

Today I am having a major clean-up day because Iapos;ve been too busy to bother with the house of late. I will regret the time out when deadlines loom, but I canapos;t really let the house get much worse.�Itapos;s overwhelming enough as it is
But cleaning is very boring, so time out from it to go online and update my LJ is essential. Weapos;ve had a really good weekend - we went to my friend Lindyapos;s 50th birthday party in the city on Saturday night, and it was a really fun night. Gabriel chose her present, after much pondering�by Grant and me as to what to get. We were�in the shopping�mall, and Iapos;d just decided against all the picture frames in one particular shop, when Gabe said "Does she like Doctor Who?"�She does indeed, I remembered.�So we got her a dalek clock, which she was very happy with.�
I felt a pang seeing Lindy with all�her family and friends from school as well�as much more recent friends like me present, because Iapos;ll never have a party like that, with everyone�whoapos;s meant anything�to me all in the same room. Itapos;s like my life is in two halves:�Before I�Came To Australia�and After I�Came To Australia ndash; and those halves never meet to make one whole. My closest friends here will never meet my closest friends there. Even todayapos;s technology, by which they can "see" one another on my Facebook page, canapos;t bridge the gap thatapos;s there.
Anyway, enough of that.�Yesterday we went for a walk at Warrandyte, in an attempt to blow away the cobwebs from�Saturday nightapos;s partying (50th birthdays shouldnapos;t leave you feeling tired - I must be getting old), and the rest of the day was spent doing a jigsaw with Gabe, and reading Val McDermidapos;s
A�Darker Domain, which I�bought on Saturday. Itapos;s taken me�a while to get into it, there are so many characters and time shifts�(not to mention Mick MacGahey making a cameo appearance, which seemed a bit odd) , but now Iapos;m hooked. And hereapos;s my favourite quotation from it so far (not a spoiler):
"Youapos;re saying the caves could have been a potential hiding place for the kidnappers?�Isnapos;t that a bit Enid Blyton?" he said, trying to reassert himself.
"Very popular,�Enid Blyton, sir. Maybe she could even be called inspirational."
I love the way Valapos;s so open about her own love of Enid Blyton and also the Chalet School, because Iapos;m sure many international best-selling writers would be too embarrassed to admit it.
Oh, well, back to the cleaning.�Yawn.
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