Still Cold

Well the weather I mean. Linda arrived home as I said, she was only 1 hour late, had a 1 Hour delay in Kualalumpa. I was so busy cleaning the house and trying to finish the En-suit that I never rung the airport to find out if the plane was on time,

Wont be long now.

Gd.day.. Well lets see if this Blog punctuate properly, seem to be having problems, once I post as it just seem to turn into one long paragraph ...........................................Yes Saturday I should see the return of my dearest Linda,

O dearest another year gone

Sitting here tonight, I have not been blogging for a while, as I took a little time away, just the week end and flew up to Queensland. I had lovely weather on the Gold Coast, it was 28 degrees the Friday I landed there and didn't drop below that for

Happy Easter

G'Day all my Easter bunnies. A busy little holiday I'm having down here, in the land of the Holden Cars and I don't know how much longer they will be able to survive. Poor old Ford are doing even worse but it looks as though our third producer Toyota

O, whats O, I'll explain

Our English language is full of dialects and Australia isn't any different to anywhere else. Here it is a general rule to add a "O" to the name of a friend, doesn't really shorten it only becomes your nickname. You can walk into your place of work

Rain at Last

Today is a real G'Day.   Yesterday we finally breathed a sigh of relief, it rained in the afternoon and gave us, over the fire fronts, 4 m.m. of much needed rain. Today we had steady rain up untill mid afternoon, quelling the fire to spot fires,

The count continues

G'Day.  Our weatherman has reported a rainfall total of 0.4 mm since the start of the year, our average up to this time is around 75 mm. With fires still on 4 fronts at the moment we are praying for rain.  Our forensic officers are now combing

aftermath of a disaster

 As I sit here this evening the smell has finally hit the suburbs of burnt wood from the fires still smouldering around the State. Linda is escaping the turmoil seen here by returning to Norwich for a few months with her family. I finally was able

Our hearts go out to all.

Can't really say G'day today.   It was an awfull day yesterday, it started with the threat of a 45 degree weather alert that soon reached above that by midday, we got to around 48 befor the change came in around 6-00 in the evening and the temperature

Hot one this week.

G'day all.   I felt sorry for young Chris this week last Monday he started back to work, after his summer holidays. He had three weeks off, didn't do too much just took it easy. Monday ,when he started back, the sun decided to shine and the temperature

Eight little legs.

G' day all.   How was the New Year celebrations in Norfolk this year. We spent our last moments, of the old year and the seeing in of our New Year with some close friends that we have close to us in the suburb watching the fireworks exploding

Merry Christmas

G'day All   Well merry Christmas and a happy new year. Warm this end of the earth, we had around 26 degrees for christmas day so lunch was the only time we cooked, dinner was a Christmas ham with salads and plenty of wine and beer. No way was I

Heavens Above

G'Day all .    Well we are having some much needed rain at last and just have had the highest rainfall in the last 6 years yesterday, 34 m.m., which was very good but we are still under water restrictions here and will be untill the damns are

HO HO HOOOOOOOOOOOO

G,day all back home.   Here we are again coming up to that time of the year where the general public are going rather insane and spending all that well saved cash for Christmas, yes christmas again,, less than 4 weeks and it will be on us again.

Its the day in November that stops a nation

G'day all.  Well I am not talking about the presidential elections in the States, if you were a gambling man I'm sure you'll know what I am talking about. Its the Melbourne Cup, a horse race, yes a horse race so popular here in Victoria and around