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hatter_anon

Warwick Castle

Feb 18, 2007 09:20

My sister, the bil and I all had the day off yesterday, so we decided to be tourists and spent the day wandering around Warwick Castle.

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travel, piccies!

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antipodes_girl February 18 2007, 11:09:14 UTC

Wow!

hatter_anon February 19 2007, 18:24:56 UTC

It was rather impressive :)

flemmarde February 18 2007, 11:32:37 UTC

so much to see in life, so little time huh?

hatter_anon February 19 2007, 18:25:28 UTC

Something like that, perhaps a clause for my woeful finances as well!

ticklethepear February 19 2007, 18:56:36 UTC

Heh. And all the poor sods who built this castle probably had descendents who were shipped off to Oz. :)

hatter_anon February 20 2007, 18:16:44 UTC

Well bits of it were incredibly old and other bits had been added as recently as the nineteenth century, so who knows? Not to South Australia anyway. We were a colony of free settlers (and don't like letting anyone forget it).

ticklethepear February 20 2007, 19:08:18 UTC

Oh yeah, sorry I forgot about SA's one claim to fame! :)

hatter_anon February 21 2007, 18:09:53 UTC

hmmf! I'll have you know we can claim a lot more than that!
A small selection:
We were the first state in Australia to give women equal voting rights. Under the South Australian Constitution Aboriginal people actually had the right to vote until they lost it when Australia federated in 1901 (though admittedly there weren't many registered Aboriginal voters in the 19th century).
SA was the first state in Australia to legalise homosexuality between consenting adults in private.
SA was one of the first states to have a 'Festival of Arts' and the first to introduce the 'Festival of Ideas'.
Not to mention great wineries, great beaches and a fantastic lifestyle in general ;)

ticklethepear February 21 2007, 19:50:10 UTC

How could I have forgotten! I did enjoy my brief visit to Adelaide and the wine country tour. (blurry if memorable)

hatter_anon February 23 2007, 17:38:43 UTC

Well next time you're in the neighbourhood I'll give you my personalised tour ;)

ticklethepear February 23 2007, 18:32:31 UTC

Ta! I'm sure it'll be a lot more memorable since I won't be drinking!

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hatter_anon February 25 2007, 09:44:38 UTC

ha! You. Jealous of my life? I don't believe you :)

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hatter_anon February 26 2007, 17:59:45 UTC

Actually despite my moaning and whinging most days I really enjoy what I'm doing right now. I'd struggle if it was a long term commitment though, I think there's a really negative and poisonous office culture prevalent among a lot of the staff but most of the time I don't let it effect me. The mornings are incredibly entertaining as that's when I'm on the front desk where most of the world passes you by and I get on really well with most of the court ushers who work out there. Abusive 'customers', drunkards and idiots I can handle, it's the rude staff that get up my nose!