Bye bye government!

I bought Duvel beer with a Duvel glass :-)

My rose is making flowers. I had to spray against bugs few times now, I hope it's not killing the flowers :-(

Underneath my patio at the back. The patio is lying on top of little piles of stones and tiles. It's not screwed on to anything. If I'm going to build a small shed it needs to be fixed to the floor.

The best news of today was the collapse of the Dutch government. They were on a totally anti-social track. It was all about the money and the poor and the weak could go fuck themselves. Good riddance!

Disgraceful

This is my new haircut. It was getting seriously too long.

And this is my t-shirt du jour.

And this is what the more than 50 Australian politicians spend the tax payer's money on. The opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull is accusing the Prime minister and his Treasurer of abuse of power and demanded their resignation. Allegations were based on an email which has now been found to be false. So now the Prime minister and Treasurer are demanding that Malcolm Turnbull resigns. Blah blah blah blah blah. I can't stand liberals...

Back to normal, well, for us anyway.

Back to everyday life again. This means sleeping till 9 o'clock, have breakfast, use computers, shower, shopping and then we have the afternoon "off" to do whatever else we can think of. It's a hard life you know...

Nicole is desperate for new sunglasses. Obviously this pair looks funny but will NEVER make it.

I remember Tandy used to be a world wide chain of electronics shops. Now they apear to be only in Australia and I believe in Asia too.

I read the paper while Nicole went on a shopping frenzy into Woolies. Her shopping is much more relaxed when I'm not with her coz I am a pushy bastard...

After I spent all afternoon sorting out blog pictures we thought we'd have dinner at Cena, a mediterranean cafe close by. It was rather full but we managed to get a good table at the side where it's nice and quiet.

After Cena we went to Cibo (who makes up these names?!) to get an icecream. Ace (pronounced ah-tsjeh) has to be your choice because nothing beats it. This of course totally depends on your taste.

This is the view over Adelaide from Colonel Light's vision's statue. Colonel Light was the man who designed the old city of Adelaide. He did a very decent job on that by the way. The big lights that you see are the lights from the Adelaide Oval cricket grounds.

As the statue is up a pretty decent hill, the local scouts took blocks of ice and raced down the hill sitting on them. I guess if you can't get snow you just bring your own frozen stuff. pretty cool.

I took this photo especially for Ilse. They put the Christmas tree up last weekend. I remember Nicole, Ilse and I walked around it 3 years ago.

The political change here is incredibly refreshing. Where former Prime Minister John Howard was only taking the country back into the dark ages, the new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed the Kyoto agreement 2 hours after he was sworn in. The deputy Prime Minister (aka vice president) is a woman for the first time ever here and one of the new ministers is not only a woman, not only born asian, but she also has a female partner. I am incredibly pleased with this as gay marriage is unfortunately still not recognised here.

The new Prime Minister

We went to Bunnings today, a giant DIY (Do It Yourself) store.

It was big alright...

We also went back to a bed shop where we thought we had seen the bed that we want but can't afford. We actually went to make a picture so we can make it ourselves. Stupid enough the bed looked different than we thought so we didn't bother photographing it. Luckily enough Chinatown was close where we had a very nice Thai lunch.

Another day, another license plate.

Today was election day over here. Finally John Howard (Liberals) was dismissed as Prime Minister and the people of Australia have chosen Kevin Rudd (Labor) as their new one. He seems like an OK guy and has many good ideas. Let's hope he executes them as well.