The weather has been relatively mild so far this month, although they’re forecasting 35 degrees and windy for the “spring” festival on Sunday. I came home from work this afternoon after a full day inside the office, stepped out of the car and said to Juliet: “This reminds me of those summer evenings in Porepunkah [...]
Our first house at Porepunkah
The first house we ever owned was at Port Pirie, South Australia. We bought it for $45,000 in 1993. We sold it to my parents when we moved to Eden. We bought a house again when we moved to Porepunkah, Victoria. It was a small three-bedroom hardiplank home on a delightful block in Seamer Street, [...]
Race Round
Here’s an update on news from Juliet and I: Our house in Porepunkah finally sold and we have some spare cash for the first time since 1993. Combined with the fact we can now go out for dinner or functions, leaving the little kids with the big ones safely for a couple of hours, our [...]
Mild weather continues
May 12, 2006 at 10:02 pm
I stopped checking the weather forecast for a while and I didn’t miss anything because every day was 23 degrees. The temperature is now starting to increase and the forecast for Tuesday is 27 degrees. These figures are incomprehensible in May for someone from cooler climes in Victoria. The last low-level snowfall we experienced at [...]
A glitch had to happen
Everything had been going so well it must have been inevitable that we’d get a couple of hiccoughs along the way. Juliet and Dude both managed to fall ill within two days of arriving in Kalgoorlie. Nothing serious, but we’ve made the doctor’s acquaintance. Our furniture was meant to arrive today (Monday) but it hasn’t. [...]
