From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Australian Schools: Helping You To Choose.

29 January 2010 Moving To Australia
myschool

As I mentioned in my most recent post, which was about our Australia Day celebrations, the Wednesday following Australia Day saw all of our school kids returning after the long summer holidays. First -the back to school news. How was Elizabeth’s first day at REAL school? As you probably know, she’s been at real school [...]

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The Australia Day Party Is On!

27 January 2010 Entertainment Australia
cricket

I mentioned on Monday that I’d been invited to an Australia Day party but wasn’t sure whether it would go ahead in view of the tragic events surrounding poor Doug the koala. But with true Australian spirit, we pressed on and we partied! But first, what is Australia Day? Fortunately, I explained a bit about [...]

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In Memory of Doug, the Baby Koala: Nov 2009 – Jan 2010

25 January 2010 Australia's Bad Things
koalas

It’s been a tough weekend here in Australia. On Friday, just a couple of hours after I posted my roundup of the news, Doug the baby koala passed away. Tomorrow is Australia Day here, a national holiday and a day of celebration. In light of poor Doug, it will be a true test of this [...]

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Here Is a Roundup of the News over the Last Seven Days.

22 January 2010 Life in Australia
7news

DONG! Egg almost fries in King George Square. DONG! Dog stolen in audacious shop raid. DONG! Koala in intensive care. DONG! Eastern brown snake breaks into Ipswich shop. Nothing is stolen. Good evening. I first mentioned the Australian news to you in my post about what happens when there isn’t any news. Since then I’ve [...]

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The Australian Ocean’s Biggest Killer

20 January 2010 Australia's Bad Things
SLS

Forget sharks, blue ringed octopus, stonefish, box jellyfish, Irukandji, crocodiles and cone fish. It’s worse than that! Believe it or not, I’m usually pretty well organised here at BobinOz. Usually, on Monday, I decide what I’m going to write about for the rest of the week. Then  I write the article on the actual day [...]

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Australia: Not Just a Pretty Beach!

18 January 2010 Life in Australia
Berries

The Enchanted Forest. There are probably hundreds of pictures scattered around this blog of beautiful beaches, sun, sand, people surfing and swimming and just having loads of fun. But Australia is more than one great big wraparound beach. For example, something like 35 km inland from Surfers Paradise, one of Australia’s most famous beaches, is [...]

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Good Evening. Here is the News.

15 January 2010 Life in Australia
big ben

DONG! I have already mentioned elsewhere on this blog that I have not yet got around to buying a daily newspaper here in Australia. I did use to read the papers daily back in England even though I found them to contain little news. Papers these days seem to be more about opinion, debate and [...]

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The New Most Venomous Creature in the World

13 January 2010 Australia's Bad Things
beach

You will already know if you have read my entire blog, (you have read my entire blog, haven’t you?) That the most venomous creature in the world is the box jellyfish. I told you all about him on September 10, 2009. Now, I really didn’t want to tell you this, but I have decided I [...]

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