MikeFitz with overflow bit set…

Mrs Fitz on the beach at Port Douglas this morning.

Completely weirded-out* by this one…

I’m spending this weekend in Port Douglas with Mrs Fitz. In the last couple of minutes before QF786 touched-down in Cairns last night, the in-flight tv showed this music video which I had never seen before.

It’s The Shake by Kisschasy.  I have to admit, I haven’t heard of them, not being in their target demographic and all.  But they seem to have some pretty good reviews.

The setting seemed strangely comfortable and familiar.  And then I realised, Hey!  That’s the house where I grew up!

My parents bought the house at Enoggera in 1957, when I was quite young, and raised us 5 kids there.  I moved out in the mid-70’s but my parents lived there until my Dad passed away in 2002 and Mum moved to a retirement home in 2004.  One of my sisters still lives a couple of houses away.  No wonder it was familiar.

I wonder what thought processes went through the mind of the video director when he said, This is the perfect place for a music video!  Or was it just that the sound guy’s brother was renting the place?  And the lawn gives plenty of room to swing a microphone boom?

Did you see the bloke mowing the lawn?  As the eldest son, I reckon I did my fair share of mowing that lawn.  It’s 40 perches (1000m²) of lawn minus just the house and a strip of vegetable/flower garden around the edge.  But, in my day, I did it all with a push-mower.  And you tell the youngsters that these days and they don’t believe you.

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Update: Youngest brother tells me that Mum has seen the video.  She just loved the fire in the kitchen — NOT!.

* Mrs Fitz expressed surprise at the language here.  Apparently, verb‑ing a noun is becoming acceptable but verb‑ing an adjective is just going too far.

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