Rebas' Adventure in Ozzieland

It is now the 1st of Feb, wow! has this year flown by. I have moved again, that makes 5 moves since coming to Australia, that has got to be some kind of record. I have the same housemate as before, Melissa the school teacher, and will be adding a new one, Jayelle, Nurse who goes to Mel's church. The house we were renting was put on the market and we decided to move once our lease was up and not wait to be told at some point, that we had no control over, that we had 30 days to leave. I really like our new place, it is a newer house and has a much nicer feel to it, cosier and more light and airy. you can see from the pictures that this is a pretty house and has a much bigger kitchen!! (raptures!). You will also notice that most of the pictures are dominated by the shower head. Now, in 4 of the 5 places I have lived they have had this kind of shower head (my last place did not). I am here to say that, hands down, this is the best kind shower head I have every had. you will note that it can be moved in every direction and it will stay there with good water pressure too. As a tall person I have had to deal with short shower heads for years;now, even with a short housemate, there is no problem for either of us. also the ability to control where the spray so one can soap up etc. is terrific. if I can, I will buy one of these shower heads and bring it home with me.______________ Wednesday the 26th of Jan was Australia Day. sort of like a 4th of July except Australia never really left England, like Canada, they are still part of the Commonwealth. We had a BBQ and there was the option of fighting traffic and going down to the beach to see the fireworks. we opted to stay put. it was a very Holidayish day. we hung out, worked on a jigsaw puzzle and ate good food. really fun. Leoni and Tim hosted, but since they are rather short of money these days, they asked that everyone bring a salad/dessert/drinks to share and bring meat for yourself. I have never done that before, but it worked really well, I brought a piece of marinated chicken, someone brought a few kabobs, another sausages and the guys grilled it all up and we each took our meat and ate together. a good way to have a BBQ without great expense to any one person.