OK. Let’s try this one more time. I’ve written this damn post three times and published it and unpublished it twice. Apparently when you publish things on the internet and then unpublish them, they don’t go away permanently. This both annoys me and freaks me out. Depending on which version of this post you’re reading [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Now you’re coming back, stronger than you ever were before
I’m not actually here.
I’ve put all my blogging energies this week into a guest post for Allie’s Answers. I’m on the food bandwagon again (the chuckwagon?) and after doing some research have discovered that I’m killing polar bears with my diet. Or at least wasting a lot of energy. Go and get your recommended daily [...]
I’m the root of all that’s evil, yeah, but you can call me cookie
Dr. O’C and I are trying to clean up our language. We’re not sailors or anything, but both are fond of the odd invective to hammer home a point during a heated ‘debate’. But Boy Z has reached the stage at which he repeats, to the best of his ability, everything that comes out of [...]
Song for my father
It is not Father’s Day in Australia. So don’t bother telling me what a good Dad I am or scrambling frantically to come up with an excuse as to why you haven’t sent me a gift. But it is Father’s Day in 52 countries, including the United States, so Happy Dad’s day to all you [...]
The problem with faith is like the problem with doubt
I’m two years old as a blogger today. It’s my Blogday. My Bloggiversary*. Whatever you want to call it. A Thursday in midwinter.
For me, one of the most tedious type of post is the navel gazing ‘blogging about blogging’ variety. But it is my party and I’ll be narcissistic and self-indulgent if I want to. [...]
I came to you chasing a dream
My apologies to the arachnophobes out there. I was so caught up in the technical mastery exhibited in yesterday’s spider photo that it didn’t occur to me that some of you might freak out. It should have, really. I worked with the most insect phobic person I’ve ever encountered for a couple of years at [...]
Shock shock horror horror shock shock horror
While not particularly thrilled to find this lady in my letter box this afternoon, I was delighted with the photo opportunity and to have Space’s 1996 Latin tinged classic bopping about in my head for the rest of the day…
A thousand thundering thrills await me
Facing insurmountable odds gratefully
The female of the species is more deadly [...]
You may as well feed your kids pork rinds.
As an update to Wednesday’s post:
Nobby’s Pork Crackle – Saturated Fat: 5.7g/100g
Heinz Little Kids Yogurt Meusli Fingers (Sultana Apple) – Saturated Fat 8.1g/100g
In other words, in many ways* you are better off feeding your kid fried pork skin than these Heinz snacks that are designed for toddlers.
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*To be fair, the Pork Crackles have loads of [...]
I came in here for the special offer, a guaranteed personality
Within a single hour yesterday I reveled in one of my proudest moments as a father and muddled through one of my most frightening.
The former – I taught the boy to catch. He was born with a ball in his hand. He’s got a thunderbolt of an arm already, but hasn’t picked up the elusive [...]
Come on, save my soul. I need some sugar in my bowl.
Like any good parent, I’m concerned about what I feed my kid. I’m not a zealot, I give the boy an occasional piece of chocolate or one of Dr. O’C’s oatmeal raisin cookies when she deigns to make them. But if there is one thing that I hate it is being screwed over by big [...]
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