This little piggy went to market

Still no joy in finding somewhere to live - we've seen some right horrors this weekend I tells ya! Still can't believe the states that some Landlords think it's acceptable to try and rent a place in. Ah well, we shall persevere.

This weekend we mostly went looking at horrible places to live, and visited a couple of the local markets (of which there seem to be no shortage happily enough!). Yesterday we went to the Jan Powers Market in New Farm (which is definitely somewhere we would want to live if we could find somewhere). It was like a great big farmers market in a park right on one of the bends of the river. It was really lovely, and Stu managed to get some organic meat so he is happy out. Got some lovely Thai veggies and stuff to make a nice veg curry with tonight too - yum.

Unfortunately in a day of a lot of pottering around I managed to do a very silly thing - got sunburnt. But not just any old sunburn - oh no, I managed to do it whilst wearing a vest top and carrying a bag with the strap across my body. Leaving me very stripy. Twat.

We also encountered our very first horrendously racist Australians. They took umbrage to the fact that there was an aboriginal family on the Ferry, and were not shy about using some extremely unpleasant language to express their viewpoint quite loudly. I have to say though, whilst it was very uncomfortable, in the main everyone we have met has been outstandingly lovely, and I don't think they are representative of general attitudes. It's great here - as soon as you stop and get your little 'I'm a tourist' map out, folk stop to make sure you're OK and try and give you directions. Can you imagine if someone tried to do that in London? You'd just clutch your handbag a bit tighter, put your head down and scurry off.

Today we've just been for a bit of a potter round the Riverside and Eagle Street markets. They were really lovely, full of lots of precious things. I am pretty sure that once we are settled and a bit more solvent quite a lot of them will be finding their way home with me. Stu has a little bit of a hangover as he went off to the Pig & Whistle last night to watch the Hammers. And is feeling a little sorry for himself due to their now likely demotion. I've set aside this afternoon to do my CV and get applying for some work - boo. I can think of many more ways I would like to spend a sunny Sunday!

And another thing

Forgot to say that today is the start of 'let's try being a vegetarian for a month' month. Think Stu might be inadvertently joining me too as we can't seem to find any organic meat and I don't think even he can bring himself to eat intensively farmed shit.

And also please everyone email the prime minister of Canada about the seal hunt. Takes 2 seconds. And if you ever watched any of the footage of it it would probably make you cry - and my philosophy is if it makes you cry, do something about it (which is why I have been banned from watching nature programmes, and researching sad things on the internet. Our charitable donation fund cannot take it any more).

Wish me luck!