I’ve heard from my boy in India. At last! I can’t believe how much we are all missing him. Anyway he writes: hi parents just a short email to say, i am enjoying India, in fact it is utterly amazing, finished first trek and i am currently in Rishikesh. unfortunately i got a bit of [...]
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So he has left. My baby, my boy, has gone from being carried in a backpack… to wearing one. He is doing World Challenge, which means he spends four weeks in India – in the hill country – trekking. He does a community project at a local school. And he gets a bit of R&R… [...]
I’ve been looking at some old family videos which we’ve recently digitised, and came across this one of my son’s second cello lesson. Here he is learning to bow. Or not. My friend The Poshi and I decided we’d share lessons and get our sons learning Suzuki cello. I even bought a cello to encourage [...]
My entry to I heart faces this week reminded me that we had some video. Ohhhh my kids were so cute! (They still are… just a bit spottier and teenagery)
Thanks to puberty, I have a decent chance of finally beating my son at Singstar. A Pyhrric victory” perhaps, nevertheless, a victory. *Cost to winner… pride, feeling of being a “good mother”…
After much wailing and gnashing of teeth I’ve chosen this pic of my two scallywags on top of Elachbutting Rock. I’ve told the story before. How much do kids love climbing rocks and leaning into the wind? Ahhhh the simple pleasures my friend. It’s for the I Heart Faces challenge… excited!
Everything is pink outside said my son this afternoon… Ah ha! I thought, the perfect chance to use the “sunset” feature on my new camera… This is straight out of the camera – no photoshopping I promise, not even a tweak. Cool huh? (are you getting sick of me talking about my new toy yet? [...]
Expression of GFP in E. coli. The bacteria on the right side of the figure have the GFP expression plasmid. Cells were photographed during irradiation with a hand-held long-wave UV source (Photo courtesy Marty Chalfie from the original 1994 Science article and GFP). You know that saying about parents living through their children. Well today [...]
Found under a bush at Dunsborough. July 4, 2009. About 18 cm tall. Pterostylis vittata More about this orchid. Of course my orchid hunter (Hugamuga) found it. It was the first time we’ve seen a greenhood on this site.
My boy started work at Red Rooster last night. I am so proud of him. I can’t remember being so industrious when I was 14- all those years ago. Yesterday he got up at 6am to finish his paper round before school started at 8am. After a full day at school he arrived home on [...]
