The whine part of my blog title for tonight comes from a comment Turnsie made after our kickboxing class on Wednesday night, which made me laugh.
It was a disgusting, cold, rainy night, and frankly the last thing i wanted to do was go to the class (even though i was glad i did, in the end). Afterwards, Turnsie was telling Argiro how i had hijacked his umbrella, leaving him to walk in the rain - my reasoning was that as he was bald, the rain would just slide right off his head anyway...Argiro replied that if it were him, I'd have been lucky if he even offered to share the umbrella, let alone allow me to take it completely. Turnsie said "Yes but you should have heard her. She whined from the moment she got in the lift to leave work to the moment we walked into the gym".
And i burst out laughing because i realised it was true - i had indeed whined for at least 20 minutes non-stop, all the way to kickboxing, even though he had graciously allowed me to take his umbrella. I appreciate your valour my friend!!
On Thursday evening, my friend Tony and I went to an event out at Vaucluse House in association with the Sydney Writer's Festival. It was a jazz evening in their tea rooms - a very talented artist named Edwina Blush sang a bunch of classics, from Night and Day to Still to Lady is a Tramp, as we ate a lovely supper and enjoyed the band! It was a really great evening, made even sweeter by an endless flow of champagne and also by being allowed to look around inside the great manor itself.
It was built by William Charles Wentworth, who helped create the first newspaper in the colony - The Australian - and who also helped establish Sydney University. Anyway, he was was very rich, and was in fact one of the wealthiest landowners in Sydney, but he and his family were ultimately shunned by society because he married a woman called Sarah, who was a convict, and came from convict stock. The old class system strikes again huh!
Here are a couple of pictures of the interior of the house - a lot of the furniture and decorations are original, and extremely well preserved.
We kicked off the weekend tonight at Kat's place - she hosted a wine and cheese evening, so a bunch of our friends got together and tasted a variety of different wines (with a professional lady their to talk us through them and everything!) as well as chow down of a ton of different cheeses - cause who doesn't LOVE cheese after all! It was a lovely evening actually, good to catch up with everyone, and to finally meet Kat's niece, the adorable Jaida!
It also gave me a chance to play again with Mister Yash, my good friend Sonali's beautiful boy (there they are below, and me with Yash below that) - he was a little tired at first, but after wolfing down some milk, he got a burst of energy and was a bundle of laughs!
Tomorrow is meant to be pretty rainy, so i think we will definitely manage to fit in some more of Prison Break - we are watching the fourth season right now, did i mention? It's great! Lincoln all the way, he is my favourite!! And i have the last couple of chapters of my book to finish - i am reading Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller - it was a bestseller a few years ago, but it's taken me a while to get onto reading it - it's great by the way. Very taut, moves slowly but surely and sucks you in before you know it.
Have a great weekend!
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