consider this my pm :)

is that this weekend? i have some stuff i am meant to be doing, but i might see if i can head on down if i can get out of it, or delay it.

Details coming your way!

...gonna eat me a lot o' peaches

Party fun times.

I might take my bocce set...

Who's going to look after Bob?

the cat

Aww that's good. Cute little noob.

Sucks though, Sydney won't be the same without you em. Where you moving to?

The cuntry

Country NSW.

Yee-haw.

Could you narrow it down a bit?

I need to know what regions to AVOID!!!!!!!!

I've often fantasised about moving to the country. I'll do it one day, when everything I need to do has been done.

Avoid all regions that I don't frequent.

Here:

Why would you move to Armidale?

This is madness!

How can you turn down Ridgey Didge Pies??

this is my dream empra. want to swap places?

Give me a few months sveltes?

I once knew a girl from Portland whose boyfriend went to work in Armidale. Mm-hmm.

sweet. i'll whip myself up some gingham dresses in that timeframe!

We can have tea & scones.

that picture just made me sigh.

Hey! No hard rubbish night either, you can have a perma-fire!

Wow! That's a very classy little cuntry area you have there!

Hmmm... Bugger. What's the fun of the country without illegal fires???

I don't need no hard rubbish. Enough of my own junk will be visiting the coles carpark before I leave.

There will be fires eventually, I just need to find the right area/demographic.

it snows in winter in woodend.

Grand, days off work here I come!

I haven't had snow in years, may have to invest in some chains for the car seeing as I'll be skating to work at 5am.

Woodend last July! Fuck yes!

Apparently it snowed here in November '06, but I don't think that's a regular occurence... And not enough to get out of work or anything.

This was 1984 though:

pwetty

Stunner. I have a few friends that went to UNE and don't recall any consistent snow stories.

I think that was the last major lot of snow... It's just damn damn cold.

Yah, I've been there in the dead of winter chasing down a veitnam vet for some story about rice with his son, twas fucking freezing and bleak. Only worthy aspect was a few side trips to satellite towns chasing second hand book glory and cosy fires.

could i please please please come visit and see snow?

i've never ever seen snow.

No, no visitors. Your welcome to meet me at the pub though and see the snow on the main street. Plus there be a train line which was ploughing through the stuff last year from what I'm reading, that would be a nice day trip.

awwww.

ok then. i'll meet you at the pub.

how are we going to jam now?

fuckin bumpkins.

It will probably all be put off for a while I'm afraid :[ Maybe round Easter time I'll look into space down here for jam action. Still really want to do as much, just not right now is all.

That said, I haven't actually got the place yet, so I may end up stuck here for a while to come. Scoring affordable housing out there is not that easy.

But the pub is ace. As I said, microbrewery, yummy beers.

I'm still debating this place as well you see

It is exactly what I want and an area I adore... but a lot to pay by ones self.

i think it's an excellent move mister. i wish i could do it myself.

It be what I need, thats for sure.

I grew up in Woodend, and I can attest to its greatness. I do plan to move back there when I'm ready to settle down.. but that's not going to be anytime soon.

It snows on average once a year, and if it doesn't settle in town you can always drive up Mt Macedon, where there is also great mountain biking tracks amongst other general niceness...

Good place, fond memories.