So here in Australia we have these little shops full of nice Vietnamese people who gave you really really hard Chinese massage it's all elbows forearms. So in the local shopping centre there are probably four of these shops now it's a great massage it really works you might be a bit bruised for a couple of days after but apparently no worse than the local physiotherapists is likely to make you feel the really good thing is its cheap it's quick and it does get all the knots in the your back or shoulders or even in your feet
Friday, 22 October 2010
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Hard Rubbish
So a big advancement in Australia well in Melbourne at least is the Hard Rubbish collection from the street. Put your large rubbish, old furniture and outdated technology out on the footpath and its collected by the council. Better yet they give you a week or so's notice so the neighbours can pick over your leavings and recycle anything useful.
In a place where the Fire Brigade and Ambulance charge if you call them out - I am not sure the free redistribution of old telly's, pc's and dining suites replaces real public services; but it certainly provides fun with spot the best shelving unit or printer you can salvage for cartridges!
In a place where the Fire Brigade and Ambulance charge if you call them out - I am not sure the free redistribution of old telly's, pc's and dining suites replaces real public services; but it certainly provides fun with spot the best shelving unit or printer you can salvage for cartridges!
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
A life less cluttered
Since I had to shed pretty much 40 years of accumulated 'life' when I moved to Australia I have tried to 'live a less cluttered life'. Well I love these 100 things to help you accomplish this. Now if only the GAB would take them on board! 
iPad luv
Image via WikipediaThis is a great article on all things fab about the Ipad. Here By David Chartier at MacworldJust one thing to add is that both for the iPad and iPhone the Google app and Dragon Dictation make use of voice recognition - one for searching and one for text entry are excellent.
Once more I just love the iPad - when i can get it from my husband......
Friday, 17 September 2010
Tomorrow; when the war began
... saw this at the weekend and it's a great movie, starts off a bit like an advert for tourism Australia ( but then all Aussie movies are a bit like that) and ends up like a pilot for a series - which it is as these are 7 books in all by John Marsden based around the group of school kids turned guerilla fighters.But what got me was the scene of 7 Aussie kids out camping sharing a jar of Vegemite. They were handing round the jar and eating spoonfuls right out the jar. I mean urghghhhhh.
I don't mind the odd scrape of the 'mite, on toast or with avocado.... But on a spoon from the jar - that's just too Australian!
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