Happy Australia Day Everyone!

[Mamaduke]

I hope everyone has a fantastic day
celebrating
:smiliedance: Australia Day... :smiliedance:

the BEST country in the world!

MY COUNTRY
A poem by Dorothea Mackellar

The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft dim skies,
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains;
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror-
The wide brown land for me!
The tragic ringbarked forests,
Stark white beneath the moon,
The sapphire misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree tops
And ferns the crimson soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart around us
We see the cattle die-
But then the grey clouds gather
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady soaking rain.
Core of my heart my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold,
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful lavish land-
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand-
Though earth holds many splendours
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country,
My homing thoughts will fly.

[melfunction]

We have been officially Aussies for a whole year :smiliedance: so we are celebrating today!

[kiah]

Have a great day everyone! The sun is shining and it feels good! Yeehahhhhh!:wizard:

[Mamaduke]

We have been officially Aussies for a whole year :smiliedance: so we are celebrating today!

Well Happy Australia Day to you especially!!!!:party:

[ziggie]

Same to you, MD! Glad to see you're very patriotic to our beautiful land :thumbsup:

And melephant - WHOO HOO!!! Happy anniversary, you big Aussie, you! :party:

[Mamaduke]

Same to you, MD! Glad to see you're very patriotic to our beautiful land :thumbsup:


My country is a part of my family...
and I love my family very very much! :yes:

[littlepickle]

It sure is a beautiful day! And theres no place I'd rather be!

Happy Australia Day!!!

[mumstar]

Happy Australia Day
Everyone!!!:D:smiliedance: :party: :D

[Mum&bubs]

Australia Rocks!!!

Enjoy Your Day Everyone, Australia Is Beautiful!!
Happy Australia Day!

[hayleylea]

Happy Aussie Day to you! Happy Aussie day to you! Happy Aussie day Dear Australia, Happy Aussie day to you!! :D :laughing:

Happy Australia day to you All! Have a great one. What a beautiful day!

We are so very lucky to live in this country! :thumbsup:

[Katcha]

Got trhis in a emial a couple of years ago......most of you have probably already seen it, but who cares...it's Australia Day! :D


God bless Australia!

WE ARE ONE!

We are the people of a free nation of blokes, sheilas and the occasional ******.

We come from many lands (although a few too many of us come from New Zealand), and although we live in the best
country in the world, we reserve the right to ***** and moan about it whenever we bloody like.

We are One Nation but divided into many States.

VICTORIA

First, there's Victoria, named after a queen who didn't believe in lesbians.

Victoria is the realm of Mossimo turtlenecks, cafe latte, grand final day, and big horse races.

Its capital is Melbourne, whose chief marketing pitch is that "it's livable". At least that's what they think.

The rest of us think it is too bloody cold and wet.

New South Wales

Next, there's NSW, the realm of pastel shorts, macchiato with sugar, thin books read quickly and millions of dancing queens.

Its capital Sydney has more queens than any other city in the world and is proud of it.

Its mascots are Bondi lifesavers who pull their Speedos up their cracks to keep the left and right sides of their brains separate.

Tasmania

Down south we have Tasmania, a State based on the notion that the family that bonks together stays together. In Tassie, everyone gets an extra chromosome at conception.

Maps of the State bring smiles to the
sternest faces.

It holds the world record for a single mass shooting, which the Yanks can't seem to beat no matter how often they try.

South Australia

South Australia is the province of half-decent reds, a festival of foreigners and bizarre axe murders.

SA is the state of innovation. Where else can you so effectively reuse country bank vaults and barrels as in Snowtown, just out of Adelaide (also named after a queen).

They had the Grand Prix, but lost it when the views of Adelaide sent the Formula One drivers to sleep at the wheel.

Western Australia

Western Australia is too far from anywhere to be relevant.

It's main claim to fame is that it doesn't have daylight saving because if it did,
all the men would get erections on the bus on the way to work.

WA was the last state to stop importing convicts and many of them still work there in the government and business.

Northern Territory

The Northern Territory is the red heart of our land. Outback plains, sheep stations the size of Europe, kangaroos, Jackaroos, emus, Uluru, and dusty kids with big smiles.

It also has the highest beer consumption of anywhere on the planet and its creek beds have the highest aluminium content of anywhere too.

Although the Territory is the centrepiece of our national culture, few of us live there and the rest prefer to fly over it on our way to Bali.

Queensland

And there's Queensland.

While any mention of God seems silly in a document defining a nation of half arsed sceptics, it is worth noting that God probably made Queensland, as its beautiful one day and perfect the next.

Why he filled it with ****heads remains a mystery.

Australian Capital Territory

Oh yes and there's Canberra.
The less said the better.

We want to make "no worries mate" our national phrase, "she'll be right mate" our national attitude and "Waltzing Matilda“ our national anthem (so what if it's about a
sheep-stealing crim who commits suicide).

We love sport so much our newsreaders can read the death toll from a sailing race and still tell us who's winning.

And we're the best in the world at all the sports that count, like cricket, netball, rugby league and union, AFL, roo shooting, two up and horse racing.

Stand proud Aussies - we shoot, we root, we vote.

We are girt by sea and ****ed by lunchtime.

I am, you are, we are Australian!

PS. We also shoot and eat the two animals that are on our National Crest!!!!

No other country has this distinction!
HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY! :party:

[damien's mum]

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY EVERYONE!!!!

Hope no matter what your plans are, everyone has a great day! I know we will!!! :smiliedance: :smiliedance:

[SweetDreams]

YAY Australia!!! Australians all let us ring joyce for she is young and free....

*grin*

[nats]

LOL Sweet Dreams :D


Who had lamb??? :chef:


HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY EVERYONE

[Melo]

Happy Australia Day One and All!

:smiliedance: :smiliedance: :smiliedance: :smiliedance:

[maybe1more]

It sure is a beautiful day! And theres no place I'd rather be!

Happy Australia Day!!!

Here here!!

[*~alegna~*]

Hope a good safe day was had by all my fellow bubhubbians! :kiss: :hugs: