Just sayin'

With all the Tiger Woods mistresses and Jesse James mistresses coming out and saying that they were duped by the men in question, who had apparently told them that their marriages were not happy and were basically over, I had thought that they were bullshitting and that they were just trying to play victim.  I'm not saying that we should see them as victims, at all, and at the end of the day they did sleep with married men.

But I had thought they were bullshitting.  Then I remembered that I have had a man attempt to pull the same thing on me.  Maybe people shouldn't be calling bullshit so readily.

Bye, bye Beijing Bistro.

I woke up this morning to the news that my joint favourite restaurant in Bristol has closed down, and this news has upset me greatly. It's stupid, a little, and I'm maybe, perhaps, exaggerating slightly but Beijing Bistro is amazing - the food is really cheap and you get loads of it but more to the point, I've eaten there so many times and had so much fun. It's where Jeff and I used to go when we first met, it's where I used to meet Lucy, Pippa and Philip for dinner on an almost weekly basis and I went with other friends too. It also had really good sesame prawn toast, which I'm slightly obsessed with and frankly that is the thing that I will miss the most.

Damn you world! Nothing was supposed to change whilst I was away!!!

Also, for the record, El Puerto is my other favourite restaurant and if THAT closes, I'll never come back to Bristol.

Stupid stupidness of stupidity.

Pretty much ever since I got to Melbourne, I've spent practically all my time with two girls called Alice and Harriet. A lot of that time has been watching TV or chilling out drinking tea or whatever but we get on really well. It's been so nice hanging out with them, even if it's just been going to the cinema or hanging around in their room doing a crossword or all curling up on one of our beds to watch a film or TV.

Well, last night we went out for a lovely dinner at an awesome restaurant opposite Parliament of Victoria and had a wonderful four course feast of deliciousness because today Alice has gone back to England. I'm so, so, so gutted. To compound this, Harriet is going to Adelaide on Wednesday morning so I'll be by myself. It's horrible because even though I know I will meet other people, I kind of don't want to if I'm honest. I've become tragically long in the tooth and lazy and there are so many people at the hostel who just want to get drunk and hook up with each other and I'm tired, to be honest, and can't be bothered getting involved in all that.

So yeah, down day. BUT I think I will have some exciting work related news to convey quite soon. In the immediate, that arsewipe from Oxford has handed his notice in. It's just that there are so many chiefs, not enough indians, and no team spirit. It's not a very big venue and so even when it's busy it's not busy and the second there are a whole bunch of people eating lunch or whatever it becomes a nightmare. People run around like headless chickens achieving nothing and being rude to each other... It's awful but of course I work for Vue de Monde so I have to get on with it because it's one of the best things I can put on my CV in Australia.

Election stuff still a source of fascination - loving it!

Things I miss...

Oh my GOD!  I miss Tampax Compaq!  You can, if you're lucky, get hold of regular Tampax but most of the tampons sold over here are non applicator ones, which I loathe with a passion.  I'm actually tempted to beg to have a load of Tampax mailed to me, I hate the tampon culture over here so much.

Also Ariel liqui-tabs and Comfort fabric softener.  The washing machines and washing powders/liquids over here are rubbish.

Election frustration, etc...

I should have done this a few days ago but since the debate happened last night, now seems as good a time as any.

Ummmmmmmmmmmmm, OK, firstly, I am amazed that people are stupid enough to start thinking that might be even a remotely good idea to re-elect Labour.  Seriously, we have to change and it's not to do with the recession (yes there was a degree of irresponsibility) nor to do with the fact that we've had nonsense like the MPs expense scandal.  It's not even particularly to do with those illegal wars the Labour's ex Dear Leader dragged us in to.  It's about the fact that they can't get it together to govern.  Honestly, when you push all those other things aside we're looking at a collection of 320 or so people that simply can't co-operate or focus on what they need to do without spending too much time trying to get the soundbite or without trying to bring down an admittedly rubbish Prime Minister.

I saw the Conservative manifesto and I liked it. My major issue about government is that it's massive what with all the quangos, etc.  Clarkson is right - government does not need to be so big so I'm a big fan of that and actually I'm disappointed that Cameron doesn't make more of it.  Whatever about the fact that I'm blue, the point is that the country can save so much money by not wasting it on bureaucrap and YES!  Why doesn't every single political party think this is a reasonable suggestion?!

Talking of disappointment, I thought last night's television debate was rubbish.  If we're going to be taking a leaf out of the Americans'  book, then the debates should be in the same vein.  Instead, it was really boring.  So, so dull.  Cameron and Brown trying to take cheap shots so that's how Clegg did so well, because he was focused on getting his point across.  And also whoever presented the ITV debate was rubbish, I feel bound to say.  But I guess that might be because ITV is rubbish.

Um, so basically I think the whole election thing is brilliant and actually a hung parliament would be much fun.  Also I am going to be honest and say that Cameron has not been particularly impressive as yet.  He needs to get much better.  True story.

Awesome food and comedy fun

Soooooooooooooo, yesterday I was off work and we eventually managed to drag our arses out of the hostel and I went with PokerPlayer, Horserider, Devon and PokerPlayer's room mate.  So we'll call him TheRoomate.  Anyways, PokerPlayer wanted to buy an iPod so we went up into the CBD and bummed around in Myer and David Jones (think Debenhams and House of Fraser respectively) and looked for the iPod and then we went for dinner and went to a Malaysian BYO (BYO is really common over here, thankfully, and for the record I had a Chardonnay from Adelaide Hills and I was not especially impressed and I think I've decided it's because it might be too warm up there) and we had quite a lot of great food and funny conversation and it was basically my idea of a perfect dinner out. 

Then we were on our way back to the hostel and walked past a little poster advertising a comedy gig which was like a gala of different acts all MC'd by a guy called Josh Thomas who Horserider really likes so I suggested we go and a consensus was that might be a good idea.  So we went and spent probably the best $15 any of us have ever spent.  Every single one of the ten acts, bar one, were pant wettingly hilarious and I laughed like I haven't laughed in ages and just generally it was an absolutely brilliant, brilliant night.

Oh, before that I made a whole bunch of scrummy pancakes for everybody and they were really absolutely perfectly delicious.  It was a very happy time in my life.

Tonight I cooked a three course feast of smoked salmon, asparagus and avocado salad followed by lemon chicken and with homemade chocolate mousse and poached fruit for dinner.  YUM, YUM, YUM!!!

Other than that, I feel better but my throat is definitely all up and I don't really like my job that much for quite a lot of reasons but that might be because I need to settle in.

It's OK, I'm not really mental

Turns out all my anger and rage was ExtremePMS.  We're all good, kids.