THE MEANING OF OZ - All you need to know!

Well - it was a bloody good match!

Talk about England snatching defeat from the jaws of voctory - we weren't looking too flash earlier - it took day 5 for the Aussies to come alive. Edge of seat stuff!

Cricket again.

Not "again" Msolga- still. You have to try to understand the significance of this match. This was a come from behind , against unbeatable odds type win that will be talked about in cricketing circles for years to come.

I feel a bit sorry for Freddy Flintoff and co, they are copping a real pizzling from the pommy press.

Yes - I was surprised just how many people were talking about it.

Even my rugby-loving Kiwi mate at pub trivia last night was talking about it - and he hates cricket!

And one of the questions in the quiz, of course, was who scored the winning runs!

Get with the programme, Olga - I despair of you.... :wink:

I felt sorry for Freddy, too - he looked absolutely shattered!!!

I could come at this idea, margo, if test matches were over & done with as quickly as AFL matches! But no, they go on & on & on .... interminably! This disrupts my regular ABC (radio) programs, you see.

Good idea! I like it! :

Sydney leading light in hour of no power


Off with the lights … Sarah Bishop, 22, will walk from Brisbane to Sydney spreading her environmental message, arriving in time to see the Emerald City turn black.
Photo: Peter Morris


FOR one hour on one autumn evening next year the lights of Sydney will go out.

The city's nocturnal skyline - the floodlit Opera House, the empty offices ablaze, an illuminated Harbour Bridge - will fade to black at 7.30pm on March 31. Instead, weather permitting, will be a display of stars not seen from the CBD in decades.

That is the ambitious plan launched by the environment group WWF Australia yesterday to send a message to Australians about climate change. It hopes its Earth Hour campaign will demonstrate the connection between the electricity people use in homes and offices and the climate change pollution that coal-fired power stations generate. With the support of Fairfax, publisher of the Herald, the City of Sydney, and the State Government, WWF will ask Sydney households and businesses to turn off their lights for 60 minutes. The city's electricity providers will measure the power saved and the greenhouse gas emissions avoided.

Public transport, street lighting and any lighting that provides security will not be affected.

Sarah Bishop, 22, of Brisbane, will arrive just before the lights go out on March 31 after a nine-week walk from her home city spreading her message to cut greenhouse gas emissions. ... <cont>

http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/leading-light-in-hour-of-no-power/2006/12/15/1166162322962.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

They did this in ummmmmm iceland? or some such last year I think.

Did they? Didn't know that, dadpad.
I really like the idea of a big city with all its lights out. (especially those office buildings with their useless all night lighting. What a waste!)

I have thought similar many many many times.

My pet dislike is huge lighted advertising billboards running at 3:00am.

:wink:

but won't Hutchinson, owners of 3, be glad they don't have to sponsor him any more!

The best possible Christmas present: a cool change!
A bit of a reprieve from the bushfires. I love this photograph. Christmas celebration in country Victoria.:

Blessed relief at last


The smoke haze lingers but at Newry, near Maffra, that doesn't mean the Christmas spirit has suffered.
Photo: Pat Scala

"AND the rain came … Friday 22 Dec, 22.55". The sign on the window of the fire-incident headquarters said it all. .... <cont>

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/12/23/1166290790410.html?from=top5

From the high seas of Port Lincoln, South Australia a Merry Christmas and all the Very Best for a Happy and Healthy 2007 to all my friends on a2k.

Merry christmas to you and your family Dutchy.

Catch me a tuna and see how far you can toss it.

Have a great Christmas, Dutchy & you, too, dadpad.

Thankyou msolga.

I hope your day is special.

dlowan; Not sure if you will see this but very merry christmas to you!

Margo love and kisses from our house to yours

All my special aussie A2K friends, HO HO HO

Merry christmas one and all

Merry Christmas, you Pom thrashers. (Christmas day now, isn't it?)

Have a cold one for me, eh?

Throw a tuna for Christmas? That's a new one on me.
We just eat mince pies.

Happy Christmas, Oz!

McTag for information . I'm spending my Christmas in Port Lincoln, South Australia which is the Tuna Capital of the world. During January of each year they celebrate the "Tunarama Festival" as part of the Tuna harvest. One of the more popular items on the calendar is the "Tuna" throwing competition for men and women. Something similar to discus throwing except here is the discus replaced by a tuna on a rope. Trust you get the picture from this description.