I’ve been trying to decide what I should do with my wedding dress, which is hanging up in the study still un-dry-cleaned. I know I should have had it cleaned before now, but I’ve been trying to decide whether to fork out the money to have it put in a box with a window [...]
The dressmaker wants to make a few teeny-tiny final adjustments to the dress, and so I’m picking it up on Thursday. I hope she’s properly grateful that I’m not too neurotic, and am therefore not pitching a fit about picking up the dress two days before the wedding.
Although her perpetual vagueness has annoyed [...]
“Crap!” screamed the man in the van, screeching to a halt next to the set of traffic lights where Smoking Lawyer and I were waiting to cross the road. (In fact, he said something a little ruder than crap.) He shouted it again, and then leapt out of the van into the road, where three [...]
After going shopping for a new suit yesterday (and buying the first one I tried on, as it both fit and was heavily discounted - very serendipitous), I went off to the matinee performance of Women in Voice 15. WIV is a bit of a Brisbane institution, running as it has done for 15 [...]
It’s nice to read all these Thanksgiving-themed posts from US bloggers (although I’m sorry to say that that thing you do with sweet potatoes and marshmallows is just wrong). It must be rather strange to have two family-gathering type holidays so close to each other though - I imagine Christmas is quite enough for [...]
I’ve arranged to catch up with my old school friend for a drink tonight, which I’m sure will be strange. I have been thinking of her during the last week, and realised that I had forgotten how close we once were - or rather, how much she used to confide in me. I [...]
I had a crisis in the shoe store yesterday, looking at a row of elegant black high heels. I need new work shoes, and was looking for something black, sleek and flat. I find high heels agonising to walk in for long stretches, so in order that I can dash up to court [...]
The Lifeline Bookfest (an insanely massive secondhand book sale) starts tomorrow, and I will be impatiently hovering outside the doors right before 9am, waiting to plunge at the table of science fiction (then literature, the kids books, and the cooking and craft sections, and then absolutely everything else) to fight off all the other crazy [...]
When I was in primary school, my brother and I occasionally went to visit friends of ours who lived in a nudist commune. When I related this recollection to my mother recently, she frowned, and said that it wasn’t a nudist commune, just a commune where a lot of people didn’t wear any clothes. This [...]
After my holiday, I found myself seized with a desire to change and renew. Gradually, in the past few weeks, I have completely cleaned and reorganised the kitchen, which is extremely small, and requires a degree of anal organisation in order to find things and cook them - something we haven’t been able to [...]
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