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Latest blog posts from Living for Disco

Three things
1. We have bought a wii. It is amazing. I’m not very good at games and things - I tend to be shit at killing enemies, and I don’t like the Doom style games where I seem to always die in a haze of blood and confusion before I’m out of the starting gates. However, the wii is very easy for... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

An open letter to VSO’s letter writing department
Just this minute, I got a lovely email from VSO. It begins as follows: “Dear Rachael, Having only recently returned as a volunteer, it can be quite tough ensuring a semblance of a social life on a budget. Gigs go out of the window, dancing is kept to a sober minimum and meeting friends can... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Why did the Hen cross the road?
I’m not all that comfortable with the idea of a traditional hen do. I mean, I have been known to go out and get leathered on occasion, and sometimes â€" yes, it’s possible â€" I do make a tit of myself in public places. However, I’m not the kind of girl that likes to rampage around town... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Dressy Bessy
I have lost weight! I have this beautiful red dress that I bought for a steal on ebay (I love ebay), and when I got back from Australia, I put it on to go out to our weekly jive class. Yes, we jive, people. We will be jiving the night away come our wedding day. It’ll be like playing... Read more...
Published 3 months ago

What’s a girl to do?
I haven’t really been stressed about the wedding plans before now, but just in the last few days I’ve been finding myself having nocturnal nightmares about Gordon turning into a hideous ex boyfriend of mine, or only having work shoes to wear, and waking nightmares about forgetting some... Read more...
Published 3 months ago

Indiana Jones and the Commute from Hell
I have been very busy over the last few days, commuting to and from my new job. This commute is quite long - at the least 1.3 hours - and I’m finding it so challenging that all I can do when I get home is collapse in Gordon’s arms (after he has finished peering through the catflap in an... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

Offspring
I eventually want children, and my body is beginning to tell me that I’d better get a move on, as I’m getting on a bit, and I do want to be able to play with my kids without the aid of a zimmer frame*. However, Gordon has said (with increasing firmness, the more time we spend with friends who... Read more...
Published 5 months ago

Flaming lorikeets
We are in Singapore. I love Singapore - it’s hot, it’s steamy, it’s full of delicious food (of which we have eaten much) and there are many cool things to do. On our last day, we decided to schedule in a visit to Jurong Bird Park, as it is, as I recall, excellent. I like birds anyway -... Read more...
Published 5 months ago

The Rover’s Return
Hello! I’m back from my holiday, during which I did not have much opportunity to blog the many marvellous things that happened to me, which included being pecked by lorikeets, seeing possums and wallabies, drinking dirty martinis under the ocean-side palms and watching my little sister get... Read more...
Published 5 months ago

Aliens are controlling my brain…
During my first wrestling match with depression about ten years ago, my doctor put me on Prozac. Prozac didn’t do much for me except make my hands sweat, and turn me into an emotional zombie. I stopped taking it. Nothing happened. It was as straightforward as that. During my second... Read more...
Published 6 months ago