Weekend Wotcha
I love this photo. What’s everyone up to this weekend? Apart from the usual weekend family stuff, I’m meeting up with some friends for late arvo/early evening drinks on Saturday, and our street is having a champagne brunch gathering on Sunday (mostly to celebrate the eviction of particularly obnoxious neighbours after months of turmoil). I’ve [...]
Capacity, utilisation and peak demand
In our last big discussion at LP on problems in the public health system (regarding the Coalition plan to initiate a revamped hospital training program for new nurses) a lot of us pointed fingers at the bean counters as the reason why hospital nurses no longer have time to provide patients with the emotional support [...]
“The Random Lunchtime SMS Romance”
Cheers to whoozqueen, who has agreed to let me copy this SMS conversation here. I have edited it to change the names only. Apparently, you can’t even take a wrong number SMS these days without getting hit on. I can’t help but be amused (and more than a little skeeved out) at this random chap’s [...]
Ennervening the spouse
We test-drove small turbodiesel cars yesterday and today. Yesterday, the car we drove was an easy-driving car with decent performance. Today, we drove a car that took me back to my youth of hanging around with Rally Car Clubs, and to my beloved first car I actually owned, a Ford Escort MkII that cornered like [...]
I See A Great Need.
[Image from here. Cap by me.] Related posts: EU bans experiments on great apes I see a great need Virtual Travelling: Great Court, British Museum, London I see a great need “Through heredity great things might be accomplished for the human race – as great things as have been achieved in the improvement of horses [...]
Anathema on lazy cafes
Ugly, ain’t they? When I am paying damn good money for something hot and wet, in a cafe which has 15 different ways that one can have one’s coffee, you better believe that I expect you to make up a pot of tea using loose leaves, not just a teabag. You are not a greasy [...]
Never too early to start your fetus wearing a tinfoil colander
Today’s Useless Baby Gear: Mummywraps! Planning your family, or baby already on the way? You want the best for your child, but how can you protect your precious bundle of joy against the potentially harmful electrosmog that swirls invisibly around us wherever we are, and whatever we are doing, 24 hours a day? [...] Q: [...]
Just a spoonful of polyphenols…
[Image from Milk And Cookies. Check out her other recipes while you're there, especially the orange and date tart.] The latest in chronic fatigue syndrome symptom control? 45 grams of dark chocolate a day. The effect was small, but the trial seems to have been quite well-designed, with blinding and a washout and crossover design. [...]
Jill nails it
I’ll take voting rights over a knight in shining armor, thanks.
And that’s the thing with chivalry: It always demands something in return.
Things not to do.
I just remembered something that really, really pissed me off over four years ago, and that I never really complained properly about at the time. I was a subject in a breastfeeding research lab for about a year, in a series of different studies. I was pleased to be able to help a set of [...]
Babies, body fluids and the “bizarre”
[image from the Daily Mail] Mostly, I just wanted to blog this story because I love this photo. Nadia is on the left. But there is stuff to say, too. Melissa at Shakesville has been blogging about the way in which news about women, gendered violence, and the trafficking of girls keeps getting categorised under [...]
Sunday Picblogging: Blech, Bling and Bahaha
Spotted in a Cotton On Kids store last week by intrepid reporter baroquestar: three children’s T-shirts, aimed at girls from toddler size. The slogans? “My Daddy Loves Beer More Than Me”, “Future Footballer’s Wife” and “Lock Up Your Sons”. [note: not actual shirts.] Related posts: Surely the longest bow ever drawn Wordless Sunday: The Sunday [...]
The preschooler speaks.
Over dinner, we were talking about the school uniform at the lad’s new school – the one he’ll be transferring to when we move. “It’s blue pants and a golden shirt”, he told Daddy, having observed the kids wearing this when we went for an orientation visit. “Some of the kids were wearing skirts, and [...]
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