only true seasonally hibernating marsupial is drifting off to sleep, metres deep beneath the snow. Often they are under the very runs the skiers are using.​

The Mountain Pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus)​

For over 80 years it was thought that the mountain pygmy-possum was extinct, having been first described in 1895 from 15–20,000-year-old fossilised bones.

Although no sightings had been recorded since European settlement the Aborigines probably knew about them because each summer they travelled to the alps to hunt Bogong Moths which the possums also love to eat.

Then, in 1966, a male possum made a surprising debut at the University Ski Lodge at Mt Higginbotham in Victoria and was finally identified both as a Mountain Pygmy-possum and as very much alive.

A new population at Mt Buller, Victoria, was discovered as recently as 1996, through identification of pygmy-possum fur in a predator's scat.​

Read more

 

[Audible Click]

Great article that led me to look up information on the Bogong Moths and why indigenous Australians were eating them. (I was thinking small moths and, boy, was I wrong!)
Link with pictures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogong_moth


Indigenous Australians living in south eastern Australia were known to have feasted on the moths, benefiting from their rich fat reserves, particularly during the summer when the moths were plentiful. The moths were either killed or stupefied by the heat and smoke of torches, and then their bodies collected. Many aboriginal band groups from the lowlands traveled to exploit this tasty, high protein and high fat resource, and so at any time during the summer, the population of human foragers could be upwards of 400 individuals. Moth collection activities were accompanied by appropriate ceremonies and rites of intensification, and most nearby groups held title to their own pitch for harvesting.[3] Once collected, the moths were generally roasted and eaten whole.[1] This cultural use is no longer practised. The term "Urri Arra" refers to the Bogong moth feasts that these Aboriginal people held.

A town, Bogong, in the Victoria state of Australia has been named after the moth.[4]

Please keep up the good work Akhenaten!