I went back to work at my lovely two day a week job two weeks ago, with very little fanfare, and our parliamentarians returned to their first "sitting week" in Canberra for 2010 this week. It's an election year so I'm trying to wean Rob off the daily commentary as it just causes his blood pressure to rise. It doesn't stop us having a good giggle though from time to time. Barnaby (Joyce) Rubble and loopy Lord Monckton (from the UK) provided good fodder this week!
It was a huge first week at school for Ollie. He had to give his first "morning talk" on day four and apparently blitzed all the Kindies (and their teacher) with his encyclopaedic knowledge about killer Queensland cane toads. His presentation was so amazing he had to repeat it for the year 5/6s, who were suitably impressed. Morning talk time in Kindergarten is usually a time for broadcasting family secret business rather than for analysing, with great maturity, the exact nature of an environmental disaster!
I scored two outings to Mecca Bah this week. The first was on Thursday night to meet up with some wonderful women and welcome Leigh back from Lombok (for a short visit). Half of our group is no longer teaching now so a bit removed from the rigours of week one and the morale destroying publication of the league tables to mark the start of the school year. The schoolies still had a lovely time though, and it was great to have Leigh back again, before she heads off to Sydney (Coogee, actually) for the next two weeks.
My next outing to Mecca Bah was on Friday night, for coffee and Middle Eastern desserts with our birthday friends, after our movie date to see "Up in the Air" at Greater Union, Manuka. I found it an unusual American film - kind of gritty, grainy and quirky and with an unresolved ending - I guess it was as close as you'd get to "art house" coming out of that big star, studio controlled film industry!
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