S'true. Mum was able to buy very similar tea in Oz. And it probably wasn't home-grown.
Admittedly she couldn't buy the exact brand and flavour she likes... When I say she's fussy I'm not being overly harsh. The woman can tell the difference between water boiled in a saucepan (her preference) or in a kettle.

God help you if you try to tax it, though. :D

Chris, you'll be landing at the start of the football finals season. If you're in Sydney, that means rugby league, but IIRC you're going to Melbourne, which is Aussie Rules. They're pretty crazy about it there. You might find it helps to have a team. You'd probably do best with one of the Melbourne-based teams, and of these Hawthorn or Collingwood are a fair chance to win the cup.

Just don't say you're "rooting" for a footy team. We only use that word as a verb to mean having sex with.
Unless you are rooting for the team, of course.

We have a new kettle. It's making the tea taste all wrong. Both of us can taste it. I may be a little "fussy" but beest certainly isn't. (He married me, after all....)

Chris, have you looked on the internet for the cream you use? In some cases you can get stuff like that delivered by post and if customs don't happen to check it, it might get through. I assume that'd be the illegal way to do it, but if it's really important to you to have it, then I guess you would have to make that call.

The other alternative is to go see a doc here as soon as you land and get something similar that's legal in Oz. If you only need a couple of weeks supply you might be ok dollar wise. A doctors appointment will only cost you about $50, then the script will cost whatever it costs. You could have it sorted within a couple of hours.

After a quick websearch, it looks like there's a product called 'testogel' which is legal in Australia. You should talk to your doc in the US and see if you can get that brand maybe? Alternatively, get your doc to contact a doc local to the area you'll be staying over here and arrange an appointment for you ahead of time.

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Major Haggis!

If'n you want to visit Aus, Ibby, my Uncle would put you up.
You'd be a bus ride away from meeting Ali.

I only say that so that when you are rich & notorious I can contact you and borrow for the airfare to go myself. It's the thought that counts, right?

Clock spider! *shudder*

We have picture spiders in our house, Razz.

Its a bit of a hazard moving pictures here, but I can usually see a leg poking out as a warning.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!! I'm so not travelling anywhere, ever. I can handle regular teeny boring non-lethal spiders.. but giant and/or deadly ones freak me out something fierce!

It was in the news recently that the stocks of anti-venom for funnel web spiders are running low, and the lab that makes it are low on spiders, and so ... wait for it ... they are asking the public to bring in funnel web spiders if they trap them.

Ummm , am I the only one who can see this going badly wrong?

:unsure:

Paraphrased from a Guide to Dangerous Australian Animals. Emphasis added, for the sake of the shudders.

Have a great time, Chris. ;)

Hey, you're addressing a world traveler who has survived the wilds of Africa, Paris, and other inhospitable environs. He ain't scairt. :p:

Yeah, he probably won't see any funnel webs anyway.


They're far too fast to see. :devil: