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| Boxing Day random Beatles’ references | December 25, 2008 | “I’m so tired, I haven’t slept a wink” Well it feels like that anyway. Perhaps Christmas was a little too much excitement for me. Thankfully there is now the nothingness of Boxing Day in which to recover. I intend to read a book whilst lying on the lounge with the airconditioning blasting. The cricket shall […] |
| "what’s that about?" | December 17, 2008 | Quote of the night from bookclub last night came when we were discussing what film we would see for our first meeting of next year. The conversation turned to Australia and there was a distinct lack of enthusiasm (and even some mild groaning I believe) from everyone in the room. It’s only redeeming feature as […] |
| “what’s that about?” | Quote of the night from bookclub last night came when we were discussing what film we would see for our first meeting of next year. The conversation turned to Australia and there was a distinct lack of enthusiasm (and even some mild groaning I believe) from everyone in the room. It’s only redeeming feature as […] |
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| Sleigh bells in the night | I’m feeling a little crankification seeping into the leadup to Christmas today. It’s an accumulation of a number of things. I really dislike summer, so the hot weather we’ve been having hasn’t been helping my attitude towards thinking about Christmas day. Our family has a cold lunch but we still have it in the middle […] |
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| Sleigh bells in the night | I’m feeling a little crankification seeping into the leadup to Christmas today. It’s an accumulation of a number of things. I really dislike summer, so the hot weather we’ve been having hasn’t been helping my attitude towards thinking about Christmas day. Our family has a cold lunch but we still have it in the middle […] |
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| Selfish Christmas Shopping Sunday | December 14, 2008 | It’s been a weekend of Christmas shopping with more to come this afternoon. Yes, metropolitan readers of this blog, the shops are actually open here on a Sunday. It’s wonderful, because it seems many residents of my fine city can’t actually break the habit of no shopping on a Sunday, so you can actually meander […] |
| Selfish Christmas Shopping Sunday | It’s been a weekend of Christmas shopping with more to come this afternoon. Yes, metropolitan readers of this blog, the shops are actually open here on a Sunday. It’s wonderful, because it seems many residents of my fine city can’t actually break the habit of no shopping on a Sunday, so you can actually meander […] |
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| Thai Takeaway Thursday | December 11, 2008 | The days of the week posts continue so I just couldn’t resist a post with this title.It was yummy. I ate too much. Not much else to say really. |
| Thai Takeaway Thursday | The days of the week posts continue so I just couldn’t resist a post with this title.It was yummy. I ate too much. Not much else to say really. |
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| Things I don’t understand Tuesday | December 9, 2008 | The logic of rock paper scissors Deal or no Deal Why the plant in my office is still alive…it gets no sun and very little water The political nuances of the Middle East (or the basics actually if I’m being realistic) Why people listen to Mahler Australia’s Funniest Home Videos Ballet the ABC Finance report […] |