Can’t talk.
(Clown will eat me.)
Busy plotting.
Back soon with chocolate! Cookbook review! Hyatt lunch! Shenanigans!
But, until then, please enjoy these photos of me at age seven and eleven, chillin’ with wallabies and a kangaroo.
Because, as I always say:
When life’s confusing you
Find and pat a kangaroo.
Heel click,
Hannah
How very cryptic.
<3
Did you know that the ACT Government currently has plans to cull over 2000 of these, our internationally famous critters?
What?! No!! As if the stupid cars don’t kill enough of them as it is
Which areas?
I think I could match your photos with mine at the same age! Hope you are having an awesome week in the lead up to a fabulous birthday.
Being a Canberran girl, have you also had them eating the front lawn of your house? Such lovely memories for me. And thank you! The non-work parts of this week have been wonderful – the School of Music concert was phenomenal, if you heard about it?
Oh yeah, the roos always ate the lawn. We had one particularly large male who liked to sleep on our lawn when I was a teenager. The number of nights I was getting in around 2 and a giant shape would loom out of the fog and scare the hell out of me only to discover it was Buster.
I only heard about the concert after it happened! Sounded amazing.
Aaaaaaaah you even named him!! Love it! Buster is an awesome name for a huge kangaroo (in truth, the big ones can be utterly terrifying when you see their massive muscles…)
My friend Andy, who I showed in my blog post about our choir’s tour to Jindera and Wagga around this time last year, is the one who organised it. I was so proud of him when he was up on stage I thought I might burst! It was the biggest turn-out Llewellyn Hall has ever seen.
Now the baby sleeps in the crib.
HELLO JOE.
I’M SO GLAD SOMEONE GOT THAT I LOVE YOU.
Lol random!! I’m scared of kangaroos btw… A big one attacked me in the past, trying to get at My bag of crisps.
Next time we meet up, remind me to tell you my scary kangaroo story
I have yet to see a kangaroo in person. Here in the states you really have to seek them out
xo
For years, there was a whole kangaroo family that would come every night to nibble on my parents’ front lawn
Very cute Hannah
Isn’t this the cutest!? Kangaroos and I met at koala park (ironic) and became bffl
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Everyone knows that koalas and kangaroos have the raddest parties, so I’m not surprised by your story at all.
Look at your magical childhood! I like how it seems in the top photo that you and the standing-up kangaroo are having a small moment of solidarity.
That wallaby and I have a love that is timeless.
And teehee! I bet you had similar moments of solidarity with elements of your native land, like… the popping pools at Rotorua maybe? I once wasted pretty much an entire roll of (pre-digital) film trying to “catch” just such a popping bubble. I wasn’t a very clever child.
Wow, this comment just became really about me. I’m very sorry. I’m very very tired.
Don’t let the clown eat you!! Yay for chilling with kangaroos and wallabies! Such a cutie!
I’m totally watching to see who gets that reference
Teehee, thank you! The wallabies are pretty cute 
Next time I get all confused I’ll go and pat a kangaroo. Or even a wallaby. What gorgeous photos of you as a child. Hope all is going well for you xx
I highly recommend it. I’m personally tempted to spend $50 on an entry ticket tomorrow just so I can pat the kangaroos at the National Zoo and Aquarium.
Heehee, cute wallaby alert in top photo! Also, cute shoes, 11 year old Hannah.
Nice life motto, but I’m probably going to have to alter it to suit my geographical limitations:D
I’m amazed by all these comments about kangaroos camping out in yards. Really? These things really happened? So cool!
By the way, your Twitter feed. You find Max attractive now? Hehe, I guess I still have more growing up to do and stuff:)
The 140 character limit of Twitter didn’t quite enable me to describe the Gilmore Girls situation perfectly. It’s more that, the first two time I watched it in my teens, I found Max completely *unattractive* and very annoying. Now I’m all, like, old ‘n’ stuff, I can actually see that he’s being presented as a pretty good guy. It’s a big enough shift from “Ew, Max!” that I felt okay with saying “attractive”.
I don’t think that made any sense.
Jess 4 eva.
*clears throat and calms down* – I am far too old and far too married to have just squealed ‘YES!’ at that last sentence *sheepish grin*
No such thing as too old or too married for Jess. PARTICULARLY once he’s published his book. How did they not end up together?!
JESS 4 EVA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot express my excitement right now – I have never been so crazy mad in love with a character before. Eeee!
I like to go through my favorite progression of episodes that show Jess’ intro to Stars Hollow, Dean’s subsequent demise, and Jess’ rise to super romantic stardom. “Basket… basket maker….. guy who didn’t bring enough money.”
My housemate and I just reached Jess’ first episode tonight, and I honest to god squealed. I never, never liked Dean (stupid hair), so he was always demisin’ in my heart.
I’d totally marry Jess. Heck, I’d even marry the actor who plays Jess. Close enough, right?
I hadn’t even noticed the shoes, but kapow! Those were my walking-in-the-ocean shoes!! (My feet must’ve been too delicate to touch the sand themselves…)
Absolutely! I was really sad when the drought killed our lawn and the kangaroos stopped coming
Who do I pat when I get confused? No roos around here apart from some stuffed ones. Does patting an Australian husband work? But what if he confuses me? Being a German I should go and find a wild boar. But they are rare in the States, too. I think I need to stick with chocolate….I love your pics!
I was about to say “Wouldn’t it be dangerous to pat a wild boar?” but, then again, kangaroos (particularly the bigger, male ones) can do some serious damage with those back legs of theirs too. I think you’re probably right that chocolate is the best option, followed closely by patting an Australian husband (alas, of those two, I only have the chocolate to reach for!)…
Life is confusing. Pity all the kangaroos round here are wild, can’t catch those damn things to pat them for trying. Will. Not. Give. Up.
Never give up! Kangaroos are worth the patience and commitment! I should probably admit that the first photo was from a petting zoo (you can tell by the ice cream cone full of seed in my hands), but the second was just a friendly kangaroo at a beach near Batemans Bay. There’s hope, Louise!
Ahh! So cute!
I remember the roos in Canberra. At first it freaked me out a little,they can be a little intimidating, and well…huge! Then i enjoyed seeing them on my walks all the time
They actually can be quite scary sometimes, particularly the big fellas with the visible chunky muscles! But mostly they’re just gorgeous and I love ‘em. I’m glad you did too!
But where do I find a kangaroo here?
By flying back to Australia, of course!
Don’t say that! I’ve just booked a ticket for youngest son to come out on a grandparents/cousins holiday and I WON’T BE COMING!!!
Catherine!!!! NO!!!!!! I don’t want you to be selfless, I want you to come! Hmph.
Not selfless just moneyless and I have a literary festival to go to – hustlehustle
Okay, I will accept this turn of events, with just a little bit more grumbling
Literary festival, woot woot? In Italy?
Omg. You crack me up, Hannah. What better way to announce to people that you’re busy than with photos of you with kangaroos… You show awesomeness on so many levels and now know it’s just cause you’re wired that way haha! Good luck with whatever you’re busy with. I need to scale things back as well cause my exams are coming up, yikes! Study now bye! Lol
This is the most amazing response, and so beyond what I deserve for what I thought was a bit of a cop-out post, to be honest!
Thank you, Winston, so very very much. xo
P.S. Chocolate always helped me study better
Aww. I love kangaroos!
Wallabies are even cuter!
I am absolutely freaking TERRIFIED of Kangaroos lol last year when I went to Tasmania with friends we went to Zoo and they had a Kangaroos park area where you could feed and pat them. I thought I’d brave it…but it was FREAKING scary I swear I was about to cry and screamed and yelled asking them to let me out hehe
Bahahahaha!!! The huge ones in the wild are definitely scary, but the ones in the feeding/patting areas are always fine. Although, actually I once screamed and started crying as a kid when a kangaroo bigger than me started getting really aggressive with the food in my ice cream cone full of seed. So I get ya
I would love to find and pat a kangaroo early this morning. Delightful!
One day you shall come to Australia and I shall take you to Mandeni and we will sit outside a cabin in the morning light, veryvery still, until a wallaby trusts us enough to come and eat from our hands. Though we might find ourselves with lorikeets landing on our arms first.
P.S. I promise I will email you soon! Am waiting for things to fall into place or, rather, be smushed into place a bit like a mud pie. Also, ’twas my birthday this weekend and I was rottenly sick, so am a bit wibblywobbly brain right now. But I do remember! xo
can’t talk, clown will eat me! ahhh memories
Heidi xo
It’s moments like these that keep adding to the amount of love in my heart for you. I’m so glad you got that. xoxo
Ok…. will stop giggling with delight soon. Yes. Very soon, indeed. Uhuh.
Conor you beautiful creature.