Mad English girl Down Under

I have another 3 hours to kill in Cairns airport so perfect opportunity to update you lot on our week here. To start, I have this awesome app that let's you know every day, some times twice if you're lucky amazing flight deals. Sounds great doesn't it? It is until you keep buying all these bargains and work out that working now 20 hours a week does not pay the same as full time. I blame this whole new hobby of mine on Super as she introduced me to it and told me how amazing it was. She's the very best worse friend. Actually as I type this I realise we didn't book these flight with that app but with Qantas who also email me very regularly about their amazing deals. Anyway, waffling aside. We have had a week in Cairns, and not without dramas along the way. First blip of the journey... got on the plane and tried to listen to my music with my new fancy wireless headphones,  I was pretty unimpressed that no matter how much I turned the volume up on the phone it ba...

Having sat through another hideous interview I've realised again that I must get better prepared with questions. Such as the salary and if I get paid superannuation in my pay or not (still don't fully understand that so I normally don't worry about that question, It's only when my darling husband asks "Is pay with or without super Mad? My reply is normally "Yes" covers all bases then. I have learnt it's wise to not get necklace hooked to my top and then struggle to get over my head just at the massage lady is opening the door and I literally did bare all. Note to self be quicker and stop admiring all the Buddha's and wondering what scent the candle is. On the plus she did not use her feet (helped that my friends bought me the voucher for my birthday so they went to a reputable one) although my bottom was massaged a lot for back neck and shoulders. To try and get better at drawing on account that the 11 year old lad I work with couldn't t...

If someone asked you to go to a fitness exhibition and it started at 10 am and you lived 3 hours drive away would you leave at 5 am in the morning?? No, nor would I.... but I did.. sort of. As you know I am LOVING the gym to the point where Sean thinks I have an unhealthy relationship with it. I wake up in the middle of the night excited because I want to go,  I look at site after site of techniques and now I'm on to gym clothes (I am in the minority of Australia though and I actually wear mine because I do go to the gym, not because I'm going shopping or to the pub) So this little blog is dedicated to Super's husband who was my chauffeur for the day and bag carrier. He may argue and say differently. We have erm, a love hate relationship. We bicker and fight like siblings. He's annoying and is an idiot but his wife is my gym buddy and is Super cool and amazing. The love hate relationship is that he loves me because I'm funny and awesome I hate him because he...

April fool's day was just a little while ago, and thought I'd play the greatest trick ever on my poor unsuspecting friend. She always sends me proper English Cadbury chocolate (Aussie Cadbury just ain't right) she has since said that she won't send me any more because of this but I'm hoping she's lying..... As always her little parcel popped through the post, hidden by me as I DON'T SHARE but not before spying some thing in there that shouldn't be. Not really sure I should declare it on here as she may now get into trouble. But lets just say it shouldn't have been in the envelope. I messaged her to say this and put the panic alarm to a slight tremble for her. True to style she then kept sending me links of bio hazardness and stuff like that... DID NOT READ, deleted straight away. Over drinks one night with Super and her husband I quickly began to hatch a plan with Super's hubby in tow and prompted what to do we got our wickedness ready for 1...

As you know, I go to the gym. Sean says A LOT but I don't think 5 times a week is obsessive, do you? (I did go twice in a day last week but that's normal right?) I still haven't got my 6 pack and I did a full minute last week of side planks. I must check the small print of my gym contract I'm sure some where down the line they promised that I would get one. Add that to my list of things to do. A few months ago I persuaded my friend to get a free 7 day trial pass to see if she would love it as much as me. We started off with a pump class. Who doesn't like lifting the weight of a small car above their head at 6 in the morning. Then we decided we would do spin together the next day. The conversation went like this Me "Do you fancy spin tomorrow at 6.15" S (Short for Super... not a long story but this is my blog about me not her, just know she's called Super and she lives up to her name) S replies "Yup, I'm game" Me "I always s...

I hoped never to be writing about this, but I'm afraid the time has come to admit something. Near enough to the day of my anniversary with living in this amazing country I was faced with the another near death experience being ...... yes you've guessed it ..... what I like to call them as, a .........."scary" Picture this, I'm at a clients house and we are in the hallway chatting and I happened to look up.... big mistake but in some ways not. Depends how you look at it. Oh my goodness I cannot begin to tell you how big this thing was, my first shriek was "Oh my god what's that in the corner" to then "Why is it so big" My poor client clearly seeing my terror and possibly on account that I was indeed screeching quite loudly "Kill it, Kill it, I'm so scared of them" She tried to reassure me and told me it was ok she would indeed get it. I'd like to say she rushed off but if truth be known it was more of a slow and sligh...

During our Around the World in 80 Malls we also did a bit of shopping in Bangkok, well rude not too isn't it. Even though our suitcases were bulging within an inch of their lives (one has since burst but I blame that on airport staff and not my shopping) Bangkok was amazing if you can get over all the girls on the street saying "Hey Mister" to you and the stray cats (ok there were only a few but enough for me to get freaked out by), oh and crossing the road.... my advise run with a local. They don't adhere to traffic lights and nor do the cars. Come to think of it I don't here in Australia BUT abroad I do as they are all crazy. If you think hook turns are crazy in Melbourne cars in Bangkok are far worse. Our hotel was amazing, the boy did good booking that one. He definitely has earned brownie points, but don't tell him! It had a gadget for turning on the a/c from the bed, the lights clock etc. Also has controls in the bathroom to have the TV sound on while y...

My dear friend jokingly came up with the title of this blog so a big thank you to her. Presently sat on the upstairs, yes you read that right the upstairs of a massive plane not business or first but better. Our plane leaving the UK was delayed because of fog, I in a diva strop asked Sean how difficult can it be to land in fog “Very Mad, the planes can’t see the runway so they have to leave longer gaps in between each landing” “Well that’s ridiculous” I told him. So our connecting flight was missed even before we’d caught the first plane. Sigh. We were told by the guy at Heathrow not to worry we would of course be on another flight, my biggest concern and worry….. what about my suitcases. He tried to reassure me they would be put on the same plane as us. But what does he know. I may have had another little mini strop to Sean about this “because my clothes are vintage and they CANNOT be replaced” he tried to reassure me that yes we have insurance and not to worry. “Sean I don’t think...