Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: I'm not sure if that's Unaustralian

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26 January 2012

I'm not sure if that's Unaustralian

Tonight we had a barbecue dinner at the house of some friends to celebrate Australia Day.

But Mr de Elba went to a concert in the big smoke, I did only an 82% good-enough job wrangling my Little Guys, in a fit of disorganisation I brought takeaway noodles instead of sausages or steak to put on the barbecue and claimed it was "a nod to Australia's multi-cultural heritage," and in my disconnectedness after playing with then serving dessert to the children I failed to realise the adults were all waiting before eating their own dessert and bogged into a lamington without using a plate and created a winter wonderland with the coconut. Then as the behaviour was getting ratty among the children we made a hasty getaway as soon as we finished dessert.

Now I am wondering - was that Unaustralian?

6 comments:

Givinya De Elba said...: Now that I type it all out, I realise that failing to show up, multi-cultural food, enjoying the grub a bit too much and knocking off early are all pretty Australian, really.

As you were.; 26 January, 2012 21:37
Swift Jan said...: You are right, it's all completely Australian! :)

I love Lamingtons!; 26 January, 2012 21:52
mamahasspoken said...: What? No fireworks, no fire crackers, no sparklers, no hot dogs, hamburgers, potato salad, watermelon???
Ops! Wrong country.
Never mind.......; 26 January, 2012 22:31
Hippomanic Jen said...: Parenting three alone - I think you did well unAustralian or not!

And the winter wonderland from the coconut is so lamingtonish that it must be Australian.; 27 January, 2012 10:51
Andi said...: I had to look up lamington....; 27 January, 2012 12:43
Allegro ma non troppo said...: I've often thought of Australia Day as a bit like Fourth of July, only a hundred times lazier.

National Nap Day, that's what it is.; 27 January, 2012 19:36

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In the episode, after eating too much toasted cheese, Captain Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. I don't remember much about the episode other than Mainwaring telling his loyal men (Jones, Pike and Godfrey) that he has been exiled to the island of Elba.

Jones quips, "Hence the expression - Givin' ya the Elber!" (giving you the elbow, i.e., pushing you around.) I thought that Givinya de Elba was a half-decent pseudonym for someone who likes to joke and push people around, and I stuck with that.

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26 January 2012

I'm not sure if that's Unaustralian

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