“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you…” Kipling…
Then it must be the ‘Big Thing’ week at work…
Solution? Eat your gold wrapped chocolate easter bunnies, hide behind your camera with its ‘Camera Gear Porn Bigger than Big’ lens (hired… anyone got a spare $2,500 lying about?) and avoid the interweb for a week.
I know you’ll survive without me. But will I without you?
I’ll let you know on Saturday… Have a great week team! And if you’re of the praying persuasion? Send up a few for us… it’s manic around here…

Well, it’s been an eventful few weeks, I shall endeavour to give you the highlights package, not that I expect they’re very exciting…

1. I voted. And interestingly, not for the Independent… (which may have something to do with his not getting back in) As it happened I ended up voting true to my roots. It’s amazing what a difference there is in actually reading the material presented by each candidate (if it can be believed) and their various parties than listening to the character assassinating radio and tv interviews.
2. I bought a dehumidifier and in the first evening sucked a good 2-3 litres of water out of the air. Now I want to do know what to do with it? Because in these drought infested, water conserving days I get the guilts if I tip it down the sink… any ideas? (Can’t stick it in the washing machine, I use a front loader… don’t have any plants that need watering…) Can you drink dehumidifier water???
3. Puss continues to grow and is getting more adventurous. 3 times this week he has hoofed over to the neighbours property without an escape route home. This is a problem at 5 minutes to leaving time in the morning as I have to go over the [6ft] wire and get him back. This is also a problem because the neighbours are mental. And have 4 or 5 little yappy dogs. Happily the pooches gave the cat a bit of a serve and he hasn’t been back since…
   Long may it continue.

4. There has been a fair bit of boy action going on. This is nice. But I want to know why it so that the ones who put their hats in the running don’t appear to include the one that one has one’s eye on.
5. God smiled at me last week. I was feeling jaded and apathetic (basically why I’m in blog lite mode at the moment) and when I walked along the path to my house I chanced upon this…
   
   I know, how lucky am I? Moving into the only house in Sydney with a feijoa tree… I’ve had 2 fruit off it and there are two hanging from its branches that I’m watching like a hawk lest they fall unnoticed… that’s 4, pathetic by NZ feijoa standards… but nonetheless enough to warm the heart of a fanatic who can’t usually get her feijoa fix without paying a fortune for an air ticket back to NZ…
   Ed. For Ms Mac… here’s where you find out about feijoas… [Link]

6. That is All

Well, if you can believe it, it’s a year since I took the pledge and became an Aussie.
A dinky di, bona fide Australiana. So, what better way to celebrate than to exercise my right to vote in the State elections on Saturday?
I’m happy to have the privilege of exercising that right but this time around, all I can say is thank goodness the local leading contender in my electorate is an Independent because between the Liberals (conservatives – go figure) and the ALP (Australian Labour Party) it feels a little like being between the Devil and the deep blue sea…

Not many words to go around at the moment.
Pictures coming. But words in short supply.
Have a great weekend
[just in case you worried for a second… all is well]