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Fri, 16 Jul 2021 04:54:14 GMT

July means winter Down Under and recently it has been cold. Last week I think it was, it dropped down to 2 c / 34 F one night and that was a bit horrible for me despite all the layers on my bed. I couldn't cope with colder temperatures than that. If it snows, don't go has been my life long motto.

My work has been busy as it's school holidays. In the gift shop they have I've got one of my landscape paintings up for sale. I also have some greeting cards with my art on for sale as well; I've sold two cards so far so that's great.

I feel sorry for Australia at the moment; New South Wales is having trouble with a bad Covid outbreak and Sydney has been in lockdown.

I've got book club on Sunday; the subject is books or authors beginning with 'C'. I might bring along 'Cold Comfort Farm' which is always good for a chuckle, as well as 'Chalice' by Robin McKinley which is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast; the heroine has honey-based magic.

My laptop's hard drive broke down a little while ago and it needed a complete replacement. I lost some files unfortunately because I hadn't backed them up, urgh. Of course this happened just before season 5b (5b!) of 'Lucifer' came out on Netflix so I had to wait a week before my laptop came back before I could watch the episodes. It started off a bit slow and then really got going. When he's not going through angst and anguish, Lucifer gives the impression he's actually a golden retriever in disguise who loves his Detective. Aww. I wrote some fanfic after the season final which is up on A03.

There is an English woman on YouTube doing vlogs of Babylon 5 and is getting quite excited as she's working her way through season 2. Heh heh.

Babylon 5: Season 2 - YouTube

There is a cold south-wester outside at the moment so am staying indoors as much as possible.

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Hot times

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 03:59:39 GMT

Phew, it's hot today and I've got a fan going - for me this means it's hot. It's 30 degrees (90 deg F). A heat wave that's been menacing Australia has arrived here (a lot of our weather comes from Australia). I'm wearing a bamboo fibre t-shirt and leggings which has helped a bit, as they're good to wear in hot weather.

Last week the hall of my old intermediate school* caught fire due to workmen doing maintenance and apparently a third of the school is damaged. This was upsetting because it was also the school my mum and her siblings went to as well. When I attended eons ago, I saw my first computer - it was a clunky, black and white thing that only played a mathematics game. But it had a sound card, and we were all fascinated. Internet - what was that?

*I was there when I was eleven and twelve years old

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This and That

Wed, 23 May 2018 09:11:35 GMT

Well, it's definitely Autumn now... the days are getting chillier and darker at night. There are mushrooms on the lawn and you can smell woodsmoke in the air. I carry a hat, scarf and gloves when I go out now.

Last week I had computer problems at work and home on the same day - my work keyboard runs on batteries (!) and they stopped working, so I had to go out and buy more. When I got home, my modem wasn't working. I had to ring a tech person to get it fixed. The next day it stopped working and I realised that the modem itself needed replacing. I bought a new modem but had trouble getting it going, so had to ring another tech person. Whew! Everything is back to normal now.

I loved watching the royal wedding on tv in the weekend, but not the time to watch it. Thanks to timezones, the wedding started at 11 pm Saturday night and didn't finish until 1 am, ugh... I'm not a nightowl. But I thought the wedding itself was great, I loved the chance to see Windsor Castle and its chapel on a perfect English day. I liked the brides wedding gown (but thought she could have had a necklace). All the 'lil flower girls looked liked a cluster of kittens. :)

Have an autumn picture...

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