Saturday, July 4, 2009
The fight
A typical Aussie home from the 20th century. Wide verandah's to keep out the heat and a gabled roof. No attic no basement. ____________________________________________________________________________ Tom was quiet for so long Mandy risked a question. "The fight Dad, what about the fight." Tom...
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Friday, July 3, 2009
Irish Wiley continues.
"When the boys came home from the war they brought with them a terrible blight, a flue, killed a lot of people so it did, well those that did come home. Every family along the coastal area lost someone, father, brother, sweetheart. Our own family lost two sons out of three, one at Gallipoli the...
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Irish Wiley
"Nobody really knows much about Wiley. He was Irish for sure, born in county Cork some say,and fled the English magistrates after the 1916 Easter rebellion. Well that may be true or not, he turned up here sometime in 1917 when most of the local lads were in Europe fighting for King and country in...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
the story begins.
Dressed in faded red overalls, one broken and dangling, strap Mandy dangled her bare feet in the cool creek water. It was Sunday afternoon and she and her Dad Tom, were drowning worms. They were close to the creeks mouth where tidal water flowed back and forth. Mum was hoping for fresh fish for tea....
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Monday, June 29, 2009
A story stirs
I took this photo on my travels in Australia and the magic of a story is stirring in my brain. Wiley you are about to become Australian folk law. Is our Wiley to be a villain or a hero? Future blogs will tell.
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
I think I just destroyed Wiley's mind,
Each week I sign into immigration Canada on line, to see how my Permanent Residency application is going and there is never any sign of movement, week after week after month.....until tonight that is,..... when I checked and found the following addition. Client Application Status Top of Form...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
back yard chat
Lots of these chaps can be found most days visiting at the back of my sister's house on the South Eastern coast of Australia. Bits of pests actually because they eat her roses off just before the buds open; leaving M. rather annoyed. It was a busy and fruitful trip back down under and I feel...
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
starting back tomorrow
Yes folks, tomorrow evening my time I will leave Wagga Wagga and fly to Sydney, stay the night with my girlfriend and then the next morning catch the international flight back to Canada. It has been a very successful trip in most part and I will be extraordinarily excited to be back with the Wiley...
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
The good and the bad everywhere
I have had to catch up on urgent business matters back here in Australia and I am happy to write that almost everything is completed. Actually everything would be finished except that an idiot in my Bank locked up my credit card pin so that I couldn't use it. He insisted on undertaking a procedure I...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
One of those long girlie lunches
Today was rather special beginning well with a most important phone call from a most important man. Wonder if you can guess who. after which......... I met with a life long girl friend today.Second time for this trip and we set out at lunch time for one of those great meals where the company is way...
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