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Trust that everyone had a safe Easter. Yesterday Annette and I decided to take the Stag to the Macedon Cross for lunch. We left at 11 am and headed towards Macedon. I had not been to the township of Macedon and it was packed with Asians. Thousands of them. After threaded our way through them it was up to the Macedon Cross for lunch. It is a terrific drive at this time of the year. The weather was nice so the whole trip was done topless. (the car and not Annette) Lunch at the restaurant was nice but lots of people. After lunch we walked to the Cross and checked out the views. From there we drove to Woodend, Trentham and onto Daylesford for a cuppa. After visiting a nursery for a plant in a hanging basket we headed home. That came to a halt when we hit the Ballarat Highway. After a round 4 kms I managed a U turn and head into Ballan. Here we found that there was roadworks causing the traffic into one lane and from there it was easy going. I decided to head down the Old Geelong Road into Anakie, and head back towards Bacchus Marsh and finally made our way home. It was now 6 pm and getting very fresh in the car. It was very good to hear that Geelong thrashed the Hawthorn footy team. We ended up covering 192 miles (311 kms), just to have lunch. This was a very nice way to spend Easter Monday.

Dave M.: I don't think the nationality of people at Macedon has anything to do with anything. Let's keep the Stag notes about our cars, and no political, religous or race related comments.

Col C.: What is happening to us? these days it is almost impossible to make a comment about another nationality without somebody crying racist. I see nothing objectionable in Graeme's comment apart from a simple observation, My first thought was. what is the attraction?. and as such I found it interesting. I was recently in Thailand and overheard a comment from a few locals that there were a lot of ":foreigners" in the hotel,did not hear any complaints from any body; locals or foreigners. I see there have not been any other complaints, that says it all to me.

I would have to endorse the last comment , I see nothing objectionable about Greame's observation. I do get pissed off with people who are creating problems about race. In Melbourne of a night you cannot move for the Chinese and Asian numbers who by their density make it hard to move around especially when we go for a walk around the city from our house. The young folk are quite considerate of us as Australians and show us respect. I don't feel that not acknowledging the non Anglosaxon people or being able to comment about them is in itself creating a problem. As our family has several different nationality cultures in it we as are of acceptance of one another and frequently joke and discus our differences without fear of the race comment as we are all one now. Australian.

Dave M.: I think that if the last two responses are are how people feel, and notes will continue in this vein, please remove me from this Stag distribution, Graeme. If I wanted to hear stuff like that, I'd join One Nation. Dave [my-email-signature.link/signature.gif?u=25838&e=5439730&v…]

Scott B.: Come on Dave lighten up. It was an observation and not racist at all. I read your story and also wondered what the attraction of Mt Macedon is and at no stage did I think it was offensive. I don't think you have anything to apologise for Graeme. Keep up your good work.

Ross H.: The funny thing is no one noticed the comment about the engine rebuilder. This guy is a craftsman. I spent a couple of hours with Paul yesterday watching him port an alloy head off a Chev LS1 and seat the valves using a CNC type milling machine, working a preset profile and milling .004" from the surface! His attention to detail is amazing. Keep up the excellent work Ox.

Malcom C.: I know Macedon fairly well as my Partner lives in Sunbury and we often drive out that way, also my Relative lives there, Macedon usually is a quite sleepy lovely area, I concluded Graeme’s comment only related to the influx of people, unusual for that area, and maybe an Asian party get together or some organised event for all Asian People in Macedon over the Easter period Being an import myself Dave, it didn’t worry me one bit, Back to Pommy Stags. While here, does anyone know a source of new or excellent Stag Rear Side Badges and Grille Badge insert. Cheers Pommy Mal C.