Stand by for return to lj...

So, like, BP and I are doing some digging? Under a bridge along a freeway? Through lots of fill, with an excellent excavator-driver who also is the cousin of a well-known academic archaeologist? Which makes us happy. Because we are tragic ( Read more... )

Every survey lately seems to grind to an abrupt halt as Helen faces near-death by snakebite. And promptly freaks, ending the job for all concerned in no uncertain terms. Effing tiger-snakes. They're just so big, and no matter how many times it happens, Helen just cannot accept that it is okay for them to be 10cm from her as she bush-bashes ( Read more... )

http://www.quac.com.au

. . . feeling inordinately pleased with ourselves :P

So last night, Helen is in the nice warm unit, fooling about on the puter designing bumper stickers. Has Helen mentioned before the leeches in victoria? For those unaware, they are like those in Tasmania and NT. None of this nice WA-style staying in the water for them. No, they perch themselves on grasses and bracken, and wave about smelling for ( Read more... )

Helen has checked this against two separate bills months apart.

It costs *half* as much to call her sister on a mobile in London? As to call gf on a mobile in Melbourne. THE SAME CITY IN WHICH I LIVE.

I don't know why, all i know is that it is wrong. That, and I can afford to call sister after all :P

helen is writing a report and this is making her insane. Sandra Sully, with her 'line up for the ration-book' gloom is not helping. Can't help feeling we should be buying a shed in the country and frantically growing veggies. And erecting a 'desperate foolish city-people' proof fence, to protect the chooks ( Read more... )

And kitty is going psycho chasing the! biggest! moths! ever ( Read more... )

Must bode summer on the way. Oh, for this to be it's only portent. You know, apart from crazy-eye-scratching, stye-inducing, rabid sneezing, bladder weakening and general misery-causing hayfever. Which Helen has also noticed, by the by ( Read more... )

The sun has finally decided to show it's face and today we had dinner and drinks *outside* for the first time in many months, making helen a happy girl.

. . .oh, and gf? PASSED HER THESIS. With minor typos only to correct.

Boys and girls, there is a doctor in the house :P