I’m keeping the photo-heavy, content-lite direction of the blog this week; not intentionally though, for I have a lot to say, just not enough time to write. Besides that, my brain is quite full of my offline projects. However my grandparents (Hi Nan! Hi Pop!) are quite keen to see how my garden planting went…
Read / October 26th, 2009
I must say, these are pretty darn cool. These were drawn by Surprise!‘s newest fan, a five year old boy in the class of a teacher friend of mine. The likeness to several of the pictures in Surprise! is quite plain. I’m impressed!
This was our vegetable garden in May: This is the garden now: As you can see, Melbourne’s recent good rainfall has spurred on a typical springtime growth I no longer dared to believe in. If you click through to Flickr it will show the notes I’ve made on the pictures, but here’s a brief rundown:…
Judging from the books about blogs and the Internet*, you can probably tell I’m still pondering this subject a week after asking you all what you thought about an Australian Blogging Conference? By the way, on that thought, I’d like to thank you all for getting back to me with your ideas and comments on…
First, an apology for the erratic site behaviour in the past 36 hours. My DNS hosts were fighting off alien attacks, or something. Never mind, we’re back now! ****** Oxfam had its annual book sale in my area last Saturday, and we trudged along as usual to squeeze past many many others to see what…
Yesterday I was filling out this new form the government has introduced: a ‘Transition Learning and Development Statement’ which is designed to help schools and the education departments learn more about the students who are beginning school next year (like Keira will be). On it there are questions like “What do you want your school to…
© Christopher Bird, reproduced here with permission My lovely cousin and equally lovely cousin-in-law (whose photographs I displayed on the blog in a series earlier this year because he is very good) are currently gallivanting around the world and occasionally send back pictures to – no doubt – make us relatives and friends here insanely jealous. *wink*…
Read / October 16th, 2009
This weekend marks the one year anniversary of the book launch of Surprise! (I’m linking to Kim because she got the best shots!) (If you want a behind-the-scenes look of the day, go here) This weekend also marks the last time dad ever made it down to visit. I remember him being there at the…
Update: Point (1) has been modified slightly. An AusWomBlogCon? (Ideas for a proper name rather than an abbreviation are welcome!) Yes, I’ve talked about this before (in this post – in the comments) but guess what? This time I’m serious. So serious in fact I need to make a decision in the next 36 hours…
