And tell me, did Venus blow your mind?
In which I crush on rainy Italy.
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S**t! F***ing s**t!
I panic. We panic. I swear a lot. It’s basically what you’d expect a scene with two Aussie girls in a little Italian town to look like. There are impatient Italian drivers yelling and gesturing furiously, an old man watching as he smokes from his balcony, horns bleating, lots of nervous sweat, a dog.
The prisoner’s log
Day 1 of my incarceration…
The Master Will See You Now
The college is closed to those not in residence but we have an invitation. So, at the porters lodge we tentatively say that we’re here to see ‘The Master’.
Dublin bingo and other games to play in the cold
What would you do upon arrival in Dublin, seven hours ahead of your friends? You’d charmingly chat to your elderly AirBnB hostess about the myriad literary delights Dublin is uniquely positioned to offer — Joyce, Stoker — and then you’d go to the Guiness factory, wouldn’t you? Yeah you would.
Six inches deep in mud!
400m, 200m, 100m…. And I’m still in predator alley.
Lions, tigers and goddamn dragons.
You know you’ve done it right when the waitress eyes off the table speculatively and then has to strategically remove the sugar bowl to accomodate all of your food.
Ouch.
At one point the Kangaroo brings chocolate strudel — which the doctor bans. It’s the thought that counts I suppose …but I bloody well wanted that strudel.
Snowflakes that stay
After two days of skiing, it’s easier to name the parts of me that don’t hurt. My fingers. My forearms. My neck.
Bunny runs
I’ll give you a clue. In grade one, she taught me how to make really good, firm, round mudballs. Another? In grade 5, she and I surreptitiously looked up the mysterious F-word we’d heard on the playground in my children’s dictionary (no joy). We’ve unwittingly matched our outfits many times in the 28 years we’ve been friends — we shared a love for denim overalls. We’ve been netball team co-founders, pen-pals, joint amateur theatre producers at the tender age of 10. Still no?
An unsettlingly big place 