Been on a bit of an epic trip around regional (read: rural) Victoria and New South Wales since I last posted. Came back from Sydney and caught up with miss_madb before heading down to Geelong for what ended up being a thoroughly wonderful Christmas with Teh Australian's Dutch and Irish families (Dutch on Christmas Eve, Irish for Christmas Day). I'd been ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what temperature it got to here in Sydney today; fluffworld said it was supposed to hit 40C. Which is quite a lot, although not the highest I've been in; according to the digital temperature gauge on the lifeguard's hut at the Dead Sea, it was 49C while we were there ( Read more... )

Back with my parents for the few days before I leave. Tonight, we had a pseudo-Christmas, with proper dinner, tree and presents. It was good, but I did have to avoid thinking about how upset my mom's probably going to be on actual-Christmas. First time in the history of my family that we won't be together for it ( Read more... )

Last weekend, I finally managed to make it to one of those freeform events ubiquitous_cat is always recommending to me; specifically, Curious Consequences, a LARP convention held somewhere in Dorset, and I had a *fantastic* time. Everyone was welcoming and fun (and I've made a load of new friends - special shout-outs to fractalgeek for the lift to London, and castorlion for the TWH ( Read more... )

I haven't updated in ages, have I. Well, not publicly, anyway; I've increasingly started posting me-locked entries, diary-style. Which is unusual, as that's not how I tend to use lj. October's passed in a blur of weddings and funerals. No births that I can think of. But presumably with all the weddings, they'll be coming next year ( Read more... )

For reference, in case you're interested - I'll be landing in Melbourne on Wednesday, December 9th. Or, in other words, I'm spending Christmas (Geelong, VIC) and New Year's Eve (Kyogle, NSW) in Australia. I really do know where the exciting places are, huh ( Read more... )

I've decided driving is Very Hard. Thought I was doing alright when I got up to third gear, but then I came far too close to crashing on a crossroads, panicked and had to be very firmly talked through what was going on. I knew the panic was going to be a big issue - it's all fine when it's going well, but the second I think it's going wrong I ( Read more... )

Only last Saturday, at the infamous John-the-Cop's wedding reception, were boxninja and I doing our best impression of what happens when you put Baby in the corner as the band played Oscar-winning song "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from that filmAs young teens in the early 1990s, the girls in my class drooled and swooned over Swayze's turn in Dirty ( Read more... )

Nothing makes one's cellulite quite so immediately apparent as accidentally snogging an eighteen-year-old. Fact. For the record, I am cellulite-ridden. Apparently, coffee is one of the worst things you can consume in cellulite-generation-terms. I'd like to say I wish someone had told me that in my late teens, but it wouldn't've stopped me ( Read more... )

I am an auberbitch; half bitch, half aubergine. I can't explain why that's funny, it just is.

delichan is a very bad influence on me.

You should all go and see something in Gav's show.