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Life in Australia

Another Queensland Bank Holiday Monday!

14 June 2010 Life in Australia
Queen Elizabeth

It all started 10 weeks ago with Easter Monday. Three weeks after that, we had Anzac Day. Quick on its heels, just one week later, it was Labour Day. Now today is another bank holiday Monday, the fourth in ten weeks. This time, we’re celebrating the Queens birthday. This is how she was 56 years [...]

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10 Out Of 10 for Our Homework

11 June 2010 Life in Australia
Fire Safety Brochure

Some of you may recall that some time ago I invited the Queensland Fire Brigade (not all of them) round to my house so they could assess fire safety in my home. The visit was certainly very informative and I received some great advice on how to protect our home from fire and what to [...]

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Around The World In 210 Days

7 June 2010 Life in Australia

If my daughter was 16 years old and told me she was going out, I imagine I would have at least three questions to ask: Where are you going? What time will you be back? Who are you going with? Now, supposing the answer was “I’m going to sail around the world in a little [...]

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Australia’s Biggest Telephone Service Provider, Telstra

4 June 2010 Life in Australia

Some of the more observant of you may have noticed that there was no blog post on Wednesday. Now, I haven’t missed a blog post since I very first started this blog and naïvely believed that I would easily get an Internet connection on the move during our road trip. So why did I miss [...]

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Look Out! She’s Got a Gun!

19 May 2010 Life in Australia
Australian police

Oh, it’s okay, she’s a policewoman. And those guys in her gang, they’re police too, so that’s all right then. Or is it? Obviously this blog is about life in Australia. I try to cover everything from the good the bad and the ugly. So today I am going to talk about guns in Australia, [...]

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And You Thought British Telecom Were Funny.

28 April 2010 Life in Australia
conduit

Telstra: Keeping you connected. I am having some work done around my house, which involves building a new wall. The man with the digger turned up at 7:30 AM the other week, and by 7:35 AM he had already severed my telephone and Internet connection cable. By 7:45 AM, he was gone. “Sorry! Can’t do [...]

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Life in Australia and Giving a Bloke A Fair Go.

27 April 2010 Life in Australia
Storm

An Australian Storm and Another Word You Haven’t Got. Rort: Dictionary.com says – noun Australian. a rowdy, usually drunken party. But it’s much, much more than that. Wikipedia says – Rort is a term used in Australia and New Zealand. It is commonly related to politics, or, more generally, a financial impropriety, particularly relating to [...]

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This Blog is Closed.

26 April 2010 Life in Australia
closed

Just for today though. You see, yesterday, Sunday, was Anzac Day. Today, Monday, is Anzac Day Public Holiday. In a nutshell, it’s the Australia and New Zealand equivalent of Remembrance Sunday. But if you want a slightly better explanation, you can read last years post about Anzac Day here. I’ll be back tomorrow.

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