Since facebook seems to have taken over my online social life, it seems increasingly difficult for people to venture off to… well, this blog – or the gallery that sits at the same site.
That’s cool – facebook is a kind of ‘one stop shop’, so why would you go anywhere else? Luckily the developers [...]
Joe is growing into his new space so amazingly – every day is something a little different. Sure, he does baby things. But the little things that come up every new day! He’ll sit and stare at the world from the safety of my lap – or Bel’s, just absorbing everything. He’ll wake up and [...]
I’ve become a bike part cynic. Its sad really, the magical wizardry of shiny new things only makes me suspicious now. I arrived here via a set of fandangle Mavic wheels, that promised, well, to be wheels – but they looked great, rolled really well and I foolishly thought they would last forever.
Ooops.
Now, 18 months [...]
This past Sunday we made a baby sleeping hammock! We’d heard of them and they seemed like such a great way to start a new human off in the world, as opposed to being lost in a giant crib. So, we eaded off to e-bay, looked at quite a few of them and were about [...]
In around 3 weeks there will be a new little human doing its new human thing in our household. What a crazy thought! Its both exciting and scary – but its been done billions of times before… no doubt I’ll write even less about life here when the little’un arrives!
Its been an intense weekend, dominated [...]
I just finished reading My Forbidden face, a book written by an Afghan woman who spent late teenager-hood under Taliban rule. I couldn’t put it down! I’ve not ever paid much attention to whats been going on there, and I feel really quite amazed by it all. I think I will definitely try to dig [...]
With much water under the bridge since last post [quite literally a few thousand kilometres of it], I think a split approach to life’s goings ons is best.
So the big event? Making it back in time for my own wedding! We had a an extraordinarily busy two weeks finalising preparations, and putting Bel’s planning into [...]
Last night I had a high speed altercation with a motor vehicle on my ride home! ouch! A bit of a shock, to have someone pull out to do a u-turn from a park right in front of you…
Luckily, I’m OK and Rosie the bike seems only minorly damaged. She’s going for a post-trauma checkup [...]
Ahhh… almost a week has passed since I returned from the glorious rock of Mt Arapiles. It was a very good trip, although I really had to wind back my expectations – the price you pay for not climbing much between big missions. Regardless, loads of good climbing was had with some repeats, alternate [...]
This week I’m on a remote area first aid course. There’s so much to learn, and it really is one of those ‘things I should have done years ago’. But it is never too late. So a group of us have been hanging out in a scout camp on top of a hill not far [...]