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Wedding Song, a cattleya orchid with a gorgeous scent. Cheers, Bobj.

English....a beautiful language??? Extracts from letters written by council tenants in the U K : 1. It's the dogs mess that I find hard to swallow. 2. I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my knob off. 3. I wish to complain that my father twisted his ankle very badly when he put his foot in the hole in his back passage. 4. Their 18 year old son is continually banging his balls against my fence. 5. I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof. I think it was bad wind the other day that blew them off. 6. My lavatory seat is cracked, where do I stand? 7. I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is coming away from the wall. 8. Will you please send someone to mend the garden path. My wife tripped and fell on it yesterday and now she is pregnant. 9. I request permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen. 10. 50% of the walls are damp, 50% have crumbling plaster, and 50% are just plain filthy. 11. The next door neighbour has got this huge tool that vibrates the whole house and I just can't take it anymore. 12. The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is cleared. 13. Will you please send a man to look at my water, it is a funny colour and not fit to drink. 14. Our lavatory seat is broken in half and now is in three pieces. 15. I want to complain about the farmer across the road. Every morning at 6am his cock wakes me up and it's now getting too much for me. 16. The man next door has a large erection in the back garden, which is unsightly and dangerous. 17. Our kitchen floor is damp. We have two children and would like a third, so please send someone round to do something about it. 18. I am a single woman living in a downstairs flat and would you please do something about the noise made by the man on top of me every night. 19. Please send a man with the right tool to finish the job and satisfy my wife.. 20. I have had the clerk of works down on the floor six times but I still have no satisfaction. Cheers, Bobj.

I find it very sad that one has to return to the UK in order to find work.Is it not possible to locate to another place in Australia, rather than do such a drastic thing? I lived in a small town in northern NSW and only got sporadic work, a week here, a couple of days digging holes etc. A good job was on offer and I applied. I was 40 and my wife was in complete agreement to apply. Went to Sydney for an interview, got the job and, while the interviewer and I were having a coffee after negotiations, he told me he had a job for some men to work for 3 months in Penrith, some 40 km from the CBD. He told me that no one turned up for work stating it was too far! My new job? North West Shelf Gas Project, some 4000 km away. That lasted 4 months as the Boss wanted me to transfer to be in charge of the building of theTarong coal mine, quality control. That again lead to another job, subbying to the Brisbane Airport Authority, again for quality control. And that, after a year, lead to my final job back in my home town. So, it can be done. Cheers, Bobj.

Have a Squizz at BCF (boating, camping, fishing) about the most comprehensive camping/outdoors shop in Australia. Cheers, Bobj.

Stunning! HR 150, I think mine went that high just watching the vid. Many thanks, Bully. Cheers, Bobj.

No crocs that I have heard about, but how many sharks at Perth beaches? There are a few wallabies on the Cape Hillsborough Beach, so much so that a bloke charges tourists to see the wallabies feeding! Cheers, Bobj.

Cape Hillsborough, Qld. A whole lot better than the beaches named in the first post...And only 9 km from my place. Cheers, Bobj.

Megan Gayle...Phuorrrr Cheers, Bobj.

It depends on what your lifestyle is as to a 4wd ute. My 2 big hobbies are remote fishing and fossicking, ergo my preference is for a fourbie, so I can get off the bitumen. Cheers, Bobj.

5.45 this morning, Cape Hillsborough, Qld. Cheers, Bobj.

Lived in a 10x8 ft tent for 2 years in the West Kimberley; that was over 50 years ago. The Main Roads might have advanced a smidgen since then. I prefer the really basic type of camping...Northern Territory. And the Northern Territory desert...Four poster, no less. Cheers, Bobj.

Very little, bottle, my garden is about 2” underwater.. Anyway, the sun is shining, first time we have seen the sun for three weeks! Cheers, Bobj.

Sensitive Aussie Blokes... Three Aussie blokes working up on an outback mobile phone tower: Mongrel, Coot and Bluey. As they start their descent, Coot slips, falls off the tower and is killed instantly.. As the ambulance takes the body away, Bluey says, 'Well, bugger me, someone's gotta go and tell Coot's wife. Mongrel says, 'OK, I'm pretty good at that sensitive stuff, I'll do it.' Two hours later, he comes back carrying a case of beer. Bluey says, 'Where'd you get the grog, Mongrel?' 'Coot's wife gave it to me, Mongrel replies. 'That's unbelievable, you told the Missus her husband was dead and she gave you a case of beer?' 'Well, not exactly', Mongrel says. 'When she answered the door, I said to her, "you must be Coot's widow. "She said, 'You must be mistaken. I'm not a widow.' Then I said, 'I'll betcha a case of beer you are...' Aussie males are good at that sensitive stuff. Cheers, Bobj.

Took a bit of doing, @Skani. It was the 'blow hard' that did it... Cheers, Bobj.

Howling wind and driving rain... Cheers, Bobj.