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A portmanteau. A treasure trove. A time capsule. A poetry book. A diary. A photo album. Memories. Dreams. Wishes. Hopes. An open letter to an unsuspecting public. An intimate confession to close friends. A declaration of intent. A whisper of love. A personal record. An experiment in introspection. A performance space. A political rant. A wild yawp. Why do any of us publish our words and images online? Come, dream with me.Pure baby… ?
Jack & I went to Pure Baby’s factory outlet yesterday and I bought two organic muslin swaddles. They’re gorgeous. They’re also ridiculously cheap, as are all the other clothes there, despite being organic cotton. Why? They’re made in China. The web site says that…
Human Rights: Australia needs a charter
I may have mentioned to some of you that there was a video competition to promote the campaign for an Australian Human Rights Charter.Doug very kindly took care of Harper for a few hours so I could make this. I would have liked to do more, but there’s only so much you…
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Interactive art
Ganked from derigueur : Soy tu aire. Spanish interactive art, requires Flash 10. Utterly beautiful.It’s funny, I remember sitting at a press conference many years ago and having some Adobe guru demonstrate for us the various things they were working on for Flash,…
Ada Lovelace day
I was thrilled to find out about this pledge by being named in Rachel Chalmer’s post. She is definitely one of the geeky grrls who inspired me in the early days, when we were the difficult, smart women in computer journalism in Sydney before the Internet was a big…
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More naming pics
And finally, a few pictures from the naming ceremony on Friday, first one by me, the rest taken by persephone20 (turns out there was enough detail to zoom in on for web purposes after all! Thank you for taking these at short notice!).Doug and Harper walk the…
A serious little girl
Needless to say, Doug took this one.And I took this one:
Sleeping
The best place in the world to sleep is Daddy’s chest…Even more adorable, my two loves asleep together:This is Harper asleep in her cot for the first time ever. Much less cute.
Photos ahoy!
I have so many photos I haven’t posted that I’m going to do them in a series of posts…First, Doug made Harper a second sling using some old tartan he had and then made her a little bonnet to go with it. Too adorable.We went to St Andrew’s Market with Jack but forgot…
8 weeks old!
My favourite new photo of Harper… She’s 8 weeks old today (time flies, huh?) and she’s smiling like it’s the best trick ever (I’m inclined to agree). I’m yet to get a photo of this as I’m too busy making faces back at her when she does it. At some point, I’ll get…
Lullaby
I’m finding one of my great joys is singing Harper to sleep. The old things seem odd to me (why on earth would you sing to a child about a cradle falling out of a tree??) so I’m singing Tiddas’ “Inanay” (I would love a copy of this; can’t find it for…
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Merri Creek Labyrinth update
I met with Megan from the Merri Creek Management Committee down at the Labyrinth on Wednesday. I walked partway through the labyrinth with her to show her how it was all one path leading to the centre and talked about the various things that I think about when I walk…
Fat is a feminist issue
My Dad used to have a book with this title… I have no idea what the content was, as I never read it, but while ‘fat’ is obviously something that occurs in both the male and female population, I have to agree with the sentiment that fat is an issue that feminists…
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Phoenix Emberstone
passionate political poet
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