I got my eyebrows waxed yesterday. Since they’re quite light in colour I tend to neglect them until one morning I’ll peer close in the mirror and notice they’ve gone feral beyond the reaches of plucking. Anyway, yesterday I was attended to by a perky lass named Lynette, and I knew instinctively I shouldn’t trust Read More
What if everyone laughs at how white my legs are? What if I spend so much time catching up on Aussie foods I’ve missed that I’m busting out of my clothes by the end of the trip? What if I am so overcome with joy by the familiar sight of a plasticky Australian $5 note Read More
As the Australian leg of the wedding odyssey rapidly approaches, it’s The Mothership’s turn to get the Wedding Fever. While she has a more relaxed approach than the Motherinlawship for the Scottish one, she’s still a stickler for details. Because weddings are all about details. She came up with the idea of decorating the cake Read More
If you can see this message then my domain thingy has been transferred. Huzzah! I have switched hosts and have been upgraded to Movable Type 3.2. Thanks to Pavel at LivingDot hosting for all your help shifting this clunky old mess. I’ve been pissfarting around for six weeks cleaning out my archives – deleting spam Read More
You can’t talk to anyone lately without them bringing up all the bringing up they’ve been doing. There’s a violent vomiting/diarrhea bug going round, and noone hesitates to give you vivid details of their intestinal turmoil. One guy at work today said his wee son has been ill, and has become so skilled that he Read More
“SHORRRRRNA! SHORNA! Is that you?” “Yes it’s me!” “My GAWD, I can hear you so well! Can you believe this LINE? It’s so clear!” My aunt is awed by the miracle of international telephony. I think she still believes there are ladies with headsets and twinsets plugging away at switchboards. “And you still sound the Read More
I am really bloody sick of not enjoying this. All sorts of stupid stuff has been getting on my tits for months and months leading to this blog becoming a steaming pit of neglect. Examples: All the nasty weirdoes who came out of the woodwork post-Bloggie The server being pounded so hard by comment spammers Read More
