Aarghh - hastily reviewing all the places in which I have lived. Yorkshire, Queensland, Hertfordshire, Midlothian, Aberdeenshire, Papua New Guinea .... Nothing comes to mind I'm sure that, when all is revealed, I'll be kicking myself...
Yes.... so somewhere in Australia there is a cruise dropping off terminal with a name linked to me that I find deeply embarrassing..... go for it folks
Yes you got it..... so deeply shamed am I.... Yorkeys Knob is on the eastern coast of Australia in the northern part of the State of Queensland Yorkeys Knob sits very prettily on the hem of the great Barrier Reef. To further enhance a natural beauty it edges into rich coastal flatland running from the foot of a marvellous range straight into the illimitable sea. The Knob itself is the first headland north of the Harbour of Cairns, a cheeky headland layered in rock with a fuzz of timber. Its boulders tumble into the sea in arrow fashion forming a calm bay on its northern side and giving the surf full play to the south. The bay is called Half Moon Bay because of its crescent-shaped white beach and cradles a tidal river running up to and fed by the massive range. On earth level at any angle or off-shore, the lumpy and picturesque Knob invites an explanation why a man nicknamed Yorkey gave to this Knob a meaning. It might be assumed that amongst the cosmopolitan insurgence of gold-diggers into Northern Australia during the mid-1800's was a Yorkshireman called George Lawson. There is no factual information to support this assumption. It was only in the 1880's that an adventurous hard-living beche-de-mer fisherman nicknamed `Yorkie' was, by a series of incidents emerging as an identity in the northern waters off the harbour of Cairns. In early records Yorkey is referred to as `Yorkie' or 'Yorky' and in one instance as being a Norwegian fisherman who lived on the 'hill' called the Knob. However, in all traceable registers the man Yorkey and the headland Yorkeys Knob rise unmistakably and territorially rock-like from misty legends of an extensive region strongly linked to the sea. The same registers disclose the man Yorkey's great respect for life in a time of lust and survival, more impressive when human life weighed little in value. please log in to view this image
I seem to remember around 20 years ago there was a light-hearted attempt to change the name of the local primary school, Yorkeys Knob Primary. It's situated on Clinton St & some wag suggested changing it to Lewinsky's Knob Primary... Which father and son acting duo starred together in both a film and a successful tv series until the father died at the age of 16?
...Apparently the International Olympic Committee is looking into this drug abuse and it could mean that the Germans will be awarded the Second World War... I'm not sure how this affects Brexit??
Thanks, BB. You could search this, but for fun, don't: We're six less one things of a familiar sort, We're all to be found in a tennis court.
