more shoes

i need to sort out my shoes...there are just too many i don't wear and can't be bothered sending back to australia (3 pairs belong to ed). one thing that is missing though is a pair of red shoes.....yes i have the dorothy complex like most women i know.

click*click* there's no place like home, there's no place like home*

everybody was hula hooping....

now this is another one of my fads, but i think this is going to last.

i ordered an 'adult' (a lot larger) hula hoop to try and do something about my waist. at first it was very hard to keep it up but now after a few days i can keep it up for up to 5 minutes! my waist hurt and my shoulders from holding my arms up but now i am in peak condition for honing those abs....happy days here i come and the best thing is i can do it at home while watching the telly or listening to what ever music i like...i have yet to try hula hooping to 'the smiths' but i am sure i could get a good speed up.

a lot has happend in the last few weeks

mum and dad came to stay with us for a few days before they flew back to brisbane and would you believe we discovered we live behind mum's old school!!! who would have thought 30 (cough) odd years later i would be living back in the same area.

i can't wait to see them again, only 4 more months.

can you see the resemblance?

here's another family resemblance between my mum, my aunt eileen and myself. it is odd to see such resemblances for me as i was brought up on the other side of the world to my mum's family and didn't have much contact with them. however on occasions like this when we do meet up i feel like i do belong to a much bigger picture.

the next week was paul and kath's vist to our fair shores. we met paul and kath in melbourne in 2005 when we were there for a year and it didn't feel like 1 1/2 years had passed. it was great to spend some time with them: shopping with kath - now you know not just anybody can get me to go to oxford circus on a saturday morning (my version of hell) and portobello market.

monday ed and i took the day off to go to brighton with them and promised them fish and chips at the seaside.

what a relaxing day.....

see you in 4 months where you can show us around your favourite places in downtown dubee

shoes don't last in london

i have found that my shoes are all scuffed at the toes...and this is not due to my clumsiness this is due to people on the tube stepping on my shoes and trying to push my feet out of the way so they can stretch out their legs.

now the victoria line trains haven't been upgraded since the mass introduction of crappy american fast food chains and therefore the expanse of the nations waist line and increase in height so people are squished into tight little spaces which proves the bane of my life every morning and evening.

i am sure my blood pressure increases two fold when i come into physical contact with anyone on the tube. i flash a glance but hope that my utter annoyance of their rudeness will radiate and they shrink back into their own personal space.