Month: September 2010

Family•Life / September 28th, 2010

A Violin Temporarily Without Song

Back when I played the piano, I did quite passably but also with the knowledge that I really ought to practice more. I didn’t have the zeal* to be consistent. Once I was out of primary school and I could stop the miseries of clarinet, encounters with other instruments were rare. I remember once we were at a…

Family•Life / September 27th, 2010

Our trip to Bendigo, Victoria

  Red tulips  White tulips Yellow tulip Clay cat made at Bendigo Pottery Bendigo Cathedral Cathedral windows Watching a movie in the hotel room Cafe sights Hanging Rock, from the Calder Freeway. Thinking wistfully of our trip there last year.   More words to come later.

Family•Life / September 23rd, 2010

The Apathetic Renovators

Setting: A large home-renovators and supplies store. The kids are running around, sitting on all the toilets (thank god they’re past the ‘does this work? shall I use it?’ phase) and asking what a bidet actually does. “I think we need floorboards.” “Bamboo?” “I guess.” “They’re hardest. Except for this wood you can only get…