it is hot in OZ

[Mike_New]

Hi Folks.

I feel sorry for all you expat ozzies in the cold and wet UK.
In Sydnet at this time it is unbelievably hot, I cannot tell you the eact temperatur because the themometer on my varands only goes to 48degC!!

[Batty]

A cool change on the way over from Adelaide, only low 30s today after a 46 yesterday.

[Marco]

Hi Folks.

I feel sorry for all you expat ozzies in the cold and wet UK.
In Sydnet at this time it is unbelievably hot, I cannot tell you the eact temperatur because the themometer on my varands only goes to 48degC!!

Lol...! Mike, it depends how you look at it. TBH, I wouldn't thank you for 48°C heat!! :nono: I don't function well at all in severe heat, especially when humidity is high, and actually, I LOVE the snow, especially as our old lodge house is nice and cosy in winter :)

Today, I'll be lighting the log fire, getting the house nice and toasty, and watching the gorgeous winter wonderland unfold outside....


http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/834/img0150fe.jpg (http://img832.imageshack.us/i/img0150fe.jpg/)


Marco.

[chris@panteg]

46 would kill me ! That's a lovely house Marco .

[Mike_New]

It's killing me too.
It is impossible to get into my workshop as the temp must be in the high 50s, and I have had to switch off all my electronic numerical readout systems.

[chris@panteg]

Mike , that's unreal ! That must be impossible to stand out in the sunshine ?

[prestonchipfryer]

Jeez Mike, that is to bloody hot for anybody. Opposite here, it's bloody snowing. :)

This snowy scene may cool you down.

It's the road passed where I live.


http://i766.photobucket.com/albums/xx309/prestonchipfryer/snowy.jpg

[synsei]

With all my health issues I'm not sure I would survive a prolonged period of 40 degree plus temperatures... :eyebrows:

You have a gorgeous house Marco, it looks very homely ;)

[Mike_New]

Is it possible to email me some snow, I could use it right now.
Building sites and some factories were closed down today as it was deemed to dangerous to work.

[julesd68]

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Lovely house Marco but I wouldn't like to get caught in an asteroid storm like that! :eek:

[SquireC]

Been in 40c in Boston - hot enough for me.
Got a blizzard here at the moment - about 5mm of snow and its set to continue all day.
:eek:

[JazzBones]

Hi Folks.

I feel sorry for all you expat ozzies in the cold and wet UK.
In Sydnet at this time it is unbelievably hot, I cannot tell you the eact temperatur because the themometer on my varands only goes to 48degC!!

Mike, had an early morning email from an old mate (girl) saying it was 45 degrees C in Balmoral,Sydney, all fans plus air con were on the go... too bloody hot for me mate. The missus was really upset watching BBC TV news and seeing a terrified roo running around and eventual right back into the path of a raging bush fire, this was in Victoria... get yourself up to the Snowy mountains :)

Ron

[Westyman]

Some friends who live in Sydney have gone on holiday to Italy where it's a bit chillier.

[Marco]

Lovely house Marco but I wouldn't like to get caught in an asteroid storm like that! :eek:

Lol! It was some sort of mad photographic effect, totally unintentional.... :D

Thanks for the comments on the house, guys. We love it. Nice solid walls too, and unusually shaped rooms, which makes the hi-fi sound fab - no fooking pain in the ass neighbours either, which is even better!! :)

Marco.

[Marco]

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On a day like this, you can't beat a real fire! :)

Marco.

[Rare Bird]

I love real fire's but unfortunatly the council won't put me one in the flat :lolsign:

[Marco]

Hehehe... You could always start one just out of badness! :D

Marco.

[Filterlab]

You can keep Australia, way too hot for me. I love the snow, winter, ice and low temperatures - all so comfortable, and the snow of course is very beautiful. Yesterday here the sun was blazing and the snow was glowing such a pure white across the fields. The trees, hedgerows and buildings looked so amazing I had to take a few moments to drink it in. Icicles hanging off the branches and power lines, and a crispness of air that clears the lungs through.

You miss all that in Australia, and yet we still get blazing summers with temperatures knocking on the door of 40ºC. Best of all worlds, which is why so many people all over the world long to live here.

Photos to follow after the snow has finished falling and the sun comes out again - probably Sunday according to the forecast. :)

[Marco]

You can keep Australia, way too hot for me. I love the snow, winter, ice and low temperatures - all so comfortable, and the snow of course is very beautiful. Yesterday here the sun was blazing and the snow was glowing such a pure white across the fields. The trees, hedgerows and buildings looked so amazing I had to take a few moments to drink it in. Icicles hanging off the branches and power lines, and a crispness of air that clears the lungs through.

You miss all that in Australia, and yet we still get blazing summers with temperatures knocking on the door of 40ºC. Best of all worlds, which is why so many people all over the world long to live here.


I completely agree with that. I enjoy every season of the year for the different weather conditions that it brings. Winter holidays in the sun? You can keep 'em! We complain about the British weather, but in terms of choosing a country's climate to live in permanently, for me, there are few better in the world. No bloody earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes or volcano eruptions, either - or many creatures/animals wandering around that can kill you!! I like to be safe :exactly:

I simply couldn't stick really hot sticky weather all the year round (as I really feel the heat a lot) - and as you say, Rob, cold weather is generally healthier.

Think of it this way: we, as humans, are essentially all just big slabs of meat, and so where does meat keep best, lying on a warm beach or stored in the freezer? ;)

Marco.

[Macca]

Not for me! I would spend my winters in the caribbean if I could. About 28 C day and night and the humidity is usually pretty low due to the trade winds.

[Filterlab]

No bloody earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes or volcano eruptions, either - or many creatures/animals wandering around that can kill you!! I like to be safe :exactly:

Good call on those!


Think of it this way: we, as humans, are essentially all just big slabs of meat, and so where does meat keep best, lying on a warm beach or stored in the freezer? ;)

:lol: That's so true!

[Marco]

Not for me! I would spend my winters in the caribbean if I could...


Lol, we're all different, mate.

I'm one of these people who, when it's warm, the sweat just pisses off, if there is little ventilation where I am (restaurants without air-con in the summer are worst) even if I'm just sitting down! It's with being a hot-blooded Italian. I'm always roasting, whereas my wife is the complete opposite - her hands are always like ice (and she NEVER sweats)... You'd swear she didn't have a pulse!! :eek:

I can't stand feeling hot and sweaty. I like to feel fresh and cool at all times. If I lived in somewhere like Oz, I'd probably need to have about five cold showers a day, and go through about half a dozen t-shirts in the same time!!

I'll stick to maybe a couple of holidays a year in a nice warm climate (spring and summer), and the rest of the year in the nice temperate weather country that is the UK :)

Marco.

[Mike_New]

- or many creatures/animals wandering around that can kill you!! I like to be safe :exactly:

Marco.

That's not fair Marco, there have only been about three or four people eaten by sharks this year. and snake and spider poisonings are very low this year, just a few hundred.
In this hot weather though, the sharks do have an extensive menu from which to choose

[caddisgeek]

I can't stand feeling hot and sweaty. I like to feel fresh and cool at all times. If I lived in somewhere like Oz, I'd probably need to have about five cold showers a day, and go through about half a dozen t-shirts in the same time!!

Marco.

Nah, just come down to the south east, you'll feel right at home

[Beechwoods]

Marco, it's alright, wild beasties don't tend to like spicy food ;)

[Marco]

Guys, LOL!

I guess that the ideal climate for me and place to live would be Tuscany.

Our house there is in a small village in the mountains. In the Winter, it's nice and snowy, but not as damp, and without the wind-chill factor you get here, and in the summer, the temperature is in the high 30s (from about June to end of Sept), but being up in the mountains, there's always a nice breeze, which is just how I like it :)

The only way I can handle severe heat when I'm in Italy (or anywhere else really), is under the shade of a pergola, sipping a nice glass of ice-cold beer (Peroni, in Italy, and maybe whilst munching nice bowl of home-made pasta and side-salad)!! :cool: I'd die being cooped up inside somewhere, especially in a city, where humidity was high.

Ultimately, I see us retiring to Tuscany, as the lifestyle there would be ideal.

Marco.

[JazzBones]

Guys, LOL!

I guess that the ideal climate for me and place to live would be Tuscany.

Our house there is in a small village in the mountains. In the Winter, it's nice and snowy, but not as damp, and without the wind-chill factor you get here, and in the summer, the temperature is in the high 30s (from about June to end of Sept), but being up in the mountains, there's always a nice breeze, which is just how I like it :)

The only way I can handle severe heat when I'm in Italy (or anywhere else really), is under the shade of a pergola, sipping a nice glass of ice-cold beer (Peroni, in Italy, and maybe whilst munching nice bowl of home-made pasta and side-salad)!! :cool: I'd die being cooped up inside somewhere, especially in a city, where humidity was high.

Ultimately, I see us retiring to Tuscany, as the lifestyle there would be ideal.

Marco.

Jeez Marco, would I have to learn Italiano if you shift AoS to Tuscany?

How long before your retirement, I must know now as I'm a slow learner? :)

[Marco]

Lol... I'm sure we could arrange a young Sophia Loren lookalike to give you some lessons! :eyebrows:

I'm semi-retired now, but Del's currently still a full-time college lecturer. Full-time retirement for both of us will likely occur within the next five years. Much will also depend on when my parents are no longer around. That's when the properties we own here will be sold (that we currently own outright), which will basically be our pension fund for our retirement in Tuscany :)

Marco.

[JazzBones]

Lol... I'm sure we could arrange a young Sophia Loren lookalike to give you some lessons! :eyebrows:

I'm semi-retired now, but Del's currently still a full-time college lecturer. Full-time retirement for both of us will likely occur within the next five years. Much will also depend on when my parents are no longer around. That's when the properties we own here will be sold (that we currently own outright), which will basically be our pension fund for our retirement in Tuscany :)

Marco.

Some one like Flavia Caccacia from Strictly Come Dancing will do nicely Marco :eyebrows: Seriously, I envy you your retirement.. five years will go by very quickly. Missus and I plan on visiting Tuscany one day as well as Florence and Rome. Have done Venice and will go back someday.

Curious question this, Do you speak Italian with a Glasgow accent and how does it go down with the locals? Its taken me 40 years to speak English with an English accent.

[Marco]

Lol! I guess that Italians who have always lived in Italy (as opposed to those who've lived in the UK for most or all of their lives, such as me) would be able to detect something which is not quite authentic about my accent, although I doubt they'd 'clock' the Glasgow connection.

However, that's only because I don't speak Italian very often here, and so my accent, like anything else when you don't use it often (no, not *that*! :eyebrows:), gets rusty, but give me a few hours in the company of native Italians, or a few days in Italy, and it'd probably be difficult to detect any difference in my accent from the locals, especially if I spoke using their dialect! :)

Tuscany is absolutely beautiful, Ron, with much of it unspoiled by the odious ravages of tourism, so your good lady and you definiately should go there sometime. We're currently doing up a block of flats there (in the gorgeous medieval town of Barga) that my uncle and aunt left my mum in their will (which as an only child will eventually be passed onto me), so once they've been fully renovated into luxury appartments, I'm sure we could do you a good deal! :cool:

Marco.

[JazzBones]

Lol! I guess that Italians who have always lived in Italy (as opposed to those who've lived in the UK for most or all of their lives, such as me) would be able to detect something which is not quite authentic about my accent, although I doubt they'd 'clock' the Glasgow connection.

However, that's only because I don't speak Italian very often here, and so my accent, like anything else when you don't use it often (no, not *that*! :eyebrows:), gets rusty, but give me a few hours in the company of native Italians, or a few days in Italy, and it'd probably be difficult to detect any difference in my accent from the locals, especially if I spoke using their dialect! :)

Tuscany is absolutely beautiful, Ron, with much of it unspoiled by the odious ravages of tourism, so your good lady and you definiately should go there sometime. We're currently doing up a block of flats there (in the gorgeous medieval town of Barga) that my uncle and aunt left my mum in their will (which as an only child will eventually be passed onto me), so once they've been fully renovated into luxury appartments, I'm sure we could do you a good deal! :cool:

Marco.

Yup, very much like the idea of that one, its the type of holiday break thatsa for me :D

Its a funny thing about accents because when I go back to Oz for a visit after about a few days I'm back into strine or when I Skype video talk to friends and rellies from here in the UK the same thing happens. I guess some where in the brain little bits start switching on or off and one does this sort of thing one does (how very very English :)) subconsciously and without thinking.

[Westyman]

Guys, LOL!

I guess that the ideal climate for me and place to live would be Tuscany.

Our house there is in a small village in the mountains. In the Winter, it's nice and snowy, but not as damp, and without the wind-chill factor you get here, and in the summer, the temperature is in the high 30s (from about June to end of Sept), but being up in the mountains, there's always a nice breeze, which is just how I like it :)

The only way I can handle severe heat when I'm in Italy (or anywhere else really), is under the shade of a pergola, sipping a nice glass of ice-cold beer (Peroni, in Italy, and maybe whilst munching nice bowl of home-made pasta and side-salad)!! :cool: I'd die being cooped up inside somewhere, especially in a city, where humidity was high.

Ultimately, I see us retiring to Tuscany, as the lifestyle there would be ideal.

Marco.

Blimey! You'll need a big suitcase for all that sound equipment when you go LOL

Italy IS nice though. Had one trip there for our 100th birthday, saw Aida at Verona amphitheatre. We're taking some friends to Lago di Garda in May too.

[Barry]

Blimey! You'll need a big suitcase for all that sound equipment when you go LOL

Italy IS nice though. Had one trip there for our 100th birthday, saw Aida at Verona amphitheatre. We're taking some friends to Lago di Garda in May too.

Congratulations Kerry! Did you get a telegram of congratulation from the Queen? :D