February 2010

Rounding out the week

February 26, 2010

Congratulations first of all to Nerida who won the Vicks thermometer on Wednesday. She’s been reading Miscmum for a long time Rachel Hills recently asked me to write a guest post about my experiences with children’s publishing – and here it is! Finally, today, I sent this off to the printers: Right now, I’m feeling all [...]

Thrifty Thursday: Ginger Tree

February 25, 2010

I have taken to green, and I don’t know why. When I was a teenager, I never wore it, found it such a 70s colour <insert teenagerly disdain>, even during the 60s psychedelic fashion revival of the early 90s, and certainly once the monochromatic Calvin Klein / minimalism of the mid 90s came about. Mind [...]

Vicks Forehead Thermometer giveaway

February 24, 2010

Edited to add: Thanks to my being in a general flurry this week, I forgot that this giveaway goes against my obligations to the BlogHer ads I have on my sidebar, and so I have moved the giveaway to another page where it should have been all along. My apologies to everyone.

Flowers

February 23, 2010

Keira is already getting flowers from boys.

Weekend sports

February 22, 2010

“In the modern way of knowing, there have to be images for something to become “real.” Photographs identify events. Photographs confer importance on events and make them memorable.” Susan Sontag Like many parents, I spend a decent chunk of my weekend waiting for classes or activities to finish. And if you’re like me, you [...]

One Year On

February 19, 2010

My dad works just over the fence from my school. Sometimes he pokes his face over the fence. So he did, and on the odd occasion I saw him stick his head over to seek me out on the playground during lunch, there I’d be, ambling around, almost certainly waiting for the bell to ring [...]

Thrifty Thursday: MinkPink

February 18, 2010

I have many weaknesses: movies with Tim Curry in them; open-faced hamburgers; second-hand bookshops, to name but a few. One of my biggest ones is buying vintage/op-shop clothing. Most of the clothes I’ve bought since moving to Melbourne have been second-hand and that is simply because this is the place for shopping. In an occasional [...]

She could sleep just about anywhere she wanted…

February 17, 2010

But instead she just has to sleep on Keira’s school uniforms.

We call it the ol’ book shuffle

February 16, 2010

Last Wednesday night, I spoke about my … well, I’d say ‘nerves’ about the digital age of books. I wondered aloud about what might happen to our bookshops and libraries; how they might be affected; on a business level, certainly, but my concern was on a cultural, even personal, level. For me, nothing compares to [...]