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Springtime!

August 31st, 2006 at 11:01 pm » Comments (0)

Yay!
And Melbourne’s putting up a show today. Its supposed to be in the twenties degrees (celcius) which is ‘tropical’, Adam and I say to each other, laughing. Certainly different to the weather we grew up with. So we’ll take the sunshine and clear skies, anytime thanks.
I’ll be AWOL over the weekend. We’re having family coming […]


Sad Day

August 30th, 2006 at 9:36 pm » Comments (0)

Yesterday on Oprah American journalist Anderson Cooper was on talking about the suicide of his brother. It then hit me that its ten years this week sometime that my high-school friend, Tim, committed suicide. I’ve been meaning to ‘commemorate’ this but, unfortunately, I’ve kept forgetting. I also say ‘sometime’ this week because the last time […]


Top Ten Overrated Books List

August 29th, 2006 at 11:15 pm » Comments (0)

This is a simple list, as I was distracted last night writing it. I was watching 2005’s Comic Relief special of Little Britain. Robbie Williams dressed as a transvestite ‘lady’ is truly something to behold. Anyway, here goes:
1) The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki GemmellYawn. By the time she was at a rodeo in Spain […]


No place like home

August 29th, 2006 at 3:13 am » Comments (1)

The title is a quote from “The Wizard of Oz”, when at the end Dorothy realises personal happiness and fulfilment were to be found from within rather than externally. (If I wanted to go out on my literary tangent here, the allegorical significance of “Oz” is really interesting. Go here to learn more).
Anyway, I’m saying […]