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Hello again world!
Apparently I haven't posted anything for over a year, I guess I've been hanging about on Facebook most of the time.
Since 2011 we've moved to curufea's folk's house and set up a glorious gaming den there, and (at the end of last year) managed to get pregnant - which would be the main thing I ought to be blogging about at the moment. :) -
Happy man day!
It's nice how Australia likes to celebrate my first date with Curufea. Makes it rather easy to remember ( Read more... ) -
Barbershop and bicycles
I've just bought a highly dodgy no-name electric bike from oo.com.au via eBay - after a couple of days of looking at prices and features and discovering that the various ones I liked the look of were sold out after I clicked the 'buy' button, one decided that I'll go for cheap and potentially nasty, and plan to sell it and get a nice one if I like ( Read more... ) -
Happy ebook goodness!
My favourite author, R.A. Macavoy, broke her publishing drought a few years ago with an Amazon e-reads novella - a terrible cause of distress to me because they won't sell to non-US credit cards. Fortunately she recently brought out an expanded version in a limited edition hardcover, which I reviewed on Amazon and made a slightly passive aggressive ( Read more... ) -
Various excitements
Bill Bailey tonight! Huzzah!
We now have a new, functioning oven! It's pretty basic, apart from having a ceramic cooktop, and we won't be using the timer because the rather loud beep makes the next door dog go berserk, but it works!!!
Curufea has his shiny new phone, and therefore has stopped moping around the house wondering when his phone will ( Read more... ) -
Various bits
Good grief, I haven't gotten around to posting anything in ages!
Of note, recently I've:- Started up a barbershop quartet with cloudsprite as tenor, my friend Helen as lead, and possibly one of two basses. It's fun so far, and we're definitely going to aim to compete in the 2015 convention if we're still singing together. No name yet. :) The next step (once we' ( Read more... )
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Various bits
We went to Mandurah for barbershop convention followed by 'harmony college' last week. Because I wasn't competing I got to watch the whole competition, and poor, brave, bad-pitch-phobic curufea managed to watch the second half of the quartets comp (he successfully picked the top three in order) and the showcase of winners. Very nice - water views from ( Read more... ) -
Things of interest
This weekend we baked our apple! Very exciting. :-) We only got one apple from our two ballerina trees this year (first crop, and there was a bit of a difference in flowering so one of the trees didn't get pollinated at all) It was turned into eight tiny tarts based vaguely on the ones in this month's Delicious magazine - puff pastry brushed with ( Read more... ) -
Medicare enters the 20th century (1990s?)
Just visited the Medicare website to see if I could do anything on there about registering my bank account details for direct payments (I'm a bit over visiting the office with receipts, exciting as cash payments are), and was unreasonably cheered to see that I could register online and update my account, etc!
I say was, because after registration I ( Read more... )
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