Cairns

C and D · Veteran Member

RE: Cairns

C and D · Veteran Member

Happy Wanderer, I like the way you pick up that Polynesian language so fast!

Happywanderer · The Master

C and D, I'm from NZ. More years there than here. But love it here. Wouldn't go back.

JRH · Guru

C and D wrote:

You lost me there JRH, what small holding is that? I always try for something big.

RE: Cairns

C and D wrote:
You lost me there JRH, what small holding is that? I always try for something big.

C and D wrote:

You lost me there JRH, what small holding is that? I always try for something big.

NZ has the North Island, the South Island and the big Island OZ so I always ask how our small holding is doing.LOL

C and D · Veteran Member

Well there you go, all our schools teach us that that's our West Island. Who could be wrong?

bill12 · Guru

has the last person to leave turned the lights off yet?

C and D · Veteran Member

Lights? We don't have power, we rely on feel.

jimricho · Guru

Was in a Pub in Bondi once... started to tell a Kiwi joke when six big ex All Blacks approached me and warned me about the wisdom of continuing.

I naturally didn't continue with the joke. Didn't want to have to explain it six times!

jimricho · Guru

C and D wrote:

I know you're older than me JimRicho, but there's always something new to learn, even from a whoreigner. Not much of one tho, only a few Ks across the sea.

Excuse my ignorance but what's a whore eigner... is that some NZ term for a brothel keeper?

C and D · Veteran Member

Well, 'eigner' being German for 'owner', I suppose we'll have to draw our own conclusions. Might be fun doing it though, if not expensive.

JRH · Guru

C and D wrote:

Well there you go, all our schools teach us that that's our West Island. Who could be wrong?

Considering one could probably fit both North and South Islands into WA I reckon Big Island would be the go.LOL

C and D · Veteran Member

But how many sheep can you grow on that land?
I think NZ fits quite a few times into WA. It's a big chunk of dirt alright.

JRH · Guru

C and D wrote:

But how many sheep can you grow on that land?
I think NZ fits quite a few times into WA. It's a big chunk of dirt alright.

That's why we have our small holding, so we can breed the sheep.LOL

C and D · Veteran Member

Those lamb chops are really something.
NZ - 268,021 square kilometres.
WA - 2.5 million.

C and D · Veteran Member

We often get WA people over to assist with the breeding.
Incidentally, I have a photo of my wife sitting in that hole in the rock above Murchison Gorge. Now that was a hot, windy day! We spent a few weeks in Kalbarri waiting for the Wet to go away further north. Really nice spot. Only cool place was sitting in the estuary with hats, sunnys and cold stubbies.

JRH · Guru

Yep WA is a big state alright, I remember when one could head North and only see maybe 3 vehicles all day. Now the Coastal road is like a damned freeway, vehicles everywhere.

I love Lamb chops so I will enjoy myself next year around Xmas time when I go and visit my sister in Hamilton. It must be the feed in NZ that gives your lamb that wonderful taste, all that green grass makes for very tasty meat.

C and D · Veteran Member

Yes, I guess it is. Only trouble is that it's getting to where an extension to your mortgage is almost required to pay for the stuff. $45 to $50 for a leg of lamb now.
So you're going to foggy Hamilton eh, we live on the caost from there at Papamoa Beach near Mt Maunganui, the weather's just getting to where we like it now, not too hot, about 25-26 degrees.

JRH · Guru

C and D wrote:

Yes, I guess it is. Only trouble is that it's getting to where an extension to your mortgage is almost required to pay for the stuff. $45 to $50 for a leg of lamb now.
So you're going to foggy Hamilton eh, we live on the caost from there at Papamoa Beach near Mt Maunganui, the weather's just getting to where we like it now, not too hot, about 25-26 degrees.

Geez that's some price for a leg of lamb, I believe that it is about $20 here in Western Aust. but I could be wrong, I think it varies quite a lot.

Yes going to visit my sister who now lives in Hamilton, she has lived there for a few years now and apparantly quite likes it there. I haven't seen her and her husband for about 20 years. My neice is a doctor in Christchurch so she was kept pretty busy during the eathquakes there.

We will get to NZ about 20th December 2011 as 23rd is sisters 60th birthday and also our 50th wedding anniversary so we are going to give the duty free scotch a bit of a nudge, will try not to make too much noise, we wouldn't want to disturb the neighbouring countryside.LOL

-- Edited by JRH on Sunday 12th of December 2010 03:51:18 PM

C and D · Veteran Member

No worries about noise in Hamilton, they're used to drunken Aussies there. We're 1.5 hrs away with the Kaimai ranges in between us and the unruly.
Mind you, we have some of them here too, across the road there's a drama teacher at the local high school from Sydney. Bit of a worry...

C and D · Veteran Member

Always good to catch up with family though, JRH. It'll be good.
50 years marriage eh, that beats us, we're only 44. That's an expensive rock occasion though!

Cruising Granny · Guru

It all depends on who settled where when the first settlers came to Australia.
English and it's prisoners to the penal colony of NSW.
Germans and fine English to SA.
And so it goes.
I found in NZ the further north I went the broader the "Kiwi" accent, and south of Christchurch was the Scottish influence.
My former partner was Maori - Mah-or-ee - and he taught me some important pronunciations such as the "wh" to sound like "f" with fast breath exhaled between the top teeth and bottom lip like "whoosh".
As long as we keep the language in it's correct form, spelling and pronunciation, I'll be ok with slang and abbreviations.
The most recent practice of changing our language publicly on the media is not acceptable.
If the formal printed word is maintained correctly we may still have a chance to teach the kids how english is "wrote and spoke".

C and D · Veteran Member

Yes, it's important. I understand that in NZ there's large percentage of kids who leave high school who have difficulty writing their own names. Doomed before they start.
Then there's others who excell at school. I can't understand why some don't like school, it looks like a paradise compared to what we had. Most of my teachers only ever wanted to cane us. No wonder so many left early back then.