starkers starkers

So... We're Moviing In A Few Weeks

So... We're Moviing In A Few Weeks

... you know, packing stuff we'd forgot having.

Yeah, so here's the go!  My niece is a store manager for the Coles supermarket chain here in Oz and she's having to transfer to enhance her career opportunities, meaning that she needs to move house while somebody else moves in to keep an eye on the place.   That's where we come in... not that I had any plans to move again any time soon.  Thing is, it is a much bigger house than the one we're in, with more living area inside and out, and my niece needs a rent income coming in to help pay the mortgage and maintenance bills, etc.   That's alright... it's a 100 bucks a month cheaper than what we pay now, and it's convenient to shopping, everything we need.  The real bonus about all this is the fact that my niece will not be wanting to move back into this house, so we can pretty much stay there indefinitely... it's more an investment for her kids when they're adults than being the family home now.

Yup, really looking forward to it!  There's upstairs/downstairs, a covered entertainment areas outside, a huge double garage for added storage (we don't got cars), and this massive entertainment lounge downstairs WITH a TV/projector, wall-mounted screen and  hi-fi surround sound already installed.  Like WOW, we're picking up this $7,599 (original retail value) entertainment unit for just $800. Bargain!!!   Apart from the fact that my niece didn't pay full retail price, due to 10% staff discount during a store-wide sale, she just doesn't want to have to pony up to have it professionally removed and reinstalled at her new place,

The place is semi-furnished, also, so although we already have our own furniture, it is for a smaller place and we would have had to buy more to fill the place properly.  We'll have an additional lounge/sofa suite for downstairs entertainment area, an outdoor lounge setting for the massive back deck, an 8 piece dining setting and a large BBQ setting (table and chairs) for the covered outdoor area.  Oh, and the storage in this place is like WOW.  There are built-in cupboards and closets everywhere, so we don't need to buy any of those for when we get there.

We have another 5 weeks on our current lease, but we well start packing and moving our lesser needed stuff as of this week,... saves doing it all in a rush at the end.  Anyhow, we mightn't be around quite as much over the next few weeks, but don't worry, we're not gonna disappear any time soon... and nobody think about disappearing if'n when we're gone, ya hear??

Oh, Kitty, if you're reading this, we'll be a bit closer to you n' wulfee... at Brassall.

:sun:

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Reply #26 Top

Shopping the shop! What a nerve! (especially when I can't see anything!).

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My niece did warn us about the neighbour on the downside, however. Apparently he'd be on the doorstep at 7.am with a case of beer most days if we let him.
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ahh...banana benders.... 

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ahh...banana benders.
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Hehehehe, nutin  wrong with a good ol banana hehehe XD :omg:

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My niece did warn us about the neighbour on the downside, however. Apparently he'd be on the doorstep at 7.am with a case of beer most days if we let him.



ahh...banana benders....
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Not just banana benders!  Years ago, when I worked with a Wridgways contractor, we stayed at a place in Greenacre when in Sydney.  The old bloke who owned the place lived outside in a granny flat and we had the house (we shared the kitchen).... and every morning we were there he'd come in with half a dozen Tooheys longnecks and a bottle of Bundy.  I think the poor old bugger was lonely, and on occasion we might have a couple of beers with him to be sociable, but the nature of our work didn't allow for us to get pissed before going to the job, so we generally had to politely decline.

He was a tough old bugger, though.  Somehow he managed to cut off his thumb with a circular saw... and just splinted it back up with a bit of tape and carried on.  We tried to get him to go to the hospital, but old Ernie wouldn't hear of it.  No amount of persuasion (gentle or otherwise) would convince him to seek medical help for it.  Amazingly, he got back almost full use of that thumb within 3 - 4 months... no hospital, no physio, nothing.  Old Ernie was in his 80's when we lived there back in 71 through 73.... apparently he lived to 107... and smoked like a trooper and drank like a fish all his life.  Told us he took up smoking at 10 (WOW, almost a 100 years) and drinking when he was 13.

 

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Old Ernie was in his 80's when we lived there back in 71 through 73.... apparently he lived to 107... and smoked like a trooper and drank like a fish all his life. Told us he took up smoking at 10 (WOW, almost a 100 years) and drinking when he was 13.
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ahh...cockroaches......we breed em tough down here.... ;P

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ahh...cockroaches......we breed em tough down here...
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Yup, Ernie was tough alright... but nothing compared to me mate Bill.

Bill ( a cane toad) come off his bike out bush and severed a leg... he crawled 8 kms to a remote farm house with that leg in a backpack.

But even Bill pales into insignificance... compared to the Qld bloke who married my first ex-missus. :-"

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OK...just to be sure....you're not getting further south than Siddy, right?.....;)

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You never know how much junk you actually have until it's time to move it.  I went to California with a car half full of stuff in 1999.  In 2002, I moved an entire household of crap back east.  A full size U-haul packed to the roof, pulling a full size trailer with the aformentioned car...packed to the roof.  My wife driving our Ranger...packed to the roof.  I ended up leaving my grill (sob) and a $300 bmx bike (dammit) because I had nowhere to put them.

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ahh...cockroaches......we breed em tough down here...
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yeah, cant be that tough they can't  take a trick  QUEENSLANDER!!!!! :rofl:

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Aye...been doin' me research oi 'ave...

But apparantly not enough..... :(

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OK...just to be sure....you're not getting further south than Siddy, right?.....
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Hehe!!!   Somebody's afraid of the curried cabbage legend... very, very afraid. :grin:

You never know how much junk you actually have until it's time to move it.
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Yeah, but none of my stuff is junk.   I've accumulated some crap along the way... but no junk. :w00t:

I ended up leaving my grill (sob) and a $300 bmx bike (dammit) because I had nowhere to put them.
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Now you never leave stuff behind...OK???   What you do is give the kids enough for a bus/train ticket, and you put your junk where the kids would've been sitting. 

It's like the time I sent my kid to the shop to buy some lollies.... while he was gone, we packed up and moved. :D

 

And to be sure we had enough time, I rang the shop and told 'em there'd be a kid in to buy lollies with a counterfeit $5 bill. :rofl:

Nah, not really... I think he ran away from home a 13 to join the circus... cos Bobo the clown looks awfully familiar. :-"

ahh...cockroaches......we breed em tough down here...

yeah, cant be that tough, they can't take a trick. QUEENSLANDER!!!!!
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Right on, bub!!!   What is it now, 5 Queensland series wins in a row .. to NSW zip??? :rofl:

And after tomorrow night, we'll have won this series 3 zip.

Can't take a trick doesn't even come close to explaining it.  Right now, NSW rugby league couldn't win a trip to a sewage treatment plant even if they bought ALL the tickets.  Rumour has it that Craig Bellamy rang Mal Meniinga and begged him to let NSW win tomorrow night.... he even offered to buy the win.  Good ol' Mal, tho, told Bellamy that he didn't have enough cash to buy a win... not after all the money they spent on Kleenex after the last 2 losses.  It's probably just as well there's 3 weeks between games during State of Origin... gives NSW just enough time to stop crying.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Um, Doc, just to fill you in a bit, the cockroaches of which we speak are New South Wales natives (moreso when it comes to rugby league), and cane toads are Queensland natives (especially when it comes to rugby league, the greatest game of all.

Every year around June the rivalry begins... mate against mate, state against state.  For 9 weeks of the year we hate each other (on the field and off... the rivalry extends to the fans, of course), and when it's all done and dusted, we have a few beers and all lock arms to give the Kiwis a flogging in the Trans-Tasman Cup.  There's no cockroaches or cane toads then... we're the Aussie green and gold machine.

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What is it now, 5 Queensland series wins in a row .. to NSW zip???
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yeah.... :-|    sick of looking at that bloody red flag on my Bridge...  X-(

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yeah.... sick of looking at that bloody red flag on my Bridge...
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Your bridge???   With the amount of straight series wins we have (that's 5 in a row now) we'd have major shares in that....

... if not complete ownership by now. ;P

And just think... the Origin Shield... next time you win it, none of the team or their immediate ancestors will have seen what it looks like.  It'll have so many Queensland victories inscribed on it,  NSW Rugby League will think it's just on loan to the footy museum so's NSW youth actually get to see it.

Oh, and if NSW happen to snag a win tonight, rumour has it that Craig Bellamy, being that he couldn't bribe big Mal to throw the game, has bribed the referee and linesmen to have a one-eyed view... and send Darren Lockyer, Cameron Smith, Greg, Inglis and Issie Folau off in the first 10 mins of the first half. I don't see how that would be a fair fight... but I can see the thinking. Still, even if they pulled it off against half a Qld side, it's be a miraculous win.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Funny, isn't it, how Origin brings out the best.... and worst in us.  Yeah, but you gotta love the rivalry. :w00t:

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Quoting starkers, reply 38




Um, Doc, just to fill you in a bit, the cockroaches of which we speak are New South Wales natives (moreso when it comes to rugby league), and cane toads are Queensland natives (especially when it comes to rugby league, the greatest game of all.

Every year around June the rivalry begins... mate against mate, state against state.  For 9 weeks of the year we hate each other (on the field and off... the rivalry extends to the fans, of course), and when it's all done and dusted, we have a few beers and all lock arms to give the Kiwis a flogging in the Trans-Tasman Cup.  There's no cockroaches or cane toads then... we're the Aussie green and gold machine.
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and here I was thinking I understood English. Where did I get that foolish idea?  :S

Reply #42 Top

Yeah, but none of my stuff is junk. I've accumulated some crap along the way... but no junk.
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It's ALL junk.  Quit fooling yourself.

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Funny, isn't it, how Origin brings out the best.
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Well Syd, you better start pulling the  bridge  down  we now own it we have a lovely river up here and that bridge will love  fantastic going across it   :grin: XD :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:   QUEENSLANDER!!!!

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Well Syd, you better start pulling the bridge down we now own it we have a lovely river up here and that bridge will love fantastic going across it
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Right on, the ol' coat hanger 'd look great over our cozy lil river. :w00t:

Three - Zip, eh!!!  The cockroaches crushed yet again. Its another emphatic series win for Queensland, tho it pisses me off severely that our guys didn't get to do a lap of honour on their home ground when they wrapped up the series 3 weeks ago.  Apparently,  NSW rugby League officials put up a convincing argument to have our boys hold the shield aloft in Sydney... and so it was done.  They hadn't seen it in the last 5 years, and figured if not on display tonight... they'd not see it for another 5.

It really is getting embarrassing for NSW, isn't it... like somebody sprayed the Origin shield with Baygon or something, and the cockroaches don't want anything to do with it.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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It really is getting embarrassing for NSW, isn't it... like somebody sprayed the Origin shield with Baygon or something, and the cockroaches don't want anything to do with it.
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LOVE IT !!!!!!!

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Three - Zip, eh!!! The cockroaches crushed yet again.
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X-(

 

Well Syd, you better start pulling the bridge down we now own it we have a lovely river up here and that bridge will love fantastic going across it

Right on, the ol' coat hanger 'd look great over our cozy lil river
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It really is getting embarrassing for NSW, isn't it... like somebody sprayed the Origin shield with Baygon or something, and the cockroaches don't want anything to do with it.
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:lol:

 

Yeah, but you gotta love the rivalry.
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:thumbsup:

 

and here I was thinking I understood English. Where did I get that foolish idea?
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you could be forgiven doc....  ;)

Reply #47 Top

and here I was thinking I understood English. Where did I get that foolish idea?


you could be forgiven doc....
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Maybe we should vote on the forgiven thing. :rolleyes:

Reply #48 Top

Yeah, but you gotta love the rivalry.

:thumbsup:
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All in fun, of course.  At the end of the day, it's just a game and we'll always be neighbours sticking it to the Kiwis.  They might've tipped us in the Rugby League World Cup, but we've had the wood on 'em since... and that Cup 'll be ours come the end of the next world cup comp.

As for the bridge, I figure best you keep it.... we'll need someplace t' hang our maroon flags next year, :rofl:

Oh, and I must apologise for the Baygon taunt... Wally Lewis (the King of Lang Park), reliably informs me it was Mortein. ;P

and here I was thinking I understood English. Where did I get that foolish idea?

you could be forgiven doc....
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There's no forgiving Doc... there 'll always be something we didn't see/read/know about...

... remembering he spells English stuff the American way. ;P

Maybe we should vote on the forgiven thing.
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Nope.. no vote... for the aforementioned reason.  Spelling shit the American way (dropping U's and putting Z's where S's belong) is criminal I say, and we must find him guilty and pass sentence forthwith.  We might need a vote on the punishment, however.  I propose we load him up with oodles more karma so that he buckles at the knees under the weight and can look Verne Troyer (mini me from Austin Powers) in the eye.

Alternatively, we could take all his karma off him until he's light enough to float right on up there into the upper atmosphere and gets carried here to Oz... and,  hehe, I'd welcome him here with some 'lower-atmosphere' of my own.

:D :grin: }:) :rofl:

 

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As for the bridge, I figure best you keep it....
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link...     :inlove:

 

we'll need someplace t' hang our maroon flags next year
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        :hrmph:          X-(

Reply #50 Top

As for the bridge, I figure best you keep it....



link...
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Yeah, I'd be a bit of a mongrel to take that away after 5 series losses straight.  With no origin shield in the cabinet you need something nice to view, and I must say that that is one almighty spectacular sight, to boot.

Yup 'tis one beautiful view orright.. :thumbsup:

I can't wait to get up to our new place... the view from the back deck is pretty spectacular also... and the birdlife is even more abundant there than it is here.  So being there are no real views of note here, and fewer birds also, roll on moving day... morning teas will never be so good.