Finally I believe! There is a God of Healthy Eating. I know because he smote me today ( Read more... )

Yesterday we discovered the David Jones foodcourt - the Melbourne equivalent to Harrods. My dearly beloved boyfriend, who has thus far shown stunningly little homesickness beyond an occasional desire for a good night out at a proper British pub, was reduced to a trembling wreck at the sight of half-chocolate Hobnobs, Yorkshire Tea and Branston ( Read more... )

I am definitely going native. Not only did I tell somebody today that 'Sydney isn't far away' with not a trace of irony, I've just seen the word 'hedgehog' and assumed they were talking about cake. Yummy squidgy chocolately biscuity cake, for those of you still thinking about spikey rats ( Read more... )

I think it's the first time ever I've watched the whole results for a general election. But it's dead easy when you have a 9 hour time difference and therefore the results nicely flow in during the day, and the nice people at the BBC make an online 'scorecard' that refreshes automatically. I was hooked, though the results were mostly quite dull, ( Read more... )

1) Wake up feeling lousy. Decide to have day off work to feel sorry for self ( Read more... )

I am writing an essay. You can tell by the way I've written out the title and then proceeded directly to LJ. Having exhausted your entries, I'm now writing meaningless waffle. Which is what I was supposed to be doing in the first place.

The thought of the day is: how is that 4 litre box of wine empty already?

Melbourne does cold! Argh. My breath was frosting up this morning and everything. The problem is, Melburnians refuse to acknowledg it gets cold, so we still have the air conditioning on at work and although we're lucky to have a heating system at home, it is kind of like a hairdryer. Thank god for my new trusty hot water bottle ( Read more... )

We're just back from a sneak preview of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Anthony won some free tickets in some strange library competition (hire a guide book, provide 'The Answer' and Bob's your uncle (/grandad ( Read more... )

There are babies EVERYWHERE ( Read more... )

It's six months ago today that we moved to Australia ( Read more... )