Itchy wins!

Congratulations to Itchy Fingers who has correctly guessed that the delightfully talented soprano Cafardette Marron is playing the title role in Bizet's opera Carmen.

I would love to put a picture of Carmen up, but I'm at work and I don't think I can.

Hurrah for Itchy!

Cockroach the Second

I won again. Oops. If I'm not careful this blog will become one big cockroach infestation. Especially if this Mama has her way.



The cockroach is hiding. Seek and ye shall find!

Grotty winner

Grot has won, grot has won!
Archie is, in fact, ATTEMPTING the nerve test - he wants to be the first cockroach to survive the jump from one side of The
Nerve Test to the other, via the ledge in the middle. He is just off frame in this pic:



Big congratulations to Grot. It might be easiest if GTG hosts the next round?

Cockroach, hiding

I have been playing a guessing game obsessively, and I have won! This means I now have the honour of hiding the cockroach.

Hide the cockroach has very simple rules.
1. Someone hides a cockroach (in this case, I have)
2. Anybody who wishes to can make guesses as to the whereabouts of the cockroach (that includes anonymous guesses as I have changed the settings on my blog so anyone can comment)
3. At intervals I will provide clues as to the whereabouts of the cockroach. Guess as many times as you like between clues.
4. Whoever guesses correctly wins, and gets to hide the cockroach next.

So. Cockroach hidden. Over to you...

Okay NOW it's cold

I woke up this morning at 7.25 and didn't open the curtains as HF was asleep. It wasn't until I walked out the front door that I saw that outside, it looked like this


I yelled out to the sick HF "Hard Farmer, Hard Farmer", and she stood on the bed, and stuck her pyjamaed top half out of the window and said "Oh My God!"

I was running late, which usually means skip the bus and walk really fast, but there was too much crunching and sliding underfoot, so I caught the bus, sat on the top deck, and peered at the rooves of houses and cars


People had cleared their windscreens only, and left the thick layer of icing on top.

Even though I thought I might be late for work, I felt calm. NOT like me. All day I was accompanied by a sense of enchantment.




By lunchtime, all that was left were huge puddles and a few tiny hard chunks.
Walking home, it was as though nothing had happened.
But I know it had.

See the increasing sunshine

Now I don't wanna plagiarise, so:
Source: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0008)

See the increase in daylight every day (very small print on left hand side)! Eleven more minutes by next Tuesday! things change so rapidly when you're so far from the equator.

Today was blue skies and felt like spring. People were standing outside pubs with no coats on!

Happy

I am increasingly happy. Sometimes I catch myself thinking that london is beautiful! It's amazing what getting to know the place, having some people to talk and laugh with, and a regular job has changed my perspective on the place. I do check myself and say to myself that PARTS of London are beautiful...

Oh, and a lovely holiday with a green texta girl and a flame haired kiwi helped too!