Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Nov 26, 2009, 4:57 am
I feel rather embarrassed when I’m playing with my Nintendo DS on the train and the person next to me is reading. I feel like I’m letting myself down by wasting the forty-minute trip to wo...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Nov 24, 2009, 4:21 am
mild diarrhoea, abdominal pain and indigestion tiredness, sleepless and headache total loss of any kind of a social life Turns out, after a week on one set of antibiotics, this bronchitis is far more...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Nov 21, 2009, 8:00 pm
When you’re finished, you too can have beautiful Christmas cards like this:
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Nov 19, 2009, 6:10 am
I love Melbourne. The only reason James and I chose Sydney over Melbourne when we moved here was the climate. Melbourne has seasons like Britain and, since we were moving around the world, we thought ...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Nov 18, 2009, 5:50 am
I’m going to explain the following as a potentially valuable money-saving exercise so that hopefully, if someone from the Park Hyatt should read this, they won’t think I’m just a lig...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Nov 15, 2009, 7:31 am
Just when you think you have settled into life in a city and it’s not that different to the last place you lived, you see that the weather tomorrow is predicted to be thirty-nine degrees and you...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Nov 11, 2009, 5:07 am
... ;Have a few more drinks tonight. You’ll have a better time! Doesn’t it feel good to be naughty? You know you want to-” and then things get a bit less CBA and a bit more xtube an...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Nov 9, 2009, 3:00 pm
Back in July, Greg kindly gave me a voucher for Style Council to get whatever I wanted from their range of beauty products, therapies and accessories.  After three months and a range of reasons for n...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Nov 7, 2009, 12:19 am
A few years ago during one of their visits, Clancy (of Gareth & Clancy fame) lamented that I didn’t write about crappy dates any more. Having a long term boyfriend and a happy life meant I simpl...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Oct 27, 2009, 6:55 am
When I first moved to Australia and decided to write this blog, I envisioned something quite different to the way it has turned out. I naïvely imagined a life-long holiday full of wonderful trips and...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Oct 25, 2009, 6:49 am
When I first realised I would be living alone I was rather worried that I would have nothing to do, no one to do it with and nowhere to do it.  It turns out that all those people who said “Sven...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Oct 22, 2009, 6:46 am
This weekend Gareth and Clancy have been staying with me, along with James, so I have been racing off to do touristy stuff with the much-beloved English pair; I have not had time to write new blogs an...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Oct 13, 2009, 6:33 am
Now I’ve got all that craziness out of my system I can get on to telling you all about my weekend, which was heaploads of fun without the usual dancing and drinking and hangovers. Do you get that t...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Oct 12, 2009, 4:50 am
So, remember when I said I was a reboundaholic? Yeah, well, didn’t we all know that was going to end badly. Before I left for the UK I was sliding into some kind of pseudo-relationship with a nice...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Oct 6, 2009, 5:59 am
Friends are great blah blah blah - no room for slushy stuff in this post: the Sleaze Ball! What a fantastic night, and to think I was going to stay at home and have a quiet night in.  All in all it w...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Oct 3, 2009, 2:29 am
I’m back! I decided that connecting up my internet was daft since I was leaving the country for three weeks, so upon my return I set about getting myself back online.  This week I finally recei...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Sep 15, 2009, 6:34 am
When I first came back to the UK I was remarkably blasé about living abroad.  It’s not that far away, it will be nice to see my friends, and I’ll be going back in a few weeks.  Now, wit...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Sep 11, 2009, 6:44 am
Whilst I was in London I managed to squeeze in a quick drink and nibbles with Milo.  He and I have been online friends for a couple of years now but this was the first time we had managed to meet up ...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Sep 9, 2009, 8:17 am
My UK break is great fun, but there’s something very odd about being back in a country you used to call home. I’m sure everyone knows the feeling - it’s the same as going back to you...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Sep 1, 2009, 3:02 pm
There are some things that it’s simply not done to talk about: sexual preferences, what’s really going on in the vicarage and successfully losing weight. The last one is the greatest taboo because...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Aug 27, 2009, 3:12 pm
When I first arrived in Australia, James and I stayed at my friend Greg’s house for a week before finding somewhere to live on our own.  When I look back on that first week I laugh at how naïve I ...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Aug 25, 2009, 9:11 pm
This cupboard is older than I am.  It’s probably older than my mother, too, since my grandparents bought it long before I was born and my mother had me at quite an early age.  Since I was born thi...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Aug 23, 2009, 11:37 pm
I wrote a blog post about how fabulous it was to have moved into my own flat and how optimistic I was about the future and blah blah bleugh; when I read it back today it sounded so falsely enthusiasti...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Aug 20, 2009, 10:33 pm
Well, long-suffering readers, I am delighted to announce the end of the saga that is my journey though Tolstoy’s classic Anna Karenina. Spoilers ahead so if you don’t want to know what happens (o...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Aug 9, 2009, 6:03 pm
Last night James and I settled the most contentious issue of our divorce: who was getting the good set of saucepans.  We’ve both been eyeing them up for some time now and putting off the packin...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Aug 8, 2009, 3:20 am
Compared to the previous five parts, I tore through part six.  The final three parts seem much shorter, as though we are entering the final sprint and the flags of the finish line are fluttering just...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Aug 4, 2009, 3:43 am
Ahead of my big move, and inspired by Bossy’s Poverty Party, it’s time to talk about money. I call it my ‘big move’, but as a friend pointed out the other day, moving to Australia was a big m...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Aug 1, 2009, 2:17 am
In all the excitement I forgot to report on the birthday shenanigans.  You don’t want to hear about the ins and outs of the night (it’s always dull to listen to other people’s party...
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Sven M. posted an article on Sven's guide to Oz - Jul 28, 2009, 7:31 am
The fundamental tenet of gravitational law and rollercoasters is that what goes up must come down. After a couple of months on a permanent high of excitement and denial I must inevitably come to the ...
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