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Forum: The Barbie
Mar 15th 2024, 3:22 am
Replies: 44
Views: 4,681
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Australia's earliest settlers

Well, they always have before, right?

Nah, I mixed that up. It's we who have a history of encroaching on them. For no sensible reason, back in the 1950s, Australian troops warred with Chinese...
Forum: The Barbie
Mar 15th 2024, 3:01 am
Replies: 422
Views: 46,451
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Well, yes, actually! And more reliable than the Tesla, though not as fancy.
Forum: The Barbie
Mar 14th 2024, 10:40 pm
Replies: 422
Views: 46,451
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20231108-three-big-reasons-americans-havent-rapidly-adopted-evs
You may well be right, although it's early days... Here is a link to a BBC report on EVs in the...
Forum: The Barbie
Mar 11th 2024, 6:43 pm
Replies: 422
Views: 46,451
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Here's something to talk about while we're waiting for our shrimps to cook on the barbie... electric cars! Do any of you think that maybe they've run their course? That they're a busted flush? There...
Forum: The Barbie
Mar 10th 2024, 7:46 pm
Replies: 44
Views: 4,681
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Australia's earliest settlers

Norm is quite correct (post #30) to put the war against the aborigenes into perspective. It has been a worldwide custom to simply accept the loss of territories in wars. What an unholy mess it would...
Forum: Caribbean
Mar 9th 2024, 2:16 am
Replies: 2
Views: 271
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: The calypso region

And then there were singers like "The Mighty Sparrow" who satirised the old education system and the rubbish that we were burdened with. Here is Sparrow telling us about "Dan is the man in the van"....
Mar 9th 2024, 2:01 am
Replies: 302
Views: 30,735
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

In the supermarket last week I was greeted by a stranger - I thought - who gave me his name and reminded me that we used to play cricket together, back in the day. At least thirty years ago, maybe...
Forum: Caribbean
Mar 4th 2024, 8:15 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 271
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: The calypso region

Here's an introduction to calypso music, for those who need an intro. She's been around for a long time now, but reportedly is still performing on stage. Below is a song of hers from forty years ago,...
Forum: The Barbie
Mar 3rd 2024, 5:20 pm
Replies: 422
Views: 46,451
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Yes indeed: it is stale. Still, no staler than BE members' avatars and nom-de-plumes, surely! I stopped writing my blog in 2016 because I reckoned I'd said all I wanted to say. But I still (today)...
Forum: The Barbie
Mar 3rd 2024, 3:36 am
Replies: 422
Views: 46,451
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Here's an expression I haven't heard lately, and I wonder if it is still used in idle chats around an Australian barbecue... Somebody says "But am I allowed to do that?" And somebody else says "I...
Mar 2nd 2024, 2:53 am
Replies: 302
Views: 30,735
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

I wish I'd spent more time with my Mum, back in the day. I flew across the ocean and stayed with her for a week twice a year, and we were always very close friends. But still... I should have stayed...
Forum: Caribbean
Feb 29th 2024, 7:42 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 271
Posted By Gordon Barlow

The calypso region

There's not much here about the Caribbean countries as a whole. That's a pity, because this is a wonderfully varied part of the world.

There are very few full-blooded aboriginals alive today...
Feb 26th 2024, 2:49 pm
Replies: 337
Views: 33,285
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Life's Turning-Points

At the age of 48, my son is at last settling down. Marriage will be his last "Turning Point". She is a lapsed Roman Catholic - which is relevant to the story because my mother also married a lapsed...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 24th 2024, 1:24 am
Replies: 422
Views: 46,451
Posted By Gordon Barlow

The second time around...

There was a song about that many years ago: "Love's more lovelier, the second time around..." Something like that. I thought it might be a good title for a BE thread..

Linda's sister fell in love...
Feb 23rd 2024, 3:37 pm
Replies: 23
Views: 1,974
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Canada's Mennonites

Just as a matter of interest, Adrian, and before the thread grinds to a halt... whereabouts in Mexico? In case I ever get to Mexico again.
Feb 23rd 2024, 3:29 pm
Replies: 302
Views: 30,735
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

Back in the days before television, we used to get our regular amusement from comedy half-hour "shows" on the radio. My earliest memory is of "Much Binding in the Marsh", with Kenneth Horne and...
Feb 23rd 2024, 3:50 am
Replies: 27
Views: 2,418
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Canadian slang

Also, I'd like to know the Canadian equivalent of Australia's "as silly as a two-bob watch". Of course Canada had dollars and not shillings (bobs), so did they have "silly as a two-buck watch"? A...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 20th 2024, 11:31 pm
Replies: 422
Views: 46,451
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

A while back, our government in this Caribbean island legalised cannabis oil for medical purposes. Linda used it for her cancer, and found it very helpful. I got some for when my hips get painful....
Feb 20th 2024, 6:54 pm
Replies: 302
Views: 30,735
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

I'm in regular touch with two of my chums from school-days. I bumped into Graham in London 60 years ago, and checked in with him whenever I visited Australia. Now, thanks to the miracle of WhatsApp I...
Feb 17th 2024, 9:12 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 431
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Toronto's beer halls

In my youth in Queensland, Sunday boozing was strict. Well, sort of... Only bona fides travellers were allowed to be served alcohol, and a bona fides traveller was someone who had driven at least...
Feb 15th 2024, 9:18 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 431
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Toronto's beer halls

Another silly law at the time was "no drinking alcohol in public". I knew some lads who got in trouble for drinking out of beer-bottles while sitting on the window sills of their two-story flat,...
Feb 15th 2024, 3:09 am
Replies: 27
Views: 2,418
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Canadian slang

"Fair suck of the sauce bottle..." From a letter in the Australian edition of "The Guardian" today. Lovely! I haven't heard that for ages. What's the Canadian equivalent, please? In Queensland we...
Feb 14th 2024, 12:38 am
Replies: 5
Views: 431
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Toronto's beer halls

A vivid memory of mine from my days in Toronto in the 1960s is the beer halls. On my first visit with my new work-colleagues, we sat around a table and a girl came with our orders. So far, so normal....
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 10th 2024, 11:03 pm
Replies: 422
Views: 46,451
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Here's a shrimp that might attract the attention of some of the old codgers among us. (Who knows? Every topic can't be a winner.) One of my (younger) brothers is about to give up living on his own,...
Feb 10th 2024, 10:20 pm
Replies: 23
Views: 1,974
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Canada's Mennonites

Yes, maybe, Kim. But missionary work of all kinds is a worldwide tradition of long standing. Politicians of all stripes in all countries prefer to create opportunities and provide services, over...
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