My sister is over from New Zealand, visiting Melbourne for a conference. She brought over my birthday present – or should I say presents, plural. For your viewing pleasure, I present several choice articles below …

Obviously a shout-out to my current country of residence. I have to admit, though, I have yet to see a blue and white kangaroo, let alone one with a brush for a head. I like the joey, though.

This pair of pig underpants (yes, underpants … it’s a THEME, you can’t mess with a theme) has a piece of pink elastic stitched to the pig. However, the pig’s TAIL is clearly depicted. Soooo, by deduction, the elastic bit represents … and it is at this point that my thought processes began to break down, so I put the underpants on my head. If I can’t see the pink dangly bit, I don’t have to think about it.

It’s a little angry man! On a stick! What the hell shall I do with it? … well, the precedent has already been set. Stick it in my hair!

This is one of a pair of weird Fimo hairclips, with some sort of rabbit and grass motif. I immediately put these clips in my hair when I opened them (yes, along with the stick thing pictured above, oh yeah and the underpants). In an utterly predictable move, I then forgot to take the clips out before we went out to dinner. It is a testament to my fashion sense that neither Mr. T nor my sister thought this was accidental on my part. (I am just thankful I DID remember to remove the underpants.)