So the Fringe Festival is finally over and it is time for this serpent to return to mundane and boring reality. Just as well really. The Fringe was fun while it lasted but it turned out to be a case of total sensory overload. Even though most of the shows I went to were good or great (with the odd rotton egg tossed in) it was still so much stuff to ( Read more... )

Izzie never ever imagined that it would be necessary to turn on the heater during October. This is Oz after all and we are supposed to be sizzling and certainly not snuggling up, toasting our toes and listening to the howling wind and the rain lashing the window panes ( Read more... )

It is that time of year. In the spookiest of parks where the Cthulhu trees grow, circus tents are popping up like mushrooms and a mysterious labyrinth extols all who dare enter its tangled verdant shrubbier to “Get Lost ( Read more... )

It’s scary to think that it’s exactly 6 months between last Christmas and the next one. At least the weather is gorgeous and there’s no chance of the mercury melting at 40 celsius at this time of year in Oz ( Read more... )

It’s been a very freaky three weeks. The Izzie must be a glutton for punishment. In the midst of a serious Fringe Binge also juggling the video lectures, readings and home work assignment for not one but four online courses with another starting next week!
The Edx course starting next week “Effective thinking through mathematics” was supposed to ( Read more... )

So much wickedly wonderful weirdness in Izzieland of late. It's very rare for a certain serpent to be slinking about the city on a Friday or Saturday night. But then it's not any old weekend that we have Fringe World ( Read more... )

What a difference a day makes. The weather has gone from sizzling steamy 37 something down to a gorgeous pleasant and breezy 27 today. The old grey cells even got a bit twinkly as they recovered from the soul sapping miserable heat

The main serpent gossip is that the annual festival of freakiness that is Fringe World just started on Friday ( Read more... )

The serpent slowly slinks back to mundane muggle reality after a four week feast of freakishness. Totally pigged out on a Fringe Binge over the last few weeks. As most of the shows happened to be scheduled during the times normally dedicated to squiggling, slinking or doing Coursera homework, all those things have been sadly neglected of late. Now ( Read more... )

Izzie’s been suffering withdrawal symptoms for the vegie delights of Annalakshmi. The boss of Juicy Beetroot tried to tempt the serpent saying that our favorite potato dish would be on the menu today. But the Illuminite festival was on this evening at the cultural centre so some delicious and fattening layered potatoes with tumeric would in itself ( Read more... )