I've been meaning to post this for the last few months and I finally remembered ( Read more... )

I suppose these have been around for a while, but today was the first time I'd seen them and I thought I'd share!


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Hello possums! (oops channeled Dame Edna for a moment there!)


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Monday, 26th January is our national holiday, so in honour of it, I thought I'd do a few posts over the coming days concerning things Australian.

Here's a humorous music vid that's gone viral over here in the last couple of days - hope you enjoy it!

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And the wonderfully funny Adam Hills on the Australian accent:

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( and on Australian sign language )

It's not often I truly covet something, but I came across this wonderful bespoke shoemaker's by happy accident and I've fallen in love!

Where were these wonderfully original and talented people when I was younger, performing, had the money to afford them, somewhere worth wearing them to and had the chance to claim these as a costuming tax ( Read more... )

I may be terribly behind the times as this has been around for over three years, but you MUST visit http://whenparentstext.com I guarantee you'll pop in for a moment and end up still laughing, still on it, quite a while later!

Some examples:
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This will be coming out in March, apparently.

Alan Rickman directs and plays Louis XIV and, overall, the cast looks promising. This looks to be an interesting watch - perhaps even a good one:

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Thank you to all those who left your lovely supportive comments on my "Cue Violins..." post, they were greatly appreciated ( Read more... )

Many of you will have most probably heard of the new book out called WTF Knitting.


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I was out doing some grocery shopping earlier today and as I was walking from my car to the supermarket, I happened to look over at our local St Vincent de Paul op shop (the back of it) and noticed this lovely enormous white teddy bear sitting in front of the donation bins. Being Saturday and seeing as the shop won't open again until late January, ( Read more... )