Are we there yet?
As we enter the home stretch of the time known as Waiting for Bump, I’m saving up little projects that cane be done at night for the anticipated boring hours of feeding and sleeplessness. There’s a few TV shows and movies included to watch for when my brain doesn’t want to really get involved (Next [...]
Culture Club – Karma Chameleon – Video Culture Club’s Karma Chameleon was a hit in Australia around the time of my 10th birthday. I had my birthday party at the local pool that year, I remember this song playing on the loud speakers as my friends and I had the new Calippo ice creams and [...]
Back in 2006 I did a little exercise of comparing how big Ireland is to Australia. It helped me to get some perspective on my new home. Now as I’m about to head off home for a visit I want to share how big Australia is to Europe and since I’m here and found the [...]
As the wonderful Rex Harrison said (not sang) in My Fair Lady, “I knew that she would do it, and indeed she did!” Yes, as you can see from the pic here my Innocent Knitting Nancy has proved successful and I now have two little smoothie hats to show for it. Truth be told I [...]
Just found out, and was rather surprised to find this, that the way that I pronounce “cache” is uniquely Australian. It appears that the rest of the world pronounce it as though it rhymes with the word cash whereas I pronounce it “cay-sh”. Wonder what else is unique to Australia that I don’t know about.
In the News
The following items have caught my eye today in the news and I felt the need to share and comment, so here goes… From Australia – EMPLOYERS have expressed concern that a test case on equal pay in the community sector could spill over into other female-dominated industries, potentially leading to big increases in wages. [...]