Move to Tassie mate:-)

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 15:05:20 +1300, "Baranggay Ginebra"
wrote:

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|Subject: Diary of a Brisbane Summer
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|Diary of a Brisbane Summer (by a Pom)
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|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.
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|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.
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|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.
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|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
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|October 15th:
|Fell asleep by the pool. Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body. Missed 3
|days of work. What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though. Got to
|respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.
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|October 20th:
|I missed Kitty (our cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By
|the time I got to the hot car for lunch, Kitty had died and swollen up to
|the size of a shopping bag and stank up the $3,000 leather upholstery. told
|the kids that she ran away. The car now smells like Wiskettes and
|cats.h.i.t. I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat.
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|October 25th:
|The wind sucks. It feels like a giant bloody blow dryer!! And it's hot As
|hell. The home air-conditioner is on the blink and the AC repairman Charged
|$200 just to drive over and tell me he needed to order parts.
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|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?
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|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 stupid place.
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|November 8th:
|If another wise a.r.s.e cracks, "Hot enough for you today?" I'm going to
|strangle him. Bloody heat. By the time I get to work the car's radiator was
|boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like bloody cat
|s.h.i.t and whiskettes.
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|November 9th:
|Tried to run some messages after work. Wore shorts, and sat on the Black
|leather seats in the ol' car. I thought my arse was on fire. I lost 2 layers
|of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and My arse. Now my car
|smells like burnt hair, fried a.r.s.e, and baked cat.
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|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 just might dry up and blow into the bloody pool. Even the palms can't
|live in this heat.
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|November 14th:
|Welcome to HELL!!! Temperature got to 38 today. Now the air-conditioner's
|gone in my car. 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 a.r.s.e out
|of jail for assaulting the repairman. Bloody Brisbane. What kind of a sick
|demented idiot would want to live here?
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|December 1st:
|WHAT????? This is the first day of Summer???? You are f*cking kidding...
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Cheers, Alan