That's clever I must suggest it to our hairdresser.

Wow, think of the time we could save! He he

Gosh would that not have been marvellous, wish we lived closer.

Moose BBQ too?

We don't actually eat moose here, but we do eat buffalo, or Bison. It's low in cholesterol and delicious. But, at Christmastime our grill is covered and we don't use it much because it is just too darn cold to cook outside. The food would freeze while we try to cook it - lol

Thank You Marg, from all of us DownUnder. You said it so well. Lyn

he he he he I can just picture this!!

Hey thios is sooo good

This is so true Meg, or have we been drinking? Lyn

Nah! I stopped drinking when I learnt how to guzzle!!!! :-)))

Well, for Christmas lunch, I still follow the family tradition of Roast Pork & hot apple sauce, Roast Turkey with macadamia (sp?) nut stuffing and Cranberry sauce and Pineapple and Cherry Glazed Ham, all served with crispy baked potatoes, butternut pumpkin & sweet potato and steamed fresh green beans and peas and gravy mad from the pan drippings if anyone wants it.
Follow that with home made plum pudding and hot custard and Frozen plum pudding with brandy sauce.

Then we all sleep the afternoon away until we get peckish and go and raid the leftovers for dinner.

I have also gone with having all the meats cold with salads and plenty of fresh king tiger prawns, but I still prefer the traditional Christmas.

Hugs n roses, Meganne

Everything sounds delicious! Especially the cherry glazed ham - yummy. I've never heard of peckish before, but I think we've felt that way :-). Thanks for the traditional information, I love learning about other families! I'd love the ham glaze recipe...

For my family, lunch is usually the traditional British roast (as that's where we're from), but dinner is a BBQ outside with steaks, snags (sausages) & prawns with salads and all the crunchy fatty snacks one has at a get-together lol (potato chips, crackers & cheese etc). Dessert is jelly (jello?) & icecream or Christmas pudding & custard.

I wish I could remember the site where I saw Santa and his 6 white boomers (kangaroos) as an embroidery design - wearing a singlet shirt, boxer shorts, thongs (flip-flops) and is very sunburned lol. Tho Santa at the shops when you take your children for photos does wear the red suit (and is usually sweating lol).

I've never eaten wombat but out here in the wheat-belt where I live the kangaroos are a menace to the farmers and are culled. Till I moved here I'd never eaten it, but it really is nice..very low fat and choc-full of iron .. yummy :)

I envy you for not having flies! xXx

oh, and peckish = hungry (you're not starving but you just feel like topping up your tummy).

I have lived in North hemisphere for many years but I'm from the South. Everything in life seems to be the same to me, but the mother Nature. Yes, water twirls to the opposite side here in the South part, and no, heaven is different, just the opposite of the North, as the seasons are too. I hate bath tubs. When I lived in the North, I hated to clean that thing, as I lived in a rent house, it just came together, no choice, but was never used by my family. I love shower, running water, clean and refreshingly as I want to turn after a deserved shower. BTW I love your nickname and your humor. I laughed a lot.

Oops, my comments were meant to be for the other topic about the baths tubes and twirl water..

I've had a LOT of fun with this strand too! It is really fun having friends all over the world and examining the differences and the similarities! But, I'm still not sure about the toilets in Oz. If you don't have water in them..... what do you have???

we have water in them, just not half way up the bowl. If it ever gets that way, then we know it is time to go get the plumber's plunger to "un-block" it. LOLOL!!!!

Think our moon was full yesterday too in New Zealand. The bath water, I will check next time and let you know ;) I was taught it was opposite in the hemispheres.

Yes, a beautiful full moon,(no clouds).And I was up very late here on cute.

What I can't understand is why American loo's are half full of water?
It took me ages to learn to sit high enough that I didn't get a wet bum!!!!!
:-)))

And why are your light switches upside down? Up is off and down is on! I just never did get the hang of them. LOL!!!
HNR, M

lol Meganne I always think that when I'm watching a movie: she flicked the light switch UP and the light came ON? hrm broken switch lol.

Their dunnies are 1/2 full already? lol ok wet bum for me too then.

Yes we're in full moon stage, and um I think the water goes down the sink clockwise. I dont really pay attention lol.

Interesting. My kid just learnt in geography that a hurricane does turn in the opposite direction if it is in the southern hemisphere than it would if it was in the northen. The water might just flow out differently too. What is amazing to me is the steering wheels of the cars that is on the other side and driving in the right lane. I don't think I will be able to manage that. I can not think that I will be able to change gears with my right hand.

The water is in the toilet so it doesn't stink so bad when it plops in there - LOL - doesn't your Loo have water in it??
Our water in the tub spins counter-clockwise when it drains and so do the hurricanes. Don't you have cyclones that spin clockwise? Which way do your doorknobs turn? Is your cold water on the right and hot on the left? I'll bet is it hard for drivers changing from one side to the other! I guess the Earth isn't so large that the phases of the moon aren't any different at least! How in the world did anyone figure all of this out?!?!

I wonder what happens right ON the equator!

lol @ the toilet! Yeah, our loos have water but I guess we're conservative so there's only enough water to cover the s-bend/trap (to keep the stinkies at bay). Our cyclones do indeed spin clockwise (I believe). Doorknobs in my house turn either way but some houses have posh ones that you push down on to open. Hrm the tap thing..taps in my house are hot on the left and cold on the right, but I always get burned at my mom & dad's house coz they're installed the other way round and oh my they're water is well over the 60C its supposed to be set at. I guess it makes for a great adventure travelling to the USA from down here lol, so many changes to cope with.

I couldn't manage driving a car in the States and even my American husband kept forgetting how to do a U turn, he got himself all confused and ended up in the left side lane instead of the right.
Trouble was he kept wandering into the left lane while we were driving too.

I kept going to get into the car on the driver's side, which of course is the passenger's side here in Aus.

And I often now find myself walking on the right side of shopping malls and escalators and footpaths, instead of our traditional left side.

It can get very confusing.

One thing I miss here in Aus is a good hotdog. America has the best hot dogs and those little Links sausages, Makes my mouth water.

I'll have to visit once more before I die, just so I can go back to New Orleans and have some Gumbo and Nacho's made from turtle meat. And I still haven't tried Pumpkin pie but I do LOVE key Lime pies.

OK, now I'm hungry. :-)))
Hgs, meg

In NZ we call them popsicles or ice blocks. A frozen drink on a stick.

Many years ago when I was growing up in NZ,we called them TT2s

I COULD tell you what an Icy Pole is but I might get myself banned!!! hahahahaha!!!

Well...... in the past they've been called Slippery Sam ice confections, too.
I could tell you a very funny story about a Slippery Sam that jumped out of his plastic skin onto the kitchen floor beneath the kitchen table and a very pregnant me on my hands and knees trying to retrieve him before he melted sticky juice all over the floor and giggling myself into hopeless helplessness all the while......
but I won't.....
AlmaG.

I'm so glad you did!!!!! I can just picture that!!! he he he heheheh hhe hiccup I am learning soooooo much!

Wow! Lynda you must be the era as I remember TT2's also...where in NZ are you from I was born in Takapuna Auckland.

When you look at Meg's map below you can see that - amazing!

Double dittos!

Not sure about Australia, but we get penguins in New Zealand.

I haven't seen any! LOL!!!
And yes that is an EMU, pronounced em as in seam, and U as in you, not "emoo". LOLOL!!!!

Yes we have penguins. Years ago I was so priviledge to safe a penguin from an oil spill in Tsitsikama and looked after it for a few weeks.

HOw neat to take care of one! Which kind? Did you tame it? I would want to keep it.
Thanks for the pronunciation, Meg! Do you see emus in the wild or are they domesticated? Their faces are soo Cute - he's a Cutie! I have this photo on my desktop, I think he is adorable. IF any of you want the large jpg let me know and I'll email it to you. Are Kiwis in New Zealand a wild bird or domestic? I am just thrilled to get this info from the real sources!

Lucky for the pull of gravity that we don't fall off.The earth makes one revolution every 24 hrs thus night and day.