It’s Hot + Not Wednesday over at Loobylus! How did that come around so fast?
Hot
The Finders Keepers Markets – not so crowded this time and lots of loverly things. I picked up a set of beautiful gift cards by Renee Treml and treated myself to some gorgeous Nice biscuit earrings by Victoria Mason.Very nice indeed!
Proving that he was always meant to be my cat and no one elses, I’ve figured out how to give him his pills… by sticking them inside a piece of cheese.
After all the anticipation, I finally saw Where The Wild Things Are. It was sadder and scarier than I thought it would be, but wonderful too – wonderful and adventurous and really truly properly wild.
I’ve been listening to Martha Wainwright’s Piaf Record lots and lots. I loved her first album; the second not so much, but I think this is back to brilliant.

I was overcharged for some books I bought online, which stressed me out so should go into the Not category, but they got back to me within 24 hours of my emailing with an apology and a refund. Good customer service is always Hot.
Not
Yesterday was first day of the Copenhagan talks and neither The Sydney Morning (surprisingly) or The Telegraph (unsurprisingly) had a story on it (in the paper that is, they had something online). Compare this with 56 papers worldwide sharing an editorial to demand results:
Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.
Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year’s inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc. In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the damage. Yet so far the world’s response has been feeble and half-hearted.
I think feeble and half-hearted sums up Australia’s position nicely.

















I also put together a mix cd of love song dedications. Lou and I used drive all over Sydney, going hither and thither and for a giggle (and for all the awesome 80’s tracks) we’d often listen to the love song dedications on Mix 106.





Sigh. I think it’s time to start planning my next trip.