{"id":8418,"date":"2025-12-16T14:08:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=8418"},"modified":"2026-01-01T16:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:25:39","slug":"bondi-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=8418","title":{"rendered":"BONDI BEACH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fond memories of happier times.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A spectacular beach playground within the city limits of Sydney.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A plaground for all ages!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A place to relax and let your hair down<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recall watching an American TV series of a US military JAG unit. In one episode, a very attractive and buxom female military lawyer\/officer is sent to Australia to defend a US sailor in a civil trial in Sydney. Accompanying her is a young male paralegal sergeant. She briefly reconnects with an old Australian boyfriend who for old times sake takes her to Bondi for a quiet Sunday afternoon at the beach. Here she tries to fit in, somewhat uncomfortably, by laying topless like all the locals on the beach. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite by happenstance, her lowly sergeant out taking in the delightful local sights of the beach (“Hey Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore!!”), accidentally encounters his embarrased boss and stops to say hello! Despite numerous hints to move along, he stretches out the enounter for as long as is socially possible. Perhaps not the best career move!! But no doubt worth it!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very humourous!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing humourous about last weekend. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bondi Beach now joins that litany of infamy, 9\/11, Charlie Hebdo, Bataclan, Ariane Grande concert, 7\/7, Nice truck attack, German Christmas markets and many other events far too numerous to mention. The name of Bondi will now be forever tainted with evil. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What an atrocity!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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