Round 1 Footy Tipping

1. Lily (7)
2. Rock (6)
3. R.Dizzle (6)
3rd Last - Grant
2nd Last - Alaine
Last - Dom

Wild Horse

Annika's flatmate Anna. A contender for wildest horse. Megan talked like Anna for about a week after we all went to Golden Plains together but I think it is wearing off. New edition please Rowie.

Thanks for looking after us at the festival and being so attentive Annika. It was ace.

Film Review

Went and saw "True Grit this afternoon. Rooster Cogburn, Dumbledore, Gandalf and Grant are all the same person. Cant any one else see this? Am I taking crazy pills or what? Other than that, it was pretty good.

Happy birthday Julia

One-armed Julia turns 55 tomorrow (Thursday). I know you've seen this picture before but at least she's in it. We're celebrating with a dinner in Little Vietnam with as many family members as we can muster and the daughter we always wanted (Milly). Jules and I were booked into a bicycle ride around the Rutherglen vineyards this weekend but I suppose that will have to wait. A Kombi adventure on the Loddon River in central Victoria will have to do. Happy birthday, Jules.

Aunty Betty update

Brendan should be doing this as he has up-t0-date news but I talked to Uncle Ken last night and he told me that Aunty Betty wasn't well last Tuesday and Wednesday (March 15/16). He called the ambulance the following day and it was initially thought that she'd had a stroke. It's now not clear what what the problem was but it could have been related to shingles (spelling?). The good news is she's getting better and may be back at Lourdes again by the time you read this.
I had a whinge to Uncle Ken about both Julia and myself being in slings and having to take our blind dog for a walk and he revealed that the Seages once had a dog as well. Aunty Betty went to visit the Neil Roffs in Griffith ('52?) and Neil unloaded a dog on her that he and Eileen had picked up that they didn't want to keep. Ken was "unimpressed" when Aunty Betty arrived home with it but the situation was resolved on the day Neil and Betty's father, Jack, died. Aunty Betty was distracted when she reversed out of the garage and ran over it.
Here's the million dollar question for the Seages: what was the dog's name? Uncle Ken can't remember. Get well soon, Aunty Bet.

A tribute to the 22 year old Wild Horse

This Day in History - March 20

Sir Isaac Newton dies - 1727
Uncle Tom's Cabin published 1852
John Lennon marries Yoko Ono 1969
R-Dizzle's cover of Jacky Moon's "Love me Sexy" comes in at one on JJJ's hottest 100 - 2008
Rowan Roff's Birthday - 1991(?)
Bobby Rhino's character, "Wild Horse", successfully challenges "Fred Basset" for Adelaide's most popular cartoon (2011)

Happy Birthday (2 days late) Rowan!

Footy Tipping

New tippers. The competition is "roff afl" with a gap between roff and afl. The password is roff.
Go Swans!

FOOTY TIPPING IS BACK

Old tippers simply need to log on to footytips.com.au, try and remember your password etc and tip as last year.

New Tippers need to log on to Footytips.com.au, register (its free) then follow the afl prompts. Where it asks you to find a comp put roffafl and the password is roff.

The original deal that all tippers would send the winner a CD. I won it two years back and have been enjoying "the sounds of silence" ever since ie not one CD received. As a result Ive got no idea who won it last year as I was still sulking. Come on! lets make it interesting. Perhaps a CD or a bottle of wine (harder to send) or better still a bottle of Port. Lets have some discussion on this. Anyone suggesting we do it for fun will be rubbed out by the administrator ie me.

More Melbourne stuff

We're currently enjoying Megan's company as she was left here after everyone fled the state when Meredith ended. The picture attached is of Adam and Annika. I'm not entirely sure, but I think they'd been drinking. Attached also is Adam's attachment to his emails just in case you thought he wasn't really important. I only understand the first two words...

Adam Roff
Senior Spatial Analyst
Department of Environment and Climate Change
Biodiversity Conservation Science Section
Level 18, 59-61 Goulburn Street Sydney 2000
PO Box A290 Sydney South NSW 1232

Breaking news

Poor old Jules - riding her bike to work (18 kilometres each way - she does it three or four days a week) on a damp day when she slid out on a tight corner on the bike track she uses. She continued the journey but her boss drove her home when it was clear that she wasn't well. A visit to the doctor and an x-ray later she was diagnosed with a T-break/fracture in the radius just below the elbow. The doctor said it's consistent with someone trying to break a fall by putting their hand out. She's now waiting for a call from a surgeon to see if it requires an operation or if it will heal itself with plaster. Fortunately, it's her left arm but having my left hand out of action for the past couple of weeks myself, it's surprising what you actually need both hands for.
In other breaking news, I put my hand up recently for a voluntary redundancy from uni and they accepted with what looks to me to be indecent haste. I've been there 15 years which is a pretty good innings. I'll teach out this semester and then Julia and I are going to Europe for between four to six weeks depending on how much time Julia can get off work. The Isle of Man motorcycle races call once again but neither of us have spent any real time in France, Spain and Portugal so they're all on the list. One of those week-long walks in the provinces has a lot of appeal.
Adam and Megan are in town at the moment to attend the Meredith Music Festival with Annika. We're all hoping to catch up for dinner tomorrow (Monday) night before Adam flies back to Sydney. Annika has started her MA in Environment at Melbourne uni and is working as a research assistant there to pay for it. Nick continutes to pole-vault up the ANZ corporate ladder and has recently moved to share house number two with his mates. Dom has just started a public relations degree at RMIT uni and is enjoying it so far. It's a pity I won't be there for the whole degree but I might end up doing some sessional teaching.
Amanda will start her Honours year in creative writing and looks like spending the first six months of it at a uni in California. I went to a Ukes gig last night with the full band and it was sensational. The mixing of the first CD is finished and it should be out by June or July. I have a copy on high rotation in the Kombi CD-player and now know all the words.

I call this "The Man Rules"

After 2 months of being married, I think it's about time for me to do a report on how I learnt to deal with my "wonderful husband" Harry.
Our married life will be so sweet and happy if we all follow the rules, but since my rules seem to be more like guidelines, I had no choice but to follow this set of rules,

I call this "The Man Rules"

Rule No.1. Men are NOT mind readers.
(FIRST & FOREMOST RULE)

Rule No.1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down.
We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it Down.

Rule No.1. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it!

Rule No.1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

Rule No.1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do.
Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

Rule No.1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument.
In fact, all comments become Null and void after 7 Days.

Rule No.1. If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don't ask us.

Rule No.1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one.

Rule No.1. You can either ask us to do something Or tell us how you want it done.
Not both. If you already know best how to do it , just do it yourself.

Rule No.1. Whenever possible, Please say whatever you have to say during commercials...

Rule No.1. Captain Cook did NOT need directions and neither do we.

Rule No.1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings.
Peach, for example, is a fruit, not A color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.

Rule No.1. If it itches, it will be scratched.

Rule No.1. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," We will act like nothing's wrong.
We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.

Rule No.1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, Expect an answer you don't want to hear.

Rule No.1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine... Really .

Rule No.1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics
AS Football or Cars.

Rule No.1. You have enough clothes.

Rule No.1. You have too many shoes.

Rule No.1. I am in shape. Round IS a shape!

Now, you might noticed that these rules are all addressed as Rule No.1
That's because in men's world these are all number "1 " Rules!

Vicky Lee Roff

Happy Birthday Zac

It was Zac's birthday last week (5th). Unlike Phanny whose Birthday was the day before, he is well regarded.

Horsing Around

One of Sarah's many talents is face painting. On Friday night I conscripted her services for an "Adelaide Fringe"-themed office drinks party. While the paints were out, I got her to paint my favourite webcomic character. Inexplicably, I went to a service station later on and the guy there had never even heard of Wild Horse!!

Happy Birthday Phanny

Apparently it is Phanny's Birthday. Phanny is the bottom ranked Roff dog as it ran off on me once when I took it for a walk.

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.