Week Nights

It's been just over week since I last updated the blog. I promised my sister-in-law, Coleen, that I'd try to be more frequent, especially as we both know people who are recuperating and need some cheering up! I had a bit of writers block since nothing notable happened. Or, at least if it did, I failed to notice it.

Well, that's not entirely true, we've had friends over during the past week, gone out, come home, generally enjoyable passtimes. Just nothing I could really make fun of.

Some serious winds are blowing again, but this time they are warm spring winds, which after eight nights are still carrying the strong perfumes of local flowers. I remember smelling (and tasting) the honeysuckle flowers growing up in New Jersey; but to be honest, I don't remember the scents of the flowers in the spring - although Spring itself had a delightful smell. New Jersey flowers have to present themselves as tough, not girly, because if they don't the flowers from New York come and beat them up.

The other notable thing I didn't notice is that we've also just marked our 2 year anniversary in Oz, so I'm sure there's a few of you out there looking for some good Aussie jokes to tell me. (What do you call a pair of Aussies who forgets their 2 year anniversary? Really, I'm not sure - tell me.) I have to admit, Australia still seems a bit foreign to me at times, when I'm not stuck in the "home-to-work-I-didn't-see-that-giant-drop-bear" routine. The trees, the weather, Christmas in summer, the strange marsupials waiting to mug unsuspecting tourists... Andrew tells me one day, without realising it, I'll get used the "reversed" seasons, the lack of the New York Yankees, and the velcro on the soles of my shoes. Just kidding. We use magnets.