Books and crushes

[storm]

> jenny from ravenclaw wrote:
> > Are there books that you have read so many times you *still* know
> > chunks by heart?  Are you also unable to explain why?
> 
Everyone else has mentioned heaps of books that I love and will now 
commence a re-reading frenzy. A particiluarly Au book is the Norah of 
Billabong books by Mary Grant Bruce. They were re-released recently, 
err, opps, about 15 years ago. Racist warning but they were about a 
small motherless girl who lived with her Dad and her brother Jim on a 
property. Lots of horses and cattle and so on. they start preWW1 I 
think and go through. 

The second book "Mates at Billabong" is on line at 
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bruce/mates/mates.html


> storm:
> >>Including on .... (other Au listers will know how 
> embaressing this is)... Darryl Sommers (a short, tubby older man 
who 
> pretends to be funny). I spent all my Saturdays in front of the 
tele 
> watching the now defuncted "Hey, Hey it's Saturday", collected his 
> picture from magazines, knew when he was in town <sigh> those 
halcyon days! <<
> 
> Good **GOD** (says Tabouli, awestruck at storm's shamelessness).  
Now if only the non-Australian listmembers knew of the man in 
question, you'd have to be a leading contender for the Grand Prize 
here!  Darryl Somers, begorrah!!!  Even his sidekick Ozzie the 
Ostrich (a wisecracking puppet) has more sex appeal...

oh ... steady on there ... no you are right. and for those non-au 
listers here's a pic of the man himself, 
http://www.elliotgoblet.com.au/gallery/pages/01daryl_jpg.htm
Darryl is the fellow on the left (I will never live this down!) 
Tabouli's faviourite is the pink puppet.

storm