Australia Day

Same to you, old feller :)

Hi Willem,
How many years did it take to learn the meaning of the word 'girt' ? :-))

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And a Happy Australia Day to you as well Willem!!

Cheers

Brian

should change the 'girt line' in the anthem to.....'our trucks are girt with dirt'

G/day Willem,right back at ya, glad to have you here,40 years eh., Hardly a blow in now,have a good day mate.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oi,Oi,Oi,
Good on you Willem
& all others who signed up to be ONE
of us who were born here


Happy AUSSIE Day.

Cheers Bob.

Happy 40th Anniversary Willem. Do you still have the guitar?

Today marks 10 years since I stopped smoking. I cost me then $10 a packet and I smoked a pk a day so even with out a price rise I would have saved $36,500 but I think my gaspers are now $17 so it's probably more like $50,000

Thanks for choosing Australia Willem- "you've done us proud"

Di

Hi Willem and All

Happy AUSTRALIA DAY to everyone, I just raised the Flag as we
do each year, Roast a Leg of Lamb on the Cobb and have a Beer,
then I'll reflect how far we have come as a Nation, yep we are
doing all right.

PS. We are going to cook a Damper (Love Damper and Syrup)

Cheers

Congratulations, Willem, we are proud to call you an Australian - in the true spirit of what being an Australian is all about - you have lived life doing what lots and lots of people only dream about and should be out doing.

Willum
Your it appears 40 years as an Aussie has enriched your life but but it can also be said that with both yourself and Judith Australia has also been enriched by your acceptance of Australia as your home.
Congrats
Ian

Very special day for me, too.
My eldest daughter was born on this day, 37 years ago while I was overseas in the Army. Took 2 days to get the telegram and another 2 months before I got to see her.

Happy Australia Day to all Australians wherever you are.

Cheers,
Dennis

Good morning William

Welcome to Australia.

May you have many more years of travelling this great big land, ....enjoy your day.

Cheers for now......William......from.....Bunbury....WA.

G'day Willem, happy Australia Day to you both, and here's hoping for many more.
I'd also like to wish those who don't have the day off as a holiday, a Happy Australia Day. All the doctors, nurses, paramedics and ambos, those in the armed services etc etc.

Good on you Cobber!
A true Australian, regardless of where you were born.

I am a "native" Australian having been born and raised here and lived here all my life.
Love the Country
Love the Flag. (Don't even mind the corner bit)

Absolutely HATE the bloody Anthem. It is so boring, pompous and meaningless and does nothing to generate a feeling of Aussie patriotism in me.

Whine over and still a proud and patriotic Australian nonetheless.


Bill.

Well done Willem, I too have just returned from the Breakfast in our little town. Gets bigger every year. It is great that we Aussies
are now able to celebrate much more openly our love of "The
Best Country On Earth". Happy Australia Day to all......oldbaz.

Congratulations Willem on your 40yr anniversary, well done. From reading your threads, the things you and your wife do, the places you go and all the help you give out certainly makes you "True Blue Aussies".

Happy Australia Day to One and All.

Cheers

Deanna

Willem,

We have just returned from the big smoke (Gladstone), had to let the kids run wild with the Aussie Day celebrations. Fortunately the rain held off haha
They are now well rehearsed with Bob the Builder and have a heap of additional Australian flags bought home.

Just about to sit back and watch the cricket, hopefully your homeland loses today haha and the Aussies get up.

Cheers Kev

Willem - Good onya mate!

For a different purpose, Val has recently compiled a yarn about what was special in 1969. (She'll have to add to it now we've seen your post!) It was a good year. We've uploaded the Australian part as a blog entry that might be of historical interest.

Cheers

John

G'day Willem and Judith,

I've just finished working in the heat while you lot are off enjoying yourselves - thank God for a few honest public servants (tongue firmly in cheek) who are out and about looking after the country on public holidays.

Happy Australia Day to you my friends and to all the rest of EO - be they members or otherwise.

Cheers

And I'm B............. proud to be an Australian

Hey Willem,

Good on ya mate!!! I to became a citizen last year on 26th January - so I have now been an aussie for 1yr - we immigrated from the UK back in 1976 (I was only 7yrs back then) took me all this while to finally become fair dinkum!!!.

Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi

Cheers
Caz

Same to you and everyone else......

Heres how we were spending ours till half an hour ago.

Camping
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Beach/Island cricket
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Feed of yabbies
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Canoeing
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I got my Citizenship papers in 1972 when Gough was scattering them around like confetti.
Best thing he ever did, I reckon.
Like you, Willem, I arrived with one hefty suitcase and a guitar (which I never, not ever, learned to play properly) but a few years earlier staight into a Melbourne heatwave having left Heathrow in snow and frost.

Happy Holiday to all of you.

Happy Aussie day to You Willem. You have seen far more of the country then I who was born here. Have a good one
Cheers Pete

Hi Willem, The days almost over, i hope you had a good one!


!968 Eh!, The year of the HK Holden, VE Valiant, XT Falcon!.


just a few of the legends that got around this country for a long time!, Like your self! and still going...LOL.


Cheers Axle.

Me ole Dad was also a Willem, and arrived here in 1952 with a few suitcases plus missus and 3 kids in tow (not sure what the hitch was).

Willem was the name given to the eldest son in the family going way back when.

The country was good for him at his time.

As a civil eng he built quite a few of the pipelines that feed the Kiewa and Snowy hydro schemes. He worked hard all his life as an innovative engineer/manager, and died a 'paper millionaire'.

The family name normally given to subsequent sons was Ernst Sigmund. Hence my user name. But, he and Mum decided on 'Ernest' alone for their 4th and Cooma-born son, now they were in an Anglo country. Kind of a pity in a way, but they wanted to be accepted in their new land.

Good onya Willem, 40 years is a long time, I wasn't even a twinkle in the old mans eye back then.

Take it easy mate

Cheers Luke

Good to hear from you Willem,

Congrats on the 40 years.

I got 'nationalised' in 1986, so a few years to catch up with you.
Best decision my parents ever made, dragging me out here.

Just spent Australia day at the local swearing in ceremony, the better half and I usually put on the morning tea for afters. Well, to be honest, she does most of the work. Great chance to talk to so many new aussies. Great range this year, an old Welsh guy who has lived here 55 years, and done the deed, a Bolivian family, couple of middle eastern families, and the few african families, a couple of Asian families, and a few European families, and I think one South African family. Great to see them all committing themselves to their new home.