Comments on: KJ to Get Date In 2009!

By: Roma Street

Roma Street — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:27:40 +0000

I forgot to mention – the gorgeous and talented Kirsty Martin, principal dancer with the Australian Ballet, is from Leeton. She used to attend the Di Salvatore Dance Academy, which was located behind the Di Salvatore family’s supermarket.

By: Roma Street

Roma Street — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:55:24 +0000

I am neither a “character” nor a “lady”.

By: KJ

KJ — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:48:24 +0000

KJ – Now, now ladies catfight! And the only catfight we should be involved in now is the weblog awards…….keep calm, keep calm….!

By: Ex-Leetonite

Ex-Leetonite — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:32:34 +0000

Actually Roma Street, I did spend my last two years of High School at LHS. I learnt more there than the previous eleven years years at St Joes and St Francis.
I made contributions to The Leetonian as well as learning how to deal with characters such as yourself. Public education remains my passion.

By: Roma Street

Roma Street — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:17:10 +0000

That explains, Ex-L.

If you’d had a secular Leeton education you would have known that the LHS school magazine is called The Leetonian.

By: Ex-Leetonite

Ex-Leetonite — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:48:42 +0000

Dear Roma Street,
I’ll call myself whatever I b………..y well like. Educated by the Leeton black St Joeys and all that……

KJ, What about the naval officer who refused to go along with Howard’s Children Overboard story? Wasn’t he from Leeton? Very de rigeur of him!

By: Roma Street

Roma Street — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:02 +0000

Peter Peters is from Leeton. His dad owned the old fruit shop in the main street about 20 yards up from the Wade Hotel.

Bill Roycroft is also from Leeton.

15-minutes-of-famer David Luff is also from Leeton. He briefly became famous as the media minder who wouldn’t let Fox FM interview John Howard during the election campaign.

By: Roma Street

Roma Street — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:07:58 +0000

Helen Wellings is Leeton’s most famous daughter, surely. Her Macleans are still showing after all these years. Or possibly Linda Burney, who is a Minister Of The Crown.

And Ex-Leetonite – Leetonian is de rigeur. Leetonite is infra dig.

KJ: Got that Ex-Leetonite?!! How could I have NOT known that Miss Consumer Watchdog is a LEETONIAN?
Yes, Linda Burney (Leeton High alumni) is a contender.
Others?
Senator John Faulkner was born in Leeton but his family moved soon after (still counts!)
Mr G. Morris – John Howard’s former right-hand man.
Henry Lawson – came for a while to document the establishment of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Scheme. Leeton was a ‘dry’ town and it was generally agreed that Mr Lawson needed to dry out. He hated the place.
Former Australian Cricket Captain, Mark Taylor. Born in Leeton but family moved on soon after (still counts!). KJ

By: The Ginger Man

The Ginger Man — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:57:41 +0000

The bell clangs.
The Grand Gate opens.
The GL48, the Shirt, the Bag of Perpetuals, the Trinity Scarf, the Bletchley coffee mug and ashtray all piled outside for the passerby.
All is changed, changed utterly.
A terrible greenless beauty is born.
The bell clangs again.
The Grand Gate closes.
Another bell calls the house to prayer.
Adieu, my friends
The Ginger Man has entered.

By: KJ

KJ — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:17:23 +0000

Hello Mr Dimentagon,
I would just love to TEAR UP Mountford Park! I can see it, I can see it……! and I know Big Swifty is gagging to go live….
I’d like the concert to be held IN Mountford’s centrepiece, the huge aviary…… which last time I looked, wasn’t exactly overcrowded.
How ’bout we call the whole thing: CAGED!?
Now Mr Dimentagon, I’d love you to be involved from the ground up in CAGED! but I am a little concerned about reliability, particularly in light of your woeful performance on NYE. I just will NOT wear that old ‘rock lifetstyle/creative gene’ thingo.
Even within our little cyber community there have been too many casualities. Eg. Both The Ginger Man and Big Swifty are still in recovery following December meltdowns over three states and six continents. It wasn’t pretty and it wasn’t inevitable. Just two nervy men who flew too close to the sun lamp and got badly burnt! And now you…..running around the sedate Southern Highlands of NSW with delusions of udon noodle grandeur.
Mr Dimentagon, I want to see CHANGE, real change BEFORE I even consider you for the CAGED! project. No drinks parties, no court appearances, no udon noodle banquets, no dating…..NO NOTHIN’…..for nine days. Then we can talk. KJ.