Happy Halloween/Samhain/Beltain wherever you are in the world. Growing up Halloween wasn’t a popular festival to celebrate. I didn’t go trick or treating and the only chance I got for a party was when a friend had one to celebrate her birthday a few days later. It hasn’t been a ‘thing’ here to do and […]
Thought I’d warn everyone about the photo I’m going to post just in case you don’t like spiders. I’m not the sort of person that will go picking them up. I mostly try to take them outside if I find them in the house, but not these. That is a red back spider, hanging off
Well, it seems it’s been another of those weeks for me. I had hoped to write about what I’ve been reading lately, but I’ve been caught in the grips of needing to get this chapter done for my PhD, so I won’t get to it until next week. But I have been thinking a lot
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UncategorizedI didn’t mean to leave it so long between blog posts and I think it’s a case of life getting in the way. Life here = PhD. For the last week I’ve been bogged down in finishing a draft of the next chapter of my dissertation. I managed to get it finished friday and now
When attempting to rescue a skink or other small creature from a cat it is important to follow a few key steps. 1. Follow the cat and do not let it out of your site. This may mean chasing the cat around the house while it carries it’s prey in an attempt to keep it,
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UncategorizedTechnically it’s saturday where I am and well, I meant to post earlier. I also meant to have a far more productive day. Instead non-productive stuff got in the way, like needing to travel to civilisation to procure a birthday present for my nephew, not having enough sleep so that all my brain would do
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UncategorizedI’ve been taking advantage of the weather lately and working on my computer outside. Now, this would be even more lovely if I wasn’t working on my dissertation/exegesis. I’m getting there, but it’s slow and tedious work to make sure I’m saying what I want to say. My consolation today has been acquiring my first
Yesterday I mentioned I was going to tell you all about why I didn’t post on friday. Well, this happened: Since it was my birthday last saturday and we were having a picnic, I decided rather than cake that what I wanted was my Nanna’s Lemon Mallow Slice, and the disaster that is the photo
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UncategorizedApologies for the lack of posts over the last few days. I meant to post friday, but didn’t because this happened: I’ll get to what it is and what it was supposed to be tomorrow. Saturday didn’t happen because it was my birthday. I had a fabulous day. Had pancakes for breakfast: Got these from my