FALL/SPRING

[Templar]

AS WE BEGIN OUR OPPOSITE SEASONS DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU LIVE --LETS NOT FORGET TO ENJOY THE BEAUTY AROUND US AND REMEMBER OUR FRIENDS--MY SEASON IS BRINGING THE COLORS OF FALL WHILE SOME ARE BEGINNING TO ENJOY THE FLOWERS OF SPRING---KEEP IN MIND WHAT THE CASTLE STANDS FOR---AND DEFEND THOSE IDEALS

    ENJOY WHILE YOU WALTZE WITH MATILDA THROUGH YOUR SEASON---TEMPLAR

[Goose]

Well stated. By the way who is Matilda?

[Nevol]

By the way who is Matilda?

It's not a 'who':

It's a bushmans swag - a sort of rolled up bag that held his possessions.

A bushmans swag (also known as a "bluey") is a bedroll, originally a blanket if he were lucky, but maybe only a piece of hessian, or wheat bags - hence the term swaggie. Clean clothes, if possessed, would be in the roll. Usually the only other possessions were a billy (to make tea in) and a "tucker bag", usually an old flour bag, knotted at the top, not rolled.

[ElleKitty]

*laughs.*  Nevol, your explanation isn't quite an explanation to us Americans.  You need to post a dictionary!

A billy is a can... and tucker is food.  I'd imagine the picture isn't too far from what our railroad hobos were.

[Triggersmob]

I love spring and Autumn. The best times of the year. Not too hot and not too cold.

[scottishmoney]

It has been autumn here since about July - at least it felt like it.  Now it is winter, as of early October - we have already had snow flurries and frosts.  We had a very cool summer, and look to have a cool fall and winter now.

[Templar]

*laughs.*  Nevol, your explanation isn't quite an explanation to us Americans.  You need to post a dictionary!

A billy is a can... and tucker is food.  I'd imagine the picture isn't too far from what our railroad hobos were.

A TUCKER IS A FOOD BAG--OUR HOBOS CARRIED A BINDLE STICK AND THEIR BELONGINGS TIED TO IT--ANYWAY I THINK THE COLORS ARE WORTH A LITTLE "WALTZ"

          YOUR HOBO-SWAGMAN---THE TEMPLAR

[Paint Your Wagon]

A few months ago I researched the songtext of Waltsing Matilda
Seems the songtext of today is not the original
But without the wiki explanations of the guy camping by a bog I would not have understood what Waltzing Matilda means  
I think the closest is taking your backpack for a walk

It was the team of the 1959 film On the Beach played throughout the film
Story is simple : in the post atomic war the Aussie submarine is the last survivor

[Pocketcoins]

So lets see if I got this right. My great Grandmother Matilda was really my great grandmother bedroll. And my Uncle Billy really was a can and not in the can. I don't think I even want to talk about Trucker. 

[AdamL]

LOL 

[Templar]

IF YOUR GRANDMOTHER MATILDA HAD A BEARD SHE WOULD BE YOUR UNCLE BILLY AND THE TRUCKER WOULD BE IN THE CAN---HOWEVER IF UNCLE BILLY HAD A SWAGGER--WELL THAT WOULD CHANGE THE WHOLE SONG AND THE TRUCKER WOULD BE WALTZING AFTER HE GOT OUT OF THE CAN--THAT'S MY STORY AND I'M STUCK WITH IT

             YOUR SWAGGERING SERVANT--THE TUCKING TEMPLAR!

[scottishmoney]

'Cording to the weatherman the last decent weather day is the morrow, thence afterwards supposed to be right cold and rainy the mores.

[Humpybong]

I think the weather is getting to you guys......either that or the bottle!

       

[Templar]

  ZAYTIV INSARK---IS THAT YOU??--WHY ITS BEEN YEARS--REMEMBER ME RALPMET ?
  WE WORKED IN THE CIRCUS TOGETHER--YOU DATED THE BEARDED LADY--REMEMBER??
    GOSH IT IS GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU!

                  YOU FRIEND TEMPLAR
 P.S. WHAT BOTTLE?