Arlo Guthrie's Mooses Come Walking

**this is best read aloud. Before reciting this, Guthrie said he'd written it as a nighttime story to scare his grandchildren to sleep, because if you send children to bed feeling good about themselves they just want to get up. Very funny man. But we all knew that....***



Mooses come walking over the hill
Mooses come walking, they rarely stand still
When mooses come walking they go where they will
When mooses come walking over the hill

Mooses look into your window at night
They look to the left and they look to the right
The mooses are smiling, they think it's a zoo
And that's why the mooses like looking at you

So, if you see mooses while lying in bed
It's best to just stay there pretending you're dead
The mooses will leave and you'll get the thrill
Of seeing the mooses go over the hill

Port Fairy Folk Festival

Another year, another music festival for our troops. We stayed in Vicky this year and took em down to Port Fairy.
High points:
- The town of Port Fairy is beautiful: little bluestone cottages & country pubs, beautiful boat harbour. Hot weather and swimming with kids in gentle surf on Monday.
- The main street of the town is part of the festival and there's kids kids kids playing bagpipes, flutes...one little dude had a guitar with no strings but he had lots of curly hair and looked about 5. There are lots of more professional buskers as well.
- Glen Hansard's fuzzy red hair and beard, leading me to ask 'Pete honey, PLEASE grow your beard back'
- Glen Hansard's guitars all have massive holes in them because he thumps the living crap out of them when he plays.
- Arlo Guthrie reciting a moose poem. Will post seperately. High art.
- Glen Hansard was amaayzing. And hot. And made jokes about having watched the D Gen's 'The Castle' movie. They like our comedy in Ireland.
- Women in Song concert featuring Kate Miller Heidke and a fabulous singer called Ruthie Foster who completely won me over
- Did I mention that Glen Hansard played?


Low points:
- I think they sold too many tickets. in the arena area of the festival there were massive queses to everything.
- we had to queue with 2 small kids from 9.30 to sign up for kids activities. The sign ups started at 10am. The activities atarted at 1.30. That is not a relaxing festival experience.
To get to see Glen Hansard and Arlo Guthrie we grabbed seats in the auditorium where they were playing at about 4.00pm and sat there through a pile of artists (ducking out occasionally for food) till Arlo finished at 10.00pm. There were hundreds trying to get in. Not a relaxing festival experience. Kids were furious with us.

Dunno, some of these festivals are getting too big for their boots, methinks.

Our three year old was asked yesterday by his kinder teacher what the festival was like. He said 'I slept on a low bunk. I liked the Cocopops. My sister did lots of cartwheels'
All of which is quite true...

March against Maccas

This is why I've been awol my darlinks. Been verra busy. We had 3000 rock yupt o this rally. They're still gonna build but :(
...I cant work out why its not loading the vid from Youtube. Here's the link, will try again later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i7FYVxSXnCM

Windows 8

Commentary from a Windows 8 tutorial:
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
Why can't they just have a goddamn "start" button?
I don't want to update my xbox avatar or see the cricket score or follow celebs on twitter or plan my next holiday - I need to work!
Why can't I just hit an "x" in the top right hand corner to close ? - swiping down is an action reserved for nappy changing.
I've got Apps oozing out of my nostrils. Overload!