The Down Under Lounge

[Miss Chicken]

Though it is still raining it has certainly eased off so I think the worst is over.

I discovered that the wind has ripped off the top of my swing seat in my back yard and is probably beyond repair.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Though it is still raining it has certainly eased off so I think the worst is over.

I discovered that the wind has ripped off the top of my swing seat in my back yard and is probably beyond repair.

Aaaaww. Can a new one be fitted?

 

[Australis]

Sorry to hear that, Miss C.

So, low income earners are trending #keepmytendollars after the Budget, and saying the money should be invested in all manner of services. Damn straight! Brilliant response to this.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/the...ison-keep-my-ten-dollars-20180508-h0zt28.html

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

Here in Melbourne it's just cold and wet. There is no flooding where I am in Melbourne. Seems to east of the city.

Anyways, stay safe Miss C.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Aaaaww. Can a new one be fitted?

No. One of metal joints has snapped off.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

No. One of metal joints has snapped off.

Oh damn that's a shame.... Try claiming on insurance if you can. It's worth a try.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I will have to check my policy but I am sure my excess is more than the swing cost me.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I will have to check my policy but I am sure my excess is more than the swing cost me.

Aaaaaww that's a pity. Anyway glad you are alright and not hurt.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I am really pleased that the Housing Department replaced all my windows last year. I hate think our bad our place would have got with the old leaking windows we used to have.

My asthma has improved so much since the new windows were put in as the house no longer has a dampness problem and no black mold either.

 

[Australis]

Wassup, peeps? Anything exciting happening?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

^^^ Nup.

But the citizenship drama keeps rolling along.

 

[Refuge]

Thinking of moving to Tasmania.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Thinking of moving to Tasmania.

What's there?

 

[Refuge]

What's there?

I've never been there but I hear it is colder and has nice landscapes. I don't know just get itchy feet sometimes. Comes from having had a Dad in the Army who required us to move all the time. PLUS Queensland Summers are brutal. The humidity is so draining. I actually like this time of the year the most.

Hubby has to stay here a bit longer anyway. Tasmania was just a thought.

What State do you come from?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I've never been there but I hear it is colder and has nice landscapes. I don't know just get itchy feet sometimes. Comes from having had a Dad in the Army who required us to move all the time. PLUS Queensland Summers are brutal. The humidity is so draining. I actually like this time of the year the most.

Hubby has to stay here a bit longer anyway. Tasmania was just a thought.

What State do you come from?

I'm in SA and the climate here is mostly OK but if I had to choose I'd also pick Tassie because it's off the mainland, and I'm obsessed with snow.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I live in Hobart and the last time we had snow that settled in my sea-level suburb was back in ‘The Big Snow of 1986’ . However one can see snow if one goes up to Ferntree e or to the mountain, or further from the coast.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I live in Hobart and the last time we had snow that settled in my sea-level suburb was back in ‘The Big Snow of 1986’ . However one can see snow if one goes up to Ferntree e or to the mountain, or further from the coast.

Oh OK then no Tassie for me haha.

But Hobart seems like a nice place.

Just how small is Tassie, a visiting friend joked you could drive around the whole island in a day.

 

[Miss Chicken]

It is the 26 th biggest island in the world.

If you drove from Hobart to Bicheno to Launceston to Burnie to Queenstown and back to Hobart non-stop it would take about 13 hours but you would have miss the entire south-west, the entire Midlands, part of the North-East and parts of the North-West. You would miss out Port Arthur and the Huon Valley.

Most people like to spend at least two weeks visiting Tasmania and even then you would miss out on many tourist attractions.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

It is the 26 th biggest island in the world.

If you drove from Hobart to Bicheno to Launceston to Burnie to Queenstown and back to Hobart non-stop it would take about 13 hours but you would have miss the entire south-west, the entire Midlands, part of the North-East and parts of the North-West. You would miss out Port Arthur and the Huon Valley.

Most people like to spend at least two weeks visiting Tasmania and even then you would miss out on many tourist attractions.

Oh cool...... One day I'm going to do the touristy thing.

 

[Australis]

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