Good morning all who venture here on this cold, overcast winters day. The temperature is only about 17° which, for me, is freezing so I will likely stay indoors and might even turn the fan heater on soon.
Want to change the oil in my car but it is just too cold to be outside so it will have to wait.
My 3D printer is buzzing away in the background on a 12 hour print (ready at about 10pm tonight) but apart from that I have few plans for today.
I am envying those in nice warm summer places. Take care and enjoy what you are doing.
Good morning Brucie,
Tis I Dianne in Montalembert…not warm for June but not complaining as I appreciate each day of living here as a Brucie Bonus…Off out just after Lunch today Hasbeen has a hearing test booked…Couhe is the Commune and they also do eye tests …
17 degrees and cold…hahaha…your joking surely.
Have a look at this list and see if it’s still relevant for todays society peeps…
A Cold One – Beer
Accadacca – How Aussies refer to Australian band ACDC
Ankle Biter – Child
Arvo – Afternoon (S’Arvo – this afternoon!)
Aussie Salute – Wave to scare the flies
Avo – Avocado
Bail – To cancel plans. ‘Bruce bailed’ = Bruce isn’t going to turn up.
Barbie – Barbecue
Bathers – Swimsuit
Beauty! – Great! Most often exclaimed as “You Beauty”
Billabong – A pond in a dry riverbed
Billy – Teapot (In the Outback on the fire)
Bloody – Very. Used to extenuate a point
Bloody oath – yes or its true. “You right mate?”… “Bloody Oath”
Bludger – Someone who’s lazy, generally also who relies on others (when it’s someone who relies on the state they’re often called a ‘dole bludger’)
Bogan – This word is used for people who are, well let’s say, rednecks. Or, if you like, just call your friends a bogan when they are acting weird.
Booze Bus – Police vehicle used to catch drunk drivers
Bottle-O – Bottle Shop, basically a place to buy alcohol
Bush – “Out in the bush” – “he’s gone bush” In the countryside away from civilisation
Cab Sav – Cabernet Sauvignon
Cactus – Dead, Broken
Choc A Bloc – Full
Choccy Biccy – Chocolate Biscuit
Chook – Chicken
Chrissie – Christmas
Ciggy – a Cigarette
Clucky – feeling maternal
Cobber – Very good friend. ‘Alright me ‘ol cobber’.
Coldie – Beer. ‘Come over for a few coldie’s mate.’
Coppers – Policemen
Crack the shits – Getting angry at someone or something
Crikey – an expression of surprise
Crook – Being ill or angry; ‘Don’t go crook on me for getting crook’
C*nt, the “C” word – Used when exchanging pleasantries between close friends or family member. If someone calls you the “C” word in Australia (and you haven’t done anything to make them angry), then breathe a sigh of relief… it means you have entered the mate zone.
Going off – busy, lots of people / angry person “he’s going off”
Good On Ya – Good work
Goon – the best invention ever produced by mankind. Goon is a cheap, boxed wine that will inevitably become an integral part of your Australian backpacking experience.
Hard yakka – Hard work
Heaps – loads, lots, many
Hoon – Hooligan (normally driving badly!)
Iffy – bit risky or unreasonable
Knickers – female underwear
Lappy – Laptop
Larrikin – Someone who’s always up for a laugh, bit of a harmless prankster
Legless – Someone who is really drunk
Lollies – Sweets
Maccas – McDonalds
Manchester – Sheets / Linen etc. If you’re from England, finding a department within a shop called Manchester could seriously confuse you.
Mongrel – Someone who’s a bit of a dick
Mozzie – Mosquito
No Drama – No problem / it’s ok
No Worries – No problem / it’s ok
No Wucka’s – A truly Aussie way to say ‘no worries’
Nuddy – Naked
Outback – The interior of Australia, “The Outback” is more remote than those areas named “the bush”
Pash – to kiss
Piece of Piss – easy
Piss Off – go away, get lost
Piss Up – a party, a get together and in Australia – most social occasions
Piss – (To Piss) to urinate
Pissed – Intoxicated, Drunk
Pissed Off – Annoyed
Rack Off – The less offensive way to tell someone to ‘F Off’!
Rapt – Very happy
Reckon – for sure. ‘You Reckon?’… ‘I reckon!’
Rellie / Rello – Relatives
Ripper – ‘You little ripper’ = That’s fantastic mate!
Root Rat – someone who enjoys sex (maybe a little too much)
Rooted – Tired or Broken
Runners – Trainers, Sneakers
Sanger – Sandwich
Servo – Service Station / Garage
Shark biscuit – kids at the beach
Sheila – A woman
She’ll be apples – Everything will be alright
Shoot Through – To leave
Sick – awesome; ‘that’s really sick mate’
Sickie – a sick day off work, or ‘to pull a sickie’ would be to take a day off when you aren’t actually sick
Skull – To down a beer
Slab – A carton of beers
Smoko – Cigarette break
Snag – Sausage
Stiffy – Erection
Stoked – Happy, Pleased
Straya – Australia
Strewth – An exclamation of surprise
Stubby – a bottle of beer
Stubby Holder – Used so your hands don’t get cold when holding your beer, or to stop your hands making your beer warm!
Stuffed – Tired
Sunnies – Sunglasses
Swag – Single bed you can roll up, a bit like a sleeping bag.
Tea – Dinner
Tinny – Can of beer or small boat
Thongs – Flip Flops. Do not be alarmed if your new found Australian friend asks you to wear thongs to the beach. They are most likely expressing their concern of the hot sand on your delicate feet.
True Blue – Genuinely Australian
Tucker – Food. ‘Bush Tucker’ tends to be food found in the Outback such as witchety grubs.
Good morning all, sunny with some clouds around, warm but windy. I understand @Bruce that 17C is cold for you, I suppose you probably never get very cold autmn/winters at 3/4 degrees, or minus.
Morning all – another sunny start but once again rain is forecast for later with temperatures reaching a heady 16c. Forecast to be around 6c tonight (and you feel cold Bruce!)
Not sure if I am supposed to be feeding the beast this morning, have tried contacting the neighbours but so far no reply – wondering if I go in will I find a murder/suicide crime scene!
Yesterday the gardener arrived with new flowers for the planters, they look lovely (don’t ask me what they are I can’t tell a daffodil from a dandelion!) – he is coming back tomorrow to plant them
Plan today is to try to find my way to a different shopping centre (nearest one with a bank!), then some grocery shopping
Neighbours finally replied – they are not leaving until 11.30! Wish they had told me sooner I wouldn’t have got up so early!
It might get down to that temperature about once in a decade where I live but in winter on occasions it can get to just below double figures at night just before dawn. The forecast for tomorrow for example is a minimum of 11° and a maximum of 18°.
Inland of course it is a different matter. According to this evening’s news snow is falling on the snow fields in the Snowy Mountains.
@DianneWoollie That is pretty good list though I have never heard Dardy the rest are still in use.
Good Morning From Foxy’s World…
Blimey Bruce, 17 degrees C is summer here, in fact when I returned from this mornings walk it read 12 degrees C on the outside thermometer…
Had to take a picture of this Heron fishing off a piece of driftwood…
Good morning! Not envying your temperatures, Bruce, but I can commiserate with you on that cold weather. I can easily manage with temperature and humidity well into the 90s, but at 65 or below, I am grabbing for the sweaters and blankets. Brr.
So on that note, we are grabbing the bathers, sunnies, and runners* and heading to the beach place for a couple of days. Hopefully I’ll snag a photo of one of that heron’s American cousins…
It is just what you are used to. I often chuckle at photos of my niece her husband and child in their summer clothes, they are often dressed as I would in winter. I wear a T shirt and denim shorts for three quarters of the year. It is just June until mid August that the cold sets in and I don a pullover and complain about the cold.
Even more annoying two of my kids are currently in Darwin where it is 30° all year round.
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