Wonder what PERCENTAGE Kenny would have classed Chuck and Farid and Alan J. and our Dentist friend Lance ... and especially his Tennis GRAND SLAM MENS DOUBLES Partners ... EMMO, NEWK, BOB H and not forgetting his Mixed Doubles Partner THE MAGNIFICENNNNNNNNTTT ... MARGARET SMITH ....
I can identify with Ken. Dad gave me a Diana 23 air rifle for my 16th birthday. My younger brother Alan and I used to take turns shooting pennies out of the fingers in each other's outstretched hand in our North Geelong back yard. We sometimes missed the penny but never hit the hand! Never shot proddos though, we'd moved on from that.
Another time, I saw a duck swimming in Corio Bay below our house. It took many shots (it just sat patiently) but eventually I killed it, got it to shore and took it to Mum. It was duly plucked, cleaned, roasted and eaten. Yuck ... it tasted like sardines!
Last year, I read a newspaper article by a local bird watcher about hunters shooting grebes on the bay. So 70 years on, I realised it wasn't a duck! Well, they looked like ducks to me.
I went duck shooting up at Esk with the Conroys and they were upset that I rrived i red courderoy trousers -- as if the bird could tell! We were lying in wait when some large birds flew over and I yelled "are they ducks" -- and by the then the ducks were all gone.
hahaha a reminder of the book I loaned out years ago and wasn't returned!! Waiting for my friend to finish the one I gave him for his 80th to borrow and which will be returned!
1940 TO 1950 - Living in INNISFAIL during and immediately after the Second World War we had many USA Army and Navy Personnel based in FNQ ...
We kids were fascinated by the different guns that the Americans had some of which also had Bayonets ...
They would march down the main street almost daily with their Marching Bands who would then go to the Memorial Park and sit in the Rotunda and play for an hour My favourite songs were when all of the Trombone Players would stand up and play Glen Miller Songs such as Moonlight Serenade and Little Brown Jug and String of Pearl's etc ...
1948 I joined the Innisfail Brass Band and learned to play Trombone ...
Aussie Army personally only had 303 Rifles and our wonderful SLOUCH HAT .
We kids only had home made Shang hi's which were made from Guava Bush for the handle plus rubber bands from bicycle tubes and a piece of leather from the tongue of an old shoe which held the marble or ballbearing as the projectile ...
Billy, souds like your childhood was veyr dimilar to mine. I ended up learning the cornet in the Army cadets -- specialising in "CHerry Pink and Apple Bloossom White" and "In the Mood"!
You make me l.o.l !!!
Ju
High you Podcasts Hughie.
I lived in Clifton Hill and was a class in between Gay and Sheryl at Mary Mac.
I remember the amazing cake shop in Annerley.
Yes Maggie, many, many people remember our amazing "unns for buns" cake shop at Annerley Junction. The customers queued three deep.
Hugh
These stories make me laugh!. great expression.
Wonder what PERCENTAGE Kenny would have classed Chuck and Farid and Alan J. and our Dentist friend Lance ... and especially his Tennis GRAND SLAM MENS DOUBLES Partners ... EMMO, NEWK, BOB H and not forgetting his Mixed Doubles Partner THE MAGNIFICENNNNNNNNTTT ... MARGARET SMITH ....
Maragret Smith'Court wuld have been the first female whole number Billy. And you were probably the first male whole number.
Hugh
I can identify with Ken. Dad gave me a Diana 23 air rifle for my 16th birthday. My younger brother Alan and I used to take turns shooting pennies out of the fingers in each other's outstretched hand in our North Geelong back yard. We sometimes missed the penny but never hit the hand! Never shot proddos though, we'd moved on from that.
Another time, I saw a duck swimming in Corio Bay below our house. It took many shots (it just sat patiently) but eventually I killed it, got it to shore and took it to Mum. It was duly plucked, cleaned, roasted and eaten. Yuck ... it tasted like sardines!
Last year, I read a newspaper article by a local bird watcher about hunters shooting grebes on the bay. So 70 years on, I realised it wasn't a duck! Well, they looked like ducks to me.
Peter,
I went duck shooting up at Esk with the Conroys and they were upset that I rrived i red courderoy trousers -- as if the bird could tell! We were lying in wait when some large birds flew over and I yelled "are they ducks" -- and by the then the ducks were all gone.
Hugh
hahaha a reminder of the book I loaned out years ago and wasn't returned!! Waiting for my friend to finish the one I gave him for his 80th to borrow and which will be returned!
Keep them coming.
Annette, the main thing people say to me when they see me someewhere is "I lent Over the Top with Jim to someone -- and I never got it back.
Don't lend people books.
You can always give one away.
Hugh
1940 TO 1950 - Living in INNISFAIL during and immediately after the Second World War we had many USA Army and Navy Personnel based in FNQ ...
We kids were fascinated by the different guns that the Americans had some of which also had Bayonets ...
They would march down the main street almost daily with their Marching Bands who would then go to the Memorial Park and sit in the Rotunda and play for an hour My favourite songs were when all of the Trombone Players would stand up and play Glen Miller Songs such as Moonlight Serenade and Little Brown Jug and String of Pearl's etc ...
1948 I joined the Innisfail Brass Band and learned to play Trombone ...
Aussie Army personally only had 303 Rifles and our wonderful SLOUCH HAT .
We kids only had home made Shang hi's which were made from Guava Bush for the handle plus rubber bands from bicycle tubes and a piece of leather from the tongue of an old shoe which held the marble or ballbearing as the projectile ...
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Billy, souds like your childhood was veyr dimilar to mine. I ended up learning the cornet in the Army cadets -- specialising in "CHerry Pink and Apple Bloossom White" and "In the Mood"!