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    Diary of a POM in WA

    August 31 - Just got transferred with work from Leeds UK to our new home in Karratha , Western Australia .
    Now this is a town that knows how to live!
    Beautiful, sunny days and warm, balmy evenings.
    I watched the sunset from a deckchair by our pool yesterday.
    It was beautiful. I've finally found my new home. I love it here.

    September 13 - Really heating up now. It got to 31 today.
    No problem though. Living in air-conditioned home, driving air-conditioned car.
    What a pleasure to see the sun every day like this. I'm turning into a
    sun-worshipper - no blasted rain like back in Leeds !!

    September 30 - Had the back yard landscaped with tropical plants today. Lots
    of palms and rocks. No more mowing lawns for me! Another scorcher today, but
    I love it here. It's Paradise !

    October 10 - The temperature hasn't been below 35 all week.
    How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least today it's windy
    though. Keeps the flies off a bit. Acclimatizing is taking longer than we expected.

    October 15 - Fell asleep by the pool yesterday. Got third degree burns over60% of my body. Missed three days off work. What a dumb thing to do..
    Got to respect the old sun in a climate like this!

    October 20 - Didn't notice Kitty (our cat) sneaking into the car before I
    left for work this morning. By the time I got back to the car after work,
    Kitty had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stuck to the
    upholstery. The car now smells like Whiskettes and cat shit. I've learned my
    lesson though: no more pets in this heat.

    October 25 - This wind is a bastard. It feels like a giant fucking blow
    dryer. And it's hot as hell! The home air conditioner is on the blink and
    the repair man charged $200 just to drive over and tell me he needs to order
    parts from fucking Perth .....The wife & the kids are complaining.

    October 30 - The temperature's up around 40 and the parts still haven't
    arrived for the fucking air conditioner. House is an oven so we've all beensleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. Bloody $600,000 house and wecan't even go inside. Why the hell did I ever come here?

    November 4 - Finally got the fucking air-conditioner fixed. It cost $1,500
    and gets the temperature down to around 25 degrees, but the humidity makes
    it feel about 35. Stupid repairman. Fucking thief.

    November 8 - If one more smart bastard says 'Hot enough for you today?' I'mgoing to fucking throttle him. Fucking heat! By the time I get to work, thecar radiator is boiling over, my fucking clothes are soaking fucking wet and I smell like baked cat. Fucking place is the end of the Earth.

    November 9 - Tried to run some errands after work, wore shorts, and sat on
    the black leather upholstery in my car. I thought my fucking arse was on
    fire. I lost 2 layers of flesh, all the hair on the backs of my legs and off
    my fucking arse. Now the car smells like burnt hair, fried arse and baked
    cat. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

    November 10 -- The
    Weather report might as well be a fucking recording.. Hot
    and sunny. Hot and sunny, Hot and fucking sunny. It never fucking changes!
    It's been too hot to do anything for 2 fucking months and the weatherman
    says it might really warm up next week. Fuck!

    November 15 - Doesn't it ever rain in this damn fucking place? Water
    restrictions will be next, so my $5,000 worth of palms might just dry up and
    blow into the fucking pool. The only things that thrive in this fucking
    hell-hole are the fucking flies. You don't dare open your mouth for fear ofswallowing half a dozen of the little bastards!

    November 20 - Welcome to HELL! It got to 45 fuckin' degrees today. Now the
    air conditioner's gone in my car. The repair man came to fix it and said,
    'Hot enough for you today?' I wanted to shove the fucking car up his fucking
    arse. Anyway, had to spend the $2,500 mortgage payment to bail me out of
    jail for assaulting the stupid prick.
    Fucking Karratha! What kind of sick, demented fucking idiot would want to
    live here!

    December 1 - WHAT!!!! The FIRST day of Summer!!!! You are fucking kidding me!
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    Ha Ha.

    That was a good laugh.

    Cheers.

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    I'm from near Leeds and can kind of appreciate where he's coming from...

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    haha thats gold!

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    hot enough for you now?
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    lmfao! Thats awesome. Im from Tassie ( kinda like the UK..but we have two heads instead of one...tassie joke) I moved over to WA for love. and headed straight to a hell hole called Mount Magnet. I was a young wide eyed taswegian who hadnt ever seen a black fella ( abbo) in my life ( cos our ancestors shot all ours apparently...very un PC) the first time I ever saw an abbo...was a drunk female urinating in the middle of the main street...and the first day was 43. Was a bit of a shock
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    hahah I hate it when they do that and you make some noises like you had it done just last year, then they give you that look, like you are a bad vagina owner and you should take better care of it!

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    An oldie - but a goodie........
    "“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable”"-JFK

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    Fastgirl - I can see how a move to Mt Magnet would be an eye opener



    I'm glad a few got a chuckle out of it.
    Last edited by Hamster; 17-02-2012 at 06:47 AM. Reason: Better quality video, gotta do it justice, it's a classic!

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    A bad day in karatha beats a good day in leeds.
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    When I left Dublin in February '99 the daytime temperature was -4C when I arrived in Perth it was 36C, I nearly turned around & got back on the plane.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BOFH View Post
    When I left Dublin in February '99 the daytime temperature was -4C when I arrived in Perth it was 36C, I nearly turned around & got back on the plane.
    Damn gotta get em to put in a revolving door at the airport...

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    nice.. i thoroughly enjoyed the transition form "paradise" to "HELL"
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    Classic!!


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    Im from Normanton in the West ridings myself, Bloody hilarious, brings back arriving here on dec 23!
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    Sums up winging Poms perfectly! Fucking Funny! Love it!

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    You need to get out of that shithole fast - before the cyclones hit.

    I recommend Marble Bar.
    It didn't look that far on the map...

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    +1 for the temp change shock

    My first visit to WA was in Feb 2000; I flew in from snowboarding in Whistler and went from -11C to +40C

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