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All Fired up….

September 14, 2009 in Living In Australia by Vicky Gray | No comments

Saturday night, while I had just donned my pyjamas and removed my contact lenses in favour of my thick and unattractive glasses, suddenly turned from a comfy night in front of the TV, to an action packed adrenaline rush of madness.

No sooner had I got the children in their beds, than I received several text messages from my friends… telling me to look out of my window… So once I had unpacked the dishwasher, clipped my toenails and organised the washing for the following day… I thought I would take a look. Read the rest of this entry »

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Australian phrases…

September 11, 2009 in Living In Australia by Vicky Gray | No comments

The reason I started writing my book (and consequently this blog) came glaringly apparant again this week – when I was once again faced with two new phrases that made me question my own sanity.

Phrase one..

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Coming back home…

August 28, 2009 in Living In Australia, blog by Vicky Gray | 3 comments

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.

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Flying visit

August 19, 2009 in Living In Australia, blog by Vicky Gray | No comments

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.

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Australia & New Zealand Magazine article – Open Season

July 27, 2009 in Living In Australia, blog by Vicky Gray | No comments

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

 

 

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Christmas in July

July 9, 2009 in Living In Australia, blog by Vicky Gray | 2 comments

Ho, Ho, Ho… Merrrry Christmas!

Yep, I’m at it again, going completely loopy…. you may think?

But actually there is another phenomenon that you Brits need to know about – before you leave the shores of Blighty.

Christmas in July.

No, I’m not making it up, it is an actual bona fide tradition that the Aussies do.  And to be quite honest, after I had finished mocking it for being utterly ridiculous, I realised it makes total sense.

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Australia & New Zealand magazine article…

June 25, 2009 in Living In Australia, Moving To Australia, blog by Vicky Gray | 6 comments

Hi… again,
I forgot to mention about my new article that has just been published in the fabulous Australia & New Zealand magazine…

 

 

Click below to read ‘A home to roost’ on PDF…

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Also, you can check out the magazines website www.getmedownunder.com 

…and now have a good week!

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Investing in our children’s futures…

June 25, 2009 in Living In Australia, blog by Vicky Gray | No comments

This week has certainly been…. err different.

I was asked to hold a literary seminar at a local school – in front of 60 students, to try and encourage them into reading great books and being inspired by the words they read.

As I stood at the front of the hall – tapping my telescopic pointer at the obscure illustrations I had drawn of myself in the various bi-polar stages that I had encountered while I was writing my book, I looked out at the sea of little faces… all utterly engrossed in what I was telling them.

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