Booze client has sent through updated pricing for the next period, so we're still printing and I'm still doing their artwork, WOO. We stay open for another week! My café I'd been going to every day since last Monday in the interest of supporting for as long as I could shut up shop yesterday, tho. I at least got six lunches in there, tho ( Read more... )

Have new phone, which is neither green nor waterproof, but it was cheap, so that'll do. Ankle also healed! I can do the fitness again! Which has meant Walk Week happened as planned last week! This was a thing I made up after having had this list of walks printed and mapped out for about two years now. I've done a couple of them here and there, but ( Read more... )

Happy Australia Day two days later! This summer has been absolute balls and I feel like Australia Day this year was really all about the CFS volunteers et al. One of my Dad's mates is a CFS volunteer and has been doing stints in NSW, obviously Cudlee Creek and over to Kangaroo Island. The amount of time these people are sarificing to go into the ( Read more... )

"A Reduced Threat has been issued for the Cudlee Creek fire which is now Contained."

FUCKING CONTAINED. I'm so happy. That last incident update made me teary to read. Incident/advice/warning updates are more like this sort of thing. Y'know, fire is here, travelling that way, crews in attendance, locals advised to be vigilant/activate their ( Read more... )

Three weeks ago it was still winter. I was at the cricket and it was cold and wet and everyone was in winter gear, complete with Crows scarves and beanies cos Cricket Australia doesn't make scarves and beanies. Last week it was spring! We got, like, a solid six days of spring this year. That's a lot of spring because spring is a lie. It's winter up ( Read more... )

COOL CHANGE YESSSSSSSSSSS oh my god it was only 28 degrees today and I had legit goosebumps when I went to lunch. Drops of water fell from the sky but only of the variety that sit on the ground for about 20 seconds before evaporating and making it humid. But I mean. At least it was so humid that the garden was still damp after I watered it last ( Read more... )

There's a Dara O'Briain sketch where he talks about being in Australia and seeing the weather report for Adelaide, where the "overnight minimum is twenty-seven degrees Celcius." So he jokes that if that were to happen in Ireland, he'd shake the kids awake and go, "come on, kids, we're going to the beach!" Can't find the sketch, but the point stands ( Read more... )

Happy new year for realsies, now! I've had a delightful holiday. Having Alex over from Sydney I've practically been a tourist in my home city, which is a lot of fun. We've been to many an eatery for amazing food, omg. The Adelaide food scene is so brilliant right now. I love that this is becoming our major tourist attraction cos I can make use of ( Read more... )

It's 31 degrees. It's also 10:30pm. It was 40.2 degrees, making Adelaide officially the hottest capital city in the world for Christmas Day. Suck on that, Cairo! Screw you, Nairobi! In your face, other desert-like nations ( Read more... )

Today it has been:

o 33 degrees and dry
o hailing
o not just hailing, but golf-ball hail. In ADELAIDE ( Read more... )