Redau

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Name: Red
Gender: Female
Location: Fishing Village Idiot AU

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Come Visit the Aussies

(The White Sails and Coat Hangar)

The Sydney Harbour Bridge

The Opera House

Mooney Mooney Bridge (between Sydney and Newcastle)

Pelican and Crane

Eric the Dinosaur resides at Reptile Park Gosford

Magpie

More Aussie Stuff

That's us all by our lonesome!

There we are again, *look* at the end there!

An Aussie is proof that God has a sense of humour.

Q: What is found in the middle of Australia, and also in the middle of America?
A: The letter R.

Bonsai

(20 years old now)

(10 years old)

A new edition to Bonsai garden bed!

Bonsai's are not everyone's cup of tea as you need oodles of patience.

The idea is to keep them in miniature of the original tree and to do this this you must forever and day keep pruning them back.

From time to time (about every 2 to 3 years) you need to remove them from the pot and cut back the root system, the root system must be kept in check this stops the tree from growing too fast. I myself have lost a couple while doing the root cut back and unless you are prepared to lose a few then this is not a hobby for you. If on the other hand you have say about 28 (I think that's what I have at this time) then it doesn't upset you as much.

A small peek at my garden

Fairy's hiding in my garden bed the main features plant is Kangaroo's Paw.

Another bed with Fairy's hiding.

Japanese Maple. (22 years old similar technique to bonsai art)

My Get Away!

Pets

Picture below is my very first dog I owned on moving to down here. Funny story; the original owners were 2 elderly English women and they hated Australia and were returning home to England minus the dog this time.This dog named Baron was only to go to another English family as they had brought him out from England with them and they thought he would not settle with any one else other than us English. He sure settled with me, he was bigger than me, had every person giving him a wide berth. The butcher was his best friend. My parents never worried about me (who I might add I never looked my age and looked on the skinny side - there's another story there too) when I was out and Baron was by my side.

The latest pets............

Jimmy (budgerigar) flew into my garden and I caught him. If I hadn't, that magpie pictured above, (I have hundreds of them things along side of the Kurrawongs) he would have been one of their dinners. He has turned into a great talker.

Was at our markets when I spotted this lonely duckling felt sorry for it so brought her home. A friend living on a farm had the male and she was terrified of him, so softy here said I'd take him. I had a few weeks of battles with him to tell him he does not terrorise us - he is quite good now. The other 2 smaller ducks you see are visitors from the lake.

Taffy the Persian is a very sad cruel story. A guy owned her and he and his mate were on a drinking binge and his mate ran Taffy over. A friend of mine came visiting and asked "were they going to take her to the Vet as she's bleeding to death"? Replied, nah she's just a cat she'll die soon enough. My friend grabbed one his best towels (on purpose) and wrapped her in it saying I am taking her to the Vet and you will never see her again. I had my own cat at time and kept hearing about her injuries and how her new owner never remembered to feed her. I then had my own cat put to sleep way before her time due to heart problems. Then a few weeks later said OK give me this cat I'll see what I can do. I was given a skeleton, blind in one eye, has brain damage, half her teeth gone all thanks to irresponsible boozers! It took me a year to get her back to normal and now she for the first time in a long time knows what a cat's life is all about.

Cassie the tortoiseshell moggie was also given to me. A neighbour 2 doors down bought her for her 2 children for Christmas. They already had a male cat who would not take to her. *sighs* I will see what I can do. You need to have patience when introducing a new member into your already crowded household and garden. I won in the end as the 2 female cats get along famously, in fact Cassie has helped build Taffy's confidence.

Yeti the little one is a Lowchen again he was given to me as he failed his colours at the dog show. He is now eleven and half years old. When he was six I had to have my tri-colour collie put to sleep as he had back problems. Yeti thanks to his previous owner has never spent a day on his own there has always been another dog or dogs with him. When I had the collie put to sleep and I tried to leave home the neighbours tell me they nearly cried for his howling was very upsetting he was so distressed being on his own. Collie season would not be around for at least another three months so we headed to the Dog Pound.

Digger is a Labrador kelphie cross. At the pound the dogs were either jumping and barking at the fence as you walked past or others were down the other end cowering. Knew cowering dogs you don't go near and at same time I didn't want a nuisance dog. I spotted Digger lying down in middle of the run ignoring everything going on around him. Thought he's the one I want. The Ranger tried everything to talk me out of taking him. He jumps six foot fences, he is not obedient, you will have trouble with him and we'll have him back here in a couple of days. I had actually left the pound with no dog but kept thinking something is not making sense here? He's in middle of run and is very quiet. I returned saying I have listened to all you have said but I am willing to give the dog a third chance if it doesn't work out then he can be put to sleep.

3 days later I smelt an over powering pungent smell coming from his ears. Took him to vet and he only had a fungal infection in his ears and one ear had no ear canal at all. The dog was deaf and in a lot of pain. Vet was very surprised that he was not turning on us humans he must have a high tolerance pain level. It took us a year to have his ears and hearing back to normal. In all the time I have had him he's not once given me any trouble. This is probably due to myself having dogs for years and one of the golden rules is you teach the dog with hand and voice commands and so for the first time Digger was understanding what I wanted from him.

I have used this photo purposely of the two dogs as not once did they step over the fence line. (not even with me on the other side tormenting them) The fence took 3 days to be replaced - nice to know they like home! *grins*

MORAL OF THE STORY

When you see that cute little, fluffy puppy or kitten please remember this................

They grow! They need hours upon hours of your attention. Training and socialising all animals is like you having to brush your teeth. They cost you to feed them and a regular check up at the Vet once a year is highly recommended. So please make sure you are willing to be spending many of your hours with that animals life with you, which can be any where between 5 to 100 years.

Why do I say a 100 years? I forgot Zoey the galah. *lol* She flew into a neighbours garden and a cat caught her. Zoey cannot be released back into the wild as she has a permanent damaged wing from the cat and would not survive. My neighbour then put her in a rabbit hutch. I couldn't stand this any longer so I took her over. My neighbours, family, friends and a number of people are frightened of her beak but she's really a pussy cat.

Footnote; I have heard of a few more animals lately in need of care but I have had to decline, I have enough on my plate right now.

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Downunder

Hello I am from here

and moved all the way down to

Did you know that Australia is the oldest land in the world? England on the other hand has the oldest castles, moats, haunted houses which I do miss from time to time. The homesick feeling soon leaves me when we head to our beaches (five minutes by car or twenty minutes by foot from my home) and meet our ancestors down at the beach...........

(He loves to play with the children down at Norah Head)
*grins*

Other days I head to Canton Beach and if I keep walking a further ten minutes I am in one of the famous National Parks, below is a picture of Canton beach, the bush you see is the start of the National Parks. (yes that is dawn brewing best time of the day to be down at Lakes or Beaches)

Canton Beach and that's one of my nephews!

The big one is Australia and the little island underneath is Tasmania, over to the right is New Zealand.

Any of you ever *wonder* why the Northern Hemisphere is covered in land mass where as the Southern Hemisphere is all smallish Islands and we are few and far between - I do know the answer why do you?

My Board - Gypsy Rover Gathering

Please sign my Graffiti Wall - thanks!

World Clock

EXTRA ICONS

I'm not cuddly!

Parliament House Canberra
(not the bus! *grins*)

Corella
(I spend too much time chasing these things out of my garden they can strip a tree in minutes.)

Skippy, Skippy, Skippy the bush kangaroo!
(ever see that show?)

Neither am I cuddly!

AUSSIE LAUGHS

Huh?

As I was entering Sydney international airport the other day, the Immigration Officer stopped me.
"Do you have a criminal record?" he asked. "I didn't know you still needed one," I quipped.

A Pack of Cards

Four Drovers are sitting around a campfire discussing what they'd want; if they were lost in the outback and were only allowed one thing. The first says, "I couldn't do without my trusty old horse. She could probably lead me to a homestead from the back o' Bourke."
The second says, "You can have your horse but I'd want my swag. If your gonna be lost you may as well sleep warm at night."
The third says, "There's no question. I'd want my old Queensland Heeler 'Blue'. He's my best mate and if I was gonna die out there I'd want him beside me."
The last old bushie says, "Only one thing I'd need -- a pack of cards.
See, I'd start playing patience and before long some bastard would be looking over my shoulder saying "Red Jack on Black Queen."

A koala is sitting up a gum tree ... smoking a joint

when a little lizard walks past and looks up and says,

"Hey Koala ! What are you doing?"

The koala says: "Smoking a joint, come up and have some."

So the little lizard climbs up and sits next to the koala and they have a few joints. After a while the little lizard says his mouth is 'dry' and is going to get a drink from the river. But the little lizard is so stoned that he leans too far over and falls into the river.

A crocodile sees this and swims over to the little lizard and helps him to the side, then asks the little lizard "What's the matter with you?"

The little lizard explains to the crocodile that he was sitting smoking a joint with the koala in the tree, got too stoned and then fell into the river while taking a drink.

The crocodile says he has to check this out and walks into the rain forest, finds the tree where the koala is sitting finishing a joint, and he looks up and says "Hey you!"

So the koala looks down at him and says:

"Shiiiiiiiiiiit dude ... how much water did you drink?!!"

You know you're Australian if....

You know the meaning of 'girt'

You believe that stubbies can either be worn or drunk

You think it is normal to have a Prime Minister called Kevin

You waddle when you walk due to the 53 expired petrol discount vouchers stuffed in your wallet or purse

You've made a bong out of your garden hose rather than use it for something illegal such as watering the garden

When you hear that an American 'roots for his team' you wonder how often and with whom

You understand that the phrase 'a group of women wearing black thongs' refers to footwear and is far less alluring than it sounds

You pronounce Melbourne as 'Mel-bin'

You pronounce Penrith as 'Pen-riff'

You believe the 'L' in the word 'Australia' is optional

You can translate: 'Dazza and Shazza played Acca Dacca on the way to Maccas'

You believe it makes perfect sense for a nation to decorate its highways with large fibreglass bananas, prawns and sheep

You call your best friend 'a total bastard' but someone you really, truly despise is just 'a bit of a bastard'

You think 'Woolloomooloo' is a perfectly reasonable name for a place

You believe is makes sense for a country to have a $1 coin that's twice as big as its $2 coin

You understand that 'Wagga Wagga' can be abbreviated to 'Wagga' but 'Woy Woy' can't be called 'Woy'

You believe that cooked-down axlegrease makes a good breakfast spread

You believe all famous Kiwis are actually Australian, until they stuff up, at which point they again become Kiwis

You know, regardless of what the tourist books say, that no one ever says 'cobber'

You know that certain words must, by law, be shouted out during any rendition of the Angels' song 'Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again'

You believe, as an article of faith, that the confectionary known as the Wagon Wheel has become smaller with every passing year

You still don't get why the 'Labor' in 'Australian Labor Party' is not spelt with a 'u'

You wear ugh boots outside the house

You believe that the more you shorten someone's name the more you like them

Whatever your linguistic skills, you find yourself able to order takeaway fluently in every Asian language

You understand that 'excuse me' can sound rude, while 'scuse me' is alway polite

You know what it's like to swallow a fly, on occasions via your nose

You understand that 'you' has a plural and that it's 'youse'

You know it's not summer until the steering wheel is too hot to handle

Your biggest family argument over the summer concerned the rules of beach cricket

You react with horror when companies try to market what they call 'Anzac cookies'

When returning home from overseas, you expect to be brutally strip-searched by Customs - just in case you're trying to sneak in fruit

You believe the phrase 'smart casual' refers to a pair of black tracky-daks, suitably laundered

You understand that all train timetables are works of fiction

When working at a bar, you understand male customers will feel the need to offer an excuse whenever they order low-alcohol beer

You get choked up with emotion by the first verse of the national anthem and then have trouble remembering the second

You find yourself ignorant of nearly all the facts deemed essential in the government's new test for migrants.

You will immediately forward this list to other Australians, here and overseas, realising that only they will understand!!