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Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 3 Nov

We’ve been away for a week and without internet so I’m well behind with discussions, responses and comments. We had intended to be away a bit longer but some friends from Bavaria have made a sudden decision to come to Perth so...

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Turn your pennies twice

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Feb 25

I wrote recently about a saying I hadn’t heard before. Our German friend used it. Translated from her native language, it was ‘making an elephant out of a mouse’. Tonight, she used another one she’d translated and that we hadn’t...

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Making an elephant out of a mouse

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Jan 25

The photo is Vince’s of the mountains in Nepal. We have remained friends with several of the people we hosted when we were in couch-surfing. One of them now lives not far from us. She is a FIFO worker (fly in, fly out) and rents...

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Catching up with a couch-surfer

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Oct 23

This evening, we’re going out to the airport to pick up a lady who we first met as a couch-surfer about 15 or more years ago. She was originally from Germany but now has Australian citizenship. She has been living in Darwin on the...

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Getting on people's nerves

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 23 Feb 23

Chatting with Sonja Rae about how a person’s small habits can get on your nerves reminds me of a backpacker we had. She worked 7 kms away in the town but stayed with us on and off for quite some time. I think she liked the company...

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Swearing in another language

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 21 Dec 21

I’ve written a couple of posts recently about swearing and I have one more story to tell that involves the over-use of the ‘F’ word. When we lived near Donnybrook, we often hosted couch-surfers. These were mostly young people...

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From Australia to Austria

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 22 Sep 20

Do you like my little collection of miniature horses? This isn’t quite all of them but I’ve had these since I was very young. They are all being packed in a wooden box we made, which I’ve written about, and will be posted off to...

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Do you back-pedal often?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Aug 20

I found myself using ‘back-pedalling’ in a comment recently and it struck me that it’s another of those terms that may not be universally known. To back-pedal is to change one’s opinion or stance on a particular subject. So, I...

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Another bridge washed away

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 25 May 20

We have had a lot of storm damage along our coastline in Western Australia but only some strong wind and rain here. Being half an hour inland seems to make all the difference. Our capital has had a lot of damage. The little...

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Percy Button in Perth Mall

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 28 Nov 19

I am quite convinced you can find anything on the internet. A few years ago we walked through the Perth mall and came across this statue. We've taken photos of it before. The sculpture is modelled on a character who used to...

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From the Urban Wilderness by MyLotter Rachel

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Sep 19

I had intended to post this some months ago but didn’t. Rachel Lovejoy (@Raelove) has been absent from myLot for quite some time but has now returned so it was a good prompt to get my act together. Welcome back, Rachel. A long...

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Karma and a fairytale castle

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 8 Apr 19

I’ve managed to put a photo on my previous post thanks to JJ’s advice (@myklj999). This photo is really small too but hopefully you’ll enjoy it. In 2015 we bought an old motor-home in Ireland and lived in it for five months. We...

neuschwanstein castle

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Surfing couches in Singapore

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Apr 19

Although we hosted a lot of couch-surfers, we didn’t ‘surf many couches’ ourselves. There were various reasons. Many young hosts could only offer a couch or somewhere to lay your sleeping bag. Some could only take one person. When...

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Hercules liked backpackers too

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Apr 19

As I look through photos of our couch surfers who have stayed with us, I’m reminded of more and more of them and their stories. As you can imagine, they were over the moon with being able to see and photograph the kangaroos that...

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Be careful when learning foreign phrases

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Apr 19

Yesterday I wrote about the two South Korean girls that came out for a meal. The older of the two wore her national dress. You can catch up here if you like: http://www.mylot.com/post/3265332/mum-packed-her-national-dress The...

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Mum packed her national dress

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Apr 19

These next two backpackers are going to get two posts as there is a lot to say about them. They were two South Korean girls that my husband picked late one afternoon. They were hitch-hiking and he didn't really like picking them...

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All in the name of love

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 4 Apr 19

Another post about the back-packers we’re hosted. One was a German lad called Christian. He stayed at the hotel in Donnybrook where he was working but would ring to ask could he come out on weekends. He would join in with whatever...

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Backpackers and a petanque game

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 3 Apr 19

In our time at this house we’ve met a lot of backpackers as we used to belong to a group called Couchsurfers. Mostly it was composed of young people and we hosted quite a few over the years. We had some really interesting guests...

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Today's chuckle - a couch-surfer's story

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 30 Nov 17

We belong to an international organisation called couch-surfers which allows you to host people from around the world and also gives you the opportunity to request accommodation, or just a friendly contact, from other members when...

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Would you offer your couch to anyone?

JB_girl @sol_cee (38669) • Philippines 23 Mar 17

On the textbook I'm using for my class, I came upon the term 'couch surfing'. I've heard a few things about it before but wasn't interested enough to dig deeper. So to prepare an interactive, anti-yawning/anti-snoring English...

couch surfing

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