Diary of a Pom in WA

[tr3nt]

August 31 - Just got transferred with work from Leeds UK to our new
home in Karratha , Western Australia . Now this is a town that knows
how to live! Beautiful, sunny days and warm, balmy evenings. I watched
the sunset from a deckchair by the pool yesterday. It was beautiful.
I've finally found my new home. I love it here.

September 13 - Really heating up now. It got to 31 today. No problem
though. Living in air-conditioned home, driving air-conditioned car.
What a pleasure to see the sun every day like this. I'm turning into a
sun-worshiper.

September 30th - Had the back yard landscaped with tropical plants
today. Lots of palms and rocks. No more mowing lawns for me. Another
scorcher today, but I love it here.

October 10th - The temperature hasn't been below 35 all week. How do
people get used to this kind of heat? At least today it's windy though.
Keeps the flies off a bit. Acclimatizing is taking longer than I
expected.

October 15th - Fell asleep by the pool yesterday. Got third degree
burns over 60% of my body. Missed three days of work. What a dumb thing
to do! Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

October 20th - Didn't notice Kitty (our cat) sneaking into the car
before I left for work this morning. By the time I got back to the car
after work, Kitty had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag
and stuck to the upholstery. The car now smells like Whiskettes and cat
shit. I've earned my lesson though: no more pets in this heat.

October 25 - This wind is a bastard. It feels like a giant blow
dryer. And it's hot as hell! The home air conditioner is on the blink
and the repair man charged $200 just to drive over and tell me he needs
to order parts from Perth ....

October 30th - The temperature's up around 40 and the parts still
haven't arrived for the air con. Been sleeping outside by the
pool for three nights now. Bloody $600,000 house and we can't even go
inside. Why the hell did I ever come here?

November 4 - Finally got the ol' air con fixed. It cost $1,500 and gets
the temperature down to around 25 degrees, but the humidity makes it
feel about 30. Stupid repairman.

November 8 - If one more smart arse says 'Hot enough for you today?'
I'm going to throttle him. heat! By the time I get to
work, the car's radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking
wet and I smell like baked cat!


November 9 Tried to run some errands after work, wore shorts, and sat
on the black leather upholstery in the ol' car. I thought my
arse was on fire. I lost two layers of flesh, all the hair on the backs
of my legs and my arse. Now the car smells like burnt hair,
fried arse and baked cat!

November 10 - Weather report! It might as well be a recording.
Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny, Hot and sunny! It's been too hot
to do anything for two months and the weatherman says it might
really warm up next week.

November 15 - Doesn't it ever rain in this damn place? Water
restrictions will be next, so my $5,000 worth of palms might just dry
up and blow into the pool. The only things that thrive in this
hell-hole are the flies. You don't dare open your mouth for
fear of swallowing half a dozen

November 20th - Welcome to HELL! It got to 45 degrees today.
Now the air conditioner's gone in my car.. The repair man came to fix
it and said, 'Hot enough for you today?' I had to spend the $2,500
mortgage payment to bail me out of jail for assault
Karratha! What kind of sick, demented idiot
would want to live here!

December 1 -
WHAT!!!!
The first day of Summer!!!!
You are kidding!

[Oh_Your_Blind]

ahahhaah thats good!

[VNracer34G]

Hahaa ever been called a whinging pom? If you were back in Leeds you'd be moaning about how cold it is

[tr3nt]

Lol.. Im 1/2 pom, got it from my father's sake - his side of the family came over roughly ten years ago, it was exactly like that. The best was pulling out a map of Australia, pointing to Melbourne and saying "thats where you are right now".. My Uncle wanted a day trip to Sydney. LOL

[holdendude]

Gotta be kidding, 40*C isn't that bad! Hahahaha Bloody poms! would love to have met that person!, would've been a real laugh!

[acarmody]

I definitely laughed at the last two paragraphs.

[naf33n]

im living in london at the moment and i can understand why they whinge, it rains everyday without fail, everthing is always wet, oh and its cold, really cold
had ice on my car for the first time ever yesterday, didnt no what to do

now im starting to sound like one, ****ing england, i miss sydney,


also i tried to explain to people at work how far away perth is from syndey, they were struggling to understand how big australia is

[excalibur]

haha i got emailed this the other day very funny