Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Olympic torch reaches Canberra at last -no protesters seen
Amazing that orange tissue paper, ay?
Entries from April 2008
Friday, April 11th, 2008
Everything I needed to know I learnt from my toddler
viz a tiny piece of chorizo that has been cooked in hearty bean soup, eaten, vomited on to a cot sheet and gone through the looooooong cycle on the washing machine is still, identifiably, chorizo. No shit.
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Me and Mal Meninga
Firstly, I should mention that any comparison between my blogging “career” and Mal Meninga’s football career make it very clear that Mal’s well in the lead achievement-wise.
Anyhoo, I’ve been thinking (for a very long time) about a cookery blog – they’re aren’t really any funny ones*, and I make many culinary errors which I find amusing. So lovely Liam organised some space for me, and I’ve been developing a design, and making notes and thinking about posts a lot. And there it is, almost all ready to go (except that my lovely firefox friendly comment boxes bork out in IE which is driving me a bit mental), and …
I read the cookery blogs and there is EXACTLY the same conversation that has been occurring for the last two or three years in the political blogging world about professionalism//journalists are good/bloggers are teh evil and would never get “properly” published as they have no technical expertise, etc, etc blahdy blah. I can’t be stuffed, you know?
So I start writing a post about recipe substitution and Nigella Lawson’s breakfast bars and the amended ingredient list is so staggeringly wanky I can’t bear it and have to stop. Which is when I remembered Mal’s entry to local ACT politics in 2001. 28 seconds he lasted. In his first interview as a candidate he just folded:
MAL MENINGA: I was … I’m buggered. I’m sorry.
COMPERE, CHRIS UHLMANN: That’s all right.
MAL MENINGA: I have to resign.
COMPERE, CHRIS UHLMANN: Okay. So Mal Meninga is leaving the studio. And he says that he can’t do it.
The more I think about it the more graceful and sensible his approach seems.
* Except, of course, spiceblog, of which one cannot speak too highly. And no doubt there are more – leave a link if you’ve a fave.
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Citizen journalism Sunday – Aldi:yes or no?
I am just not sure. Our camping trip was certainly made more bearable by the presence of several tins of Aldi creamed rice, but (fortunately back at home) the end of an Aldi cotton bud came off in my ear and I had to go to the doctor to get it out but IT WASN’T THERE ANYMORE!
I think on balance I say a qualified yes to Aldi. The qualification being don’t buy their cotton buds.
Disclosure: I also have an Aldi fish poacher. Although Duck’s Beloved has an Aldi unicycle which I believe trumps all.
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Camping is intense
We packed by moonlight. Which sucked a bit.
Something seemed wrong as we set off. It was that we were driving away from the sun and in to the dark clouds.
But there was hungry friendly wildlife to greet our arrival.
This is Jethro doing Gumboots 101. He passed, but he had to do the supplementary.
Day three of rain seemed unendurable.
However excellent cocktails raised everyone’s spirits. Well not the kids. We just gave them chocolate.
We have too much in this consumer society, don’t you think? For instance, did you know that a VB can wtih a ringpull inside makes an excellent rattle?
Eventually the sun came out. Yay and Hallalujah.
There was Harry Potter by headlamp.
And later I pondered my ugg boots …
while listening to pretty guitar doodlings and drinking some Lagavulin.
There are always moments of ennui camping, but seasoned campers can rise above them.
Particularly when there is a second day of sun,
and then a third.
But then arriving home brings its own sadnesses.
