Others have detailed 10 items of interest that are unique and unusual about themselves. My list is neither unique nor unusual in any extreme way...its just stuff about me that I don't usually divulge. Not because its particularly private, just because it doesn't usually come up very often.

1. My first food memory is of eating crab meat in the ( Read more... )

Recriminations and public flagellations, I know....a whole weekend with bushwalker and her highly scrumptious babe (hands off girls, I've made a marriage bargain for 2025) and here I am just getting around to an entry but I am Womadelaided out! Photos will follow but I am tech supportless so be patient :).

Womad was bloody fantastic. For those of you not in ( Read more... )

Just spoke to bushwalker in real life. I'm so excited....shiraz, baby and great music for the weekend. Virtual becoming reality is a beautiful thing.

PS. thanks to vasco_pyjama for the technical tips.

Just finished preparing and eating dinner with my family. Its the first time we have all had dinner together in a couple of months. Broad bean and prosciutto soup to start, roast lamb with roast vegetables, steamed brocolli, gravy and homemade mint sauce as our main and then chocolate pudding with cream and berry coulis for dessert. A sav blanc - ( Read more... )

I've just had brilliant news!! My plans for 2005 have just been given a boost by acceptance into a program that I thought was just a pipe dream. I am SO happy ( Read more... )

Recently I've been thinking about the things I find appealing, sexy, heart-warming, a turn on. I don't mean that tacky stuff that magazines, soaps and popular thought peddles but instead those moments, items, interactions that just turn your heart and head. To that end I have three stories that capture moments of pure bliss......

Having woken up ( Read more... )

I'm not sure I'm much of a marketing executive but I love the idea of a bit of a crime spree with shag_mapper !!

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On other matters, a friend from Nepal rang last night to share his concerns about his friends and family in Kathmandu. Following the coup, most phone and internet ( Read more... )

I got dumped today. Actually, I got dumped four or five times today by dirty great waves at Henley Beach. Ironically, it was far more humiliating and embarrassing than any relationship dump I've experienced. Truth be told, I've never been romantically dumped but that's just another chapter in the saga of my 'commitment-phobic' story ( Read more... )

Lat night I bought a bottle of wine for $14.99 (or more accurately I sent my under the legal limit sister to buy it as I had already had a glass ( Read more... )

Looking at photos of oneself can be excruciating. You're too fat, you have a terrible facial expression, you look tired, you look old, awful haircut, bad situation...for whatever reason it can be a painful process. That is, until you come across those photos that capture a moment or feeling ( Read more... )