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Well, this is it.

 

 

 

the last two minutes of the year.

 

2012 was interesting

 

it had its ups

 

and its downs.

 

Lets hope 2013 will be even better

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Mozart Joke

When Mozart passed away; he was buried in a churchyard.
A couple days later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard
some strange noises coming from the area where Mozart was buried.

Terrified, the drunk ran and got the priest to come and listen to it.

The priest bent close to the grave and heard some faint, unrecognizable music coming from the grave.
Frightened, the priest ran and got the town magistrate.

When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear to the grave, listened for a moment, and said,
“Ah, yes, that’s Mozart’s Ninth Symphony, being played backwards.”

He listened a while longer, and said,  “There’s the Eighth Symphony, And it’s backwards, too.
Most puzzling.” So the magistrate kept listening;
“There’s the Seventh… the Sixth…the Fifth…”
Suddenly the realization of what was happening dawned on the magistrate;
he stood up and announced to the crowd that had gathered in the cemetery.
“My fellow citizens, there’s nothing to worry about. It’s just Mozart decomposing.”

Has anyone noticed . . .

 . . . that the last word in the Hobbit is

 

"tobacco-jar"

 

Did you ever notice that?

 

Hello from Rome and Sorrento

Me and Dad in Rome

With the Romans

I didn't take this photo

Guess What ...

My Mum should be a Supermodel!

Cool House

Please Note the IRISH Flag in the background



Before I go, a little Christmas Cheer . . .

GO LEWIS AND AVALON!!!!!!
(You may not get this!)

 

 

 

 

 

'Post later . . .

 

 

These posts made me laugh!

Please check out these posts from Dove's Rest

The Truth about Homeschooling

Interview with Snapdragon 11

You will enjoy these. Promise. Unless you have limited sense of humour.

Bye!

Lest we forget

Today is the 11th day of the 11th month.

 

 

 

aka, Remembrance Day

 

 

Today, we remember the fallen soldiers of  WWI

 



 

The Unknown Australia Soldier

 

    Twentieth century warfare resulted in millions of unknown dead resting in unknown graves.
   Of Australia's war dead from World War I and World War II, 35 527 (about 35 per cent) have no identified grave. They are commemorated on Memorials to the Missing.

   The names of many Australians who died in World War I appear on memorials along the Western Front, including the names of about 18 000 men of the Australian Imperial Force with ''no known grave'.

   In 1993, to mark the 75th anniversary of the 1918 armistice, the Australian Government exhumed the remains of an unknown Australian soldier from the Adelaide War Cemetery, near Villers-Bretonneux, France for entombment in the Australian War Memorial’s Hall of Memory, Canberra.


   The funeral for the Unknown Soldier was held on 11 November – Remembrance Day – 1993. Before proceeding to the Hall of Memory, the Unknown Soldier’s coffin was placed on the Stone of Remembrance outside the Memorial where the then Prime Minister, the Hon. Paul Keating, delivered the eulogy:

… We will never know who this Australian was. Yet he has always been among those we have honoured. We know that he was one of the 45,000 Australians who died on the Western Front, one of the 416,000 Australians who volunteered for service in World War I … and one of the 100,000 Australians who have died in wars this century. He is all of them. And he is one of us …

 

As Australia’s Unknown Soldier was laid to rest in the Hall of Memory, the late Robert Comb, a World War I veteran, who had served in battles on the Western Front, sprinkled soil from Pozieres, France over the coffin and said, “Now you’re home, mate”.

 

 

 

 

 

defintion

Hi guys!

 

I found this yesterday . . .

 

 

 

Pretty true (I should know)

 

 

Anyway, here is the latest news from my place

 

• Mum's gone down to Sydney with Louise to shop

 

• We forgot about the Melbourne cup yesterday

 

• Last night, we had a waterfight at Youth Group - I hid most of the time

 

• NO REHEARSALS THIS SUNDAY!!!! YAY!!!!!
 
• My friends' party is this Saturday night
 
 
• There was a blue-tongue lizard near under the kayak yesterday
 
 
• Please vote for me on Chantelle's Blog - the poll is near the top so you can't miss it!

 

• I loveTHIS song!

 

 

Thats all for now

 

Love

 

 

Photo Entry!

Hi Everyone!

This is my entry for Chantelle's Photo Compertion

 

 

 

Yes, I know, I was almost late - oh well

 

Don't you just LOVE my old ballet shoes?

 

K, bye...

 

 



An email from God

One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the rascally behaviour that was going on. So He called one of His angels and sent the angel to Earth for a time.

When he returned, he told God, 'Yes, it is bad on Earth; 95% are misbehaving and only 5% are not.

God thought for a moment and said, 'Maybe I had better send down a second angel to get another opinion.'

So God called another angel and sent him to Earth for a time. When the angel returned he went to God and said, 'Yes, it's true. The Earth is in decline; 95% are misbehaving, but 5% are being good.'

God was not pleased. So He decided to e-mail the 5% that were good, because He wanted to encourage them, and give them a little something to help them keep going.

Do you know what the e-mail said?

Okay, I was just wondering, because I didn't get one either!!!

Good Morning Rome!

 

Time in Rome, Venice and Paris is 8:16am

 

In London, Newcastle and Dublin it is 7:17am

 

Here?

 

5:19pm

 

 

Like my background?

 

Love

 

Memory

Hello Readers!

I have found what song I am dancing to for Dance 'n' Dazzles' Student Choreography Comp. I am dancing to "Memory" from the musical Cats. 

 

Click HERE for the original song,  HERE for the music I'm dancing to, and HERE for a sweet, almost karaoke like version.
Any ballet/modern/contemporary dancer out there who might have an idea or two/suggestions for my dance - please contact me via comments!!

 

Some of the cats/cast

 

Grizabella, the she-cat who sings Memory

Jemima

Victoria, the sweet little kitten

The Rum Tum Tugger
 

 

 Well, thats all for now!
Lots of love and purrs and musical thoughts,

 

 

Wordless Wednesday - More Rome

Yes, we are in Rome.

cherub #1: This is how you do it, mate
cherub #2: yeah, I'm (not) watching

 

the crowds at the Vatican - AHHH!!!

Mum really liked walking up and down steps
 

One of the street sellers - some were selling water bottles.
View from on top of the bus
(and no, I wasn't pretending to be a Spice Girl)

These were EVERYWHERE! Street corners were most popular

The Vatican
If you look closely, you might see the GINORMOUS line to get into the Vatican

Rome

 

There we were, exhausted after thirty hours on and off planes, unable to get into our accommodation for another two/three hours, and quite hungry. What sight we must have been.

Oh well. That’s just part of the experience.

Let me tell you some things about the Italians…

  They drive on the wrong side of the road

 In tiny cars

 Down tiny streets

ok, so maybe this wasn't a street.
close enough.

 

 They have teeny, weeny coffee cups

 They have the world’s biggest pizza plates

 

  They are REALLY good painters

And sculptures

Piazza Navona, just down the street
 

see, the roads are tiny!


they like gelati

a lot


 and anyone who has been to Rome, and did not meet anyone else calling out
"umbrelli, umbrelli" or "half price, half price"
you need an award.

oh, and just in case you didn't notice,
they are driving on the wrong side of the road.


well, the rest of Rome will have to wait.
I have to get on with my science.

bye bye
(for now)