The Eyes of Love
Nov. 12th, 2015 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyI haven't mentioned them since the day I was caught in them, but the City by the Sea's surprise! roadworks continue apace. They are digging up and resurfacing every second corner in the CBD, so everywhere you turn, there they are. Luckily I now have a housemate/landlady/mother willing to drive me to work, so I haven't had to worry about it. Because I haven't needed to park anywhere, I haven't been into any car parks until I cut through one on foot today, and lo! they've dug that up too. I suppose it's one way to get cars off the road.
I noticed an unusual bee in the garden the other day. It was rounder than a normal honey bee, and it was black and white instead of the usual black and yellow. I didn't know if I had just discovered some sort of nasty invader, so I looked it up. Happily, it's not a nasty invader; it's a perfectly good native bee known as a blue-banded bee. It seems like whoever named them missed a perfectly good chance to call them the White Stripes, but maybe the band wasn't invented when the bees were named.
This week I have been to the cinema to see The Dressmaker. It is a film that asks the viewer to believe that Liam Hemsworth (b. 1990) is older than Kate Winslet (b. 1975), which was a bit of a stretch, but other than that it was a delight. An all-over-the-place delight. It was a sort of western, in which a stranger rides into town and makes dresses... for REVENGE. So that was fun.
If you are looking for something to listen to today (from 9 to 9, London-time), f-list, may I point you in the direction of a live streamed reading of The Odyssey by a company of highly respected British thespians? (Back in August, they did the same for The Iliad, which is also still available.)
I noticed an unusual bee in the garden the other day. It was rounder than a normal honey bee, and it was black and white instead of the usual black and yellow. I didn't know if I had just discovered some sort of nasty invader, so I looked it up. Happily, it's not a nasty invader; it's a perfectly good native bee known as a blue-banded bee. It seems like whoever named them missed a perfectly good chance to call them the White Stripes, but maybe the band wasn't invented when the bees were named.
This week I have been to the cinema to see The Dressmaker. It is a film that asks the viewer to believe that Liam Hemsworth (b. 1990) is older than Kate Winslet (b. 1975), which was a bit of a stretch, but other than that it was a delight. An all-over-the-place delight. It was a sort of western, in which a stranger rides into town and makes dresses... for REVENGE. So that was fun.
If you are looking for something to listen to today (from 9 to 9, London-time), f-list, may I point you in the direction of a live streamed reading of The Odyssey by a company of highly respected British thespians? (Back in August, they did the same for The Iliad, which is also still available.)