Disco Knitter

The Silkies

lara — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:08:54 +0000

The silkies. There are three of the there, though it is hard to see with all the fluffiness going on. A good thing they are different colours!

Robyn Nevin

Lois O’Donahue

Chickens!

lara — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:56:34 +0000

I’ve been on Freecycle for a few weeks now, and got some cool stuff. Last night, I got home from the Opera (thanks Bev!)to see an email listing three Chinese Silkie Hens, looking for a home.

Since our flock is now reduced to two approximately eight year old girls, we’ve been thinking of getting a few more, and this looked like a good way to get some fabulous chooks and a good match for our family. So I emailed the woman making the offer, and told her a bit about us, and that the girls would have a forever home with us, whether they were laying or not.

Usually, there is quite a bit of competition for freecycle items, especially things that have a high value, like purebred chooks. Anyway, I got an email this morning, the chook lady decided that we were offering the best home, so Inigo and I went to pick them up this afternoon.

So please welcome Lois O’Donohue, Robyn Nevin, and Meryl Tankard. Their previous people named them, and I think we’d better keep the names

Synthesising happiness

lara — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:06:03 +0000

Video from TED. Surprisingly, happiness has nothing to do with circumstance, it really is about resilience, or manufacturing happiness.

Auslan Translation

lara — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:10:34 +0000

There’s just something so engaging and expressive about Auslan. And I have to confess a soft spot for this song. You wouldn’t think that a woman doing a signed translation of a trashy pop song in her bedroom would be so compelling and beautiful.

But it is.

Thanks to the Hoydens for the link.

His father is very proud

lara — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:59:29 +0000

Inigo just pointed to a shape, and quite clearly said “parallelogram”.

Those of you that know Mark well will know that he has taken a personal mission to stop teaching young children that a parallelogram is a “diamond”. He has even gone so far as to take the letraset machine to some of Inigo’s baby books. And I can’t really talk, because I have re-labeled baby bottles from “milk” to “artificial baby milk”.

Iggy said, “Make a hat for me, mama”

lara — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:19:51 +0000

And the ringlets bounce as he runs up and down the hall. We nearly died from the cuteness.

Now, instead of going to the AGM, I’m off to ride a steam train with Iggy and his best mate.

Helpline

lara — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:19:47 +0000

Late Thursday afternoon I got the email I’ve been waiting for – I have been accepted as a volunteer Breastfeeding Counsellor for the Australian Breastfeeding Association. I spoke to the roster co-ordinator last night, and have been assigned my first helpline shift (2nd Friday of the month, starting in April). And this morning I logged in successfully – and logged out again quickly before I had to take a call. There is not enough caffeine in the world to make that first call easy.

So wish me luck, between now and the 9th of April I have to take lots of calls to get myself ready and comfortable enough to tackle an entire 4 hour shift on my own.

There is other (huge) news around the corner too, but I don’t want to say anything until it has been confirmed and I have more information. But needless to say, there are exciting times ahead!

And the tune is quite catchy too.

lara — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:24:39 +0000

But press play for the clip. You’ll thank me.

Who needs a light table

lara — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:44:49 +0000

When needs must, a glass table and a dolphin torch do quite nicely.

New Shirt

lara — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:33:56 +0000

Inigo was indecently proud of his new shirt, rubbing his belly, and telling anyone that would listen that, “mama made that for me”. He also refused to take it off at bedtime, so we discovered that it makes a pretty good pyjama top too. The only other shirth he feels so strongly about is his “Nuna Nuna” shirt. Actually, it is of Brobee from Yo Gabba Gabba, but because of the Elijah Wood/Yo Gabba Gabba/Dragostea Din Tea/Numa Numa clip I found on You tube, Inigo calls it his Nuna Nuna shirt, and wants to wear it every day of the week. And apparently this lime green shirt goes best with the purple sparkly trousers I made him for his first birthday party. They’ve been washed so often recently that the sparkles are fast disappearing.