The 19th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up at mynxii’s LJ, The Professional Lapcat. As usual there’s bucket loads of fabulous reading on offer, so click on over and get on with it! Continue reading 19th Down Under Feminist Carnival
Hosted by Mrs4444. Things about which I am glad: Despite my fears I did not have an excruciating back spasm and find myself swearing loudly in the middle of delivering my Parents & Citizens Association President’s report to the hall packed with the entire families of nearly every student at my kids’ school. When Caitlin tried to pick the front door lock with a stick this afternoon she broke a piece of stick off inside it thus preventing the key from fitting in the lock. The sliding security door uses the same key as the front door (which was the … Continue reading Friday Fragments
At Presentation Night tonight one of the two Outstanding Achievement awards given out in each class went to Tom. I may be just a little bit proud of him. Again. For more Wordless Wednesdays click here. Continue reading Wordless Wednesday
I’m not usually a big fan of drama in my life, but there are varieties I quite enjoy. Last night we had a bit of both. Tom was dropped off at rehearsal for his Drama school‘s end of year showcase performance at 3:30pm, he was happy and excited and all was well with the world. When we arrived just after 6:00pm he was sitting outside looking somewhat forlorn. I asked if he was ok and he announced he was feeling sick and wanted to go home. I had a strong suspicion that either something had happened that upset him or … Continue reading Drama
Clara spends quite a lot of time in this spot staring out the front window and keeping a look-out for the cats. The lounge has suffered somewhat as a result. Not that it was in particularly good shape to begin with… Continue reading Pensive puppy
Once upon a time my Christmas day started with getting up as early as I thought I could get away with and seeing what was in the pillowslip on the end of my bed. I still have very clear memories of finding books and games in there. The books were my favourite presents. The pillowcase in question was this one. It was bought at a school fete I think, many many moons ago, it must be going on for 30 years old now, I still use it on my bed occasionally. My tiger used to spend most of the year … Continue reading The ghost of Christmas past
Tom, aged 3 yrs, in the surf on his own for the first time. For more Wordless Wednesdays click here. Continue reading Bliss
Here we are at the beginning of December, my house is strewn with Christmas decorations, the kids have decorated the tree, we have strings of lights ready to festoon the garden, I have all my special Christmas candles out, the Advent calendar is hanging by the dining table, there’s Christmas music loaded up on the iPod and I’ve started my annual re-read of Connie Willis’ Miracle and Other Christmas Stories. Yes, I’m an atheist celebrating a pagan mid-winter festival co-opted by the Christian church to commemorate the birth of a man who was was almost certainly not born on the … Continue reading I’m really rather fond of this time of year
It’s been fun, I’ve written 12 times as many posts as I did last month making it through my third NaBloPoMo with relative ease and, I think, only minor irritation to my family. We have 2 and a half weeks of school left for the kids, that’s only 12 days of primary school to go for David. I got his high school orientation info pack today, so many pieces of paper, so many forms to fill in, fees to pay (I’m interested to see that these include a voluntary $100 per student donation to the P&C – wonder how many … Continue reading Bye, bye November
Not that we’re putting up much resistance or anything. However, I’m a little concerned that it’s not just Christmas that has a foothold in our house…http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377Click here if you can’t see the embedded video. Continue reading Christmas is invading my loungeroom
Mim's Muddle 