October 2009

Friday fun: cleaning out the handbag

October 30, 2009

Earlier this week I got sick of lugging around my handbag without really even knowing what was inside anymore. My shoulders hurt. So I tipped it out and sorted through the contents. * One bottle of water (almost empty) * One black moleskine 2008-2009 diary * One Barbie wallet (almost falling apart) and loose change [...]

Anticipating the end of cherubic blessings as boyhood awaits

October 29, 2009

I have never been sentimental when it comes to cutting my son’s hair. It’s always been a case of buzz cuts all round, please. The shorter the better. In fact, that inserted link points back to the last time Riley had a haircut. I’ve avoided giving him one this year. At first it was because he simply [...]

Where I’ve been

October 28, 2009

Yesterday a post I’d written about my Miscellaneous Voices project went up over at Overland. It really only scratches the surface of what can be said about the increasing confluence of online/offline writing and what wider significance this might hold in store for the reading (and writing) populace. Anyway, come and have a look and [...]

Continuing a theme

October 27, 2009

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 [...]

Surprise! pictures – love it

October 26, 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!

Our garden, this month

October 23, 2009

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: [...]

What I’m reading mid-October ’09

October 22, 2009

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 [...]

New Books and Old Movies

October 20, 2009

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 [...]

Schools and paperwork and hopeful expectations

October 19, 2009

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 [...]