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Baby Shower

I went to my first baby shower this afternoon. Not having been to one I guess I was a little at a loss as to what to expect. I kind of thought it would be like a kitchen tea – you sit around and hand over some cute little useful gadget for the kitchen – so I bought a groovy little practical thing for the baby to be.

There was a lot of food. The table was groaning with it. The mother-to-be, Miss Lithuania – looked radiant and very pregnant (3 weeks to go) and the room was full of goodwill. This baby will be a happy one with all the positive energy around today.

But we didn’t open presents – although one girl was telling me of a baby shower where they all sat around and opened the gifts and they were very expensive gifts too – then you had to share a pearl of wisdom.

I guess it’s another of those traditions that we do just because they are “tradition”. I mean it’s not as if these days you don’t already have a gadget drawer in the kitchen chock full of peelers, garlic presses and apple corers by the time you get married, and likewise by the time you get to the hospital you’ve pretty much got everything. We are so much more affluent generally than our parents were.

So if it’s not about the gifts, what’s it for? I come back to goodwill. You all hope for and wish for the best.

I kind of wish it was the sort of thing you do after the baby’s born though… I would have liked a cuddle.

Feline was there and we decided that we’d offer our baby wisdom anyway – even though it’s a long time since we’ve had our babies – via our blogs. So be warned… just occasionally… you’ll see some baby wisdom on this blog…
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It also made me want to seek out my old photo albums and look at my two scallywags when they were newborn and gorgeous. (they still have their moments)

Warning: I do not think it amusing or charming when some people say “all babies are ugly except to their mothers”.

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Awards, Extracurricular, Modern Life

Sweetly smiling (even at the worst pick up lines)

Blogpond’s Meg awarded me the You Make Me Smile Award! Thank you. It made me smile. 🙂

You Make me Smile

I’d like to pass this back across the Nullabor to Carol, whose exploits in a Sydney Swans commercial really did make me smile, to I Drew whose witty observations are appreciated, and also to Feline Groovy because she always cheers me up – and introduced me to saying “Shhhhh” everytime we go past the turn off to Secret Harbour on the way down south. 🙂

I went out last Friday night.

Yes I know you think it’s amazing and it was because I rarely go out to a pub on a Friday night – or any night for that matter. In fact to illustrate how rare it is, I started off at the wrong pub.

I thought I was meeting my friend at Black Toms in Subiaco… at the Vic right. But Black Toms hasn’t been there for four or five years. Oh no. It’s been on Ord St in West Perth. So I’m standing around looking out for my friend in the wrong suburb.

Which leads me to my entry into “The Best Pick-Up Lines Contest” on The King Speaks.

I was standing with my friend leaning on the piano, as you do, at the real Black Toms some half an hour later. Holding a rather nice Shiraz and looking if not hot, at least more relaxed when a fairly well sauced (and by that I mean he’d been on the sauce for a while) mining type came up to me and said (this is my entry):

Hey! Where have you been all my life?

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He held my attention until he started bagging Perth. I mean, you don’t have to like it – but I don’t want to hear it. Not when I’m out to have a good time without you. I don’t want to spend my Friday night defending my home town to some inebriated idiot from Brisbane. Don’t like it? I’m sure you know where the airport is. (Whoops, starting to rant again…)

So the line did get him a (short) conversation…

Have you ever been to a Parliamentary press gallery? I was up at Parliament House in Perth today (just down the road from Black Toms incidentally) and wandered in to admire the view.

What amused (and a little appalled) me was the graffitti on the press gallery bench. The long wooden shelf was covered in names, obscenities (though admittedly some were quite clever ones) and commentary.

I was amused because I saw so many names belonging to my colleagues or former colleagues many who have done great and good things with their careers.

And I was a little bit appalled because it is such a beautiful building, it felt sacreligious to have defaced it.

On balance though I’m glad it’s there as it has turned into a rich multilayered work of art. An anthropological survey of Parliamentary journalism through the decades.

It also goes to show how boring Parliament must be sometimes!

I wonder who was the first to write their name?

Awards, Extracurricular, Modern Life

Halloween Treat

halloweentreat2 Trish has given me a Halloween treat which is a really cute idea from Hootin Anni who is handing out treats to “Make NEW friends by choosing random visitors!!!”

When you think about it, it’s very much like Halloween itself… when there’s a knock at the door by some kid you’ve never seen before (or never seen dressed like that before – definitely random)… and you hand out a treat.

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No tricks now!

Extracurricular

An uncomfortable moment with gorillas

I went to the Melbourne Zoo yesterday. My daughter was very keen to see the Orang enclosure and compare Perth’s with Melbourne… she loyally prefers Perth but does concede Melbourne has some good points.

We went to see the gorillas. I was quite keen never having seen a gorilla “in the flesh” so to speak. There was quite a lot of people crowding the viewing area but I managed to get a vantage point and could see them in action. I couldn’t stay.

I was so uncomfortable. They are just too like us. I felt I was looking at inmates. It was horrible.
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Perhaps it was because I’d seen the day before an episode of “The Mighty Boosh” – one of the main characters is a gorilla… I don’t know. I just know that I didn’t like it and had to leave. Yes even reading the daily tabloid was preferable.

And after that – the whole experience was somehow lessened.

Extracurricular, Family

Extending Family

I went out to dinner last night with my parents for Dad’s birthday.  (Galliano’s in Shenton Park – very nice by the way) 

Groover and I, Mum and Dad and three couples – all old family friends. One from Dad’s uni days, another from Mum’s, and another couple who have shared Christmas with us for the past 30 years or so.

The food was good, the company great – comfortable, funny, full of in-jokes and shared experiences.  And I sat there and thought how lucky they all were to have each other (still together as couples and as friends) and this great friendship that has lasted in some cases nearly half a century. And how lucky I was to have this fantastic extended family.
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So I’m warning you my friends that I am carefully cultivating you so that when I’m 69 I can have a dinner party with my extended family! Put the year 2035 in your diaries now.

Of course I say this with a heavy heart as HP won’t be there.  We played Mah Jong with the kids the other night and I found the scoresheets from the last couple of times we played with H&J.  We always left the scoring to H because he was so good at maths and it was pretty complicated. Do you ever stop grieving?

Extracurricular, Hugamuga, Orchids

The Orchid Hunter

Orchid HuntingMy resident orchid hunter wanted to show me the donkey orchids at Shenton Bushland this weekend. They were fabulous. Heaps of donkey and cowslip orchids which are always so lovely to find. Then at the Save the Children booksale we heard the Pink Fairy orchids were out at Bold Park.

We found them and some spectacular spider orchids – at least three varieties and donkeys and cowslips.

Eventually.

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The orchids are in more abundance at Shenton but spiders are special. 🙂

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Extracurricular, Random

Showing off to my boy

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Yes. The Crazy Warehouse Guy.

My numberoneson’s favourite.

Ner ner! 🙂

Extracurricular

Crash

I was involved in a crash on the way home this afternoon. I was the car that got banged into by the car that got hit by another car.

Luckily I have installed a bike rack on my bullbar.

This is the second time it has saved me from major damage to my bumper. Worth whatever I paid for it despite only using it once to transport bikes. Don’t think it will be moving any bicycles anytime soon though.

Yay for my bike rack! Yay for my bike rack! Yay for my bike rack!

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I haven’t crashed in the tunnel before. We pulled over into the emergency lane… well I did and so did the guy who crashed into us… we had to push the poor guy in the middle. And as we were standing there swapping details we hear over the loudspeaker – would the people in the emergency lane please go to the emergency phone closest to you. Well I assumed that’s what they said, it was a bit hard to hear as it was distorted with all the echoing and the thunderous sound of peak hour traffic.

So I went to the phone and a pleasantly spoken chap said he was sending in a tow truck, wouldn’t cost us anything but we needed to clear the tunnel. Hey I understood this. Don’t want to be a road hazard. Anyway I thought the middle car would probably need one.

A tow truck turned up about ten minutes later and I was ready to roll. It’s not pleasant standing around in the cold and exhaust fumes in the tunnel. And as you can see – my bike rack saved the day! I might check that the towbar isn’t damaged though… hate to be towing a trailer and it give way.  Not that I’ve ever towed a trailer with my car…yet.

Extracurricular, Jokes

My favourite joke

Went to a great party last night. A 40th. Loads of people dressed in cowboy outfits, the children made the cocktails (I was driving so no, didn’t have any of those) and there was country music (ah well).

This morning my hair smells like woodsmoke.

I saw my first flatmate – we shared a unit in Bunbury – and I haven’t seen her since about 1990. She’s exactly how I remember her – with slightly shorter hair.

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Why did Chris de Burgh cross the road?

To get to the middle of course!

Hehehe… LOL… ROFPMP!

Beliefs, Extracurricular

Wimbledon

The only thing I’ll say about Wimbledon is that it makes me happy that they enforce the “tennis players should wear white” rule.

It just looks right.

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And now I will get my pipe and slippers and go find a rocking chair. Maybe schedule that blue rinse for Wednesday.