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!
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An award I’d be happy to see the Poms beat us to…
Monbiot’s Christopher Booker Prize for the greatest climate change claptrap for 2008
Donated as much as I can afford to Linked text=Victorian Wildlife Rescue
I’ve been sleeping in, drinking coffee, reading LP / Poll Bludger / ABC News, and doing… not much. Including not looking for jobs on Seek etc like I oughta. (Anyone wanna employ a mathematician?
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By the way, everyone, Saturday Salon is an open thread; this isn’t.
For instance, today I had another go at the St Kilda Cycling Club’s beginner’s crit (went too early…again), and spent much of the rest of the day cleaning graffiti off my garage door. I’m still not finished, and am feeling the urge to drop anybody singing the praises of “street art’ in the direct path of a natural disaster of their choice.
BOP: if i get a discovery grant, maybe. But the money doesn’t arrive till 2010
Flat on my back in a hospital bed!
TV, laptop and internet, three meals a day in bed, sms, books, playing with digital gadgets, en suite bathroom, attention from nurses.
Nothing like it. (except for the minor inconvenience of PAIN)
I went to the South Brisbane witch burning media extravaganza. Excommunicating a whole parish: you gotta give these
Bob Santamarias’s National Civic Council trooperstrue papist believers full marks for their vaulting ambition and sense of theatre ( spies from other parishes collecting evidence for Rome, a product recall on a decade of baptisms, it’s got it all), and it worked , all the networks and mastheads were there.We spent most of last year in a bit of a funk, trying to make the emotional and mental move from NZ to Australia. But we’ve settled a bit now, so we’ve started to lift our heads and look around, and enjoy some of the things Adelaide has to offer. We headed for the hills today, taking our girls to the chocolate factory (kids delight!) in Woodside, enjoying an Adelaide Hills tasting platter for lunch, and heading on to the brewery and markets at Lobenthal. All most agreeable in the pleasant 25 degrees day.
oh dear, coincidentally, today I read a book on street art that I bought recently in Melbourne, home of wonderful street art! Street art of a most praiseworthy kind too! But please, before you banish me for such anarchy, take a look at the street art of Slinkachu. This artist makes tiny installations of little hand painted people..check out the blog:
http://little-people.blogspot.com/
“crappy christmas” is quite funny…and below that, a skate ramp in a discarded orange peel. [some] street art is a wonderful thing. *hunkers*
Glorious morning – went cycling with the cycling club on their Sunday Armidale-Uralla-Armidale run (big bunch too, must have been fifty cyclists). Felt strong, right up until I blew up coming up Airport hill back into town. Everything in the surrounding district is try as tinder where only a few weeks ago it was unseasonally green. Still, it doesn’t get as hot up here as everywhere else so we’re lucky.
Can’t remember what happened with the rest of the day, snoozed with the toddler for a while I think, futzed about in the kitchen and laundry while her indoors went off consoling Armidales growing population of separating families. Had scones and homemade blackberry jam too.
Assembled a fuseball table we bought from Target a couple of weeks ago. It was 50% off the already reduced price (making it about 1/4 the original price) so we couldn’t resist it.
Some assembly required was an understatement, but now it’s all together and working.
I’ve been gyprocking, plastering and sticking on cornice all day, while watching the bushfire updates on Sky.
Spent most of weekend reading and taking notes from John Richard Alden’s General Gage in America. Still working on it.On LP. Saturday sorted out kids coming over all the time with a chat to their aunt. Though they still turned up at 11 pm to make a phone call.
Sunday. Went out to Ebor for a Socialist Alliance meeting. We going to have a public forum on GFC and environmental crisis soon. And after that a movie night. Discussed roster for SA stall at UNE Orientation week. Back in Armidale c 3.15. read book on Gage. Watched Cranford, German war movie on SBS. Spent some time on LP, then to bed.
Working, hanging out with a bereaved friend, working, stimulating the economy, setting up the new phone, working, watching the teeve, being appalled by the fires, goofing off online.
Watered the olive trees (looking pretty good considering no rain since about Christmas) and the fig tree (much sadder) on my block. Also dropped off some stuff in the shed and rearranged things a bit to make room for it.
Oldest child came up for dinner (tacos, prepared after I got home, obviously) and retrieved his pet rats who’ve been enjoying air-conditioned comfort instead of death from heat exhaustion for the last couple of weeks. Apparently temperatures over about 28 degrees kill the little buggers, and he lost a prior pair of rats in a heatwave a couple of years ago. The study’s a bit stinky now, but nothing that opening the window won’t fix.