Things I have learned this week

• Children don't listen.
• when swimming freestyle, pull your arms out by the elbow once your hand is directly below you - it makes for a more powerful stroke.
• I feel bad when I don't give the barber a $2 tip. And worse when I spend it on a pain-au-chocolat instead of eating my muesli.
• Kipfler potatoes are delicious when chipped and deep-fried.
• How to turn a pictClipping file into a jpg.
• Someone at the Sydney Theatre Company spells Atreus wrong, and that they correct it when told so.
• How to pronounce Jordi.
• Jordi is George (Jiri is George too, how come English has the stodgiest George?).
• 23 year-olds haven't heard of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
• 8 year-olds haven't heard of Gwen Stefani.
• Cornflower-blue eyes and guinea-gold hair DO exist outside the pages of Georgette Heyer!