Freezing cold

I meant to start this blog writing about the Eurovision song contest but feel that it is a little bit old news already. The weather is much more present, all the time, every day and it is cold here in Sydney now. The days are gloriously sunny and it gets up to +20 C but waking up and when it is only 11 in the kitchen and maybe 7 outside as it was yesterday morning is harsh. See, they don't have central heating in houses here. If you are lucky you might have an a/c that does heating as well but in our case that is just localized to our bedroom and the kitchen, the rest of the house is very, very cold. Okay, enough complaints for today; at least I can go outside and warm up as soon as the sun is out.

Soo, the Eurovision,  we won!! Or rather Sweden won. I feel it was well merited but I would have felt the same if Australia had won or the UK, they were my three faves, so any of them would have done me. Not everyone is happy though, I just read an article called "Where are the freaks, Eurovision  2015 was far too respectable" and I tend to agree a little bit. Missing the songs sung in native tongues and in folk dress, but I guess we are past that now.

Here in Australia we have Vivid Sydney going on and we might go in tonight for a stroll to the different venues, it's bound to be good. If we don't go I have seen a lot of photos of it already so I almost feel like I have been there. We are getting a little short for time before our big Europe trip.
We are leaving in exactly a week and now is the time to do all those last-minute things you have put off to do later. Hubby and I are both serious procrastinators, but we usually get the important things done. Favorite saying "No press, no production", right.

Last Sunday we had a very nice catch up lunch with a friend, whom we initially met many years ago while living in Grenoble.

 

She and her husband, who is a colleague of hubby, now lives in Switzerland and we, as you all know, are here in Sydney.  We all know "It is a small world", and proof of that is that  her son and family now live in Sydney and she was here to see them.They live on the other side of town near the  lovely Balmoral  beach,  where we had a little walk before driving home again.

Bye for now dear readers, and thanks for reading!

Man flu

We have a rampant case of man flu in the house. As usual it always occurs on the weekend. So instead of going on one of our weekend excursions we are staying put nursing the patient. That means that I still have not got anything fun to write about, we have not been anywhere interesting but a lot of things has happened in the world.

Sydney has had terrible storms with some serious damage and this weekend could be similar they said, but so far just normal rain. We have also closely followed the last days of the two Aussie drug smugglers who were finally executed a few days ago after having spent almost 10 years in prison.  One of them, Myuran Sukomaran  learned to paint while in prison and has turned out to be a very good artist, specializing in portrait painting. Wish I could paint as well as that.

Let's not forget the horrible earthquake in Nepal, with thousands dead and so many homeless. 

Hi again, dear readers!

The first part of this blog entry was written a week ago and now it is Monday again. Yesterday was Mother's Day so we had a nice visit from our son and also lunch at one of my favorite restaurants in Cronulla called Zimzala. Mother's Day is a rare occasion where I am allowed to put a photo of our son here. He is not very keen to be visible on the internet.

Zimzala is the smaller white building on the far beach. Great location, eh?

Almost nothing shocks anymore. Last Saturday we went into Sydney to see the Rocky Horror Show. I had never seen it but hubby had seen it in the days when it probably was quite outrageous. I think now we are used to seeing everything so therefore it felt a little tamer maybe. The audience were mainly our age and knew most of the texts by heart. When the song Time Warp came on half of them were standing up doing the moves. Very cute, considering they were all 60+.  I was a little disappointed though that no-one was dressed up.

"Let's do the Time Warp, again!"

After the show we had a quick look at the Star Casino and

then dinner down in Darling Harbour.

Time for bed now, so goodnight all, back next week I hope!