“FOOTY-FEVER” by Des Kelly Yes, it’s back again. Everyone who is anyone, in Australia knows it. I will not even bother to go into any details about it as anyone who is interested in it, has only to switch on to Channel 7 in Melbourne, every weekend, from now on, and they can learn everything they want to know about this “Sport”. . For all our Lankan/Aussies who have just arrived here recently, I know that you have had little time in which to learn about the basics of “Aussie-Rules”, as they call it. If you were, like me, looking for a job, to put food on the table for your family, about three days after arrival, you would not have time to sit watching Aussie-Rules on the television, but don’t worry men, you will learn about it quick enough!. Firstly, it is most difficult to tell you good people ...
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“A ROSE”(In the snow) – by Des Kelly Shirley Myers of Canada wrote the song, presumably with boyfriend, Rod Nicholson & recorded it, many moons ago, in Nashville. The Song, Artiste, Recording, in total, has not got the recognition it truly deserves. Shirley has a “true” Country voice, simple, still beautiful, the song, presumably written by herself & boyfriend, Steel-guitarist Rod, is exactly what a good “Country-Song” should be, totally listenable, beautiful “life-like” lyrics & a recording that I love. All my readers of eLanka are now aware, that when I pick a “song”, any song, vocal or instrumental, it will be the very best that 75 years of experience in the “Music” business can muster. I KNOW a good song, & “A rose in the snow” is certainly one of them. In addition, this song, & “story” are dedicated to another “Rose”, whose name was “Dawn”. I have written ...
“HO-GAHANA-POKUNA” by Des Kelly How many of our Lankan/Aussies remember this place ? How many ex-patriots even know what the triple-word means. I have just watched a “documentary” about some “Tour-Guides”(about 8 of them in total), taking their first tour of Sri Lanka!. Considering the fact that they call themselves “tour-guides”, one must be “given to the idea” that their main purpose has to be “promotion” of the Countries they visit. Unless there is a sequel or three, to their tour of Lanka, I cannot see too much “tourism-potential” in what has just been televised. Yes, some “pretty-places” were shown, but the triviality of most of the “doco” would have been obvious to many Lankans who are no longer living in S.L. & I did have some rather negative comments passed on to me. The “tour-guides” themselves, “scored” the tour quite highly, but then, one would have to expect that, wouldn’t ...
Mar 22, 2018
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“IDLE CHATTER” by Des Kelly Plenty of it going around at the moment.All the “big boys” accusing each other of one thing or another.President Trump, still “twittering” away some of his most influential “buddies”, till it seems that all, of any substance, around him now, to help him “make America great, again”, now number around twenty, every single one, not certain that he/she, will still have their jobs next week. The Russian President has been “Put-in”, accused of being “the master-mind” behind the murder of two unfortunate Russians in England.These are serious ,accusations, but, the problem with the “idle-chatter” on this one is that President Putin has still to be “proved guilty”. Many Russian Ambassadors have been “kicked out” of England because of this & it is NO “idle-chatter” to expect speedy retaliation on this one, by Russian King Putin.. He certainly was not “put-in” that position for nothing. The English, ...
Mar 21, 2018
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“MEMORIES” by Des Kelly Too much cannot be written about my “subject” for eLanka, this week. Frequently, “they” come into my writings, and, just as frequently, they will come into the minds of everyone, no matter who they are, no matter, where they live, no matter, if they can read this, or they cannot. Actually, no matter WHAT!. I now speak (or write), about persons, such as myself, who have been lucky enough to live a long life, in the context of time,those who have experienced life, the good and the bad times, when they were happy or sad, to be brief, those who have “lived life”. Youngsters have no time for “memories”. They live in a “time”when they have no “time” for such things, but, there is nothing more certain. There will come a “time” (hopefully), when they, too, will have recourse to this unique “word”. “Memories are made of this”, ...
“SOMETHING STUPID”! by Des Kelly A common “phrase” as regards something we have done, or, we have said (sometimes), a phrase that we often use, ourselves, when we see something stupid on our television, for example, the “ads”, for instance, that turn would-be customers “off” rather than “on”, advertisements that are so bloody stupid, one would have to think that the people paying for this rubbish to be publicised would have to be stupider than the “ads” themselves. This is my idea of “something stupid. I rest my case. I pick up my case again, on “Something Stupid” the song. “The Voice”, as he was known during the “good old days”, “cranky Frankie” “old blue-eyes”, whatever, Frank Sinatra, to be precise, was, in my opinion, the most technically perfect singer on the planet in his era. There was NO Vocalist who could “phrase” a song like Sinatra could. Every great ...
Mar 21, 2018
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“THE GOOD TIMES” by Des Kelly Again, in the 1950’s, what a decade that was !. Donavan Andree, by far, the very best “Entrepreneur”that our little Country ever had, brought out “Artistes”, “Bands”, “Groups”, “The Ice Follies”, “Circuses”, even “Wrestlers” from around the World, was “still going”, with the help of Elmo Andree, a close relative, his own son Malcolm, & a band of trusted employees, among whom was an Uncle of this writer, Roy Demmer, who was his right-hand man at the Casino in Havelock Park, which Donavan owned & ran. In addition, he had started “The 3 Club” Complex in Bambalapitiya, described more correctly, I suppose, as an all-time “Carnival-Complex”, where, on about 3 nights a week, “Housey-Housey” also called “Bingo”, was regularly attended by the folk in Bambalapitiya, especially the ladies who loved to play the game. Around the Carnival-ground, were at least another dozen little enclosures ...
Mar 16, 2018
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“THE SPACE RACE” by Des Kelly Not very long after President Trump had declared that Australia would be excused from any tariffs on both steel & “aloominum” (as pronounced in the States), I find that up to 200.000 pensioners will be targeted, by the Labour Government, (if it comes into power after the next election), to “dip into their pockets”, & fork out money they haven’t got!. Bill, with Australia rapidly becoming an “ageing” population, right now, YOU have Buckley & Nunn’s chance of Governing, when you make statements like that. Buckley had only a little “Hope”, Nunns have only a few “Good Habits” & most Pensioners have absolutely no “Cash” to hand over. Bob Hope will, hopefully, be happy, (bless his Soul),The “Flying Nunns”, will be “flying low”& Johnny Cash will be most ecstatic about it all (May he rest in peace). He (President Trump) has still not decided ...
Mar 15, 2018
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“THE FIZZLING FIREWORK” by Des Kelly Marvellous. The little “Rocket-man”(branded by Donald Trump), & the “Lunatic”(branded by Kim, bung,) “may” meet in May, this year, to parlay about “fizzling-fireworks” in general. Talking about rocket-men & lunatics, just goes to show what a “crazy” World we live in right now. There he was, firing rocket after rocket, across South Korea, across Japan, into the seas around (luckily), UNTIL the “Sanctions” started arriving. The “Rocket-Man” wasn’t worried, one bit. Help kept coming, thru the back door, & the man with the funny hair-cut, kept “firing” once more, while the U.N.watched & waited, wondering what the hell to do next. Then, comes this sudden turnaround. Reminded me of another “firework” from my younger days, in Ceylon, the “Catherine-wheel”. They keep spinning around, until they “fizzle-out”. It seemed to me that “Sanctions” against North Korea were as useless as “tits”(teats) on a ...
Mar 12, 2018
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“STUFF-EM, EGG-HEADS” by Des Kelly They are “at it”, again, these so-called egg-Producers, (and I am not talking about the poor “chooks”, here), I am talking about the Companies that “shut” these helpless little birds in cages for the sole purpose of collecting their eggs and making profits from them, not giving a damn about what these miserable hens have to go through, to provide these eggs. I write it, and I mean it. Human beings do need eggs as part of their daily diet(hopefully), many cannot afford to buy them, some cannot eat them, and personally, I do not touch eggs that are not “free-range”. Hens, who are “caged-up” with barely room to move their small bodies, not even enough room to spread their wings, as birds like to do, their little heads poking out of an aperture, solely for the purpose of pecking for their food right below ...
Mar 9, 2018
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