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Hi Matt
I like it but,where is it and what was it.

Is this Paddo?

It's a mistery!

Hyde Park Barracks?

The Rocks, Sydney. Opposite the overseas terminal.

Matt. K wrote:The Rocks, Sydney. Opposite the overseas terminal.

*slaps hand on forehead*

I knew that Matt. Just testing.

Actually, my great-great-grandfather arrived near that very spot around 1815, via the convict ship Elizabeth. He did 7 years hard labour and was emancipated. He married the daughter of a free settler, received a land grant and did quite well.

ozimax wrote:

Matt. K wrote:The Rocks, Sydney. Opposite the overseas terminal.

*slaps hand on forehead*

Can I do that?

Of course it is.

My band played there, back in the late '80s. Many times. How silly do I feel? (Don't answer that one)

But in my defense, I had my back to the building!

gstark wrote:My band played there, back in the late '80s. Many times.

Wasn't that Alexander's Rag Times Band?

ozimax wrote:

gstark wrote:My band played there, back in the late '80s. Many times.

Wasn't that Alexander's Rag Times Band?

Bill's Monkey, actually.

Took us years to become an overnight failure.

Ozi
I didn't see him there. What does he look like?

Matt. K wrote:Ozi
I didn't see him there. What does he look like?

He's getting on a bit now Matt.

ozimax wrote:He did 7 years hard labour and was emancipated.

Were there too many letters there? Do you mean to say emaciated?

He did 7 years hard labour and was emancipated

Probably Ozi's great-great-grandfather was ''emaciated'' by the time he was ''emancipated''. So the daughter of a free settler, who I am assuming is Ozi's great-great-mother, fatten him up, remove all those fancy ideas he brought from the old country and set him off into the straight and narrow course of family life, wholesome living, and eventually prosperity. Ah, what a good woman can do!