What Makes an Australian an Aussie?🌏🤔💭🦘🎭🖌🎨

Bondi Observer

I was looking at some recent pictures from the Bondi Observer website and saw the posters in the above photo and remembered the first time I ever saw a Peter Drew poster pasted to an outside wall in Hobart in 2016 and thinking, "what's this all about?" -

The Ambiguity of Art

Rolf Harris and his art

Most Australians are a mongrel breed when it comes to DNA, like myself, who has about 16 different DNA (and counting?) groups that make me me, according to websites like Ancestry.com.

Even a lot of my Australian "indigenous" mates are a mongrel breed too and wouldn't be here now if their "white boat people" ancestors didn't land here a few hundred years ago.

Australiana Designs

So, what does make an Australian an Aussie, anyway?

Australia HOME 

Guest: Peter Drew, Adelaide-based artist. 

Who Do You Think You Are ... Because Ancestry.com Sure Don't Seem to Know Either?🧞🧬🏡🌲🎄

Celebrate iconic Bondi with
these unique REMO designs

2026

The Bondi Post Code is 2026?🌊 📩📮

Mother Mary & Project Hail Mary’s Names Connect While Ryan Gosling & Anne Hathaway Share Birthdays?🎥⛪🎂🎬

I watched this latest short video of Jake Kotze's above tonight (Australian time) and thought, "Ryan was born in 1980, the Year of the Metal Monkey, which seems synchromystically appropriate for space travel movies:-) 

Soviet space dogs

Anne was born in 1982, the Year of the Water Dog, an animal the Russians seemed to favour until they killed one in a space experiment to beat the USA to the moon .... which is another can of worms:-)"

First Friday in May

I haven't seen either film yet.

And while 'Project Hail Mary' has been in Australian cinemas for weeks, 'Mother Mary' isn't going to be released for another week or so, to coincide with the Mother's Day weekend over here in Australia.

Everyday Magic & Finding Meaning in the Mundane?🪄🥱🦋🌈

Who Got Me Hooked on Chinese Wall Calendars?📅📆🤔💭

National days and holidays on May 1

General Thinker | Printed Book

I was looking through my 'General Thinker' book and saw the 'Chinese Wall Calendar' in the book and was thinking back as to when I started putting a 'Chinese Wall Calendar' on my kitchen wall, and why?

General Thinker | Printed Book

I'm pretty sure I bought my first 'Chinese Wall Calendar' through the first incarnation of the REMO General On-line Store, until it went offline and then ever since I've bought them at Chinese News Agents in my hometown of Brisbane every year.

Personally, I just like tearing off the day before when I get up to make coffee in the morning and wake myself up for the day ahead:-)

Call me a lunatic if you want, I don't care;-)

2026: The Fire Horse Year?🐎🔥🎠🚒🧨🐴