Number of posts : 8189 Location : AUSTRALIA Registration date : 2008-11-06
Subject: Australia Day 26 January Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:53 pm
Today, 26 January, is Australia Day, a day to relish our vast and diverse country, a day to look back on historical events of the past and to look forward to a better and more just future, a day for all Australian citizens to metaphorically unite and proudly celebrate in some uniquely Australian way.
Today, as a very proud Australian, I will spend my holiday in several simple ways. Firstly, friends will join me for a morning tea of damper and scones with jam and cream. Later this afternoon, I will take the pup for a walk on the beach and lastly, a lamb roast is in order for dinner. In a quiet moment, I'll also stand and sing the National Anthem - one of my little quirks.
MY COUNTRY
by Dorothy McKellar
The love of field and coppice Of green and shaded lanes, Of ordered woods and gardens Is running in your veins. Strong love of grey-blue distance, Brown streams and soft, dim skies I know, but cannot share it, My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged 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!
The stark white ring-barked forests, All tragic to the moon, The sapphire-misted mountains, The hot gold hush of noon, Green tangle of the brushes Where lithe lianas coil, And orchids deck the tree-tops, And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country! Her pitiless blue sky, When, sick at heart, around us We see the cattle die But then the grey clouds gather, And we can bless again The drumming of an army, The steady soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country! Land of the rainbow gold, For flood and fire and famine She pays us back threefold. Over the thirsty paddocks, Watch, after many days, The filmy veil of greenness That thickens as we gaze ...
An opal-hearted country, A wilful, lavish land All you who have not loved her, You will not understand though Earth holds many splendours, Wherever I may die, I know to what brown country My homing thoughts will fly.
pamelajane Complete Loss of Marbles
Number of posts : 1363 Registration date : 2008-12-05
Subject: Re: Australia Day 26 January Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:04 pm
Congrats to you, Nay, and all your fellow Aussies!
DonnaKat Head Cheese, Pantry Raider, Your Everlovin' Forum Administrator
Number of posts : 9607 Location : In my skin Registration date : 2008-10-28
Subject: Re: Australia Day 26 January Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:59 pm
Happy Aussie Day, Nay!
LegoJulie Complete Loss of Marbles
Number of posts : 3506 Location : Texas, Our Texas Registration date : 2008-10-29
Subject: Re: Australia Day 26 January Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:26 am
Happy Australia Day!
Dallas Permanent Resident of the Home of the Sanely Insane
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Subject: Re: Australia Day 26 January Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:05 am
Rock on Down Under, Nay.
Nay Moderator
Number of posts : 8189 Location : AUSTRALIA Registration date : 2008-11-06
Subject: Re: Australia Day 26 January Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:32 am
Thanks, PJ, DK, Julie and Dallas. I feel as though I have had a good day. Only one thing on my list to do.
Bizarrely, pup was a little scared of the waves. I really picked the butch one in the litter, didn't I?
kayanne Complete Loss of Marbles
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Subject: Re: Australia Day 26 January Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:15 pm
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Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:53 pm
I really picked the butch one in the litter, didn't I?
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