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    Default Diary of a Brisbane Summer (by a Pom)

    Sorry if this is old but this is the first time I have read it...

    >> 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 worshipper.
    >>
    >>
    >> 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 dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though.
    >> Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.
    >>
    >>
    >> 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. I told the kids that she ran away. The car now smells
    >> like Wiskettes and cat sh*t. I learned my lesson though. No more pets
    >> in this heat.
    >>
    >>
    >> 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.
    >>
    >>
    >> 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 stupid place.
    >>
    >>
    >> November 8th:
    >> If another wise ar*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 baked cat!!
    >>
    >>
    >> 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 a*se was on fire. I
    >> lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and my
    >> a*se. Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried a*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 just might 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'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*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 f**king kidding



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    ahh how true that is
    will give it to my pommie mate around the corner , he has been here for 2 years and sounds exactly like that

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    I wish Sydney has been so cool this Summer!

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    Sounds more like Melbourne weather

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