Well gentlemen and Rene; that day has come around again; 26 January 1788 or the anniversary thereof. 219 years ago i think.
As direct result of the American war of independence, the English had to find somewhere else to send all the convicts, so they established the worlds largest, most remote and beautiful penal colony and they called it New South Wales. Its capital was and still is Sydney.
Regards ian
Hi Ian,
Is this a National Holiday for Aus.? If so enjoy! Keep the trains going. Regards eh...Brian.
Tom Trigg
bman36 wrote: Hi Ian,Is this a National Holiday for Aus.? If so enjoy! Keep the trains going. Regards eh...Brian.
It surely is.
Except of course for the poor sods who have to work because the great unwashed "demanded" our Lords and masters allow the supermarkets and most big retail stores to stay open with business as usual.
Best wishes,Tony Walsham (Remote Control Systems) http://www.rcs-rc.comModern technology. Old fashioned reliability.
Happy A-Day!, lite some fireworks and blow up some cane toads!
Have fun with your trains
Ian and Tony Happy Holiday to you and all of the other Australian train folk!!!
underworld
Wot r u on aboot?
We don't have anything like that, don't have any idea what you're talking aboot.
"You Americans use all these American terms and then wonder why you are not understood by others. Really to talk in this manner is just as rude as say; talkng in Italian in front of a whole lot of people who do not understand Italian."
http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/994115/ShowPost.aspx
Funny aboot the other foot, eh, what?
TonyWalsham wrote: bman36 wrote: Hi Ian,Is this a National Holiday for Aus.? If so enjoy! Keep the trains going. Regards eh...Brian. It surely is.Except of course for the poor sods who have to work because the great unwashed "demanded" our Lords and masters allow the supermarkets and most big retail stores to stay open with business as usual.
Curmy you have left me for dead, i have no idea what you are talking about, however i did get the drift that it was meant to be insulting; however it was just non applicable.
Tony isn't in this one i think, he is a Kiwi, lives on the other side of the Tasman Sea.
Thanks for all the good wishes from my North American freinds.
Here is and Anglo American story about Sydney Harbour, which is generally regarded as the worlds top harbour.
A squadron of four warships from the newly formed American navy was sent to visit the then new settlement of New South Wales at Sydney Cove. They approached Sydney heads just on dark and as they knew the harbour was big ( easily holds 1000 ships of the line) and without any natural hazards they kept going, through the heads and bear to port and anchor at will, was the sailing instructions. They did just that but were a bit confused as there were no lights, but kept going and evetually saw a small light to port. Whereupon they dropped anchor.
There were no Aussies yet all poms and they were pretty upset when the woke up the next morning with four foreign warships anchored in Sydney Cove and of a very recent enemy. You Poms and Yanks hadn't become mates yet. Anyway hard words were said on both sides but it was all sorted out and the sailors went ashore for shore leave; spent quit a bit of money and have been doing so ever since.
The upshot was they put a look out up on a hill on the northern headland with a beacon fire to light, if any ships were sighted coming from anywhere. Today this is a very expenive suburb of Sydney known as Beacon Hill.
Good luck to all you Yanks and Poms from us Aussies on Australia Day 2007
Rgds Ian.
The Dixie D Short Line "Lux Lucet In Tenebris Nihil Igitur Mors Est Ad Nos 2001"
Jack mate, we start off having vegemite on our toast for breakfast. the we have a few swims and a barbeque with freinds and relatives. have a few beers or other drinks and i guess that it. Oh of course we have many concerts and other outdoor types of entertainment.
The Prime Minister and governor General give out Australia day honours etc.
Rgds ian,
iandor wrote: Tony isn't in this one i think, he is a Kiwi, lives on the other side of the Tasman Sea.Thanks for all the good wishes from my North American freinds.
Ian you need to pay attention a bit better.
I am actually a Brit.
I live in Melbourne.
Curmudgeon wrote: Wot r u on aboot? We don't have anything like that, don't have any idea what you're talking aboot. "You Americans use all these American terms and then wonder why you are not understood by others. Really to talk in this manner is just as rude as say; talkng in Italian in front of a whole lot of people who do not understand Italian."http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/994115/ShowPost.aspx Funny aboot the other foot, eh, what?
HuH?????
Ah, So! Rather like the 4th of July, or Cinco de Mayo! A holiday to commerorate the birth of a nation!
Gee, there are enough nations in the world that if we celebrated the founding of all we'd hardly ever have to go to work!
Bob; I always admired you and now i know why, the idea of celebrating every countries national day is terrific, we would have a holiday nearly every day and i am for that.
Tony, you have my opologies; I think we met at the Brisbane train show and your accent sounded to me like a kiwi accent.
Good luck to you all anyway
Rgds Ian
iandor wrote: Jack mate, we start off having vegemite on our toast for breakfast. the we have a few swims and a barbeque with freinds and relatives. have a few beers or other drinks and i guess that it. Oh of course we have many concerts and other outdoor types of entertainment.Rgds ian,
Someone explain to me how this is different from any other day of the week for the average Aussie?
Well Vic you have hit on an intricacy of the Aussie nature in that we argue a lot among ourselves. You get a public holiday for Australia Day, we love that; and they hand out Australia Day honours, 575 people this year and two dogs. We do a lot of stuff that is Australian; have barbies, go swimming and surfing, drink booze and sing aussie songs such as Walzting Matilda, I still call Australia home, I come from a land down under etc. A big think is to beat the English at cricket, as we often do.
Oh i forgot we can't agree among oursleves as to which day it should be celebrated on, 26 January but is it on the day; nearest weekend and what happens if it falls on a weekend and every state has its own ruling on it. If you are smart you can travel interstate and have it several times.
Another thing we can't agree on is daylight saving. You know we only have 6 states and 2 territories and we have 3 time zones but when daylight savings comes in, we have no less than 5 time zones, possibly 6. Western Australia is the oddest they go onto the same time zone as south east Asia, with little to do with the rest of australia at all.
Rgds Ian and thanks for your interest Vic.
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