Firbank has arrived in his new home. yuriverse is sleeping with him downstairs. Timid little Tonkinese he is right now, poor mite cried a bit on the drive from Lethbridge Park to Balmain. He left the carrier in the spare bedroom and headed for the safety under the bed. A little bit of stroking under the chin is all the contact I've managed so far. Day ( Read more... )

So it happened. Just after midnight in late 1969, Mum was being urged by a maternity nurse not to push yet, because the doctor hadn't made it from Rose Bay to RPA Hospital yet, and Mum was, "I am not waiting." And out I popped. On Friday we had a family dinner to acknowledge the actual day before last night's larger affair. Catering and family ( Read more... )

It's been hard to find the will to write in this live journal. I've been feeling drained and uninteresting, but things are looking much better now. Social life has gone from non-existent hiding inside together to a more active round of hanging with friends, eating out, making the token visits to the poofter bars and so on. More importantly, we've ( Read more... )

We had the dust! You've all seen the pics if you didn't see it live. I woke up to a red sky before dawn and assumed it was fog, plus shepherd's warning. yuriverse then texted me to say it wasn't side effects of Lexapro but actually a dust storm like nothing we'd ever seen. I headed to work in a taxi so as to be in time for a coach leaving at 9 a.m. for ( Read more... )

I likes the harbour.


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We got great sketches drawn up of possible extensions to our house. Kris is the architect, a friend who grew up living on the same street in Greenwich, so of course the work has to be kept in the "family". (Scare quotes indicate nepotism, not sexuality!) Then he got some ballpark figures from a builder friend of his for what his sketches might cost ( Read more... )

Here it comes. The round of 40th birthdays of my school friends has begun with consecutive weekend parties. My own is only a few months away ( Read more... )

What a struggle it is to get back to work. I think I needed a second week of Turtle Cove (or at least a second consecutive week of not-work ( Read more... )

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Turtle Cove here we come! This time tomorrow night we'll be landing in Cairns. Dinner then hot tubbing.