A Kiwi in Brisbane

[OtakiriLad]

August 31^st
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 10^th
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 *****. 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 **** 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 **** was on fire. I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and my ****. Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried ****, 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**e 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***ing kidding

[Caveman]

[Shedhand]

Listen bro! Get the earcon fixed, go on the dole, buy beer ind watch cable all day. Thats what the rist of New Ziland does un Queensland....

[oldbob13]

Ah, true words are often spoken in jest.
BobT

[fred.n]

Too Meke

[MurrayD99]

Lovely day in Dunedin - rained all night. Freezing Southerly seems to have stopped for now. I think you're pining for the fijords mate!

Reminds me, better order another 6 cord of firewood.....

[fred.n]

Lovely day in Dunedin - rained all night. Freezing Southerly seems to have stopped for now. I think you're pining for the fijords mate!

Reminds me, better order another 6 cord of firewood.....

Hahahahahah yeah......that's a good one!

[Harry72]

Dunedin... nice place that!

[fred.n]

Dunedin... nice place that!

A very good pipe band down that way

[MurrayD99]

Also micro-breweries.....

[bitingmidge]

Of course, eventually every Kiwi realises that a few kilometres south of Greenslopes in a placed called the Gold Coast. A gently commute to the big smoke, and with all the benefits of life truly by the sea.

This is a good thing, because it lessens the chance of them migrating to the Sunny Coast!

Nice story though.. but then I specially like anything when a cat dies!

P

[MurrayD99]

Of course, eventually every Kiwi realises that a few kilometres south of Greenslopes in a placed called the Gold Coast. A gently commute to the big smoke, and with all the benefits of life truly by the sea.

This is a good thing, because it lessens the chance of them migrating to the Sunny Coast!

Nice story though.. but then I specially like anything when a cat dies!

P

Snakes, heat, faulty a/c, what else.... Relax...... I'm not planning to invade your sub-tropical(?) paradise. Hey, what's wrong with cats?