Favourite Song: Lady Gaga, Bad Romance Runner Up: Powderfinger, Sail the Widest Stretch First up, I know Bad Romance was released late October ’09, but thanks to its radio presence over last summer I have trouble disentangling it from 2010 – so I won’t. It reminds me of Madonna’s Express Yourself, particularly their slick, cinematic music videos*…
Hello! We’re home again, sweet home. A wonderful day of travelling yesterday; I even enjoyed our second leg in the plane between Sydney and Melbourne (it was a 767 – perhaps I feel safer in the bigger ones). Then there was the usual nightmare of unpacking and sorting and cleaning (as if I hadn’t done…
One needs to traverse a 1.1 kilometre track through paddocks and bush to arrive at my grandparent’s farmhouse; a track I’ve travelled at both a crawl in cars driven uncertainly by those new to the place and desperate to preserve some semblance of vehicular cleanliness to thrilling speeds by the more experienced who know where all…
… trying to sleep with his feet spilling over the end of my double bed at home whenever we visit. It’s not easy being 6ft 5in. Happy wedding anniversary xxx
So. We’re here. As I type, we’re playing Star Wars for the first time to the kids however the experience isn’t as transfixing as we thought – and perhaps secretly hoped – it would be for them. Riley has come back to the table to play Monopoly (we can’t shake that spectre off) and Keira…
Look at it. I feel calmer already. By the time you read this we’ll have (hopefully) checked in our luggage, passed through security screening (which one of us will undoubtedly set off), and be in the process of fending off requests for overpriced snacks or money to play the various arcade games and pinball machines between…
… For Keira. Her first trophy! She’s a member of the chess club. I believe she was the only Prep to receive one. She’s still grinning. I don’t blame her. (In case you’re wondering, the smudge is my not-so-subtle masking of the school name in MS Paint.) (Do I need to bother? I don’t know. Yes?…
Eyes under water! ONLY AN ETERNITY IN THE MAKING! Photos taken with new Plastic Bullet app *
