Interviewer: So perhaps you could tell us your greatest weakness… Applicant: Well I guess my greatest weakness is that I can get caught up in a job and feel compelled to finish it up – to the point where I will lose track of time. I started making a dress for my baby girl last [...]
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My baby is thirteen and she is gorgeous. Today we went on the tunnel tour under Fremantle Prison, the largest convict built establishment in Australia. I think my girl was impressed that the jail was still in use when “I was alive”. In fact they closed the prison in 1991 and then had to wait [...]
This is my daughter being some Cosplay character that no doubt she will scream at me for not remembering! She dressed up to go to some anime/manga convention in January. Isn’t she cute. I’m not sure I agree with the whole dress up like a naughty schoolgirl thing that generally seems to happen at these [...]
A little bit of Christmas silliness to wish you all a very happy season:
Scary huh? Only three belts away from a karate black belt. Dippity refused to let us watch her grading. Apparently we would have put her off. I think she was more worried about us embarrassing her. Well we did threaten to cheer on the sidelines… It is our job after all, as parents, to embarrass [...]
This week’s theme is balloons and when I think of balloons I always think of my dad’s 60th birthday. We held it at my place and blew up about 200 helium filled balloons with long ribbon tails to cover the ceiling. Then we all waited with the lights off in the lounge room for him [...]
What I love about the school curriculum these days – no matter it be private or public – is the onus on public service. I don’t remember it being part of my education. There are heaps of fundraisers of course but the kids are also required to complete a certain number of hours of community [...]
A couple of years ago I wrote about the bogans at the Perth Royal Show. I was quite scathing. Now, it’s not that the show has suddenly become a bogan-free zone – quite the contraire – it’s just that – for the first time in about ten years I went to the show and I [...]
Okay then Dippity – what do you want to achieve with your life? What do you want to do? Oh I don’t know… C’mon you must have something you want to do… Well… Yes? I’d like to take over the world with my army of flying evil ninja monkeys! ??? Where did this child come from?
