HEATWAVE

Summer is obviously here...

Yesterday it was 35 degrees...and just woken up and still hot (and it's 5.45AM!!!)

I just checked the forecast and it's going to be over 30 again...with possible showers later...then a week of mild weather...thankgod...



Growing up in Perth I'm used to the long LONG hot summers...I do like the warm weather but with all the nasty uncontrollable fires we are having in rural Victoria, I hope the cooler weather ( & rainfall) will bring some relief...

The air has been so smoggy (due to fires) here in Melbourne - so bad our air quality the other day rated worse than polluted Cities in the developing world...



Please Santa - bring some rain this Christmas - we're in a drought and the CFA are almost spent!

X b

Pool & Pets don't mix...Part 2

Here is the new blow up pool to replace the one Rabbit punctured....and I quite like it regardless that it's a sporty theme pool...( it was better than the 'Looney Tune' theme or the pink 'Princess Pool' - however that one came in a close second)...
It came with 3 blow up balls and a score pad on it's base... I think it can be used without the water as a game...(God only knows why anyone would actually use a blow up pool without water)...
Given how sporty Andrew and I are - that particular feature will not be used...unless we use it as headrests and things to throw for the hell of it...maybe at Rabbit so the little fucker won't puncture this one...however if he does at least then the Princess Pool with matching turret slide will get a look in at Casa de la Riversdale...Andy will be pleased.

Pool and Pets don't mix...Part 1

Ahem...it's going to be 37 degrees today...so Andy and I get out the pool ( blow up of course) - and Rabbit the wonder cat has punctured it...

I think the cat only did it as it wasn't about him...

Now to go and embrace the shopping centre on a saturday no less (oh YAY) to buy a new one...

OZ TV: Ratings ending

The one thing that annoys the shit out of me this time of year is that the TV shows that the networks trot out every summer as the ratings have finished...

Sometimes it's a good thing...apparantly Channel 7 has never had faith in 'Will & Grace' moving it about like a ping pong ball from time slot to time slot...the good news is that they are finally showing the final season over summer- and for those who have not seen it it's one of the best so far...plenty of guest stars and storylines finally wrap up!

However for every gem like 'Will & Grace'...7 always has about 10 crappy sitcoms like 'That's 70's Show' or 'hope & Faith' or they repeat the dead dogs like bloody 'M*A*S*H' ( can you believe it- why not show ' The Lucy Show' or worse still 'Hey Dad!")....Good news is that some of their US drama's shows like 'Boston Legal' will still play (if you watch those of course) and my fav - the NZ version of 'Border Security' - the drama last night was a Spanish pot smoker, an illegal worker in a Brothel and a man importing corn...'thus is madnuss' (quote from the show)... Bless Auntie (Channel 2), if you are ready for repeats this is your summer...From those Fountain Lakes hornhags 'Kath & Kim'...to 'Parkinson' ( on a tuesday night!) lots of Documentries on the Royals, environment and the such like...SBS is doing pretty much the same with their popular shows like'South Park', 'Myth Busters' and other non-english shows/documentries - All repeated over the summer/non ratings period so good if you missed them as you were watching something funnier/BB/another reality TV show on the commercial networks...

Channel 9 and 10 are possibly the worse this year... 9's ' The King of Queens' , 'Great Debate' (GROAN), '2 and a half men' ( Does ANYONE what that show) proves that the networks woes are not over ( Eddy - we love '20 to 1' but a network does not manage on 1 show let alone 'Debbie' Hutton yaking away about her knowledge of live's trivial moments....)10's 'Futurama' - (when will they realize 'The Simpsons' it aint!) 'Charmed' ( it's over people) or 'Veronica Mars' ( yes Jez you are the only person to watch it in OZ) - proves this network survives on the ' The Simpsons' and the reality TV shows genre...even in Summer they will pump out 'American Idol' and 'You think you can dance' a few times a week to appease the Hoi-polloi...

Jesus...'Vasili's garden Show' & 'Bent TV' on Channel 31 is looking good...