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todayiamadaisy) wrote2011-04-26 11:00 pm
todayiamadaisy) wrote2011-04-26 11:00 pm
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The curse of the cuttlefish
1. A newsreader just said, 'Police targeted as another beauty pageant after-party goes bad.' Isn't that always the way?
2. I have decided that I am a bit sick of Milo (a malted milk drink) as a hot beverage. I don't really like tea or coffee, though, so that's a problem. I bought some herbal infusions to try. Lipton's peach and mango is good. Dilmah's Exceptional Berry Sensation is the most vile drink I've ever tasted. I really wanted to like it, because the tea bags are pyramid-shaped and I am easily pleased. Also, it said it was made for 'the 21st century tea aficionado' and I fancied labelling myself thusly. Alas, it's not to be.
3. I have enjoyed the Easter break. We have had a few gloriously golden autumn days. Easter Sunday my mother and I met with one of her cousins who is doing his family tree and was after some old photos. They had a jolly old reminisce about their mutual grandparents: their grandfather, who liked a practical joke, and their grandmother, who was the stern one. They had a party for one of their significant wedding anniversaries – ruby or golden or whatever – and when the grandfather tried to cut the cake, the knife stuck in it like the sword in the stone. It turned out their grandmother had iced a block of wood.
4. Our cousin also caught us up on some family news. When I went to that 90th birthday party a few weeks ago, one of my cousins had lost everything but her car and her cat in the floods earlier this year. She's the mother-in-law of this man. The article says he was shot in the chest, but apparently the rifle discharged into a metal tool box and he was hit by multiple pieces of shrapnel. So that's all very sad.
5. Yesterday afternoon I went for a walk around Lake Pertobe, and it was nice. I mean, really *nice*. I stood on the suspension bridge and looked at the families paddling coloured canoes past the little ducks on the lake and thought, isn't this nice? And it was. Also, the suspension bridge is bouncy, but in an occupational health and safety-approved way, so you can pretend to be Indiana Jones. So that was good.
6. Also, I saw a rat on one of the other bridges. It was under the bridge and poked its head through a hole in the boards, then raced along the bridge and under a nearby shrub. I think I was the only person to see it, so I felt a bit special.
7. Today I went across the bay to Port Fairy and did the walk around Griffiths Island. No bridges or rats, but there was a lighthouse, so that was nice too.
8. I was planning to write ten things, but I don't think I've got two more things to say.
9. No, I'll tell you a joke. What's ET short for? Because he's only got little legs.
10. I've never seen ET. When it came out in, what, 1982? 83?, my mother offered to take me during the school holidays, but there was another film I wanted to see instead. I can't remember what it was, but the trailer on TV had lots of beards and horses and mountains. Does that ring any bells for anyone? Anyway, my mother said that wasn't suitable – this from the woman who happily let me watch Prisoner on a school night – and it was ET or nothing. I chose nothing, and I still haven't seen ET in protest. That'll teach her.
2. I have decided that I am a bit sick of Milo (a malted milk drink) as a hot beverage. I don't really like tea or coffee, though, so that's a problem. I bought some herbal infusions to try. Lipton's peach and mango is good. Dilmah's Exceptional Berry Sensation is the most vile drink I've ever tasted. I really wanted to like it, because the tea bags are pyramid-shaped and I am easily pleased. Also, it said it was made for 'the 21st century tea aficionado' and I fancied labelling myself thusly. Alas, it's not to be.
3. I have enjoyed the Easter break. We have had a few gloriously golden autumn days. Easter Sunday my mother and I met with one of her cousins who is doing his family tree and was after some old photos. They had a jolly old reminisce about their mutual grandparents: their grandfather, who liked a practical joke, and their grandmother, who was the stern one. They had a party for one of their significant wedding anniversaries – ruby or golden or whatever – and when the grandfather tried to cut the cake, the knife stuck in it like the sword in the stone. It turned out their grandmother had iced a block of wood.
4. Our cousin also caught us up on some family news. When I went to that 90th birthday party a few weeks ago, one of my cousins had lost everything but her car and her cat in the floods earlier this year. She's the mother-in-law of this man. The article says he was shot in the chest, but apparently the rifle discharged into a metal tool box and he was hit by multiple pieces of shrapnel. So that's all very sad.
5. Yesterday afternoon I went for a walk around Lake Pertobe, and it was nice. I mean, really *nice*. I stood on the suspension bridge and looked at the families paddling coloured canoes past the little ducks on the lake and thought, isn't this nice? And it was. Also, the suspension bridge is bouncy, but in an occupational health and safety-approved way, so you can pretend to be Indiana Jones. So that was good.
6. Also, I saw a rat on one of the other bridges. It was under the bridge and poked its head through a hole in the boards, then raced along the bridge and under a nearby shrub. I think I was the only person to see it, so I felt a bit special.
7. Today I went across the bay to Port Fairy and did the walk around Griffiths Island. No bridges or rats, but there was a lighthouse, so that was nice too.
8. I was planning to write ten things, but I don't think I've got two more things to say.
9. No, I'll tell you a joke. What's ET short for? Because he's only got little legs.
10. I've never seen ET. When it came out in, what, 1982? 83?, my mother offered to take me during the school holidays, but there was another film I wanted to see instead. I can't remember what it was, but the trailer on TV had lots of beards and horses and mountains. Does that ring any bells for anyone? Anyway, my mother said that wasn't suitable – this from the woman who happily let me watch Prisoner on a school night – and it was ET or nothing. I chose nothing, and I still haven't seen ET in protest. That'll teach her.