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Old 13-12-2008, 12:52 AM
Ian Robinson
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Originally Posted by xelasnave View Post
Dripping yes indeed ...
What about bread, sugar and warm milk...or soft boiled egg in bread... poor farmer meals...vegimite in hot water with bread... if you eat that day I mean.
My grandfather was extrodinary fella...tuff as...when I was 22 and he was 72 he could beat me in an arm wrestle ...later no one could beat me but he was then not around to see if I could match him...

There was a country show and as was the custom a greezed pig was let loose in the ring..who caught it got to keep it..a wonderful prise in those days...a young fella caught it but two outta townwers (in a horse and sulky so they were slick) took it and no one would stand up to them ..except my grandfather...dropped them both and gav e the pig back to the kid who caught it fair and square.

He would get me each year and I had to tell him blow by blow each fight I had since I saw him last...
He did me such a favour...he told me if I started a fight I would get a flogging but if in a fight and I lost it I would get a real flogging...as a result I always had to block the first flurry of punches when someone picked on me ...but after that I could cream them... but I developed a great defence cause I did not want to get the greater flogging.

He was an inspirational person.

alex
I happen to quite like Vegemite in lots of ways , and Vegemite dissolved in hot water is a wonderful drink .... one I've not had for a long while.

I like Vegemite straight out the bottle on a spoon or bread and butter knife too .... very very tasty and moreish //// my wife just shakes her head when I do that .....
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