Happy Australia Day, one and all. Maja always points out what a lack of imagination Australians must have to have given their national day the same name as their country, but I really can’t think of an appropriate alternative. Perhaps ‘Get Pissed And Sunburnt And Glass Someone In The Face On The South Perth Foreshore Day’? I guess that’s only appropriate in Perth though. Anyway, that Swede has quite a cheek, coming to our country, asking for a permanent visa, and telling us we all have poor imaginations? Well, I never… Anyhow, I don’t see myself glassing anyone in the face this evening but the pissed and sunburnt bit is a possibility.
I have well and truely escaped Doubleview now and am settling nicely into my new inner-city digs. Work is a ridiculous 5 minute walk away, or less than a minute on my bike. So I can wake up 20 minutes before I have to be at work if I want – it’s pretty ideal.
Before I left Doubleview the other day I took one last bike ride through Herdsman Lake to take a picture of this statue which has puzzled me since I saw it for the first time a few months ago. It is in the middle of the lake and is overlooked by an estate full of atrocious project home mansions. I can’t imagine why anyone would have thought this would be a good location for such a statue – and why anyone would put it on that pedestal which looks like it might house a sewage treatment facility or something. Curious and curiouser…
I have to go now and relieve Lai Tee of her last few earthly possessions (an ironing board and some cutlery, I believe?) and say goodbye to her before she leaves on her big trip this evening so I will leave you with this picture of Miles imitating a chipmunk on a recent train journey. Bon voyage, lah!
January 30, 2008 at 1:41 am
Although Miles may look like a chipmunk, you and Maja appear to be imitating meerkats in the reflection. Awwww – so many small furry animals riding the train.