Category Archives: hairy panic

A yabbie dabbie doo Chrissie

Posted on December 28, 2011 by waggadventure

So, what did we do on our first real southern hemisphere Christmas (we say real because last year we were in Ushuaia, Argentina but that was a novelty…a vacation, not how we live)? Well, on Christmas Eve we had dinner … Continue reading →

Posted in bicycles, birds, bogans, Christmas, food, hairy panic, holidays, wine, wineries | 4 Comments

Meta Blog

Posted on June 18, 2011 by waggadventure

Did you know that WordPress lets you write a blog entry and then schedule it to publish later? That is what we did with this one. We are somewhere in the UK, having too much fun to blog.  So it … Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Canada, cats, hairy panic | 5 Comments

How to speak Australian

Posted on April 24, 2011 by waggadventure

For the readers out there who may be wondering, Wagga Wagga is pronounced wogga wogga. The ‘a’ isn’t a long ‘a’ as in hay, or a short ‘a’ as in cat, but more of an aw sound as in Australia. … Continue reading →

Posted in bogans, ferals, hairy panic, language, utes, wagga, wine | 4 Comments

Herding cats: makes AA’s twelve step program seem easy

Posted on April 8, 2011 by waggadventure

Not that either of us has ever tried to quit drinking, nor will we in the near future (see the bullet point in the last entry about the quantity of wine made in Australia); but everyone knows that Alcoholics Anonymous … Continue reading →

Posted in cats, hairy panic, quarantine | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

And we’re off! Well, not yet, but it’s about to happen.

Posted on April 5, 2011 by waggadventure

So, this is it: the start of the Dan and Lisa Given blog on moving to Australia.  We’re going to Wagga Wagga, a town of 63500 people and about 1/2 billion sheep in the Riverina district of New South Wales.  … Continue reading →

Posted in hairy panic, Moving, Visa | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments