o frabjous day!

Category: Conversations

  • Thoughts on horses

    From: Alex To: Celia; Alice P.S I drove through THE VILLAGE [being where I live] yesterday. From: Celia To: Alex; Alice I know. I followed you. Well, at least I saw your facebook status indicating you were up the mountain and presumed you went through THE VILLAGE as you put it. I can’t believe you…

  • Solutions

    – After listening to this interview with Alain de Botton, I am definitely going to check out a copy of his book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. I have avoided his books in the past because I have always thought they looked like too much hard work, so I think I’m going to seek…

  • Not my forte

    Last weekend, the husband painted the door to Chickendome (our new chicken pen, still under construction) a rather nice blue colour. Today, we finished the wire – while it still needs more wiring together by way of snake proofing, the basic structure is now finished. Chickendome lives! “You know, I still have some glittery gold…

  • Heading south

    We have been relatively unaffected here by the flooding in Brisbane – we live on a different river system, and while it did experience flooding (and we had to take rather convoluted routes home at times due to roads being closed), it did not approach the severity of the flooding in the Brisbane river system.…

  • Lady pigs

    Me: “Those little horses look like they’re dead when they lie down like that. But I don’t think they can be, because there’s always a couple of them lying down whenever we go past.” Husband: “Would you like a little horse?” Me: “No – I would like a pig.” H: “We could get a pig.”…

  • Too cool for words

    Me: “Listen! A Doctor Who theme ringtone to go with my Tardis message tone. How cool is that?” The husband, cautiously: “Do you mean ‘cool’ in the sense of ‘really unbelievably nerdy’?” Me: “Sure.” The husband: “Then yes – very cool.”

  • Conversational misunderstandings

    Law offices: Me: [on the phone to someone three offices away waffling on about my communal farm idea] – “Waffle, waffle, waffle, basically a commune.” Workmate: [frantic rustling and clunking] – “God, I just had to pick up the phone, I had you on speaker.” Me: “Ahhh – was that little panic attack because I…

  • Conversations

    After watching the husband crunch across the driveway in bare feet. “Ah – good morning. I may have stolen your thongs.” “You may have?” “Well, yes. You know how, um, the potential of every action creates, um, another potential… universe?” “Isn’t it ‘every action has an equal and opposite reaction’?” “Well, yes, but that’s not…