Sunrise

We might be living in a wet flat, but the view from the kitchen window beats the view of nextdoor's fence back home. Here's the sunrise at 6.40am this morning; the colours when the sun hits the bottom of the clouds at sunset and sunrise are beautiful, especially so at sunset.

We live backing onto a gully which is home to all sorts of Australian birds, especially black cockatoos and sulphur crested ones and rainbow lorikeets. The cockatoos give out a deep squarking sound and the lorikeets an ear-piercing shreik. The best bird by far is the kookaburra, whose call sounds like a long laugh. If you've never heard one, it's a bit like a monkey calling and we hear them every morning and sometimes even in the middle of the night. I'll miss that sound when we come home.

The other sound I'll miss is the sound of Kyle and Jackie-O on the radio. This morning they were discussing the Big Brother house and comparing it with the British version. The Big Brother house here is based at the Gold Coast, in fact it's actually inside the Dreamworld theme park, so I'm assuming you can go and gawp at the housemates if you pay to get in. They had Gretel on the phone, that's their equivalent of Davina, who we've both noticed is beginning to look more and more like Davina every time we see her (which is not often because we don't watch it). A trick of the mind perhaps, I don't know.

Anyway, here's this morning's offering:

Kyle: So Gretel, what's with all the wogs leaving the house then? Do you think there's a racist thing going on?

Gretel: No Kyle, not at all. That's like saying there's a sexist thing going on because Aleisha got kicked out, I mean, come on.

Jackie: Well Gretel, I'm hooked, but I'm also hooked on the British version and they've got this thing going on right now where they've got this actress in the house and she's pretending to be Australian but really she's British. And you know how bad they are at doing an Austrlaian accent...

Kyle: Yeah, it's like they couldn't get a proper Australian actress because they think we're so crap they can't even trust us to do our own accent, jolly good, what

Jackie: And the British version has a totally different audience because it's on at like, nine o'clock at night or something really late and it's full of freaks and weirdos. And the problem with that is that once you go down the route of weirdos you can't go back, it just has to get freakier and freakier.

Kyle: Have you been down to a Westfield shopping centre, Gretel? There's plenty of freaks and weirdos down there, people with ADD (ADHD) and obsessive compulsive disorder....

Coffee anyone?