tricky regarding work! not fussy as only need part time so will try most things.

Tumsh,

The reason the budgie is locked up, is to protect it from the parrots.

Just watched Superman and Superman II, why did I ever remember these as being good films? Does not having pd skew your vision of the world, or was it just being 10 years old?

1978 was i think the year i bought a sheepskin coat from c and a.
you know you've missed the boat when you get your counter-culture attire in c and a. i had hoped to pass myself off as genuine and be offered drugs and sex (not necessarily in that order) by immoral young ladies impressed by fake sheepskin. Alas the fakeness was more than sheepskin deep and as obvious as if the c and a lable was on the outside.
fortunately by the time of superman ii i was accepted for my own truly sheepish self by a sweet girl who is turning 50 on tuesday and is still mrs t (no not that one or the other one) which is fortunate as i can't remember most of the last 30 years.

please correct me if I am wrong turnip, but I thought one had to have secured employmemt to enter Ausralia. I am often wrong

I think if I remember rightly you can be sponsored into OZ by a family member who already lives there, and you have enough money in the bank to pay for medical bills etc. At least that was the case when my son went there to live he was sponsored by partners Father. It may have changed now.

amendments

the reference to drugs referred to the possibility of a funny cigarette which since i didnt touch normal cigarettes never came to anything.

mrs t has employment.

downundersides

Wurzel made the mistake of pulling up her blind to see the lightning. Inbetween her window and the broken flyscreen - an enormous striped spider, poisonous fangs glowing in the electric arc and a giant cockroach, its segmented belly exposed against the glass. 'Aaaaargh' said wurzel.

PD joke, possibly in poor taste - whats the difference between PD in australia and PD in uk. In the uk if you wake up thinking there are insects crawling all over you its probably a hallucination.

Spring is here and the things that spring are insects. and spiders. and the creepiest crawlies anywhere.

the house is covered in plants - bad move. there should be a dead zone of tainted concrete 2m wide around all houses.

paradise had a snake, we have snakes and ...

no idea why that happened three times.

You are a brave man, sounds like far too many creepy crawlies for my liking!

or mine.

went to Fiji once. The spiders nearly spoiled it for me. But the people made my visit tremendous