My wife has been bugging me for some time now to tell you guys that she would like to communicate with your wives. She has always been attracted to Australia. She told me once that many years ago she thought she would enjoy moving there to work as a truck driver so she could travel all over the place. One of my daughters spent a couple of months in Sydney in 2003 doing an internship as part of her educational requirement to get her degree in marketing. My wife was ready to go with her.
Anyway, if any of you guys have a wife who would be interested in corresponding with a surveyor's wife in the US let me know and we can find a way to get them chatting.
Seeing the sights 'down under' sounds like a perfectly good idea to me, but I wouldn't be the first person from Norman, OK to this that very thought..
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Holy Cow, post: 402341, member: 50 wrote: My wife has been bugging me for some time now to tell you guys that she would like to communicate with your wives. She has always been attracted to Australia. She told me once that many years ago she thought she would enjoy moving there to work as a truck driver so she could travel all over the place. One of my daughters spent a couple of months in Sydney in 2003 doing an internship as part of her educational requirement to get her degree in marketing. My wife was ready to go with her.
Anyway, if any of you guys have a wife who would be interested in corresponding with a surveyor's wife in the US let me know and we can find a way to get them chatting.
HC-Send me a message to derek@grahamsurveys.on.ca & I can send you a possible name of a fellow surveyor not known to most.
Cheers,
Derek
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Australian truck train. You could not get me behind the wheel of one of these. Driving from Alice Springs to Uluru was enough to impress on me the vastness of the country/continent. Advantageous exchange rates now.
Visited Australia in 2006 and liked it a great deal. Rather enjoy New Zealand more (twice there and am considering another visit in May).
Crumbs mate. You're game.
Letting your wife loose on an Aussie surveyors wife!
I guess there'd be a lot in common.
How many old bits surveying paraphernalia Surveyor found buried in ground, how so and so put the peg in the wrong place, ignoring the reference 1 metre away, can't go for a walk without a count of nails in kerbs, planners, engineers and lawyers that just don't understand and should be deported, how many RTK topo points were measured yesterday, the best survey chariot, where the greatest wingers live and how to avoid them as you measure past their place
Suppose there might be a bit of room for something other than the important stuff of surveying.
Do you still think it'd be worthwhile?
Richard, post: 402599, member: 833 wrote: where the greatest wingers live
What's a "winger"?
Oh dear. Apologies. "whinger". Not winger
Actually I'm not sure if the civilised, fair ladies of the northern hemisphere would understand the dialects of us southerners.
It's a rich tapestry of a mix of accents, tonal expression, looks and gestures. Takes a bit of getting used to, but once mastered makes life far more bearable even acceptable to all.
There's also Extrasensory perception, accompanied by a few well chosen words that cut across the narrow divide between truth and "I think we'll get away with this one".
The looks, the eyes, that expression that would fry a grizzly mid flight.
The gestures that are nothing like the ones we use (in. Out. Lift the pole /rod up. Come in. Go back,etc). No they're much more cultured, dramatic and are to be feared and respected,the consequences for not unmentionable.
The silence. When not a word is spoken and yet the message is loud and clear.
Ah. Life Down Under can indeed be intriguing for a surveyor and his wife.
HC you still sure you're willing to take the plunge?
