Hello, Goodbye, Hello again.

Hello there,

I have decided after much debate and thought (and not wanting to do it simply because everyone else was) that I should start up a Tumblr blog. In the end it is simply because I have found it to be much, much simpler to run several blogs at once and that means that this dear page will soon say a fond farewell.

The new site is http://owlinapenguinsuit.tumblr.com/ and at the moment it is ugly and entirely empty, something I should soon fix.

So anyway, I will keep this page live for a few more weeks and then shut down the ol' Blogger for good.

What are up to this weekend?

I'm on the north coast. In the rain.

It's not so bad, I'm on a rehearsal weekend with The Brisbane Chamber Choir. We have booze and cake and a giant bouncy pillow thin which is something like a bouncing castle without the castle. Amazing.

Some Music, some Scenes and a Big Gold Nugget

Because I have been so hideously slack and lazy lately, I am going to take you on a…Journey….(I HATE that word) inside my brain and to so, I am going to be hideously boring.

To begin with I am simply going to show you what the song is (according to my iPod) that is my most played.

Most of the time, when people look at the “most played” song in their iPod or iTunes, they think “ERhMaGerhd How?” Most of the time this is a result of an episode in their lives in which they found an anthem. A song that symbolized everything they were going through, a song they loved more than they ever thought they could. Sometimes it is the result of a friend getting your iPod finding Edward Khill’s Trololol song and playing it time after time just to hear the laughing bit. Or (in the case of my first iPod) it could be result of putting a song on repeat (mine was Feeling A Moment by Feeder) and then having said device get turned on in your handbag and repeat he song 55 times over the course of the day.

Riverbed is no surprise to me to be honest. I do listen to it a lot. I mean A LOT. It is by no means my favourite song, but it is my go to song. It’s nice and easy to sing a long to in the car and it was very quick to memorize, thus it is the most played on my iPod. It also makes an appearance in most of my playlists. I’m not entirely sure why I decided to put it there in most cases, but apparently I did. So there.

I’d also like to point out to you that today is the 143^rd anniversary of two luck Cornishmen happening upon a very (and I mean VERY) large piece of gold at Moliagul in 1869. When the nugget, now known as the “Welcome Stranger”, was found it weighed just under 110kg and was just over a foot long. The discoverers, John Deason and Richard Oates didn’t have to work particularly hard to find it, it was only 3cm below the surface under a tree. Unfortunately for us this gigantic nugget was melted down.