I lived in Canberra from as early as I can remember till I was 8. Only remember snow in Canb once. It was COLD walking to school that morning!
My Mum came over for Xmas this year. Took her on a road trip to the Grand Canyon, where we got about 6 inches of snow overnight. MINIs handle snow pretty well.

 

That's an awesome photo!! So when did you live here?

 

Born in Cootamundra (1968), lived in Canberra till I was 8, then Campbelltown (Western Suburbs of Sydney - go the Magpies, down with the Tigers!) till I moved to the states in 96.

 

Cool. Being from Coota, I'm sure that you'll be pleased to know the wattles are flowering like mad this year (or not pleased if you suffer hay fever )

 

I miss the flowering trees, and the smell of Aus. Every time I go home, I get out of the airport and breathe in, and I can tell I'm home. The smell, and the sky is a different blue in Aus than here. More "washed out". I don't miss the hayfever, but I'd love to have a golden wattle tree, or a nice gum tree in my yard here. I think a wattle would need too much water though. Gums do well here.

 

Nah, wattles are very drought tolerant, you'd be set I reckon. At our old place, which was in Gungahlin, we planted quite a lot of Acacias, and other natives, for the very reason that once established their water requirements would be very low. Indeed, the first year the drought hit Canberra really hard the Acacias went beserk and grew probably 1 metre over the summer. Well, one species did, another species we had did struggle a bit, but I think that may have had more to do with some lime or something left in the soil from the building process.

 

Snow.....sweeeeeeeet....

snow gets me excited!

....I lived in Manitoba for a year.....had a great time learning to drive on snow and ice in the winter.....damn it was cold up there....

 

I lived in Detroit for 2 winters, and Nebraska for 3. Both get tons of snow.
The whole idea of putting cities where it snows lots is evidence of poor planning IMO. At home, we put snow in the mountains where you can ski on it, not in the cities where you have to live with it for months on end.
It's pretty cool at first, but when you have weeks on end where you have to prepare your car for 10 mins every time you want to drive it, you have to take tiny steps or slip over, you need 4 laters of clothes on to go outside, it gets old pretty fast.
Mum is in Sydney, and complains about how cold it is in winter. I;'ve told her that Sydney doesn't actually GET cold.

 

You're right, it doesn't.

 

Nah! I lived in it for a full Manitoban winter (and they don't get too much colder than -50c with the windchill)...and I loved every second of it....

that's what remote starters and sump heaters are for anyway!

 

DAMN! It's finally happened....

Work's IT guys have blocked mini2.

So....here I am...

 

Tryhttp://66.220.28.159/ (disclaimer, you circumvent your organisations firewall at your own risk )

 

yeah...I've been doing that, but it keeps dropping my login...so I can't post...

I can see you, but I have no voice!

yes yes...cookies blah blah....haha...

 

Like I said the other day, I wonder how hard it is to set up a VPN with a home computer??

 

show me the way dude...!


...hey....can you run back to rolfe and add this to your options list?

http://66.220.28.159/forum/showthread.php?t=99490

 

Hi Tiann and Andrew


I'm heading your way on Tuesday for a flying visit ( today Europe tomorrow Canberra ) Do you guys want to catch up for a late supper 9.00ish or maybe an early breakfast on the Wednesday

PS it's me

 

I'd prefer a late dinner...as Liam and I will be in Syd on Wednesday...

Alan...are you working Wednesday? - surely you'd be shagged after the trip?

 

Cool, late dinner it is, I am working on Wednesday but I feel I should show some sponsor loyalty from Targa and make an apperance at Alto to show off the MINI in it's racing livery So I'll drive back with you.

 

God damn it! I'm going to be in Melbourne Attending the 2005 Freight Congress - oh JOY!!!! :impatient 3 days of mind numbing delirium

 

Hey....At least you'll be in Melbourne....that's a sweet town...

 

Oooooh...being shagged after the trip is wonderful!


Clover

 

 

LOL

 

Gday Al thanks for the tshirt.i,ll wear it with pride.hope u had a good run back to sydney and they had reopened the harbour bridge.Damn people out running marathons when they could be driving minis:smile:

 

Hey Liam, and other Canberrans...'cause I can't post in mini2, I'll ask here.

If you have issues with Belluci's, I haven't booked yet, so we can go somewhere else...I just figured I should take advantage of my location at some point...

How about zefferellis or bollywood masala...?