Bloody typical - stealing our wimmen agin. Good job it's only a
banana bender. Give my regards to the sand flies while you're up
there.
Ah, Queensland - beautiful one day, cyclone the next.
AndrewF
>I lived in Melbourne (Carleton) for six months in '87-88--October
>through May--working for Daryl Jackson Architects on 120 Collins
>Street, but mostly having a romantic misadventure with an Aussie I'd
>met in New York City while she was traveling. I _loved_ it there.
>Dramatic skies, brilliant light--when the sun was out. I almost
>emigrated--got approved and everything, but then all of the sudden
>realized Oz was 12,000 miles from everyone I knew except my then
>ex-girlfriend. Doh! So I moved to Seattle instead. Very similar weather
>and light, although grayer and more drizzly I think. We get 35 inches
>of rain/year...but it's spread out over 250 days (or something close to
>that.) And as fate would have it, 15 years later I married another
>Australian! We're headed back to meet the rest of her family in May.
>Anyone on the list near Mackay, Queensland?
>
>Rob Harrison
>Seattle
>
>On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 06:54 AM, Roger Wesson wrote:
>
>>
>> Only time I've been to Melbourne was in November a few years ago,
>> would've expected it to be something roughly summer-like at that time
>> of
>> year but it was quite comparable actually to London-style Novembers -
>> cold, miserable, constant drizzle. Most of the time the top of the
>> Rialto Towers wasn't visible from ground level but I did get some
>> lovely
>> OM photos from up there at night in a brief gap in the clouds. Sydney
>> weather, on the other hand, was superb, hot and sunny, *much* nicer
>> than
>> Melbourne :)
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> andrew fildes wrote:
>>
>>> I think that Melbourne has six seasons a year and they are quite
>>> predictable - must come up with names for them someday
>>
>>
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