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This Is Not Art
Long weekends mean you can get up early on a Saturday, have breakfast with your great mate Kate, go to work, then go to Newcastle to an art festival for 24 hours and be back on the Monday to recover from it all ( Read more... ) -
Mornings
Woke up at 6.30 and went out to our little backyard, which now contains many herbs in pots - thyme, oregano, coriander, curly and flat leaf parsley, basil, and Greek basil. There is a tomato plant that keeps on growing (this is its third season), and also a lemon tree in a large pot that hasn't shown any signs of fruit after a year, but perhaps we ( Read more... ) -
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I am home after running a half marathon. 21.1 km. I feel quite calm. It started on the north side of the harbour bridge and finished at the Opera House.
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I had a day off and so did Dennis so we went on a short road trip to the Southern Highlands. Having not been to any Scottish highlands I can't compare, but these were up a way from Sydney - you notice you're on a plateau after your ears pop a little. Anyway, we went to Bowral first, home of Donald Bradman for awhile. I don't care too much for ( Read more... ) -
Beer!
Took off early to do errands in the city. Went to Martin Place and admired the hitherto unnoticed by me art deco MLC building. Freaked out at the Vocation Expo - a bunch of Catholic associations recruiting who knows who. Perhaps it's just because I'm rereading Foucault's Pendulum.
Now at the Excelsior, having a schooner outside - my this weather is ( Read more... ) -
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I was going to post this as a Facebook update, but decided it merited an LJ entry:
I am sitting in the loungeroom, listening to the Yardbirds, talking with my baby and peeling dried lavender stems, amassing a pile of fragrant goodness. -
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Came home from work feeling crap. I've had a cold/respiratory illness since last week, and it managed to get worse on the weekend such that I had to cancel on stitch and bitch yesterday. So after doing an experiment this morning I came home. And promptly developed a hell of a sinus headache. So I was lying in bed feeling miserable and frustrated ( Read more... ) -
Poor Balzac
Our lovely kitty appeared with a lesion last Wednesday night. A patch on his back looked wet and his fur was matted down. I thought he had just gotten a bit messy in the backyard and would groom himself back to normal. But the next day it was still there and I could see a bit of raw skin under his fur. So off to the vet on Friday night ( Read more... ) -
Amusement is easy
Sitting in kerberos_3's loungeroom, both of us with laptops in front of us, directing each other to various parts of the interweb. Last night was a YouTube fest. -
Lunch break update
Haha, no sturgeon for you!So I had my April Fools' Day on Monday. There I was, gowned up, ready to be wheeled down to the operating theatre for this surgery that I have to have (removal of a benign cyst) and the surgeon comes in and tells me the power is out over most of inner Sydney and the hospital can't operate on emergency power. So I have to ( Read more... )