Video of the week!

It's been away a while, but the sporadically-posted fun of Video of the Week is back. Here's "All My Friends" by LCD Soundsystem. It's a one-shot masterpiece.

Okaeri.

O-kaeri. I'm back. Back in Adelaide, that is, though not for too much longer. I'll be off to Bali again for Christmas in a week's time. Then it'll be back to Adelaide for another couple of weeks in January, then off to start my new teaching job at Mount Gambier of all places. Yep, after all this time abroad and twenty-something countries, it's back to my own high school in my inaka homeland. Madness.



When I came back to Adelaide in the middle of November, the jacarandas were out in force. Lots of streets in Adelaide are lined with these glorious purple trees, and the smell and sight is wonderful, as is kicking around the fallen petals. Definitely gives sakura a run for its money.

It's Christmas time in Adelaide! Despite the sometimes sweltering heat, we keep on clinging to the same wintery Christmas imagery. And, depsite what Japan will tell you, Santa definitely is not riding a surfboard. Instead, he's swelled to enormous proportions, and stands on David Jones (our Macy's / Takashimaya), beckoning passers-by with his vaguely scary expression.

I was planning to start a stall at a local market selling some of my photos as enlargements, postcards and greeting cards, but with the impending move back to Mt Gambier next month, that plan's been put on hold. Nevertheless, I'm still taking lots of pointless arty photos, as exemplified by a trip to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens last week. For just about the first time ever, I got to see the lotus pond in full bloom.