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It is bad enough when one member of the family has gastro or a tummy flu.

When it wipes out the whole family at once it is not much fun...

Lucky we have three toilets and lots of buckets!

I remeber the feeling well, hopefully not an experience I'll repeat in the near future!
Hope you're feeling better soon!

Suppose it is better than kicking the bucket!

hey Mark was watching Australia last nite with Hugh Jackman
swoon!! ladies have a look at the pecs on that guy!

and was thinking what a bleak place Australia is in some parts but magical!
I would love to go walk about!!

one of my ancestors bro to my Gt Grandma went over there and I think started a sheep ranch
not had much chance to research all that side


you better now then?

Sheep farmers!! You know what they say about them don't you or was that people from Wales?

Stupidest movie ever made.

He lied so much about the treatment of aboriginees I wrote several protest letters to him.

We did enough terrible things to the natives without having to make things up.

Aborigines banned from some pubs? That was at the request of their own elders in an attempt to control the alchoholism.

Native children abandoned on an island that was then attacked by the Japanese?

Many people risked their lives to evacuate ALL children from that island and it was never attacked.

Why have some upper class "lady" when the majority of succesfull Aussie farmers and cattlemen are from convict stock?

The movie showed nothing about the true story and spirit of the Australian stockman or Australians in general.

Apart from Hugh's abbs, there was plenty of othe nice scenery!

Oh we all had a tummy bug a little while ago.
Hope you all feel better soon.
Jo

I agree Mark the best thing about the film "Australia" was the scenery.

Jimmy wrote:I agree Mark the best thing about the film "Australia" was the scenery.

and Hugh Jackman

MC....What part of Australia is Broken Hill ?
Mike.

Rob wrote:Sheep farmers!! You know what they say about them don't you or was that people from Wales?

The family may be from the Black Country, but I grew up in Wales.

Broken Hill is in the far west of New South Wales, near the South Australian Border, about halfway between Victoria and Queensland.

Visited there a couple of times and I think the red dust would send me mad if I lived there.

Have a look on Google Maps. Its this well organised little town in the middle of nowhere.


http://maps.google.com.au/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&q=Broken+Hill&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Broken+Hill+NSW&gl=au&ei=F51_TOzuL8TXcdzbqIwL&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ8gEwAA

P.S. A couple of my good friends are sheep farmers and would rip your arm off and hit you with the wet end if you made references to sheep shagging.

Thanks MC.for the info very kind of you .
Mike.

I think we should all visit Mark for a little hols!
well we are practically family now all of us!

Northern Lass wrote:I think we should all visit Mark for a little hols!
well we are practically family now all of us!

We could go walkabout!
D'ya think Mark's like Crocodile Dundee???

Nah....more like Barry Mackenzie.