From South to East

We helped our friend Audrey move house yesterday. Get this – somebody is letting them stay in an apartment in East Perth for free! When I saw the apartment, all I could think was “I could live in a place like this…” Of course I could only live there if somebody offered their place rent-free to me also!

Jonni and I were here faithful white and perfectly tanned (respectively) buddies that aided her in the transition.

I must admit, I’m not that used to doing so much lifting and what not so I got home and pretty much collapsed.

Maybe I need to toughen up too, Audrey!

Christmas Light Critics

After strolling through the city the other night, Jonni seconds my comments toward the city’s attempt at livening the place with Christmas decorations. We both agree that if you’re going to put up decorations, you’ve gotta go all out – half-hearted attempts look very miserable indeed.

Maybe Perth has redeemed itself somewhat with the introduction of extended trading hours in “inner-city suburbs”. This means suburbs such as Leederville, Victoria Park and North, South and East Perth can have weekday trading until 9pm, as well as Sunday trading. There is optimism to expand this to Midland and Armadale also.

Despite the fact that I’m pro-extended trading (mainly weekdays – I think Sundays is a bit too far) this new legislation does make we wonder – what is the point of having a referendum if Parliament are going to implement the changes anyway? Can we expect a similar thing to happen with Daylight Savings? It makes one question if our politicians are truly representing our views at times – although Barnett did announce some time ago that extended trading would be introduced – he couldn’t have actually kept a promise could he?

Oh politicians – I wouldn’t want to be one.