Jo’s Jovial Jolly Jocular Journal

1. It makes me love washing up
2. Beanies
3. Scarves
4. Fires cause there’s more in the campfire and hearth which is good and less in the bush, which is bad
5. Thermal underwear
6. Yummy soups
7. Helps me enjoy tea even more
8. Fresh morning air
9. Sun
I’m sure there is more. Please add your own ones.

There’s new didgeridoo!! Yup. Hoorah.

The bush is so lovely in the rain.

I really like mandarins. They are so yummy. And we have a tree here, the only thing apart from parsely that is happy to grow in our garden, and so I can lean outside our window and pick mandarins. How fun is that. But it is also tragic because they don’t taste any good. What […]

So, on the topic of fashion, I have realised today (oh one is so productive on study days) that I am just about ready to be married….
What I am wearing:
Something old- Inherited possum socks from Gramps
Something new- Actually nothing, not quite ready to be married yet
Something borrowed- Jem’s ugg boots, Jem’s brown and white striped […]

Would you say that my level of Spanish is like that of:
(a) a 2 year old
(b) a year 5 student
(c) a high school student
(d) a college graduate
(e) none of the above
(f) all of the above?
(I am mostly interested in the response of other Spanish speakers but others can also take a punt. No prizes for […]

These are my staple fashion diet at the moment.
This is for three crucial reasons:
1) Our house is so (insert random expressive words here) freezing (my choice of word for the day is bloomin’ but I’m not sure if that entirely expresses the extent of freezingness.)
2) I am spending most of my waking hours inside this […]

I am always pleased to find a new local discovery.
Today’s was a bike path that goes along the Cooks River, apparently all the way from Strathfield to Botany Bay. I had heard rumour of it but it took me a while to actually get around to discovering it.
It takes about 10 mins (in traffic) […]