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Forum: The Barbie
Yesterday, 7:38 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 284
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: ANZAC Day

From The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology... "celebrate: perform or observe publicly and duly; proclaim, [from the 15th and 16th Centuries, respectively] from Latin celeber, frequent, renowned;...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 25th 2024, 3:36 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 284
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: ANZAC Day

Gosh, a few misunderstandings, here... 1st: "celebrate" is defined in my dictionary as "perform or observe publicly"; it's not necessarily associated with joy and happiness. 2nd: "mercenaries"... the...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 25th 2024, 3:52 am
Replies: 10
Views: 284
Posted By Gordon Barlow

ANZAC Day

ANZAC Day is Australia's and New Zealand's commemoration of the two nations' invasion of Turkey in 1915. It seems an odd event to celebrate. The invasion was unprovoked, and the ANZAC troops were all...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Apr 23rd 2024, 5:10 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,103
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Ecuador

My son is visiting me now, and we've been talking about the differences in the Spanish versions spoken in Latin America. He and a Mexican girlfriend (a university lecturer) spent a week in Cuba once,...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 21st 2024, 4:13 pm
Replies: 433
Views: 48,911
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

"... barbie pundits..." gotcha. Around the BE website, there seems to be a general belief in the decline of membership numbers (pundits). Can nothing be done to reverse the decline? Nothing from the...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Apr 20th 2024, 1:09 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,103
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Ecuador

Morning, M. Yes this is an interesting thread! I'm looking forward to checking the place out, when I'm a bit older... Not a bad place to end my days, I think - as long as I have someone to lean on...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 18th 2024, 3:21 pm
Replies: 433
Views: 48,911
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Oh dear! I really don't think we can afford to be too snobby about linking to newspaper reports. The Daily Mail is indeed a rag, but so much of the mainstream media is, these days. The DM doesn't...
Forum: Rest of the World
Apr 18th 2024, 2:55 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,103
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

Here's one for the "Back in the Day" file... I'm trying to persuade an old friend of mine (we went to school together 70 years ago) to write about the four years he spent travelling overseas in his...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 17th 2024, 2:13 am
Replies: 433
Views: 48,911
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

I'm not sure if you mean "not many left around these parts" barbie pundits or aborigines. Judging by the maps I see in the online newspapers, there are huge areas of Australia being set aside for...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Apr 16th 2024, 1:50 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,103
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Ecuador

Thanks again, HLJ, this time for the political background. I always find that sort of thing interesting. Fortunately, my son has outgrown his youthful obsession with civil rights etc, wherever he's...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Apr 14th 2024, 4:55 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,103
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Ecuador

HLJ. Your post #11 is very much the most interesting post on this thread. Thanks for taking the trouble! I will copy and send it to my son, because it will tell him stuff that he doesn't already...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Apr 14th 2024, 12:17 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,103
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Ecuador

Well, Ecuador is a big place - a bit bigger than Great Britain, I think. My son and his girlfriend are enjoying it immensely where they are (in the Loja province), and aren't in any danger, they...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 12th 2024, 4:13 am
Replies: 433
Views: 48,911
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13289995/Indigenous-elder-calls-land-tax-exemption-free-uni-free-loans-upcoming-treaty-negotiations-Victoria.html
What do our barbie pundits think about this...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Apr 9th 2024, 12:05 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,103
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Ecuador

That's very interesting! What work were you doing, to keep you there for so long? My son and g-f are down in the south of the country. Very cheap rentals there, because they're owned by "rich gringo...
Forum: Australia
Apr 8th 2024, 4:38 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 4,453
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Wife changed her mind

Yes, Pulaski is right. I go back to my original advice: Don't go. Born in Australia, I can say that every one of my ancestors was an emigrant/immigrant. But in those non-divorce times, once the boat...
Forum: Australia
Apr 7th 2024, 11:43 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 4,453
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Wife changed her mind

Yes, I take your point. But I assumed (?) that the Police Force would find a place for them to live. (Although the Police might well require a commitment longer than one year!)
Forum: Australia
Apr 7th 2024, 10:28 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 4,453
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Wife changed her mind

If the OP is still with us...I wonder if he and his wife have considered the compromise of a "trial run": going to Oz for just a year, and coming back if there is too much unhappiness. If they've...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Apr 7th 2024, 4:12 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,103
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Ecuador

I don't know anything about working there. Depends on what kind of work-skills you have, I guess. You would need a Work Permit, I know that. Parts of the country are a hippies' paradise, I'm told,...
Forum: Rest of the World
Apr 1st 2024, 3:38 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,103
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

One year my all-boys boarding school put on the play "The Admirable Crichton". The storyline told of a small upper-class-English household group, shipwrecked on a desert island, with Crichton the...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 1st 2024, 3:09 am
Replies: 45
Views: 5,045
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Australia's earliest settlers

Correctomundo, Norm. There is far, far, too much humbug in the reparations-and-blame claims. Of course Europeans were not the only slave-owners the world has ever known.

Also, there is no evidence...
Forum: Australia
Mar 25th 2024, 9:31 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 4,453
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Wife changed her mind

Just a reminder... Although the OP's family is split between staying in Britain and emigrating to Australia, he posed a general question that applies to all families regardless of their possible new...
Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 25th 2024, 5:39 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,103
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

When Linda died, her Will left her extensive stamp-collection to a local friend for the Cayman stamps, and the rest of the collection to a relative in Australia. I phoned the beneficiaries, but each...
Forum: The Barbie
Mar 25th 2024, 5:28 pm
Replies: 433
Views: 48,911
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Chatting on the phone yesterday with an old friend in his 80s, we marvelled that our old age is bringing out the best in people. We hobble along with our walking-sticks, secure in the knowledge that...
Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 21st 2024, 12:30 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,103
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Back in the Day

I put your main theme in blocks, there. And I doff my hat to you for your realization. I wasn't as understanding. I suppose six years at boarding school - aged 11 to 17 - made me both more...
Forum: Australia
Mar 19th 2024, 9:15 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 4,453
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Wife changed her mind

It's too much of a gamble. We on this thread don't know you personally, and we can really only give you general advice. BE members as a whole have wildly different experiences, and backgrounds. Some...
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