Fairplay. Good on'ya

On our last visit to OZ, I had roo steaks with a berry (???blueberry) sauce in a hotel in Sydney ....... it was delicious.

One friend we had when we lived down there in the mid-70s was a young woman from one of the islands who had been educated in a boarding school in Australia ............... she said they had roo for a LOT of meals, and she "never wanted to roo again!!".

Hope you bounced back from that quickly.

What's the best accompanying drink for roo? Pepsi Koala?

It was probably the cheapest meat the boarding school could get - as if they need to watch the pennies considering the fees they charge! Love your friend's comment
'Roo is apparently very good eating if it's been sourced and treated (and cooked) properly. In my case it was one a farmer had caught, skinned, butchered and slapped on the barbie the same day. No more eating Skippy for me.
Boom boom

That was the reason she gave ............ but she was from one of the Polynesian Islands, and was seemingly "lifted" from home to the school. I got the impression that there were no fees for them.

I can't remember now whether she was Samoan or Fijian.


We got on really well because she was the only faculty wife where OH was on sabbatical who understood why I had gone to back to work when my daughter was 6 weeks old ......... she was desperate for her youngest to get to school age so she would feel free to return to the work force.

Some of the other wives quite literally would pin me in a corner at a party to denounce me for "daring to have my child raised by someone else"! The most vicious of them was one who would go and lock herself in her studio at the bottom of her garden for 8 or more hours to paint, make macrame, etc, all the while leaving her 6 and 8 year olds alone in the house with instructions to NEVER interrupt her.

I was not the slightest bit impressed!

I think that what got to them most was that I found myself an unpaid job 1 day a week in another department, and OH would take care of our toddler when I did that


There were huge changes in the attitudes between that year in 1975/76 to our next visit in 1981 .......... during the first visit we rarely saw men carrying their babies and toddlers, or even pushing a stroller. On the second visit, it was quite a common sight.

Interestingly, the woman who let me work in her lab in 1975/76 became pregnant towards the end of that time, and intended to keep the child as a single parent. There were some gasps when she let that be known, though not from me!! I saw her again during the 1981 visit ........... and all was working out for her.

Charlee (our dog) loves Kangaroo, she flips out nuts on Kangaroo day. The company that makes her food gets the meat from Australia.

https://www.reddogbluekat.com/shoppi...plete-for-dogs

I'm glad Charlee likes it, it's a very popular pet food here. Tons of protein and low in fat, Charlee's a lucky dog

You've lived a very interesting life Scilly, I love hearing about people's lives in various countries. Yes, Australia was very conservative in some ways in the 70s, not so much in other ways. I hope you put those judgemental, ignorant shrews who were so rude to you in their place. As for the one who told you off for working but left her her own kids to fend for themselves while she was 'being creative' - obviously not a brain in her skull

I give Dusty pusscat raw kangaroo cat food. She loves it.

Nope!

One day the elder child was making lunch for herself and her sister, mum was down in the shed. One of the children managed to cut her hand or wrist pretty badly, lots of blood.

The 2 girls were too frightened to go and disturb their mother, so they went to the next door neighbour for help.


As for an interesting life ......... YES!! We've been lucky ........ OH was trained as botanist, his main work was in the lab, but we both had a great education in basic field botany and zoology at university and we were able to parlay that into interesting trips. Plus we had made friends at university both as students and later with younger post grads. Many of them moved to other countries to work, or returned home, during the mid to late 60s and we kept in touch with lots of them (still do), so we were able to travel to visit them.

It was also a bit easier in the '70s .............. it didn't cost as much as many airlines offered cheaper fares for wives accompanying their husbands on business trips, and kiddies were free or ca 10% fare under the age of 2 and then went half price for some years after that.

That year in Australia was basically a round the world trip ............... Canada to UK to show daughter to her grandparents, OH and I did a side trip to Leningrad (as it was then) for a meeting, back to UK to pick up daughter and go to South Africa for a couple of weeks (staying with friends), then on to Australia, landing in Perth and going on to Melbourne. We came home via New Zealand and Fiji.

Reason was that the travel agent found a super cheap ticket for us if we made Auckland our turn around stop for a 1 year round the world ticket. Daughter was free as she was under 2 years old when we started.

We still have a close friend in Perth that we made during 1967/68 when we were at another university. We stayed with them on our last trip down to Australia in 2006 ......... for the spring flowers!

Truth or a lie?

“I thought my neighbour was ignoring me, and he thought I was ignoring him, until he found out I was blind, and I found out he was deaf.”

I love that show! ("Would I lie to you?") Only discovered it six months ago, and am working my way through the whole thing! The Bob Mortimer stories are among the funniest ever. Highly recommended.

Reddit is hands down the most toxic website I have ever encountered.

HeHe. I think I did mention a while ago to stay away from the Reddit scene.
Stick with us lot. We're lovely.