My baby just turned 21. She's so old. I'M so old! Where did all those years go? Way back in the beginning, for her first Easter, I painted her an egg, just like I'd done for all her brothers and sisters before her. My baby eggs. Each design was chosen for a reason, some connection … Continue reading Beetle baby…
Be warned - eggstremely soppy post coming up... Back when my husband Neill and I were romantic young things, in the throes of young love but still too shy to say it in public, we would made lengthy phone calls to each other. Since this was back when phones were all firmly attached to the … Continue reading No fluffy chickens here today…
Back in 2005, my husband Neill, uber-geek that he is, volunteered to help organise Canberra's hosting of linux.conf.au 2005, Australia's national conference for open source software - back before open source was quite as trendy as it is now! I got roped in to help out with some of the artwork, mainly coming up with weird … Continue reading “Stuffed to its brim with herring…”
So now a coast post... My parents, over many, many years, have hosted a steady stream of Japanese girls (and the occasional very eggsceptional guy). Some have come as teaching assistants, some just to experience life in a typical Australian home (my parents? 'typical'? not so much...). They all want to experience as much of … Continue reading Bathing beauty
My brother Steve is a bit of a rev-head. Well, a lot of a rev-head, really. For as long as I can remember he's been into fixing things that go, so they'll go better, faster, for longer (though perhaps we won't talk about the bike he built or what happens when you jump that bike … Continue reading Beep beep!
No, sorry, it's not Doctor Who (there'll be a few of those later, and there's a Dalegg on the site already). This journey back in time was made by my Dad, back in 1998, when he travelled to Shirakawa-go, a historic village in Gifu prefecture, Japan. **I'm posting one of Dad's eggs today because it's … Continue reading A step back in time…
