Mike based upon your original estimates you should have safely arrived about 36 hours ago in wintry Melbourne, Welcome down under sir and just in time to see the Welsh team beat the Irish in a reasonable time zone. Cannot say the same for england then again they did not deserve to go through the way they played this tournament

Hope to catch up in the near future, in the meantime you have Hydronic, 2nd R, BKHK and a few other locals close by.

Cheers Another Pommie Bar Steward down under

MY20 Defender 110 SE P400 Eiger/Ebony
MY10 3.0 RRS TDv6 Fuji/Ebony/Anigre

Hope all is well Mike and you settle well with all the convicts.

Misery wrote:

Hope all is well Mike and you settle well with all the convicts.

Its the opposite nowadays, Australia ship back the undesirables to the UK, especially those who forgot to take out citizenship and remained only residents, no matter how long they have been here, off to heathrow with them  Another Pommie Bar Steward down under

MY20 Defender 110 SE P400 Eiger/Ebony
MY10 3.0 RRS TDv6 Fuji/Ebony/Anigre

Thank you kindly good sir

Managed to bring a present with me from the UK, a decent case of manflu so this chilly weather isn't helping

Just about managed to watch the Wales game as I'd only been here a few hours, fell asleep during the England game and tbh that's probably a good thing. Despite being an englishman by birth I'd lived in Wales for nigh on 50% of my life so I'm happy to support Wales now that England are out

Spent some time at the Melbourne Leisure show yesterday looking at camper trailers and grey nomad caravans as well as the 4x4 section of the show, quite an impressive little show to be honest. Talked to some chap from Four Wheel Drive Victoria about some of the training events they run, he asked what I drove and when I said RRS, his words were "oh well, never mind, you'll not be wanting to take that in the bush" Managed to put him straight on that front

Came back home to watch the end of the Bathurst 1000, so all in all a good day

Pick up the keys to our rental house in Parkdale this Friday, container arrives in 3 weeks with our furniture. RRS has been left in storage in the UK waiting for all the documentation to arrive, doubt it'll be here much before January next year at the moment. Gives me time to sort out the registration shenanigins I suppose.

Anyway, thanks for the welcome and hopefully get to meet a few of you soon  Ex-G4 Challenge RRS HSE, BV55 YZE. Subtle shade of orange ! Now registered YZE481 G4RRS in Melbourne.

Mike - I still reckon you have rocks in your head wanting to live in Melbourne - orible place absolutely orible.

At least in the UK - you had pleasant summers, nice autumns, cold snowy winters and wet springs - in Melbourne you will get all that in one day - every day - day after day

Welcome

Garry 07MY RRS TDV6
Arctic Frost
Aspen Interior

Needs must Garry, I'll try and get SWMBO's company to move the factory to somewhere warmer, but somehow I don't think it'll happen.

I see what you mean though, it's been warm, hot, raining, cold, windy, raining then sunny again nearly every day so far. Certainly only a case of waiting 5 minutes for it to be different.

The RRS is going to stick out like a sore thumb in amongst all the Patrol's, Prado's & Land Cruisers that's for sure. Ex-G4 Challenge RRS HSE, BV55 YZE. Subtle shade of orange ! Now registered YZE481 G4RRS in Melbourne.

garrycol wrote:

At least in the UK - you had pleasant summers,

Garry you must have rocks in your head pleasant summers indeed , depends if you like them wet half of the time  Another Pommie Bar Steward down under

MY20 Defender 110 SE P400 Eiger/Ebony
MY10 3.0 RRS TDv6 Fuji/Ebony/Anigre

Hey Mike,

Hope you are well and find Aus all you thought, well in the 24 hours youve been there.



Foxy x 

Hi I am fairly new to the forum, but you must be a good bloke with a name like Mike!
So welcome! MikeE SWMBO owns this car I get to drive occasionally

 Ex-G4 Challenge RRS HSE, BV55 YZE. Subtle shade of orange ! Now registered YZE481 G4RRS in Melbourne.

Hi Mike, Welcome to Melbourne, it would be good to catch up sometime.

To the rest of you, enough is enough.  Now :3.0 TDV6, Stornoway grey, Premium Almond leather,Dynamic Pack , Paddle shifters, Rear Electronic Diff, Surround Camera System, Park Distance Control - Front, Tow Pack, 19 x 9" 5 V-Spoke wheels, Memory Pack, Cold Climate Pack, Carpet Mat Set, Roof rails, general Grabber ATs,

Ordered, due May 17 SDV6 Dynamic Loire Blue, Ivory, Drive Pro pack, Sliding roof, Heated seats and steering wheel, Surround cameras, Tow pack with Advanced Tow Assist, Meridian 825w sound,

Zilch wrote:

garrycol wrote:

At least in the UK - you had pleasant summers,

Garry you must have rocks in your head pleasant summers indeed , depends if you like them wet half of the time

When I lived in the UK the summers were great - sunny, dry, hayfever, european wasps, poms with sandals and socks, poms with hankies on their bald heads.  07MY RRS TDV6
Arctic Frost
Aspen Interior

[quote="MikeS"]Thank you kindly good sir

Talked to some chap from Four Wheel Drive Victoria about some of the training events they run, he asked what I drove and when I said RRS, his words were "oh well, never mind, you'll not be wanting to take that in the bush" Managed to put him straight on that front


Hey Mike,

When you are ready to do some more adventurous offroading in that speccy G4 of yours, let me know

Welcome to the merry old land of Oz.

JS 'Black Betty' Java Black RRS 07 TDV6

Cheers all

Hydronic, be good to meet up once we've settled in, give us a couple of weeks

G4 won't be here until January I reckon, so until then I'm stuck with the wife's Focus XR5 ST and I don't *think* it'll go very far offroad  Ex-G4 Challenge RRS HSE, BV55 YZE. Subtle shade of orange ! Now registered YZE481 G4RRS in Melbourne.

MikeS wrote:

Talked to some chap from Four Wheel Drive Victoria about some of the training events they run, he asked what I drove and when I said RRS, his words were "oh well, never mind, you'll not be wanting to take that in the bush" Managed to put him straight on that front