Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
I had the good sense yesterday to sleep through Brisbane’s hottest day of the year (and in the process I think put paid to my flu… almost), waking up around the time the cool change came through and the temperature dropped about 15 degrees from its 40 degree peak… And today, I wandered out to my alma mater at UQ to return some phd thesis library books, then after a CityCat ride over to West End, dropped by the dvd store in the Valley to return Rise – Lucy Liu as a girl reporter vampire!
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Great to hear that you are feeling a bit better.
The picture thing seems not have lost it’s luster.
Get that bloody thesis thing in soon and wonder about what to do next.
Here, we murdered as many rats in our walls as we could find, this Sunday.
Those little buggers have been driving us nuts, for a while, and it is all over, in this…
…the year of the ratbait.
Excellent weekend. Yesterday I treated myself to visit at swish hairdresser, went househunting with husband to be, read the paper over a coffee (and ranted about appalling behaviour of some politicians), was taken to birthday dinner at 3 Weeds by my terrific brother, slept late this morning, lunch with my parents on a glorious Sydney day, taken to Mexican dinner by fiance, finished off with some aged tequila. Couldn’t have been better and I feel incredibly lucky
. Smiles all around.
Thanks, joe2!
‘Rize’ is pretty good as well, Mark:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436724/
The highlight of the weekend for me was a trip to the Southern Highlands. Some friends of ours made the move out there from Petersham about 18 months ago, and have never looked back. They’re renting an enormous house on an enormous property, with a couple of large paddocks, sprawling vegetable gardens, some horses on agistment and space for their kids and animals to run around crazy when they need to. It costs less to rent than a one-bedroom apartment in the inner west.
Anyway, a whole group of us went out there for lunch and it was a great afternoon, sunny but with a breeze that drifted around to the south-east and cooled as the afternoon progressed. We sipped wine and beer, tentatively fed carrots to the horses, tried to drag a pair of round-eyed ruby Cavalier King Charles Spaniels away from the guinea pig compound, ate quiche and home-grown beetroot salad, chatted about politics and gardening, child-rearing and work (one and the same, of course, in a sense), and generally had a lovely afternoon. It was almost enough to convince me to move out of Sydney, but then I thought about the two hour train-ride to town and decided I wasn’t ready.
Quiet weekend. Bit of blogging, mostly working on book review and watching TV. Treated myself to a box of chocolates, first time in years.
I went to the movies to see The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which I’m very glad to have seen but about which I have extremely mixed feelings. Anyone else seen it (or read the book)? What did you think?
Newcastle Jets 1 – Central Coast Mariners 0. Not the result I’d hoped for, but a grand afternoon out in any case.
Same Liam. Personally I did not care much for the result. Felt sorry about Vidmar though. As I am ‘Foxteless’ I watched the game with some friends at the football friendly Peacock Hotel in High St. Northcote.
Great parma as well. Do other places in Australia are keen on the parma, or is it a Melbourne thing?
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It’s a Victorian thing, Guido, just like post-drinking session souvlaki.
It *was* a shame the Mariners had to play so flat-footed for Vidmar’s last game, but it was also a novelty to see a goalkeeper sent off in the wrong goalsquare. Well done Danny Vukovic, tool of the week.
More shopping for things for a bathroom reno in the morning, then down to the Powerhouse in the late arvo to watch Halfway. So, my day got better
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Say it properly too you bloody Mexicans!