Adelaide in February; that can signify many things. Hot weather, tomato harvesting, dining outdoors, visits to the beach, ice cream and most of all, the Adelaide Fringe. As mentioned in a earlier post, Adelaide’s Fringe is second in the world only to Edinburgh, Scotland, and is the largest fringe festival in the southern hemisphere. We…
Beauty is everywhere
Life is full of beautiful moments and sights. Sometimes you just need to look in your own back yard. The Adelaide summer has brought out the best in this Bougainvillea plant in our garden. It starts out slightly coppery and then goes hot pink. I am overwhelmed by its capacity to bloom about 9 months…
Twittering, catching up on US politics and just reflecting
I am a twitterer and am probably more suited to the short format. Whether it's finding time for a concentrated bout of writing, short attention span or just my nature, I am not sure. Most of my work day I spend at a screen and keyboard so I am probably a bit averse to logging…
January things
Locally grown avocados and stone fruits at the Adelaide Showgrounds Farmer's Market, my husband's birthday (he just turned 50, young thing), Tour Down Under and the Big Day Out. These are the January things that have me talking this year. I dusted off my old Avanti bicycle today and rode over to the Adelaide Showgrounds…
The tyranny of the day job
In itself, my job at the documentation factory is not that bad. I am currently redesigning forms for a credit union using Adobe LiveCycle Designer. "Designing forms, how boring" I hear you say. But, believe me, if you like technology and getting to play with new software, and feel good about process improvements and that…
I shouldn’t be thinking about work right now…
But I was talking to a work mate the other day about ligature and kerning and other terms to do with typography. When I started to explain these things to her, I realised there were some serious gaps in my knowledge. Sure I know some basics that I learned in the early days of Desk…
And now for some photos
I usually write here but would like to introduce some photos from our daily life. Well, when you have a cat or two, they really do rule the house. Speedy and Jose Gonzalez are two amazing brothers who came into our lives via the local vet who had rescued them. After nearly a year with…
The year that was – 2009
Well, 2009 went off without too many personal dramas. I was fortunate enough to go with Andrew to South America for 5 and a half weeks. From Late march till the end of May. We were blessed with great weather everywhere we went which made trekking around very comfortable. I reunited with a travel companion…
Amazing person for 2010
I have a friend in Ireland who has 4 children, studies part-time, teaches full-time and has just begun to blog in 2 languages, Swedish and her mother tongue, English. She has a Swedish husband who speaks perfect English. She does not need to speak Swedish. She did live in Sweden for a while but is…
I dub thee NaNoWriYr
NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. It was supposed to be a "month of literary abandon". Well, in 19 days I have managed 1245 words where I should have written 30-odd thousand by now. Having decided on a topic and main character I set about writing my first 200 words on a flight from Sydney…
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