Thought for the Day

Have an opinion.

Defend it.

It will make you smarter …

Look What Arrived in the Post Today

 So you know the other day when I said that I had all my Crimbo shopping sorted out? Well I didn’t lie, I do have it all sorted out.

But, er,  you know how there’s always 1 or 2 … sometimes 3 or 4 more people that you’ve somehow forgotten off the list and would still really like to buy pressies for? Well, that’s my excuse.

And I’ve been panicking a little because …

a)   I’m running out of money. Very fast.

b)   I’m running out of time – we leave in about three weeks for Le France, and unfortunately the farmers market only happens on Saturdays, all the way up the hill … and the I Heart Market only happens on the 4^th … and I’m busy that day … and I’m running out of time … and what will I do … and where am I supposed to get those extra gifts from … and how can I afford to … BREATHE!!!!!!!

Thanks to the clever bunnies at the I Heart Market … All is not lost

All I want for Christmas is:

- To learn how to draw nice

- The balls to buy, wear and love a nice pair of pretty red heels

- Some snow

- The will to eat more tuna.

- A day off   

- oh, and of course … World Peace   

Yoga-Lates

If I wasn’t busy setting up and getting kitted out in my Jane Fonda Aerobics Revival outfit for the little sisters 21^st, and if I still drank coffee – then I would definitely be going to this! Always nice to do exercise outdoors – and when it’s for a good cause – it’s even more appealing! So get involved folks. Pretty please.

Truck Branding

Woolies – for a change - have it right.

The branding of their mobile billboards (more commonly known as trucks) is witty, cool, and a very apparent market leader – as you see all the other plebs trying so very hard to keep up.

I wish I worked for Woolies, and I wish I had come up with those lines.

*          Travelling Wildberries copy line with an image of a goose and rasp and straw berries

*          Milk Shake copy line with an image of milked splashed across the canvas

*          Hot Wheels copy line with an image of some fresh and hot looking chillies

*         and other really cool ones

Enter Pick N’ Pay. Ag shame man, poor Pick N’ Pay.

I’d like to give them credit for at least attempting to do a good job at their truck branding, but … I can’t. Everyday I look out my office window and without fail I see a Pick N’ Pay truck passing by. And I’m not sure if it’s the same truck every time or it they just have a lot of them with this exact branding on it, but … Mr. Ray Ackerman, I thought you were a smart man. Why in the world did you approve a truck that says: Inspired To Bring You Variety” and then let them plaster a picture of a giant kiwi fruit next to it. What in the name of Ceres does kiwi fruit have to do with variety? Hello?! Would the obvious thing not have been to use a … wait for it … VARIETY of fruit as an image. Honestly people. Advertising is tricky … but the basics are not rocket science! Even I know that

I couldn't find a picture of this wretched truck to show you - so I drew a picture instead.

Hope you like it.

An Ode To The Bestest

I think it's important, if not absolutely bloody life-changingly-vital that  everyone should have a really close friend. Someone who knows you inside and out, upside and down, and more often than not … better than you actually know yourself.

I have one of those. And in this time of need – a.k.a the time I’m busy planning a wedding on my own – I miss her more than anything, and selfishly need her here with me instead of gallivanting all across the bloody seas. But … I must admit I am very proud of my bestest. She's so clever, and self-sufficient, and brave, and strong-willed, and eagerly entrepreneurial, that it's inspiring. And while we may not stay in touch as often as we’d like, or should, and our lives may have taken very different dirt paths, and we may be an un-countable number of centimeters away from each other … I still feel like when I say something: she gets it. So it’s almost as if we don’t need to talk that often anyway because we already understand?!

No … that last bit is crap. I want her home right this instant so we can talk often and share moments, and grow old together. But in the meantime, I guess this will just have to do. This is what the bestest had to say today:

"Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that's all there is...Love and its duty, Sorrow and its truth."

                                                                  -Shantaram by Greggory David Roberts