last week of term - for the welshfolk. naturally, teachers struck for entire day wednesday, kyboshing any last minute loafing planned by maters.
upshot - I'll be around even lesserer than I have been lately. which is not bluddy much at all :(
will check the gmails every other day, though :)
cheers, and stay warm!
Friday 29 June 2012
Thursday 21 June 2012
Wednesday 20 June 2012
speaking of the season
realised I've yet to post my yearly homage to the glorious W.
This year we had a slow start to the proper weather, with autumn feeling a little bit like an extended summer (bler). even the trees were confused, and had to rush through their routine at the 11th hour - it was all green leaves up until the closing weeks, then quick flashes of scarlet and amber (bewdiful), then a week or two of swooshing through the leaves (the kids still love to get out amongst the freshly raked piles - god bless 'em), then bare branches. We're now well into frost season here (yay bananas with sugar on top!), and mornings are crystalline and sharp enough to make you feel like a 20 year old after 12 hours sleep and a strong coffee :D. We're bounding out of bed (what choice is there anyway - with unheated bedrooms) and meeting every day with ear to ear grins here. I'm spending most of the day outdoors now, too, pottering in the garden, working on my newest toy (!!), bracing walks with friends, etc. So loverly after the summer hibernation - freedom!!
Now I'll repeat myself and say that yet again, I'm surprised by how much less cold this version of cold actually feels. Which is a good thing and a bad thing, in equal measures. On one hand it means we no longer bother heating the house apart from an hour in the mornings, and the fire for a couple of hours of an evening. This is a HUGE saving, environmentally and pocketmentally. On the other hand, it's hard to feel properly cold now unless we swan about outside in a t-shirt at 7am. Either way, GOD BLESS WINTER !
XOX
This year we had a slow start to the proper weather, with autumn feeling a little bit like an extended summer (bler). even the trees were confused, and had to rush through their routine at the 11th hour - it was all green leaves up until the closing weeks, then quick flashes of scarlet and amber (bewdiful), then a week or two of swooshing through the leaves (the kids still love to get out amongst the freshly raked piles - god bless 'em), then bare branches. We're now well into frost season here (yay bananas with sugar on top!), and mornings are crystalline and sharp enough to make you feel like a 20 year old after 12 hours sleep and a strong coffee :D. We're bounding out of bed (what choice is there anyway - with unheated bedrooms) and meeting every day with ear to ear grins here. I'm spending most of the day outdoors now, too, pottering in the garden, working on my newest toy (!!), bracing walks with friends, etc. So loverly after the summer hibernation - freedom!!
Now I'll repeat myself and say that yet again, I'm surprised by how much less cold this version of cold actually feels. Which is a good thing and a bad thing, in equal measures. On one hand it means we no longer bother heating the house apart from an hour in the mornings, and the fire for a couple of hours of an evening. This is a HUGE saving, environmentally and pocketmentally. On the other hand, it's hard to feel properly cold now unless we swan about outside in a t-shirt at 7am. Either way, GOD BLESS WINTER !
XOX
Tuesday 19 June 2012
Earthquake!
5.2 on the richter scale, the news tells me! Scary! It seemed to go on and on...got the kids out of bed,NAND braced ourselves in the doorway as the house rattled....I still have adrenalin rushing through me...gawk, aftershocks now, that right?
Monday 18 June 2012
Tom Waits & Rickie Lee Jones *Rainbow Sleeves*
All this Karise excitement got me thinking about the greatest careless jazz girl of them all. xxxx Love love love Ricki Lee Jonesxxx
Wednesday 13 June 2012
Tuesday 12 June 2012
Thursday 7 June 2012
The Voice: Not as much a recap as a rant into the void
Monday nights husband works late, kids sleep early....so, I sit on Facebook on Monday nights and chatter with a pack of folk in real time as the singing unfolds.
For those of us who are ancient reality television talent show forum tragics (ahem), there is no Voice forum. Only an admonishment to join their Twitter feed. And a link to their Facebook page ....the official Facebook page is literally impossible to get a word in on. I'm obviously way past it, because Twitter holds no promise for me, particularly when I'm looking for a real time online chatter. Twitter is like...throwing opinions up into the air, and seeing where they land.
So, Pop's unofficial Facebook Voice page...may or may not be full of old forumites. I can't tell, because everyone uses their Facebook name, and rather than log on after the show ends and rant, we chatter during the show whilst we're all sitting in front of the tvs with our iPads. Gone are the days when I had to wait until after the show, and then actually walk to the computer...it's a good performance that stops the iPad chatter. All the posting happened after Diana and Darren sang this week. On the other hand, people scrawled their rage all the way through Lakyns 'Friday I'm in Love'.
I miss the diversity of the old forum form. I miss the genuine Lakyn fans, the ones who are actually voting for a boy with arguable fashion sense and unarguable pitch issues, who would doubtlessly write in to tell us that he's beautiful and he makes them want to cry. I miss the nuttiness that would have arisen after Keith Urban stood up in his satellite feed and we all got to check out his Calvin undies.
There's only one major point of...division, rather than dissension, on Pops page: Team Darren or Team Karise? And plenty of agreement: isn't Diana awesomely amazing? And Sarah and Ben? And why does Joel Madden think Australians are desperate for their own home grown Beyonce in the form of Prinnie Stevens? She's great and all, but ya know....bring back Mahalia Barnes.
Pops being Pops, she does attract an entertaining bunch of Facebook posters,including an Oz Idol finalist. And she has a warm and generous attitude towards anyone game to get up and sing on Telly. So all in all, it's happy posting on a Monday night.....
For those of us who are ancient reality television talent show forum tragics (ahem), there is no Voice forum. Only an admonishment to join their Twitter feed. And a link to their Facebook page ....the official Facebook page is literally impossible to get a word in on. I'm obviously way past it, because Twitter holds no promise for me, particularly when I'm looking for a real time online chatter. Twitter is like...throwing opinions up into the air, and seeing where they land.
So, Pop's unofficial Facebook Voice page...may or may not be full of old forumites. I can't tell, because everyone uses their Facebook name, and rather than log on after the show ends and rant, we chatter during the show whilst we're all sitting in front of the tvs with our iPads. Gone are the days when I had to wait until after the show, and then actually walk to the computer...it's a good performance that stops the iPad chatter. All the posting happened after Diana and Darren sang this week. On the other hand, people scrawled their rage all the way through Lakyns 'Friday I'm in Love'.
I miss the diversity of the old forum form. I miss the genuine Lakyn fans, the ones who are actually voting for a boy with arguable fashion sense and unarguable pitch issues, who would doubtlessly write in to tell us that he's beautiful and he makes them want to cry. I miss the nuttiness that would have arisen after Keith Urban stood up in his satellite feed and we all got to check out his Calvin undies.
There's only one major point of...division, rather than dissension, on Pops page: Team Darren or Team Karise? And plenty of agreement: isn't Diana awesomely amazing? And Sarah and Ben? And why does Joel Madden think Australians are desperate for their own home grown Beyonce in the form of Prinnie Stevens? She's great and all, but ya know....bring back Mahalia Barnes.
Pops being Pops, she does attract an entertaining bunch of Facebook posters,including an Oz Idol finalist. And she has a warm and generous attitude towards anyone game to get up and sing on Telly. So all in all, it's happy posting on a Monday night.....
Tuesday 5 June 2012
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)