Quiet around here, isn’t it?
I was going out today, but I’m a tad crook (just enough that I don’t want to be wandering around in the rain, not too bad), so I’m home doing a little bit of gentle gardening in between the showers.
What’s everyone else up to, if you’re home at all?
Categories: Life
Soggy here, innit? 
In memoriam: Diana Rigg 
Getting out the ‘yes’ 
100 books by women in 2016 
Hoyden About Town 
Yesterday, I actually got work done on my thesis! W00t!
This morning, I watched new episodes of Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica. This afternoon I’m going to accompany my boyfriend to his mother’s place where he will clean out his old bedroom while I study.
I live in a tourist-heavy area (near the Twelve Apostles on the Great Ocean Road) so there is no way I’m leaving my house this weekend – I don’t want to get run over by a tourist driving and taking photos at the same time (yes, I’ve seen this) or one of the international tourists who forget which side of the road is the correct side…
Exploring a birthday present option for the not boyfriend. It involves the services of a professional and quite possibly whips and ropes….well you did ask!
another outspoken females last blog post..a nice wee self-centred meme
No long weekend here. I got a haircut this morning (hm, you get what you pay for, at the Sunday markets!). We bought five different types of chilli plants for ten dollars, and some honey snap and snow peas to put in.
This afternoon, I’m taking the lad to meet his wee cousin, who just came home at last. Big day. I’m taking them a little coming-home pressie – a Moby wrap and some slipper-socks.
I’m reading (strictly for work, you understand) Sebastian Faulks’ hommage-type James Bond novel, which is actually very clever, and then, in some strange kind of gender-based cultural equivalence, going to see Sex and the City this afternoon (strictly for cultural/sociological-observation reasons, you understand). I’ve got a horrible feeling that if the TV-show-level sexually-obsessed wittering-on is maintained in the movie then these four gals are now at least five years too old to look anything but really stupid carrying on like that. Samantha is nearly as old as me, FFS.
Looking forward to the frocks though.
Heh – many good things happening to everyone! I’m just about to have a nice lunch with baguette & prosciutto and yes, I think I will indeed have some pinot noir.
Lauredhel, so great that Wee Cousin is safe at home at last and the Lad can go visit him. That’s really wonderful. Almost as wonderful as Beppie actually working on her thesis on a long weekend – what discipline! I hope lilacsigil finds something fun to do at home while avoiding the tourists, but I’m afraid to ask AOF anything more about her weekend plans!
Pav, I’ll be interested to read what you think about the SATC movie – I never really got into the show, but it does seem to have done some amazing box office, which if it convinces the Studios that they actually can get women into the cinemas, might make for some more investment in movies whose appeal lies outside the young single male demographic.
SATC $20 a ticket (with complimentary champagne, yeah right.) Bah!
I did some gardening too – weeding the front yard which is mostly all native, with nice mulchy rocky effects. It was covered with the usual two weeds (1) Kikuyu with long worm-like runners underground, very satisfying to pull up because sometimes a metre or two comes up at once. (2) Some other kind of lawn grass with radiating tussocky habit, which really spreads so every time you pull one up you can clear quite a good area – also very satisfying.
But there was also some very unsatisfying young grass which was too spindly to pull up large amounts at once, and also lots of soursob.
Tomorrow we take Berlin, I mean, the back yard!
Tonight we have two extra kids, SO’s nieces. One very lively and talkative, the other one profoundly disabled, just likes to sit and watch TV and have a weep if the dog barks or some other intolerable situation occurs.
The day turned out even more eventful than planned – I bought a car; and also we said goodbye to my brother’s old dog, who isn’t going to be with us much longer.
…Moral: Always go away for the long weekend, or you’ll get other people’s kids.
Helen, you need to befriend a childfree young lady or gentleman. My sister’s best mate came over for the afternoon and played with the kid for about three hours for the price of sharing our leftovers at lunch. I cooked.
This morning I worked on my cv while the Bloke and Lad went to the park & museum.
I went to see the new Indiana Jones movie this morning – as a Sex And The City review said – both movies are an excuse for people to catch up with characters they have really enjoyed, and don’t want to let go of. Enjoyable, as long as you don’t mind gratuitous violence. The female characters (not that there are many) are pretty capable, most of the time, which is nice.
Sunday saw me going out for breakfast, buying anti-flea stuff for the menagerie (2 cats, 1 dog), seeing hubby off to the airport (he’ll be in San Jose for the next week), walking the dog because she won’t go outside on her own in the rain – she just crosses her legs, taking the kids to Huscarls training (medieval reenactment) where they were taught how to attack with spears, doing the grocery shopping (with 3 kids in tow), frantically cleaning up my disaster area of a house, coercing my 11 year old into doing his overdue Antarctica assignment, having my mum over for dinner, walking the dog again and then watching Tea With Mussolini and ending up staying up way too late because I can 😛
Monday I’m going ten pin bowling with net friends and doing lots of laundry.
mimbless last blog post..I’m so proud
We’ve got a family get-together today, so not much online time for me as the necessary hospitalities are attended to. Always good to celebrate the olds getting older (rather than the alternative) though.
Here’s to the olds! Bless, including that old dog, whose ears I cyber-scratch.
If anyone has a credit card and a few cents to spare, please go to Creek Running North (Note it’s closed down – I’m in mourning. But there’s a public notice up) It’s about Theriomorph’s dog Gilly. Very distressing.