Comments for Green Grrrl

Comment on All is fair in love and peak hour traffic war by Green Grrrl

Green Grrrl — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:16:37 +0000

Hehe! That’s my route home! And yet I always forget to buy cat food!

City chic cycling event? Oooh. Joy!

Comment on In our Queensland, but not in our name. by Green Grrrl

Green Grrrl — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:15:02 +0000

A group of us (well a group of two) are trying to form an Electoral Reform Coalition. A petition is a great idea.

Comment on In our Queensland, but not in our name. by ekkie

ekkie — Sun, 20 May 2012 03:35:34 +0000

Congratulations Queensland, you get what you vote for, eh? OK so now we need to get a petition going to adopt proportional representation just like Tasmania. Any takers?

Comment on All is fair in love and peak hour traffic war by ekkie

ekkie — Sun, 20 May 2012 03:34:25 +0000

I hope you’re coming to the city chic cycling event on Friday night in KGS? Then we can download together Shall we meet at South Bank and ride over together?

I saw you the other day riding up near that supermarket at Moorooka – great bike and love the yellow stip across your shoulders – how could a car miss that?????

Comment on Winter Night Rider by Ben

Ben — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:45:57 +0000

Cooler than The Hoff? Bold words!

Comment on Pedestrians, politicians and other flotsam ‘n’ jetsam by Green Grrrl

Green Grrrl — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:36:46 +0000

Hi Carmel,

I’m the least arrogant person you’ll ever meet, so I won’t take your comment personally. Also, I wasn’t a candidate so I don’t think anything I did commuting to and from work affected the outcome of the election. I might’ve got a few more votes for the Greens at Moorooka polling booth due to my big friendly smile perhaps. I also co-ordinated some letterboxing for the Greens. That might’ve helped.

I am not always waving the Greens flag. This blog is about my everyday bicycle life. If I spoke from a Greens Party perspective every minute of my life, I would go batty. I also like taking the dog to the beach, watching trashy escapist movies, going to rock gigs and gas bagging with friends about men, clothes, hair and make up.

I wasn’t expecting a politician and her ALP staff to give me a swipe card. I was simply asking people I work with in the same building, who were hanging out with a pollie, if they had a swipe card. And the lovely pollie was the only person who answered! I found that odd. Also, I GOT TO TALK TO KATE JONES while wrangling bicycle trauma! Of course I’m going to share that on my bicycle blog!!

With Clem, I don’t really think it’s wise to prop yourself up on the bike path to campaign. Kind of dangerous and in people’s way. He was campaigning on the bike path. Not beside the bike path, but on it. I’m sure he’s a nice enough fellow. As I said, I forgot to take advantage and say hello. I nodded. That’s enough. That’s what cyclists do.

Clem wasn’t saying hello just because of who he is. He was campaigning. I’m sure he made someone else’s day. Just not mine. I’m not really convinced that a Liberal government is going to establish more, safer bike paths to encourage more people out and about to use climate-friendly transport to commute to and from work. I hope Gavin King convinces me otherwise when I go to see him as my local representative. I really don’t want to die while riding my bike. Really. It’s super dangerous out there!

If you don’t enjoy the flippant humour I use in my blog that’s designed to entertain a particular readership group, I would seriously recommend you don’t read my blog anymore! It sounds like you don’t really get my warped sense of humour. I really LOVE to give pollies a hard time.

But thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. It wasn’t really all that funny and I found it quite hurtful (because there was no hint of humour or entertainment!). But it still made my day!

Elissa.

Comment on Pedestrians, politicians and other flotsam ‘n’ jetsam by Carmel McMullen

Carmel McMullen — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:09:50 +0000

Maybe your arrogance (expecting a pollie to give you a swipe card) and not so friendly attitude (refusal to say hello back to Clem on the bike path) are reason Greens didn’t get a candidate into parliament. I think Clem would have said hello just because he is who he is. I remember him making the effort to come and say hello to me a few years ago when I hadn’t seen him for many many years just as he did when we occasionally crossed paths at uni in the 70s. He certainly didn’t have anything to gain as I’ve never voted in his electorate. He was also very polite when we were at school together in 1967.

Comment on Forgot to catch the train. My soggy ride home. Oops! by Green Grrrl

Green Grrrl — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:59:48 +0000

Haha aren’t you sweet my dear friend. I think about it every day!

Actually I made the decision today to – after the state election is over – bow out of branch and state level politics and instead concentrate on writing a book.

I’ll still be involved in Green Institute and a bit of Global Greens stuff perhaps, but I really need to focus on my writing.

Remember when they used to pay us to write and be published Lauren?

Comment on Forgot to catch the train. My soggy ride home. Oops! by Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:26:46 +0000

Have you ever thought about writing a book?

Comment on All too much before the first coffee by Libby Connors

Libby Connors — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:34:35 +0000

Well I am impressed with your presence of mind – I don’t think I could have managed all that without my morning cuppa!
And best wishes to Sam Morris whom I last ran into in a village in Cambodia. Nice to know she is safely home.