>>bit drunky wunky<<

Sitting at home on the deck off our lounge (yes, we have more than one deck) with Willo then Fox comes home about 8pm and we're drinking martinis and eating bad crisps and forcing Jet into the turtle-shell swimming pool filled with rainwater and this is why I love Melbourne because I can come home after work on a Friday night given the task of buying martini glasses on the way home then arriving, catching up, drinking wine and beer and making martini and listening to Pearl Jam and rocking out as the sun dips below the horizon knowing that Bon Jovi documentary "when we were beautiful" is on SBS1 at 9:30pm.

My life: is good (except I miss my kids).

PS: the documentary was rubbish, watched the end of Die Hard 4 instead, then fell asleep to the beginning credits of The Big Lebowski. Now it's a beautiful, wide hope blue Melbourne Saturday - I still love my life and miss my kids, but with a lot less alcohol in my system :)

So I Married an Axe Murderer-The poems

Beatnik Herman

Jack Kerouac - The Beat Generation

I Feel Like Saying A Beatnik Poem

Yum Cha at Minh Xuong is a great part of any given weekend - and a particularly good thing to do on this rainy Sunday.

Mars and Chaz dragged (I resisted as much as I could but they assured me, it was the perfect antidote for my hangover at the time) me to my first Minh Xuong yum cha a few months ago - as usual, they know what's best for me. I went with far less resistance this morning. We ate dim sims until we could not eat any more. Then I waddled out in search of an afternoon nap which reminded them they wanted to buy Peking Duck to take home for the pancakes part of their evening meal.

I have never eaten Peking Duck - in fact, I've only tried duck properly for the first time this year mostly from the French and Chinese cuisines. I've seen the glazed brown ducks hanging in Richmond store windows. I'm not sure they look appetising just hanging there like over-sunbaked grandmothers - but I'm not turned off by them either. I remember once having lunch on K'Road in Auckland, and Rosie insisting we change tables because "the ducks were watching [her]! "

Wikipedia has some information about Peking Duck - take that information with this BBC News | In Pictures: Making Peking Duck and it really hits the spot for getting to grips about how the duck is prepared.

Best Ducks in Melbourne - and of course, Smith Street's Old (Imperial) Kingdom gets a gold in the 'People's Choice' category - and it's just up the road!