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| I live in the City of Sydney, Australia.
I've moved house since I started this homepage. I used to live in the suburb of Homebush - which was the suburb closest to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games venues. But we sold it in August 1999. |
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After a few months house-hunting (when I stayed with 'my grandparents' and, surreptitiously, occasionally, in the townhouse where they have silly laws about animals) we finally found a new house. And for those who remember that my original reason for writing to all the councils (see My Goals in Life) was to find a dog-friendly place to live ... will be happy to know we have moved to the Northern Suburbs to a very dog-friendly street. In fact, I think the house we moved into was the only house with a dog-vacancy!
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The Northern Suburbs have a lot more natural bush left than where I first lived ... and this means that there is a lot more wildlife. I am still not used to possum eyes staring at me from the trees but I am getting used to these fellows. They are two Rainbow Lorikeets we call 'Bold' and 'Bashful' ... the former is no slouch when it comes to requesting a snack. |
I know you probably won't believe this, but I never used to dig at all before we moved to this house when I was five-and-a-half years old. But they had so trouble stripping out the undergrowth in the front 'garden' so the trees could breathe ... that they taught me how to help. Being a big strong dog, I was very helpful ... even ripping out a whole dead stump that we dug up.
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Where I live now has a natural creek at the back of the property and we often go for walks here. It is a narrow strip of remnant bushland surrounded by houses yet just deep enough to forget you are in the city. I never go into National Parks but the possums and birds and lizards who live in this little patch are very urbanised and often venture into what must be very-doggy-smelling back yards so they don't seem to mind as long as we leave each other alone. Cats are another matter but I know of only one cat here and it's a pensioner.
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This is my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel friend, Maja, who comes to stay with me sometimes. She likes the bushwalk too. |
As for some more info about the famous suburb I used to live in (site of the Sydney Olympic Games) and the famous city I do live in ...
If you want to find out more about the Sydney 2000 Olympics click here: