January 2010

Links! Reading, writing, blogging links!

January 29, 2010

Today’s linkage is writing/book related. Well – most of them… And here we go: *Here’s a nice breakdown of Kindle vs iPad vs Touch Book, prompted by yesterday’s announcement of the iPad and the general hysteria that ensued. * Adele taught Surprise! in the classroom over in Japan this month. This has been one of [...]

Getting ready for school

January 28, 2010

My daughter has something to show you Maxine. Keira decorated her school scrapbooks before she was lucky enough to see Maxine’s collages up close, hung on the wall, last week. As you can see, one has a contemporary flavour; the other is more ‘classical/romantic’. She has others covered with Miss Kitty, My Little Pony, and butterflies sticky [...]

Of Trams and Labour Stories

January 27, 2010

It happened while we were searching for treats. Standing at the end of an aisle, I was looking at those helpful signs the supermarkets put up as a guide to locate products and there was the one I was looking for (‘confectionery’), when a girl skipped up to us, accompanied by her older sister. Keira [...]

Happy Australia Day

January 26, 2010

We’re supposed to be eating a whole lot of lamb today, according to Sam Kekovich and the MLA (Meat and Livestock Australia), however I find as those ads grow increasingly tedious, they actually have triggered a sort of…weary defiance within me. If anything, they make me want to boycott meat altogether. I hope, with whatever menu you choose, that [...]

Our Sunday

January 25, 2010

Winners!

January 23, 2010

Congratulations to Tiffany and Seraphim who were the numbers #36 & #25 respectively the random number generator just gave back to me – I’ll be in touch with you soon regarding your prizes. My thanks to you all who helped. I’m about to send off the raised amount now. I want to also give a shout [...]

Fundraiser for Earthquake Victims

January 22, 2010

There is a scene in The Fifth Element when Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) sits down at a computer to learn everything about the human race. The moments, the disasters, flick past her and by the time she’s learned everything there is a look in her eyes of terrified incomprehension, and she falls into Bruce Willis’ arms, spent. Keira came [...]

Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne

January 21, 2010

Adam works in the CBA building that looms in the background. (I like the star shadows on the road at the bottom – I didn’t see them when I took the photo!) (Yes, this is another iPhone shot. Let’s assume from now on all photos will be taken on that unless I say otherwise!)

Home again

January 20, 2010

A strange summer’s chill passed over Melbourne this week, and upon this front my family arrived back in town. They’d left me alone for ten days; ten days of peace and time; of thinking and of being nothing, existing in this house. ‘Creative seclusion’ you might say. In the morning I would enter my children’s rooms [...]