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Celebrate heartily, Australian friends!

Pouring rain here this morning, then sunshine, now clouds again, with temperatures set to drop later tonight. Snow coming, maybe? Please?

As a matter of fact, Fiona

Perfect smilie, Kathy!

It's snowing here , Cathy. Want me to send it north to you?

Thanks, Heidi. I love that pig!

Fiona, I haven't experienced any problems with opening my inbox.

In honor of the start of calving season here , I put a new YouTube on my page.

Maen! Looks like a nice place to go kayaking... or snorkeling... or both!

Fiona, inbox takes time, but no other dramas. I have the pages I want up as separate tabs, makes it a lot easier, but when flicking from puzzle pages, I just do it from this tab with no problems.

Hi everyone, Happy Australia Day to all Aussies around the world.

I had a good clean out of the system and it seems to have quickened things up!! And before Judy jumps in on that one - I cleaned out THE system, not MY system.

I should at least have my Aussie avatar...

Hi Fiona,

No problems moving around from my end. My inbox opens quickly, though it might be different if I had a lot of messages. All pages load in about half a second.

It takes a bit longer to load the SA pages, but even then it is only 2 secs. Send some details of what is taking all the time & I will investigate it for you.


Gath

Is that service or what??? Thank you Gath!

Great just what I needed, 1 to 9 straight through. Lovely sheltered beach, but where is it???

1:29. A nice easy one today, straight through 1 to 9.

Have a great Australia Day all.

Good afternoon to all! So where was this photo/holiday taken? Looks like a nice spot to vacation.

Happy Australia Day Aussies, or is it Foundation Day, or Anniversary Day or Protest Day? How many of our few remaining Aussies celebrate this day by a different name? Just curious.

It is Australia Day, no other name.

Fiona, regardless of all else, even though I'm half Irish, I woke up singing Auld Lang Syne. Happy Burn's Day as well.

Today is also National Bubblewrap Appreciation Day. (this one for you, bertie...)

Good morning all and Happy Australia day to my fellow Australians.
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to AngusCS - very patriotic, being born on Australia Day! Enjoy!
Who knew there would be so many uses for a simple coffee filter?
To my fellow SA friends - did you read what Gath said? Do you think we talk too much?

nup!

Yup!

'sup?

Happy Australia Day

♪♪♪ I am Australian ♪♪♪
I came from the dream time, from the dusty red soil plains,
I am the ancient heart - the keeper of the flame,
I stood upon the rocky shore, I watched the tall ships come,
For forty thousand years I'd been the first Australian.
We are one but we are many
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Well done, Rolanda - I love that song.

Having experienced 4th of July celebrations whilst living in Hawaii, I'd have to say that Australia Day celebrations have been much more low key for Aussies until the last several years. For many, it used to be that the day just meant a long weekend, as the Monday around Australia Day was the More...

So, my belief is that it is only since we embraced January 26th as THE day, that we have started to really celebrate it with some vestige of nationalism.

Thanks for the lyrics of "I am Australian", Rolanda. As I read them through I realised that, while the song (which I love) acknowledges the Aborigines as the first Australians and those who came as convicts, free settlers, gold diggers, etc, in the first hundred years or so of European More...

And yes, I acknowledge that the Aboriginal people of Australia call it Invasion Day, but I also believe that no matter which day (white) Australia chose as its national celebration day, it would have the opposite meaning for the original inhabitants of this "wide, brown land".

That's true, Judy, but I'm not very good at sonwriting!

nor am I.. My parents came as Post-war immigrates from Holland, which makes me a first generation Australian.

Our extended family is a very mixed bag in terms of cultural/ethnic background and length of history in Australia - from first fleet to first generation, English, Irish, Scottish, French, German, Italian, Turkish - and possibly others we haven't yet identified. We are one, but we are many ....

Off to work, and lacking the energy to CP for the TOPP and Pounce. I am there, in spirit! Cheers, enjoy the celebrations, OZ!!!!!

Happy Australia Day to my Australian friends!

I am a post-war immigrant (AKA £10 Pom, only being under 12y I was free) My family have never regretted the move, & you would be hard pushed to find prouder Aussies. I officially became an Aussie in the '70's, & urge all who come here to live to recognize Australia, officially, as More...