Big life stuff

When we sort out our finances and settle the lawsuit then 2025 will be a year for traveling hopefully. Not sure Bhutan will be in the next 12 months but definitely the year after. Wifey has fallen off the wagon whilst in Carolina so I guess if we visit it will be more fun. Her 50th is next March so I think I have to take her to Italy so Mus might have to be on high alert too.

Good luck with the next 12 months. I was single for a week working like a bastard and caring for pets (including the diabetic cat). It’s a lot of fucking work and I am knackered. Hopefully your system works better than mine.

Chicago: Feeling my age.

"M'darlun. You know how we've been talking about either Canada or Sardinia for next year, but you'd really rather do the latter? Well....

" I have an idea......"

I may be on the verge of doing an inverse-Russ and moving to the country. Ms noodlé’s health is rotten as fuck and the city is just too loud. She can’t get out much, so being somewhere quiet and green is very appealing. I always figured we’d get something rural eventually, though the plan was to pay off the flat and then be able to do both.. but now it’s maybe more like ‘sell the flat and get something really fucking nice, somewhere really fucking nice’. I’m not super wild about committing to another 10 years of mortgage payments and a lengthy commute, but I’m in a pretty good spot work/money wise so I won’t have to kill myself to buy something that I think will make me happy in a way that no city apartment ever could.

The countryside is lovely for about two months. Find a town with loads going on, or you'll be bored to death.

Rubbish. Towns are crap. Mansfield, Newark, Grantham, Loughborough, Lara, Geelong, all crap.

Australia does rural better than anywhere. You're obviously going to need a ute, a jet ski and a ride on lawn mower but sounds like you are coining it so you'll be rate. Best of luck to you both. Watch out for the snakes.

I’m pretty confident that being an hour or so from the middle of Melbourne.. and going there at least three times a week for work, will keep me suitably entertained. It’s not as if I’m a regular on the city social circuit. I’m not like Russ with his friends.

Do Melbourne Heart have ute parking?

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It's Australia. The country will kill you, although admittedly in different ways than the city.

If I buy any kind of cunt truck, please can one of you kill me.

Ride on lawnmower… well that sounds ace but we’ll probably just get some goats.

So you're a jetski guy!

Will you have to ride a kangaroo to get there?

We're already at level 3 Anglo-Aussie bantz Mince, lets not drag this down to Rolf Harris levels.

Riding goats sounds acer.

If you don't buy one won't the countryside locals kill you?

It's not all Mad Max. It's also Razorback.

It was nearly 20 years ago but once you got out of a city I remember it mostly being bogans.