Winners and Other Things

Dear Olive,
I can't tell you how much fun you are the moment. So. Much. We've had the best weekend, just the two of us. We've met friends, been to markets, gone to dinner. Life has been pretty sweet in general lately, and we're lapping it up. Although I never knew pony rides were such serious business?
But down to business .... thanks to random.org the following people have won a copy of Alphabutt the record. Send me your postal address, kellie.montgomery@gmail.com and I'll get it out to you. Hope you like it!
Katie Hala ... Mama Mogantosh ... Jodi ... flickleflackle

Alphabutt Giveaway

Dear Olive,
Way, way back, on one of my obligatory uni summer holidays overseas trips, Mel and I entered a little bar in New York. We were sharing our dorm room with a sumo wrestler who was keeping us awake all night with his snores/bursts of lolly gorging. With his limited grasp of english leaving him unable to understand our yells of roll over, and us unable to communicate our request in Japanese, we decided our best bet for a good nights sleep was get as drunk as humanly possible. (Logical? Entirely. We were 23.) I took my gloves off, not knowing it was the last time I would see them (the downside to getting that drunk is, of course, the likelihood of losing personal items), and we sat down with our drinks and watched, as the only audience members bar one other table, the most bizarre set I've ever had the awkward pleasure of seeing live. It turns out it was Kimya Dawson's first band, The Moldy Peaches. And just what does this have to do with the banana chilli's in my fruit bowl? Well, nothing really. Except my great friend Chris at Popfrenzy, wants to give away copies of Kimya Dawson's kids album, Alphabutt, to four lovely dear olive readers! It's fast become one of your favourite record with it's fun, silly, catchy songs and I'm excited to share it with some other kids out there. Leave a comment on this post and I'll draw a winner next Sunday, May 6. 
(Anyone offended by fart songs, need not apply!)

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Dear Olive,
We are winners! Winners of this cutest crocheted cushion from this gorgeous lady. Thanks Emily for such an unreal giveaway, I can't wait til the little beauty arrives. It lifted my spirits after a rather trying weekend that saw our upstairs neighbour flood his bathroom. Which, in turn, blew out all our power. No lights. No hot water. No heating. We got heating and hot water back, still waiting on lights and the plumbers are here ripping out our bathroom ceiling and replacing all the pipes, which have apparently rusted through in our lovely old building. It seems there are some advantages to renting after all. Not having to foot this bill is certainly one of them.