A Sunday arvo in a backyard in Brisbane
29-November-2010
It’s coming up 30 years since I’d been to Mt Ommaney. On the first working day of 1981 I signed up for a block of land there. Asking price was $11,900, $500 deposit, and interest free terms and my salary at the time was $15k a year. It was dad’s idea, but spooked by the thought of “long” term commitment, I sold it within eighteen months for $19,000 and thought I was clever LOL.
It’s now one of Brisbane’s most comfortable places to live, and it’s also a better than ever place to sign up for long term commitment. Dean’s mum and dad provided the venue, i.e. a backyard with pool and a golf course. And Kimberley’s folks own a restaurant, so they organized waves of lovingly prepared food and drink. Schoolyard sweethearts, they wanted their wedding to be a great big celebration.
Footnote; One of the photographs has been censored due to it’s culturally sensitive nature, but Kimberley and Dean have kindly granted permission for it to be published provided it is put in context.
For those not familiar, it is a timeless Australian tradition for expressing best-wishes between close friends.
It requires the men to imbibe certain amounts of particular drinks the night before the wedding, hop in a taxi and travel around the city selecting appropriate offerings for the lady folk.
Once collected they travel to the place of the women, and when the lights are out approach the house, place the gifts on the steps and ring the door bell, before running off into the night laughing.
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