May your legacy be as staggering and timeless as the 50,000 year old Aboriginal culture. I hope this birthday is just one of many more to come.In recognition of your awesomeness and all your special works, I hope riches and prosperity queue and line up as large and long as the Great Barrier Reef.While He is at it, He might as well throw in a kangaroo into the fray so you can get a hoppy ride. Happy birthday, mate! Today, I asked the Almighty God to grant you a path to success as straight as the Eyre Highway.The following funny and endearing birthday wishes can be sent to your friends to make them feel proud of: first, who they as individuals and all their accomplishments and second, their rich and glittering Australian culture: Taking cognizance of the above will prove very useful when the time comes to tell that Aussie friend of yours how much you love him/her. After the Happy Birthday song is sung, he/she blows out the candles.įunny Birthday Wishes for Australian Friends Tradition dictates that the number of candles be representative of the birthday girl or boy’s age. For older folks, foods such as potato crisps, sausage rolls and hot dogs with tomato sauce can be found on the menu of most birthday celebrations in Australia.įor the birthday cake, brightly colored candles adorn the top of the cake. Aussies call these garnishments “hundreds and thousands”. It is a simple type of bread cut into cute shapes with colorful sweet and sugary things atop. The most treasured of all is the “fairy bread”. Irrespective of the age, a typical Australian birthday party will have at least one of the following traditional foods: fairy bread, chocolate spiders, cabonassi with cheese, chocolate crackles, sherbet cones and devon rolls. Across cities such as Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, there are literally uncountable night-out venues that cater for all sorts of birthday celebrations. And because Australia has some fantastic outdoor and evening venues ideal for all manner of celebrations, well-wishers can be spoilt for choice. What’s constant for most birthdays is that the partying could go all night into the early hours of the morning. Then again, the sequence of events differs from person to person. Wishes are said, drinks and shots are drunk, and presents given.
Fairy bread is sliced white bread, usually cut in triangles, spread with butter or margarine, and covered with “hundreds and thousands” or sprinkles, served at children’s parties in Australia and New Zealand.Īfter work, however, it is not unusual for Australians to go hang out in a full celebratory mood at a club, concert or restaurant.
Happy Birthday songs are briefly sung then it is back to work as usual for the day. Say, at the work place, what often happens is that the firm devotes about 10 to 15 minutes to surprise the birthday girl or boy. With the exclusion of landmark years such as 18, 21, 30, 40, 50 and 60, very few Australians pay attention to adults’ birthday celebrations. At the end of the day, the kids get to take home a lolly bag filled with all kinds of sweets. It becomes a very merry occasion when the kids ring around the birthday boy or girl to sing the “Happy Birthday” song.
In the course of the party, the children play a varied set of games. He was consigned to a boat a fter using a huge great cleaver.On the Island continent of Australia, birthday celebrations can very much vary, depending on the age of the birthday girl or boy.Īs in the case of children, their birthdays are so often held at home with a few close friends of the child gracing the occasion. Get a whiff of t hat antipodean breeze (3) MES: Yeah, you got work on from there? TS: Yeah, going to Australia to do a show. Trevor Stuart: Yeah, you can have me until April the 20th. I'd like to take it around to Liverpool, Manchester and places like that, y'know. say it works out real good, would you be up to doing something, say, around like March, April? We could get it. MES: So what if it goes all right, er, say. The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click).The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall.