1) New Zealand sauvignon blancs are a lot fruitier than Australian ones.
2) Walking home from the bottle shop I was overtaken by a bunch of youthful 'Mexicans' off to a party for the end of Movember at Luna Park. Struck me that Movember, as a thing to do in November, is worthier than Nanowrimo.
3) In the late morning there was a drizzle of rain that set off those wonderful earth odours. Later on, when I walked over to the shopping centre, I was hit, in the middle of the median strip, by a strong smell of lemon-scented gums.
4) I stocked up (not that I needed to) on whodunnits and Australian fiction at the 3 for 2 stand in Borders. You can get Miles Franklin winners at the 3 for 2 stand :(
5) Finally replaced my Swiss Army knife - lost somewhere on the way back from Adelaide in May. This one is the first I've had that is made not by Victorinox, but by Wenger. It has some features that seem better than the Victorinox one - notably a more sturdy spring in the scissors - although in all other respects it is the same. I have had a Swiss Army knife, and carried it everywhere, pretty much continuously for the last 25 years - this is my third - and I've long considered it the most useful purchase I've ever made.
6) Speaking of Wenger, he really has to rethink how he puts a team together. Last night was unbearable. Arsenal had well over half the possession and the BBC commentator was raving about their play in the second half, but they couldn't score (except for the other side in the case of Vermaelen) and F...g Chelsea got 3. He very publicly told them that now was the moment they had to step up, and they didn't. They already know how to play football, now they need to learn how to kill. On Wednesday night they have to play Man City in the League Cup. The form of the latter has not been great recently (not since the Adebayor misbehaviour at Eastlands), but this match is also at Eastlands and Adebayor will be there.
7) The good news from the middle of the night was Barca's victory over the Royal Madrilenos.
8) Joe Hockey is being put forward and possibly is putting himself forward as a leader who can unify the Liberal Party. That's what they said about Brendan Nelson and Malcolm Turnbull before they were elected. You can't unify a party that has an excitable minority hell-bent on self-destruction. They are filibustering in the Senate at this moment. Hockey is my local member. He is a rugger bugger with an interest in politics. The idea of Joe Hockey as prime minister is only slightly less hilarious than the idea of Tony Abbott as PM. Nelson, bad as he was, and Turnbull, arrogant as he is, at least have grey matter inside their skulls.
2) Walking home from the bottle shop I was overtaken by a bunch of youthful 'Mexicans' off to a party for the end of Movember at Luna Park. Struck me that Movember, as a thing to do in November, is worthier than Nanowrimo.
3) In the late morning there was a drizzle of rain that set off those wonderful earth odours. Later on, when I walked over to the shopping centre, I was hit, in the middle of the median strip, by a strong smell of lemon-scented gums.
4) I stocked up (not that I needed to) on whodunnits and Australian fiction at the 3 for 2 stand in Borders. You can get Miles Franklin winners at the 3 for 2 stand :(
5) Finally replaced my Swiss Army knife - lost somewhere on the way back from Adelaide in May. This one is the first I've had that is made not by Victorinox, but by Wenger. It has some features that seem better than the Victorinox one - notably a more sturdy spring in the scissors - although in all other respects it is the same. I have had a Swiss Army knife, and carried it everywhere, pretty much continuously for the last 25 years - this is my third - and I've long considered it the most useful purchase I've ever made.
6) Speaking of Wenger, he really has to rethink how he puts a team together. Last night was unbearable. Arsenal had well over half the possession and the BBC commentator was raving about their play in the second half, but they couldn't score (except for the other side in the case of Vermaelen) and F...g Chelsea got 3. He very publicly told them that now was the moment they had to step up, and they didn't. They already know how to play football, now they need to learn how to kill. On Wednesday night they have to play Man City in the League Cup. The form of the latter has not been great recently (not since the Adebayor misbehaviour at Eastlands), but this match is also at Eastlands and Adebayor will be there.
7) The good news from the middle of the night was Barca's victory over the Royal Madrilenos.
8) Joe Hockey is being put forward and possibly is putting himself forward as a leader who can unify the Liberal Party. That's what they said about Brendan Nelson and Malcolm Turnbull before they were elected. You can't unify a party that has an excitable minority hell-bent on self-destruction. They are filibustering in the Senate at this moment. Hockey is my local member. He is a rugger bugger with an interest in politics. The idea of Joe Hockey as prime minister is only slightly less hilarious than the idea of Tony Abbott as PM. Nelson, bad as he was, and Turnbull, arrogant as he is, at least have grey matter inside their skulls.
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Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.
The five words she gave me are: independent, adventure, activist, politics, red wine. Strictly speaking, this is six words (I'm a pedant).
1) independent
I often feel that this word is a synonym for "eccentric".
2) adventure
What looks immensely challenging before you start often turns out to be amazingly simple. On the other hand, when things go wrong you may have an adventure. Also, you can have an adventure without knowing it (like when you discover you were in Khmer Rouge territory and you didn't know it and, moreover, you didn't know that they killed people a lot). This type of adventure is called an Ex Post Adventure.
3) activist
I'd rather stay in bed. I identify with too many causes and can't choose which to spend the meagre time available on. Consequently I lack focus and spend time ranting at the internets and hoping (without believing) that a donation to Oxfam or something will suffice. This word induces feelings of guilt!
4) politics
If you are human you engage in politics. It is better to be aware that your words and actions have political meaning than to be unaware. (I do realise that some people lack sufficient functioning brain cells and I excuse them.) There are many people who say things such as "I'm not interested in politics." This is Humbug. What they really mean is "I don't give a shit about anybody else."
5) red wine
Is highly addictive and fortunately also good for your health - unless you drink too much of it which, by my reckoning, is more than half a bottle at one sitting. Very often, therefore, I manage to damage my health. I am particularly fond of shiraz and cabernet sauvignon. Not so fond of pinot noir and merlot - at least not on their own as I find them a bit bland. I love rosé in summer (but it's dangerous). I rue the days when you could buy an international prize winning wine for $2.50 a bottle (there was no export market back then and no foreign wine on the local market). Nowadays there is a global market price for wine. On Tuesday I bought a very nice Montepulciano d'Abruzzo for the same price that I can get a McLaren Vale of similar quality.
microbieReply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.
The five words she gave me are: independent, adventure, activist, politics, red wine. Strictly speaking, this is six words (I'm a pedant).
1) independent
I often feel that this word is a synonym for "eccentric".
2) adventure
What looks immensely challenging before you start often turns out to be amazingly simple. On the other hand, when things go wrong you may have an adventure. Also, you can have an adventure without knowing it (like when you discover you were in Khmer Rouge territory and you didn't know it and, moreover, you didn't know that they killed people a lot). This type of adventure is called an Ex Post Adventure.
3) activist
I'd rather stay in bed. I identify with too many causes and can't choose which to spend the meagre time available on. Consequently I lack focus and spend time ranting at the internets and hoping (without believing) that a donation to Oxfam or something will suffice. This word induces feelings of guilt!
4) politics
If you are human you engage in politics. It is better to be aware that your words and actions have political meaning than to be unaware. (I do realise that some people lack sufficient functioning brain cells and I excuse them.) There are many people who say things such as "I'm not interested in politics." This is Humbug. What they really mean is "I don't give a shit about anybody else."
5) red wine
Is highly addictive and fortunately also good for your health - unless you drink too much of it which, by my reckoning, is more than half a bottle at one sitting. Very often, therefore, I manage to damage my health. I am particularly fond of shiraz and cabernet sauvignon. Not so fond of pinot noir and merlot - at least not on their own as I find them a bit bland. I love rosé in summer (but it's dangerous). I rue the days when you could buy an international prize winning wine for $2.50 a bottle (there was no export market back then and no foreign wine on the local market). Nowadays there is a global market price for wine. On Tuesday I bought a very nice Montepulciano d'Abruzzo for the same price that I can get a McLaren Vale of similar quality.
