Category: Diary

Found in our garden this evening.

Have a guess where we started the day off today.

Now a squad is trying the back door.

Now they’re trying to get through the door.

I’ve been a life long Doctor Who fan so I’m pretty sure this invasion of spinifex means the end of the world is coming. The front of the house is absolutely covered in the stuff.

Nothing like a bit of early morning Lego building to get you going.

I’ve been listening to 6 Music for years now, about six I think and for all that time Chris Hawkins has been their overnight, my working day, DJ. I’ve become a bit of a regular correspondent and been in charge of designing an official Early Morning Show tea towel (long story). On the show I’ve now become known as Tea Towel Tony.

This year in the lead up to Christmas they are doing a segment called Rings Around The World where each day they call up one of their international listeners and it fell upon me to represent Australia. There’s a couple of in jokes that only regular listeners would get (the tea towels, the colour orange) but it was great to finally get to talk to The Hawk after all these years. We even got to have a chat after the song started. Hopefully one day he’ll make it to Melbourne and I’ll get to shout him a drink.

If you’re interested here’s me on 6 Music.

Now I’ve been on the ABC and the BBC I should try and work my around the world until I get all the alphabet. Any Canadian readers work for the CBC?

While it could never compare to the Queen of Rocky Road’s supreme creations I’m pretty happy with our first attempt at white chocolate rocky road. We got the recipe from Planning With Kids and gave it a go this morning. The kids measured, chopped and stirred, it was great fun and it’s disappearing pretty quickly.

3.45am Moo Moo woke us up yelling that she wants her doona. Rae gets up to pull it up the 10cm that was required.

3.55am Drifting back when my phone ‘magically’ turns itself on. No idea what happened there. Spend next half hour lying there waiting for seemingly possessed phone to start itself up again.

4.25ish Begin to drift off again.

4:30am The #!% cat begins to meow

9:52am Wish I was back in bed.