Queens Birthday Oz style
I suspect most Aussies had no idea that the 'Long Weekend' was to celebrate Queen Elizabeth 11 (Queen of Australia)Despite having their own Honours List published in full today-3 pages in a broadsheet. No OBE's or anything to do with the Pom Empire-but Order of Australia no less with a very similar list of characters honoured as we would find in the Indy or Times. Services to the disabled-Tea lady to the Test Team etc.
Weekend slightly curtailed as grandson with stinking cold and KE not sleeping well at night-she sleeps solidly all day but has her daylight muddled up with her night dark and does not seem able to kick the habit despite being a mature two weeks old as I blog. So we came back from Narooma one night early. It is a lovely place-miles of beaches (all empty), amazing sea food and despite being The Long Week End quiet roads. All though All Canberra came to the beach on a single track road (with occasional passing lanes spaced haphazardly-some on down hill stretches rather than on up gradients as in First World Countries) Alarming road signs : 'Triple Demirit points this weekend' and 'Speed Zones are Enforceable' But few Hoons around and traffic agreeably well behaved.
Sport? Oh Dear England thrashed by the All Blacks, Wales by the Argentines. Scotland went down to the Wallabies but gave the b*******s a fright or two and to complete a clean sweep for the Southern Hemisphere, South Africa beat Ireland. At least England beat the Kiwis at cricket but that produced no headlines in the Sydney Morning Herald. Gloats all round.
