quoll

Yes that was weird too, only came from London via Bangkok and I usually fly back through there. Maybe it was peak mozzie season I have no idea and was genuinely taken aback as it was quite out of the ordinary.

paulry

This is a cracker that I saw recently

YKYAIAW:

The otherwise managerial looking bloke serving behind the post office counter is dressed in formal office type gear accentuated by countless facial piercings and rounded off with ear rings that are literally the shape and size of saucers.

Kooky.

Haven't been to so many exotic places since we left Asia but AFAIK it's the country you are landing in that demands the plane be sprayed. If the departure country has malaria, dengue, etc., I don't blame them. I vaguelly recall it used to happen (probably still does) on Caribbean flights, too.

Back to original topic, I recorded the Parky-Frost and Frost-Parky Sydney interviews a few weeks back (I really wanted to go to them) and last night watched the one where Frost interviewed Parky. I adore Parky, well both of them really They were chatting about his love of Australia and he put forward a theory that he feels so at home because Aussies are so like Northerners.

Maybe that's why I actually like being spoken to by shop staff, and often have a chat with them. I chat to people at bus stops too, and even in lifts People fascinate me, and I learn a lot from them. I can tell you all about the Russian man whose wife is in hospital (we chat in very clumsy German - mine, at least- and he thinks I'm "very kind", obviously so lonely ), what special offers are on at Marrickville metro (the old dear who goes there most mornings to shop), and by chance one day I had a fabulous conversation with a senior Pacific Islander about her trip to Copenhagen for the climate talks...

Go on, do it - get off the internet, where you're happy to talk all day to strangers, and talk to some real people.

paulry

I'm too old and battle weary for her to be interested in me but maybe the chat up line was intended for Sonny Jim? I'll send him back around there, hopefully she's not p**sed off early!

paulry

YKYAIAW:

Everyone you meet seems to have at least one TV that they are trying to get rid of.

moneypenny20

YKWYAIAW

It's April and you put socks on for the first tme this year and start to look longingly at the wood burner. (Granted that could be the UK but not the sock bit).

Rambi

I think with the move to digital most people have decided to upgrade their TV rather than faff with a set-top box.

ozzieeagle

You take an afternoon walk in the Autumn Sunshine, On the footpath along the Willow and Elm lined Merri Creek, Past the clean and non vandalized free BBQ's. Where the few and far between fellow strollers that you pass on the footpath adjacent to the babbling creek, all smile and acknowledge your presence with a light greeting as you pass by.





A typically great Autumn day in central Melbourne.


6 k's from the CBD

Rambi

It was a cracking day today

paulry

We brought our telly over here with us but thanks to a problem to do with a different audio frequency that's used over here the we had no choice but to buy a digital set top box. I bought one for around $30 which when combined with an old external hard drive has turned it into a digital recorder. Just a pity it's not like the old Sky+ recorder with it's live pause, rewind, functions though.

Cheetah7

Talking of checkouts and supermarkets, my old Dad has just spent 4 weeks with us and he said he liked being asked how his day was, having his bags packed and someone making the effort to talk to you.

He said he knows its their job to make the polite small talk but where he lives, the checkout girls are rude, sloppy and insolent and to quote my dad 'I would rather someone make polite small talk than ignore me or at best, treat me like I am an inconvenience like they do in some of the shops near where I live'

Although it was a tad embarrassing when he chatted up the girl in one shop who according to Mr PP, was enjoying it.

I know I am in Australia, I have started to say 'Vitamin' the same way as the Aussies and Mr PP has started to say 'Parsta' as in 'Pasta'.

furbacchione

When someone knocks on the door and when you open it they quickly say "I'm not trying to sell you anything... I just want to help you" They even acknowledge the sign at that door that says Not Door to Door **** Wits...

Or the bulk mail idiot that stops and reads the sign on the mailbox that says no mail other than from aus post and then puts the shit in the box anyways... And when you ask why they did it, they say "I didn't think it meant me..."

Turban Explorer

there's always some ****tard in a sports ute up your rear bumper as soon as you set off driving. (Jeez it's getting hard to swear on here!)

paulry

...the just before twilight sun shines bright streams of yellows and golds across the landscape.

scottishcelts

We had a lovely red sky here tonight, with lovely cool breezes coming through the house.