A Gush To Melbourne #1

Your weather is kak. The winters are far too long & the transition into the glorious summer living is like dealing with a woman on a bladder infection.

But once that weather does get here; it’s all shweet & forgiven.

I think. I don’t think we’ve reached summer yet, Toto.

So, in light of the fact that I tend to only slate the city & country of hosting, which is fairly unfair because they are gracious hosts and have not once slated my coun.... oh... wait...

But because I am the bigger woman!

A regular feature of all that is good with “The Island” in Top 5 listings:

1. I’m not going home for Chrissy (Aussies. Nicknames. For everything. You deal with it); which gutted me – R35 000 two people return between the 2 weeks of global Christmas travel – was quickly turned around by 2 sets of sweet Aussies who invited us to their family Christmas meals. Its gonna be a fat old bulging festive season. That’s how generous your chilled-out Aussie is. I appreciate that.

2. My team won the Grand Final. HA! HA HA HA HA HA!!! Even if there were two of them. Because who needs overtime, when you can have 2 weekends of partying like it’s the end of the world & you’re going down in a blaze of glory.

3. Tuesday was a public holiday. For a horse race. We got to drink champagne instead of afternoon tea. I got to ignore the job that doesn’t pay but cracks the whip, and get toasted on champagne too.

4. Multiculturalism. You think Jo’burg CBD was incredible as the microcosm of Africa. Melbourne’s 8 blocks of a city is one big MEET-and-GREET-your-opposing-culture-and-mix-that-in-with-everything-inbetween.

5. A tv character died in a car accident on a popular tv programme. This fictional incident made headline national news. People were gutted, crying into their online forums and over the radio waves. The actress had to come on tv and explain herself from LA. The country is not convinced.
As my mom said in reply when I sms’d her about this incident, “Sometimes it’s nice to live in a bubble”.