Originally Posted by jayr

Practice for those long, balmy QLD summer nights by wearing a blindfold at 7pm to simulate darkness, put on jeans and a long top and cover yourself in Aeroguard, light a citronella candle and enjoy.

[actaully mossies don't bother me so none of this applies to me pesonally]

Prepare for your first Australian Christmas by cooking a full UK version Christmas dinner in the height of the UK summer (and pretend its 12C warmer still)

Prepare you beer carrying arm by learning how to open you car door whilst balancing a case of 24 beers on your shoulder before you come.

Get ready for going to work in the QLD summer by having a wet shirt ready to change into as soon as you leave your front door.

Prepare for the friendliness of Aussies by talking to random people at bus stops, in the street, in the shops, preferably whilst with no footwear. See how these UK strangers smile (and move away from you hurriedly).

Demonstrate your Britishness on arrival by being the only one not wearing a hat and not sheltering from the sun.

Prove you've really settled by having a tan line that stops at sock height with amsuing 'white skin socks' below. Even better, your tan line should also end at your knees.

Originally Posted by carolinegorka

Return of the animal theme.....

Get used to snakes by cutting the legs off a dachund.
Get used to BBQing sausages by cutting the legs off a dachund. :eek:
Dip sparrows into pots of yellow and green paint.
Put clothes pegs either end of a hamster and you've got yourself a baby platypus

Originally Posted by Badge

If you are lucky enough to have a small front room, as well as a "living room" in your "3 bed semi", put all your best furniture in and call it the ''formal'' lounge room.

On NO account ever actually use, or be seen to use it.

Smash all the walls downstairs to create a large room. Practise having a "family room and kitchen".

(You'll get the living room, rumpus room when you arrive in Australia). For the time being, it will be outside in the space allocated to your road or back garden. :D

Originally Posted by kirsty&al

Fill half the space in the "formal" lounge with a telly/entertainment system. Always have it on (tuned to sports) but never go in there.

Originally Posted by Trevglas

You forgot one: prepare for Qld summers by steadfastly refusing to put your clock forward in March, claiming that if you do, it will fade your curtains

Originally Posted by kirsty&al

If you meet anyone from the Salvation Army, start calling them the Salvos.

Start calling anyone you meet with an Ambulance, the Ambos.

Originally Posted by kirsty&al

Prepare for driving in NSW by taking a trip to France.

Also for NSW: randomly forget who has right of way on roundabout just as you get there.

For drinving in Victoria: get all of you mates to drive at exactly the same speed down the motorway, using all the lanes. If you feel yourself going faster than the person next to you, slow down until you match speed again.

Originally Posted by kirsty&al

If you meet anyone from the Salvation Army, start calling them the Salvos.

Start calling anyone you meet with an Ambulance, the Ambos.