Near enough to 21 years ago, Husband and I got married in a fairly traditional manner, and this included a two-tiered fruitcake-based wedding cake. The lower tier was consumed at or around the time of the wedding, but the top tier remained intact and on display in our homes for, let's say a long time.
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On December 4 1993 Husband and I became Husband and Wife. With a bit of effort all around we remained so for 20 years after that, so we celebrated by getting away for a couple of days down south in Dunsborough, Western Australia. The site was chosen for its proximity to the ocean (for Husband) and to decent granite geology for me. In a perfect ( Read more... )

Husband (if he wants to live) usually draws a cartoon for me at Christmas, and on anniversaries and birthdays. For Christmas 2012 he chose to recreate a scene from the film The Thing (1982). Because reasons.
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Had a lovely outing this afternoon to the launch of an art exhibition featuring one of Husband's workmates J.

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In Melbourne we stayed at The Hotel Windsor on Spring Street, right over the road from the Victorian parliament house, and oh-so-conveniently exactly at a stop on the city circle free tram route. It was teh awesome.

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Tomorrow is March 10 2012, and it marks two very different anniversaries.

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Planet Video are having a $2 sale of some of their weekly rental DVD stock, and I foolishly told Husband who promptly vanished out the door. What did he get?

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Guess what? More cancer in the ones I love. This is getting old. I hope they do too. Strictly speaking it's a cancer scare at this point, but even if it's a localised problem it's still a bad one with career consequences.

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Went with Husband for the second (and hopefully last) time to the local Video Ezy closing down sale and acquired *cough* a few more titles. List to be posted separately. Then it was down to Hillary's boat harbour again for coffee, solar radiation, sculpture, and wildlife.

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This morning Husband took us to see the rather optimistically-titled but buckets o' fun Guildford Museum of Natural History. My kind of fun bucket at least :-) It's a hall/warehouse full of stuffed and mounted animal hides and skeletons, run by the decidedly creepy (but quite possibly lovely) taxidermist himself. Value at $5 per adult.

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