As of February 6th, something very important has occurred, that only comes about once a year... For the next three months, I am offcially 5 whole years younger than Howie. Hoorah! We celebrated his 31st birthday in style, by cycling into town and eating a lot of curry. The curry place we wanted to go to was closed so we found another one on Gouger Street to serve our purpose. I can attest that the garlic naans were excellent. Back home we celebrated further by s...

I report to you from the midst of a heat-wave like no other. While the East Coast is gearing up for a cyclone and parts of Victoria are shrouded in torrential downpours, South Australia is experiencing a heat wave of biblical proportions. Yesterday, it was 40 degrees in Adelaide. As someone who has been to Luxor in summer, one can still attest that 40 degrees is unbearably hot. To be honest, once it hits 40, it all feels the same. It's a dry heat here, because i...

I am offcially waging war against all arachnids because my hand has been forced; I maintain that they started it. We're back in Adelaide after a fantastic trip to Queensland was rudely interupted by those in the animal kingdom that have absolutely no respect for personal space, and I think it's a damned liberty that I am going to have to continue to run away from these nasty creatures, even though I didn't do anything to them (least of all ambush them in nasty w...

It was a day of firsts today, as we took our first intrepid steps into the Adelaide Hills, saw our first wild snake (an Eastern Brown) and I cuddled (yes, cuddled) a real, live koala. We got up early and cycled into the city to catch one of the few buses going up to Mount Lofty on a Sunday. It was already a scorcher of a day, at 24 degress at 9am. The sun was shining, the sky was blue, and the dream I'd had the night before that we'd overslept and had to go to V...

So it's now 2011 in the Land of Oz and what a year it's been thus far. New Year's Eve was a typically confusing affair, with Howie wanting to do one thing and me wanting to do another. In the end, we watched the Glenelg fireworks on the beach, and at midnight we had tried to get into every bar in Henley Beach without paying, but had ended up in Copenhagen ice-cream parlour eating a slice of mars cheesecake(with free ice-cream that Howie blagged for us). All in a...