Archive for September, 2010

Mess

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

I’m guessing from the zero comments to my last post that no one actually reads this blog anymore.  Which is fair enough given my slack tartedness in writing anything (and of substance) and worse still, my own failure to comment on all of the wonderful blogs that I have slipped behind in keeping up with [...]

Overcoming inertia

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Tell me……in an attempt to get back to blogging should I just force myself to do daily mini posts a la my Facebook updates or would it be better to attempt a massive update so that all those precious kidlet milestones aren’t lost? How do you translate the endless to do lists into proper action [...]

Go read a shiny happy blog instead

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Allow me to put aside the kidlets for a post or two because I am about to have a bloody great big whinge. It has been four years since I’ve last had my body to myself- and in some of that time I have been both pregnant and breastfeeding- and I’m completely. burnt. out. Breastfeeding [...]

When poetry is required

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

Many moons ago I used an excerpt of T.S. Eliot’s ‘Marina’ to reveal the gender of Miss Immyjim.  Tonight I feel compelled to revisit and meditate on this poem in full:  Quis hic locus, quae regio, quae mundi plaga? What seas what shore what grey rocks and what islands What water lapping the bow And [...]