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That's Unlucky
Topic Started: Feb 27 2009, 07:50 AM (175 Views)
PC Pom	Feb 27 2009, 07:50 AM Post #1
Anyone for tennis? Posts: 654 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: March 23, 2006	Mrs Pom's two sisters took off from Heathrow yesterday, together. One lives about an hour's drive away from London's west side the other, well, in Crewe, so not exactly close. So the one from Crewe, we'll call her Barb (coz that's what her name is) decided to leave from Heathrow rather than Manchester because a) it's nice to travel together and b) it was actually cheaper to do so by a considerable margin. Since the new A380's fly out of Heathrow and not out of Manchester this clearly has something to do with the price reduction. At least that is what I and, I'm sure, many others would have thought. I've just checked on their flight status. They've made it to Singapore - in a B747-400. Whoops! Either side of their travel time and they'd have been on the A380. I wonder what happened and how bad they and all the other passengers who made the journey to Heathrow especially thinking they'd be flying in the more luxurious A380 feel? Maybe Singapore Airlines should explain themselves? Now they have a wait in the terminal. A mere nine and a half hours!!!!!!!! Then, at just after mid-night local time, they'll leave Singapore for Brisbane on a B777-200, arriving 09.50. That is going to be one unpredictably long and uncomfortable flight. Happy holidays!
	Koala Konnection UK to Australia and New Zealand. Migration Made Easy.


Tallyho!	Mar 6 2009, 11:43 AM Post #2
Croc Posts: 254 Group: Members Member #221 Joined: April 25, 2008	Hope the journey wasn't too bad and they've now enjoying a nice holiday. Kim x
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PC Pom	Mar 17 2009, 12:43 AM Post #3
Anyone for tennis? Posts: 654 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: March 23, 2006	Well, they are, and er... so are we. Did the Bundaberg trip to watch baby turtles hatch and visited the area above, below and to the side - the Bert Hinkler museum in Bundaberg is a must! The Bundaberg rum factory tour was good too, so I'm told. I toured the town instead and left the drinking to the girls. Just a couple of days after we were Tasmania bound. Landed in Hobart for a long weekend. Only just got back. Hilly place. Had more of an English large town feel about it than an Australian city. Port Arthur will blow your mind - fortunately the day was blessed with sunshine. Stayed in a lovely old house that could cater for a 'family' and did some road trips in a huge Nissan Pathfinder out to the forests and small coastal villages. Don't you just love it when the car rental company 'upgrades' you to an Arnie Wagon because the car you booked has mysteriously disappeared? Great driving roads. Such peaceful destinations. Yes, will go back some time to discover more wilderness. How was your weekend? P.
	Koala Konnection UK to Australia and New Zealand. Migration Made Easy.


Tallyho!	Mar 18 2009, 10:19 PM Post #4
Croc Posts: 254 Group: Members Member #221 Joined: April 25, 2008	Hi Paul Sounds like you've been having a good time. I've been away - got back last night so just a quick peek to see whats being going on. I've been in Egypt for a week with a friend - had a fantastic time, been off quad biking through the desert, snorkelling and diving and generally lazing round the pool. Oh and plenty of this!!!! Kim x
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PC Pom	Mar 22 2009, 11:56 PM Post #5
Anyone for tennis? Posts: 654 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: March 23, 2006	Wahoooooooooooooo! Quad biking through the desert?! That sounds like a whole lotta fun to me! Friends went 4wd in Dubai, in the biggest of big 4wds but although they said it was great fun it didn't appeal to us much, being cacooned in a wall of shiney steel and glass. We're much more "wind in your hair" type people - once owned a mad Beach Buggy! Russ must be too with his boat! Mate, where are you? P.
	Koala Konnection UK to Australia and New Zealand. Migration Made Easy.


Tallyho!	Mar 27 2009, 09:47 AM Post #6
Croc Posts: 254 Group: Members Member #221 Joined: April 25, 2008	PC Pom Mar 22 2009, 11:56 PM Wahoooooooooooooo! Quad biking through the desert?! That sounds like a whole lotta fun to me! Quad biking was fantastic fun. 4 hours rampaging around the Egyptian desert - left me absolutely filthy but with the biggest grin on my face ever! Can't wait to try it again. K
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PC Pom	Mar 31 2009, 12:53 AM Post #7
Anyone for tennis? Posts: 654 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: March 23, 2006	I know it's not the hot Sahara, but what's wrong with quad biking in English mud? There's only one place in the world where you can go bog snorkelling... Even attend the bog snorkelling championships, I believe. Dyke hopping is also fun in the Fens, I'm reliably informed. There's fell running too, if it takes your fancy. So much choice of winter sports! Whadaya wanna come over here for?
	Koala Konnection UK to Australia and New Zealand. Migration Made Easy.


Tallyho!	Mar 31 2009, 10:45 PM Post #8
Croc Posts: 254 Group: Members Member #221 Joined: April 25, 2008	PC Pom Mar 31 2009, 12:53 AM I know it's not the hot Sahara, but what's wrong with quad biking in English mud? There's only one place in the world where you can go bog snorkelling... Even attend the bog snorkelling championships, I believe. Dyke hopping is also fun in the Fens, I'm reliably informed. There's fell running too, if it takes your fancy. So much choice of winter sports! Whadaya wanna come over here for? I've been to the bog snorkelling championships - not for me thanks! Definitely going quad biking over here, we're just trying to find something and are having another go, such good fun
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PC Pom	Apr 1 2009, 11:11 PM Post #9
Anyone for tennis? Posts: 654 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: March 23, 2006	That's great. I wouldn't mind having ago here. One step up from the mountain bike (that only ever sees tarmac). Probably several steps up then.
	Koala Konnection UK to Australia and New Zealand. Migration Made Easy.


airconkid	Apr 15 2009, 11:04 AM Post #10
MODERATOR- Great White Posts: 639 Group: Members Member #25 Joined: November 14, 2006	You think thats unlucky????????? A friend of a friend, was mowing his front lawn on his ride on mower..................................................................................... And got hit by a ute. (The driver lost control of his ute a couple of houses up the street, from where the guy was mowing his lawn) Thats unlucky!!!!!! Aircon
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airconkid	Apr 15 2009, 11:08 AM Post #11
MODERATOR- Great White Posts: 639 Group: Members Member #25 Joined: November 14, 2006	........Unless you can count the time I bought a 'TOPIC', and did not have a sniff of a hazelnut in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL Aircon
	Grab the cane toad by the legs and go for it, life is too short to wander "What if...." or "If only...." Now LOVING *"A New Life Down Under"*


PC Pom	Apr 17 2009, 02:17 AM Post #12
Anyone for tennis? Posts: 654 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: March 23, 2006	Mrs Pom and I were walking back from town quite a few years ago. Er, we were in Brighton (south England) so it was a long time ago, but the memories are quite vivid. Anyone that's been to Brighton will know its hilly streets and the needs for good brakes. You'll also know that cars park 'tightly' either side of the roads. We were walking up one of those roads. The sun was shining and life was good. Coming the other way, down the steep hill, was a small car, about the size of a Metro or Panda. Remember those? He was sideways, for a moment. That's when he hit one car on one side of the street. Bouncing off he hit another, on the other side of the street, and then another, and then another and so on. This lunatic lost control and ping-ponged his vehicle to the mid-point of the street. I remember a tiny Fiat 500 was one of the many casualties. Someone's pride and joy, parked neatly and minding its own business, slammed into by the young clown with heaven knows what flowing through his veins. In the storm of October 87 or whenever it was (the one Michael Fish kinda forgot to warn us about...) again I was in Brighton. Trees crushed cars, walls fellover and building worked collapsed. I had a big branch land on my camper's roof. I spotted a Morris Minor Travellor impailed to the road by a scaffold pole that had fallen from the rest of the scaffolding tower surrounding a building. Of all the places to park! Cars either side were fine. In his case the pole had pierced the roof, punctured the floor and then forced its way through the tarmac into the earth. The pole had bent to almost ninety degrees just above the vehicle's roofline. During that same storm the front wall of the student's accommodation building on the seafront disappeared, leaving rooms with millionaire dollar open views of the oceans. Amazingly no one was hurt. But my favourite (this really hurts) was the old VW camper I saw in Hove (next to Brighton). These old vans, despite being converted to campers, rarely get used as campers and usually end up carrying all sorts of stuff around - people, cargo, whatever. However, I bet the owner didn't think he'd be carrying the bricks of the chimney of the small block of flats he parked next to (and probably lived in). The glass-fibre pop-top was no defence to the bricks falling from 40m or so above in the storm. I would say about 90% of the bricks fell directly into the camper, smashing the roof and the camper's '60s wooden interior in the process. Now that's unlucky!
	Koala Konnection UK to Australia and New Zealand. Migration Made Easy.


airconkid	Apr 19 2009, 05:35 AM Post #13
MODERATOR- Great White Posts: 639 Group: Members Member #25 Joined: November 14, 2006	Ref. the storms of October '87; Thats when Seven Oakes, became Five Oakes, if memory serves me right.......... I was on military exercises on Salisbury Plain then. We were returning to Aldershot after the exercise ended, and I was 1 of 3 Don R's. (motorcycle riders) looking after the convoys of military vehicles. I remember riding at 45 degrees to the road, the wind was that strong. Our Comanding Officer saw how we were riding, and told us to load up our motor bikes onto a truck, and enjoy our ride back to camp. Bliss...................................... Aircon
	Grab the cane toad by the legs and go for it, life is too short to wander "What if...." or "If only...." Now LOVING *"A New Life Down Under"*


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