The 'Personal' Category

Getting it off my chest…

I hate Canberra.
I really, really hate Canberra.
Good God, how much do I hate Canberra!
This place is the absolute pits. I’m allergic to it (quite literally), the services are useless, there’s barely any mobile phone reception at our house, can’t get ADSL2, there are crazy people on EVERY BUS you catch, homeless people at every bus [...]

Overheard

Canberra has finally acknowledged the existence of spring and today is a beautiful, warm (although astonishingly windy) day. I’m wearing a skirt and sandals for the first time in a year, the cat has emereged from the doona… and my neighbour’s young children can plainly be heard now that we both have our windows wide [...]

My legs are on strike

Today we went to the zoo. After spending a couple of hours staring at animals and wondering if the feeding times advertised on the flyer involved feeding the shrill, annoying children to the lions, we decided it was time to go home. Unfortunately we’d missed our bus and the next wasn’t for an hour. "Let’s [...]

The sun made me do it!

Ack! Why did I willingly go for a walk? Don’t I have any idea how cold it is out there???
My face is frozen. Actually my face was frozen and now that I’m back inside the house I can feel it slowly defrosting. It’s the weirdest feeling to have sensation slowly coming back to your face, [...]

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