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
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Monday, 28 May 2012
robbie robertson - coyote dance
.....Had to find out about this cd for a project for work. Anyone enjoy music to drive to???beeyoutiful album...from 1994. Cant remember it at the time, so it's a new joy for moi :)
Helloooo Azerbaijan!
....on the downside:
Engelbert didn't do that well either in Europe or in the informal Australian vote
Jedward didn't win! What's wrong with this world?
Our friends cancelled at the last moment, leaving husband and I to drink our mulled wine and cheer the Eurocheese alone
Terry Wogan is a permanent thing of the past
There were a hell of a lot of ballads. And what was with all of the acts dressed in tasteful black?
On the upside:
We had a lot of mulled wine
We got to watch Engelbert Humperdinck. That dude is all class. He was almost channeling and ancient Johnny Cash (almost)
Julia Zemiro and her pal Timmy are splendid commentators, even if they ain't Wogan
The Swedish lass who won was great and we look forward to suddenly inheriting a fortune from a relative we didn't know we had so that we can go to Eurovision in Sweden next year.
I loved Germany and hubby hated him
I love Jedward. They deserve a special award for being what Eurovision is all about.
God bless the Babushkisxxx
Friday, 25 May 2012
Friday, 18 May 2012
Wiggly Calamity!
Mightnt mean much to those of us without toddlers, but THREE Wiggles are leaving. I feel quite upset. If they'd just waited another cuppla years, I would have been smiling wistfully and saying 'ah well, no wonder, Jeff's had heart surgery, Murray's been doing this forever, is Greg really well enough for all of that touring?' As it is, I'm just going to have to scrounge tix for my 2 1/2 year old to their last shows in Nov/Dec and say farewell to the whole era. Because I'm danged if I'm interested in going through the whole thing again with three new Wiggles, even if one of them's female.
How could they. My kid's still telling anyone who'll listen that 'Murray did hi five', eg Murray gave him a hi five at the last concert. I'll say Murray's doing a Hi Five. I just dont feel that the Wiggles are going to become as interchangeable as the Hi Five clones & I dont think any of them are going to do a lingerie spread for Ralph (although you never know...)I honestly cant see people sustaining interest in this group now. It was always about the personalities.
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
On Old Dancing Dinosaurs: Moves Like Jagger (Explicit)
....Kelly Preston, Mick Jagger...whats the story with this Adam Levine and the older generation?
just for the sheer joy of an eddie uke number
good movie, but the book is beeeeeettttteeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. actually the book is one of those rare beasts that deserve to be called profound.
dancing cougars
is it moi, or does the sight of a group of 40/50 something women doing their best 'sexy dance', clunkily and after the fashion of the infrequent hoofer, to the sharp sounds ever-so-young electro bob hover somewhere betwixt darkest nightmare and high comedy?
or am I horribly cynical and judgemental? or just mental?
or am I horribly cynical and judgemental? or just mental?
Monday, 14 May 2012
I think that I am going to die!
I have no idea what the hell I was thinking when I said that
I could do it, but I signed myself up for a Perth based fun run that starts in
2 weeks. It is only now that my shirt and runner id number has arrived that I
suddenly realised that I have no trained for this event.
I think that I am going to DIE!
The only bonus is that I have a few work colleagues
attempting this with me, so if I die, they are likely to die too.
While I am running this 4kms I am also raising money for the
heart foundation too. Maybe this is because I think that I might need the
assistance of a Defib should I die along the way.
Wish me luck and let’s hope that I survive.
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