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Forum: Australia
Apr 4th 2015, 12:18 am
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

I don't have air con, I just have to put up with the heat. When it gets cold i put on more layers, but as I have a small electric heater for the coldest nights here I guess I do spend more on heating...
Forum: Australia
Apr 3rd 2015, 11:28 pm
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Define "better standard of life" though....the age old quandry, what is better for one isn't so for another. Give me the cold, rain and grey skies anyday instead of endless heat and humidity :thumbup:
Forum: Australia
Feb 9th 2015, 9:16 pm
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Maybe you don't realise it but I'm one of the biggest 'Aus haters' on the site :D I criticise as much if not more than Pagan Lady!

BE started as a site for British Expats but we welcome everyone,...
Forum: Australia
Feb 9th 2015, 5:46 am
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

So there J am today in a beer garden in a very local-type pub near Melbourne airport, get asked to join the group at the next table.. Three down to earth Aussie blokes and a cowboy from Wyoming!...
Forum: Australia
Feb 8th 2015, 8:20 pm
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Thats why I asked how long you have lived here in recent years? A question you dismissed as irrelevant.......Brits are welcome here even if we do get some teasing about our origins, strangely enough...
Forum: Australia
Feb 7th 2015, 1:22 pm
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Can I ask how much time you have spent living in Australia, and how much anti-British feeling you have personally encountered especially in recent years?
Australia has changed a lot in the time...
Forum: Australia
Feb 2nd 2015, 12:17 pm
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Where did he say Sony was German? He said he likened German business to Sony :confused:
Forum: Australia
Jan 22nd 2015, 4:50 am
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Thats why I fly home as much as possible, the shorter my life gets, the better :thumbup::sneaky:
Forum: Australia
Jan 16th 2015, 1:59 am
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Queenstown is fascinating, the hills were leached of soil and nutrients by the mines, and when I first went there in 1999 it looked like the surface of the moon. Going back now they have undertaken a...
Forum: Australia
Jan 15th 2015, 12:15 pm
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Yep I've been there during most months, remember an April-June stint years ago snow almost down to the harbour (which is rare) - the state is geared up for winter conditions, plenty of fleeces and...
Forum: Australia
Jan 15th 2015, 4:21 am
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

:wave: Welcome to BE from someone coincidentally currently sat in Qantas Club at Hobart Airport! :)
Forum: Australia
Jan 13th 2015, 11:54 am
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

:thumbsup:
When I lived here, years ago (brief though it was) I woke up each morning to see the sun reflected off the organ pipes of the mountain. We used to watch the sun go down behond the same...
Forum: Australia
Jan 13th 2015, 11:08 am
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

You really sould do it. Very different to the mainland, and quite do-able in relative comfort if you don;t want to do the cheap route round the island :D
You would both love it, in different ways...
Forum: Australia
Jan 13th 2015, 10:09 am
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

:thumbsup:
As I fall out of a restaurant into a taxi in the best city on the planet....!!
Forum: Australia
Jan 13th 2015, 9:58 am
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Indeed, makes you re-evaluate things doesn't it.......



:lol: you are always somewhere else, enjoying someone else's sand....!!! As am I, given the chance. I merely exist, in between scheduled...
Forum: Australia
Jan 12th 2015, 9:53 am
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Have we just discovered two BE neighbours?!:lol:
Forum: Australia
Jan 12th 2015, 4:30 am
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Sat on the ideal beach today - pobably the first beach I've sat on in 5-6 years :D Three other people at the far end - about a mile away, sun, bue sky and sea, little breeze, picnic. Heaven. ...
Forum: Australia
Jan 11th 2015, 11:17 pm
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Actually i was just wondering at the randomness of that post I replied too :D
Forum: Australia
Jan 11th 2015, 10:00 pm
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Reality of where? :confused:

Define lovely weather, thats totally subjective, as is "not that hot".

for instance I am currently in tassie, reality is 10 months of the year 20 degrees-ish, fair...
Forum: Australia
Jan 7th 2015, 3:56 pm
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Be boring if we all liked the same places after all!
Forum: Australia
Jan 6th 2015, 11:42 pm
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Sounds like a fair enough description. Our mid week drining nights used to end at 8 quite often cos the pubs were closing in the CBD then. Kebab on the way home? No chance, Noodles from the 7-11 were...
Forum: Australia
Jan 6th 2015, 11:38 pm
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Thats true actually, dear old PB and his 'arse end of the planet'........:sneaky:
Forum: Australia
Jan 6th 2015, 11:38 pm
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Boez and Grayling take note.

This will NOT be tolerated. The forum is sick of this kind of bickering. Pack it in now, the Mods will not ask again.

Beoz, pack in the bullying
Grayling, quit...
Forum: Australia
Jan 6th 2015, 11:34 pm
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

Sheer bad luck. Its where my then husband happened to live.
Forum: Australia
Dec 29th 2014, 8:20 am
Replies: 486
Views: 77,227
Posted By Pollyana

Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything

A very little Irish :lol::sneaky:
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