Postponed

I was planning on updating about my day today. I had a lovely day meeting an old colleague for brunch and a swim at Bondi, and then a relaxed afternoon and evening with James. However, I seem to have finally hit a limit on the storage space in my Picasa file so can't upload any files over a certain size to my blog...the photos I took today are over this size. 

SO! I'm going to do some planning, decide if it's worth paying to get extra storage, and will be back as and when I've come up with a game plan on how to share photos here again. :) At the moment I'm thinking $2.49/Month for 25GB isn't too bad considering I've only just reached 1GB, and I've been blogging since 2009. But we'll see. :)

In other news, 1 month until Christmas! I'm still finding it hard to believe. I think it will definitely take a couple more years for me to get used to Christmas in Summer. 

Dumb Ways to Die

Firstly, I'd like to apologize for posting two videos in a row. Secondly, I'd like to take back that apology because this video is awesome.

I get to work early pretty much every day, I feel calmer that way, so I usually sit in the staff room and browse the news on my phone. The past week or so there has always been a little article about a cute video from Melbourne that's gone viral. Today I was listening to christmas music on Youtube when I saw a link to this and thought "That looks a lot like it'd fit the description of the cute Melbourne video.". I clicked it, and I was right, and it is adorable and catchy and funny.

You're welcome.

White Wine in the Sun

We don't get the joys of watching Children in Need down here in Oz, but the BBC does put some of the performances up on it's Youtube page. After excitedly watching the Doctor Who preview (eee! can't wait until Christmas for the new episode!) I started browsing my way through the Children in Need videos and came across this. I already love Tim Minchin. His songs are super awesome, I especially love Prejudice and his Lullaby. This one is also amazing, and sad, I almost cried listening to it, but that may be because like him, my family is the other side of the world, but maybe also because of the happy realisation that I have a new family here that will be having white wine in the sun with me this Christmas. :)

1 year in Australia

Today marks 1 year since I 'moved' to Australia. It's been a pretty wonderful year. I have absolutely LOVED being here with James, and think it was definitely the right decision to move here rather than staying in the UK to do my PGCE. I think finally getting to live together properly has brought us even closer together, and it's so nice to have him here with me rather than the other side of a computer screen. :) It's been a very happy year, and I look forward to many more!

We weren't really planning on doing much with our day, but turned it into a bit of a treat. I got my hair cut in the early afternoon, it had been about 6 months since my last one, so I thought my hair needed it. We then went down to Broadway and had a late lunch at a yum American Diner like place, even treating ourselves to a scrummy sundae. :D I then slept most of the afternoon and James had a bath. Then we tried to take some nice photos together, but we don't like our faces much (hence the lack of photos of us) so we resorted to funny photos. It was a good laugh. :D

Love this guy. :)

Floriade 2012

At the end of September James and I visited Canberra for a long weekend. Whilst there we visited the Floriade, it's a big flower park/display thing. Basically, it's lots of pretty flowers. Cameras ready?

Unfortunately, it was pretty cloudy and rainy the day we went, so I didn't take as many beautiful photos as I would have had it been sunny. I am happy with the photos I took though. I love taking photos of flowers. :)

These are my favourite flowers, they look like paper flowers and are such gorgeous colours. So pretty. :) I would be very happy to have a garden full of these beauties.

This tulip was beautiful too, like a crazy fiery flower. Gorgeous!

And my favourite thing of the whole Floriade was the gnomes. Gnomes had been painted by all sorts of kids of different ages. I loved pretty much all of them, but this guy, he was my favourite. If I could have, I would have bought him and taken him home.

I think we may definitely go again next year. :)

Humidity

For what has felt like the last month my hair has been looking horrendous, well, I've felt like it's been looking horrendous. It wasn't too bad tied back...but it was frizzy and pouffy and would kink in all the places it had been tied back at. I was not liking it, and put it down to the humidity in Sydney.

We have recently been fluctuating in temperatures here in Sydney. We've had days were the temperatures have gotten up to 30 degrees centigrade, and others were the days have been as cool as 15 degrees centigrade. The humidity, however, has been happily sitting at 60% plus, some days getting as high as 85%. So it's been humid. It sucks. I can definitely say I HATE humidity. I can see no benefits of humidity. It makes things hotter and stickier and so much more uncomfortable. I shall melt away this summer...

I hadn't put my hair problems entirely down to the humidity until we went back to Canberra this weekend (which has a humidity of 40% throughout the weekend) and my hair was back to it's usual gorgeous self. I did the obligatory 'google' for hair in humidity and found that soma anti-frizz shampoo should do the trick. Sure enough, my hair is now back to its former glory! Yay!

OMG, PINK!

I LOVE these girls, and this video. They are so infectiously happy and hilarious! Oh my goodness, what I wouldn't give to look inside their world for just 5mins. I imagine it would be a very pink and sparkly world.

If you need a cheer up, this video should do it. 

All by myself

I'm home alone the next two nights. It's a little lonely. I know James and I have done proper long distance, but now that we're living together two nights feels so long and weird...

...off to my Pad Thai for one. :)

Bubble Flowers

The kids at work have been loving the bubbles we've been blowing outside. I love how excited they get when I pull them out. They have all also been super keen to try and blow the bubbles. Since we haven't done much art in the room I thought I would build on the bubble blowing to make some bubble art. I found this on pinterest, and thought I'd give it a test drive this weekend before trying it with the kids (the pin hole in the straw is a pretty nifty tip). I couldn't find any tempera paint, so I don't know how well that paint works, but ordinary washable paint didn't seem to have much affect on the bubble's colours. It is possible I needed to use more paint than I had available. However, food colouring did work. For the best effect I blew a whole bunch of bubbles and then dropped in the food colouring, it had the added bonus of looking super cool too!

I think this one may be worth trying with the kids this week. :)

Cutest Halloween Costume

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I know Halloween was Wednesday, but I just had to share this. Aren't they just the cutest family ever? I love the costumes, they put a massive smile on my face. These guys have the cutest costumes every year, you should look them up. I love this family way too much considering I've never met them.