Roll out the barrel

I went to see Iron Man on the weekend.  How do you get from Iron Man to David Campbell?  Well, having watched the movie, and thoroughly enjoyed it, I remembered (somewhat vaguely) that Robert Downey Jr had released a CD.  I then decided that I wanted a copy.  I now suspect that I was getting him mixed up with Harry Connick Jr (an easy mistake for a somewhat jazz-addled girl to make).

At any rate, not having a copy at home, I spent the rest of the weekend listening to Robbie Williams (Swing when you're winning) and Michael Buble and the Puppini Sisters and the Andrews Sisters etc etc.  So I popped into two of the three CD shops we have in the Mall during my lunch break.  I completely failed to find Robert Downey in them (either musically or in person <grin>) and consoled myself with David Campbell instead.

I have to say, I think they are now my favourite CDs.  At least until the next Puppini Sisters CD.  And it definitely got the Boy Next Door's vote of confidence - after playing 'Can't take my eyes off of you', Taldals couldn't stop singing it - to the point where the Boy Next Door shouted "I can't stand that song!" and turned his radio up as loud as he could for a while.  (snicker).

The big advantage of this particular tai chi DVD is that the sequence of movements does not involve taking any steps.  This is a real plus for a girl with a limited amount of loungeroom space.

It has taken me some time to get photos of crimson rosellas, even though they are regular visitors.  They are fairly flighty, if you'll pardon the pun.

Once, an increasingly large number of years ago, I was an armchair archaeologist in training.  I periodically forget this fact, since I am regularly distracted by other things (history, fanfic, my job, cookbooks, etc).  I remembered it during my lunch break today, when I stumbled across this at an Angus & Robinson book stall. 

These guys are regulars.  The two sulphur crested cockatoos simply adore pine cones, and aren't fussy about species.  They regularly get stuck into that pine tree.  The other is an Australian magpie.