Norfolk Island Bowls

You will receive a number that you can put on your desk and they will serve you the meal when it is boiled.

That' a little stupid of me to say, isn't it? They' d hardly take the dinner to you before it was made. Both of us wanted the shellfish dish. So I asked the waiter if I could eat some other vegetables instead of the French fries that are normally eaten with her sea fruit dish.

Ian and I aren't used to eat roasted foods, so it was probably a stupid choice on our part because the shellfish were actually all crushed and roasted. We were passed by a rider on the lefthand side of the road who was not willing to waiting for us to make our right turn.

It seems like they are local, unlike the tourist, and we think they haven't had much driving schooling. They were wondering how many additional driving lessons they had to complete before they got their driving licence. I' m sure it can't take as many lessons as our children in Australia.

The Norfolk Islanders are on their own hunting for the price of their heads.

When the 25-strong Pacific Island side moved to Manchester before the opening ceremonies on Thursday, the question of the sometimes difficult relationship between Norfolk Island and Australia arose. "Austrians still look at us and ask: "What are you doing here," said Dan Yager, Norfolk Island boss.

"You think we should be part of the Aussie squad. Yager's crew represent an island of only 34.6 km2 with about 1900 inhabitants. "document.write("");document.write(" Some Norfolk islanders are annoyed about the impact of Australia, which is 1500km to the east, and the website of the island explains: "but it certainly doesn't belong to him."

I heard Yager say: "We' ve got to agree that we belong to Australia. Yager said Carmen Anderson's turf bowl bronce at the 1994 games in Victoria, Canada, "brought great pleasure and cheering" to the island. The 74-year-old Zilpha Quintal, a descendent of the Bounty Mutters who settled there after the abandonment of Pitcairn Island in 1856, is among the bowllers from Norfolk Island who are trying to imitate this achievement.

Numerous Norfolk homes can be traced back directly to the Mutineans who confiscated the Bounty from Captain William Bligh and sought sanctuary in Pitcairn before being compelled to find a larger home. Your craggy island is not always the ideal place for games sports. Yagar said the two island Triathlons were compelled to practice in a "half a nile long lagoon".

For 24-year-old cross-country skier James Donaldson, whose best lap times over the course of three hour and 26 minute, the small island must seem very small.