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Are you returning for a holiday or to live Lady Tottington?

Big at the weekends here. The local oval has the Devonport cricket team playing against another town's team most weekends plus casual games happening on the greens around town. At low tide the local children have cricket matches on the beach on the hard sand. Devonport Oval and cricket club

I worked in the examinations area of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia in Sydney and arranged exam venues in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore for candidates who were studying the ICAA Professional Year. Loads of successful exam candidates from those places successfully migrated to Australia. This was a number of years ago. I thought at the time there must be a glut of accountants here.

We went for a picnic near Deloraine today. Lovely countryside - very peaceful. Nice sunny day and 22C.

Are you in Australia MacGyver? I thought you were in Scotland.

An internal RBA document, made public on Friday, has predicted a 30 per cent growth in property prices over a period of three years if interest rates remain persistently low. According to the RBA’s data mapping, a permanent 1 percentage point (100 basis point reduction) cut in the official rate could increase real housing prices by 30 per cent after about three years. On the contrary, the RBA noted, if low rates are only temporary, house prices would rise by 10 per cent over the three-year period. The official interest rate is currently at a record low of 0.1 per cent, following several cuts since mid-2019, with RBA governor Philip Lower noting on numerous occasions that the rate will not increase for “at least” three years.

Comment from the Financial Review hinting houses could rise by 30%. https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/low-rates-inflate-asset-prices-rba-20210117-p56upq

Coon cheese is to be rebranded as Cheer cheese. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/coon-rebrands-as-cheer-cheese-in-the-wake-of-racism-claims/news-story/caeebbf52433108bdc5f1c80a0c5bba2

Yes he was that too.

He was a talented but very strange man with a few mental problems.

Not according to SOME whiny tennis players and their entourage. I agree it is a great event and I've attended the open in Melbourne a couple of times but maybe not wise to have it this year. Wimbledon was cancelled last year. Made sense.

First of all you would need a visa. You could look at this website to give you an idea - it's Australia wide. https://www.seek.com.au/customer-service-manager-jobs It's no good applying for a job without a visa though.

It was fairly common for in demand skills at one time but not so much these days.

After a weekend of very cool, drizzly weather it looks hopeful for the next week. Today: Min: 8C Max: 19C Cloudy Tuesday: Min: 8C Max: 20C Sunny Wednesday: Min: 11C Max: 20C Sunny Thursday: Min: 12C Max: 22C Sunny Friday: Min: 12C Max: 24C Sunny Saturday: Min: 13C Max: 23C Sunny Sunday: Min: 16C Max: 24C Sunny Monday: Min: 13C Max: 23C Sunny