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OK, so going by the fact that I am making a ‘list blog’ you may think that I actually have nothing to write about this week.
You couldn’t be more wrong.
The whole reason why I wrote the book and started this blog became garlingly obvious to me this week, when I was asked to write an article for Living Abroad magazine – about why we decided to move over to Oz in the first place and how our life compares now….
With all the dust, smoke and dairy issues I have been running into over the last month, I have managed to let a perfectly good opportunity pass by – to warn you about a heinous seasonal affliction that Australia has…
What could I mean…?
Magpie season!!
Tags: magpie season, magpies attacks., nesting
Oops, looks like the chaps at Kraft have made the fatal blunder of listening to their teenagers thoughts on naming the new cheesy-spreadable vegemite.
Call me old fashioned, but why on earth would they feel the need to add cheese anyway?
Tags: cheese, Heinz Spaghetti, Kraft, Vegemite
It was only a couple of weeks ago when I wrote about my first encounter with a bush fire… a truly hairy experience – but no sooner had I cleansed my lungs of smoke, when they filled back up… with DUST!!
Just in case anyone has not managed to read my book, there is a particular diary entry called ‘Driving me Crazy’ – where I explain about (amongst other things) having to take the theory driving test… and that I failed, dismally!!
Then, a few months later I got a cheque in the post from Queensland transport – reimbursement for the test(s) that I took, as I never actually had to take the damn test in the first place – just simply change my UK license to an Aussie one within 3 months.
Having had time to breathe now that I am back from all my various trips; I really wanted to reassure my fellow Poms about the strangeness of homesickness and the cruel way the mind can play tricks on you.
I have been back to the UK since living in Oz a few times now and every time I go, I make sure I take an extra suitcase for the NEXT sales; salt and vinegar square crisps; galaxy chocolate and for other luxuries that I have missed since living in Oz.
Tags: english summer, homesick, long evenings., NEXT
Thanks for all your patience over the last couple of weeks. I had a rather urgent visit back to the UK and having arrived home in the early hours of Sunday morning, we are off again tomorrow to visit project 1770 (a little town in Queensland).
Just going to leave you with a mug-shot of me and some other Aussie Authors who were mingling at a local book signing a couple of weeks ago.
G’day everyone! (did I really just say that?)
I am posting my latest article on my blog this week, it has just been published in Australia & New Zealand magazine, over in good old Blighty…
At the end of the week, I’m going up north to visit the Town of 1770, the second landing point of jolly old Captain Cook and his crew of scurvy-less men.
So if I don’t get chance to blog-on again, I will tell all next week about my adventures…. good, bad and no doubt downright weird!
Have a great Monday x