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Old 26-01-2013, 10:08 AM   #1
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Happy Australia Day!! What are all you peeps doing today? Me and a couple of mates are going to be cooking a nice wood fired roast on the BBQ we made. Although Brisbane is expected lots of rain and wind, it wont dampen our Australian spirit.


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Old 26-01-2013, 10:12 AM   #2
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Old 26-01-2013, 10:46 AM   #3
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Old 26-01-2013, 11:02 AM   #4
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Was going to have a 40th birthday party, but now think might have to cancel due to weather. Had a live band coming and about 60 odd people, unfortunely I don't have enough cover to keep everyone out of the rain. And the back yard is already looking like a slosh pit. Oh well they are the breaks and they say we need the rain.
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Old 26-01-2013, 11:09 AM   #5
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Just had a lamington with my morning coffee. Having a bbq for lunch - and some party pies/sausage rolls for dinner. Will start on the beers at lunchtime.
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Old 26-01-2013, 11:26 AM   #6
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prob on the ride on and whipper snipper seeing as the weather has cooled right down and its quite nice outside
plenty of things to tidy up around the block
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Old 26-01-2013, 12:38 PM   #7
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After 550+mm dumped up here, over the last 2 days & 2 nights.
I 'll be cleaning up leave and branches spread all over my yard and street.
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Old 26-01-2013, 12:46 PM   #8
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Looking out the window and watching it rain, rain, rain. Oh well, at least my tanks are full and the 500 bucks worth of turf I bought 4 weeks ago, which 2 days ago I was about to give it it's last rite's, has suddenly come good. Can't beat Mother Nature.........
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Old 26-01-2013, 05:23 PM   #9
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My first Australia day where I will have a beer or two. Normally at work or something like that.
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Old 26-01-2013, 05:37 PM   #10
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Not a lot...flooded in on all sides of town by the sound of things...again after what happened two years ago.
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Old 26-01-2013, 05:51 PM   #11
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Isolated in camp on Curtis Island near Gladstone. Not what I had organised but its out of my control. I am still a lot better off than some of the other poor people in Central Queensland.
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Practicing my Austalianisms such as ground hog day, rain check, get go, heads up, take em down, take em out....cobber...bah humbug...
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Old 26-01-2013, 06:37 PM   #13
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Just came back from a drift event at Eastern Creek Raceway. Now sittin around at home...
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Old 26-01-2013, 06:58 PM   #14
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I took a bus to Sydney, and picked up my new ride, that I had paid for during the week....I enjoyed the trip home, that's for sure.
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Old 26-01-2013, 07:20 PM   #15
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throw another staghorn on the barbie.
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Old 26-01-2013, 07:23 PM   #16
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Default Re: Happy Australia Day!! What are you doing for it?

Had a small street BBQ for us and our multicultural neighbours, (Poms, Canadians, Israelis, Croatians, Irish and Tasmanians) LOL, now quietly sitting by the pool having a few beers.

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Old 26-01-2013, 07:31 PM   #17
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Had a small street BBQ for us and our multicultural neighbours, (Poms, Canadians, Israelis, Croatians, Irish and Tasmanians) LOL, now quietly sitting by the pool having a few beers.
God I love Australia .
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Old 26-01-2013, 07:45 PM   #18
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Had a small street BBQ for us and our multicultural neighbours, (Poms, Canadians, Israelis, Croatians, Irish and Tasmanians) LOL, now quietly sitting by the pool having a few beers.

God I love Australia


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very much the same, pretty hot thou at 31*...
going down the road to watch the fireworks with the missus, might do some fishing while im their.
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Old 26-01-2013, 08:36 PM   #19
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Drinking beer and watching a massive storm come past. Funnily enough it's complete opposite to last year.

We barely cracked 30 degrees and had so much rain but this year its been over 30 most days and had barely any rain. Laugh and think this is Australia as the great song goes

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Old 26-01-2013, 08:42 PM   #20
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I started the day by landing my $500 rc plane upside down (was doing a low inverted pass and my finger slipped off the control, have done this pass 100's of times, but it only takes one mishap to ruin the plane), then this afternoon, I put my cat on his 4m lead, went out the back and fell asleep on the sir walter while the cat enjoyed his hour outside.
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In the great Australian tradition, I did **** all.
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Old 27-01-2013, 01:26 AM   #22
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Attended the Redlands-based classic car rally at Ormiston as I have for the last 14 years. Numbers were half the normal size obviously due to the weather.

As you can see, it's a very empty oval.

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Old 27-01-2013, 02:09 AM   #23
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I spent it drinking copious amounts of German beer in Berlin, minus 6 deg!! Happy Australia Day,all. Ps, apparently the weather in brisbane couldn't be more different than here at present,..I have a sinking feeling that my shed will be flooded.
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Old 27-01-2013, 02:48 AM   #24
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Attended the Redlands-based classic car rally at Ormiston as I have for the last 14 years. Numbers were half the normal size obviously due to the weather.

As you can see, it's a very empty oval.

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Maybe if it was advertised more, more people would go!! I live in this area and didn't have a clue about this event!! Nice P38 BTW!!! LOL
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We cruized with some mates down the south cost stumbled across a car show at
Sussex Inlet. So parked there for an hour or 2

Had lunch at the marina, cruized back to the park for
A BBQ with mates















Cruzin with friends and family is what I love about Australia so what better way to celebrate Australia day than to have a big day of that
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how australian is that? a roo and joey at a car show.
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how australian is that? a roo and joey at a car show.

Yea we thought it was pretty special there wasn't many cars there but we met some nice people, the 46 Chev with us had a break issue and one of the guys at the show (the one with the AC Cobra) took my mate up to get some fluid and offered tools etc and then took my mates wife for a joyride in the Cobra while we fixed the Chev

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Looking out the window and watching it rain, rain, rain. Oh well, at least my tanks are full and the 500 bucks worth of turf I bought 4 weeks ago, which 2 days ago I was about to give it it's last rite's, has suddenly come good. Can't beat Mother Nature.........
Well it seems to have finally finished here. Lots of damage and quite a few houses inundated in places that don't normally flood and the tornadoes have ripped a lot of things out of the ground and smashed them into buildings etc.

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