{"id":237,"date":"2010-11-08T15:36:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/our-time-in-australia-consisted-of-a-brief-fear-but-our-home-offered-protection\/"},"modified":"2010-11-08T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:36:11","slug":"our-time-in-australia-consisted-of-a-brief-fear-but-our-home-offered-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/our-time-in-australia-consisted-of-a-brief-fear-but-our-home-offered-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Time In Australia Consisted Of A Brief Fear But Our Home Offered Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gazing out of my window I can see the first omens of the leaves colouring on the trees. We had our first precursor of autumn a two weeks ago when a massive house spider scuttled across the living room carpet. Following that we have seen another three and another is hiding near the stairs somewhere. I’m not the best with spiders, and I wish I could bbq<\/a> the lot of them. It was one of my fears when we moved to Canberra as the red back frequently lives under toilet seats and is known to nip at things that dangle too adjacent. The fact they can be deadly toxic just increases the sorrow. But for some reason they never live above the 2nd floor in a building and we got an apartment on the third in ours.<\/p>\n

We lived in an apartment block called Capital Tower, one of the 2 highest buildings in the ACT. The other one, Rydges Hotel was next door and was handy for a swift drink on the way home on a warm day. The main bar had pictures of all Australian prime ministers including the greatest, Harold Holt who went swimming in a cove near Melbourne on December 17th 1967 and vanished.<\/p>\n

Our apartment building contained a gym which had a sauna and hot tub for relaxing after a work out which I used several times a week. Ironic, bearing in mind it was free for us to use and I had paid a fortune for a membership in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and yet I only rarely went. Outside it also had a garden which contained a swimming pool and a massive gas bbq<\/a> that you could use as long as it was booked and left clean. There was also a smaller charcoal bbq which largely redundant as you had to provide your own briquettes and have it cleaned and cleared of ash and rubbish. The grounds also had a couple of tennis courts as well which were usually in use once autumn was done.<\/p>\n

Leaving the complex, you could turn right along a path to walk into the central business district, known as the Civic, or turn left which took you across a bridge to the side of lake Burley Griffin, called after the man who was the architect for Canberra when Australians decided to create a city to be a home to the federal government. There was a little beach, though swimming wasn’t a good idea, but also a place where you could hirerent rowing boats and pedalos and also a picnic space which had a public bbq space with anybody could use if there was an unused charcoal bbq as long as they had their own briquettes. If they hadn’t got charcoals, you could use a gas bbq which were worked by putting in a coin which would deliver a metered measurement of gas. These were all over the place in Australia which is of course keen on the bbq as a cultural icon and not everyone wants to cart a portable bbq with them when they go out for the day. They just want to carry the grub and grog they will need to get them through the day.<\/p>\n

We should have them in the United Kingdom at parks, beaches or other places where groups of people go to spend a day outdoors.<\/p>\n

For the best in gas barbeques<\/a> visit 2bbq<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gazing out of my window I can see the initial omens of the leaves changing on the trees. We had our first harbinger of autumn a 2 weeks ago when a massive house spider ran across the living room carpet. Following that we have spotted another 3 and another is lurking near the stairs somewhere. I’m not the best with spiders, and I wish I could bbq<\/a> the lot of them. It was one of my horrors when we moved to Canberra as the red back sometimes lives under toilet seats and is known to bite at things that dangle too adjacent. The fact they can be deadly toxic just increases the humiliation. But for some reason they rarely live above the second floor in a building and we had a flat on the third in ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[321,74,322],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-gardening-ideas","tag-bbq","tag-container-gardening-ideas-2","tag-gas-bbq"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}