August 2010

Croc

So I have this category called Australia’s bad things. This is where I talk about the frightening killers that roam freely around Australia, like the spiders, snakes, the crocodiles and the sharks to name just some. But as I’m sure anyone who reads this blog regularly will already know, I don’t really think they are [...]

Ekka Showbags

This morning, around the inner city and beyond, traffic was nose to tail. Yes, it’s that time of year again, the Ekka is here! Last year we visited the Ekka for the first time and we went on rides, bought showbags and generally wandered about. I made two posts about this event at the time, [...]

Tuckshop

School Dinners. When I think of school dinners, I think of getting into the queue at the canteen, clutching my tray, collecting my school dinner, normally meat, two veg and mashed potato, and picking up my pudding at the same time. This could be chocolate sponge with custard if I were lucky or rice pudding [...]

volvo

When I left England back in November 2007 I sold my car for £250. That’s around $400 in Aussie money. Not a lot, was it? But I loved my old car; I’d had it for about seven years. It was a Volvo Wentworth 940 Estate, 1991. It had done a few miles, around 170,000 if [...]

Welcome home

Last week I told you about my night out at the pub when a group of us went into the city to have a farewell do for some good friends of ours. You can read about the “leaving do” here. But in a nutshell, our friends came here to live in Australia for two years [...]