What can we do to ban Australian live export?

I just had to take a break from my work to say this -

Wow! Massive respect to ABC's Four Corners and Animals Australia - I haven't seen the footage - nor do I plan to - but thank you to the producers, reporters, camera crew and everyone who worked on this show.

If you have't already done so, I urge you to go to http://www.banliveexport.com/ and pledge your support -  this is a special joint collaboration by Australia's two peak animal protection bodies, RSPCA Australia and Animals Australia.

You can also donate at the RSPCA or at Animals Australia so they can continue to keep doing incredible work like this.

Of course, this practice is not just restricted to Australia. If you are reading this from outside Australia, you can also visit WSPA to donate or find out more.

Best graffiti in Sydney:"I love this city" George St

It's easy to miss, especially if you're always looking on the ground.

I often try to imagine the person who wrote this - standing there on the open ledge, scrawling the message for the whole world to see. Most probably at night, with the black endless sky above him (or her!) and the stifled sounds of sirens and laughter coming from the city below.

Anyway, looking up and seeing it always makes me smile. Even if I'm at uni on a Saturday (as I was last week, when I took these photos).

Trust me, that's sayin' A LOT.

Wooden blue toy boat + framed postcard picture

Picture frame:"Typo" (50 cents!) Picture: Havana Ratakan postcard (free)

Of pre-vom(it) and paradise

I think it's safe to say that my travelling bud, Miss B*, and I were genuinely unsure as to how this holiday would turn out. I mean let's just say that we had absolutely no friggin' idea.

Fortunately for us, we got an inkling pretty early on in our trip. Yes, I can't be certain but I'm pretty sure it was somewhere between getting pulled aside at Sydney Airport for testing positive for gun residue (in Miss B's luggage - fortunately it proved false after 2 further tests) and the most HORRIBLE ferry ride to our accomodation (where, for a whole twenty minutes we had the privilege of inhaling the most spectacular body odour  emitted by the tiniest and apparently most hardest working labourer of all of "Hammo" Island).  And to make  matters worse, it was pouring. So yes, you could say we got an inkling.

To start at the begininng, our flight was delayed for one hour and so we missed our connecting ferry to Airly Beach from Hamilton Island.