by Allan McKelvie
It's the 1st of September, the first day of springtime down under and usually this joyous time is associated with blossoming flowers, brighter days and birds singing. But I had a traumatic experience when going for lunch - a pigeon had been run over just as i turned the corner, and I arrived to see the immediate aftermath. Of course, my main concern was not getting splatted by its guts as other cars seemed to make no attempt to avoid running over it again. Gruesome.
Still, I managed to recover and wolfed down my delicious lunch of Bruschetta and English breakfast tea. Well, there's little time for sentiment when you're as focused as I am...
Another major feature of Melbourne spring is sporting climax - particularly the finals of the Footy season (aussie rules) and the Melbourne Cup. Our team Collingwood have scraped into the finals but we're not very confident of progress. They are a commonly known as a team of little class yet lots of money. A bit like Paris Hilton. Favourites this year are reigning champs Geelong, who have romped the league (confused? its the way they do it here, they play a full league season then the top half of the table go into the finals), although Hawthorn are a decent side too. I dont think we'll manage to go along to the Melbourne Cup this year - havent been along yet. Its just before the end of my semester in early November, and we're skint too! We might manage a wee flutter though.
I'm working 2 days a week at another Uni here doing an Internship, and it's been good so far. Although keeping up this facade of pretending to know what I'm talking about can only last so long... :) I have 9 more weeks at Monash Uni where I am attempting to construct a fancy website using my recently gained programming skills. Nae bother.
We had a few friends over at the weekend. Very pleasant, not least because of the delicious roast chicken that Jo made for us all. Stuffed with lemon, garlic, rosemary and lemon-thyme, it was like edible gold and it went down a treat, washed down with some coopers pale. I've been meaning to make a stock and then a soup out of the leftover bones, but that requires a bit of time which I dont have much of these days.
Time for bed now. We're recording the Da Vinci Code, probably watch it on the weekend. I've read the book which i found quite readable so will be interested to see if Hanks and co can do it justice.
Bonsoiree to all. Here's hoping I dont have pigeon nightmares.
Al and Jo
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