Where to go to celebrate the landing of some Great British Adventurers?
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I think the Kangaroo Downunder is doing something. (Lockhart Road, between Klong and the White Stag)
One would hardly count the boatloads of scungy convicts and their vicious gaol-masters as ‘adventurers’…
First recorded words from the initial throng: “Eh bar goom, t’aint a NIIIICe place as be our home in Yorkie, like, eh?” Hence the alternative name: “Whinging Pommies Day.”
Those stout Irish fortune-hunters who came much later, to search for shining gold nuggets in the quartz-studded clay of Central Victoria, or to till the black loam of Portland and Colac, finding bounteous harvests of prarties and onions, they were of much sterner stuff, bequeathing a rich heritage of catholic alcoholism to the hearty sons of their sons of their sons (and their daughters can drink a bit as well). Upon their proud strong backs grew the true basis of this great southern island as we know it today — um, what is it we know about it again?
I’m going to Malaysia for work.
What on earth are you talking about? ….boatloads of convicts….O.K yes there were convicts…yes alot of them were irish….but then during a potato famine clearly your first thought is “what can i steal” rather than “maybe i could plant something else”… Anyway, I digress. Personally I think it is jolly sporting of the antipodeans to celebrate (and quite rightly thank) Britons for findiing - setting up - and given them a home to live in. In fact, the whole world has rather a lot to thank Britons for. I mean no other country would have done it. I mean the Spannish got to south america. How, I shall never know. I reckon they fell asleep on a boat and it lost anchor (one of their siestas). But as Noel Coward quite rightly says “Englishmen detest-a siest-a” . Probably why we did so well….. Imagine a world if Britain had never existed? No USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore, ermm Falklands…..No english language….Thats right, awful isnt it? So, next time you are out and meet a Briton, be sure to give him a stirdy handshake and heart-felt thank you.