Life in Australia

Life in Australia: Furniture and Fittings

23 January 2012 Life in Australia

Every weekend for the people living in Australia the routine is almost always the same. We arise to be greeted by a rapidly heating golden sun nesting in a clear blue sky. We gleefully pack picnics, Esky’s full of cold beers and bottles of wine, camping chairs, sunglasses and hats. We bundle our children into [...]

New Rules for Migrants in Australia?

11 January 2012 Life in Australia

As you know, I recently received a letter from Immigration Minister Chris Bowen informing me that my application for Australian citizenship had been approved. He also said I would soon receive an invitation from his department about my Australian citizenship ceremony. And I have. My, or rather our ceremony will take place on Australia Day, [...]

A Happy New Year from BobinOz, Without the?

4 January 2012 Life in Australia

Three years ago on January the 1st, for some very crazy reason, I started this blog. The starting the blog bit possibly isn’t the crazy idea, but the date is. It means that I now spend every blog birthday nursing a hangover. My many thanks to Mark and Louise, the hosts, and everyone else who [...]

Buying the Christmas Beers in Australia

21 December 2011 Life in Australia

I think most of you must know by now that I love Australia. I live in Brisbane, and I love Brisbane too. Regular readers will also have noticed that I love beer, not lager type beer, but bitter. Imagine my delight then, when I was doing beer shopping for Christmas, to see a new brew [...]

Cycads in Australia: Your Quick Guide to Cycadophyta.

16 December 2011 Life in Australia

As I said on Wednesday, Australia isn’t so hot on real Christmas trees. But we have plenty of these things and I find them quite fascinating. What are they? They are called cycads, and you won’t find them growing in Germany, France, Denmark, Belgium or Great Britain where most of the world’s Christmas trees are [...]

Our Byron Bay Weekend.

12 December 2011 Life in Australia

In Friday’s post called How to settle in Australia I said “So do you think we will have fun? It’d be hard not to, wouldn’t it?” Well, as we approached Byron Bay around lunchtime on Saturday, the rain was so hard I could barely see where I was driving. My poor windscreen wipers, set to [...]

Becoming an Adult in Australia

23 November 2011 Life in Australia

Somewhere in Brazil, young lads would put their hand in a glove made of bullet ants and get stung repeatedly for 10 minutes. In Ethiopia, men are asked to jump over a herd of cows. The Kaningara Tribe of Papua New Guinea have patterns cut into their skin scarring them for life. And some women [...]

Where On Earth Is BobinOz?

31 October 2011 Life in Australia

Okay, now even I am worried about myself. I would have hoped that by now I could have made some kind of inter-web connection thingy, so that I could have brought you my first ever live post as BobinThailand. But this is not live. I preloaded this post into my WordPress schedule before I left [...]

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About me

I'm BobinOz and I moved to Australia in November 2007 after living in England for a very long time. Why did I move and what's it like here? All this and more answered right here at Bobinoz. Click here to read more on my about me page.