How many cheeps

Day 1 home alone...double dip a 2er and
Ground floor perfumery, kitchenware and bags...

If you have no idea and need to lose an hour or become acquainted with a specific type of English humour before we entered the EU......jump to 20 mins for classic Mollie Sugden

For a moment I think I'm back in Seattle

But it is a different skyline

Having spoiled me with a bus ride, in our usual way we decide to acquaint ourselves with the full square footage of the city in Texan style heat because my legs have grown so long even Naomi Campbell feels threatened and P is scared I'll be able to look him in th eye without the need for a chair - not to mention having to break in my new Merrell Sangals (fashion note...the head of Australian Vogue got sacked a year ago for missing my bobby dazzlers.....).

 

Got enough Os

 

Warehouse number 9 which has been converted into Cell block H(otel) for  corporate troughing and boat admiration

 

 Russell Crowe lives at the end of the row below with a set of dragon garden ornaments he must have asked Mark Billam to pinch from outside the pagoda in Peasholm Park, Scarborough (click on link to be amazed at Yorkshire exoticism and you need to know as a kid I never got to the  island in the middle of the boating lake on which said pagoda was tantalisingly out of  reach and was a whole sixpence entrance fee because my mother had blown it on Ken Dodd and his Diddy Men at the Futurist).

 

By the way there was no sailing going on whatsoever just young men in skimps preparing for their NVQ in Polishing.

The Navy are a little unnerved about this crane which has a preservation order on it but occasionally drops lumps of metal whilst they are loading cannonballs and barrels of lemons for the next trip.

 

 

Lunch across from Lang Shan Crowe where a bowl of chips cost $10!!!!! but turn out to be the entire potato crop of Idaho. No wonder Oz is competing with the US on its obesity stats. I've come to the conclusion that the fit blokes in Iron Man are the same bloke in different budgie smugglers (local lingo) and false teeth who is sponsored by Krispy Kreme and this firm.

 

Onward to get the chip oil moving...P has to be credited with this, I couldn't reach over the gladioli

 

 

 

And it just wouldn't be our blog without cheeky local personalities

 

 

And  abit of history before we head off to Brisbane for culture with a capital K....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back in the saddle

It's been a while I know, we have had a spell developing webbed feet on the dark side (Lancashire) and P has abandoned BAe after 34 years man and boy. A spell of 6 months off deciding what to do with his life and battling through recruitment processes dealing with all the professionalism of Kevin and Perry we are still not at the point of anything permanent P had a flash of inspiration and asked if we should scratch his itch to see Oz and visit our pal as we had promised him 3 years before when we persuaded him that a sojourn away from tropical Scarborough would be good for him. So here we are delivering Tetley to...

 

 

This is one of the most beautiful buildings I have ever seen..

We bumped in to the traffic cop out of Terminator (I am so in trouble for this....)

Who was at serious risk of low productivity levels due to the running down of cocoa solids in his fridge

 Now pay attention as we are going on the bus so:

- Buy a 2er of 10 trips which allows you to to go 2 stages 10 times, and 10 1ers so you can go 1 stage 10 times and if you need to you can use the 1er as a 2er by double dipping it and because there are 2 of you then you double dip the twoer to go 2 stages or double the 1er for the 2 of you to go 1 stage. Or quadruple dip the 1er for the 2 of you to go 2 stages...got it....? no... we are convinced we are about to get stranded in Oomegoolie Billabong.

Editor's note....if you are going to a rugby match in Brisbane you get to travel for free on the train but you have to watch a man punch his wife in the head  see later post.

And they have the flour bags the wrong way round....plain is in blue!!!!!!

Where was I ....ah yes...a cage for every species now extinct in Australia since the Milky Bar Kid turned up.

Did I say this is such a beautiful building

 

 

and this is a lovely bridge

And some culture to end this instalment.....can you see what it is yet...

Correct ...a seagull's bum...