last day of winter

here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and i say it's all right

little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and i say it's all right

little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and i say it's all right

sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
sun, sun, sun, here it comes...

little darling, i feel that ice is slowly melting
little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and i say it's all right
it's all right

-the beatles-

my kingdom for a ford quattro

i haven't been feeling too well the past couple of days but this turned out to be almost a good thing as it gave me the opportunity to sit down and watch the third series of ashes to ashes. oh my... as warned the last episode of the series bears watching again which i will do before handing back. a brilliant series following on from life after mars. uk tv rocks you know.

the lindy charm school for girls

for some sunday afternoon fun i went along with 29 other girls for a few hours of miss chrissy and miss kim teaching us how to create a 40s hair do, a 20s pout and how best to treat ourselves and others. it was a really lovely time, met a few new people and also sat opposite cheng, which was a fabulous surprise as she's getting married in a couple of weeks and i haven't seen her in forever.

the workshops of the charm school endeavour to revive the golden age of glamour and was a lot of fun.

team bogie & bergman

a bit of hollywood glamour in the suburbs on a saturday night. a few of us tramped out to the back woods to support a local kindie holding a trivia night to raise some funds. our table was the only one without children, perhaps we were just big kids? ;)




ilona, who has a child in attendance at katrina kindie, wasn't able to make it due to falling ill a week or so before, and we suspect we were bamboozled into still going along. sneaky but it worked and was worth it. we all had a pretty good time and won by one point. yah to the interlopers. it looks like a really great community they have there.

perks

i managed to win a couple of tickets to tonight's opening of the writer's festival. eight writers: eight ways to be human @ the melb town hall. not bad huh? the players were norman doidge, barry dickins, jostein gaarder, cate kennedy, fiona mcgregor, alex miller, nadifa mohamed and brenda walker. some more entertaining than others, but it was great to be there. had dinner at the supper inn afterwards, nothing like tramping down a dark lane past dumpsters to whet one's appetite. love this city.

australian music tv

jamie and i took an insider's look at rage this evening. acmi, as part of live in the studio series, had a couple of the abc rage producers, a music clip director, and john safran as a previous guest programmer, panelling this event. a couple of hours of listening to anecdotes and watching clips ranging from the late 80s til present. it began my last year of highschool, april 1987 and only a couple of months before countdown played it's last sunday night. a good way to spend a thursday eve.

blessings

i can't make my 25th year school reunion in early october but a good thing came out of the facebook invite list. i managed to track down someone i've wanted to get in contact with since leaving highschool, almost 23 years ago. so yahhhhh...