Australia Day

Terra Australis, Terra Australis Ignota, Terra Australis Incognita, Magallanica or Magellanica, La Australia del Espíritu Santo, and La grande isle de Java, or Australia to the masses.

404 years since conception (first sighting of Terra Australis), 222 years since birth (first settlement of Terra Australis), 186 years since British Admiralty accepted the name Australia into the vernacular (thank you Matthew Flinders), 109 years since we moved out from home (signing of the constitution for Terra Australis), you would think at this age we could have a drink!

On 26 January 1808, Manning Clark notes that the '20th anniversary of the foundation of the colony' was observed in the traditional manner with 'drinking and merriment'. So why can't I have a bevvy on the foreshore???

At any rate I digress, we had an excellent day, what more could I want. Kids, family, merriment, good food, great company....

Really wanted to have a hit today, after dropping the kids back to their Mother, seems like the horrible Physical Withdrawal has for the most part vanished but her insidious brother Psychological Withdrawal is here to stay.

To make it just that little bit harder my knees are really hurting from the other night out, one quick shot and I wont feel a thing. The other side of this knee thing is I can't work, so I have been bored and depressed, not so much today, but will be again tomorrow. My gag reflex is kicking in just thinking about it, after prolonged Heroin use some people get what is Medically Diagnosed as a 'Hypersensitive Gag Reflex', this can be triggered by almost anything ranging from things that normally make someone feel a bit ill to the most mundane act or stimuli to, most usually for me, thinking about Heroin.

Got to stay strong...