1834

[phlebas]

@Barbaria1 and @LittleSiss meet @phlebas and @Loinclothslave 's ancestors!

My ancestors were indeed here in 1834, but I'm not aware of any who wielded a whip, though two of them were married by Samuel Marsden "the flogging parson".

I'll have a hunt through the family papers and see if I can find a diary that reveals all.

I do have this manip of another adventure that Barb had down under

 

[twonines]

My ancestors were indeed here in 1834, but I'm not aware of any who wielded a whip, though two of them were married by Samuel Marsden "the flogging parson".

I'll have a hunt through the family papers and see if I can find a diary that reveals all.

I do have this manip of another adventure that Barb had down under
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Those nipples are certainly tumescent, and she looks as though she is in sub-space.

 

[Loxuru]

and begins to say something about “demerits” and punishments.

(One of) the oldest records of the word "demerits" used by Barb on this forums?

The problem is that no one really knows the rules;

The same for the phenomenon known as "fine print"!

 

[Loxuru]

“Don’t expect to find a pub around the bend,” she mutters finally.

And in Australia, the pub most likely only serves beer, no Riesling!

Then the rodents, attracted by the insects, begin darting and hopping around us.

Aren't they cute?

 

[phlebas]

And in Australia, the pub most likely only serves beer, no Riesling!

Lox, I think Australia is the 4th biggest producer of riesling in the world, and we've been growing it since the 1840s, not long after this story.

View attachment 1464274 Aren't they cute?

It might come as a shock but we don't have squirrels here, you will never see one in the wild. Their tree dwelling niche is taken by these


But maybe what they saw were these?

 

[Eulalia]

Lox, I think Australia is the 4th biggest producer of riesling in the world, and we've been growing it since the 1840s, not long after this story.

And you make pretty good wine with it -
all the same, isn't this the alternative national anthem?

 

[Mikerytel]

My ancestors were indeed here in 1834, but I'm not aware of any who wielded a whip, though two of them were married by Samuel Marsden "the flogging parson".

I'll have a hunt through the family papers and see if I can find a diary that reveals all.

I do have this manip of another adventure that Barb had down under
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Barbs ancestor looks like she's fantasizing about her harsh whipping

 

[phlebas]

And you make pretty good wine with it -
all the same, isn't this the alternative national anthem?

Indeed, it looks like that particular recording dates from the 70s. Apparently there was a real pub, and "the 1957 song, which became Australia's first international hit, was based on the poem A Pub Without Beer written by Ingham sugarcane farmer and poet Dan Sheahan in the Day Dawn Hotel, now known as Lees Hotel, in Ingham in 1943. "

I didn't know the story until now, Americans were involved!

In December 1943, American servicemen from the 22nd Bomb Group passed through Ingham en route to Port Moresby, stopped at the Day Dawn Hotel overnight and drank all the beer. The following day Dan Sheahan rode his horse 30 kilometres to the hotel only to learn there was no beer. He had a glass of wine instead, sat in the pub and wrote the poem.

Over paid, over sexed, over here and drinking all the beer!

 

[Loinclothslave]

And in Australia, the pub most likely only serves beer, no Riesling!

In those days it would have been rum

View attachment 1464274 Aren't they cute?

Like @phlebas alluded, no rodents in Australia prior to European settlement but we only got the vermin like rats and not the cute ones…

 

[Loxuru]

Lox, I think Australia is the 4th biggest producer of riesling in the world, and we've been growing it since the 1840s, not long after this story.

My remark about Riesling was about the 1834 era, so not historically incorrect!

Like @phlebas alluded, no rodents in Australia prior to European settlement but we only got the vermin like rats and not the cute ones…

I can catch a few furry tailed cuties in my garden and send them down under, if you like! They are not dangerous, unlike the local fauna!

 

[Loxuru]

They quickly take us, throwing us to the ground and binding us by our wrists and ankles to long sturdy hunting poles. An aborigine takes hold of each end of the pole and we are suddenly suspended, arms and legs high, backs low to the ground.

I am not sure of their customs but am fairly sure that we will not be on the menu tonight. As to our fate, right now I am only concerned with the rough wooden pole scraping at my wrists and ankles as they carry us along, swaying back and forth like wild hogs at the end of a day’s hunting.

A multicultural encounter as interlude! Including the use of the local way of public transport.

JUMP OR SURRENDER?

This episode ends with a real cliffhanger!

But where had you thought to escape to? You are on a big island, half the world away from home!

 

[Loxuru]

1834 episode 6 “Execution”

An unexpected ending. I had expected that the runaways would have been hung high and dry upside down by their ankles, as a warning (see episode two), bodies against each other, and left there to perish!

Nice story, @Barbaria1 and @LittleSiss !

 

[Hugin&Munin]

And you make pretty good wine with it -
all the same, isn't this the alternative national anthem?

In those days it would have been rum

Like @phlebas alluded, no rodents in Australia prior to European settlement but we only got the vermin like rats and not the cute ones…

Unfortunately, I only know one type of Australian beer, Fosters Lager.

 

[Wragg]

Unfortunately, I only know one type of Australian beer, Fosters Lager.
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Ah, that's what I would have said...



... but @phlebas advised me about one other.