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Lady is as Lady does...
www.antipodeanlady.co.uk
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about London, about New Zealand, about being a girly girl, about stuff (of the existential and palpable variety) about family, about love and about life at all other times.
#56515 in All , #11237 in Lifestyle

Bank on it.

I was recounting only yesterday to a very dear friend the importance of holidays for Londoners compared to those who live Down Under. Holidays are an imperative survival tactic of living in a demandi...

08 may 12

Indefinite Leave to Complain

My seventh London anniversary just crept by a couple of weeks ago and after the good part of a decade living in Britain I decided to put the wheels in motion to apply for my indefinite leave to remai...

05 apr 12 1 person likes this

The Manchester Test

Recently a dear friend of mine went a tiny bit off the rails. Bored by his studies, perpetually single and hopelessly directionless. He spent January’s rent money on a half sleeve tattoo, slept...

20 mar 12 1 person likes this

“The voyeur is masturbator, the mirror his badge, the window his prey.” – Jim Morrison

It always surprises me when I meet someone who hasn’t got a Twitter account, these days it seems par the course of keeping up to date, but when I meet someone who hasn’t got a Facebook profile… well ...

13 mar 12 1 person likes this

It’s Terminal.

Surviving through three whole months of winter is just about enough any Antipodean can bear. Even those hardened Southlanders who are more accustomed to cooler conditions become a pastey, lethargic a...

28 feb 12 1 person likes this

Familial Roles

Only very recently, I’ve started to consider my family members on more individual terms rather than their familial roles. For a long time I only ever thought of my parents, as that – par...

13 feb 12 1 person likes this

2011 in Review

Oh jeez where has the time gone? It was just before Christmas when I was writing my year in review, and now it’s almost the Age of Aquarius. So without further ado, antipodean_lady’s 2011...

19 jan 12

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” (Aesop)

Not long ago, whilst I was walking towards Camden Road station to catch my train at the end of an insufferably long working week (month) I was contemplating how to put my misery to an end. Not in a &...

19 dec 11

Know Thyself

Understanding yourself is probably life’s greatest challenge. Knowing what you want from life is something not everyone is blessed enough to be sure of. For the people who know, it’s merely a matter ...

12 dec 11 1 person likes this

Best of British

It’s that time of year again, when the office Christmas Parties are looming. When your colleagues down tools and your clients let their hair down and you remember that there are just a few perk...

30 nov 11

The List

When you arrive on the footstep of Europe, Middle East and Africa poised to tick off whichever list of must-see destinations you have drawn up or (for lack of imagination) plagerised from Lonely Plan...

05 oct 11

Bated breath isnt that just another word for choke?

Not since the days of Team New Zealand and the Americas Cup has New Zealand been engulfed by a huge international sporting event that propells it into the spot light with such intensity. The Rugby Wo...

21 sep 11

Accentuate the Positive

Quite often the kind of people who are the first to call attention to accents are those bearing plain, English south-eastern accents with no discerning or identifiable intonations, they are...

22 aug 11 1 person likes this

The cold shoulder in any culture: the etiquette of turning a man down

The etiquette of the unavailable woman is perhaps one of the most universal there can be in the international rules of life. It has not the confusing po-tay-to, po-tah-to effect of doing internationa...

03 aug 11 1 person likes this

Murdochalypse Now

When I read the papers I always read with bated breath. It’s the same way I watch the news on the telly – pensive, waiting as one disastrous let down for humanity after another is reveale...

19 jul 11

Antipodean Lady Recap: 41-50

Point 41: Do a French road trip with your favourite person and your favourite music. It will change your life. http://www.antipodeanlady.co.u k/r-o-a-d-t-r-i-p-joie-de-vivr e Point 42: Turfing out the ...

15 jul 11

Antipodean Lady Recap: 31-40

Point 31; We need to let go of the things which hold us back. http://www.antipodeanlady.co.u k/nixt-stips Point 32: The First Beautiful Day of the Year really is something. http://www.antipodeanlady.c...

14 jul 11

Antipodean Lady Recap: 21-30

Point 21: Take more photos. No one ever regrets having too many pictures. http://www.antipodeanlady.co.u k/the-sweet-sound-of-capture Point 22: Forget the intellectuals and the ‘resolution-hater...

13 jul 11

Antipodean Lady Recap: 11-20

Point 11: I don’t care how old I am, or how cold I feel, I always love the first snow of the season. http://www.antipodeanlady.co.u k/when-a-man-becomes-a-boy-onc e-again Point 12; It may be Sibe...

12 jul 11 1 person likes this

Antipodean Lady Recap: 1-10

Yes blogs are self indulgent. Yes good advice is mostly useless. And yes, Ive now reached a tiny milestone of doing over 50 posts. What better way to celebrate than to look back at the first posts, s...

11 jul 11 1 person likes this

Faded Goodbyes

Over six years of living abroad, you get quite used to the coming and going of family and friends whether youre the one boarding a flight or its someone special heading away on an adventure home or s...

06 jul 11 1 person likes this

THE issue...

I dont think when I lived in Auckland that there were so many homeless people that I would cross the road to avoid them. In fact when I was young most of my dealings with homelessness were on my fami...

30 jun 11 2 people like this

Antipodean Fashion; Antipodium

More than once Ive thought Id heard Antipodean when being told about Antipodium and I guess I wasnt exactly mistaken. It is afterall a London-based Australian made label. Initially created as the cap...

28 jun 11 1 person likes this

Antipodean Rod

Certain names in certain places are just common place. Like Julio is to Mexico, Sharon is to Queensland, Brad is to Ohio and Abdul is to Bethnal Green, you know where you are, by the calling cards of...

21 jun 11 1 person likes this

Antipodean Capital Management

Where to live in the capital and what it subsequently means is something which really does require a LOT of thought. When I first moved here, I only knew two other people, one lived north of Finsbury...

21 jun 11 1 person likes this

Antipodean Dating

Let me paint you a picture; two stunning Antipodean Ladies (no, that is not an oxymoron) theyre best friends, living in London and both are single. Lets call them Emma and Alice. Emma has a penchant ...

13 jun 11 1 person likes this

Antipodean Definition

It wasnt until I was about 21 when a friend telling a story about his Jewish cousin touring as roadie with Motley Crew, that in a round about way, I learnt that the true definition of kosher was not ...

08 jun 11 1 person likes this

Antipodean Manifesto.

Antipodean Ladys Manifesto: Arrive hopeful and in good spirit. Notes on a postcard arent just for holidays Dedicate yourself to friendships Stay for love and career, either can steady the changing ti...

03 jun 11 1 person likes this

Active Antipodean

Like many kiwis, it wasnt until I moved to the UK that I realised certain lifeskills are not universal. I am not what your average kiwi would call real real sporty, but I am a typically active antipo...

02 jun 11 1 person likes this

A wonderwheel of searches.

Due to a recent presentation by Google at my work last week I discovered a fun little tool which allows you to identify what searches other users of google (read: the rest of the world) use in relati...

31 may 11 1 person likes this

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