Session number two with Adam, the personal trainer, today. As was not raining I had great anticipation that I would move onto greater things. Reality strikes a fatal blow, however. About halfway through the session we were doing some ‘ab’ work wherein the personal trainee (ie. me) lies on a mat on the ground with […]

Have just staggered in to work after first ever session with personal trainer. Alarm at 6.15 am, down to park for 6.30 am start. Running, jumping, lifting, pushing, skipping, staggering, breathing really heavily. And being rained on. Incessantly. (Brand new hair ruined in one fell swoop.) Adam, said personal trainer, is 24 and cute as […]

Sigh. It’s just one of those days. I’m having a clumsy day. Have just dropped a cup of tea all over my keyboard, all over my chair, all over my lap and all over my shoes. I did not expect so much liquid could come out of a fairly standard sized tea cup. It was […]

Perusing the ‘get me out of this hellhole/find me a new job’ pages of recent papers, I’ve come across the role of ‘cheese optimisation co-ordinator’. Intriguing. At desperate point of wondering if might be able to undertake this role, after all like to eat cheese. A lot. Wonder what it entails? Should I waste more […]

I was having a chat this morning with a friend of mine (Hi Andrew – if you read this!!) about, among other things, the subject matter of my blog. Taking a cue from this conversation another of our friends, Kathy (Hi to you too, if you read this!!), made the comment with reference to my […]

I was wandering back home this afternoon after a trip to Footscray shopping centre (a twilight zone all of its own) when I saw a man attempt to round a curve a little too sharply and, as a consequence, … fall off his unicycle!! Not your usual mode of transport over this side of town. […]

Each month I write up a little column in the newsletter at work entitled ‘History in the News’. Basically it’s just a summary of history-related articles which have appeared in the major newspapers over the last month or so. The Australian (13/03/03) included an article which told how a team of paleontologists in Italy had […]

Further on my sudden massive increase in available credit. Decided to ring the bank today to see if the approval of a $20,000 credit limit was, in fact, real or, more likely, a typo. Yes, two people were able to tell my that my credit limit had been increased to $20,000. No, it did not […]

I was recently offered an increased credit limit on my credit card. I didn’t request one, they asked me. “OK,” I thought. “Two grand might be handy.” Last night I came home to a letter confirming my credit limit increase to a cool $20,000.00!! Twenty grand! That’s a lot of…. well, anything really. Must go, […]

Our local council has organised a hard rubbish collection day for today. Thus my walk to the station this morning was spent looking at all the good stuff that my neighbours have decided to rid themselves of: old computer cases and garden clippings are at the top of the list. Probably most of the really […]