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Jacquie Lawson’s Edwardian Advent Calendar – 11/10

When I was a kid, you could buy Advent Calendars that counted down each day of December until you reached Christmas. The delightful part, however, was that behind each ‘day’ on the calendar was a small chocolate. I can’t remember the taste of the chocolate, but I can remember the sense of anticipation that went […]

K.T. Flory – fledgling animator extraordinaire!

That little animation was one of The Daughter’s early ones, but as she has posted it on youtube I feel justified in sharing it with you. Can you tell that we have the same, slightly macabre sense of humour? I think The Daughter is immensely talented, and of course, being a very proud Mama, I’m […]

How we Aussies appear to the rest of the world

One of the messages Tony Abbott and the Liberals bleeted ad nauseum before the last election [as a justification for getting rid of the Carbon Tax] was “why should we cripple our economy when it won’t do any good anyway?”. That was not a direct quote of course, I just paraphrased the ‘message’. Well, I […]

Success and deflation

You all know the feeling – you work your butt off for weeks or months, and then suddenly the goal you thought would never arrive, does. You’re finished. You’ve achieved what you set out to do. You should be feeling euphoric. Instead, the whole thing feels like an anti-climax, and you feel blah. That’s me […]

More connections – Sail the Storm

In my last post I talked about connecting with Lew Blaustein. Well today, Joe Kawano, someone I met on Twitter – a complete stranger no less – sent me a link to one of the most amazing Youtube video clips I’ve ever seen. Thanks Joe! I’m utterly bewitched and thought I’d share. The music is […]

Doing something about Climate Change can be fun!

I’ve just discovered you can never predict how and when you will meet another kindred spirit! I’m not a sporty person by any stretch of the imagination, but thanks to my friend Candy Korman, and my post on the Climate Change rally, I’ve just met Lew Blaustein from New York City. Lew is a blogger […]

Music to write to… The Realm of Levitation

I’ve raved about Jo Blankenburg’s music since Nanowrimo 2012, so forgive me if I do another little rave. This time I’m in love with a song off his relaxation CD, Floatovations. [The title of the CD comes from 'float' and 'ovations' in case anyone was wondering].The track I love is called the ‘Realm of Levitation’ […]

“There is no skeptic at the end of a fire hose”

That line, delivered by Peter Marshall, Secretary of the United Firefighters Union [Victoria Branch] made the crowd at the Climate Change Rally roar its approval, and I yelled right along with them. Marshall went on to say that in decades past, firefighters would have to deal with just one major fire event every ten years […]

Melbourne Climate Change Rally in Pictures

I’m not the world’s best photographer so I struggled to capture the feel of today’s Climate Change rally in Melbourne, but these pics should give you some idea of what it was like. I’ll follow up with my impressions of the rally in a second post, but for now I’m knackered from all the walking […]

National Day of Climate Action – be seen, be heard!

I caught up with my assignments 3 days ago, and since then I’ve been catching up with everything else in my life that’s taken a back seat over the last couple of months. So apologies for the flurry of blog posts, but I have to get in quick before the assignments start up again next […]