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#51
08-28-2005, 09:58 AM
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.
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.
Originally Posted by Tit
Canberra's nice and sunny now!
but Agro...half of the south east got snow the other week!!!:
This is my place in Canberra!!!! and I have a BLACK roof!
What you doing up so late? I'm at work on a Sunday....booo!!
but Agro...half of the south east got snow the other week!!!:
This is my place in Canberra!!!! and I have a BLACK roof!
What you doing up so late? I'm at work on a Sunday....booo!!
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08-28-2005, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Agro
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.
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.
So when did you live here?
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08-29-2005, 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Agro
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.
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08-30-2005, 08:32 AM
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.
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08-31-2005, 06:14 AM
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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.
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Originally Posted by Agro
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.
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.
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....
#58
08-31-2005, 08:18 AM
Originally Posted by Tit
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....
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....
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.
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Originally Posted by Agro
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.
that's what remote starters and sump heaters are for anyway!
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09-10-2005, 03:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Tit
DAMN! It's finally happened....
Work's IT guys have blocked mini2.
So....here I am...
Work's IT guys have blocked mini2.
So....here I am...
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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
...hey....can you run back to rolfe and add this to your options list?
http://66.220.28.159/forum/showthread.php?t=99490
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09-10-2005, 04:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Tit
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?
Alan...are you working Wednesday? - surely you'd be shagged after the trip?
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.
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09-10-2005, 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by miniman_a
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.
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. I'm going to be in Melbourne Attending the 2005 Freight Congress - oh JOY!!!! 
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3 days of mind numbing delirium
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09-11-2005, 03:49 AM
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