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Australia Day 2005

For the Aussie crew... what's on today for you?
A hot one here in Melbourne - expecting around 37C with a late thunderstorm.
We're going to a citizenship ceremony where two of our pommy mates are to become Aussies (dual citizenship), followed by a bit of a champagne piss-up no doubt.

Year of the Carrier?

Keith,

I though that it was Year of the Carrier down under?

How is the fun shaping up?

I will not be able to attend - will anyone be filming this event?

Stewart

Re: Australia Day 2005

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Originally posted by Keith Webb
For the Aussie crew... what's on today for you?
A hot one here in Melbourne - expecting around 37C with a late thunderstorm.
We're going to a citizenship ceremony where two of our pommy mates are to become Aussies (dual citizenship), followed by a bit of a champagne piss-up no doubt.

Dunno about the Aussie crew, but this Canadian crew of two went grocery shopping today ... and lo and behold, I spotted some VEGEMITE which I promptly tossed into the shopping cart (BTW it was right beside the MARMITE that I'm used to).... and of course Master Sunray could not let that one-upmanship happen ... because all of a sudden, a few aisles overr he's running at me and he's shoving a can in my face and grinning and shouting victoriously .... "IF YOU CAN HAVE VEGEMITE THEN I'M GETTING THIS "SPAM" " or some such words :rolleyes: :D

No haggis tonite... couldn't find any :( Perhaps our dinner menu for tonite must be FRIED SPAM ON TOAST WITH SMEARS OF VEGEMITE for dinner? It will be so good, I'm sure, that we won't notice that we aren't suffering 37c weather :p

MA :yappy: :D (Congrats to the new Aussie Citizens :) )

Re: Year of the Carrier?

Year of the Carrier is shaping up well... did you know there are well over 200 Carriers in this country on my database (if you count the wrecks) Of those some 40 carrier owners have indicated a possibility of attending the event this March.
As for filming, yours truly will be there with a sound recordist to make the best record I can of the event, the vehicles and the characters. It will hopefully be even better than Year of the Blitz.
I'll shortly be doing a major update of the carrier pages on my website with many new photographs, both present and historic.

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Originally posted by Stewart Loy
Keith,

I though that it was Year of the Carrier down under?

How is the fun shaping up?

I will not be able to attend - will anyone be filming this event?

Stewart

Our National Day

Here's a pic from the celebration where our pommy friends (to the left of the podium) were reading the oath and becoming Aussies...

A brass band lent a real sense of occasion.

The day wasn't quite as hot as predicted, around 34 but very humid.

At 34 degrees C we spent the day on the top of Mt Macedon cooking up a big feed of yabbies washed down with lots of cold beer and good red.
Oh we did happen to find this tired F60L resting in the trees.
More pics here.
http://au.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/gja...1946/my_photos

Re: Carrier Wrecks?

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Originally posted by Keith Webb
(if you count the wrecks) .

Not only do I count wrecks - I buy them.
:rolleyes:

We look forward to your excellent work.

Stewart

Well done, Mate!

What could be more Australian than yabbies, cold beer and CMP spotting!Incidentally the link doesn't seem to work. Looks like you'd almost get an ARN on the front shell.

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Originally posted by gjamo
At 34 degrees C we spent the day on the top of Mt Macedon cooking up a big feed of yabbies washed down with lots of cold beer and good red.
Oh we did happen to find this tired F60L resting in the trees.
More pics here.
http://au.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/gja...1946/my_photos

The yabbies enjoyed the beer too

Those yabbies like their beer cold.

For me & my family it was a day at the beach,(not my idea of fun)but after taking the family to a truck show a couple of day before I thought I could earn some much needed CMP point by going to the beach for a few days. So Aussie day was spent eating fish & chips on the beach in 34deg watching a fly over of 8 old planes and a spectacular lightning display out over the bay.