blamebrampton

The best comments on the Oz election have so far come from Twitter:
TheNDM

#ausvotes It's 'Kramer vs. Kramer' with Gillard & Abbott fighting for custody of the nation, except the nation wants the Greens to adopt it.

RT @oldspice Hello Australia. Look at your Parliament, now back at me. Sadly, it isn't me, but it is hung like me. #ausvotes

onepotchef

Australia has spoken. We said "meh" #ausvotes

I cannot do any better than those at the moment, because I am knackered after a lovely weekend in Brissy with

annes_stuff -- which was unexpected, not thanks to the company, which was brilliant, but because I generally just don't like Brisbane. It's too -- hot. And mally. But we spent hours down in the gallery precinct and it's brilliant! If you're ever there, there are multiple galleries and museums and a really good library all together, and all of them have EXCELLENT shops, which is why I have less money than I did on Friday, but more magnificent fashion books (Poiret and Vionnet! Yippee!)

Caught up with

i_autumnheart , who had the comment of the evening while watching election coverage: when Warren Truss was being discussed, one of our pals commented that with a name like that, he was a natural for the Australian Sex Party. Autumn quietly and perfectly said, 'Only if he has a safe word,' and devastated the whole room.

I also met

brissygirl , who is just as lovely in real life as she is online! And who was very kind about my deranged squirrel impersonation -- far too much wine and pavlova while watching the election the night before! As the number of exclamation points in the post testifies.

Trivia from the weekend: Anne's flatmate played on the Swedish National Cricket Team when he spent a year there as an exchange student. I asked him if he was a fine cricketer, to which he replied 'Not by Australian standards ... but reasonably good by Swedish.'