Archive for August 27th, 2004
Better Gnomes And Gardens 3
After living in this great steaming bucket of sausage flavoured urine we call London for over 2 years the one thing I have found you can?t help but noticed is that the British are unnaturally obsessed with housing. In Put Another Shrimp On The Barbie Land, also known as Australia, when you want a new house you just build a new house. You can easily pick up a couple of thousand hectares or so of pristine rainforest for only 10 of your Great British Pounds Sterling these days and to build a ten storey Sultans Palace with built in swimming pool and helicopter pad would only cost around a couple of hundred quid at the current exchange rate of 10,000 doubloons to one can of Fosters. My house back home (its more of a complex really) is quite modest in comparison to most of the rest of my Aussie mates. I do use a golf buggy to get from my bedroom to the living room but I could probably walk the distance in ten minutes or so if I wasn?t so fat and lazy. My girlfriend Roxanne has quite an ostentatious house back in Australia by most standards. You may have heard of it. It?s called the state of Victoria.