- A holiday. Preferably somewhere tropical and with a beach.
- Given that the chances of getting a tropical beach holiday at the moment are slim, I’d settle for a long weekend. This is made more painful by the fact that we have a long weekend coming up this weekend, but us university employees have to work. BOO!
- A booksale of the secondhand/used book variety. Am I sad to want such a thing? It’s just that I have such fun at booksales – just remembering the recent Save the Children sale, and seeing Ampersand Duck write about her recent booksale has got me all wistful again…
Update: Now I’m even grumpier – not only are we still suffering from a dearth of bananas, I’ve just heard that some of the stone fruit crop has been badly affected by frost – no apricots?? No nectarines?? I was already grumpy because I’ve been trying to decide what to do re Blogger Beta. Found a blog listing all the existing problems…
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🙁 No bananas is bad enough, but add in stone fruit and that really stinks. If it weren’t for the import restrictions we could send some from here…
*had banana cake for morning tea*
I’m so looking forward to the summer fruits and veges. Going out soon to get some organic asparagus from our horticulture students – yum yum!
*sulks and wonders what she will get for morning tea today*
Summer fruit is one of the best things about summer, for me. (That, and the fact that the sun is up when I get up.) If they are horrendously expensive this summer I am probably going to be very poor…
Hi CW,
Banana cake, I remember that….mmm
I think I will also be very sad and poor if the stone fruit is not available.
Looks like ordinary biscuits for Morning tea, perhaps a ‘teddy bear’….
muhaha, Con. I just returned from a fortnight in Hong Kong where I ate two (at least) adult sized bananas a day. It was glorious. I ate them ‘raw’ (ie not mashed into banana bread or goreng pisang-ed) and they were the Best.Bananas.Ever because they only cost about a dollar a pound.
TB, I had part of a stale cinnamon bun for morning tea, and tried not to think about it. >.< Anna!! You know how to rub it in, don’t you? A couple of weekends ago I spent $6 on four bananas, and ate them over the space of a week, marvelling at how luxurious it felt. What else did you do in HK? Find any cool Chinese fountain pens?? 😉
Thank goodness I ate almost a summer’s worth of apricots in the US in July. I will miss them this year. 🙁
Don’t feel too bad about missing the long weekend – I ordinarily wouldn’t have to work but am ‘working’ voluntarily this Monday!
Yes Con, people who are up to their necks in bananas always feel superior to everyone else!!
My holiday in Hong Kong was the perfect blend of food, shopping, touring and playing with my three nephews. I went into quite a few stationers but sadly I didn’t find anything interesting in the way of fountain pens.
Fi, I’m looking forward to catching up. And stop talking about apricots!!! …. 🙂
Anna, that’s good – if you got bananas and pens I would have been too envious! I’d love to go to Hong Kong.. anywhere really. This year hasn’t been bad in terms of travel but it wasn’t the same because M didn’t come along…
I’m one of those “I’m still buying bananas regardless of cost, becuase they are still cheaper and better for me than chocolate” people.
HOWEVER…I’ve just been a week without bananas because there were none to be bought. Where? At Mission Beach and Dunk Island, Queensland…right in the middle of the “banana belt”.
I think people there are so used to them being cheap that they just refuse to import and stock them. When I asked where the bananas were in a grocery store, I was told “Larry ate them all”. Took me a while to realise what they were talking about.
I’m glad to be back in W.A where I’m just about to spend my entire week’s grocery budget on bananas.
I just came across this and remembered you talking about book sales. I don’t know if this is the type of thing you would be interested in (it does mention dictionaries!!), but anyway….
http://events.uwa.edu.au/event/20060927T064052Z-576-6284@events.uwa.edu.au/whatson/publicaffairs
Enjoy the rest of you weekend
🙂
Simone
Oh, url is to long…
Well, just go to main page of UWA and then to events (more news and events), and it should be right there!
Welcome back, Sirexkat! 🙂
Thanks, Simone! It’s very tempting…