Friday, 31 August 2012
much as I loathe Gervais, I do love Pilkington.
bits from season two. who doesn't love this show - silly and stagey as it sometimes can be, Karl lifts it out of the ordinnaire :D
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
location shot
this is where we were on sunday, though clearly I didn't take this pic! on that, it's a bit of a stretch to call this "severe weather", when it's quite usual in winter. oddballs, these stormchasers :panyhoo, whilst wandering about in the snowy pines, kid#1 and I launched into a hokey rendition of the old bluegrass standard, "in the pines", at the top of available lungs. funness :D
Monday, 20 August 2012
yesterday afternoon
Friday, 17 August 2012
STRONG Argument in Favour of Beards...
Ned Kelly with beard...such an outlaw..sigh...
Ned Kelly without beard. Creepy dude, could have got work on horror films with Peter Lorre
Thursday, 16 August 2012
at age 18
early 20s
a bit older
blurry but bewdiful
all kinged up and trucking a leatherman mo.
doing blue steel
historical hornbags, revisited.
was chinwagging with the ladypeeps the other day, and we had a bit of a brainstorm on the topic of yesteryear spunks. came up with a number of contenders. not easy, neither, as any tally is going to be limited by lack of photographic evidence. one is forced to consider just the last 100 years or thereabouts. anyway, to cut what was a 1.5hr brainstorm down to it's pointy end, the 'winner' was universally agreed upon. he meets all the yewshall criteria (he was indeed, a VERY handsome man), plus gained bonus points for mystery, violent death at a young age (relatively speaking), deification, and high order posturing in OTT uniforms. no brainer who it is, but will forthwith blog a truckload of pics anyway :D
Friday, 10 August 2012
the sky is falling
as per yewshall I'm down to my last bit of week and squeezing in a bit of bloggery. no newsy news up our end - working lots and watching australians participate in some sports thingy (apparently other countries are involved but we haven't seen any). red letter day today, though - as follows:
snowed ten minutes up the road last night. melted now, a'course, but fact remains. 20 minutes further up, it's blanket coverage. I gather similar conditions are blessing the entire east coast at the minute. mexican relations tell me it's blizzardy and nippier than a nun's undies, and report from pals on the piste is non-stop powder falling - horizontally!
anyway, kids'll be met this afternoon with parkas/beanies/gloves for some after school snowbloke buildage and general carousing in the white stuff. we should get an hour or so in before we lose the light. home to a glass of rouge ordinnaire and a toasty fire .... ahhhh, bliss!
catch yooz next week. hopefully with all ten toes intact. -2 mornings here, and top temp in the hills of 5. balmy :)
snowed ten minutes up the road last night. melted now, a'course, but fact remains. 20 minutes further up, it's blanket coverage. I gather similar conditions are blessing the entire east coast at the minute. mexican relations tell me it's blizzardy and nippier than a nun's undies, and report from pals on the piste is non-stop powder falling - horizontally!
anyway, kids'll be met this afternoon with parkas/beanies/gloves for some after school snowbloke buildage and general carousing in the white stuff. we should get an hour or so in before we lose the light. home to a glass of rouge ordinnaire and a toasty fire .... ahhhh, bliss!
catch yooz next week. hopefully with all ten toes intact. -2 mornings here, and top temp in the hills of 5. balmy :)
Thursday, 2 August 2012
Hi Hampastie!!!!!
...oi laydeez,
was contacted by an old foruming pal today, from way way back on Unofficial (pre our ten forward thread- once upon a time that site was rocking). She was wondering where the Unofficial site had got to. I'vetold her the spammy story and subsequent bellyup and pointed her in our direction here & I'm trying to coax her to post....hello Hammie...phone home, phone home.....
was contacted by an old foruming pal today, from way way back on Unofficial (pre our ten forward thread- once upon a time that site was rocking). She was wondering where the Unofficial site had got to. I'vetold her the spammy story and subsequent bellyup and pointed her in our direction here & I'm trying to coax her to post....hello Hammie...phone home, phone home.....
holas
felicities and such
bettsy boopsy, sent you an email last week but just found it had bounced so you may not have recieved. pertaining to our epic fail (as the kiddies might say) weekend of no socials.
wilms, travels north and husbot related crankiness? september, yessiree! october we may be down your way after all, toooooooooo :D
back snortly. like wilmsworth, I'd rather be blogging :/
bettsy boopsy, sent you an email last week but just found it had bounced so you may not have recieved. pertaining to our epic fail (as the kiddies might say) weekend of no socials.
wilms, travels north and husbot related crankiness? september, yessiree! october we may be down your way after all, toooooooooo :D
back snortly. like wilmsworth, I'd rather be blogging :/
Monday, 30 July 2012
Kakadu Sprinkler Kids
...lot of fun, the running through the sprinkler bizzo. Not much of it happening in Melbourne these days....
Visiting Kakadu & Darwin
...or, as my 2 year old says, Visiting Cockadoodle and Darling...
Hey, it's true what they say, it's really hot up there! They call it their cold season. Mental note: do NOT visit over summer, it may kill you. As it was I loved it. Loved it loved it loved it. Felt amazing. Want to do it or something similar every year. Healthy thing, to get out of our damp damp winters.
The added attraction with Darwin for us was fabulous family members I haven't had the chance to catch up with for some time, so we did lots of dinners and markets with our awesome kin, who also put us up in their apartment, kidlets and all.
Strange thing, a city with hardly any historical buildings- as we all know, historically they were all either bombed to smithereens in ww2 or blown away in 74. I can't honestly say that the architecture is in general much chop (their parliament house is cool tho). But they have a dem fine waterfront, with a humongous wave pool. If it was Melbourne, a 33 degree day would see an outdoor inner city wave pool crowded out, but the crowds were pleasant rather than over the top. It's a little town, really, and 33 degrees is just another July day, nothing to go for a swim about...They also have a gorgeous sunset market at Mindil with heaps of performers, food, etc etc.
On to Kakadu: we stayed at a place called Cooinda, which is in the middle of the park. Awesome lagoon pool, with a waterfall, which is just as well, since all of the real rock pools and waterfalls are croc prone (and were too far to get to with small kids anyway). We learnt quickly to take ki sightseeing early morning or early evening and spend the hot middle of the day sleeping or at the pool&cafe/bar...
Stand out experiences: driving through the park late at night, past bush fires burning merrily next to the road ( lit deliberately by the indigenous owners & park rangers). Territorians shrug & are confident their patchwork burn off policies have been working since before the word policy was introduced , courtesy of the local aboriginal tribes. Us Mexicans have a different modern relationship to fire in national parks. It creeped me out.
Yellow Waters Billabong is a World Heritage listed wetland. Husby said "I feel as if someone's crept in just before we got here and strategically placed truckloads of animals around our tour, because it feels impossible to believe that there's really this many animals wandering around freely anywhere, let alone in front of us".
Wot else? Rock paintings, lookout points, buffalo, crocs, spending an entire 7 days in the company of my family without us killing each other....And the kids got to run through a sprinkler. What with ten years of drought and water restrictions I don't think ever of my kids has ever seen a water sprinkler before let alone got to run through one. If I can download my photos I'll do just that.
Hey, it's true what they say, it's really hot up there! They call it their cold season. Mental note: do NOT visit over summer, it may kill you. As it was I loved it. Loved it loved it loved it. Felt amazing. Want to do it or something similar every year. Healthy thing, to get out of our damp damp winters.
The added attraction with Darwin for us was fabulous family members I haven't had the chance to catch up with for some time, so we did lots of dinners and markets with our awesome kin, who also put us up in their apartment, kidlets and all.
Strange thing, a city with hardly any historical buildings- as we all know, historically they were all either bombed to smithereens in ww2 or blown away in 74. I can't honestly say that the architecture is in general much chop (their parliament house is cool tho). But they have a dem fine waterfront, with a humongous wave pool. If it was Melbourne, a 33 degree day would see an outdoor inner city wave pool crowded out, but the crowds were pleasant rather than over the top. It's a little town, really, and 33 degrees is just another July day, nothing to go for a swim about...They also have a gorgeous sunset market at Mindil with heaps of performers, food, etc etc.
On to Kakadu: we stayed at a place called Cooinda, which is in the middle of the park. Awesome lagoon pool, with a waterfall, which is just as well, since all of the real rock pools and waterfalls are croc prone (and were too far to get to with small kids anyway). We learnt quickly to take ki sightseeing early morning or early evening and spend the hot middle of the day sleeping or at the pool&cafe/bar...
Stand out experiences: driving through the park late at night, past bush fires burning merrily next to the road ( lit deliberately by the indigenous owners & park rangers). Territorians shrug & are confident their patchwork burn off policies have been working since before the word policy was introduced , courtesy of the local aboriginal tribes. Us Mexicans have a different modern relationship to fire in national parks. It creeped me out.
Yellow Waters Billabong is a World Heritage listed wetland. Husby said "I feel as if someone's crept in just before we got here and strategically placed truckloads of animals around our tour, because it feels impossible to believe that there's really this many animals wandering around freely anywhere, let alone in front of us".
Wot else? Rock paintings, lookout points, buffalo, crocs, spending an entire 7 days in the company of my family without us killing each other....And the kids got to run through a sprinkler. What with ten years of drought and water restrictions I don't think ever of my kids has ever seen a water sprinkler before let alone got to run through one. If I can download my photos I'll do just that.
Book/s review: Hearts of Gold (Catrin Collier)
Blimey Mavis, I got all caught up in historical fiction during moi holidays. There's a looong series of these books, all set in Wales pre and during WW2, in a town called Pontypridd (which is also in real life the birthplace of Tom Jones, but he has nothing to do with these novels). Anyways, they're better than average historical fiction and they're only a few bucks each via Kindle. Well written soap opera with evocative historical accuracy. I've had fun..You might too....7/10
Grumble.
"Youre not yourself at the moment", says husbot. " Youre grumpy. Complaining about your weight, for crissakes. Talking about going to a gym & dieting, what the hell. glued to the iPad. Not doing any of the things you normally do. That job of yours has you in highs and lows all of the time.."
Now, it might be, just might be,that the aforesaid grumpiness could be attributed to husbots continued inability to see dirty dishes without having them pointed out (and then I'm nagging). But he still has a point. I haven't been doing the things I normally do (like blogging). I do want to join a gym. And it's easy to be grumpy with your job when you've had a week hanging out with gorgeous northern cuzzies, swimming in a tropical lagoon and touring world heritage wetlands. Jobs don't usually match up to that kind of bizzo. But I still prefer myself chatting on here to ranting at my family about work in between breaking dirty dishes and throwing them in the bin before my hoarder of a husband can find them and try to glue them back together. And them leaving them for me to wash again.
So...
You two still around? How's work Betty? How's your veggie patch darth? Still up for September? :p
Friday, 20 July 2012
felicities and such
one week late, but never mind the bollocks. so anyway, teachers had a rest day on monday, so short week - in which a hausfrau naturally endeavours to cram as much of the 'can't do during school hols' stuff as poss. leaving me here, at friday, finally with about 58 minutes free time before I retrieve the spawnies and plunge into materdom for the weekend.
I see some of you have been croc hunting and sipping mai tais in the damp tropics, others have been train spotting and not reading books with hausfrau friendly hunks in 'em. all good - hope to hear more in due course. I've been nowhere and haven't caught a train in months, but busy as blazes nevertheless. kid#2 has her selective year 5/6 entry exam thingo next week so much practising on clock watchery and guessing. kid#1 missed out on selective high by 2 points out of a possible 300. he was actually cranky - which is impressive. he's loathe to muster any sort of emotion as regards academics usually. anyhoo, he gets another bite of the cherry given his high-ish ranking so he may end up at Big Bang Theory High after all. blah blah.
So now I'm waiting for Betty to text me about a coffee and chinwag :p
I see some of you have been croc hunting and sipping mai tais in the damp tropics, others have been train spotting and not reading books with hausfrau friendly hunks in 'em. all good - hope to hear more in due course. I've been nowhere and haven't caught a train in months, but busy as blazes nevertheless. kid#2 has her selective year 5/6 entry exam thingo next week so much practising on clock watchery and guessing. kid#1 missed out on selective high by 2 points out of a possible 300. he was actually cranky - which is impressive. he's loathe to muster any sort of emotion as regards academics usually. anyhoo, he gets another bite of the cherry given his high-ish ranking so he may end up at Big Bang Theory High after all. blah blah.
So now I'm waiting for Betty to text me about a coffee and chinwag :p
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Hello Gorgeous Bloggers
....been in Kakadu
Stay tuned for a rant. Just got back, got back to work, hit the ground running. Give me a mo to catch me breaf .......
Stay tuned for a rant. Just got back, got back to work, hit the ground running. Give me a mo to catch me breaf .......
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