Do you know the national anthem?
Oct 30th 2003, 3:33 am
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Sorry this may not make me seem very patriotic but................
My kids are now almost word perfect at advance australia fair, first verse only of course, as i reconed if they have to sing it at school it will be one less thing to worry about, i have also printed them out maps of aus to colour in naming the states and state capitals, they have also been colouring in the aussie flag, they can sing waltzing matilda due to finding it on an old tape of my mother in laws, they do a mean flower of scotland too.
Australia is going to be our adopted (or should that be adoptive) country so we should show it a bit of respect, plus i just thought if the kids knew a bit of aussieness before they started school they may feel less like outsiders.
:lecture: :lecture:
Lynn
My kids are now almost word perfect at advance australia fair, first verse only of course, as i reconed if they have to sing it at school it will be one less thing to worry about, i have also printed them out maps of aus to colour in naming the states and state capitals, they have also been colouring in the aussie flag, they can sing waltzing matilda due to finding it on an old tape of my mother in laws, they do a mean flower of scotland too.
Australia is going to be our adopted (or should that be adoptive) country so we should show it a bit of respect, plus i just thought if the kids knew a bit of aussieness before they started school they may feel less like outsiders.
:lecture: :lecture:
Lynn
Oct 30th 2003, 3:35 am
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Originally posted by lynnj
Sorry this may not make me seem very patriotic but................
My kids are now almost word perfect at advance australia fair, first verse only of course, as i reconed if they have to sing it at school it will be one less thing to worry about, i have also printed them out maps of aus to colour in naming the states and state capitals, they have also been colouring in the aussie flag, they can sing waltzing matilda due to finding it on an old tape of my mother in laws, they do a mean flower of scotland too.
Australia is going to be our adopted (or should that be adoptive) country so we should show it a bit of respect, plus i just thought if the kids knew a bit of aussieness before they started school they may feel less like outsiders.
:lecture: :lecture:
Lynn
Sorry this may not make me seem very patriotic but................
My kids are now almost word perfect at advance australia fair, first verse only of course, as i reconed if they have to sing it at school it will be one less thing to worry about, i have also printed them out maps of aus to colour in naming the states and state capitals, they have also been colouring in the aussie flag, they can sing waltzing matilda due to finding it on an old tape of my mother in laws, they do a mean flower of scotland too.
Australia is going to be our adopted (or should that be adoptive) country so we should show it a bit of respect, plus i just thought if the kids knew a bit of aussieness before they started school they may feel less like outsiders.
:lecture: :lecture:
Lynn
Oct 30th 2003, 9:41 am
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Lynnj,
Don't worry too much, I work with kids and was helping some of them with their homework the other day and your kids are probably more clued up than they were. One ten year old thought "Sydaney" was a State, another eleven year old couldn't name all the States and an eight year old didn't know the capital. Also their knowledge of the geography of the rest of the world is on the whole pretty dire.
Loopy
Don't worry too much, I work with kids and was helping some of them with their homework the other day and your kids are probably more clued up than they were. One ten year old thought "Sydaney" was a State, another eleven year old couldn't name all the States and an eight year old didn't know the capital. Also their knowledge of the geography of the rest of the world is on the whole pretty dire.
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Oct 30th 2003, 9:42 am
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Re: last post - ok probably a gross over generalisation, but it was true of the kids I was speaking to.
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Oct 30th 2003, 10:21 am
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Originally posted by tennisoz
And you pinched our Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi
TennisOz
And you pinched our Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi
TennisOz
Oggie, oggie, oggie. oi oi oi... oggie... oi oggie..oi... oggie oi
.Max boyce penned it many moons ago.. around the 70's or very early 80's... totally a welsh chant.. used by welsh fans... thieving Aussie g8ts
Apparently, if you go back far enough.. now this is how the story goes.. there was a pasty/pie called an oggie the miners used to eat them... the people used to shout down the mines "Oi oggie" when it was meal time.. I don't know how true this is.
Hands off our Oggie!
Ps you'd be surprised how many Aussies don't know the national anthem here. Anyone see "who wants to be a millionaire" months ago.. I think the question was what is the second line of Advance Australia fair? The guy had to go to the audience poll.. and even half of them got it wrong..lol.. even I know the first verse.
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Oct 30th 2003, 10:44 am
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Originally posted by seang
does anyone remember when Australia won their first medal in the winter olympics(sometime between 96-99?)-the organisers didnt have the aussie anthem and played some other anthem instead I think it was some eastern european countries anthem
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does anyone remember when Australia won their first medal in the winter olympics(sometime between 96-99?)-the organisers didnt have the aussie anthem and played some other anthem instead I think it was some eastern european countries anthem
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Oct 30th 2003, 11:12 am
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Originally posted by lynnj
Sorry this may not make me seem very patriotic but................
My kids are now almost word perfect at advance australia fair, first verse only of course, as i reconed if they have to sing it at school it will be one less thing to worry about, i have also printed them out maps of aus to colour in naming the states and state capitals, they have also been colouring in the aussie flag, they can sing waltzing matilda due to finding it on an old tape of my mother in laws, they do a mean flower of scotland too.
Australia is going to be our adopted (or should that be adoptive) country so we should show it a bit of respect, plus i just thought if the kids knew a bit of aussieness before they started school they may feel less like outsiders.
:lecture: :lecture:
Lynn
Sorry this may not make me seem very patriotic but................
My kids are now almost word perfect at advance australia fair, first verse only of course, as i reconed if they have to sing it at school it will be one less thing to worry about, i have also printed them out maps of aus to colour in naming the states and state capitals, they have also been colouring in the aussie flag, they can sing waltzing matilda due to finding it on an old tape of my mother in laws, they do a mean flower of scotland too.
Australia is going to be our adopted (or should that be adoptive) country so we should show it a bit of respect, plus i just thought if the kids knew a bit of aussieness before they started school they may feel less like outsiders.
:lecture: :lecture:
Lynn
Oct 30th 2003, 11:17 am
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Originally posted by Ceri
Apparently, if you go back far enough.. now this is how the story goes.. there was a pasty/pie called an oggie the miners used to eat them... the people used to shout down the mines "Oi oggie" when it was meal time.. I don't know how true this is.
Hands off our Oggie!
Apparently, if you go back far enough.. now this is how the story goes.. there was a pasty/pie called an oggie the miners used to eat them... the people used to shout down the mines "Oi oggie" when it was meal time.. I don't know how true this is.
Hands off our Oggie!
The big pastry seam is so the miners could eat them with dirty hands and chuck away the crust.
I'm hungry now...
