Bron's
AND...
calling all male members of my family. You now can submit your DNA to test the purity of our clan ancestry here Mudbloods beware!
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Plug and Clan news
A plug for Bron's photos...the last one is especially lovely
Bron's
AND...
calling all male members of my family. You now can submit your DNA to test the purity of our clan ancestry here Mudbloods beware!
Bron's
AND...
calling all male members of my family. You now can submit your DNA to test the purity of our clan ancestry here Mudbloods beware!
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Just Desserts
I just ate the muffin I popped aside from the dozen I made and sent hubbie off to a dessert night with.
It was disgusting!
I pride myself on my muffins.
So much so, when travelling interstate I took a muffin pan with me so I could treat our inlaws to my muffin making prowess (as it was BIL has a similarly overinflated view of his own culinary expertise and we had somewhat of a High Noon like encounter in their apartment kitchen, each viewing the other's batter sceptically under furrowed brows, fingers ready for a quick draw wooden spoon showdown to right the wrongs of one another's muffin hubris...).
Therefore it is with great alack and alas that I resign my pan after creating what truly were the most unfortunate muffins ever to have graced my cooling tray.
So let this be a fable of dire warning to all ye of big muffin headedness!
One day you too will tempt the women's weekly fates and produce unpleasantly soapy tasting, gritty and charred disasters (which perplexingly have the internal viscosity of clag)! Let us only hope that you have the sense to taste the wee beasties before you send a dear loved one out in the world to untimely partake of their nastiness with others.
I'm sorry hun. Take a bucket of icecream next time.
It was disgusting!
I pride myself on my muffins.
So much so, when travelling interstate I took a muffin pan with me so I could treat our inlaws to my muffin making prowess (as it was BIL has a similarly overinflated view of his own culinary expertise and we had somewhat of a High Noon like encounter in their apartment kitchen, each viewing the other's batter sceptically under furrowed brows, fingers ready for a quick draw wooden spoon showdown to right the wrongs of one another's muffin hubris...).
Therefore it is with great alack and alas that I resign my pan after creating what truly were the most unfortunate muffins ever to have graced my cooling tray.
So let this be a fable of dire warning to all ye of big muffin headedness!
One day you too will tempt the women's weekly fates and produce unpleasantly soapy tasting, gritty and charred disasters (which perplexingly have the internal viscosity of clag)! Let us only hope that you have the sense to taste the wee beasties before you send a dear loved one out in the world to untimely partake of their nastiness with others.
I'm sorry hun. Take a bucket of icecream next time.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Monday, August 13, 2007
Everything I've Got...
So I'm nursing a headcold and listening to Ed Kuepper and reminicing the concert I went to a while ago and thinking...this song 'Everything I've Got Belongs To You' is really quite weird. Ed's a closet feminist, methinks - he likes to subvert mysoginist paradigms and call their faults through irony/paradox - for example:
can't say I've ever met a mail order bridegroom...but what weirds me out is that it was this song (Everything I've Got Belongs to You) that couples smooched and swayed to, stared lovingly at one another to and generally lit lighters and whoopwhoop in support of...
But if you read the lyrics, basically what he is saying is 'I'll be a complete bastard to you but I'll let you use my stuff'. Well, woopydoo: I'm sorry Mr Kuepper but I'm not won over! Do we just love him for his brutal honesty? The catchy tune? Or is it that brutality on some level is acceptable in the Aussie psyche? Or are people just so drunk by the encore that their romantic anthem standards drop way way down?
can't say I've ever met a mail order bridegroom...but what weirds me out is that it was this song (Everything I've Got Belongs to You) that couples smooched and swayed to, stared lovingly at one another to and generally lit lighters and whoopwhoop in support of...
But if you read the lyrics, basically what he is saying is 'I'll be a complete bastard to you but I'll let you use my stuff'. Well, woopydoo: I'm sorry Mr Kuepper but I'm not won over! Do we just love him for his brutal honesty? The catchy tune? Or is it that brutality on some level is acceptable in the Aussie psyche? Or are people just so drunk by the encore that their romantic anthem standards drop way way down?
I've designs on you that come from dirty books
I would lie to you if that is what it took
I can act out of spite
And those times ain't few
And everything I've got belongs to you
Yeah everything I've got belongs to you
I come by for you and take you by the wrist
You might well boohoo there might be that risk
To let you off of the hook
That just wouldn't do
Cause everything I've got belongs to you
Yeah everything I've got belongs to you
I don't care who's wrong or right
I'll just start another fight
You get yours, can't you see
You always get your comeuppance with me
Now, time has proved I'm churlish and I'm rude
And I find a real contentment in bad moods
And because it's all true,
There's nothing to do
Cause everything I've got belongs to you
Yeah everything I've got belongs to you
I don't care who's wrong or right
I'll just start another fight
You get yours, can't you see
You always get your comeuppance with me
Now, time has proved I'm churlish and I'm rude
And I find a real contentment in bad moods
And because it's all true,
There's nothing to do
Cause everything I've got belongs to you
Yeah everything I've got belongs to you
Everything I've got belongs to-
Everything I've got belongs to-
Everything I've got belongs to-
Everything I've got belongs to you
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Thursday, August 9, 2007
The Vac has landed
It's name is Curtis, which is strange - but I guess if you were a vaccuum cleaner any name would seem odd really. Except "Barry". Barry is a perfectly acceptable name for an inanimate object. This is not to imply that Barrys per se are inanimate (or objects) or that they suck for that matter...it's that for some reason, "Barry" seems to me a good name for an appliance. All my appliances are named Barry. Even the ones that are named Curtis.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Never again
Never again will I buy a vacuum cleaner through an online auction house.
I am now the proud owner of a small guitar.
Not quite a ukulele, but ridiculous nonetheless.
And the dust bunnies are gleefully applauding.
I am now the proud owner of a small guitar.
Not quite a ukulele, but ridiculous nonetheless.
And the dust bunnies are gleefully applauding.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Amy did one of these, as did Shiloh.
Here goes:
1. I find it hard to be brief
2. But there is a certain liberatory quality about lists
3. Let's try that sentence a little shorter:
4. Lists rock
5. At the moment I am drinking water
6. I have just devoured a packet of dutch liqourice cats
7. Kirsten Birkett's The Essence of Feminism is sitting on my desk
8. Next to a Fun with the Wiggles CD Rom
9. I like Ravi Shankar
10. And raspberries
11. This month I turned 31
12. Here I am kicking my heels up
13. No wait, that's a dinosaur
14. Silly me
15. I need new glasses
16. No, I really do
17. This could take some time
18. I have just finished reading Tad William's Shadowplay
19. It is second in the Shadowmarch trilogy
20. You can read the first 6 chapters of the first book here, for free
20. I really like epic adventure stories with speculative plots that draw on classical themes
21. One of my favourite novels of all time is Frank Herbert's Dune
22. I really really want to go and see Bell Shakespeare's Macbeth while it's touring
23. But we're saving our pennies to go and visit my BIL/SIL in Adelaide
24. Maybe we could go and see Curse of the Golden Flower instead?
25. There is a mouse behind our bookcase
26. It sounds like it may have a friend over
27. Perhaps they are watching the soccer
28. Or just reading a good book?
29. I think they are eyeing off my coriander seeds
30. Little buggers
31. I started this list a month ago.
32. We came back from Adelaide last week.
33. It is very square.
34. And flat.
33. And a bit run down feeling.
34. With nice bits at the edges.
35. B and SIL's church was awesome though.
36. And of course, spending time with B and SIL.
37. Who put up with our idiosyncracies admirably,
38. Considering we were all packed into a 2 bedroom flat!
39. More on the church...
40.
41. It was the most welcoming evangelical church I have ever attended...
42. If anything was broken I'm sure it could be mended
43. Sorry, that last line rhymed; I had to get it out.
44. (I didn't break anything, I promise)
45. There was a noticable void of aboriginal people in Adelaide.
46. I expected a much more integrated city, but it was very very anglo.
47. I caught up with a friend I've been talking to online for a while.
48. Which was a first for me.
49. We met at the Wiggles roundabout in Westlands shopping centre.
50. Neither of us were wearing sunglasses.
51. Or carrying breifcases.
52. Although she was wearing a trenchcoat.
53. And a pooh bear jumper.
54. Hmmm...
55. Oh, look I'm gunna publish and add to this list later...
Here goes:
1. I find it hard to be brief
2. But there is a certain liberatory quality about lists
3. Let's try that sentence a little shorter:
4. Lists rock
5. At the moment I am drinking water
6. I have just devoured a packet of dutch liqourice cats
7. Kirsten Birkett's The Essence of Feminism is sitting on my desk
8. Next to a Fun with the Wiggles CD Rom
9. I like Ravi Shankar
10. And raspberries
11. This month I turned 31
12. Here I am kicking my heels up
13. No wait, that's a dinosaur
14. Silly me
15. I need new glasses
16. No, I really do
17. This could take some time
18. I have just finished reading Tad William's Shadowplay
19. It is second in the Shadowmarch trilogy
20. You can read the first 6 chapters of the first book here, for free
20. I really like epic adventure stories with speculative plots that draw on classical themes
21. One of my favourite novels of all time is Frank Herbert's Dune
22. I really really want to go and see Bell Shakespeare's Macbeth while it's touring
23. But we're saving our pennies to go and visit my BIL/SIL in Adelaide
24. Maybe we could go and see Curse of the Golden Flower instead?
25. There is a mouse behind our bookcase
26. It sounds like it may have a friend over
27. Perhaps they are watching the soccer
28. Or just reading a good book?
29. I think they are eyeing off my coriander seeds
30. Little buggers
31. I started this list a month ago.
32. We came back from Adelaide last week.
33. It is very square.
34. And flat.
33. And a bit run down feeling.
34. With nice bits at the edges.
35. B and SIL's church was awesome though.
36. And of course, spending time with B and SIL.
37. Who put up with our idiosyncracies admirably,
38. Considering we were all packed into a 2 bedroom flat!
39. More on the church...
40.
41. It was the most welcoming evangelical church I have ever attended...
42. If anything was broken I'm sure it could be mended
43. Sorry, that last line rhymed; I had to get it out.
44. (I didn't break anything, I promise)
45. There was a noticable void of aboriginal people in Adelaide.
46. I expected a much more integrated city, but it was very very anglo.
47. I caught up with a friend I've been talking to online for a while.
48. Which was a first for me.
49. We met at the Wiggles roundabout in Westlands shopping centre.
50. Neither of us were wearing sunglasses.
51. Or carrying breifcases.
52. Although she was wearing a trenchcoat.
53. And a pooh bear jumper.
54. Hmmm...
55. Oh, look I'm gunna publish and add to this list later...
Yeah well, I deleted the other blogs, but going on a domino effect trail through the blogosphere and finding out just about everyone I know and a whole lot of very interesting persons nonetheless have blogs, I thought I'd rejoin the throng. Resisting it at this point would be like a salmon resisting an upstream spawning spree (speaking erstwhile experience as a salmon, of course). If you are reading this and the penny has not dropped, let it go now:
that's me and B2 (aka 'dangerous beans')
and this is DH and B1 (aka B1)
(if you peer behind them you'll see our computer where I write. It does not have a name, but I am open to suggestions)
I hope sometime in the lifespan of this blog to feature more work by the artiste B1, and his favoured medium the magnodoodle (with special thanks to his sponsors, Grandma and Poppy the benevolent bestowers of said magnetic sketching tool). But for now, feast your eyes on this photo of DH and I on our wedding day.
that's me and B2 (aka 'dangerous beans')
and this is DH and B1 (aka B1)
(if you peer behind them you'll see our computer where I write. It does not have a name, but I am open to suggestions)
I hope sometime in the lifespan of this blog to feature more work by the artiste B1, and his favoured medium the magnodoodle (with special thanks to his sponsors, Grandma and Poppy the benevolent bestowers of said magnetic sketching tool). But for now, feast your eyes on this photo of DH and I on our wedding day.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
