Note to more sensitive readers: while this post is about spiders, it does not contain any pictures of them.Ever since moving into our new house, HB and I have had a bathroom spider. It is Trite...
Animals and Other Lies is the TV documentary series which is going to make me famous. If you havent heard of it yet, that is because I just invented it. Or rather, Justin and I just invented it.I, Ju...
I took this photo. There was a leopard sleeping under the water and I just walked right up and photographed it. Its all about getting the shot.HB and I were going to go up to Matakana (it is a wine-p...
Hello, internet friends!Sorry for lack of blogging, have been alternately busy and lazy (mainly busy). Also writing every day for work means that often I come home and go "JUST WANNA WATCH THE TE...
What did the French chef give his wife for Valentines Day? A hug and a quiche!See, now the post can only go uphill from here.Yesterday work tasked me with writing a Valentine’s Day article, stuffed w...
*like Batman.Hello! Belated Happy New Year! Belated Merry Christmas!Just a very quick post* as several people have emailed to make sure Im still alive as they have not heard a peep out of me. This is...
Man I have not blogged in AGES. Sorry about that.Heres a new crop of Wieners of the Week, which should probably be Wieners of the Month. Up to you. Theyre your wieners.Eduardo - Eduardo is a miniatur...
Hello! I am a busy bee.The thoughts of a busy bee.Ive been super busy with home and work and learning to polymorph (so that when I go into work and someone says, "Oh, can you please write up this...
Its turning into summer! This is great except Im not really a summer person. Every year in about October people start making excited noises about going camping and I start ignoring them.Despite the m...
Hello! I have the laptop charger back! But there is still only internet at the Library. I love living out in the country and looking up at the stars and smelling the fresh air and listening to the do...
My laptop charger is properly broken, so until the new one arrives (early next week, please to be crossing the fingers) I am severely internetally limited.It is iPhone or nothing and the screen is sm...
Hello everyone! This is going to be a short post as my laptop charger is having some issues, the main one of which is that its not charging anything, but I felt I had to let you know about the Five N...
The other day I was sitting on the Google and looked up trumpet album cover, mainly because I wanted to find something like this.There is a small and socially unacceptable part of me that really wish...
On the motorway today we were following a car with the numberplate I LAMO I. If this is your car, please be aware that we thought it said lame-o and not whatever you meant it to say.In other news, I ...
Hello everyone! It has been a traumatic couple of weeks - not only did I fail to crack Oven Break (it is a game where you are a gingerbread man called Ginger Brave and have to escape from an oven by,...
A few years ago my Bestfriend Andrea and I used to break up the monotony of our day jobs by hopping on Google Chat and writing little poems, taking a line each and saving the haphazard results for la...
*No elephants. Sorry about that. Was going to put some in for the sake of it but they were just too... irrelephant.Hello everyone! Just a very quick thank you for all the links left on the last post ...
Hello everyone! Very quickly, I need your assistance. No no no dont click away!At the bottom of the post there is a picture of me and a horse. I know. WHAT an incentive.Anyway, as you may know New Ze...
*this would be a pretty solid title for my autobiography. This post is mostly about Fashion Week but some of it is about Other Things like giraffes, and the giraffe part is in italics so you and I do...
Hello everyone! I am exhausted after long week at work and lovely weekend away in Kaikoura and this is more or less to let you know that I am aliiiiive, albeit a little bit battered. Like a nice piec...
(with apologies to Sophie Rosalind, who is expecting the currently-under-the-radar John Mayer to feature, which he does not: but he is still Wiener Emperor.) Note: post contains one picture which is ...
Did anyone else play Polar Dare when they were little? That game was so good and yet so frustrating. You had some penguins (I think maybe... three? six?) and you were tasked with getting them across ...
Embarrassing moment walking home from work today: I was trotting along, singing under my breath without really realising I was doing it, until all of a sudden I was producing really quite a loud rend...
Well, I have cleaned the fridge! And thats about it for my achievements today, or even this week. Also this week: I was sick I went to the doctor (who was unhelpful and wearing green trousers, which ...
*is not very interestingHello everyone! Im still fairly sick and have just come home from work for food and nap before returning to work to spend 5 hours doing half-hourly updates on the world market...
Hi everyone! Thank you all for your birthday wishes. I had a lovely day apart from being sick - if I was being paid for mucus production over the last week I would take you all on a nice holiday to F...
This is the one day of the year where the title of this blog is actually TRUE. I am 24 years old! I have not achieved very much but I have many pairs of nice shoes.This morning I started a political ...
The other night my flatmate and I had a heated discussion after she inadvertently revealed that she wears underpants under her pyjamas.I think underpants under pyjamas is unnatural and wrong. She fin...
*there would be a comma in that title but I was really taken with the idea of a squid band. I was going to Photoshop I mean MS Paint a picture of this, all these squid standing about with hipster gla...
Housekeeping: if anyone wishes to submit their own sexy haiku, feel free to email them to ally@sleep500.com and I will post them, either anonymously or nonymously* - you may think of this blog as a s...
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