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the festive season 2014/2015
Jan. 6th, 2015 09:20 pmIt is so much fun to show a visitor a city you love - I had a great time - we went to the Immigration museum, the museum at the State Library, we went to St Ali twice and we went to Supernormal and Cumulus, we went to Proud Mary. Because it was Xmas-Jan6 a few things were closed, but we managed to show off all the joys of Melbourne - the trams, the buses, Vic Market, Emporium. We stayed in Footscray - so we all got to know Footscray better - Plough hotel, 220 bus, Footscray market - for breakfast one morning we had cannoli, vietnamese food and dim sum/yum cha. We had choctops at Cinema Nova. It was great.
Taking care of a three bedroom house, a diabetic cat and an energetic dog is a lot of work! It was a very fair trade though and nice to stay in a space big enough for three people. Plus a place that has everything, and not just two cups, two spoons, like our apartment. I'm glad I tried the Aussie housesitters website. It has been great - fun to try out a new part of the city. Living somewhere is the best way to get to know a place.
This house has a great social kitchen space, good knives and a gas stove.
I finished two books while we were housesitting - I Refuse by Per Petterson, which was pretty good, and Wolf in A White Van, which was interesting, but not ultimately satisfying, but compelling enough to finish. Now I'm reading Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl. I think I enjoyed her tv series more. We tried Black Mirror from BBC tv, but weren't in love with it. The movie we saw was The Imitation Game, which was ok - no surprises, a little to formulaic, but enjoyable, but I'm really sad to hear how much they changed the actual history to fit the Hollywood movie model.
We are coming up on our one year anniversary of being permanent residents of Australia, we're hoping to take the next step soon.
and Brunetti and DOC pizza.
Taking care of a three bedroom house, a diabetic cat and an energetic dog is a lot of work! It was a very fair trade though and nice to stay in a space big enough for three people. Plus a place that has everything, and not just two cups, two spoons, like our apartment. I'm glad I tried the Aussie housesitters website. It has been great - fun to try out a new part of the city. Living somewhere is the best way to get to know a place.
This house has a great social kitchen space, good knives and a gas stove.
I finished two books while we were housesitting - I Refuse by Per Petterson, which was pretty good, and Wolf in A White Van, which was interesting, but not ultimately satisfying, but compelling enough to finish. Now I'm reading Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl. I think I enjoyed her tv series more. We tried Black Mirror from BBC tv, but weren't in love with it. The movie we saw was The Imitation Game, which was ok - no surprises, a little to formulaic, but enjoyable, but I'm really sad to hear how much they changed the actual history to fit the Hollywood movie model.
We are coming up on our one year anniversary of being permanent residents of Australia, we're hoping to take the next step soon.
and Brunetti and DOC pizza.
