Am home!

The problem, the really enormous and hard to get past problem, with Australia is that it is just too far from everything and everyone.

I have long travel diary posts coming, with photos, now that I am back on the Macbook (it is the size of a house after the teeny netbook!) and can type with fewer disastrously bad typos. I was going to be religious about getting things up in a timely fashion, but was thwarted by the need to write some stories for work, write for Glompfest so ladydeth12  could know that her marvellousness is appreciated, and actually travel about the place having adventures that could be written up into amusing anecdotes as I went. 

Tragically, I ran out of London time so spectacularly that I wasn't able to catch up with melusinahp  or see if vashtan  was up for a beverage, and despite passing through Wilts twice, could not stop to track down the estimable wemyss , though I am about to embark on some very interesting reading thanks to same and I did wave out the window in an all-encompassing Queen Mother Approved fashion (which may explain the two bottles of gin I found myself impelled to buy at the duty free). oddishly , feralcheryl  and quatrefoil ,  I have postcards for all of you, but failed to actually write down your new addresses because I am an idiot. Several postcards were sent to people – who, I have no idea, and yes, I did carry most of them across half of Europe and post them at the airport, need you even ask?

I caught up with some of my very fave people, and met the wonderful thisgirlis  and theodoraleft  -- more of which in the travel diary posts coming, but I am constantly amazed at the loveliness of people on my flist.

And now to sleep erratically for a few days to make up for the flight home and the whopping great sleep debt I managed to build up while I was away!

Quick question: to monster someone, as in 'I liked the fact that Dudley could see the good in Harry, but he did monster him appallingly in the first few books' – is that an Australianism? I have no idea where I picked it up – at this point my English is as deranged as my Italian, though with more vocabulary.

As a side note, do you have any idea how hard it is to explain an Australian customs form to a non-English-speaking Romanian using only Italian and mime? Are you carrying any meat or meat products, indeed! 

Finally, thank you so much to everyone who has been posting the Dan Radcliffe clip today, it made me laugh so much! Here it is at the lovely rubytuesday5681 's.

I ... I really miss England. For all that I am looking out on a sunshine-filled patch of green garden here with cats bathing in the pools of light. I really miss it. 

Am home!

The problem, the really enormous and hard to get past problem, with Australia is that it is just too far from everything and everyone.

I have long travel diary posts coming, with photos, now that I am back on the Macbook (it is the size of a house after the teeny netbook!) and can type with fewer disastrously bad typos. I was going to be religious about getting things up in a timely fashion, but was thwarted by the need to write some stories for work, write for Glompfest so ladydeth12  could know that her marvellousness is appreciated, and actually travel about the place having adventures that could be written up into amusing anecdotes as I went. 

Tragically, I ran out of London time so spectacularly that I wasn't able to catch up with melusinahp  or see if vashtan  was up for a beverage, and despite passing through Wilts twice, could not stop to track down the estimable wemyss , though I am about to embark on some very interesting reading thanks to same and I did wave out the window in an all-encompassing Queen Mother Approved fashion (which may explain the two bottles of gin I found myself impelled to buy at the duty free). oddishly , feralcheryl  and quatrefoil ,  I have postcards for all of you, but failed to actually write down your new addresses because I am an idiot. Several postcards were sent to people – who, I have no idea, and yes, I did carry most of them across half of Europe and post them at the airport, need you even ask?

I caught up with some of my very fave people, and met the wonderful thisgirlis  and theodoraleft  -- more of which in the travel diary posts coming, but I am constantly amazed at the loveliness of people on my flist.

And now to sleep erratically for a few days to make up for the flight home and the whopping great sleep debt I managed to build up while I was away!

Quick question: to monster someone, as in 'I liked the fact that Dudley could see the good in Harry, but he did monster him appallingly in the first few books' – is that an Australianism? I have no idea where I picked it up – at this point my English is as deranged as my Italian, though with more vocabulary.

As a side note, do you have any idea how hard it is to explain an Australian customs form to a non-English-speaking Romanian using only Italian and mime? Are you carrying any meat or meat products, indeed! 

Finally, thank you so much to everyone who has been posting the Dan Radcliffe clip today, it made me laugh so much! Here it is at the lovely rubytuesday5681 's.

I ... I really miss England. For all that I am looking out on a sunshine-filled patch of green garden here with cats bathing in the pools of light. I really miss it.