Whew! What a week I've had - chasing work, doing evening shifts, going to interviews, & in between trying to shop, cook & clean. I'm exhausted & it all starts over again tomorrow ( Read more... )

Well, it's 5 weeks since the Irish newspaper last gave me a night shift subbing, and my bank account is looking very thin. Strangely enough, thanks to a lack of regular cardio exercise, I'm not looking thin, but rather plumpish, especially with all the extra layers I've put on to combat the cold & save on heating costs ( Read more... )

"There's one for you, 19 for me ( Read more... )

Bananas have finally stopped being a luxury item, & even though we are in a pretty chilly winter for eastern Australia, suddenly there is a glut of bananas in the fruit & vegie shops. Not perfect bananas but on the edge of over-ripe ones. They are so cheap I don't think they can be Australian, altho' of course I hope they are ( Read more... )

Birthdays aren't usually a surprise, but my __th one today was. Largely because I'd been determined to ignore it, since I didn't relish getting another year older & deeper in debt & further through my 50s. But fate, or the universe, or whoever organises these things thought differently. When I got into work this morning I was greeted by my ( Read more... )

But the only jokes & fishnet tights are in the last para.

(Apologies to my regular readers - this is for the lurkers or the once a year lookers. It's the circular letter that never got sent. Feel free to skip it. Or comment. Whatever.)

Yesterday was my last day at work for the year & (allowing for the vagaries of the editor of the American ( Read more... )

Summer has begun - the frangipani are dropping blossoms on the footpath, bushfires are raging across parts of Victoria, SA, Tasmania and in the Blue Mts, & I have completed my last freelance assignment for the year ( Read more... )