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Carn straya
This is my first Australia Day as an Australian citizen and the Childzilla's first one ever. It's also the quietest Australia Day I have ever had in terms of activities and socialising. Given this is normally Warpcon weekend in Cork, I've been doing something awesome this time of year for the last 16 years or so and it feels a bit strange to be so ( Read more... ) -
What we did on our summer holidays
So, Golden Boy and I decided to get married. And because we are really, really awkward, we decided we would not do so in Ireland or Australia but in one of Fiji's Yasawa islands, because who doesn't love a long flight followed by a 5 hour boat ride to get to a wedding?
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It's March 17th here in Australia and just about in Ireland...
Lá 'le Pádraig sona daoibh go léir!*
For those of you celebrating St Patrick's Day, have a good one. May you have a wonderful day filled with your favourite people and a few glasses of whatever you like the most.
(And please remember, Patrick can be shortened to Pat or Paddy, but never ever patty. Patrick is the anglicisation of the Irish name ( Read more... ) -
Don't say what, and don't say pardon.
I'm pretty sure most of my friends wouldn't do this but just in case you haven't given it thought...
When someone tells you they have hearing difficulties, saying "What?" straight afterwards is incredibly rude and hurtful - like pretending to be blind at someone with vision impairment, or exaggeratedly limping at a leg amputee.
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Sticking your nose in
So, today's adventure involved P (aka Golden Boy) and I pulling some poor (probably) drunk and very distressed girl out of Darling Harbour's waters about 30m away from 2 buses full of people who sat and watched.
We were at Star City Wharf sitting on a tour bus, one of two packed with people, and saw a girl walk across the road and jump neatly into ( Read more... ) -
"Anything is possible when you fly with Virgin America and not Ryanair. I’m on a plane.”
I'm blogging at 34,000 feet. Internet access on planes may just be my new favourite thing EVER. I'm currently flying over Kansas with Virgin America and I have both a decent signal and a plug under my seat to charge my laptop. I love living in the future.
The Great WhistleStop Tours of the USA and Canada (now with Special Guests Lucy HK and coffee_lifeform has ( Read more... ) -
Fluffzilla's List - The things Sadhbh is not allowed to do in her wedding - part 2
- The term "special day" does not invoke the "pinch and a punch" rule.
- When people refer to "being treated like a princess", I am not allowed assume they mean Peaches and inquire what exactly I am meant to do with two mustachioed Italian men on my wedding night.
- It is called the Bridal Chorus not the Bridal Dirge.
- Slow acoustic guitar accompanied by ( Read more... )
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Fluffzilla's List - The things Sadhbh is no longer allowed to do in her wedding
- I am not allowed to insist the ceremony be started with quotes from Princess Bride, "Mawwaige, the sacwed awwangement, is why we ah gathewed hewe today...Love, Twue Love.."
- Also unsuited to the ceremony's opening is anything from Full Metal Jacket or Terminator 2.
- Also, I am not allowed to make the celebrant dress as Elvis.
- I am also not allowed to ( Read more... )
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Writing for fun? What's that?
Tomorrow I get to interview one of Australia's best known brewers, Chuck Hahn, the man responsible for all the various Hahn beers and the James Squire range of brews. It is very exciting, even if my brewery tour will be at 10am which means that getting to test the various beers is unlikely. It will be my second beer article of the year, and the ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Teenage dream
If my "first wuv" turned up on my doorstep today, I'd wonder what the hell they were doing in Australia, how the hell they had found my damned house and, most importantly, did this mean that I was going to have to give up the next two days to show them round or could I just give them a list of fun things to see so I can get my articles done ( Read more... )