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Diary of a Brisbane summer (by a Pom)
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Diary of a Brisbane summer (by a Pom)
August 31st
Just got transferred with work into our new home in Brisbane!! Now this is a city that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! I watched the sunset from a deck chair on the verandah. It was beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.
September 13th:
Really heating up. Got to 35 today. Not a problem. Live in an
air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshiper.
September 30th:
Had the backyard landscaped with tropical plants today. Lots of palms and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing lawn for me.Another scorcher today, but I love it here.
October 10th
The temperature hasn't been below 30 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least today it's kind of windy though, but getting used to the heat and humidity is taking longer that I expected.
October 15th:
Fell asleep by the pool. Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body.
Missed 3 days of work. What a daft thing to do. I learnt my lesson
though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.
October 20th:
I didn't see Kitty our cat, sneaking into the car before I left this
morning. By the time I got to the hot car at lunchtime, Kitty had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank out $3,000 Worth of leather upholstery. I told the kids that she ran away. The car now smells like Wiskettes and cat sh-it. I learnt my lesson though. No more pets in this heat.
October 25th:
The wind gives me the s. It feels like a giant bloody blow dryer!! And it's as hot as hell. The air conditioner is on the blink and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive over and tell me he needed to order parts.
October 30th:
Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. Bloody $450,000
house and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?
November 4th:
It's 35 degrees. Finally got the ol' air-conditioner fixed today. It
cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 25, but this bloody humidity makes the house feel like it's about 30. Stupid repairman. I hate this bloody place.
November 8th:
If another smartarse says, "Hot enough for you today?" I'm going to
throttle him. Bloody heat. By the time I get to work the car's radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!
November 9th:
Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and sat on the black leather seats in the ol' car. I thought my ar-se was on fire. I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs. Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried ar-se, and baked cat.
November 10th:
The weather report might as well be a bloody recording. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do anything for 2 damn months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this damn place? Water rationing will be next, so my $2,000 worth of palms will dry up and blow into the bloody pool. Even the palms can't live in this heat.
November 14th:
Welcome to HELL!!! Temperature got to 38 today. Now the air conditioner in my car has gone. The repairman came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?" My wife had to spend the $2,500 house payment to bail my ar-se out of jail for assaulting the repairman. Bloody Brisbane. What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here?
December 1st:
WHAT????? This is the first day of summer???? You are fu-cking kidding! |
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| dj_mdma |
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| Ian^ |
:stongue: :stongue: also
Think you need to taste a british winter, nothing like not being able to feel your balls & pissing icicles in a morning to wake up to |
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| DRM |
:stongue: :stongue: :stongue:
well that pretty much sums up how i feel about oz too. everyone here seems to think that i'd be so much better to live out there but its bollox. i couldnt live in that heat 24/7, i love the bitter cold :D |
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| slinkyhead |
the weather was very pleasant when i was in brisbane in October. Low humidity and not above 30. Then the next week there was constant thunderstorms, never seen rain like it, had a foot of a rain in two days.
Funny read though |
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| Ste |
| imagine eating your christmas turkey in 40c heat :eek: |
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| slinkyhead |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ste
imagine eating your christmas turkey in 40c heat :eek: |
christmas doesnt work in Australia, i felt so sorry for the Santa's dressed up, ive never seen someone sweat so much |
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| A.J. |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ste
imagine eating your christmas turkey in 40c heat :eek: |
That's why we go to the beach, and have swimming pools :p :p
I have experienced a "white christmas" many times with my family in Canada, as well as the nice hot summer Xmas days in Australia, and i have to say i prefer it here in Oz.
There's nothing that compares to chilling out, drinking beers in the pool on a nice, hot Xmas day.
P.S. Last Christmas it was 42C om Christmas Day :p :p |
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| jay roberts |
| quote: | Originally posted by A.J.
That's why we go to the beach, and have swimming pools :p :p
I have experienced a "white christmas" many times with my family in Canada, as well as the nice hot summer Xmas days in Australia, and i have to say i prefer it here in Oz.
There's nothing that compares to chilling out, drinking beers in the pool on a nice, hot Xmas day.
P.S. Last Christmas it was 42C om Christmas Day :p :p |
this is off the topic but im trying to track a freind down who went to Sydney a couple of years ago is there a forum that is popular with the good people of sydney? |
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| shark |
| quote: | Originally posted by jay roberts
this is off the topic but im trying to track a freind down who went to Sydney a couple of years ago is there a forum that is popular with the good people of sydney? |
Try here http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...p?s=&forumid=49 |
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