"Strine"

Well, that is what is spoken here in Australia. Sometimes I just go and sit in cafes and soak it all up, it is brilliant! There are times when I don't understand anything. One time this one guy told his friend something very long and complicated and finished by saying: "Keep it under your hat". He was very adamant about it. I think I understood that he wanted the friend to keep something secret.  However, sometimes it is not so obvious.

Sometimes I hear hubby say about a female person "She scrubs up well".  I think it is a compliment, that it means that she is good-looking, but I am not sure.  Maybe it is only a literal meaning, i.e. she looks ok when she is clean (because she looks terrible when she is dirty).

Here is another one which always gets me. Sometimes hubby tells me he has to get up at sparrows because he has a flight to Melbourne or something. I will leave that one to you to try to figure out.  Good luck!
Click here for some expressions that you might want to learn if you are planning to visit us here Down Under, or listen to this!

Also, I just have to share this photo taken at Cronulla this weekend.  I went there to see the Cronulla Shark Island Swim race that I told you about in a previous blog and came across these beauties on the way back to my car.

The race is 2.3 km and the fastest swimmer did it in 27.45 minutes and the slowest in 1 hour and 29 minutes. He got as many, if not more cheers and applauds, as the actual winner because he was clearly a senior and he struggled up on his feet from the water with the help of a life guard. 

I have no photos from the actual race since my camera is very temperamental and was having a battery moment.