6 Feet (Down) Under

In case some Melburnians read my blog, here is a poster for a group stretch class held in a great yoga studio in Caulfield (trams 64, 16, 3). I do a one-hour class every week and it makes a real difference! My friend Katy teaches the class and she is bloody awsome!

Group Stretch Classes @Bodymoves.pdf

For more information on Posture & Flexibility/Stretch Therapy, visit this site

Nous qui croyions être les seuls à être persécutés par “Scrooge”, l’abominable petit homme qui vit en-dessous de chez nous, nous étions DANS L’ERREUR ! Un de nos voisins a lui aussi reçu une lettre l’accusant plus ou moins d’avoir volé des draps appartenant, misère, à l’affreux nabot (un des frères de Gollum, j’en suis sûre).Voici en exclusivité la réponse que mon voisin préféré lui a faite, je me suis régalée en la lisant, je la garde sur ma table de chevet d’ailleurs

Voilà , ça y est, youpi tralala !!

J’ai terminé mes heures d’apprentissage dans le studio de Melbourne city, ce qui veut dire que je n’y suis plus les jeudis… d’où le titre, certes un tantinet redondant, de ce post. Au fait, je n’arrive jamais à penser ce mot (POST) en français, quelqu’un a une idée ?

En tout cas, je suis maintenant un peu plus libre (bien soulagée aussi) et également sur la piste d’un boulot de prof à temps partiel (ET rémunéré). Tout ceci par l’intermédiaire d’une copine prof elle aussi (et super sympa, comme quoi, il y en a). Vive le networking et les copains

After 18 months on the job, I have decided not to continue hosting the weekly Wine and Cheese conversation soirée, as I would like to focus on my Pilates and other teacher training. Of course, I am not giving up on any cultural activities, so you haven’t seen the last of me!

It’s just that, at the moment, I am a little too busy… I am currently teaching studio Pilates at Pilates Int, Elwood, and soon will be teaching mat/floor work at the Shiatsu Institute.

In the coming months, I will also be teacher training in P&F/Stretch Therapy (Posture and Flexibility, aka Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Stretching) and getting certified in Teaching French as a Foreign Language (Diplôme d’Aptitude à l’Enseignement du Français Langue Etrangère or DAEFLE).

En ce moment ont lieu à St Kilda les matchs annuels de Beach Volley. C’est sur le bord de mer, of course, que les joueurs pataugent dans le sable humide, temps (merdique) melbournien oblige…

L’ambiance est sympa même s’il n’y a pas grand monde à cause du temps (merdique).

On a quand même pris quelques photos (je ne vais pas dire m…….s car je les ai retouchées pour “allumer” la lumière) et reçu des goodies, ce qui est toujours agréable !

Souvenez-vous, Kookynet ou les aventures culinaires autour du monde, quelle belle aventure !!!!!
Martine, Robert et la Land Rover viennent juste de passer par Melbourne et se dirigent maintenant vers la Tasmanie.
Nous avons eu l’immense plaisir de rencontrer et passer du temps avec ce couple hors du commun et espérons revoir nos nouveaux amis très prochainement. Bon voyage, grosses bises et merci de votre visite !

Remember Kookynet, culinary adventures around the world? A.D.V.E.N.T.U.R.E!!!!
Martine, Robert, and their Land Rover were just in Melbourne, and are now heading to beautiful Tasmania.
We had the immense pleasure to meet and hang out with this couple quite out of the ordinary, and are looking forward to seeing them again very soon. Bon voyage, big fat kiss, and thank you for visiting us!

If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

A man wanted to get married. He was having trouble choosing among three likely candidates. He gives each woman a present of $5,000 and watches to see what they do with the money.

The first does a total make-over. She goes to a fancy beauty salon, gets her hair done, new make-up and buys several new outfits, and dresses up very nicely for the man. She tells him that she has done this to be more attractive for him because she loves him so much.

The man was impressed.

The second goes shopping to buy the man gifts. She gets him a new set of golf clubs, some new gizmos for his computer, and some expensive clothes. As she presents these gifts, she tells him that she has spent all the money on him because she loves him so much.

Again, the man is impressed.

The third invests the money in the stock market. She earns several times the $5,000. She gives him back his $5,000 and reinvests the remainder in a joint account. She tells him that she wants to save for their future because she loves him so much.

Obviously, the man was impressed.

The man thought for a long time about what each woman had done with the money he’d given her. Then, he married the one with the biggest boobs.

Men are like that, you know.

There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer’s research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.