Loving ...

Kirsty MacColl. I have a couple of her albums, but somehow managed to miss this song, until I heard it on ABC radio this afternoon.



Love it!

Love this city

Love The Whitlams.

The husband took the short people out for the day, and I've cranked up the stereo - a mix of Energia, Pet Shop Boys, The Whitlams, a 2002 hits CD (think the Ketchup Song!) while working my way through a mountain of washing that's accumulated with the rain and cold snap we've had over the long weekend, and baking ham & cheese scrolls for back-to-school lunches (and 'turtles' just for fun).

Love this City (The Whitlams) is about Sydney - the city I spent my high school & university years in, and returned to after a few years outback, before heading to Canberra.

It was busy everywhere he went
There was a crowd over the bay
And a fireworks display
It's all very strange for a Thursday night thought he
Then it dawns on him as a cracker explodes
And who the hell is he going to blame?
It dawns on him - the horror - we got the Olympic Games

You gotta love this city for its body and not its brain

And he screams "My city is a whore, opened herself to the world
Jumped up and down in pastel shirts
And lathered up thinking about designs for T-shirts"

I'm a little teapot

I'm still just drawing things on my desk last thing at night, but one step at a time ...

Garden update: Too many weeds, lettuces & other greens going to seed, cold and wet (yay! it's been too dry for too long). Miss Tizz's sweetpeas are growing, and something that looks pea-like has emerged from the strawbales.

Music: I've been making an effort to listen to more music lately - it's another of those things that tend to go by the wayside when I get bogged down in the day-to-day of work & keeping the home & family running. On the ipod now: Rock me Amadeus (Falco), Kiss me (Sixpence None the Richer), Rasputin (Boney M), Bubbly (Colbie Caillat), Somebody told me (The Killers) & Sweet about me (Gabriella Cilmi). If you haven't heard Gabriella Cilmi yet, she's worth a listen.