I have a confession to make.  I’m a travel-souvenir addict.  My addiction started a long time ago, on my family’s travels all over Australia, and has only increased in intensity over time.  I once collected post-cards of the places I had been, and sometimes key-rings.  That became too easy, so now I collect larger objects: things that remind me of the essence of the place I’ve visited (like my Henry VIII bear from the Tower of London, pictured above).  My addiction has morphed into a personal challenge to find the funniest, tackiest or coolest souvenir I can. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been spurred on by Style On Track to create my own list post of things that inspire me.

I love… my new Nokia N82. Rob upgraded to an N95 a few months ago and fell in love with it’s GPS capabilities. I decided it was high time I upgraded as well - my most recent phone was a Sony Ericsson w800i, and I’ve had it for about two years. I’ve always been a Nokia girl at heart, so returning to the fold wasn’t too hard - especially as the N82 has a 5 mega-pixel Carl Zeiss camera lens and a Zenon flash, as well as an additional lens on the front of the phone for video calling. I love that it has super-fast GPS, a really good web browser, and it’s shiny and silver. I’m fickle.

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Rob and Ben - future Brisbane City Council bus drivers

After a hurried appointment with the accountant this morning (copy-writing makes me a sole trader, who would have thought?) and brunch at West End, Rob, Ben and I went into the Museum of Brisbane (MoB) to pick up some ‘I <3 BNE‘ t-shirts. Modelled on the traditional ‘I <3 NYC’ tees, the Brisbane versions feature a green heart instead of the standard red, and are part of the Brisbane City Council’s push to make Brisbane a carbon neutral haven. At the moment the council has stands set up in all the local shopping centres to give advice and help to locals about making their homes and workplaces more environmentally friendly. All of the staff manning the booths and stands wear the ‘I Love BNE’ shirts, and the MoB is the only place you can buy them for personal use. As two travel-worn pop-culture fanatics, Rob and I had to get some.

While we were in the museum we noticed that part of the present exhibition is the scaled-down front of a Brisbane City Council bus, complete with a box full of bus-driver uniforms. Rob and Ben jumped behind the wheel and acted like all B.C.C. bus drivers do… like total lunatics.