Her first

On her first official day of Long Service Leave, Jodie had wanted to go to the zoo.

Monday dawned and it was about fifty bajillion degrees,

so Jodie stayed home and made a handbag instead.

The End

No great surprise

I guess its no great surprise to learn I had a great time at The Melbourne Zoo Earth hour.

I mean , they are certainly preaching to the converted in my case. The evening itself was great fun and I spent quite a bit of time imagining who all the groovy young bloggers were, and what their blogs might be about.

Even though I secretly wanted to go and visit something cute and cuddly - The group I was in went for a behind the scenes tour of the Reptile house..... surprisingly, it was fascinating. I got to spend some time with the crested iguana's and then had a bit of a turn holding a Honduras Milk snake. The guide was great and he really seemed to love his job and his reptilean charges - even the snake he told us was crazy and would "bite our arse" if he got it out.

yep that's my stubby un-manicured hand right there as I try and hand the snake over to someone else and take a photo at the same time.
(As the snakes got bigger I edged to the back of room)

I got to meet some new bloggers (gee whizz name tags would have helped me out here) and to catch up with Pip and Sooz as well.

We were wined and dined by the zoo and then we settled in with Sooz and her gang to listen to some music, watch Wil and Amy dance and play with the other kids and generally chill out.


I am a long-time fan of Tim Rogers so was really keen to hear him again , but have to say I was surprised how much I enjoyed Wagons. (Hmm perhaps I need to listen to the kids more when they make music suggestions - they assured me Wagons were going to be cool!

So, even though I am not convinced that my little visit to the zoo is going to make a huge difference, I was thrilled to be invited and once again just a little bit puzzled about the stuff that comes about because of the blog......


(Oh and consider yourself forewarned - the next two weeks around here are going to be bonkers!)

Who's that there in the dark?

What will you be doing tomorrow night when everyone turns off their lights for Earth hour?

Well due to the craziest of crazy worlds which is blogland - I'm going to be at Melbourne Zoo watching a fantastic concert.

That's right, having said no to the rugs, and lighting, and blingy jewellery and knee high fake tattoo tights and the car accessories and about a thousand other completely unrelated "free" things I have been offered in return for some blog time/space......

Someone gave me something for being a blogger (How weird is that?)

So tomorrow Mr Ric-Rac and I are going to be guests of the Earth-Hour unplugged concert at Melbourne Zoo. Apparently they are having some sort of blogger thingo and lots of Melbourne bloggers will be there. (shhh don't tell them Ballarat is not Melbourne).

and you know the very very best thing...... in return for invitations to this event and what I am guessing is going to be a great fun evening......Do you know what they wanted? How much blog time / space /placement of flashing lights and automated bells and whistles they demanded ???

Zip ! Nada ! Nothing !

Which, of course is why I am telling you.

(That, and it would be pretty cool to save the planet , cause you have to know, crafting on the moon with that weird no-gravity thing is going to be a killer)