The Ellis family day 2008

Well what a pleasant surprise to see Cat’s head up over the fence. Hi Cat! Lovely to see you and here for you and anyone else who may need reminding, this blog is easily accessed and commented on if you can just remember Chris OK’s ludicrously long email address: christopher.okeefe6@bigpond.com and the very difficult password; okeefes though not necessarily in italics.

Now here to ramp up your home sickness are some snaps from yesterdays family day, splendidly organised by Alice and Jack at the pub.

Now, least that did not give a tough enough tug to the heart I’ll indulge you with some nostalgia. English have a habit of calling their homeland The Old Dart for what reason no one, or everyone, knows. Sub Editors, or Subs to the trade, are in the habit of taking things like this and giving a twist like The Old Fart or my favourite The Old Tart (maybe Portuguese). I have decided in this in this vein to take Sub’s licence and call our country The Young S-punk and following are some typical scenes from the same.

Pulls teeth too

Local Poet

Cant fail

Local Gallery

A few of my favorite things

Henson Park

Airliner over Henson Park

Sunrise over Henson Park

I include this only because this agent seems to share my weakness for alliteration, does anyone know what a breakfast basin is.

Last and certainly least; I have recently been reading works set in India and China in my lifetime and struck by social drama that living in a different place can have in the same time I’m set to musings such as the following:

FUN FUN FUN by The Beach Boys (the Chinese ones) aka; Wheels from the Dray

Well she’s got her daddy’s ox
and she’s sloshing through the muddy long march now
Seems she forgot all about the revolution
That she learned from old Mao now
And with the propaganda blastin
She goes sloshing just as fast as she can now
and she’ll have fun fun fun
till the red guard take the wheels from the dray

Well the proletariat can’t stand her
Cause she walks and drives like a capitalist now
(you walk like a capitalist now you walk like a capitalist)
She makes western hegemony look more like a market stall space now
(market stall space now, market stall space)
A lot of guards try to catch her
But she knows about the totalitarian state now
And she’ll have fun fun fun
till the red guards take the wheels from the dray

Well you knew all along
That old Mao was getting wise to you now
(Your gonna get purged now your gonna get purged)
And since he took your set of wheels
You’ve been thinking that your fun was all through now
(Your gonna get purged now your gonna get purged)

But you can come along with me
Cause we gotta flee to the west now
(Your gonna get purged now your gonna get purged)

And we’ll have fun fun fun now now the red guard took the wheels from the dray
(fun fun fun now now the red guard took the wheels from the dray)
And we’ll have fun fun fun now now the red guard took the wheels from the dray
(fun fun fun now now the red guard took the wheels from the dray)


That’s all folks

Aunty R