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Sunday, 18 February 2007

Six weird things


Just south of Sydney, at Stanwell Tops (Bald Hill Lookout), looking down the northern Illawarra coast towards Wollongong. The beach and town in the foreground is Stanwell Park. I took Mum for a drive along here today.
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Taking up the challenge from Nathalie to list six weird things about myself...

1. My iPOD contains mostly Barbra Streisand songs (I've loved Babs since I saw Funny Girl as a youngster - aged about 10?)

2. My iPOD contains tunes by Akon, Eminem, Snoop Doggy Dogg , 2Pac, P Diddy ...all of whom I play and like, and 50Cent, who I don't like. That's cos my son and I share the iTUNES section on the computer, so I uploaded his stuff too, and once I listened to it, I came to like a lot of it.
I like Green Day better, though, cos thy remind me of the Ramones - and that was MY era!

3. I live in famous-for-its-beaches Sydney, not far from the sea, but I much, much prefer swimming in pools (as I may just have mentioned once or twice!) I put it down to parents who hated the beach, and growing up in Melbourne....

4. I don't own a dress, and haven't since a maternity dress I had in 1993. I gave it away. I have a couple of skirts I rarely wear, and one good 'going out' outfit (lacy skirt/sequinned top). I call it my 'ballgown'.

5. Many people think it's weird that when I travel I prefer art galleries and museums, the theatre and reading to going out to pubs and clubs. I like to hit the pavements early (often before the shops are open - Paris is marvellous at that time, for example), walk and walk, then relax in my room reading at night.

6. And, I love travelling on my own, moving at my own pace, going wherever I please whenever I please (well at least for a while before I miss my own family).

Wednesday, 21 February 2007

Paragliding


Did you hear about this story: German woman, Ewa Wisnierska, in Australia for the world paragliding champisonships, got sucked up 10 000 metres in a storm system . . . and survived. That's higher than Mount Everest! [Unfortunately a Chinese man also captured by the storm cloud, He Zhongpin, was not so fortunate and died of a lightning strike].
The home of paragliding and hangliding in Australia is Bald Hill, at Stanwell Tops, the lookout where I took the photo 2a few days ago. There were no paragliders there on Sunday - probably all at the championships. But this relief mural adorns the toilet block! It's all I can post as a tribute to Ewa and Zhongpin.
When they are gliding, its great to sit and watch. And that I'll show tomorrow!