Oh, dear. I should have been abed ages ago ( Read more... )

It has been a cold old week, and I confess I have been feeling it. Hardier types from more extreme climes will mock, but it truly has been rather chilly. (4 degrees C this morning, and marginally cooler yesterday, though it climbs to 16/17 degrees during the day ( Read more... )

...while the world burns turns ( Read more... )

I don't know whether you've seen it or not, but there's been a bit of a hum around and about lately on an old WWII poster from the UK: Keep Calm and Carry On.

I first saw it in a friend's journal. Then another. And so on. Then I saw it in a photograph, adorning a T-shirt being worn by one Ron Weasley Rupert Grint. Very shortly afterwards, I was ( Read more... )

Now there's a phrase that runs trippingly off the tongue! Thank you, Ross Noble. I went to see him last night with
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( Australians all let us rejoice )

...like a new kettle, which doesn't leak when you pour from it, and which keeps the water at a constant temperature. Quiet happiness, right there! (I know, it's a teeny weeny small thing, but still... real ( Read more... )

Delete, delete, delete and nary a Cyberman in sightIt's been a cold old time in Melbourne over the last two days- the heating is cranked up, and I am trying to type myself into some sort of positive place. (Three thousand cheers for me, for getting up and out in the early cold morning light to go to exercise class. Huzzah ( Read more... )

But before I wend my way to hopeful oblivion bed, a few thoughts as Her Majesty's birthday holiday draws to a close.

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Huzzah! to Geoffrey Rush, who has just won a Tony Award for his Broadway performance in Exit The King. I didn't see him on Broadway, but I did see him in this play at the Malthouse in Melbourne a couple of years ago. Granted ( Read more... )

and I spent the morning watching the first episode of George Gently, which has finally been released on dvd in the UK. Martin Shaw is GG, and the first episode also featured Phil Davis and one Richard Armitage (quel surprise!). I enjoyed it, even without the added bonus of RA speaking with a Geordie accent, and wearing biker leathers with a rather ( Read more... )