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Better on our livers this way!

Just because he can :)

Blood, sweat and beers

Australia Day 2013

Decked out in my green fishnets and flagged boardies, 

I covered myself in cheap flaky tatts and jumped 

head first into 17 HOURS of exhaustion and pure madness.

From midday,

To very late,

 the building was buzzing, non stop!

I was in a sauna all day! The upstairs bar was ROASTIN'!

The small team I was with up there were a bunch of troopers. 

Starburst, grapes and Oreos in hand, we survived!!

The cleanup was epic, delirious, sticky and 2 hours long. 

The bar made 135grand in one day :o

Unaustralian expectations of 30 young bar staff, 

truly patriotic results!

The next day... Round 2 in paradise!

 I saw the same mental people lining up at the bar. 

Bunch o' crazies!

Luckily, day 2 was quieter. 

(Yet within an hour I still managed a shoe full of cider)

We were all a bit batty from the day before but

stumbled our way through with roaring success.

I think, just maybe, next year I might like to drink in a sunny backyard.

Beers in hand, J's ringing in my ears. Doesn't seem right any other way!

That's different...

The other end of my Wednesday mornin' skype session

only child !

It's been since.. never that I have lived a place, without either of my gorgeous sisters in shot of a hug 'n' giggle.

I've always been fortunate enough to have at least one of them around..
First time for everything, right?!
Last week, after 4 and a half years of living here, V said goodbye to London and boarded a plane back to Aus.
As one does, she accumulated a shitload of stuff which made packing quite the overwhelming task !

After hours of ruthless sorting and packing,
we got her back zipped tight and ready to go.

Among everything else, we managed to pack fifteen favourite t-shirts,
shoes, more shoes, a pair of gumboots, a souvenir bus,

how many bags V?!.. the sneaky bitch managed SEVEN bags in total,

and a litre of British booze to boot.

Amazing. 

Silver lining... my wardrobe has never looked so healthy!
Gloves, jackets, hats, you name it!
The wool and warm bits are coming in handy with the wintery English weather :)

From seedy sing alongs in the sauna to Pimms in the park, 

I thoroughly enjoyed having her around for my first year in London.

Will miss her loads but couldn't be more 

excited for what the next leg brings her way!

umm..

One upside of V going back to Aus..
her earmuffs are keeping me toasty warm! 

... did I mention it's been SNOWING!?

Yeah yeah, broken record here isn't posting anything but snow pics on social media.
But it's pretty, and fluffy, and I like it.

Thus.. some more photos, of ze snow:

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow..

Look, see !

Tada! ... Footy field

  Day time on my street....

... night tiiiime!