arf - was sitting at the pc the other night in the dark ( long story) and something brushed my foot - i looked down to see a huge cocky running away from my foot..... tried not to scream the house down as the babes and dh were in bed. I too had done th pest control - have had none since... this one must have been a stray.
Talking of accents - a number of people think I am the pom not dh ?!?!? Or those that knew me prior to going to live in the UK tell me I have an accent.... I prefer to think of it as posh ocker!! Dh has said though when my dander is up and the bloody comes out then I can sound real ocker!!
No doubt our two will have australian accents as that is where they learnt to talk and their teachers and friends are all aussie. I do however find myself pronouncing words the english way or using english terms - sweeties, buggy for stroller, charnce rather than chance, say yog hurt rather than yohghurt iykwim.
my fab mil sent a load of pressies to the dds this week - one is a talking dog from the ELC called learn with max - max says Hurrah when you get something right - and he speaks in a right posh pommy accent - cracked me up the first time i heard it.... better than the sicky american voices one has in their toys.
Main rivalry our way is north south - we really object to those southerners coming up here and taking over the place, stealing our water, jobs etc 
Wait until State of Origin later in the year then it all comes out.
Yummi - I am on the northside - how about you?? There is one other mum I know of in Brisbane.