Tomorrow, June 10, marks 50 years since I landed (as a very young girl you understand) in Australia. When I landed the tallest building in Sydney was the AMP building (now known as the OLD AMP building). Nowadays you can't even find it - it's dwarfed by its neighbours. Anyways, as you might have guessed, I'm having some very nice Australian wine to celebrate.
Cheers everyone!
sarg said
02:04 PM Jun 10, 2013
Good on ya Lynda, and I recon we have been better off by having you here too. Don't have too much of that wine , you know what happens when you do..........Enjoy..Sarg.
Dougwe said
04:27 PM Jun 10, 2013
Have a great day Lynda and enjoy that wine.
Happywanderer said
05:44 PM Jun 10, 2013
Happy Anniversary Lynda. May all your travels be good ones
neilnruth said
09:33 PM Jun 10, 2013
Happy Anniversary ten pound pom! Enjoy your day.
GaryKelly said
12:32 AM Jun 11, 2013
I remember that AMP building when it was new... and I was 20ish. Congrats nomadic. Have a glass for me too.
nomadic1 said
03:19 AM Jun 11, 2013
Thanks for all your kind words. I have had a good day wandering around Airlie Beach. And I've had an adequate amount of wine - and thoroughly enjoyed it too.
Ruth, happy anniversary to you too.
neilnruth said
04:01 AM Jun 11, 2013
Now I'll have to tell them I was a 10 pound pom too! Here's the riddle: I was born in Australia, I moved to England, I came back as a 10 pound pom! (2 days before nomadic1) In those days my Dad discovered that if you had been out of Australia for more than 5 years and resident in a Commonwealth country for at least 3 of them, you could migrate to Australia. Now is that mad or not?
Gerty Dancer said
05:09 AM Jun 11, 2013
Happy Anniversary to you both!
I know somebody who came to Australia from England on a tourist visa, got a job within a week and is still here after 50 years.
neilnruth said
04:41 AM Jun 12, 2013
I have a feeling we've met that person.
Gerty Dancer said
04:52 AM Jun 12, 2013
I giggle to think nowadays they'd have him locked up in a detention centre as an illegal immigrant . My Dad came out in 1923 and was never naturalised yet always voted... things have definitely changed.
neilnruth said
02:37 AM Jun 13, 2013
And my Dad was here from 1946 and ditto to the above.
Tomorrow, June 10, marks 50 years since I landed (as a very young girl you understand) in Australia. When I landed the tallest building in Sydney was the AMP building (now known as the OLD AMP building). Nowadays you can't even find it - it's dwarfed by its neighbours. Anyways, as you might have guessed, I'm having some very nice Australian wine to celebrate.
Cheers everyone!
Ruth, happy anniversary to you too.
In those days my Dad discovered that if you had been out of Australia for more than 5 years and resident in a Commonwealth country for at least 3 of them, you could migrate to Australia. Now is that mad or not?
I know somebody who came to Australia from England on a tourist visa, got a job within a week and is still here after 50 years.
I giggle to think nowadays they'd have him locked up in a detention centre as an illegal immigrant
. My Dad came out in 1923 and was never naturalised yet always voted... things have definitely changed.