... go online and buy them! But more on that later.So, yes, this has not been a good week health-wise. I did manage to get into the loft and make the ... View all

In a way. Being back in Sydney for the weekend was weird. I have to confess I don't have any real love for the city or my family that lives there. I w ... View all

Like I've mention before I'm rarely a winner when it comes to random competitions and lotteries. And to compete for things with neither mind nor talen ... View all

It is hard to believe it is almost here .... today i started to feel very excited, today it started to feel real ...This time next week we'll be in Am ... View all

I feel like i am running up a BIG hill at the moment and when i get to about half way and think i'm getting somewhere i slide back to the bottom again ... View all

WARNING .... LONG POST AHEAD !!Lots happening/happened over the last week or so, lots of scrapbooking and finally a chance to update my blog !THE SCRA ... View all

Notable for its lively, colloquial prose, Sid Fleischman's new biography, THE TROUBLE BEGINS AT 8 : A LIFE OF MARK TWAIN IN THE WILD, WILD WEST, is fi ... View all

Me "Oh....well.....um.....in THEORY......that is.......welllllllll,........no."Him "Oh........So, it's just your thing, then? I should just get used ... View all

Further to the last entry, I suppose it’s something of an achievement to be singled for having funny hair in Camden Town. That perennially youth ... View all

Mary From "Hooked on needles" sent me this story and a pic of the scrap quilt she made for her daughter. What a story these fabrics must have told!   ... View all

Alan Greenspan says that McCain's proposed fiscal policy is dishonest. Jason Furman writes http://obama.3cdn.net/af1925f1032ea575fd_2hm6b995d.pdf: ... View all

New Economist directs us to Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian trying to pierce the veil of time and ignorance to understand the future of India. T ... View all

Andrew Samwick gives a very good version of the economists' rant against the CAFE standards. I, too, was abashed to discover that my Subaru Legacy is ... View all

I have really been enjoying this mitten. It is excellent fun, and it has reminded me of exactly how much I used to love working Aran patterns.In tim ... View all

I tend to use Gmail as a sort of notebook if I'm online and can't be bothered to look for paper. As a result, I currently have 154 draft emails that c ... View all

Everyone,For Butterfly that is. Tell me how great this is: getting all your own presents. Having two baby brothers who are old enough to get toys ... View all

As mentioned in this post back in December, I asked you not to throw out your Christmas cards as I wanted to show you some ways of recycling them.The ... View all

On the weekends, we don't run wheelchair vans which very often means that medivans are tasked to the ambulance crews. As I sat watching a History Chan ... View all

Well it feels like I've been on another planet for a few weeks. We got back from Thailand yesterday and I'm sick but so happy to be home. The shock an ... View all

Annoyed... wrote a whole post WITH photos... and my "HP" froze.. UGH... SO, here we are again.. feels a bit like Ground Hogs Day............whatever! ... View all