Year: 2011

Are you excited about the royal wedding?

I’m not. I thought I would be, but actually, I’ve realised I don’t care at all. I think it’s actually all the hype. And the fact that they took sooooooo long to get around to it. Seriously, I think they have been together longer than Mr Dreamy and I, and we’ve been married five and a half years! I barely even have any interest in Kate’s dress. Let’s face it, the girl is a boring dresser. Everything she wears is boring. Classy, tasteful, age appropriate, and boring. Her outfits aren’t exquisitely tasteful, they are boring and tasteful. They aren’t witty and clever and classy, they are boring and classy. And they aren’t striking and age appropriate or timeless and age appropriate, they are boring and age appropriate. Boring, boring, boring. Gosh, I am a grim little miser this week aren’t I! I guess the good thing about all her ensembles being so boring is that if her dress isn’t it will be all that much more exciting. Anyway, while I am not at all excited …

What’s with the Megs?

Published by The Dreamstress

Two weeks ago my poll asked which Little Woman you were. I was quite surprised with the responses. The poll responses looked like this: Meg: 12 of 29 Jo: 11 of 29 Beth: 2 of 29 Amy: 4 of 29 I can’t believe it! The largest amount of you identified with Meg! I thought no-one identified with Meg! She was always the most boring of the March girls to me. Sure, she was the prettiest, but other than that, as far as I could see she didn’t have a lot going for her. She wasn’t bright or witty or talented like her sisters. As I read the book, she idolised conventional society, and had to be basically bashed over the head with lessons to make her realise that it wasn’t all it was stacked up to be. She didn’t even realise that she loved Mr Brooks until Aunt March warned her off him. And then she married him and settled down and was a boring, conventional Victorian mother. Blah Me, I have all of Jo’s …

The tramp part two

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Day Four – Tutuwai Hut to Kaitoke and the track end The evening of day three, we realised we had a problem. We had scheduled our pickup at the trail end for 1pm on day four. While this was easily achievable based on DOC’s estimation of a 4.5 hour hike, our track record wasn’t looking good for making the pickup on time. So we set our alarms for 6am – before dawn. Ouch. So, after bashing round the dark hut at zero dark thirty in the morning making porridge and getting our stuff together, we set off at first light. Unlike the 3rd days hiking, the last days track became not exactly easy very quickly as it wound along the bluffs above the river. Sometimes the track barely scraped the cliff edges, and at other times it dropped quickly down into ravines with streams at the bottom that we needed to ford, and then climbed up steep scrambles of hillsides. It was beautiful, but hard, hard work, and we were all tired out from our …