....I got sent this in an email today, I love somebody with a dry sense of humour like I have.
The questions below about Australia are from potential visitors. They were posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the answers are the actual responses by the website officials, who obviously have a sense of humour.
Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia? I have never seen it rain on TV, so how do the plants grow? (UK).
A: We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around watching them die.
Q: Will I be able to see kangaroos in the street? (USA)
A: Depends how much you've been drinking.
Q: I want to walk from Perth to Sydney - Can I follow the railroad tracks? (Sweden)
A: Sure, it's only three thousand miles, take lots of water.
Q: Is it safe to run around in the bushes in Australia? (Sweden)
A: So it's true what they say about Swedes.
Q: Are there any ATMs (cash machines) in Australia? Can you send me a list of them in Brisbane, Cairns, Townsville and Hervey Bay? (UK)
A: What did your last slave die of?
Q: Can you give me some info about hippo racing in Australia? (USA)
A: A-fri-ca is the big triangle shaped continent south of Europe. Aus-tra-lia is that big island in the middle of the Pacific which does not... oh forget it. Sure, the hippo racing is every Tuesday night in Kings Cross. Come naked.
Q: Which direction is North in Australia? (USA)
A: Face south and then turn 90 degrees. Contact us when you get here and we'll send the rest of the directions.
Q: Can I bring cutlery into Australia? UK)
A: Why? Just use your fingers like we do.
Q: Can you send me the Vienna Boys' Choir schedule? (USA)
A: Aus-tri-a is that quaint little country bordering Ger-man-y, which is...oh forget it. Sure, the Vienna Boys Choir plays every Tuesday night in Kings Cross, straight after the hippo races. Come naked.
Q: Can I wear high heels in Australia? (UK)
A: You are a British politician, right?
Q: Are there supermarkets in Sydney and is milk available all year round? (Germany)
A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of vegan hunter gatherers. Milk is illegal.
Q: Please send a list of all doctors in Australia who can dispense rattlesnake serum. (USA)
A: Rattlesnakes live in A-meri-ca which is where YOU come from. All Australian snakes are perfectly harmless, can be safely handled and make good pets.
Q: I have a question about a famous animal in Australia, but I forget its name. It's a kind of bear and lives in trees. (UK)
A: It's called a Drop Bear. They are so called because they drop out of gum trees and eat the brains of anyone walking underneath them. You can scare them off by spraying yourself with human urine before you go out walking
In the process of setting up everything and settling properly in the new flat I got to the point to sell the bookcase and the TV stand that I bought when In was living in my previous flat in Hughenden Road. I was planning to do so for quite a while, but I always had something else to do, and I postponed it until early this week. I though it would have not been easy to sell the furniture since they were quite common IKEA furniture that you can buy new for few puonds. Also I wasn't quite sure who would move, at this time in the year, to Bristol, and be interested in a bookcase and TV stand. Never such prediction was worse than this one. Possibly because I didn't know, and therefore underestimate Gumtree...or maybe because I was lucky enough to put the right advertisement at the right time and at the right price, but I received in a day 2 emails of interest and in less than 36 hours I had already sold both...Not bad...I will defo sell again on gumtree...but what...I have nothing to sell at all right now.............!
What's the longest you've ever waited in line?
Probably at Alton Towers
Twenty years ago the fall of the Berlin wall signed one of the most important events in recent history. It was the 9th of November 1989. It was the end of socialism. It was the beginning of the modern era. I remember very little from that day. I remember my parents watching TV and trying to explain me what was going on...I remember all this people walking on the wall, but I had not a clue on what all of that was. I didn't understand. I was 11. I had the chance to visit Berlin many years later. Stunning city, where I would like to go back sooner or later. We stayed in this hotel in East Berlin, which was a huge building, a massive concrete block, where the rooms used to be flats for workers in the factories near by. It was quite impressing to think that, to imagine that hotel bedroom what the actual flat where people passed their lives. I have seen what is left of the wall at the East Side Gallery, I saw the Check Point Charlie, and got to know lots of stories about how people tried to escape from est to west. All memories that everybody should have, that today came back fresh to my mind. Today is a day to remember.
Nonna...or granny...as you prefer...! 89 years old in a week...and
still willing to come to visit me to Bristol. Not surprised since she
came along to the States with me. It was 2003, we went for three
weeks,NYC, Chicago, Milwaukee...! She never finish to astonish
me...and all of us...! Now she also said she loved the flat, and
already book herself for next spring...!!!! :)
Well...the convenient
side is that now all my jumpers and shirts are cleaned and ironed...!
Kidding...It's just amazing to see her plenty of life, so more than
welcome. We went for a pizza yesterday night, and my granny had also
some of my beer...!!! Great stuff...! Next time Fish 'n chips...!
....this is what it looks like, its quite big so I can fit all my clothes in it but also my mat. I had a sports bag yesterday and my mat but what with my works handbag and my coat I was struggling to carry it all. This bag has straps long enough to wear it in rucksack fashion.
Spiffy isnt it! and a bargain ta boot!
...*punches air*. Put in a make an offer bid on ebay for a really cute yoga kit bag it was £19 thats before £3 postage and I put in an offer of £15 and got it accepted so got the whole thing for less than the original price. Woot!
....went really well, dispite the fact that it was raining and dispite the fact that the fireworks quite frankly sucked big time. A snizzle and a fizzle and that was it. My parents had bought though two huge blocks where you light one fuse and get about 10 fireworks going off they were really good it was more like we were having a display. So I think next year we might get more of those. We kept strugglign to light the fireworks because the stupid gaslighter kept blowing out. Oh and then we had this pot of gravel to put the fireworks in but one roman candle fell over and started shooting fireworks in all directions. This was added excitement especially when one nearly had my dads eye out!
How do you use the Internet to stay informed about the things that matter to you?
Is it just my imagination but didnt we get asked something akin to this about a month ago?
So my work has started the new Yoga class at work, its FREE! so I went along last night, I really enjoyed it. Im currently putting in a best offer on a really cool yoga kit bag so that I can put my clothes and my mat in the same bag instead of carrying two bags around with me. Fingers crossed I get it.
