Life in Australia – What it is Really Like – By BobinOz
What it's Really Like Living in Australia
From the category archives:
As they say, “When it rains, it pours”.
I have no intention of turning this blog into The Weather Channel, (as I said last winter) but over this last week or so the talk here has been all about the weather. I’ve already mentioned the towns that have been flooded in south-west Queensland, but following events [...]
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I have mentioned previously in a post about junk mail, that leaflets, free local newspapers and free magazines along with gazillions of free shopping store catalogues regularly find their way into the BobinOz letterbox. I seriously have no idea where we get all the trees from, although, thankfully, most of this stuff is printed on [...]
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Last week I did the best I could to explain humidity and I also showed you where humidity goes when it gets a full. I appreciate I may not be using the correct meteorological terms here, but the end result is the same.
Stage one: become hot and sweaty. Stage two: buckets of rain.
If you missed [...]
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It’s time to get hot and sweaty. Yes, today I’m going to be talking about humidity. I don’t have any photographs of humidity, but that’s probably a good thing.
This is rocket science! No, it is, really! I have tried to understand humidity and the more I read the more confused I get. So if we [...]
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Regular readers will know that, more often than not, my post on Monday is about what we did at the weekend. But today, I’m finding it difficult to bring myself to do that.
Why?
As you will know, I used to live in Europe, England to be precise, and I still have friends back there, possibly, and [...]
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There, that’s probably put a little smile on your face hasn’t it?
As I mentioned at the tail end of last year, we were going camping by the beaches of Noosa for three days over Christmas, starting on Boxing Day. The forecast was for rain, and lots of it! Well, here in Australia, unfortunately, the boys [...]
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Sun, sea, sand, glorious clear blue skies, beaches, barbecues, beers, beautiful weather, swimming pools, fun, it’s what Australia is all about!
But not this weekend.
Without wanting to sound like a whingeing Pom, I am about to sound like a whingeing Pom. Living in a subtropical climate has many benefits, a few of which I have listed [...]
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Here, in Brisbane, at around 6 p.m. on Monday evening of this week it started to rain. I can honestly say that for the first time in my entire life rainfall felt really good. It gave me a deep sense of joy.
Rainfall has given me joy before, but in a most opposite way. Back in [...]
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