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...

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.