We had reached that slow point on Saturday morning where Kev and Angus were starting to yawn, having been up for hours, and where Gregor was just finished breakfast, and where nothing much seemed likely to happen for the next hour or so. So I jumped into some clothes and took my bike out for… Continue reading More Bicycling
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You Never Forget
Apparently it’s true: you really do never forget how to ride a bike. I took my new steed out for a trot around the block this evening. Actually, first I encouraged Angus to take his bike around the block. And he made it. Even with the stabilizers on, I ran behind him holding on, because… Continue reading You Never Forget
XKCD Gives Away Our Secret
This made me laugh a lot… …then curse him for telling people.
A Message from Gregor
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Hummingbird!
I just saw a hummingbird, for the first time in my life. I was standing on the deck, about to come inside, when what seemed like two butterflies or a really big dragonfly flitted past me and paused at one of my flower boxes. When my eyes had focussed I realised that this was a… Continue reading Hummingbird!
Writing, With A Pen!
Well, I have taken down my 500 Words logo in the sidebar there -> because I haven’t been making an effort to hit my 500 words a day. I just haven’t been able to make the time, or the space in my brain. However, I have been writing over the past few days. I have… Continue reading Writing, With A Pen!
Silence is Golden
I’m getting grief from all sides about the lack of blog posts recently. I regret it, myself, but in my defense, it’s hard to concentrate on putting words together coherently — never mind coming up with an entertaining story — when there are two small boys around all day, and one large boy for part… Continue reading Silence is Golden
Turning Into My Mother
After I waved the boys off this morning (“have fun storming the castle!”) I turned my attention to the garden, specifially my vegetable plot. I’ve been nursing some seedlings along for the past wee while. Sadly I lost the cucumbers (apparently they REALLY mean it when they say cucumbers don’t like to be transplanted) and… Continue reading Turning Into My Mother
Best Job In The World
The news is full of the guy who won the contest for the “Best Job In The World” – as a caretaker of a tropical island, which was a brilliant PR campaign by the Queensland Tourist Board, by the way. Talk of the Nation, on NPR, is doing a call-in show, asking people what their… Continue reading Best Job In The World
Happily Hitched
It’s wedding season here in the US. Anyone who has ever listened to 1930s & 40s popular song knows that ‘moon’ and ‘June’ are synonymous with love — and it’s not just because they rhyme. In most of the States the weather is unbearably hot any time between June and October, so most weddings, with… Continue reading Happily Hitched