There was a lot of commotion on our street this afternoon and when John looked out there were police, ambulances, fire brigades and goodness knows what else. Even the air ambulance was dispatched.
Apparently a man having a barbecue has accidently doused himself in barbecue fluid and set fire to himself.
I do hope the man will be ok.
The comments on the news thread has sickened me. I am disgusted at the people I have living in my vicinity at the vileness these people spout when someone has been badly injured. Yes he may have been drunk and careless but is that even a reason to be so nasty. I can’t stand to know there are so many vile people with vile minds and I just cannot comprehend their mindset.
I can’t comment on pommie BBQ techniques but I am still surprised to see house after house identical to the ones next door, it is very rare here.
To be fair I shouldn’t be so surprised because I lived for a couple of years on a council estate where every house was identical but I have got used to suburbs here where it is very rare to even see a similar house in the same area.
No, I am not suggesting that it is only council houses that look the same, I gave that as a reason why I shouldn’t be surprised. I don’t know if it is just a British thing to build rows of identical houses or whether it is more widespread but it is rare to see it here.
Please don’t be so touchy it was just a comment not a criticism.
You are quite right @Bruce we Brits do bland very well. I used to deliver to building sites erecting hundreds of houses which pretty much looked identical to each other. But a quick Google and I see that Australian new housing estates are equally identical.
Speaking generally we don’t have housing estates but land sales where people buy a block on a land release and build on it themselves, estates are rare.
Having said that there is one estate near me where a developer did built rows of town houses with a few the same (more like terrace houses) but it is not common. You certainly wouldn’t get anything like the picture above, as I say estates are rare.
Of course there are, Sydney is an expanding city of 5 million people, there are house and land packages where an area is built with 3 to 5 styles of houses by a single developer but none the less that is not how most Australians buy their houses.
if you google “estates” that is what you get, try googling “new land releases” or look at realestate.com.au
The air ambulance for my area/region is a common sight for us as it lands on The Green to our frontage if needed to collect V urgent patients brought to The Green by standard road ambulance. The police always arrive first by a few minutes to clear the ground of any people and then then aircraft lands The Green is chosen as it’s the only open ground available in our built up coastal area without too many trees; what trees do exist are only on the ground’s perimeter.
The Green is chosen as it’s the only open ground available in our built up coastal area without too many trees; what trees do exist are only on the ground’s perimeter.