Heatwave and fires further north, but here in the City by the Sea we seem to be in our own little magic weather kingdom. Storms. Lashing rain and howling winds. All that jazz. My shutters blew open three times last night ( Read more... )

Oh my stars and garters, f-list, there were scenes at work today. ABSOLUTE SCENES. Today the powers that be unveiled stage two of the great restructuring and... well, let's just say I'm now glad I was made redundant in stage one. Perfidy, treachery, plots!

In other news: Knives Out is terrific and you should all go and see it. And if you do, you ( Read more... )

Hello, f-list. I hope you can hear me OVER THE RAIN. It is fairly bucketing down at the moment. I've just dragged our potted Christmas tree from under the patio where it lives all year to get a bit of rain before we bring it in and decorate it. I hope it doesn't get too wet ( Read more... )

My mother went on holiday a couple of weeks ago and came back with a cold, which she gave to me. Now there's a souvenir. My sickest day was last Monday which was, oh no, my first day at the new job. I came home exhausted and went straight to sleep. Still, after the first week, I can say the new job seems okay. It feels a bit weird after (a) so many ( Read more... )

Do you remember last year, there was a poll in Britain to name a... I want to say a ship? Some sort of sea-going vessel, anyway, and they held a poll and Boaty McBoatface won? Only the powers that be were sensible and named it something else instead? Well, Sydney held a poll to name a new ferry and you'll never guess what won. And they're going to ( Read more... )

The time for cucumbers is upon us. I have cucumbers. I have so many cucumbers. So many. So very many. I am running out of people I know to give them to. They have been coming in manageable dribs and drabs over the last couple of weeks, but now they have hit their stride. I picked ten on Saturday and ten on Sunday and there are more to come. My ( Read more... )

Hello, f-list. I am currently watching Anaconda. Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube are being terrorised in the Amazon by a giant rubber snake and Jon Voigt. It's a very silly film ( Read more... )

No knitting to photograph again this week, alas. The coming week will be frantic, so there may not be any knitting to photograph either next Sunday. Things should be back to normal after that ( Read more... )

Hello, f-list. I started the day 152m above sea level, and here I am now back at... sea level? I mean, I live on a hill, so it'd be a few metres up, I suppose. Anyway, I'm home.

I had a good road trip. No snow. There are some really lovely rocks on the Lancefield-Tooborac road should you ever be in the area. Lots of them. When we drove past in the ( Read more... )

I haven't mentioned them since the day I was caught in them, but the City by the Sea's surprise! roadworks continue apace. They are digging up and resurfacing every second corner in the CBD, so everywhere you turn, there they are. Luckily I now have a housemate/landlady/mother willing to drive me to work, so I haven't had to worry about it. Because ( Read more... )