April 2012 Newsletter
Greetings from the South, Daylight saving finished here last weekend which is a clear message that summer has finished. The way the weather has been this year many locals are wondering whether summer ever started. The temperatures are still quite mild – low 20s (that’s Celsius for the North American) but it hasn’t been consistently settled or sunny all summer – just like the world economy. A major event that we have had here recently is that on March 25th at 5am the give way rules changed. Interestingly for us older people they have changed back to being substantially the same as what they were before the previous change to the rules which occurred in 1977. The rules that have just been superseded were based on a philosophy that the vehicle with the most difficult turn (most potential conflicts) should have the right of way. Although this sounds good in... Read More