On Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:31 AM, Viv (aka Krazy Kiwi ) wrote:

> Saw John Hauers post about diving at some horribly cold place with Steve
> Catron. Geeze .. those dive temps are even colder than our chilly Swan
> River in the middle of winter!! It is currently around 15 degrees C there
&
> a few of my mad mates were out last w/e prawning. Its a little warmer
> around Rottnest Island (up to 18 degrees C) due to the Leeuwin Current
> warming it up a tad but with the southern right whales traipsing up & down
> our coastline I aint game to tempt fate. A couple of white pointers have
> been seen close to shore. One took off with a baby dolphin a couple of
> weeks back. Last weekend another one was sighted off the Dunsborough area.

Hopefully they will've moved on by November!  :-)

> It was Fathers Day here in OZ on Sunday. As both my Father & Step-father
> have been pushing up the daisies for over 10yrs now I borrowed one of my
> work mates husbands as a surrogate Dad & took him out for the day.
(snip)
>I got in a little trouble from my work mate with some of my
> comments while viewing the Monet collection.
> Here is a snip of her post about our day out.
> >NEVER EVER take the "Great Unwashed" to cultural venues to uplift
> >their eddication and appreciation fer the finer points in life!
> >It would not have been so bad if the "Great Unwashed" could have been
> >discreetly and quietly unimpressed with ART. Nope.  By the "Great
> >Unwashed", I am referring to KK and the Spouse. Here are some of their
> >more horrific loud comments today:
> >KK: That doan look nuffink like sea in that pic!! Looks like a mob
> >of bleedin woolly lambs with those funny fluffy brushstrokes!!
> >KK: You mean ter tell me he painted 33 pics of bleedin haystacks?!!!

I split my sides laughing and imagining the looks that you would have
attracted, you little kulcha-vulcha, you!  :-)

Strike