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…
I will be embarking next month on my first ever fun run: specifically, the Eltham Fun Run 2009. As I’m not in the shape I once was I thought, oh, I’ll dip my toe in slowly, do the 5km and see how that goes. Then maybe sometime in the future I’d give the 10km a…
Notes: 1) That is Riley’s first ever tie ($10 off ebay!) 2) He arrived at the party with a bandaid across his bottom lip. It seems he wanted to try his hand at shaving before we left home, just like dad does… 3) All the kids were so gorgeous as they danced the ‘Tic Toc…
{As you’ll see, this post is largely derived from the past week of different status updates on Twitter. Which is ironic really, as this blog was supposed to be my diary of sorts; the written chronicle of the ins-and-outs of my life. However that mantle is gradually being taken by Twitter. Is this bad? Lazy? Or neither?…
October 9 (in the USA) sees the premiere of the above documentary about Eddie Izzard, and I happened to come across this trailer quite by accident the other night on YouTube. Which annoyed me a little, because then tiny bells started ringing in my head that I knew something about this already, but forgot to…
My reading pile is getting smaller and smaller, isn’t it? This week I’m focusing on this above book, the O. Henry Prize Stories from 2003. I deliberately sought it out this past weekend because it contains one of my favourite – if not the favourite – short stories ever, ‘The Thing in the Forest’ by…
