RE: Haveyoubeenhere 2019 Steemitworldmap Travel Contest - Entry #2
Your Aussie accent is getting better! Lol.
I'm really pleased to hear that your hard work paid off as I'm a fan of reward for effort. I was on a similar path to you although a rogue business partner ended that good run and after losing almost everything I had it was back to square one, the old drawing board, so to speak, and we had to start all over again. That was in 2014. Oh well, that's just life I guess. It's great to see you made it out early (out of the rat-race) and are enjoying life.
It's good that Pura is on the way to getting some professional help through the doctor. As it turns out we also sometimes call doctors offices surgeries. Hospitals are called hospitals but my doctors office, for instance, is called a surgery. I think it's a remnant from the very old days, just like the word hospital derives from Old French usage meaning place for the needy or some such thing. We also call doctors offices clinics. OK, enough school for now...Lol.
You're welcome for the support. Curangel only lets me curate one post per author per week so it avoids curators simply promoting friends. It's always a pleasure to promote your posts though and I look forward to doing so again.
All the best for Sunday and the week ahead.
Man!! Thanks for the Curangel deets (that’s some weird kid slang thing for details). Sure, not as enlightening as the origin of hospital but what can I say? I’m feelin cheery-0! 🤔 That may be a cross between Brit and Aussie, “cheery-0”—I’m working on it. Either that or Australia was originally inhabited by England to imprison British law breakers, that’s probably why I’m confusing the two.
No, really, I had no idea, it’s an even greater honor now and that opens my eyes for each of the curators who have been so kind—I had no idea. Sure does add another notch for Curangel.
Seems we both understand the meaning of rat-race though! “Lowd’n clee’uh.”
I can’t stand these one-on-one’s with you, can you tell? (that’s borderless for #satire)
England sent a lot of criminals down here to the Port Arthur penal colony and others also...A couple of my descendants among them. I'm proud of my convict heritage, as all Aussies are. :)
Brits—such a great group of people but their history sure has some mysteries. Firstly, what were they thinking when they established Australia, a land of early New Years celebrations, gorgeous sea, beautiful coast line (each of which I’ve yet to experience for myself—it’s one the list!), far stretching desert, tropical weather, and.. and.. and.. as a prison sentence?! Uhm.. have they noticed how freezing cold it is here? 🤔
You’re never gonna believe this, maybe you’ve heard, 😉 but they used to have a weird way of addressing my homeland, too, @galenkp. One time, way back in 1776, they actually threw a huge tea party where I come from in honor of their profound decision making.
Ah yes, the old Boston Tea Party...I studied that in school. The English were a hubris-loaded bunch were they not? Still, it takes all kinds. :)