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Meg's Eggs 2008-09-23 15:16:16 Two of our chooks have started laying!
I love having chickens so much. They are so fascinating to observe and it has been comforting to have some other females around.
I would like to dedicate these first eggs to all the pro-choicers in Victoria who are working hard on the State Government's abortion decriminalisation bill.
Porridge Picnic 2008-09-23 05:46:29 Yesterday PJ and Z met me here, at the half way point of my morning walk, with pancakes and coffee on the open fire. This morning it was porridge that awaited me.
Just as we learnt a few days ago that coffee made with carbonated spring water doesn't work, so too this morning we discovered that porridge tastes much better made with water without bubbles. Read more:Picnic
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500 Tablets (500 mg) 2008-09-22 05:10:31 Five years ago I asked a naturopath: What one supplement do you recommend everyone should take? To which she replied, without even thinking, Spirulina. And thus began my love affair with the blue-green algae.
When I moved to the country, I was most pleased when I found out there was a guy selling it locally.
I know I bang on and on about all the reasons I love living in a small community, and I Read more:Tablets
A Toast 2008-10-30 01:36:40 The other morning PJ and I came into the living room to see Z drawing a treasure map with permanent markers. The paper was too thin and his islands and palm trees are now inscribed on our floor.
This morning when we woke and heard Z making noise outside our door, we were quick to call out to see what he was doing. He asked us to close our eyes and the next moment he burst in with breakfast in bed Read more:Toast
No title 2008-10-30 01:28:14 I don't do drop ins. There I've said it.
I know they're a part of living in a small community in the country, but I really haven't got the hang of them yet. People coming over, dropping in, swinging by.
I grew up on a main road in the city so we never had friends just stopping in. And now I work from home and honour the distinction between my private and public self.
There are however people wh
Brave Day, Tuesdays 2008-10-28 03:09:00 I don't remember what difficult task started it. I was in high school at the time, so it was most likely about standing up to a friend. I brought it up with my mum who, in her wisdom came up with the idea of Brave
Day, Tuesdays
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She suggested that whatever I found onerous or too hard, I should save up to do on Tuesdays. And then after a while I should do brave things on Wednesdays too, then
A Year of Perfect Days 2008-10-27 03:43:52 My older sister K has three kids. My younger sister E is a musician who has released three CDs. In a trifecta of beautiful coincidences, the three albums were born at the same time as the babies.
My youngest niece has just celebrated her first birthday, which means it has been a year since the launch of E's most recent musical creation, A Year of Perfect
Days. Isn't that a great title? The CD
Ghost Nets 2008-10-26 05:25:33 A few days ago I read Donovan Hohn's wonderful essay, Moby-Duck: Or, the Synthetic Wilderness of Childhood.
In it, he talks about high-sea drift nets that were banned by the UN in 1992.They were nets with a mesh size of about four inches, but they were, like, fifty miles long. The Japanese would sit there and interweave these for fifty miles. There were something like a thousand drift nets being Read more:Ghost
No title 2008-10-25 02:27:04 From Arbroath in the UK:Atheist adverts declaring "there's probably no God" could be placed on buses across the country after a fundraising drive made five times the target amount in just one day. Even religious groups donated money to the cause in the belief that the campaign would encourage people to think more about faith and could actually enhance support for Christianity.
Organi
H-a-p-p-i-n-e-s-s 2008-10-22 00:50:39 That's me on the left when I had short hair. I'm holding a dish of cookies, as drawn by Loobylu.
Today on her blog she has a competition for her readers. She is asking for people's favourite Internet recipes. Hers, she says, is for Princess Meg’s Birthday Celebration Cookies, which she blogged about just after she and I worked together.
My entry: Oh how things change in seven and a half years!
Double Fudge 2008-10-20 14:51:17 I guess that's what happens when you have older siblings – you inevitably get their hand me downs. In my case: toys, clothes, books and sometimes even boyfriends.
I remember reading my older sister K's Judy Blume books. Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, Forever, Superfudge, Then Again, Maybe I Won't; I read and enjoyed them all with a dictionary on hand.
This morning on my walk I listened
Great Walls of Fire 2008-10-18 00:19:27 From Boing Boing:Australia's Great
Firewall: Just Like China, Syria and Other "Free" CountriesIn a move that seems to be happening without comment from the Australian media, the Australian government is introducing a censorship regime ostensibly targeted at stopping teenagers accessing online porn.
But rather than being an opt-in system, it's "opt-out." I use the scare quotes b Read more:Walls
Bed Head 2008-10-17 04:46:13 While You Were Sleeping - Elvis Perkins
This post is dedicated to my sister E who recommended I take Melatonin to help me sleep, and to her friend P who recommended it to her.
Thank you and thank you!
The Shock Doctrine 2008-10-16 15:04:39 Reading a book like Naomi Klein's The Shock
Doctrine, at a point like this in economic history is enough to make anyone want to run back to the safe pages of fictional books.
Several weeks ago, when PJ and I had finished watching the final episodes of Underbelly, it was exciting to read in the paper about all the unsavoury underworld characters we had come to know and even like.
Not so with
The Garden of Self Defence 2008-10-15 04:30:35 On the opening night of TINA, PJ was invited to be on a panel called 2020: Arbitrary Figures & Advocating Real Cultural Change. The panel was made up of people who run festivals or write books or host radio programs about the arts; people whose opinions influence change, but who were not invited to take part in Mr Rudd's 2020 Summit.
Many of the questions were about how young artists can f Read more:Garden
Bitch Fight 2008-10-14 04:29:22 A version of the paper I presented at Critical Animals has been published online today. Read more:Bitch
Having Time 2008-10-12 04:54:39 Three years ago I phoned my sister K and asked what I could give J, her second eldest daughter, for her birthday. She told me time, and suggested I come up and spend a few hours with her as my gift.
K's answer jarred me; I wanted my nieces to take spending time with me for granted. And so I decided to leave Melbourne and move up here to be closer to them.
Today J celebrated her 5th birthday with Read more:Having
Review: To See Again 2008-10-11 01:57:50 Flip the book over and:
A fantastic review of PJ and Mr O's book has just been published:How to Do Words With Things is a beautiful book object. The front cover is the back cover, and the back the front: each a beginning and an end. The two works that comprise the one object–A Free-Dragging Manifesto by Patrick Jones and subtext by Peter O’Mara–face each other in a reverse doubling, like th Read more:Again
Friday Night Rule 2008-10-10 17:11:28 Whenever we go to Melbourne, the FridayNight
Rule applies regardless of what day it is.
PJ implemented the rule several months ago after I had a fight with a guy on a street corner. The guy finished his cigarette and dropped it on the ground just as I walked past him. Taken aback, I asked if he was going to pick it up. He told me he wasn't and a fight ensued.
The rule relates not just to smoker Read more:Friday Night
The Tall Man 2008-11-18 21:18:17 I finished reading this book a couple of days ago but wanted to blog about it today on November 19, exactly four years after Cameron Doomadgee's death, the event around which this book is based. He died while in police custody on Palm Island, an Aboriginal community off the north east coast of Australia.
Doomadgee was arrested one morning for drunkenly swearing at the tall policeman Christopher
No title 2008-11-17 20:53:40 This is my favourite zine. It's called You and has been distributed by Luke You free every week since November 2001.
One of the best things I did when we were in Newcastle was take part in a letter writing marathon. People were invited to handwrite letters that would then be distributed in the zine's hallmark brown paper bag with Y-O-U stamped on the front.
Participants wrote down their address
Physical Graffiti 2008-11-17 03:37:13 Our friend J is visiting from the US. He is here to introduce his family and friends to his new lady friend, whom I will meet tomorrow night for the first time when they come for dinner.
On Friday PJ and J spent the day in Melbourne, tagging the streets with their bodies. Read more:Graffiti
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