I have two matching stripes of sunburn down my arms – racing stripes. I forgot to put on sunscreen today, except for on my face, which was in any case shielded by my bike helmet on the leisurely 8km round trip to Coburg Lake. I wasn’t doing much racing, though. My old patchwork quilt of [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 18, 2009
Summerama
Apart from a few freelance assignments, I’ve been having a very summer-y January. Trips to the beach. A drive up the mountains on a scorching day. This morning the Boy and I went to the supermarket to buy sensible breakfast foods, like bread and yoghurt and blackberry jam, and ended up buying enormous icecreams for [...]
January 12, 2009
Moving…ish
So, the househunting is not going spectacularly well. It was always going to be tough, given the whole worst-rental-crisis-in-Victorian-history thing, but it’s been getting downright dispiriting, and every time a house does come up that might want us, we’re paying too much rent to scratch together a bond. We’re broke. As a joke.
As a result, [...]
January 10, 2009
Gay penguins, really?
The Boy and I made the mistake of leafing through the Herald Sun yesterday, whilst waiting for our coffees (and simultaneously attending an art opening, sipping chardonnay, and voting Green*).
Anyway, this story, page three, jumped out and hit us in the face.
The web version leaves out the most hilariously appalling part: a photo of two [...]
January 5, 2009
Schmesolutions
We might be only five days in, but so far, 2009 is kicking its predecessor in the shins. Although I usually dislike the New Year palaver, the night itself was really lovely – champagne, brie, a midnight picnic in the grass. The fireworks went off practically over our heads. You could smell the cordite.
Since then [...]
