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Forum: Australia
Jul 1st 2010, 5:05 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,596
Posted By chrispy

Re: Love this one :) Spiders, Snakes & Jellies!!

So far we have seen three snakes, 5 scorpions and 1 large shark, we live ina bush block next to a national park and have been here just over three years. Did have a possum trying to absail up my leg...
Forum: Australia
Jul 1st 2010, 4:22 pm
Replies: 247
Views: 32,067
Posted By chrispy

Re: What do you not like about living in OZ

Having jsut come back from the annual visit to the Relies in the UK most of the niggling things seem minor. Thinsg i do miss or dislike by living in Perth are:

Long summer nights
Amazon.co.uk...
Forum: Australia
Jan 20th 2010, 4:55 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 3,016
Posted By chrispy

Re: Perth

For us in Kalamunda living near to Jorganson national park the mozzies are a right pain, not the usual ones but small black ones that come out around mid afternoon. I have lived in many tropical...
Forum: Australia
Jan 20th 2010, 3:31 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 994
Posted By chrispy

Re: Freo and Crime in Perth

Personally i think Freo has a really nice feel to it, got engaged there on my first visit in 2006 so must have liked it! Good music venues, saw Kean there last year in a small venue that reminded me...
Forum: Australia
Jan 14th 2010, 4:18 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,306
Posted By chrispy

Re: Coming to Perth for reckie any advice/tips on what do whilst their?

Hi,
With regards to where to live, there are several different life styles in Perth, some less affordable than others. The beach life style is expensive anywhere in the Perth metro area but if that...
Forum: Australia
Jan 13th 2010, 3:45 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,306
Posted By chrispy

Re: Coming to Perth for reckie any advice/tips on what do whilst their?

Trips to Rottnest, Penguin Island, the Pinnacles, Margret River, Kalgoorlie (visit the gold mine, play 2 up, take a tour and become a life long memebr of a working brothel, stand in a very big copper...
Forum: Australia
Jan 13th 2010, 3:30 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 2,914
Posted By chrispy

Re: salary verses expenditure is it that expensive??

Don't forget that the dollar is now very strong so i wouldn't really rate it as the same as a UK salary of 40-45k. A year ago it would have been only 28 to 32k and prices have not dropped since then!...
Forum: Australia
Jan 5th 2010, 4:50 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 2,803
Posted By chrispy

Re: Best sunscreen

It is quite appaling that it was sold in Coles as factor 30, my wife who is always very careful about avoiding sunburn had the worst sunburn of her life, and we were not even out for very long. I put...
Forum: Australia
Jan 5th 2010, 4:20 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 1,678
Posted By chrispy

Re: Buying a car in WA

We did that for our first car and got about 10% off and a few extras thrown in, i reckon most dealerships will knock 5-10% off the price if you tell them someone else is selling cheaper....
Forum: Australia
Jan 5th 2010, 4:07 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 2,803
Posted By chrispy

Re: Best sunscreen

Good to get one recomended by someone like the cancer council, we changed from a good one to another brand sold in Coles that was also factor 30 and went under the banner of being natural and free of...
Forum: Australia
Nov 17th 2009, 3:58 pm
Replies: 45
Views: 4,713
Posted By chrispy

Re: What's the silliest things that packers packed?

The still hot grill pan i used to make them bacon sandwhiches, i looked around to cool it down and wash it up and it had gone, wrapped and in the box!
Forum: Australia
Oct 8th 2009, 6:44 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 2,544
Posted By chrispy

Re: Cheap petrol in Perth

Wednesdays or thursdays are usually the best.. it is a bit of an art to try and fill up when it is at it's lowest each week, i always feel agrieved if i have to fill up at the weekends even if it is...
Forum: Australia
Oct 8th 2009, 6:07 pm
Replies: 207
Views: 16,283
Posted By chrispy

Re: Shame on you Australia

I agree that the issue is incredibly complex and that blanket approaches may not work in each community. Despite the incidences of mal administration that are levelled quite correctly at indigenous...
Forum: Australia
Oct 8th 2009, 2:32 pm
Replies: 207
Views: 16,283
Posted By chrispy

Re: Shame on you Australia

Violence and alcohol have become a normal way of life in many of these communities. Any child growing up in this environment regardless of race will consider this normal. I am an upstanding member of...
Forum: Australia
Oct 7th 2009, 6:48 pm
Replies: 207
Views: 16,283
Posted By chrispy

Re: Shame on you Australia

I agree what is required in remote areas isn't what is required in the cities or even rural areas. this is why Federal projects should be set with consultation with communities, not hoisted on them...
Forum: Australia
Oct 7th 2009, 6:02 pm
Replies: 207
Views: 16,283
Posted By chrispy

Re: Shame on you Australia

the problem is that nothing in the 'giving stakes' is what it seems. The latest report on the money given by the government in th NT for housing that was allocated over a year ago is that 70% will be...
Forum: Australia
Oct 7th 2009, 4:27 pm
Replies: 207
Views: 16,283
Posted By chrispy

Re: Shame on you Australia

One of the issues i have seen on my few visits to Indigenous communities is that health, social and community plans that work and succeed are often starved or deprived of funds. In addition basic...
Forum: Australia
Oct 5th 2009, 6:24 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 1,655
Posted By chrispy

Re: Termite Barrier Protection

yesterday afternoon we had a load of swarming termites that came out of an old tree stump in the garden, there were thousands of them... guess we should get the termite guys out.
We have regular...
Forum: Australia
Aug 30th 2009, 6:53 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 5,230
Posted By chrispy

Re: any flies in Perth?

We live in the Hills near Perth on a East facing slope and don't get flies.. however we do get bastard small mosquitoes which leave really itchy bites and horse flies which bite on the ankles or...
Forum: The Barbie
May 12th 2009, 5:29 pm
Replies: 4,241
Views: 135,930
Posted By chrispy

Re: Song Title Game- Try and come up with a new one

Letter from America -- Proclaimers
Forum: Australia
May 10th 2009, 1:45 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 589
Posted By chrispy

Re: travel from the hills

Hi,
kalamunda is a beautiful place to live, it has a distinctly quaint villagey feel to it and unlike many suburbs now in Perth it has some history, you also get more house for your money. We drive...
Forum: Australia
Dec 8th 2008, 7:40 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 2,719
Posted By chrispy

Re: Is this really the questions of citizenship test? If so it is extremely hard!

Looks a bit dodgy to me, one of the questions was 'Who is Barry marshall' and the answer was two of them (Doctor and Immunologist) and what is more he is still very definitely still alive (saw him a...
Forum: Australia
Dec 8th 2008, 7:11 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 870
Posted By chrispy

Re: Fireban, what fireban?

We had some git last Febuary with not one but two poorly attended fires in his garden, i smelt the smoke rushed out expectign to have to grab the Mrs and the cat and found this ignoramus. Told him to...
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 11th 2008, 8:23 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 821
Posted By chrispy

Re: Wierdest ways to die in movies? Which Movie?

The fluffy white rabbit in Monty Pythons the Holy Grail and the Wafer thin mint in the Meaning of Life.

There was a real one on the BBC news site today, a woman killed by her husbands coffin in...
Forum: Australia
Sep 4th 2008, 1:34 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 1,208
Posted By chrispy

Re: Any expat G.P's out there ?

I have a friend who retired as a GP in the UK and has now come out of retirement to work as a GP in rural health here up in two Aboriginal communities. he does 2 weeks on and 4 to 6 weeks off and...
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