heh x 2, at the very least!
I'm still not sure if I wished I had've been there, or not... 
btw - the group shot is damn cute.
we are, aren't we *grin*
The poor young thing that took it was stony-facedly bemused. Which just proves that us chickies get cooler as we age.
oh baby, of course we do!
Sorry I couldn't make it chaps, maybe next time.
Sorry I didn't pass on your apologies Flute. Lost my phone and only dug it up from behind the CD rack yesterday.
As it was I spent the day cursing your name.
Well thats ok, i was probably busy anyway.
I just would have shown you all up with my tanned, holiday rested elbow.
so harry when is the dinner party? more elbows obviously need touching.
Coza, I had assumed you would be there. I berated harry over it.
Hi flute,
Amanda filled us TVless luddites on your TV appearance. Very good stuff.
Next time.
Mindy,
Aren't you in Canberra on w/e of 25th or something touching up Zoe?
Coz,
Yeah, well. I have no real excuse at all.
harry - being crap isn't an excuse?
hazbat We are in Canberra on Monday 25 July hoping to catch up with Zoe and Duckie, then from 26th to 29th we are in Sydney and hoping to catch up with all down there, including any bloggers around + Tina, Stig and Alex. Fly out at 9.00am on Saturday 30th.
being crap is a reason, but it isn't an excuse...
25th pencilled in, Ms Mindy.
We have the elbows and the technology. I await orders to execute Wing Attack Plan Fy....
I've said too much. I shall have to kill you all, and everyone who reads this blog. Please hand over the IP logs now.
my eyes are peeled for signs of movement...
Patience Hotspur Hogan,
We need a date.
I suggest Wednesday the 27th, subject to you-know-who surfacing of course.
I have been in contact with our Northern accomplice and am awaiting their response.
Being crap is not an excuse, it is an acceptance.
oh fine. it's not enough that we spend 5 frickin hours on a plane from Alice Springs to come and see you for you to have a little get together at your place. fine. be like that. Where are my damn scimitars!
"Being crap is not an excuse, it is an acceptance."
accepting being crap is being complacent, harry, and for that you must suffer.
Patience Hotspur Hogan
I'm going to write a book with a heroine called that! what a delightful name! she will be intelligent and terribly resourceful, and attractive in a quirky way, of course. a name like Patience Hotspur* commands nothing less.
* named after her stiff-upper-lip father who died in a blaze of glory doing very brave things, no doubt. eh what?
thanks for the idea, hazman.
"accepting being crap is being complacent, harry, and for that you must suffer."
# Speedy, you need to let go of your falsely constructed self-limiting boundaries. Accepting who we are is the first step to being able to love ourselves for ourselves, and thus to be able to truely love others. I suggest some deep breathing exercises to start off with....
"Patience Hotspur Hogan"
# In mine she has those adorable ringlet thingoes that cascade down her cheeks. She will be the subject of fierce competition between the dashing but rash cavalry officer Algernon Hyphen-Surname; the stoic Major Nigel Wagstaff of the Black and Tans; and boistrous Captain Reginald Flenscher of the Short and Curlies. None of whom stand a chance.
During a rearguard action in the Peninsular Campaign she disguises herself as a newly arrived Colonel and assumes command to execute a brilliant maneovre using Captain Flenscher's troops. Her ADC exclaims 'By god, sir! You've got the French by the Short and Curlies!'
Her identity is discovered when she falls from a horse and is helped up by Private Scratching who instantly, hopelessly and irretrievably falls in love with her.
I'm off to call Merchant Ivory.
hurry it up. the ABC needs another good frock drama for Sunday nights.
no, a big pfft to Merchant Ivory. now is the time we forge a new career and set up our own production company! anyway, half of Merchant Ivory is dead, and I can't remember which one. it is time for us to eclipse them.
min: agreed. I thought that last one set in the industrial revolution was a bit of a po-faced P&P rip-off myself. although the scenes in the cotton mills were terribly well done. I do enjoy a bit of early industrial machinery.
'Speedy, you need to let go of your falsely constructed self-limiting boundaries'
hazman, you're the one limiting yourself to being crap...
Awww, you Mexicans never do come to Brisvegas, do you?
Seriously - good stuff - email Donahoo!
My little duckie hear is fluttering at the thought of a visit, although the 25th is ringing alarm bells. I hope it's not an out-of-town bell. I'll do my utmost to be home, but.
Love those elbows! Pickering did a whole series of cartoons in the 70s about censorship that involved naked people bandaging their elbows and other people lusting after the elbows because they were the only covered bits. Must dig it out.
Pickering???
yes please! I love Pickering. somewhere in the vaults of my parents collection are Pickering annuals from the mid-late 70's. of course I didn't understnad half of them at the time but Gough was in them, so they had to be good.
Oh, he's the only reason I know anything about 70s politics (cos I was too young to care at the time). Whenever I hear about some 70s thing Gough did, I visualise Pickering's take on it. We even had his naked pollie calendars on the back of our toilet door for a few years, just above the hand-written times-table chart. I spent a lot of time in that toilet, and I know my times tables to 12 very well!
I've seen that Pickering with the elbows!
No idea where.
Mark,
I'm coming up to see you in September!
It's a long time to hold your breath, I know.
scarily closer than you think though. this year is really starting to pick up pace. except for this week of course, because it's next week that I'm going on holidays.
I was too young to understand anything other than
a) Gough was god, and
b) I *know* Bob Hawke isn't my father, but what's that man with dad's hair and glasses doing on telly?
(when he was president of the ACTU. it was very confusing. and he was Pres from 1969, when I was a 1yr old)
Pickering was so clever. he drew Malcolm fraser in the nood years before he dropped his pants.
Our Brisbane representative is with us!
HAha!
soon our mighty empire will reach around australia, and we will be (even more) unstoppable...
one day, we'll all have to get off our arses and meet in neutral territory.
Mindy... when are you in Sydney?
meg, there's a post above -
"We are in Canberra on Monday 25 July hoping to catch up with Zoe and Duckie, then from 26th to 29th we are in Sydney and hoping to catch up with all down there, including any bloggers around + Tina, Stig and Alex. Fly out at 9.00am on Saturday 30th."
that's so cute!
Hi Naomi,
Liam was telling us he'd he'd met you and was interesting in catching Guy as well.
That would be a good idea.
You have an elbow - we have a marker pen.
could be a cunning plan hazman.
hey,
just saying , love the elbows. please do come visit woodenspoon for some more bent pix.
xx
S
Aren't you missing a couple of 'e's Steeeeev?
Next time one of us is in Canberra we'll have to add your elbow. I reckon Zoe owes you a shandy or two.
god DAMN those elboes are fine!! i am a big fan, when can we see more...perhaps a knee? or if you feel daring, an ankle joint? email back, i look forward to it :D :D
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