We knitters love a raffle!

It’s simple. Make a donation here.

Email your receipt here.

Go into the draw to win stuff!

I’ve sent in the receipt from my (small) donation already. I’ve also sent it to Mark, his company is matching donations! They are also paying an employee who is a RFS volunteer while he is in Victoria fighting fires.

I promise, sometime soon, I will post about something other than the fires. As soon as I can stop crying every time I hear/see/read news…

A horrible day in Victoria

Everybody knows by now that the fires in Victoria have claimed more lives than the Ash Wednesday fires in 1983. We’ve had a quiet day at home for the most part, but I just read that there are close to 70 80 8493 108131 people confirmed dead.

Here is a little snippet of audio, a young woman calls a radio station to ask for help, and then subsequent calls describe the dramatic rescue of 4 adults, a couple of elderly people, and eight kids under ten years old. I think this audio shows the human side of this awful day very well, but these people had a happy ending, unlike so many others.

The Victorian State government, in association with the Red Cross, have set up a relief fund. If you’d like to make a donation, click here.

P.S. The Red Cross also needs blood. If you’ve been thinking that maybe you should donate, please turn thought into action, you have a very good chance of saving a life.

P.P.S. If you can either offer emergency pet minding or any form of pet care, horse agistment etc, to the people devastated by the Victorian bushfires, or are in need of emergency pet minding or any form of pet care, horse agistment etc, due to the Victorian bushfires, please log onto this website, which will help facilitate both.

Mark posted some pictures, the last one of which made me happy, and also very sad. Click here, and scroll to the bottom to see a baby sugar glider that was rescued. Sadly, many other creatures weren’t so lucky.

Confessions

1. After giving blood this week, I decided that I was invincible, and took on the top shelf of our fridge, which has not been cleaned/sorted/organised since we moved in in August 2007. Brilliant.

I discovered some miso paste that expired in 2005. Two years before we moved into this house.

2. I discovered a some really, really sharp knives a few years ago in an Eastwood $2 shop. As a big fan of sharpness in knives, I now have quite a collection, and give them to friends as housewarming presents.

Apparently, I also left one in reach of a small child, and then turned my back for 15 seconds. I turned back to find the kid holding the very, very, razor sharp knife in his meaty little fist, with about 4cm of the blade INSIDE HIS MOUTH.

No babies were harmed today. Touch wood.

I’m not a feminist, but…

I think women should be treated equally.

Another in an appallingly ongoing series, Kelly Clarkson isn’t a feminist.

*Edited to add – I *AM* a feminist, and I am appalled by women who say “I’m not a feminist, but…”, and I think they should be first up against the wall when the revolution comes. Or maybe second, after people who outline their lips in a lipliner that is much darker than their lipstick. And people in 4WD’s that don’t understand the proper use of the indicator. And people who feed babies coca-cola. And – I’d better stop now, I have work to do today!