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Re: Your Typical Day in Oz compared to UK
Originally Posted by iPom
Well that's no good. Who wants them waterproof? :eek:
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Re: Your Typical Day in Oz compared to UK
Originally Posted by soapy
divers?????? :D
Hmmmmm. Ok, I'll go for that. :D |
Re: Your Typical Day in Oz compared to UK
Originally Posted by DebraH
what for, i thought it was funny :)
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Re: Your Typical Day in Oz compared to UK
Originally Posted by soapy
thanx, but im sure your pulling my string :D
i could understand it - seeing as it wasn't it scottish |
Re: Your Typical Day in Oz compared to UK
Extremely well said Ipom, that's being printed and framed for the wall as I type!
OK, is it fair to say that in the "UK" you get 10 months of shitty weather and 2 months of decent weather wheras in Oz it's the other way round? With kids in tow, it makes all the difference as to what the weather is like and therfore dictates the quality & enjoyment of the day. |
Re: Your Typical Day in Oz compared to UK
Originally Posted by DebraH
ha ha
i could understand it - seeing as it wasn't it scottish its a good way to hide my bad spelling though ;) |
Re: Your Typical Day in Oz compared to UK
Originally Posted by silversurfer
Extremely well said Ipom, that's being printed and framed for the wall as I type!
OK, is it fair to say that in the "UK" you get 10 months of shitty weather and 2 months of decent weather wheras in Oz it's the other way round? With kids in tow, it makes all the difference as to what the weather is like and therfore dictates the quality & enjoyment of the day. Well, where I am, this month will be the coldest and prob wettest...and after that, it's all uphill... so Sept, Oct,Nov, Dec, Jan (the hottest month), Feb, March, April, May all good.... June is cooling but with sunny days, July wetter with cooler weather but still sunny, and then August is chilly/windy/wet but still with drying days (I dry all our clothes outside usually, unless it's chucking it down, but it's usually only like that for a couple of days)... so yes, it's similar. I live in a 'disected plateau' (not a mountain, that's a lie ;) ) so the weather up here is much cooler than Sydney weather and lower mountains. We also get much more wind up here too, but it's usually at night. I live in the second windiest place in Australia. :D But the UK, well summer's ok, but Autumn is my fav, through to late October, then those lovely days in November which are clear blue skies but cold... Dec, Jan, Feb, absolutely dire. March, bad this year but can be nice... April, spring,.... fingers crossed for good weather. Australia's much more consistent in my opinion. :) |
Re: Your Typical Day in Oz compared to UK
Originally Posted by soapy
:D :D
its a good way to hide my bad spelling though ;) |
Re: Your Typical Day in Oz compared to UK
Originally Posted by DebraH
whats that writing in scottish
or i can blame the beer :D |
Re: Your Typical Day in Oz compared to UK
Originally Posted by soapy
yip ;)
or i can blame the beer :D |
Re: Your Typical Day in Oz compared to UK
Originally Posted by PeteY
To be honest... If people find themselves "doing" more in Auz than they ever did in the UK, its thier fault. Your ability to excercise, socialise etc is NOT solely influenced by your environment.
Want to use the work excuse? Fact is... the average working week in australia is 4 to 5 hours longer than the average working week in the UK. As a generalisation, employers in Aus expect more of you than in the UK. My life in general is the same as it was in the UK. I still go fishing (although here i have a boat... but i the same light... here i dont have as much time to use it), i still play cricket and tennis... still go camping and rock climbing. The big change for myself is that i am now self employed as opposed to being a paid worker, which means i now have far less spare time. The other thing which has changed is that i now live in a rural environment, which is quieter, less congested etc etc. Disadvantage is that fruit and veg are more seasonal, stuff is normally a little more expensive and i have far less choice in well... everything than what i was used to in the UK. Lifestyle as a rule shouldnt change much when you move from the UK to Aus. If it does (and its not influenced by retiring, working less etc) then you weren't living your UK life to its full potential. The UK is a great place to live, as is Australia. Just dont expect too many differences between the two :p |
Re: Your Typical Day in Oz compared to UK
Originally Posted by iPom
You don't have children. If you did, you'd know that as an adult you could go hiking in the Chilterns through ankle deep mud and have the wind sting your face as your mac inflated with the howling gale and it would be fine.
When you try that with little children, it's hard to watch them cry with the cold no matter how much they're padded up. It's also hard on a busy village street in the UK where cars go through at 60 in a 30 zone to let your children wobble down incredibly thin pavements. Here, our garden is big enough to ride a bike on and traffic is so infrequent, they can ride down the street or on the fire trails. Australia's environment makes a huge difference to a child's outdoor life. Being completely honest, I found the it easier for hiking in the UK than in Aus, over a 12 month period, because the heat just does me in - good for relaxing and doing nothing, but for me not good for hiking/bushwalking/tramping...which I love. There is some truth in that Aus and UK are good at different things for different people - it is up to the individual to seize life and take adavnatge of what each country offers in terms of leisure pursuits. But broadly you can do similar things in both. |
Re: Your Typical Day in Oz compared to UK
Originally Posted by PegLeg
Sorry but I think that a typical day here is pretty much exactly the same as in the UK and I have come to the conclusion that there's a lot more to life than worrying about the weather!
But on the weather front I totally disagree ... when your lively hood, job, lifestyle is dependent on what the weather does there is nothing more important. We are a farming family and therefore harvest struggles if its raining. In the UK it is not uncommon for my husband to work from 6am to 2am the following morning just to try and get as much crop off the field and into store before the weather breaks the following day. If the crop stays on the field its standard lowers and so does the price. In Australia they have approx 10 months of the year they can harvest AND plant - in the UK we do the same in just 4 weeks. Can you see my point? |
Re: Your Typical Day in Oz compared to UK
Originally Posted by LoneRanger
How has your typical day changed or has it changed at all from what it was in the UK now that you are in Australia? It would be interesting to know how things have panned out especially once the 'HOLIDAY' feeling has passed into the 'REALITY'.
Have any of your habits changed? Do you do anything ie sports, activities etc that you never done or thought about in the UK? What are the 'BIG' differences? LoneRanger I have been in Perth with my husband since 1999 after I sponsored him on a prospective marriage visa. We had both met in Oz and have travelled extensively around it. Well my life here in particular has changed completely mostly as we now have children so instead of my day being centred around work, I now work in the evening and spend all day looking after our children. I absolutely love our life here. We have a nice large house and we've made loads of friends, more than we had in the UK. Life is a struggle the same as anywhere with bills and problems etc but our lifestyle is wonderful. We have much more opportunity to spend time outdoors in the sun here and do things which don't cost a lot of money. Life here is definitely more laidback and after the hussle and busstle of London, its an absolute godsend. We love it and now my family is emigrating too!! |
Re: Your Typical Day in Oz compared to UK
Life has not really changed Monday to Friday I still get up at 6.15 hit the road to work at 7.15 drop off the other half and a friend of ours in the City and then head to the office to start at 8.30. Finish work at 17.30 and get the gym at around 18.15 for an hour. Get home around 19.15 and make dinner have a chat with the other half and maybe watch a little TV before hitting the bed in true QLD fashion at 21.00 (although I did stay up until 23.00 last night....REBEL! :D ). The only difference between the UK and Aus was I occasionally hit the pub with the boys in the evening something which rarely seems to happen in Aus. The weekend is slightly different as the whole focus in the UK was following Forest both home and away or hitting the horse racing with the lads (which were great times). Now in Aus there is little to replace this and this is still the time when I struggle.
So overall not much has changed other than loosing my usual weekend.
Originally Posted by LoneRanger
How has your typical day changed or has it changed at all from what it was in the UK now that you are in Australia? It would be interesting to know how things have panned out especially once the 'HOLIDAY' feeling has passed into the 'REALITY'.
Have any of your habits changed? Do you do anything ie sports, activities etc that you never done or thought about in the UK? What are the 'BIG' differences? LoneRanger |
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