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It has now been 8 years since we emigrated to Australia for a year, just as spring was starting which was fantastic for us as of course we were leaving England just as autumn was limbering up. Spring moved on to summer and by the time the Australian Capital Territory autumn fell in about April and by then we'd had a 12 months of climates worthy only for rejoicing with the bbq grills. What we weren't prepared for was the winter which was brutal but odd. During the day the sun would lift the mercury to 20 degrees and at night it fell to anything down to minus five with a biting wind that blew down off the Snowy Mountains that sit to the south between Canberra and Melbourne.

That Christmas we had a villa at Jervis Bay on the New South Wales coast with a bunch of friends where we had xmas dinner cooked on a gas barbeque in the teeming rain. For New Years Eve we were home in Canberra and on New Years Day we drove up to Sydney for a mini break and on the second I met up with an old pal who was on holiday and we got the bus to the Sydney Cricket Ground for the 2nd days play of the last Test. By this time it was done and dusted anyway, Australia were already 4-0 up and England were staring the prospect of a whitewash. Worrying times.

Despite that, we had a fantastic day. We saw Alec Stewart become the 3rd top Test career scoring batsman, Stephen Waugh was breaking Allan Border's aggregate for the most matches as captain of Australia in Tests, and that afternoon he beat Sir Don Bradman's record of twenty nine Test centuries, though naturally the Don did it in many fewer games.

In the evening, we nearly did something that won't generally occur in the English language and for dinner went for a German. The of pork, potatoes and cabbage doesn't usually figure much in the choices but eventually we ended up in a pub which had an enormous charcoal barbeque in the middle of it and punters brought their own meat to the pub with them and they threw it on the bbq grills for you and then you paid for chips, salad or veg. It was fantastic and in fact quite normal in Australia, but the charcoal barbeque was usually found outside.

Something else which is common and is I think the Aussie most important gift to global culture, is having a betting shop inside the pub too. This is because most Aussie towns outside the capital cities are actually so small that they are required to double up in resources and because it has to be the same regulations whether in town or country, this means that you can go to the butchers, continue to the pub and get a wet while your food is being cooked on the gas barbeque or charcoal barbeque and put a wager on the next race as you're eating it. And when you've done and if you haven't blown all your spare change, you can get a case of beers to speed you on your way home because the pub may have a bottle shop (off licence) on board as well. Your enthusiastic reprobate can only have a more pleasant day if somebody puts him in charge of to the remote control to the pub's TV.

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