Cellar Scribblings

[CellarDweller]

[CellarDweller]

[Katie77]

Oh he's gorgeous Chucky......and that tail......it is beautiful.......

[CellarDweller]

Oh he's gorgeous Chucky......and that tail......it is beautiful.......

he's our baby! 



and now............I love it when the brokies get together!






Back:  Ginny (Fritz's Sister), Jenny, Meryl, Jeff Wrangler (Jeff), Peanut (Karen), DejaVu (Debbie), OregonDoggie (Larry), Teresa
Front:  Fritzkep (Fritz), PTannen (Pete), MaineGirl (Sue), SmellyKellyJay (Kel), CellarDweller (Chuck)

[Meryl]

and now............I love it when the brokies get together!

Cool, Chuck!

What is that ball of light at Kelly's feet? 

[Katie77]

Is that NOW in New York, Chucky.........

Dont Brokies make a happy looking group.....oh I wish I could join you one day.

[ZK]

Cool, Chuck!

What is that ball of light at Kelly's feet? 

may be someones halo fell down???

[ZK]

ANZAC Day.....25th April.....is the anniversary of the first landing of Australian and New Zealand troops at Gallipolli in 1915.

ANZAC.....means  Australian New Zealand Army Corp......

Anzac day is always celebrated on 25th April, regardless of what day of the week it falls on.  People gather at war memorials at dawn to attend services, and then later in the day Vets march in the streets of towns and cities all over Australia and New Zealand.

The significance of the dawn service, is that the Gallipolli invasion took place at dawn.

Its ironic that we celebrate that invasion because it was not a "win" for us, quite the opposite, it was a brutal ambush of our troops and loss of life was horrific.

Thousands of Austrlians make the pilgrimage to Gallipolli every year, to commemorate the dawn service, something very poignant and life changing.


I often attend the local  dawn service with my son, who wears the medals of his grandfater every year. One in particular I remember, standing at the memorial one cold April morning, very sombre and quiet, and a kookaburra (an Australian native bird) landed in a tree nearby, and started its distinct loud call, as if giving its own memorial to the fallen. I thought how uniquely Australian it was, and was bursting with pride.

Hey Katie that was a really great explanation, thanks. I admire you for going to the dawn service and for taking your son. Its something I have never done, each year I think I really should have gone. Next year I will go.

[Katie77]

Hey Katie that was a really great explanation, thanks. I admire you for going to the dawn service and for taking your son. Its something I have never done, each year I think I really should have gone. Next year I will go.

Actually Matt, its my son who goes every year, and its him who talks me into going. He is 34, and started going to the Dawn Service with my step father when he was about 8yrs old. Even though step father passed on some years ago, Adam never misses a dawn service and proudly wears the medals.

And then he usually runs the two up at the pub later on.

You should go, it is very moving to be standing out there at dawn, so quiet, and hearing the last post. I dare any Aussie or Kiwi not to shed a tear.

[ZK]

Actually Matt, its my son who goes every year, and its him who talks me into going. He is 34, and started going to the Dawn Service with my step father when he was about 8yrs old. Even though step father passed on some years ago, Adam never misses a dawn service and proudly wears the medals.

And then he usually runs the two up at the pub later on.

You should go, it is very moving to be standing out there at dawn, so quiet, and hearing the last post. I dare any Aussie or Kiwi not to shed a tear.

Good on Adam, and you are right I should go, actually I will go next Anzac Day and i will take my daughter too "lest we forget"