Are we there yet?
It’s Katja’s first Easter Monday today and we’ll be heading to Australia so this post has naturally been prepared in advance. The weekly pictures post will show what the little one thinks of her chocolate easter “egg” which is actually a bunny. Today’s memory concerns Easter Eggs. I remember as a kid we’d get up [...]
The Green Guide is a Melbourne institution. It’s been going since long before I was born and it is a fixture of my childhood. Every Thursday when the newspaper was delivered this green section would be included. As a child I remember it as just green newsprint paper with black. It was just as bizarre [...]
Have you ever wanted to try needle tatting but perhaps you don’t have access to the needles? Maybe you’re trying to learn but finding the needles and fine threads too fiddly, you might be constantly stabbing yourself with the business end of the needles (blunt? they still hurt!) or perhaps you’re looking to tat with [...]
I’m very proud of my father’s achievements. He competed for Australia in the 1976 Olympic games in Montreal, Canada. Then in 2000 he ran in the torch relay for the Sydney games. I have vague recollections of my Dad being on the telly (I was only 3 at the time) and the general excitement of [...]
It is generally understood that if you learn too much about something, so much that you understand how it works, that you become a snob. It is generally thought that this is a Bad Thing. I disagree. Strongly. And I’m going to explain why using a couple of examples. Yarn. My first example is yarn. [...]
Like most people who are out of school for a few years, I despair for those kids coming through now. It seems that ever since I left all those years ago the level of education has been going downhill. Of course, when I think about it rationally I can see that this has been happening [...]
I was having a poke about my Kiva account today and I have to say OMG – this is amazing! I started with Kiva in May of 2007. Such a nice warm and fuzzy feeling. Since then I have deposited a total of $200 into my account – and $50 of that was a very [...]
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