Aussie Bush Fires
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@raznomore said in Aussie Bush Fires:
It’s a cruel world sometimes. Here all we need is rain and in NZ all they need is for it to stop raining.
After the goal posts and new turf go in for my club's new ground next week, I'd like a week of steady rain across the Sydney basin.
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@NTA said in Aussie Bush Fires:
Also, this:
Recall back in the early 80s ... reckon it was Jan Feb 83 because Bush Fire Appeal ODI (Martin Crowe break through 63...) ... the sunsets were a brown golden colour and you could look directly at the sun, a big red orb, as it set.
But that was February, late summer.
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@booboo said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@NTA said in Aussie Bush Fires:
Also, this:
Recall back in the early 80s ... reckon it was Jan Feb 83 because Bush Fire Appeal ODI (Martin Crowe break through 63...) ... the sunsets were a brown golden colour and you could look directly at the sun, a big red orb, as it set.
But that was February, late summer.
I have vague memories of that as a kid, being on a farm in Northwestern NSW at the time. The first of two 3-year droughts we had, though it wasn't quite this bad.
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@bayimports said in Aussie Bush Fires:
Bawley point is a great place..hope you and your wife’s intended venue is still standing
Thanks mate, yeah we're still not sure it survived. It's a bit outside of town and the fire looks to have come through the area but all reports suggest very minimal loss of houses/structures.
We'll likely be OK I think, but it's a winery/orchard so I hope for the owners sake it isn't too bad.
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@NTA said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@booboo said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@NTA said in Aussie Bush Fires:
Also, this:
Recall back in the early 80s ... reckon it was Jan Feb 83 because Bush Fire Appeal ODI (Martin Crowe break through 63...) ... the sunsets were a brown golden colour and you could look directly at the sun, a big red orb, as it set.
But that was February, late summer.
I have vague memories of that as a kid, being on a farm in Northwestern NSW at the time. The first of two 3-year droughts we had, though it wasn't quite this bad.
Yeah, but we were in the Northern Wairarapa ...
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@dogmeat said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@NTA was on another thread a while back. Scary to think that bad as the air quality is for you guys that there are cities that are constantly 7-8 times worse
I'm working on the wife to accept we need to move to NZ.
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@NTA said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@dogmeat said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@NTA was on another thread a while back. Scary to think that bad as the air quality is for you guys that there are cities that are constantly 7-8 times worse
I'm working on the wife to accept we need to move to NZ.
Plenty of room on the blues bandwagon. Just a slight change of shade
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@nzzp said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@NTA said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@dogmeat said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@NTA was on another thread a while back. Scary to think that bad as the air quality is for you guys that there are cities that are constantly 7-8 times worse
I'm working on the wife to accept we need to move to NZ.
Plenty of room on the blues bandwagon. Just a slight change of shade
No difference in performance
TBH I think I'd have to move to the Waikato somewhere, or BOP. Even selling a Sydney house, I can't afford Auckland if I want to buy outright.
Plus its full of Aucklanders.
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@NTA not on the more refined side of the Bridge - both literally and figuratively.
We have Albany Free State, Browns Bay By the Sea, Sun Lee Nook all of which enormously add to the Shore's diversity and liveability.
I'm sure we can find a suitable
ghettohome for some Aussie refugees.I thought you'd travelled extensively through NZ. How did you manage to miss Hamilton?
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@dogmeat interestingly, the furthest I got north of the bridge was driving over to Mt Victoria lookout in 2002.
And I was in Hamilton once (October 2017) but it was pissing rain at the time so I didn't really get a good feel for it.
I could live somewhere like Te Aroha or Tauranga tho - friends in both places (one a local, one a Sydney transplant) and it appears to be fairly awesome country. No idea what I'd do for work but I'd figure it out.
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@NTA said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@dogmeat interestingly, the furthest I got north of the bridge was driving over to Mt Victoria lookout in 2002.
And I was in Hamilton once (October 2017) but it was pissing rain at the time so I didn't really get a good feel for it.
I could live somewhere like Te Aroha or Tauranga tho - friends in both places (one a local, one a Sydney transplant) and it appears to be fairly awesome country. No idea what I'd do for work but I'd figure it out.
You wouldn't last 5 minutes in Te Aroha!! Tauranga is a lovely place but the infrastructure isn't coping with the influx of those migrating that way.
If I was moving from Sydney, I would want to move to Auckland, Tauranga or at a pinch, Napier.
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@NTA said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@dogmeat said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@NTA was on another thread a while back. Scary to think that bad as the air quality is for you guys that there are cities that are constantly 7-8 times worse
I'm working on the wife to accept we need to move to NZ.
Just remember that we will send you home if you do anything wrong (well, we should).
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@Hooroo I'm a suburuban dweller who was a country boy, so I'm not wedded to the idea of a big city. Not like I'm going out drinking every weekend, either.
But I could handle the idea of living somewhere around TA or Matamata on a few acres - beautiful country. Not sure the wife (Sydney born and bred) would feel the same about not having David Jones a 20 minute drive away
Naturally, you can't judge a place's liveability with a 3-day visit. But my mate's selection outside Tauranga looks like the fucking business. And hanging out with Red Beard at COBRAS during winter season sounds excellent