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G'day Charlie

Thought someone should send a message otherwise you'll think we have all forgotten you.

All is well in Verwood - the usual stuff at the pub - nothing changes there.

We had the pleasure of your mum's company yesterday - always a pleasure when she comes to the pub (not often enough).

Your Dad keeps us up to date (all the bloody time  ) about what you are up to. the rugby bit in Sydney sounds pretty good - best of luck with that.

Stay safe - cheers

Mark 

Hi Chaz we need you to do a suvey for us, we need to know what drink is the best value, Tooey mews, VB, Fosters,  XXX or bundiburg, you need to spend a night just drinking one of them then we need puke value, hangover recuperation period, loss of libido and which is the best to help ugle girls get laid, the results will be sent to the federation of australian brewers and there is a likelyhood of you getting reimburst for all out of pocket expences, Good 00chaz your country needs you.

hello charlie,

weve just been out for lunch at the elephant and castle for mothers day,we thought of you as we were eating cos we know how much you enjoy it there! we ve just come back for tea and cakes at tashas . we have just looked at your photos,we are very envious of the views and all the weather! granddad says go steady on the beer boy and bring him back a swede!!

glad to hear your having a good time,

take care and we will speak soon xxxxxxx

 Hi Charlie, hope that it's nice in australia, just a quick message to say that we have won the dorset cup and beat wimborne in the final 1-0. I also got the results back from Poole Grammar and was offered a place. We went on tour a few weeks ago to Worcester and watched Worcester vs Bath which ended up as a Worcester win, 21-15. We also beat Kidderminster 1-0 and I scored the first try. Then the next day we played Worcester who came down to the Bournemouth tournament once. We lost to them in the first game 1-0 to a lucky try which we should have kept out. Then in the second game we won and lost the third. Once again hope that your having a nice time in Australia, looks like your having a great time.

     Hope to see you soon,

          Dom

Dear Charlie,

HELLO!!!!!  Down Under. It looks as though you and Mark are having a really good time. Not fair!!

Some of us Up Here are trying hard to persuade people that you are travelling for reasons of duty and enterprise and that any pleasure is purely accidental. We are not doing well!

Your photos are very good indeed. However, you ought to take a closer look at what floating near to you and Mark as you were basking in the shallows like a couple of sharks.

 As for the Floosies ..... how do you do it????????????  Must be in the genes.

Talking of which, thankfully Chelsea FC are managing to keep winning and so your Dad has some consolation i life. Mind you, we all had some of that last week when Our Boys thrashed Le Bleus at HQ. What a day!!!! We were up there (early out of duty, of course) and got well oiled to soften the inevitable blows of defeat. The atmospere in the pubs pre-match was really good because everyone was reconciled to certain loss.

What joy in the ground throughout the game! We never looked like losing!!  And in the pubs later ....... !!!!!!!!  We got home very late and very, very, very, very rough. AS Magic would say, "Mate. Absolutely fantastic!"

And tomorrow we go to Cardiff to help the Welsh maintain their 100% record this season. Hey Ho !!!

You look as though you could do with a few games of rugby out there. You're looking a bit slow and flabby. It's all that drinking and carousing. No wonder the truck (or whatever it was) had to dug/hauled out! Looked a bit like my parking!!!!

We are promised lots of cold weather and snow next week, you jammy scoundrel. Don't you feel sorry for us????

Tom is as mad as ever. On Wednesday,  he played his final university rugby match in a big annual grudge game between his university and Kings College. A hundred years of history, big crowd, lots of goodies (the players get a full brand new kit for the game that they get to keep! Not fair!) and, of course, the big drinks after dinner. FREE!!!! NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!

Anyway, the next day, Tom was still so drunk that he went to the same lecture twice. When I spoke to him more than a full day after the game, he was still drunk. And he got Man of the Match. Definitely not fair!!! His girlfriend, Sarah, had to go and rescue him from the after-match celebrations in some central club in the middle of the night. Probably the same club you and Tom hit wearing lycra!!!!!

And Tom gets a month off from next week. So do the other students. At least we'll have some good sevens sides with those boys available to swell our ranks. Can you get over for a day? No? Why not??? WE're playing at Lychett and Winchester. Remember Winchester last year? What a good day that was!!!

Matt Pike has broken his scafoid. Out for up to a year. Preselo is playing out of his skin. Joe is in hiding; we cannot contact him; suspect woman stuff. Again. How do you and he do it???? Not fair!!! Jamie Goodman is modelling. Wow!! Geoff is AWOL. Women?? Pete Norman is going frantic with his law finals upon him. Leicester Scot is very quiet. Too much work!!!! Great !!!!!

Robin Peirce has a dog. Named Fin. It's Irish. Looks like a woolly sandwich filler. Very obedient. He does exactly the opposite of what Robin tells him. What a good dog!!! The two of them together are a scream. They look and behave like something from a silent comedy film. You are better off where you are for the moment.

Anyway, I have to go now. Paul has just rang for his free taxi ride home. What a hard life!!!

I look forward to seeing some more pictures. Especially some containing loudhailers.

Keep up the good work. Give Mark my regards.

LOOK AFTER YOURSELF.

God bless,

Jim

Hi Charlie!

 Looks like you're having the most amazing time!!! Im glad one of you are keeping us updated!!!!! The pics look fab!!! Have fun! x

Dear Charlie,

A very good day to you, Under There.

 Almost literally under lovely women! That's why we all hate you so much. You're always surrounded by beautiful women. Life's not fair!!

Life is obviously not fair to you at the moment. Judging from your notes and photographs, you are having to work extremely hard under a boiling sun and a shimmering moon. What demands upoon a Young Englishman Abroad.

Added to the information your Dad gave us last night, it seems your are keeping an exhausting schedule. At training last night, the players were flogging themselves on a cold, dark night while Mike regaled us with tales of your sunny derring do. The players gnashed their teeth and splashed on through the mud. Wonderful!

 But we didn't miss you.

Right. I have to go to see a dog about a man. Do keep up the good work.

A note upon which to end. Someone told me this other day.

If at first you don't succeed, be sure not to let anyone know that you ever tried. And get rid of any evidence. Fast. Not a bad maxim.

 Say "Hello" to your mate, Mark.

LOOK AFTER YOURSELF. 

God bless,

Jim

Dear Charlie

A big hello from woolyback wimborne

I hope you are keeping well and from lookng at all the pictures it seems you are having a awesome time.

Your adventure has stirred me to better and greater things and have decided to take a break from uni this year and go back next sept to start a different course.

  In the mean time id thought id follow in your steps and do a little travelling myself.  It looks like ill be going to fji come the end of april to do some rugby coaching for a couple of months volunteering in the local schools and all that and i remember you said u may be venturing there at some point so let me know if ur heading that way between those months.  

It works out cheaper to get a round the world flight instead of a return to fiji which means i could visit other countries aswell and was mayb thinking if u didnt mind joining you guys for a few weeks in wt ever country ud be in to do a bit of the old back packin as i think id probably die if i did on my own lol

Let me know wt your plans are and how ur getting on, oh im going to twickenham on sunday so if you get the chance to watch the match keep an eye out me and old old man preselo in the crowd

take care buddy and keep safe, (i watched wolf creek the other day, a rather shocking horror film about backpacking in Oz)

Tom xxxxxxxxxx

Hello mother, hello father

with thanks to the pony club

It’s full of these girls, all called Sheila,
and they say we'll have some fun if we can feel her!

I went snorkeling, with my mate Mark;
He got bitten, by a big shark.
Now Mark is even slimmer,
He even got alcohol poisoning after dinner!

All the Abo's hate the Aussies,
And Cairns has alligators!
All the blokes here hate them sissies,
so we pretend to read James Joyces 'Ulysses'.

No, I don't want (this should scare ya),
But Mark, has a shaven rear!
You remember I get lairy,
well we're about to organize a Absinthe party!

Take me home, oh mother, father.
Take me home, I hate Australia.
Don't leave me, out in the Bush,
Where I might get eaten by a Koala!

Take me home, I promise that I will not make noise,
or mess the house with other boys.
Oh please don't make me stay;
I've been here one whole day!

Dearest father, darling mother,
How's my precious little fishy
Let me come home if you miss me;
I would even let my sisters hug and kiss me!

Wait a minute; it stopped hailing.
Guys are stripping, guys are sailing.
Playing leapfrog; gee that's better.
Mother, father, kindly disregard this letter!