General Chat

I am off to bed as well Sue, so goodnight everyone

Good night Linda and all other retiring for the night.

Have a good day Aussies - keep cool.

Bye Sue Enjoy your day,
Goodnight Linda, sleep well, keep warm,

Tec

I Will also depart the boards.

My apologies for the delayed Adieus, OH neede to use the computer for a while

Take care all

Allan

Goodnight Linda stay warm hun.

Bye Sue enjoy your day, and good luck with your problem at work.

Bye Allan, and behave yourself lol.

I suppose you will be leaveing next Tec and going to bed ?

I think Berona has gone as well, if so bye to you too,

Well I knew that would happen, as soon as I came back you would all disappear, ( and me haveing just had a bath ) so I know it's not because I smell.


Diane

Bye Allan, Enjoy your day,

Your right Diane, I am off to bed, the winds howling, and the heating has gone off, so bed is the best place.
I usually listen to the World Service on the radio with my head phones on for about an hour before I go to sleep, but sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with them still on - oh well.
So goodnight to you, hope you sleep well, keep warm,

Goodnight everyone

Tec

Goodnight Tec, stay warm and sleep well hun.

Well I will retire to my nice fresh bed as well

Goodnight all and enjoy your day the rest of you

Alison if you happen to post later I hope you are eating and not being sick hun, take care stay beautiful hun x

Diane

Bl**dy advance weather forecasts....up until a few hours ago it was showing thundery showers for tomorrow (Saturday), then predicting a fine sunny day with temps of 33c.

Now becoming humid with clouds coming in. (Physical Observation!)

GRRR

Allan

First cab off the rank to-day! Good evening/morning to all.
I'm on my third day of trying to get to the pathologist's to leave a sample of my previous blood with them. For two days, waiting for deliveries have stopped us from getting there - and it would have been in 40 degree heat.
To-day, we are going at 8am - so will hopefully be back before you all finish chatting.

Good morning/evening friends:-))

Berona - good luck. Seems you can't give that blood away but hopefully you'll get there today. I was wondering how hot it was your way as we were sitting on 37 degs for a good bit of the day. Supposed to be hotter today - it's overcast and looks and feels very thundery.

Sue xx

I have just been watching aTV prog, on relocating a family down under. A property chap takes a family to different houses so they can choose one. This week it was concentrating on the coast just north of Perth. Plus they had a section about Sydney. All very sunny and nice, plus in Perth the property is so cheap in comparison to the south of England

Good evening/morning all

Berona another day at 40c will have your blood boiling! It wont be of much use the to the Path Lab :0))

Linda Perth house prices may seem cheap in comparison to parts of the UK, but compared to other States in Australia, the prices are inflated.

It happened during the last mining boom when wages in the Resource Sector went crazy, together with the introduction of "fly in-fly out mining operations where employees still live in Perth but fly to the mine sites for two weeks and then back home for two weeks R&R.

Good morning Sue

It did look lovely Allan ,much nicer than the cold UK.It has been raining really hard all day I got soaked delivering Meals on Wheels

Hello, Linda and Allan.

It's a buyer's market here at the moment and has been for awhile. Something that happens quite often is people deciding they can get a better house in Queensland where they've been holidaying for years. They sell up here buy a bigger and better house in a holiday region and then decide they don't like it because it's full of tourists year round and life for them isn't one big holiday. They still have to go to work and school. So they sell up to come back down here and can't buy a house with the money they have.

Sue xx

Sue, Perth had a big influx of Eastern Staters when the boom was on which also contributed to the high prices: Demand outstripped supply.

Some people got caught out as they came in at the end of the boom (except that no one knew at the time that it was the end) and bought smaller blocks and subdivided them at great expense, put them on the market, and they are still on the market!

Linda, I don't deny that Perth is a very nice place generally, but it also has its equivalents of Redfern in Sydney.

Also it is a sprawling conurbation, with poor public transport. Most people who work in the City travel in by car. Ones I've spoken to, and my own brother when he was working at the University of WA like to try to arrive before 0730 to avoid the congestion on the so-called Freeway!

Allan

At least it looks prettier when you are driving

Linda, the centre of Perth and its immediate surrounds are indeed lovely, but the drive in is really just like a drive through any City, suburb after suburb.

Once through those areas in which ever direction you travel (except West, unless you are going to dip your toes in the Ocean) the scenery is quite magnificent

Allan

I'd say most cities have their not so good areas. We love Melbourne but when you go by train as we did once from Ballarat you see some ugly areas as you do Sydney.

I had a phone call yesterday. A bit of background - my sister in law in England has been writing to a woman in Florida on and off since they were teenagers. This woman and her husband are holidaying in Australia and were to spend two days in Sydney so my brother in law sent us an email and asked if he could give them our phone number and perhaps meet up with them. No problem - it would be interesting to meet these people. Well yesterday evening at about 7 pm the woman rang. She sounded lovely - very warm and friendly. They had flown into Sydney the night before from Queensland and had spent yesterday on a city tour. They wondered if we would like to drive up to meet them and have a drink or two. She mentioned they were flying out this morning to Darwin so it wouldn't be a late night. I had to decline as it would've taken 2 hours to get to the city centre, meet for an hour or so and then back home. We agreed it was a shame but not a good idea. Apparently my BIL had told them that we were only about 20 minutes away:-)))

Sue xx

Sue, most people who have not been to Australia, or indeed those living here who haven't travelled very far, have no concept of the distances involved, which I suppose is why we measure journeys by time rather than by physical distance.

Tragically, a number of tourist are killed on WA roads each year either because they misjudged distance and then speed, very often tired, to get to their destination, or they misjudge road condtions and become bogged with very little food and water: a fatal combination in the WA Bush in summer

Allan

We have a lot of fatalities on our northern roads, Allan. Especially the Pacific Highway along our Central and North Coast. There have been some dreadful accidents this holiday season.

Sue xx