reading list updit!

It looks like I am going to run out of January before I run out of books on the January reading list.
I am really getting into using the internet to reserve books at the library and on Wednesday nights the library two streets away from my house is open until 8pm. It’s like my inner […]

two mums and a dad

we watched ‘two mums & a dad’ on sbs tonight.
we’re friends with the two amazing women who the film shows through the rocky road of negotiating a pregnancy, and then parenting, when the family unit is something other than the usual.
there’s a pretty good discussion going now over at the SBS website.
lordy, watching those early […]

don’t go back to rockville (and waste another year)

i just read back through my archives.
gee, i’ve written some crap.

Where I do toy library duty

Late last year Drew and I dropped into the toy library one Saturday morning to join up and get toys. I somehow ended up getting my name put down for January toy stocktake, which I’ve just finished for the day. I didn’t run screaming fast enough, I realise now, on reflection.
As well as swimming lessons, […]

childcare, other acceptable forms of torturing small children, etc

This week Eilis went back to work. She’ll be working Wednesday, Thursday & Friday from herein.
Grandma and grandpa are on duty Wednesdays.
Thursday & Friday is childcare.
For all our ideological mumbo-jumbo about community based childcare, the ones we visited in our area before Christmas weren’t as good as the private centres. For babies, anyway. The community […]