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.

Swift Jan said...

You are right, it's all completely Australian! :)

I love Lamingtons!

mamahasspoken said...

What? No fireworks, no fire crackers, no sparklers, no hot dogs, hamburgers, potato salad, watermelon???
Ops! Wrong country.
Never mind.......

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.

Andi said...

I had to look up lamington....

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.