Well I've done it, I've spent the weekend in Sydney indulging in tabletop war gaming with my metrodomestic manchild and y'know what...IT WAS GREAT ( Read more... )

Ah bless the holidays...there's a lot to be said for working in a school. Guarenteed holidays every ten weeksish ( Read more... )

Ten days of hell before two weeks of non-working glory. I pray to all Gods that they are swift and painless ( Read more... )

Another long weekend. This one brought on by the non-birthday of the Queen as opposed to illness although if you can class boredom as a sicknes then I'm chronically ill ( Read more... )

I've had a four day weekend imposed on me by my boss because I have the sniffles (ok I have a cold but its hardly more than the sniffles). I guess its been a blessing because work was starting to do my head in and it quickly occured to me I didn't miss it one iota ( Read more... )

Woot! I am a genius...


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Nine weeks to go until the next school holidays (only eight if you don't count this week) *celebrates already ( Read more... )

I forced myself awake at 9:30am this morning to watch the ANZAC Day march. I'm a bit of a war nut with an unhealthy obsession with the Vietnam War (starting to think I must have fought there in a previous life.)Anyway, I'd never watched the march before because the whole idea seems incredibly tedious...who wants to watch a bunch of dribbling old ( Read more... )

There has been a buzz going around Adelaide, the sense that something big has arrived that its going to change all our lives...yes IKEA has finally opened some humongous store and its sent the City of Churches folk just a little bananas ( Read more... )

Ahh I'm full of chocolate and cake and a sense of hope...must be Easter Weekend and the beginning of the school holidays. Yes its all very exciting except for the fact everyone I know has buggered off (Except my parents who it'd be nice if they had) and I've no one to talk to ( Read more... )