For Our Aussie Mates
 

Just wanted to let you know that while you're wallowing in the misery of mid-winter down there, we're sweltering up here. The last week in Toronto has been hell-on-earth - mid 30s in temperature but corrected for humidity, mid-forties. With no air conditioning, we're dying up here... and I feel especially sorry for our poor cats who have to walk around all day in fur coats. The only relief they get is early mornings and late evenings out on the deck, but those times are plagued with roving raccoons, who also come out to play (I'd love a silenced .22 pistol right about now). :no4:

Anyway, I know you're suffering right now, but so are we - misery loves company?

Cheers,

Jif

:bang: :doh: :wacko: :drunk:

Misery
 

Well winter is really not too bad here Jif, particularly if you compare it with a Canadian one. You could always put on a pair of gauntlets, a fencing mask and other protective body armour and shave the poor cats.
That heat you're getting sounds a lot like Melbourne in late summer when the humidity sets in, really most unpleasant.
Current temp in Melbourne at 4AM is just under plus 12C, relative humidity 82% and we're expecting more rain over the next few days, and no, I don't want to swap. :D

winter here is sunny blue skies and 23C to 26C during the day and down to around 9C at night. Only additional clothing for poor ol' me is long pants a pair of socks and a woolen jersey. Must admit though during last months trip to Gosford in New South Wales it also included woolen long sleeve shirt and woolen thermal longjohns plus a beanie (woolen hat) plus my old combat jacket and I still froze early in the mornings till the sun came out! :eek:

Looxury
 

I think you need to come back for another visit Jiff.

Sure the nights are cold (for Australia, not Canada). But the days have been absolutely beautiful. Sunny and not a cloud in the sky.

The days we have been getting rain are actually quite mild and the rain has been coming at exactly the right time and in the right amounts. Looks like being one of those georgeous spring's we get in normal years this year.

The Riverina turns into Gods country from September to November. Will post some photo's if it does.

Damned right I need to get back there, Tony! It's been three years now, too bloody long! A lot of water under the bridge since then, so we'll see what happens. I've been a busy boy, but I miss you lot and your magnificent land!

:drunk:

Jif

Welcome anytime
 

Goes for all you lot - should start working a plan to come to Corowa next year lads.

By the way Jiff. Bag me a couple of those Racoons. I havent had a Davey Crockett Hat since I was ten! :thup:

Warm up time ....
 

Sex Party promises 'real action' for Australians


Sex Party promises real action& for Australians – Sex Party leader Fiona Patten (left) speaks to Zahra Stardust -- a candidate in the 2009 federal elections …
Tue Jul 20, 5:25 am ET

MELBOURNE (AFP) – The Australian Sex Party on Tuesday promised to spice up campaigning for next month's elections with a manifesto "unlike Australia had ever seen before".

Party chief Fiona Patten launched a risque national campaign at a Melbourne bar, saying her policies "would make (opposition Leader) Tony Abbott's hair stand on end and would turn (Prime Minister) Julia Gillard's hair grey". prospective

"We've always been forward and we actually enjoy real action," Patten said, mocking Gillard and Abbott's "Moving Australia Forward" and "Stand Up For Real Action" slogans.

The party's policies include legalising euthanasia, decriminalising all drugs for personal use, and watering down strict anti-pornography laws.

Although sure to attract criticism from church groups and other conservative elements in society, Patten said it was time an Australian political party pushed the boundaries.

Patten said personal freedom issues affect people's lives more often than tax or immigration, and wanted to break down "nanny state" policies that she said had been built up over several decades by the major parties.

While the party will struggle for mainstream support, Patten remained confident of at least one Sex Party candidate being elected to the country's Senate.

"In the privacy of the polling booth, anything could happen," she said.

The Sex Party is running a candidate against Abbott in his Sydney electorate, a comedian who has offered to doorknock voters wearing a "mankini" -- a type of bikini designed for men.

http://www.sexparty.org.au/index.php...zahra-stardust

sex party!?
 

Christ ALex, I didn't even know they existed and I live here!