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[Twodogs]

Big conincidence. Conindences crop up more than you think. How was Soverign Hill Twodogs?

Thanks to all woofers for answering the poll. We have a high concentration in the western suburbs heartland which is expected but a good sperad in the northern and eastern suburbs from woof. The VIC country poll is going up have quite a few on here from the country.

Her birthday is next month, that's when we are going. My daughter livers in Tassie these days but she lived with me for most of her life. My son lives on the mainland with me.

[Eastdog]

How was Soverign Hill Twodogs? Did you have a good time out there?

[Twodogs]

How was Soverign Hill Twodogs? Did you have a good time out there?

Yeah it was great. I nearly bought a hat! I did buy lots of boiled lollies though.


Pretty sure my daughter had a good time.

[Eastdog]

Yeah it was great. I nearly bought a hat! I did buy lots of boiled lollies though.


Pretty sure my daughter had a good time.

Great to hear Twodogs.

[Eastdog]

Imagine if we were playing up in Ballarat this weekend. We could have been the first AFL game to get snow

[westdog54]

Yeah it was great. I nearly bought a hat! I did buy lots of boiled lollies though.


Pretty sure my daughter had a good time.

You haven't had a raspberry drop unless you've had a still-warm one from the factory.

We watched the peppermint humbug demonstration and anyone who had a sinus problem didn't by the end of the demo

[Twodogs]

You haven't had a raspberry drop unless you've had a still-warm one from the factory.

We watched the peppermint humbug demonstration and anyone who had a sinus problem didn't by the end of the demo

Years age I did a lolly making course at William Angliss College. It was great they taught us how to roll boiled sweets and enrobe chocolate. The process of making boiled lollies is really dangerous because you are working with boiling sugar masses and using steam and vapours. All the guys who taught the course were either German or Austrian (probably half a dozen blokes were teaching us at various stages) and they all had most of their fingertips burned away to the first knuckle joint because they stopped concentrating at one stage and ended up dipping their fingers into boiling hot melted sugar!

I've had lots of jobs and taken interests in all sorts of things but they were the wildest guys I've ever worked with.

[Twodogs]

Imagine if we were playing up in Ballarat this weekend. We could have been the first AFL game to get snow

About a fortnight after the moon landing in 1969 it snowed in Yarraville for the only time in my 55 years. It was only a light dusting but the teacher wouldn't let us out of the classroom to play in it. Talk about a miserable old git! Even though she wasn't even half the age I am now.

[Bulldog4life]

About a fortnight after the moon landing in 1969 it snowed in Yarraville for the only time in my 55 years. It was only a light dusting but the teacher wouldn't let us out of the classroom to play in it. Talk about a miserable old git! Even though she wasn't even half the age I am now.

What school did you go to in Yarraville Td? I went to Yarraville West. Earlier than you though.

[Twodogs]

What school did you go to in Yarraville Td? I went to Yarraville West. Earlier than you though.

I went to Kingsville between 1969-1975. It's the 100th birthday celebration of the school opening in 1919 in a couple of weeks.

I was in Preps when it snowed and I can remember watching through the window with my mates and asking (begging) the teacher to let us outside at morning playtime but she said no. We were all like "WTF? It's snowing and you won't let us out of the classroom?" but she held firm, "No you will get all wet and catch a cold!" "But duuude, it's snowing!!!!! Who gives a *!*!*!*! what happens to us next week?"

I reckon it contributed to my problems with authority later in life. A few years later a teacher blocked the door to try and stop me getting out of an upstairs classroom so I jumped out of the window. I didn't really think that one through very well though, the sudden landing bloody hurt.

[bornadog]

I went to Kingsville between 1969-1975. It's the 100th birthday celebration of the school opening in 1919 in a couple of weeks.

My cousins went there during that period.

[Twodogs]

My cousins went there during that period.

What were their names? I might know them.

[bornadog]

What were their names? I might know them.

I won't give full name, but with my Turkish background you probably knew a few. Did you know an Ahmet

[Twodogs]

I won't give full name, but with my Turkish background you probably knew a few. Did you know an Ahmet

Yup. Went to school with lots of Turkish kids. Their dads were always intrigued how most Aussie kids knew who Attaturk was and held him in such high regard.

[bornadog]

Yup. Went to school with lots of Turkish kids. Their dads were always intrigued how most Aussie kids knew who Attaturk was and held him in such high regard.

Yeah, we all grew up not far from that school, off Somerville rd. Kingsville st, Wales St, Coronation st, etc. I was brought up in Wales st, but we moved to West Sunshine when I was four. We came back in 1961 and lived in Barkley st and I went to West Footscray Primary for a few years. My dad and his cousins, friends, loved the footy when they arrived in 1951 and lived in those streets and walked to the ground.