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I love this DAAS cover, to the point where I've had it on repeat on my iPod for the last two days. It also makes me laugh because no one who's mockingly played Judas Iscariot in a "Jesus Christ Superstar In Four and a Half Minutes" skit (which I can't find a copy of worth watching on Youtube. Scandalous!) should be able to sing like an angel, but there you go. I so, so, so have to buy the DAAS DVD before I head back to England because it's (ridiculously!) not available through Amazon and I'll pine for them. They toured Britain you know; why the hell can we not get the DVD? If I could find somewhere to watch Good News Week too, that'd be good.

In fact:

Dear Australia,

I would like to take Paul McDermott back to Britain with me in June and keep him indefinitely. Hope you don't mind! I'll trade you any British comedian (except Stephen Fry and Alan Davies because then we would have no QI).

Love,

Clo


I was going to post about today and how we saw hundreds of giant bats* and got soaking wet and locked in Sydney Botanical Gardens. Except I started this at 10pm and it's now gone 2am because I just sat around talking for four hours with Coby (the guy I went bat-watching with), a Canadian girl and a Dutch guy about random crap. I love youth hostels, I really do (it's like freshers week at uni constantly) but now I have to go back to my room and my three roommates all go to bed ridiculously early by my standards, so they will all be asleep. I'm just going to have to sneak in and try to tiptoe up the ladder to my bed. I'm sure there was an excellent reason I chose a top bunk but dammit, it makes it a lot harder to be quiet at 2am.


*I am not even exaggerating. Hundreds. Giant bats. Best thing ever.

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You know what my first, immediate thought was on seeing this picture of Paul McDermott?

"Dear god, this man would get on marvellously with Derren Brown."

When two hemispheres collide. Hm. Odd.

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Taronga Zoo today was good. Gorgeous views across the harbour from everywhere and the shows were good. Plus they had snow leopards! But I don't know, I came away from the cat enclosures with a vague sense of disatisfaction. They were fine and lovely, and Chester Zoo doesn't exactly give them acres but the snow leopards especially looked bored senseless. I still wanted to buy a snow leopard plushie from the shop but they were $27 each and I backed away very quickly.

So it was a nice day. I loved the Sky Safari cable cars; Chester has to get itself one of those. But otherwise, it stills pwns. Mostly. Their seal show could do with some brushing up to match Taronga's. Likewise the bird show was against a view of the harbour; no bird show in the world has such an incredible backdrop. But I'd still rather spend the day in Chester.

I'm very sad to be leaving Sydney tomorrow. IN FACT, I'm so sad that I've Googled up where the ABC shop is (about two minutes away! :D) and tomorrow morning I'm off in search of DAAS. Screw having to carry it; it's worth it. Then I'm going to the IMAX, finally, because I'm so tired after five solid days of walking. And food and then walk to the bus and bye bye Sydney. I loved you passionately. I'll definitely be seeing you again.

Next: Brisbane and acityofwonder. :DDDDDD THIS TRAVELLING THING IS AWESOME. You leave somewhere and you're sad about it but then, you're heading on to things of equal awesome. It's fantastic.