Capitalist Land Owning Pig

The title of this entry comes from the title of an email my great friend Clare sent me a few years ago when she and her husband bought a house! I thought it was great, so am stealing it. Hope she hadn't copyrighted it!!

I forgot the most exciting thing! I am a homeowner!!!

As of Tuesday, I own (pending the processing of about a million forms!), a two bedroom apartment in Richmond, Melbourne! I am sooooooooooo excited about this - I have been looking for so long and missed out at quite a few auctions so it is great to have found something. My brilliant father has negotiated it all for me and apparently it is just superb, with views of the river and the city, and an amazing designer kitchen. I can't wait to see it.

I Love Paris in the Springtime

Wow - you long onto your blog in France, and the whole darn thing is in French - all the links etc. That's not really a problem because my brain is working better in French than in English right now, but still...


This is going to be very short because the French keyboards are different and driving me nuts! I've been in France for about five or six days now. Those of you who have been lucky enough to have been reading my missives since 1999 may remember Géraldine, the zany party-animal roomate I had in the dorms in Massachusetts? Well - she's getting married!! And I'm here for her wedding! I have just returned to Paris from tzo days out in the West, visiting one of my old host families out there, and am loving being back in Paris. I have been been speaking a mixture of French and English, but nothing but French for three days now, and ,y brain has reverted completement to French - I am thinking in French now, which is how I was when I lived here.


Due to the insanely annoying keyboard, this is going to be a short entry - I am going to London on Sunday and will write more when I get access to a real keyboard again!!


In the meantime - Vive La France!!!