Hello from Australia
Hi to all Pentalk readers. As you will have seen my name is Sue-Ellen and I have had my arm twisted by a friend Alison to share some stories with you on the blog.
A quick bit about me - I work as an agricultural advisor based in the southern town of Albany. I enjoy travelling, reading and furniture restoration. I was a member of Rural Youth in WA - the equivalent to Young Farmers and was extremely lucky to have spent seven months in 1995 travelling through Great Britain and Eire as an exchangee. In 2007 I spent three months revisiting friends and relatives and dragging my poor mother all over England, Scotland and Ireland.
It was wonderful to revisit and reminisce on the good times, and it was especially marvellous to see friends again. It was great to fall in love with the Lakes District all over again.
So get to the point I hear you say.. The reason I mentioned all this was that I have tonight arrived home from an overnight trip to Perth (4.5hrs each way) to catch up with a girlfriend who shared the exchange with me back in '95. Heather stayed in London and worked after our exchange and met and married etc. She was on her way home to Tasmania for a holiday and decided to have a stop over in Perth, so with my motto of "never let a chance go by" it was an opportunity too good to miss.
There were many stories retold and lots of laughs. One of the stories involved driving through the Lakes District after our exchange and up a one way street the wrong way in Windermere. Oops hope you can't get arrested this long after the event.
The weather here was very mild on her - the temperature only reached 30 degrees Celsius today. This summer has been very warm on the west coast this year and we on the south coast of WA have not recieved the normal summer rains that maitain our perennial pasture growth so things here are drier than usual.
A quick bit about me - I work as an agricultural advisor based in the southern town of Albany. I enjoy travelling, reading and furniture restoration. I was a member of Rural Youth in WA - the equivalent to Young Farmers and was extremely lucky to have spent seven months in 1995 travelling through Great Britain and Eire as an exchangee. In 2007 I spent three months revisiting friends and relatives and dragging my poor mother all over England, Scotland and Ireland.
It was wonderful to revisit and reminisce on the good times, and it was especially marvellous to see friends again. It was great to fall in love with the Lakes District all over again.
So get to the point I hear you say.. The reason I mentioned all this was that I have tonight arrived home from an overnight trip to Perth (4.5hrs each way) to catch up with a girlfriend who shared the exchange with me back in '95. Heather stayed in London and worked after our exchange and met and married etc. She was on her way home to Tasmania for a holiday and decided to have a stop over in Perth, so with my motto of "never let a chance go by" it was an opportunity too good to miss.
There were many stories retold and lots of laughs. One of the stories involved driving through the Lakes District after our exchange and up a one way street the wrong way in Windermere. Oops hope you can't get arrested this long after the event.
The weather here was very mild on her - the temperature only reached 30 degrees Celsius today. This summer has been very warm on the west coast this year and we on the south coast of WA have not recieved the normal summer rains that maitain our perennial pasture growth so things here are drier than usual.
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