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
Well, this is not the post I intended for today - I'm at the coast, so I had planned to do a bathing suit post - but today we've seen so many uneggspected things that I felt a different egg was calling me. To set the scene, we are staying in Dalmeny, a tiny town … Continue reading Uneggspected things…
Time for another in Dad's colour series. This one is such a deep, rich green that it was really hard to photograph. I think it was dyed, dipped over and over again to get such a gorgeous colour, then painted with a gleaming gold gouache. There are so many green sayings... He's got a green … Continue reading Feeling a bit green…
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!
