Today Is Aussie Day…Sort of.

Today is Australia Day, usually one of the hottest days of the year, a public holiday to boot, when all good Aussies take a day off, and many watch a one day international cricket match when the Australian cricket team slaughters some poor slobs — usually, I hope, Pakistan or better yet, the West Indies, which makes for damn fine cricket.  Lots of people don’t get cricket and think it’s oddly boring, but like chess, it’s all about strategy, and when it’s packed into one day rather than five, it can be a fabulous game to watch, especially when you have good company.

This all takes place in the shade (the watching, that is), with liberal amounts of libation.  Booze, in other words.   It’s the only way to handle a forty-degree day (117 degrees farenheit for you North Americans).

But I’m at the wrong end of the date line, so by the time Aussies in Australia actually get to read this, they’ll be stumbling into the kitchen to fix a cure for their hangovers, and wincing at the blindingly bright morning, and Australia Day, the official version, will be yesterday.

It’s still Australia Day for me, sitting here in Canada, where the snow is three feet deep and my back is aching from having shovelled the drive and front path yesterday, and the last time I watched cricket was fourteen years ago.

The closest I get to Australia these days is to imagine my way there, which is what I did with Ningaloo Nights late last year.  I enjoyed “returning” to Australia so much I might just have to do it again.

Think you could stand the strain? :)

Tweet This Post

Related Posts

• 5-Star Review for Ningaloo Nights As I'm climbing out from under the 500+ "non-screamingly-urgent" emails I simply had to leave until I got home post-midnight last night, I discovered a wonderful 5-star review from Susan Siglar at Love Romance Passion for Ningaloo Nights. Excerpts of the review: Ningaloo Nights is a smooth, well-executed, hot steamy......
• Go Down Under with Alexis Fleming and Win A Copy of Honey Trap Today we're talking to Alexis Fleming, Aussie author, and contributor to the Going Down Under series at Ellora's Cave.  Her book, Honey Trap, was released just this morning.  Because of time differences, it's going to be about 1pm MST before Alexis will be up and about and returning comments, but......
• Where Did the Romance Go in Erotic Romances? I have a tendency to mouth off sometimes, and today is one of those days. Over at Romancing the Blog, Emmanuelle Alspaugh raised the question "Is there ever such a thing as too much sex in erotic romance?" in her post "Let's Talk About Sex, Baby". In my mouthy fashion,......
• Free Erotic Romantic Suspense. Just for Today only, for my Birthday. If you're partial to erotic romantic suspense, today you get to celebrate my birthday right along with me.  Until midnight tonight, you can download Broadway Deathtrap, an erotic romantic suspense quickie of mine that has never before been published. Ben Lawrence, New York detective, gets assigned to look into a......
• The August issue of Stories Rule! is now out -- BIG contest this month! The August issue of Stories Rule! has just been released, and there's a middlin' big contest this month, to celebrate the launch of Dare to Return. The prize pack includes a copy of Dare to Return, a $25 Amazon Gift Certificate and a $25 Victoria's Secret Gift Certificate. This month,......

Related Websites

• 1925 Coin Penny Coins & Paper Money -> Coins: World -> Australia The 1925 coin penny is the 3rd rarest copper coin from Australia. According to records from their Royal Mint, this coin was struck late in the year to make sure that Australian merchants had plenty of pennies during the Christmas season.......
• Visit Australia: The UN-Official Guide [/caption] Australia is the largest island in the world and a continent to itself. Before European settlement, it was inhabited by the Aborigines (or Kooris) for some 42,000 years. It was first visited by the Dutch in the 17th century and later colonized by the British in the 18th......
• Seriously! Do You Wanna Know How To Get Everything You Ever Wanted? This has been a pretty big year for me. I really started to apply what I have learned about internet marketing, network marketing and attraction marketing in 2009.  We have a way of getting exactly what we want. I know it sounds strange but its true. After talking to literally......
• Aussie Land and Tennis Update #4 It is wet here and I have not had a chance to use my sunscreen in 7 days..... Cool, windy and wet - am I in San Jose??? Dan Santorum and I walked in the mist, wind and chill down Russell Street to Findley St and off to Rod......
• Cutting the Cable TV There used to be time when all of America connected a pair of rabbit ears to their television sets and blissfully watched. Three to thirteen channels was all anyone needed. Then cable and satellite television came along. With the new options came more channels, all of them crystal clear.......