Week 12.45 – Platypuses, Cake and London

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Week 45 is from Monday November 5, 2012 until (and including) Sunday November 11, 2012 This week Katja grappled with a giant platypus, I made some nommy cake, and we all travelled down to London where naturally I visited Loop. 20121108 – Katja’s first taste of “solid” foods. She’s not too sure about this! 20121108 [...]

Welcome Katja

Rocking her hearing test

On Friday 29th June at 1:25am Christian and I welcomed Katja Aoibhe Anear Saemann into the world. With her mass of gorgeous hair and perfect heart-shaped face, she weighed in at 2.91kg or 6lbs 6 and 51cm long. She had left us waiting, being 11 days overdue but once we showed her the door she [...]

New Adventures Starting Soon

A lot has been going on behind the scenes the last month and now at last I’m able to let you all in on the secret – I’m moving house. And not just moving house, but moving country – again. After 6 years in Ireland pretty much to the day I’m going to be heading [...]

Really???!! Sexism that blatant *still* exists?

On our way to lunch today we spotted an accident at a busy intersection. The drivers of both cars looked quite dazed – it was a tail-ender where one car had stopped and the one behind had not. Both cars were extensively damaged so it must have been a hard knock. The police were there [...]

Blind leading the stupid?

oil spill

Attempts to stem flow of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon oil rig suffered a serious setback on Saturday when crystallised gas filled the containment dome that had been placed over the worst of the two remaining leaks. The dome – a 98-ton steel box with an opening at [...]

A little birdy told me…

I come across a fair number of interesting links and tidbits online, especially on Twitter. Here’s a few that I’ve come across lately… In the News – Two escape as car falls through ice http://bit.ly/8DXqnp (via @the_irish_times) – Twitter’s Growth Slows Dramatically – http://br.st/0NT (via @dministry) Handy to Know – Pack a Gun to Protect [...]

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. [...]

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