First time I've tried making #ANZAC #biscuits (#cookies) I don't keep golden syrup in the house so I substituted maple syrup. No shade to an AUS NZ classic by maple-ing it, but maybe it'll add a #Canadian touch eh? (They smell great)
#baking

Listening to Wesley Livesay's "History of the Great War," having reached the end of Gallipoli. #ANZAC Day description is particularly moving. (sniffle) Darn allergies, anyway.

People who pay attention in #Australia , or Brits who have studied World War I history, know that profiting from #FakeNews has been the ‘business model’ of the Murdoch family for OVER A CENTURY! 👉 https://insidestory.org.au/the-myth-of-keith-murdochs-gallipoli-letter/

#histodons #ANZAC #Gallipoli

Politicians and the #Anzac Tradition: a Story of Manipulation and Mythology https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/28/politicians-and-the-anzac-tradition-a-story-of-manipulation-and-mythology/

At 7 PM UK, It'll be time to spin the colour wheel. This week, a musical tribute to #Anzac day, as well as the usual selection of goodies. Everything from rock and metal to hip-hop and dubstep, jaz to folk and so much more. Come tune in for some musical discovery. http://www.youropencircle.net

Golden syrup is a common #baking ingredient in #British recipes (and in the Commonwealth) but it's very hard to find in the US.

I found a recipe for #Anzac biscuits I wanted to make, then I looked up golden syrup. It's also easy to make. So I made it.

Then I looked at the recipe for Anzac biscuits. It calls for TWO tablespoons.

#Australian Who Died in Ukraine Remembered by His Lera

Valeria 'Lera' Stepanenko and Sage 'Don' O’Donnell met during the war in Ukraine The young Australian lost his life there. On Australia’s #ANZAC Day, she recalls his sacrifice and love of #Ukraine

In his final letter, Don said: “Before coming to Ukraine, I wasn’t exactly the greatest example of a man… Yet when the invasion started, I realized my calling…

Read more here🔗 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/16277

#Australia #SlavaUkraine #StandWithUkraine

Remembering my Grand uncle Ralph Feldwick on ANZAC Day who was killed the first day after landing at Gallipoli 25 April 1915. Ralph served with the Canterbury Infantry Battalion, in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. His older brother Leslie, of the Otago Infantry Battalion NZEF, was also killed at Gallipoli a week later on May 2

#ANZAC #ANZACDay #NZEF #Gallipoli

Some stats for today running as #AX5ZSH for #ANZAC day.

#FT8 #Digital #hamradio

Altered Army Recruitment ad in Sydney.

#AnzacDay #ANZAC #LestWeForget

Here's an #iNaturalist NZ observation I made today for ANZAC Day.

It's a Turkish Red Pine, a descendant from Gallipoli of the famous Lone Pine. It was planted in Akaroa in 2015 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli.

You can read more about the Battle of Lone Pine here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lone_Pine

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/156551643

#Pinus #ANZAC #war #Aotearoa #nz

The going down of the sun over kunanyi/Mt Wellington.

#kunanyi #mtwellington #sun #sunset #Anzac #anzacday #orange #tasmania #tasmanianscenery #photo #photoart

It is a good time to remember that, while 5,000 Australians and Brits died building the Death Railway, 50,000 Thais lost their lives. #ANZAC #Thailand

We've had some aircraft fly by Ōtaki NZ today, as part of #Anzac Day commemorations. This is a #photograph of a 1941 #WAKO-UPF-7 #biplane that flew over the in the late afternoon.

Anzac Day remembrance at the Embassy of Australia, Nepal. #australia #anzac #nepal

I will Raise An Eyebrow that a statue of Lachlan Macquarie is being used as a centre of ANZAC Day services at all, given the acts of war [crime] he ordered in the Hawkesbury

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/absolutely-disgusted-sydney-statue-defaced-in-anzac-day-protest-20230425-p5d32t.html #anzac

Looking at all wreaths being laid during the #Anzac Day Commemorations I can't help wonder how many lives they represent.

Then I wonder how many lives have been lost due to #Covid19 that are NOT being commemorated.

Then I wonder how much money WE spend on war and how much we spend on health.

We have many bombs but few cures.

@LaPenguin Very good!

"Lest we forget" is an old fashioned way of saying "So we don't forget". "Lest" was in more common use in the 19th century eg "Take a map with you lest you lose your way".

I suppose "Lest we forget" is the purpose of #Anzac commemorations, but it's become - I don't know - a sort of incantation people utter without knowing what they're actually saying, like singing "Auld Lang Syne" on New Years Eve.

#ANZAC #recording #auspol

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/25/message-from-cairo-unique-audio-of-original-anzac-recorded-during-first-world-war-speaks-across-the-years?utm_term=64473423c53c85c4fc4a64439063e5dc&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayAUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTAU_email

The #ANZAC Day football tradition continues this afternoon when the #Pies take on the #Bombers in an
@AFL
blockbuster at the
@MCG
and we’ve got extra trams to get you there!
@CollingwoodFC
@EssendonFC
Details: https://bit.ly/3QunGLb