Originally Posted by seang

Like twt's I remember when you posted just before leaving. Well done on the 6 years.
You have been a mainstay of our little online community and long may it continue.

Originally Posted by seang

You have been a mainstay of our little online community and long may it continue.

Originally Posted by The A Team

Great update....and I hope the cyclone season will be a quiet one!!!

Originally Posted by Pollyana

Well to quote the Bureau....".......Therefore rainfall and flooding should not be as extensive as the past two seasons and a tropical cyclone impact on the east coast is a little less likely........" but as we all know you can't predict the pesky things more than a week or so ahead.
Cyclone Season started yesterday, 1st November

Cyclone preparation info - http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/cyclone/ and http://www.emergency.qld.gov.au/emq/css/beprepared.asp

Originally Posted by Pollyana

I wasn't going to do this, and for personal reasons I don't want to say much, but I'm feeling reflective, so I ought to write something to mark the occasion as BE has been here for me for so many years.........

31st October 2003 Polly the Witch left Heathrow on Hallowe'en.......

Six years on, I'm still in Brisbane, I still don't feel at home, though I don't hate it as much as I did at one time. I have learnt to tolerate it.
I don't know where I'm going from here, so please don't ask, as an inability to answer may offend Suffice to say I don't regret coming here, nor would I do things differently if I was in the same position again

I have met some of the loveliest, non-judgemental, caring friends I could ever have wished for, both in cyber-land and in reality. You all know who you are, please accept a big THANK YOU

I have a wonderful job which is never the same two shifts running, and which turns from a peaceful haven into a frantic maelstrom as soon as the Bureau of Met say "oooh its thundering a bit over that way......" I work with some great people who have helped me to achieve professional contentment after several years of hard struggle, and they all know how grateful I am.

And I'm sitting here in the quiet and the darkness with stars twinkling, incense and candles burning, some good music on the cd player, and a bottle of wine beside me thinking............where will I be after the next six years?

http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs20/f/20...99933e2eac.gif

Put me somewhere east of midnight, West of the turnpike
Anywhere I wander is where I'll take my rest.........
...............and tonight I shall be watching from the shore.

Originally Posted by abergas

Hi Polly,
I know the feeling we have been here six and half years and really want to move on. I think we have given it long enough, Im so unhappy, bored, lonely so been chatting to Dave about moving to Victoria, Im not keen on going back to UK, although I still miss my friends and family heaps, maybe WA just isn't for us.

Congrats on the six years, here's to the next xx

Originally Posted by Pollyana

Well to quote the Bureau....".......Therefore rainfall and flooding should not be as extensive as the past two seasons and a tropical cyclone impact on the east coast is a little less likely........" but as we all know you can't predict the pesky things more than a week or so ahead.
Cyclone Season started yesterday, 1st November

Cyclone preparation info - http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/cyclone/ and http://www.emergency.qld.gov.au/emq/css/beprepared.asp

Originally Posted by Pollyana

Hiya,

Could be time to try somewhere else

Originally Posted by BEVS

I'll not bother to spare Polly's blushes. She is a bit of a star IMVHO on the quiet & deserves all the days of her life to be good ones & all of her nights to be fun. Work depending of course. .

Originally Posted by BEVS

My door is open .NZ did manage a Tsunami warning recently & we do rumble sometimes down here in the Shakey Isles.

Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack

Good stuff Polly. 6 years is not a flash in the pan!

Polly I recall your experience in finding work - and the way you got that casual work which translated in to work in the right area, then permanency. The fact a job is better than no job - those nuggets of advice that come down. And the fact that it's in an area you love is great. I'm glad it even trumps the one you had in the UK which you would have wanted to match.

Quite a role-model for some people.

Originally Posted by Pollyana

I wasn't going to do this, and for personal reasons I don't want to say much, but I'm feeling reflective, so I ought to write something to mark the occasion as BE has been here for me for so many years.........

31st October 2003 Polly the Witch left Heathrow on Hallowe'en.......

Six years on, I'm still in Brisbane, I still don't feel at home, though I don't hate it as much as I did at one time. I have learnt to tolerate it.
I don't know where I'm going from here, so please don't ask, as an inability to answer may offend Suffice to say I don't regret coming here, nor would I do things differently if I was in the same position again

I have met some of the loveliest, non-judgemental, caring friends I could ever have wished for, both in cyber-land and in reality. You all know who you are, please accept a big THANK YOU

I have a wonderful job which is never the same two shifts running, and which turns from a peaceful haven into a frantic maelstrom as soon as the Bureau of Met say "oooh its thundering a bit over that way......" I work with some great people who have helped me to achieve professional contentment after several years of hard struggle, and they all know how grateful I am.

And I'm sitting here in the quiet and the darkness with stars twinkling, incense and candles burning, some good music on the cd player, and a bottle of wine beside me thinking............where will I be after the next six years?

http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs20/f/20...99933e2eac.gif

Put me somewhere east of midnight, West of the turnpike
Anywhere I wander is where I'll take my rest.........
...............and tonight I shall be watching from the shore.