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lotus79

DIARY OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

Nov 20, 2011 01:08

Not written by me. I don't know who actually did write it or I would attribute. Found on various messageboards and facebook posts; towns vary from Karratha, Newman and Port Hedland (For the non West Aussies, those are all towns in the North of WA in the Pilbara. AKA hot and dry.)DIARY OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA ( Read more... )

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misscam November 19 2011, 17:29:40 UTC

Now I want to see the diary of an Aussie in Norway.

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lotus79 November 19 2011, 18:51:27 UTC

Hmm, and I'll be a West Aussie in Northern Norway... We just need to grab someone from East something-or-other to complete the series!

miss_andromache November 19 2011, 22:04:43 UTC

Can I come?!

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koolaidmom11 November 19 2011, 18:09:28 UTC

I don't even know you but that was funny as hell. Please, please say you want this printed in my blog for hundreds of people to read.

lotus79 November 19 2011, 18:34:38 UTC

Hee. I should probably have disclaimed - I didn't write this, I just copy/pasted from a facebook post. (I should have mentioned that, really)

I would have attributed but there wasn't one where I got it so I have no idea who *actually* wrote it.

So in short, you're welcome to repost if you like. :)

wendymr November 19 2011, 21:27:54 UTC

Funny - though, to be honest, I could have done without the cat part ( ... )

wendymr November 19 2011, 21:34:21 UTC

December 24: 6". Snow packed so hard by the snowplough, I broke the shovel. I though I was having a heart attack. If I ever catch the SOB who drives that snowplough, I'll drag him through the snow by his family jewels. I know he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shovelling and than he comes down the street at a 100 miles and hour and throws snow all over where I have just been! Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas Carols with her and open our presents, but I was busy watching for the darn snowplough ( ... )

lotus79 November 20 2011, 05:09:11 UTC

Bwahahaha. Yeah, that would be me. (Horses for courses, after all!)

rdave1 November 20 2011, 00:31:44 UTC

This is kinda fun and awesome to read. The cat story scared me a bit. Yikes.

How are you by the way, bb?

lotus79 November 20 2011, 04:37:54 UTC

Yeah, it happens, unfortunately. Not quite as graphically as that, but every year there have to be ads reminding people not to leave their pets (or young children!) in the car for any length of time on a warm day. 'Dogs die in hot cars' is the slogan.

gemfyre November 20 2011, 02:44:55 UTC

At least up there the first day of "Summer" means the build up should be breaking soon and the wet season will begin - so it will still be stinking hot, but at least it will be raining. And boy will it rain!!

Really heating up now. It got to 31 today.

Hah! Stoopid Englishman.

lotus79 November 20 2011, 04:29:43 UTC

Hee! Spot the fellow West Aussie indeed. This whole post came about because I was chatting to misscam and telling her how we finally have some sun but it still wasn't warm enough yesterday at 25 degrees to take my jacket off. She said "25 is t-shirt weather"

I said "Bwahahahaha!" (And then she said "Come to Norway so I can listen to you squeal about the cold before it even hits zero")

Also, true about the rain, hadn't thought of that. (Well I've not actually travelled north of Carnarvon before, in my defense. Not within WA, anyhow.)

"Congratulations, you survived Spring. Welcome to cyclone season!"

gemfyre November 20 2011, 05:56:15 UTC

Probably why they don't have Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring in the tropics - it's just The Wet, The Dry, and some people differentiate The Buildup - that awful time that happens from late October to early December where the temperature just keeps rising, the humidity gets oppressive and it refuses to just rain already. The Wet is a bloody relief after that.