Up A Gum Tree
My mum’s father was Australian and, as well as him, she grew up with two Aussie aunts and a grandmother who’d lived most of her life in Australia too. There were a couple of bits of Australian cultural heritage that came down through our family – pavlovas and the expression “up a gum tree”.
I’ve never heard that expression anywhere else, so i guess it’s an archaic Aussie one – it couldn’t have been British, cos there ain’t any gum trees there (well, there are a few these days, but there didn’t used to be…) It means something along the lines of “up the creek without a paddle”.
Anyway, that’s completely irrelevant to this blog really…
I went out and had a climb again today – and this time i took my camera and a tripod with me. Here’s a photo of me up a gum tree. I took it with a remote control (so, yes, i was obviously posing – looking upwards, and not at the camera, while i took the shot! ).
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