This is why I love the Guardian online.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/may/04/ask-hadley-fashion-bra-straps

Curse you and your wonderful prose, I'm supposed to be doing some bloody work!

As part of a photoshoot with a GORgeous (broken) typewriter at work, you try to put yourself in the shot, and the camera shuts down.

Turns out the battery had died, but I'm sure that was just a tactful way of saying that you shouldn't take photos of yourself kissing office furniture.

Good thing my camera, at least , is discerning.

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I have spent a very boring weekend at home, going crazy in my brain. I initially like having a cold - the nostalgia, the solicitousness from people, the pleasant weird feeling one gets from fever temperatures - but then the stir crazy, one bedroom apartment, can't make any noise because the other person sleeps all day, head exploding pain kicks in ( Read more... )

 .... wadda ya do?

I have been working like a madman for the last  year week and just got a reminder that tomorrow is Friday Fun With Anglicans night which I signed up for in good faith (sorry) two months ago. I do like some thinking with my faith, which this is providing well, but I am just not in the mood for the middle classed, nervous smiles, ( Read more... )

Had a random text argument with my Mum ( Read more... )

Our landlord is putting the rent up to $340.00. Looking at Trade me (which I just misspelt as tarde me, coincidence?) you can get 2 bedroom places quite easily for less than we are paying for our 1 bedroom bolthole of loveliness. But they are all further away from town, sometimes not too far, sometimes WAY too far. And I am feeling strangely ( Read more... )

I walked past the sound shell at the botanical gardens last night, and it looked like a super place to spend a sunny evening listening to music and having, perhaps, a cold beer. I was hoping to do so tonight but I have been invited out to dinner for Davey's mum's birthday - I totally encourage anyone who was thinking of going to do so ... 

There is music in parks - and I like music in parks. I think I like Twinset featuring Lisa Tomlins, Jazz or at least enough to not run screaming from them ... they play the sound shell on 22 January. Anyone want to go? I was thinking 7pmish, blankets, booze and snacks? Mmmm, booze and snacks.

Y'know, I do like this holiday thing in the hot time of the year. Because I melt in hot weather, I can chose not to leave the house until 4pm when the sun no longer hates me. Soon, very soon, I will be back in the overly air-conditioned sanctuary of The Library ( Read more... )

... and trying to reasonably, in a grown up way, ignore the feeling that i am missing all the good bits and argh i must go and sight see just a little more before i fly to dublin tomorrow ( Read more... )