This sounds like an excellent day and I am envious!

My partner plays cricket and got whacked by a cricket ball, had to go see a hand specialist (I’m sure they have a name, but who knows) and his doctor said ‘you have the hands of a Balinese dancer...beautiful’. He’s a 43yr old 6 foot 6 guy with hands twice the size of mine. What does that even mean??

Goddamnit. Between this story and the one with the heart transplant wedding one and my hardcore PMS I”m just sitting at my desk at work, achieving nothing but quiet angsty tears.

Ha. Went to the same school as him - in his brother’s year. I AM FAMOUS

Royskopp Forever (from Royskopp’s album Junior)... not only one of my favourite songs of all time (ALL TIME) but fantastic for running. I don’t do treadmills but it’s such a great build up song - starts out even paced and just accelerates and accelerates till you’re running flat out at the end and it’s incredibly…

*frantically scribbles down ‘deep pants feelings’ for future conversational use :)

Oh god exactly. Plus they just look so cheap, like 20c cheap.

I still have a terrible yin/yang necklace (now quite tarnished) on a black leather cord I got at the Gold Coast markets in 1993. I should bring that out for my next class, pair it with some hypercolour and an a-line denim skirt. That would impress everyone I’m sure.

A girl in my Masters tutorial the other day was wearing one of those ‘fakey tattoo necklace/choker’ things that we all had back in the nineties (think plaited black plastic) and I’m sure I spent the whole three hours staring at her neck. I was trying to work out if she was doing it ironically, or whether they’re truly…

I know it’s totally lame and I don’t know these people from a bar of artisanal fairtrade soap but I so want them to be together. I think anyone who’s done time with that whackjob Tom Cruise (see Nicole Kidman et al) deserves a bit of happiness and he seems ok. Certainly a lot better looking.

OMG it’s that little bit of glinty hate (sometimes contempt) that makes it all so worthwhile.

...and yet, her accent was truly terrible the whole way through. I felt it affected the entire show, just when you’d be getting into it she’d say something you’d think’ fuck - you really should have spent more time practising the accent’. The rest was fine if a bit depressing, but her god awful accent... ugh

Hello! I’m probably a bit late for this chat (well, its Sunday night in Oz so maybe still Saturday night in US?) - anyway, wanted to ask about the ‘with supervision’ part of your original comment. Do you keep your cat indoors only? Asking as we have an indoor kitty as well, done to protect the natives mostly (birds,…

PLUS she’s from Tasmania! That is so fantastic. The last interesting person to come from Tasmania (to anyone actually outside Australia) was Errol Flynn.

100% agree!

oh my god i love this so much

We definitely do have Kindergarten. Not sure where you’re getting this from... I went. Everyone I know went, there’s one down the street from me.

It’s Australia.... it’s not the US. Different school system.

‘Canberra City, Australia’ is akin to ‘Washington City, United States of America’. It’s the capital, it’s in the ACT (Australian Capital Territory) and its just ‘Canberra’.

I saw this terrible thing on TV the other day (Catalyst, ABC for anyone in Australia) about how manmade fibres from clothing, rope etc are actually a billion times worse (my estimation) than the microbeads that everyone’s worried about in our oceans. Apparently all our fish (and all over the world) are just riddled…