Mododrum recently did a meme discussing the events that defined who she was. Seems like a good meme to me! *Living by myself for the first time in 1998 *Moving to Adelaide for 4 years for study. *Sitting by my grandmother’s bed as she drew her last breath *Realising at one point that my three [...]
I am officially giving in to peer pressure. 1. Did you cry today? Not today, unless yawning so much your eyes water is classified as crying 2. What were you doing at 8.00am this morning? Pootling back from Springvale train station, listening to anime theme songs very very loudly. 3. What were you doing 30 [...]
Things seem to be really picking up, not just for me but also for those around me. I have my new job (which I’m absolutely loving), we have our new car (we do so love our Papa Smurf), and now T and I are engaged. In addition, we have friends getting jobs, a friend booked [...]
As we mark the death of (Dirty) Harry, whose meager 12 year life was cut short by a damaged engine block, we rejoice in the new addition to the household, Papa Smurf. Please make him feel welcome
Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones had a baby boy last month You can grow too many tomatoes Cats like puppy food Puppies can be remarkably friendly … until after they’ve gotten what they want from you Some front-loading washing machines can, in a single wash, shrink knitted polyester garments that had survived years of washing [...]
Is not so great, actually …
Although I’ve been on leave and therefore (theoretically) have had lots of time to blog, I haven’t. So, here’s a brief rundown: – How was that rain earlier today?? That was AMAZING!! – The movie Beowulf was …. bland. Bland and violent. Did I mention bland? – I just got a new (second-hand) washing machine, [...]
Today we got our new deep freezer and new BBQ! The freezer is something we desperately need – on more than one occasion we’ve had to defrost something simply because there was no freezer space for it. No more!! The BBQ was lots of fun to put together (yes, we did follow the instructions). Now [...]
It’s well accepted that the Portuguese and the Dutch poked about the western coast of Australia well before Cook landed on the eastern coast, but now there’s evidence arising suggesting that the Portuguese were also over this end of the country in the pre-Cook days too. I’m wondering if the legend of the Stradbroke Galleon [...]
I decided to dye my hair earlier this week. The colour on the packet said “Brown”. My hair ended up pitch black. I’m just scared now of how the “Dark Brown” dye in the same range will turn out! I’ve been getting back into the comping thing lately, and won a very cool book – [...]