Apparently, the Adelaide council is going to spend a million dollars and four years, making traffic better, by synchronising traffic lights, and moving bus stops so they're in bays so that they don't block the traffic behind them ( Read more... )

I have to buy some stamps soon. Overseas stamps have gone up to $1.50 each now. And I was thinking... apparently it's still under a dollar in the US to send things overseas. And our exchange rate is almost the same now. I know they're closer to other countries than we are, but are our letters *really* deserving of an extra 50 cents? 

OK, here's a point for discussion if you're up for it ( Read more... )

This may seem a little odd. But as I'm in the UK I have no idea what is going on in Australia. So I'm asking you fellow Aussies to reply or send me an email and let me know what is going on in your world! Remember I've been here for 8 weeks so I need details about everything, Big Brother, lastest news, gossip, etc.

Thank you very much.

I live in an area of the United States (the Pacific Northwest) where we have a fair lot of spiders, due to the large number of forested areas here. I run across at least one spider a day, if not more. However, the most poisonous spiders that dwell in these parts are shy, non-aggressive, and hard to come across by accident (the brown recluse and the ( Read more... )