Diabolical Clay

How Can I describe Anzac day? A day that defines how I think of myself as an Australian.

A day that makes me immensely proud and immeasurably sad. Who else but Australians and our mad cousins, the New Zealanders, would take a disastrous defeat, military insanity and completely chaotic ineptitude and turn it into A matter of intense national pride.

Who else?

No one else that’s who, except possibly for the bloody Irish, because the Irish are fucking insane as well. The Irish whose blood runs thickly in my family and in a lot of Australian Families.

To celebrate the defeat and the senseless slaughter that was and is Gallipoli, is truly an Australian thing.

To be proud of the fact that we are descended from convicts and from the detritus of English society is a truly Australian thing.

I think that as Australians we really like to say, “Oh Get Fucked you Bastard.” which translates to, “It’s your shout” and “lets put our hands in our pockets”and “are you right mate?”

In secret squirrel language it means we want to help, this is truly an Australian thing

Phrases like, No Shit Sherlock. Flat out like a lizard drinking. You bewdy and *this is a knife* And never ever, ever! apologising for not knowing the words to our National Anthem, this is truly an Australian thing.

“Australians all let us rejoice for we are young and free..
oh dum de dum dee do de dum oh something gird by sea…,
blah blah blah blah bla bla bla etcetera etcetera. you seeeeee…”

But I reckon that every Australian knows the words to Waltzing Matilda.
And every Australian that I know embraces the Aussie idea of a Fair go.The Australians that I know range from Korean to Polish from Malaysian to Finnish. They all are My Australians.

Not the Aussies that the politicians would have us believe are true.

Not this bullshit political correctness that is crippling our society,
Not this bullshit terrorist fear.
Not this bullshit search for weapons of mass destruction.
Not this, not this bullshit, this isn’t Australian at all.

I often wonder what those young men and women that heeded the call to arms to serve their king and country. I wonder what they would think about the Australia of the 21st century.
Would they feel proud? Would we be suitable inheritors of their Australian dream?
Or would they feel sad that we are still squabbling?

Anzac day to me is My holy day. My day of tears and pride. A day that I never actually feel is a real day. I always wake up feeling disjointed on Anzac day. I am always close to tears on Anzac day and I always end up getting spectacularly smashed on Anzac day. I am signing off this Anzac day post with a shot of whiskey.

One of the first things that I do in the morning is look outside and check out what sort of day it is going to be. I looked out the bathroom window this morning and my first thought was, “Gosh it’s foggy.

Then I noticed that the sun was an orangey red and I knew that it wasn’t fog but bloody smoke. Thick stinky smoke from yet another of Forestry Tasmanias regeneration burns..

See that smoky photo, this is what it looked like here at 7 am.. Bastards..

This photo shows what is happening.
(photo courtesy of forestalert.org)

See that helicopter.. Napalm is being used to firebomb our forests. Richard Flanagan says it best here in an article he wrote for The Guardian…

Some days I am ashamed to be Tasmanian..

This is a one word meme.. I totally stole this from Ree.. check her out She’s HOT..

You.
Can.
Only.
Type.
One.
Word.

Not as easy as you might think.
Remember: one word answers.

1.Where is your mobile phone? dunno
2.Your significant other? *chuckles*
3.Your hair? long
4.Your mother? sweet
5.Your father? dead
6.Your favorite thing? camera
7.Your dream last night? sexy
8.Your favorite drink? beer
9.Your dream/goal? studio
10.The room you’re in? sun
11.Your ex? forgotten
12.Your fear? stroke
13.Where do you want to be in 6 years? studio
14.Where were you last night? asleep
15.What you’re not? skinny
16.Muffins? toasted
17.One of your wish list items?studio
18.Where you grew up? suburbia
19.The last thing you did? typed
20.What are you wearing? clothes
21.Your TV?off
22.Your pets? inside
23.Your computer? necessary
24.Your life? mine
25.Your mood?happy
26.Missing someone? Dad
27.Your car?reliable
28.Something you’re not wearing? bra
29.Favorite Store? bookshop
30.Your summer? hot
31.Like someone? spouse
32.Your favorite color? purple
33.When is the last time you laughed? now
34.Last time you cried? yesterday

mmmm thanks Ree.. this was a lot harder than I thought.. cheers Kim xxx

In February this year I wrote a post describing how global warming is to blame for my fat arse.. You can go and read it and then blame global warming for your fat bum too.. I will wait..

The spouse and I are keen anglers and as you might have gathered from previous posts of mine I am a bit of a greenie as well. I also notice stuff. Like the fact that it hasn’t rained for ages. Umm like the fact that it is getting hotter. And And And that we are starting to catch strange species of fish in the river. Fish that are definitely ‘Not Local Fish’ *cue spooky music*

This is a juvenile Yellowtail Kingfish.. For goodness sakes! We caught this fish yesterday in the Derwent River .. WTF???? You don’t normally catch these fish in the Derwent because it supposedly is a tad chilly for them. These extremely tasty fish like warmer waters and even though they can be found up the east coast around St Helens, we were totally gobsmacked to catch this little fellow down here. Of course we then tried flatstick to catch as many of this stray fishes siblings as we could… Sadly without any luck.. Maybe in a few years time these will be a common catch in our supposedly colder waters.. *Sighs*

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Here are my weekly winners, There is one ‘ring in’ I didn’t take the photo of the Dragonfly this week…But but but I had thought that I had accidentally deleted it and only found it again this week so can I please be forgiven???

Weekly winners is the brainchild of the gorgeously talented Sarcastic Mom.. You really should do yourself a favour and go over and check her out..

cheers Kim xxx

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