Shots from Mother’s Day lunch in the Lower Blue Mountains. Below are close-ups of part of the view from their back verandah. [first image of the series in the Flickrstream] [slideshow] The cold snap the last week and the mellower… Read More ›
Life
Budget Drinking Game!
Zoe had some sort of collision with a crystal ball and ended up liveblogging Tonight’s Budget Speech last night instead. So the plan is: Print out Zoe’s post. Make a large jug of something reprehensibly alcoholic Sit in comfy chair… Read More ›
Women of Myanmar (Burma) and China
I’m just going to quote this post from Suzie at Echidne of the Snakes in full,complete with its links for Burma, and add a reminder for the women of China coping with the earthquake disaster of yesterday. When a disaster… Read More ›
From the mailbag
It’s not all invitations to coffee or ungrammatic hatemail. Sometimes these little notes revive pleasant memories of previous posts, like a nice little alert from someone (doing a systematic search on sites which had referenced them) to an updated URL… Read More ›
Best Mother’s Day present ever
So you’ll never guess what I got for Mother’s Day… a new native garden outside my window! This was the previous outlook from my bedroom window: A little bleak, no? More:
Sunday Neato: Earth-bowls
Fluidforms “Earth-bowls”. Just pinpoint your chosen location in Google Earth, choose a height scale, and these clever Austrians will make it out of wood for you, terrain and all. [Via Oohsome]
Happy Mother’s Day
I’m well chuffed with my complete set of Hornblower DVDs. (Thinks: what would a cage-wrestling match between JDF and the Ioan would be like?)
Otterday
Caturday is so last month. Here: Otters doing rhythmic gymnastics moves with pebbles. [via gigglesugar]
I can’t believe it’s not International No-Diet Day
And we missed it! Anyway, Fillyjonk and Kate have posted lots of good stuff about HAES and Size Acceptance. Everyday is No-Diet Day in my house, although yesterday was actually no-retain-food-in-belly day, as I succumbed to the chundering bug that… Read More ›
Before the snip
I just remembered a conversation I had with a hairdresser last week. She was just about to do the Dramatic First Cut, as I was going from long hair to what they seem to call an “urchin” cut. (Proceeds going… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 