Australian Wasps: Big, Bad and Painful?

February 19, 2010
wasp

It’s been quite a while since I have had a new kind of intruder come into my house. I have had new intruders on my land recently, I think the last one was the beautiful green tree frog. But nothing actually in the house for some time.
Until yesterday.
First, a little background. Having had a perfectly [...]

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The Australian Climate: Humidity Explained.

February 17, 2010

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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Brisbane Is Not on the Beach, But……

February 15, 2010
heart

… it doesn’t do bad for sun, sea and sand. I’ve been meaning to write a post about the South Bank Parklands for some time now, but for some reason I never seemed to get around to it. Until today.
I showed you a glimpse of the Parklands a few weeks ago but felt it inappropriate [...]

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Australia: Far Too Dangerous and Way Too Livable

February 12, 2010
emu

I feel such a fool. All the effort I have put into my category Australia’s Bad Things, with 46 post so far and probably more than 30,000 words and now I discover how I could have covered it all so much quicker.
A couple of comedians managed to condense it into just over a minute! On [...]

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Snakes in Australia: My First Real Live Encounter.

February 10, 2010
eastern brown snake

The day was Friday, 5 February, that’s when it happened. On that day I had been living in Australia for two years, two months and 22 days, which is nice and easy to remember.
And that was the day it happened, at last! I saw my first real wild snake.
Yes, previously I had seen a carpet [...]

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A Day at Byron Bay

February 8, 2010
this way

As you may recall from last week, we decided to escape to the beach for a while just so we could get away from the whirling swirling wind tunnel known as our bedrooms.
Where we live in Brisbane may not be on the beach, but for some time we have been grateful to live in such [...]

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A Bad, Bad, Bad Day in Australia.

February 5, 2010
flexi

Even in Australia, Bad Luck Comes in Threes
You can live in one of the most beautiful parts of the world, (we certainly think we do) but sometimes it doesn’t matter where you live. The forces, whatever they are, can always combine to “bite you”. Bad stuff happens!
We recently had a bad, bad, bad day in [...]

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Moving to Australia: What You Must Know About Bringing the Children.

February 3, 2010
Baby

What crosses your mind when you think about the Hague Convention? Is it…

a) the sequel to the Geneva Convention?
b) a collection of men in grey suits meeting to talk about legal stuff in a place called The Hague?
c) an international law you should seriously consider before moving to Australia with your children?

So, as this is [...]

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