Living In Australia

The Cost of Living in Australia – It’s Bananas!

3 August 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

In Mondays post, about three years in Australia, I wondered whether my views would change now that I have got through the honeymoon period. As I write this, I’m fast approaching my fourth anniversary of life in Australia; will I start to see Oz in a different light? Well, there is no doubt I am [...]

Does the Fun of Living in Australia Wear Off?

15 June 2011 Life in Australia

I wrote about the concept of the “three-year itch” about six months ago in my post called Moving to Australia and Missing England. Well, I say “wrote”, but it was more of a video post. But when I decided to cover the same subject for a recent Australia and New Zealand magazine article, I couldn’t [...]

Queensland: The Cost of Living Crisis!

25 May 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

What cost of living crisis? I was going to tell you about pokies today, but something else has cropped up. In a change of plan, pokies will be next week, today it’s pollies, or politicians. You’ll see why in a minute. So what happened? As you all know, I have an entire category about the [...]

Australia’s Free Stuff and School Holidays

20 April 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

If I walk out of my front door and turn left, then left again and keep going for about 500 km, I get to a town called Roma, which is in the western Darling Downs. The town of Roma has a population of just under 7,000 people, and it is to those people that I [...]

Australian Carbon Tax and My New Favourite Aussie Pollie

4 March 2011 Entertainment Australia

I had a good idea of what I was going to do for today’s post when I was walking around the Harbour Town shopping complex over at the Gold Coast last weekend. You see, books here in Australia are quite expensive, but just as in the UK, we have cheap book shops too. Five dollars [...]

A Day on the Beach: Labrador, Gold Coast

28 February 2011 Entertainment Australia

I can’t remember the last time we went to the beach. Oh yes I can, yesterday! Of course, I meant before that. We came close to being on the beach when we went to Lota to celebrate three years living in Australia. Before that, who knows? But we went yesterday. You see, with all the [...]

How to Completely Change Your Life!

22 December 2010 Entertainment Australia

Easy……Move to Australia. If that sounds overly simplistic or as though it’s some kind of joke, for me, it isn’t. Moving to Australia really did completely change my life. And in December’s issue of Australia and New Zealand Magazine, that’s what I wrote about. If you didn’t buy your issue, you’ve almost certainly missed out [...]

Living in Australia and Staying in Australia

15 November 2010 Moving To Australia

BobinOz Day. On Friday I posted a video to celebrate the three-year anniversary of our leaving England to move to Australia. You can watch that video on my post Moving to Australia and Missing England. On Saturday our lives returned to normal again, but on Sunday we were celebrating once more. You see, whilst we [...]