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Are there any age or health related issues on the married/partner visa Marisa? Also, if you have had one before would it be easier to get one again? Would it make sense to start the process a year before you intended to come? During the Length of the visa, are you allowed to leave Australia for any period of time? How long before you can apply for citizenship, and are there any requirements?

That looks fantastic. Do you empty it?

It's my dream that they will flood the interior of Australia. Most of it is below sea level. It would make huge areas of Australia fertile, and may even lower the rising sea levels a bit.

Just read "quartered safe out here" by George McDonald Fraser. He really brings those northern accents to life. It was a good read too.

The trick we found was to stand a couple of feet away from the wall, and you get less shadow. The website is pretty good and gives a good indication of how good the photo is. Turn around from the UK was only about three weeks.

We do grow some of our own fruit and vegetables. I've got pear, apple, plum and cherry and blue berries. Only the blue berries are cropping as the others are too young. We have a lot of tomatoes of many different varieties. I grow lettuce on the window sills and chillies. Plus most herbs. Parsnips. I would like to do it larger scale. We have friends who grow most of their own veg. But they have larger gardens with green houses. Funny, the cherry tomatoes I saved seeds from last year haven't bred true. They are more plum sized. Still, you live and learn. Must have been hybrids.

I've always been much more interested in playing sport than watching it. Even cycling, which is my major sport. I'll watch it at the Olympics, but I don't really follow it. For me, if I do watch sport, the enjoyment I get is from the tension and excitement of a close finish, and the skill involved to get there. You can get that in AFL, but it's rare. You usually know who has won by half time. That's why one day cricket is better to watch than a test. You can get a close test match, but it's rare. But when you do, it's beats one day hands down. I love a good tennis match. Rugby I like. Well union. Never really watched league. But I'd rate it similar to AFL. But that last England match was something else. I just wanted it to be over. So tense. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. I reckon if we have another like that against Italy it may finish a few of the old dears off. Tension mixed with skill. That's what it's about for me. I guess you need some sort of vested interest in it as well.

Ben fogle does an excellent series, new life in the wild, with people round the world doing various levels of off grid. It has always appealled. But those that do it seem to have had a wad of cash before they started, often from a high pressure job. I think I'd like it. I don't really like people who aren't in my family, and some of my family I only just tolerate, so I'm probably suited to it. I'm getting the feeling that the world is leaving me behind. I'm left of centre, but I am struggling to keep up with the wokeness and cancel culture. Everything is changing too fast. Maybe I'm too old for modern society and I should just drop out? Only trouble is, the wife doesn't do camping, so it would have to be quite high spec.

By outrank I mean have authority to make decisions and over rule.

You are too right. I've never seen England play like this before. They are playing like a team, which sounds strange, but I've never seen England play like a team before. Italy are going to be hard. They will try every trick in the book.

There will be tears either way.

Chips? Bit of bubble and squeak. My mother's black pudding was so black even the white bits were black.

I cooked a goose in mine for Xmas two years back. You can use a BBQ all year, even in the UK. That is a lot of money for a BBQ. Even so, you can get pretty good BBQs in the UK. I would sell it if you can. Bring it if you can't.

That was one of the best football games I've ever seen. It had everything. Absolutely brilliant, and massive well done to Southgate and the side

I've had it rain so hard in Perth I've had to stop driving. It doesn't compare with the north, but it can be pretty heavy.

We had an Australian summer last year in the south and heard of floods in the north. It's amazing the degree of weather variation on such a small cluster of islands. We had not a drop in April, and then it's rained ever since. Not a problem pre covid, but pretty depressing with covid. Especially with numbers increasing rapidly with Delta.

I cook it on the BBQ but I always overcook it. My missus bakes it in the oven, and serves it with a pesto sauce which is to die for. Not sure of the receipe. She ordered it in a restaurant, loved it and then experimented until she got it right. But it is a thing if you Google it.

The UK weather has changed alot even in the little time that I have been here, which is about twenty five years. We used to get alot of that drizzle. You know, the sort of wet air, where you are not even sure it's raining, but everything gets wet. Nowadays, it's a bloody Monsoon. Seriously, I've seen the rain come down so hard recently that the drains can't cope. It's often warm too when it's raining like this. It's like living in the tropics. Actually, to be honest, it's a lot like Australian rain Whether this is temporary or a real change I do know. But change it is.

I used to shower twice a day in Australia. I shower once a day in the UK, but you could go for a day without showering in a UK winter with no problems. I have a teenage son who forgets to shower. My sense of smell has been damaged by sinus infections, but sometimes even I can smell him. My wife thinks he is disgusting. Must be a hormone thing, because it tends to be our tall children who stink. I never wash my feet in the UK. They just get wet in the shower. In Australia, wearing thongs, my feet tended to go black, so I made a point of washing them.

Sometimes it is really determined by how you set your mind. Something clicks and takes the shine off everything around you. Have you had a holiday back to the UK to see how things are? This year we are covid ravaged and the summer has been constant rain, and it's pretty depressing so the UK at the moment is not something to be missed. I usually love living in the UK, and last summer was brilliant even with covid. But it's just damp everywhere now. In the south anyways. Maybe have a holiday over here next year and see how you feel?

When I first came to the UK, I'd never had a curry in an Indian restaurant. I'd watched red dwarf though, and he always had a vindaloo. So I ordered a vindaloo on a night out with a few mates. Nearly bloody killed me. I thought they were playing tricks on me, but no. It was hot. Got it down, but it took a few beers and some of that yogurt stuff.

We do a lot of people watching in restaurants, and invent stories about the other patrons. Obviously after we've run out of conversation on the weather.

I love fish, but I never order it at a restaurant. I think I worry it won't be filling enough. I love salmon on eggs, but not a fan of hollandaise sauce. I'd have it with Vegemite though.

Quite like a chicken pathia too. But I've tried them all and I keep coming back to the Madras.

Mine is a lamb Madras.