Month: March 2009

  • Amortality

    Ugh. I have a horrible feeling that the Snook and I may be amortals. We don’t, like, use Botox or anything, of course. But our natural lifestyle is probably closer to that of college students than I’d like to admit.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    is all purple and hot pink. I look like a freaking rock star! Total Jem and the Holograms.


    is going to meet @mrs_sockvictim for lunch. I feel very glamorous!


    @wefollow #knitting #sydney #running


    @redambition Pics on Facebook now, will post on blog later tonight. 🙂


    @kellymcmahon I use TwitterFon. What’s good about Tweetie?


    surprised the cleaners at the house and had to flee to the café like the guilty liberal I am.


    made an absolutely monstrous meatloaf for dinner. I managed to get three different animals in there! Feeling quite proud, actually.


  • Shared today on Facebook

    is all purple and hot pink. I look like a freaking rock star! Total Jem and the Holograms.


    is going to meet @mrs_sockvictim for lunch. I feel very glamorous!


    surprised the cleaners at the house and had to flee to the café like the guilty liberal I am.


    made an absolutely monstrous meatloaf for dinner. I managed to get three different animals in there! Feeling quite proud, actually.


  • High Tea at The Victoria Room

    I’d say our reaction to the Victoria Room was mixed. I like the idea of it far more than the execution. My first impression of the place was that it was very dark (just as Grab Your Fork noted), and together with the eclectic decor it really created a unique atmosphere. Unfortunately the place was absolutely HEAVING with people, 95% of whom seemed to be women at either Hen’s Nights or Baby Showers. (I’m not kidding. I could only see three guys in the whole place who weren’t working behind the bar.) It was quite noisy, and the tables really were crammed in together closely. We opted for the “Royal” Tea, which meant we started with a glass of champagne. Our tea and nibblies came not long after. The food was all very good, though you certainly don’t get very much! We did have to ask for milk to put in our tea though, which really is a shocking oversight in a place like that. Snookums was most disappointed in the place settings: it was just plain white stoneware, like something you’d get at IKEA. He thought he was taking me somewhere a bit more special. Still, I had my first cucumber sandwich and my first pot of Earl Grey, and I’m glad I did. We stumbled back out into the sunlight feeling that we’d had an “elegant sufficiency,” but that the whole experience was sorely lacking in romance and tradition.

  • New Hair!

    I took the day off today to get my hair done, have a massage, and generally just take it easy. I told my hairdresser Desiree that I wanted something a bit shorter, and I wanted a more interesting colour. She did foils in “vibrant purple” and “hot pink,” and then did the re-did the base in aubergine.

    Getting the foils

    The base is applied

    It's turning purple...

    All done!

    And there it is! If you’re in Sydney and you need a new stylist, I can’t recommend Partners Hair Glebe enough. Desiree’s taken me blonde and short, allover pink, my chocolate Katie Holmes bob (Why can I not find a photo??), and even retro as Lucy. I love her!

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Just completed a 5.29 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/vmRM #runkeeper


    is happily knitting away while Snookums grills steak au poivre in the kitchen. Hm, wine glass needs a refill! Great birthday. 🙂


    @crumpet Thanks! It was a great weekend.


    is sitting at the hairdresser. My 33rd year demands interesting hair. Pink or blue, that is the question…


  • Shared today on Facebook

    Just completed a 5.29 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/vmRM #runkeeper


    is happily knitting away while Snookums grills steak au poivre in the kitchen. Hm, wine glass needs a refill! Great birthday. 🙂


    Thanks to everybody for the birthday wishes! It was a GREAT day. 🙂


    is sitting at the hairdresser. My 33rd year demands interesting hair. Pink or blue, that is the question…


  • Tea!

    It’s my birthday so we’re off to the Victoria Room for High Tea. Yay!

  • Shared today on Twitter

    was told by more than one person that it was the Best. Guild. Meeting. Ever. Hurrah! Triumph.


    @randomknits I read that out at SSK as a sign we should head home! The power of Twitter. (I just made it before the heavens opened.) 🙂


    @crumpet Syncronicity. Rae at Guild meeting today had knitted baby dress with owls on it. None of us had ever seen before. So cute!


    is missing my grandparents’ 50th anni. They look gorgeous, don’t they? Wish I was a millionaire & could fly back. http://tinyurl.com/co44dp