"LadyJane" > wrote in
oups.com:

> Mum is British through and through. If a product is English... it HAS
> to be the best there is. (No, she won't be voting republican if our
> government ever goes that track!) Her vehement pro-Brit monologues are
> a standing joke in (my) family.(three Aussies after all!)


LadyJane,

We road tripped from Canberra, NSW to Adelaide, SA where "Big Bird #1"
was born and raised and we were going to stay at his parents house for a
few days.

While we were there she treated us like her own, while naturally
embarassing her son, OUR boss the whole time.

Upon arrival she asked us, "would you boys like a beer and a whiskey?!"

God bless Mrs. Joseph!!! We had a Mom away from home for a bit.

She made us our first kangaroo steak dinner!!!

Very proper and upstanding family. It was a pleasure of my life!

You Aussies are so civilized!!!

Andy