Lake Bolac: The Home of Bob the Bunyip

I found this the other day at Memery:

1. Grab the nearest book.
   
2. Open the book to page 23.
   
3. Find the fifth sentence.
   
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

All right then:
'Like many an Australian and New Zealander, he heard antipodean speech as English English gone wrong.'
- K S Inglis of Conrad Charlton in This is the ABC.

Yeah! So now what?

Farouk and Paris came over yesterday with red dyed eggs and the new IKEA Catalogue. It was hilarious: we tried to work out what products you would have to buy to be able to email Daphne and say, in good conscience, 'You may be a slut on heat with a bit of flabb and I might just be a jerker boning up, but I go fartfull and groggy every time I see your micky. Would you risk a roger?"

Year 8 stuff, we know, but the solution (for those crypticly inclined) is a visitor chair, a trivet, a wall lamp, a computer table, cannisters, a work bench, a tray, a mirror, and a chair.

God, I can't believe I posted that!

Yes, well, we all know it, and are all blaming one another and excusing one another! It's just that when things really settled back to normal after the summer break, no-one really seemed to make our blog their number one priority. We could all say we were busy: Paris has taken up tennis coaching to add to his already busy schedule and has been spending hours down at the school after the kids go home hitting a ball against a wall and grunting. Daph has gone into one of her 'meditative' phases, focusing on reading, cooking, crafts and spirituality. Farouk had been 'lying low' since the nice men from DIMIA had their information night in Hamilton: every now and then he shows his face for just long enough to pose silly questions like 'How can a ferret be an economic refugee?' or 'How come Australians just don't get it about weasels?' - then we don't see him for a week or more.

I have, of course, been in regular correspondence with some of you throughout the time of this page's hibernations. And there have been some absolute gems flying through the ether:

A northern cousin sent the following, which he claims is an actual advertisement from an Irish Newspaper:
1985 Blue Volkswagen Golf
Only 15 km
Only first gear and reverse used
Never driven hard
Original tires
Original brakes
Original fuel and oil
Only 1 driver Owner
Wishing to sell due to employment lay-off
Please see Attached Photo.

Paris's friend, Stewie was the source of this 340Kb parody of Telstra's outsourcing of call centre services.

But, 'the winner is Sydney' for this candid snap of local talkback radio host, Alan Jones.



Enough from the lake for now. We'll try to be better 'correspondents' in the coming months! Love from us all.