March 14 2006
Finished the photo shoot for the tour book today.

I am beat!

Had the pleasure of working again with Karin Catt As you may know, I've worked with Karin quite a lot in my career. She's a wonderful Australian photographer now based in the U.S.Today she and Troy Brennan, my ever faithful hair stylist and Fintan Fitzgerald (clothing stylist to the stars, and me!) managed to make a long hard shoot feel like a vacation.

It was all based on my concept for the tour - spending a big night IN. So I was all dressed up with nowhere to go! Very kooky shoot and tons of fantastic clothes. The images should be really interesting.

Now I'm exhausted.

The day before was a ten hour day shooting video footage for the plasma screens and projections for the tour. We've got tons of new ideas and visual elements for the show and they are taking a lot of work. I hope you enjoy them!

Tomorrow I sit with the photographer and our tour book Editor to come up with the final shots and images we'll use for the programme. After tomorrow I've got a little bit of down time now before the 28th - which is when we start rehearsals. I can not wait. Leonie, Robert, George, Keith, Troy, Lana - we're all going to be together once more for the Griswalds European Vacation. (Or, UK Tour!) All I can say is.. look out England. We're coming!

So much exciting stuff coming up. Like the trailer for the a certain concert film I've spent years making. And even sooner, an exciting announcement for my Australian audience.

But before that - I need sleep!

Until next time - big love as usual.
Your number one fan.
xD

March 7th 2006
The other day my dog and I got to talking. He said he feels as though I've hidden him from the public eye. That I'm somehow ashamed of him.

That ever since he stopped getting letters from the people who buy my music, that I've somehow downgraded his status in terms of web space. So, to all of you who thought maybe I'd become bored of Wally, the second love of my life... to all of you who thought perhaps I left him on a bus by accident.

Here is photographic evidence of his holiness.

I have to say, he's getting more and more adorable each day. He's obsessed With 'the bed'. Since he's not allowed on it very much, whenever I let him on it he pretty much stays there all day. I imagine him in the park, boasting to all his friends.. "Yes..(he has an English accent of an older gentleman now).. today I spent my morning on ..'the bed'..!'' And his dog friends would halt in their tracks.. astounded that he'd reached the holy grail of human comforts.

"The BED?" they'd proclaim, incredulously. "Oh Yes!" Wally would nod smugly. "What's it like, this 'bed' you speak of?" they'd ask, waiting for each delicious word To drop from his pampered mouth. "Well... it's very comfortable. And.. (since no one could challenge him on his experience he'd start lying..).. Full of MEAT! Yes. Meat comes up automatically from the sides. And you leave it smelling like rotten squirrels!'' he'd lie.

And he'd trot off once again the most popular dog in Hyde Park.

In reality.. he's not the most considerate bed mate, I can tell you. And he does try to bury (in my Egyptian cotton sheets) bones and things that are so badly decomposed they evade identification. But I love him more each day.

That's my boy.

Wally is alive and well, and will be turning 4 on September 20.