Pueo - see what the other Aussies say - but with that amount of time, Sydney may be your best bet.
Margo did a fabulous what to do in Sydney segment in an Abuzz thread where we went for a virtual world tour in the Stoatmobile - see if she can find it when she gets here.
A walk up the Bridge would be nice - harbour cruises - get out into the Blue Mountains - perhaps a trip to Canberra to see the war memorial, since you are interested in such things, possibly? - and the National Gallery - hiking in a national park near Sydney -they are bound to have somewhere where the kids can pet the cuter marsupials - there is an aquarium and zoo in Sydney that are good.
The Rocks is a fabulous area of old Sydney to explore - great Botanical gardens - Movie World prolly has tours the kids might enjoy - the Power House Museum is pretty interesting - on and on and on - Margo will be really helpful.
INS, auntie, is an acronym for Immigration and Naturalization Service. This is an American acronym. No clue how is it called in Australia, since my attorney does all the paperwork.
Aha Steissd - think it is just called Department of Immigration here. good luck. I still think you ought to have a look before committing yourself, though, if you get in...
(naturalized. if you go back are you artificialized?)
Dear Auntie Lowan --
I wish I had a horrible shooting pain down my left leg. If I did have such a problem, should I see a doctor? If I do develop such a pain, having wished it, does that mean I have special powers? Do my feet smell?
Sincerely,
Wishing Hard in Hardington
P.S.: 42 is, in fact, the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything. I don't know that you could accurately call it the "meaning" of life. Life is clearly a question, since it has an answer. As such, it neither denotes nor connotes, and therefore has no meaning. Anyway, that's what my lorakeet says.
Dear Wishing Hard in Hardington,
Doctors are, in general, useless with shooting pains down the left leg - unless, of course, they result from a shooting, in which case doctors are eminently advisable - but hopefully will be very competent indeed and hence need none.
Yes, your feet DO smell. But not as well as your nose, given your species.
Giving yourself a terrible pain in the left leg is NOT a sign of special powers - it is a sign that you are not the messiah, just a very naughty boy indeed.
As for the 42, we do NOT split hares on my threads!
("only the true messiah denies his own divinity"
"well what kind of chance does that give me? all right, i am the messiah!"
"HE IS THE MESSIAH!")
Dear Auntie Lowan:
Thank you for your response, but I am afraid I cannot take advice from anybody who watches the same movies as I do, as I am a depraved lunatic.
Oh, and I love your column. Doric, is it?
Fishing Bard in Fartington
Thank you, Fartington - it is, I believe, Ionian - neither too plain, like the Doric, nor too fancy, like the Corinthian, but Just Right.
And I thought the Messiah was on his/her way!
Dear Auntie Lowan ---- are you in any way related to
#1 royalty
#2 dame edna everage
#3 aunty bbc, who has this huge cottage industry of TV channels, radio stations, web site and millions of consumerables
oh and my skin and blister says, who's your favorite famous aussie and she says please can you get rolf harris extradited back to his mum, Alice Springs but can we keep Kylie Minogue if we promise to watch every episode of HHome and Away.
Thanking you with bated breath
Auntie:
What do you suppose is buried inside Queen Elizabeth's purse?
Dear Oldandknew,
1. No
2. NO!
3. No - but I am very fond of her daughter, Auntie ABC, who has similar attributes.
My favourite famous Australian.....hmmmmmm......Scott Hicks, at present, I think.
Rolf has been with you Brits for 50 years now - he is YOURS - I mean, we are sorry and all that, but his warranty ran out years ago!
You can keep Kylie for nothing, as far as I am concerned...
Scot Hicks ? who is he when he's at home ? Isn't that nice Steve Waugh a favorite squeeze of yours ?
I think Gautam speaks well of him in a cricketing sence that is
New Haven,
You know perfectly well there is a whole thread on QEII's purse! I believe yoiu have posted on it. Your answer lies there, Grasshopper.
Scott Hicks is a film director - "Snow Falling on Cedars" is a recent film - he is a home town boy - and a sweetie.
Cricket and sense is an oxymoron.
Dear Auntie Lowan
How come and why not?
Since I have to re-inspect all fifty of those damn handles again, should I re-work the portion of the program that defines the datum to use those five ribs to define a cylinder as I think the designer intended, or should I just chuck it all and run the parts on the video inspection system. Do you think I can see 40mm down without removing hardware from the lens?
For that matter...
When is my trip to Hungary?
And have the layoffs ended (for now)?
(Had me a cranky day at work doncha know...)
Deer Anti-Deelowing,
A unfortun8 incident left me paraLIESed from poison and the VICtum (as they say in ENN ZUD) of some al fresco dentistry. Wot aven-EWES do eye have in law 2 purs-EWE?
[pls 4give typing, cordIN8shun still BAD]
Dear Auntie D, will I have to file the schedule SE when I file the 1040 or can I just do the 1040 straight without the schedule SE? Will I have to do the schedule C?
littlek, just wait till april 14th to do that. it's much more fun that way.
