Australian Culture

Since being here I've mastered BQQing and spider hunting/assassination!! So after 7 months my total knowledge of Australian culture is appalling! Before getting here I was smug that I knew who Bert Newton is ( I'm a fan from a trip to Sydney in 2000)!!!

So here are the 'famous' Australians I know:

Kylie, Jason, Rolf Harris, Thorpedo,Shane Warne, John Torode (think he's famous in UK & not here), Danni, Craig MacLachlan!!

Pretty poor!

I can't name any famous Australian inventions or inventors (did the guy who found treatment for Heliobacter Pylori come from Oz?)

Poor!!

I've seen the following Australian films:
The mystery at hanging rock (not even sure that's the real name),Priscilla, Muriel's Wedding, Drift and genuinely that's it!!!

Australian novels I've read? The Slap, that's it!!

So here's the list of what I'm going to do, learn, read to understand Australia more !!

1. Learn the rules of AFL & pick a team!!
2. Start reading my way through the Top 50 Australian books
3. Learn what a bloody bilby is!!
4. Tone my thighs so I can wear a skirt without chaffing
5. Stop inviting people to my house and start arranging to meet up at random locations 3 hours drive away, to eat a sausage in a bun with 1 beer (I'm driving) and move the contents of my house with me so I can be comfortable at said park!! Cool box, chairs, blankets! I'm going to blog about both this & 'Sausage Sizzles' at a later date!!
6. Watch 1 Australian film every month ( any recommendations much appreciated).
7. Learn to be safe at the beach! I need to get wee ones into Surfies & I'm contemplating doing the training to be a helper at Surf Club

Other than this list, does anyone have any other suggestions?

Drift preview!!!!

www.driftthemovie.com/

Lily & I were lucky enough to see a preview of Drift & take part in a Q&A with Sam Worthington, Myles Pollard & Xavier Samuel. All 3 are gorgeous, Myles in the flesh & Xavier on the screen, sorry Sam, you didn't float my boat!!

I loved the movie and I mean LOVED! I'm a child of the 80's and I loved Point Break, this is better! It makes you wish you were there in 1972 rather than born in 72 like me! It gave me a mid life crisis, I wanted to go buy a board & suit as soon as I left the cinema!

W.A. looks amazing, anyone wondering why we've come here watch this film!! It's spurred me in to learn more about Australian culture & tbh it's given me a kick up the arse to be part of what's going on here! Lily met a star of Twilight, he was just there, talking to us, none of the crazy shit you'd get in Europe, typical WA, you know meet an international movie star in your local cinema!

Go see it, its brilliant and it's even more brilliant cause these guys love surfing, love WA and it's contagious.

Smitten Saturday

My lovely friend Sarah has been blogging for a while now, we've even been featured a few times!! (Let's not mention Bob)!!! I'm hijacking her post to try & get me thinking more positively!! 

Weekly we've to write about what we're loving that week, can be anything!! So trying to think about what to write about I thought would be hard, but here it is!! 

I'm an island girl, Isle of Bute,Scotland. The island is teeny & I spent most of my teens desperate to leave and it's only since arriving in Perth I've realised just how much I've missed living by the sea. I'm down there at least 3 times a week, I love the smell and I especially love it when it's raining & the wind is blowing! That doesn't happen much here, but it makes me feel alive. I guess that's a cliche? But I don't know how else to say it. I'm easily drawn in to the daily bullshit of 'things', you know house, car, etc etc. I try not to be, I know it's not important, and I love this move cause its given us a fresh start, but when the anxiety starts to rise, and I question what we've done, the beach is where I head. 

On Bute I can remember loving walking at night when it was almost a gale & knowing that I was alive, that I was part of something bigger. The same is true here in Perth, the sea & being able to take a deep breath is why we're here!