RE: thanks to all.

[Guest guest]

Thanks so much for your good wishes.   One other good thing

about it that I didn’t mention, is that I had been warned that I’d have to do a

Driving test in the process that would cost another $200 or so, since it

entails a professional Driving Instructor with his dual control car, plus the

attendance of an Occupational Therapist..   But Vicroads has assured me that I don’t

require the test at all.   Just take up driving straight away.  My doctors’

reports must have been sufficient.

Hm I’m intrigued you don’t seem to have ‘Gas’ over there.  

Where “petrol’ costs us about $1.20 per Litre at the moment, (it chops up and

down all over the place day by day at the whim of the Oil Companies) ‘Gas’

stays between 49c and 55c per litre for the most part.   A litre of Gas gives

you perhaps about the same mileage as two/thirds of a litre of petrol.      Many

people have dual fuel cars with two inlets – one for Petrol and the other for

Gas.   Drives the same of course.   Can save a fair bit of money of

course.      I suppose that a Litre represents something like a quarter of a

Gallon.    The Gas is delivered into your car by a hose with an nozzle that

screws into your tank inlet.   Stinks to high heaven I must say too.   So it

warns you if there is a leak of any sort.

Rion

Subject: Re: bit of good news.

Ron,

I know that has to feel great! Congratulations! I am not too sure

you can even buy the " gas " you have described- I have not seen it- I

think we just have what you call " petrol " .

Subject: RE: bit of good news.

Congrats Ron!

Im really very pleased for you. Happy driving!

breezy

Just a bit excited at the moment. I haven’t

been allowed to drive since my operation which took place exactly a year ago

in Melbourne. Anyway, the reports on my wobbly feet and

legs from Doctor and Neurologist have been successful with the State’s

driving and roads authority, and they have given me permission to drive

again. tell you what, - it’s been a bit of a pain having to

either get lifts with associates or use public transport to do my

shopping. The other alternative has been to trot off for long

long walks to the shops. As it is, I’m virtually the same

distance in four directions from four different

Super-markets. Often I’m out shopping for some two hours to

do just the barest bit of stuff. But all the same, the extensive

walking has been excellent exercise, and my improvement is pretty

marked.

I look like driving for a spell,

in a Mitzubishi Magna that runs on Gas before I gravitate back to my own original

car. Okay -- for you Americans….. the fluid you

call Gas, is what we call Petrol out here in Oz. When I speak of Gas

I’m meaning the genuine gaseous substance which is some half or a third of

the price of Petrol. What do you term it over there?

LPG or something like that perhaps?

Anyway, very happy about it

all. Will make life a darn sight easier for me. We are in

the middle of a very cold n winter at the moment, so the convenience

and shelter of a car will be welcome. For those newcomers

who don’t know, one year ago I had to have a benign tumor removed from the

Spinal Cord, and for a few months it left me unable to walk. Over the

next five months I went from bed to wheelchair, to elbow

crutches. I still use a stick when I leave the house, as my

feet tend to swing round all over the place. Have to be careful too not

to trip over the darned cats while in the house.

All the best to everyone,

Ron.