One story that has stuck with me from my time in Aldeburgh, UK, is a conversation I overheard on the bus in to Snape Maltings one day. By telling you this story there is a slight possibility the females in question may actually read this blog. Lucky I don’t actually give a shit.
According to them someone was getting married at the age of 25. This shocked them and filled them with disgust. I heard them say, quite loudly I might add (just so you know I wasn’t desperately trying to eaves drop in on their conversation) that “that’s really young” while holding a resting bitchy face pose. As someone who was married at 24, turning 25 the next day, my opinion of these people is this:
Age to other people is only an issue if they are;
1. Older than the person getting married
2. Don’t have a boyfriend/girlfriend themselves
3. Have a boyfriend/girlfriend but don’t actually want to marry them
Just to be clear I am in no way saying that point 3 is a problem – not everyone wants to get married, totally a personal choice. The only reason that point may be a problem is if they actually do want to get married. Then they are either bitter that their partner hasn’t proposed, or they are not ‘in love’ with them enough to take the next step! End of rant.
Now to talk a bit about our last month traveling through Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. I finally got to meet my overseas family, which includes ALL of my Dad’s brothers and sisters and their children and grandchildren etc. One of my Aunties is a Nun – just saying. I also got to spend some time with my Mum’s cousin who was an absolute legend and did something quite crazy that I thought my husband may have been killed (unfortunately I can’t divulge any more info as it may cause arrest). But he is a TOTAL legend!!!
Mum and Dad were born in villages, and I have to say they are the most amazingly beautiful places I have ever seen. Dad was born in freaking paradise, and Mum was born in a village that has such a wonderful country feel to it! Much of these villages were destroyed in the war, which is totally ****ed up. However, the people have the best personalities and never whinge! We could learn a lot from them here in Oz. People don’t have as much but they have what they need. It was so refreshing to sit around a table and talk. What blew us away was that people don’t check their phones when they are socialising with people. You actually talk to those in front of you, those that are actually there in their physical form. Fancy that! No one goes on facebook to update their statuses on how much fun they are having (clearly not much if you have to go on shitbook to inform everyone).
All we did was eat and drink. Gareth had to drink Sljivovica (plum brandy), Bosnian coffee, fresh goats milk and a beer for breakfast. If you don’t believe me please refer to the pictures below. As for our weight loss before returning home, I will just say one thing, everything we ate was fresh from their land!
Since returning home, Gareth has decided to get our garden cracking. This was after he was inspired by our relatives. All I can say is, the man has a green thumb! You should come and check it out some time.
AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE – We have a show this Saturday night at the Newsagency in Marrickville, Sydney. Would totally love to see you there and play some of our new tunes to you fine people. You can get tickets from here
http://www.stickytickets.com.au/12795/hudson_arc_w_imogen_clark.aspx
Finally, I would like to say we’re going to be touring in Germany again next April! CAN NOT WAIT! Hope to see you Germanians at a gig J.
Until next time,
Tad x
According to them someone was getting married at the age of 25. This shocked them and filled them with disgust. I heard them say, quite loudly I might add (just so you know I wasn’t desperately trying to eaves drop in on their conversation) that “that’s really young” while holding a resting bitchy face pose. As someone who was married at 24, turning 25 the next day, my opinion of these people is this:
Age to other people is only an issue if they are;
1. Older than the person getting married
2. Don’t have a boyfriend/girlfriend themselves
3. Have a boyfriend/girlfriend but don’t actually want to marry them
Just to be clear I am in no way saying that point 3 is a problem – not everyone wants to get married, totally a personal choice. The only reason that point may be a problem is if they actually do want to get married. Then they are either bitter that their partner hasn’t proposed, or they are not ‘in love’ with them enough to take the next step! End of rant.
Now to talk a bit about our last month traveling through Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. I finally got to meet my overseas family, which includes ALL of my Dad’s brothers and sisters and their children and grandchildren etc. One of my Aunties is a Nun – just saying. I also got to spend some time with my Mum’s cousin who was an absolute legend and did something quite crazy that I thought my husband may have been killed (unfortunately I can’t divulge any more info as it may cause arrest). But he is a TOTAL legend!!!
Mum and Dad were born in villages, and I have to say they are the most amazingly beautiful places I have ever seen. Dad was born in freaking paradise, and Mum was born in a village that has such a wonderful country feel to it! Much of these villages were destroyed in the war, which is totally ****ed up. However, the people have the best personalities and never whinge! We could learn a lot from them here in Oz. People don’t have as much but they have what they need. It was so refreshing to sit around a table and talk. What blew us away was that people don’t check their phones when they are socialising with people. You actually talk to those in front of you, those that are actually there in their physical form. Fancy that! No one goes on facebook to update their statuses on how much fun they are having (clearly not much if you have to go on shitbook to inform everyone).
All we did was eat and drink. Gareth had to drink Sljivovica (plum brandy), Bosnian coffee, fresh goats milk and a beer for breakfast. If you don’t believe me please refer to the pictures below. As for our weight loss before returning home, I will just say one thing, everything we ate was fresh from their land!
Since returning home, Gareth has decided to get our garden cracking. This was after he was inspired by our relatives. All I can say is, the man has a green thumb! You should come and check it out some time.
AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE – We have a show this Saturday night at the Newsagency in Marrickville, Sydney. Would totally love to see you there and play some of our new tunes to you fine people. You can get tickets from here
http://www.stickytickets.com.au/12795/hudson_arc_w_imogen_clark.aspx
Finally, I would like to say we’re going to be touring in Germany again next April! CAN NOT WAIT! Hope to see you Germanians at a gig J.
Until next time,
Tad x
RSS Feed