I went to see Samson and Delilah this week. This Australian film's director Warwick Thornton just won the Camera D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for this bleak love story set in an isolated Aboriginal community in central Australia. There's very little dialogue and not much happens but what does reveals more about the lives of most aborigines in Australia than any other film or tv series I've seen. In other news, life at Marie Claire is improving. I'm understanding the culture and way of working a bit more. The craziness of it is more tolerable and, most of all, everyone here is fantastically nice and friendly. Another highlight is my journey to work which involves cycling over the Sydney harbour bridge. There's a dedicated cycleway which offers views west to the blue mountains that you can't get from the road. The downside of this is that the distance is twice that of my journey to the Herald. Exercise wise this is great but as we are in the middle of a month of storms I have arrived home so soaked most nights, looking as if I've just walked out of a car wash. Only 4 weeks until our trip to the UK. Starting to get very excited.
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