Anzac Day.
Posted: Tue 18 Apr 2006 11:34 pm
Anzac Day is a huge day for Australia. It is the commemoration day of the landing at Anzac Cove, or Gallipolli. Nothing can open before midday on Anzac day, and the diggers march.
However in Melbourne their is another huge traditional event that takes place and causes huge issues in my house, and the first punches have just been thrown. For about the last 13 years there has been an AFL footy match on Anzac day at the MCG it is always played between Collingwood and Essendon. I put those two team alphabetically. No matter how well one team is playing in comparrison to the other both teams play with true heart and soul on this day, spurred on I am sure by the last post and the parade of diggers around the oval. Each footy players who served. It always is a close game, and once ended in a draw. In Aussie rules draws are quite uncomman. The reason I listed their names alphabetically is I support the brilliant Bombers (Essendon, my father played for them) and they truly are the best team in the league. I am totally unbiased here, and my husband barracks for the collywobbles, oops sorry Collingwood. For the next week we will snipe and bite and only at about 4.30 next Tuesday will we make peace again.
So please guys think of us in our time of marital dissent, and may the bombers fly up.
However in Melbourne their is another huge traditional event that takes place and causes huge issues in my house, and the first punches have just been thrown. For about the last 13 years there has been an AFL footy match on Anzac day at the MCG it is always played between Collingwood and Essendon. I put those two team alphabetically. No matter how well one team is playing in comparrison to the other both teams play with true heart and soul on this day, spurred on I am sure by the last post and the parade of diggers around the oval. Each footy players who served. It always is a close game, and once ended in a draw. In Aussie rules draws are quite uncomman. The reason I listed their names alphabetically is I support the brilliant Bombers (Essendon, my father played for them) and they truly are the best team in the league. I am totally unbiased here, and my husband barracks for the collywobbles, oops sorry Collingwood. For the next week we will snipe and bite and only at about 4.30 next Tuesday will we make peace again.
So please guys think of us in our time of marital dissent, and may the bombers fly up.