Happy Birthday Milly and Sarah

Trying to avoid work I didnt look at my diary, but today I did. It was Milly's birthday last Thursday. Milly is unreal.

Milly did not even flinch at lunch with Stu and Marianne when they donned makeshift bibs in an authentic Vietnamese restaurant in Footscray and were ridiculed by the waitress. I was deeply embarrassed. In fact Stu's bib was so makeshift it involved taking the plastic off a $2 pair of boardshorts bought 5 minutes previously.

Im pretty sure it is Sarah's birthday today and she is also unreal.

Update From Zac

Hi all, just thought it might be time to give a little update on the life of me. I live in Norway, in a town called Rudshøgda, although "town" is a bit of a stretch, as its more of an intersection of the main highway, with two service stations, a shop and a couple of industries. Fortunatly, one of the industries has decided to employ me-I am a cage-repairman. Basically there are these cages used in recycling electronic waste, and they get broken now and then during transport, and i weld/drill/hit-them-with-a-sledgehammer until they look like cages again. Its a pretty simple, dont have to use your mind job and does lend credence to Dads claims that the university is investigated my thesis for plagerism. They are not. I think. Other than work I try to get some trips around Europe done as often as I can, I am headed to Vienna to visit Kate and "NoHands" in 2 weeks and then up to Hamburg to visit a mate on the way back to Norway. I get to go skiing alot, since there are 3 skifields quite close to where I live, and I'm enjoying living here overall! Hope alls well with everyone! As a side note, if someone would like to give me a brief overview of WildHorse i would muchly appreciate it as its pretty much all over Facebook and Roffreport and I have no idea whats going on.....

Yes We Can-Berra

Firstly, congratulations to Lizzie. Secondly, Daylesford and Melbourne have recently had their minds blown by the Wild Horses. And will never be the same again. Finally, I'm hoping one of my kind, generous and helpful relatives in Canberra would be willing to put myself and a mate up this weekend because we're heading down to watch the Brumbies play the Reds. We might be arriving on either the Friday night (the 4th of March) or Saturday afternoon (the 5th of March), we just haven't decided yet. You can - indeed, you should - come along to the game and, if you decided to drag us along to Filthy McFadden's or The Durham, we would reluctantly attend. Thanks. Daniel.

Graduation Ceremony

Hey everyone,

So I had my graduation ceremony and Mum and Dad joined me in Perth to celebrate it!





Liz x

Wild Horse Guest Artists

Rather than let the h8rs bring me down to their level, the best revenge is to live well, so on that note:



Now that I have your attention... The wild horse movement is getting some serious momentum here in Adelaide. People are really relating to the characters, appreciating the philosophical aspects and unique style as well as enjoying the witty punchlines. So extreme has "wild horse fever" (a media-created word) become, that people are making T-shirts, hosting wild horse parties, and more recently, sending in their own works. Here are a selection of the best:

This one is from a mister Mitch Simmons:


This one is from a Gemma Sanderman:


And this is from Rowan Mount:
*note: The Caravan and Camping show is on this weekend in Adelaide, so it is very topical!

While there is no denying they are all fantastic entries, there is nothing like the real thing! So I will leave you with my latest to enjoy:



Wild Horse out.

Cartoon wars -Fred bites back

Wild Horse - a discussion

Wild Horse vol 5: Wild Horse's Revenge.

Outraged by the following comment from a certain riled up closet Basset fan, Wild Horse decided to hit back:

"While I admire your enthusiasm, Rowan, the creator of Fred Bassett probably isn't losing any sleep. Its humour is nuanced and relies on the established relationship between Fred and the family with who he lives.
Granted (pun intended), Fred is no Hagar in terms of outstanding comedic writing, but at least Fred looks like a dog. Only a concerned uncle could bring this up with you but Wild Horse has square legs, no tail to speak of and a non-horse face. In short, don't quit your day job..."

I know this one's a little text heavy, but things needed to be cleared up.

Get a copy of the Roff Report Archive!

Hello all,

Please download a copy of the Roff Report Archive for me and keep it somewhere safe if you feel up to it. If we ever accidently get deleted someone will have a copy.

Please go to here and click on the big green 'download' button.

Much appreciated,
Ad

Wild Horse vol 2,3,4.

Rather than fill up the respectable Roff Report with thousands of Wild Horse comics I will endeavour to find another home for them. On that note, here are some more Wild Horse comics!



Trivia: It may surprise you to learn that horses do indeed enjoy carrots and sugar lumps. The Wild Horse comic strip always takes special care to provide accurate information to it's fan base.

New comic

Reading Fred Bassett everyday has made me convinced that I can write a comic strip that could be published in the major Adelaide paper. Compared to Fred Bassett, what I lack in aesthetically pleasing illustrations, I make up for in actually having a punchline. I think that is a trade-off most people would agree with.



Stay tuned for volume 2.

Eat

Angelina

Happy Birthday Dave Morely

I noticed in my diary, which I foolishly let people fill in at will at Harry's and Vicki's wedding, that yesterday was Dave Morely's Birthday. Happy Birthday Dave! At Lismore, Ash (popular pick on dinner party top 10's) Stu, me (Damian) and Dave (I prefer Christian names), played Golf ( I really believe that sport deserves a capital letter).

Innocently during the round ( which was played in difficult conditions), I asked Dave (Christian name) how old he was, to which he replied he was 46 ( I think that is right) ( Grant, am I overdoing the brackets thing?) (Can you do two brackets in a row ?) (How funny was the Mark Dapin article in the SMH last Saturday).

Anyway, it must have been a good two ( or maybe three) ( I tend to underestimate) ( as opposed to Grant) days, When Dave (Christian name), seemingly offended, asked why I looked shocked (two, or maybe three days ago), when he revealed his age ( at Golf). Being sensitive ( a Roff family trait), I could tell he was worried about being looking old (ancient) (like Grant). To which, I replied (sensitively), "Mate you look great!", I was shocked because you hang out with Grant!" (despite being relatively youthful) (compared to Grant).

To cut a short story long (irony), this highlights a couple of things;

1. Grant is (as everyone knows) great company.

2. Dave is a great bloke and a great friend to Grant.

God Bless Dave (Christian Name).

More to the point, Happy birthday Morely ( I mean Dave) ( I hope the diary entry is accurate). I hope you had a great day.

Thai style

sAWadeeKA,

Yep. I am one of those annoying tourists that insists on massacring the local language with a strong Aussie accent…
Canadian Joe and I have just left Thailand after an excellent three weeks of non-stop eating and thought we should blog, just to break-up the Hewitt fest.

We were in Bangkok for Chinese New Year and Joe was very disappointed, Rowan, to find out you had lied to him and it was in fact the year of the Rabbit… And Jake, thanks to you, Joe has travelled the last three weeks saying “Hey apple…apple…hey apple…”

We spent one week in big, crazy Bangkok, another week in the very tranquil Chiang Mai and a week trying to ignore the tourists in the completely over-run Koh Phi Phi and Koh Lanta.
I have been writing travel stories for a couple of NZ publications, and one of the more interesting articles is an interview with a Thai Monk who explained, amongst other things, that when he needs to break one of the 254 rules they have (like touching money) he “just breaks the rule and then goes to confession afterwards”…. I had to explain the “dodgy” award to him.

This is a temple. As most of you know, there are many.

This is a waterfall. In Chiang Mai.

One of the highlights for us was diving off Koh Lanta.
Milly, we burst out laughing when the diving instructor showed us the hand signal for “look, there’s a turtle” – it’s the exact same as the awkward turtle sign!


Look closely – that’s not a rock…


It’s on to Austria now, with much colder weather and a more crippling exchange rate, but it’s been great keeping track of everyone via the blog and we will see many of you in the near future.

- Kate

PS. Nome, do you have my shoes?

Mick Seage's Wedding (Oh yeah, Jodie was involved!)

We have to encourage Mick and his beautiful wife Jodes (and his brother Matt, and cousins Jenny and Stephen) to come to the next phase of the Roff/Seage/Forrest gathering whatever that may be. These guys belong in a dorm with you motley crew. They are exceptionally fun and sexy.

Dream Dinner Party List

Top 10 dinner party list (10 limit)

1. Ashley
2. Serena Williams
3. Don Adams
4. Amy Winehouse
5. Hale and Pace
6. Christine Keneally
7. Bart Cummings
8. Kerri Anne
9. Mick Foley
10. Keith Richards

Happy Birthday Ash!

Grant

Thanks Ad for including the rest of us in the music from the day. It feels like we were there. Great music.

Happy belated birthday from the Lismore Roffs Grant. The following are my top 3 Grant shots.

Best Ebay Purchase

Following some setbacks (click the email below) trying to locate Lleyton Hewitt's autobiographical DVD "Lleyton Hewitt: The Other Side", I managed to snap it up on ebay for 99cents + postage costs. I think you will all agree this is one of the best deals ever made, and I will be happy to lend it out once I have watched it a few times.

For those who have been living under a rock, Lleyton released this DVD in response to the poor sentiment towards him from the Australian public for being slightly "arrogant". The DVD backfired, however, instead perpetuating the myth that he is a "tool" and was immediately discontinued. But don't listen to the haters! The 2-year world #1 is another fine example of Adelaide tennis, and an absolute super-star.

Keardos

Cocomo

Chinese New Year card you can use.

Apparently you appear heaps cultured if you send out these bad boys to everyone you know.

Grant's Party

Lots of great performances at Grant's birthday party. Stay tuned for more.

Click on the 'youtube' logo for a higher quality version or select HD instead of 240p for all the bells and whistles.

GRANT IS 60 TODAY!!!!

Lachlan's first day at school, and Maisie's first day at Pre-school