Tag: Spawn

Morning Sickness linked to smarter babies

I feel so much better now!

I feel so much better now!

Of course, I am a little pissed off that the eminent doctor says that women should feel empowered to seek medication to help “if they have a job, like a doctor” and they have to work.

Personally, I think ALL women should feel empowered to seek help, regardless of employment status.

But I’m not a doctor 😉

Fake Pelicans

A million years ago, when I was working on Babe: Pig in the City , I walked into the huge studio at Fox for my first night on the job, and saw a giant animatronic pelican. The special effects unit was working nights, because the main unit was, and George Miller wanted everyone working on the same shifts. A microwave link was set up between main unit, second unit, and I think also the edit suite. If main unit was on night shoots, so were the rest of us. Anyone who has worked nights will tell you that the first night shift is a strange thing. You tried to stay up late the night before, you tried to sleep in and do nothing all day so that you could make it through the night, and you turn up for work and can’t stop yawning. Add to that the nervousness of working on such a huge scale, with a new crew that you don’t know, and it’s nerve-wracking. So under the circumstances, the pelican was a bit of a shock. It was big, it was feathered, it had a huge leathery bill, and bright yellow rimmed eyes. It was the fakest fake thing I had ever seen. It was surrounded by a team of puppeteers, tweaking each little movement, trying to make the flying motion look like a real pelican. Good luck, I thought, and wandered off to find the camera truck. Some months later, on another job, I was at Sea World on the Gold Coast, where they have a pelican rehabilitation facility. I was lucky enough to stand about three feet away from a real, live, actual pelican. Amazing, I thought. It looks just like an animatronic pelican. Inigo sees a pelican for the first time Waves! Much less scary than they were last time we were at the beach on his birthday Everything is less scary when daddy is around Buried in sand Fun, despite the taste The end

Babe: Pig In The City (Theatrical Trailer) Unedited Uploaded by NakedBrotha2007

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A million years ago, when I was working on Babe: Pig in the City, I walked into the huge studio at Fox for my first night on the job, and saw a giant animatronic pelican.

The special effects unit was working nights, because the main unit was, and George Miller wanted everyone working on the same shifts. A microwave link was set up between main unit, second unit, and I think also the edit suite. If main unit was on night shoots, so were the rest of us.

Anyone who has worked nights will tell you that the first night shift is a strange thing. You tried to stay up late the night before, you tried to sleep in and do nothing all day so that you could make it through the night, and you turn up for work and can’t stop yawning. Add to that the nervousness of working on such a huge scale, with a new crew that you don’t know, and it’s nerve-wracking.

So under the circumstances, the pelican was a bit of a shock. It was big, it was feathered, it had a huge leathery bill, and bright yellow rimmed eyes. It was the fakest fake thing I had ever seen. It was surrounded by a team of puppeteers, tweaking each little movement, trying to make the flying motion look like a real pelican. Good luck, I thought, and wandered off to find the camera truck.

Some months later, on another job, I was at Sea World on the Gold Coast, where they have a pelican rehabilitation facility. I was lucky enough to stand about three feet away from a real, live, actual pelican.

Amazing, I thought. It looks just like an animatronic pelican.


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 Inigo sees a pelican for the first time
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Waves!
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Much less scary than they were last time we were at the beach on his birthday

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Everything is less scary when daddy is around
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Fun, despite the taste

IMG_5652The end

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Babe: Pig In The City (Theatrical Trailer) Unedited
Uploaded by NakedBrotha2007

The Mighty Duck River Bush Regeneration Team

Through a friend at playgroup, we found out about the local bush regen project. Mark went along last month with Inigo, this month he talked me into dropping in at the half way mark. I’m really glad I went. I popped Inigo into the new carrier, and he slept for a while, and I wandered around plucking weeds and photographing stuff… Tea break Peter demonstrates the “Peter Tool”, a mattock for enclosed spaces Weeds must die! The gall! Cicada shell Wish the focus was better on this shot! Small weed, HUGE root system. Kill with extreme prejudice Inigo had a close encounter with another cicada shell, I unearthed about half a dozen in a patch of weeds Not sure what this weed is called, but as well as a tuberous root system, it has these little bulbs which fall off if the plant is handled too roughly. Each one can make a new plant if they break off. Not only was the killing of weeds extremely satisfying, it was lovely to spend some time in the great outdoors, fabulous to meet some caring volunteers, and all so close to home!

Through a friend at playgroup, we found out about the local bush regen project. Mark went along last month with Inigo, this month he talked me into dropping in at the half way mark.

I’m really glad I went. I popped Inigo into the new carrier, and he slept for a while, and I wandered around plucking weeds and photographing stuff…

Tea break

Peter demonstrates the “Peter Tool”, a mattock for enclosed spaces

Weeds must die!

The gall!


Cicada shell


Wish the focus was better on this shot!


Small weed, HUGE root system. Kill with extreme prejudice


Inigo had a close encounter with another cicada shell, I unearthed about half a dozen in a patch of weeds


Not sure what this weed is called, but as well as a tuberous root system, it has these little bulbs which fall off if the plant is handled too roughly. Each one can make a new plant if they break off.

Not only was the killing of weeds extremely satisfying, it was lovely to spend some time in the great outdoors, fabulous to meet some caring volunteers, and all so close to home!

Random allergies

We saw the paed today.

Inigo is growing, hitting and exceeding developmental milestones (who knew that pulling socks off was a milestone?), has perfect blood pressure, excellent hip joints, good weight (even despite the last week of food refusal), and an excellent vocabulary.

And he’s also allergic to Rockmelon (cantaloupe). Which I find very odd, but there you have it.

Inigo after eating Rockmelon in early March. He had it before this with no reaction. I tried again in April, and the reaction was much worse. Yes Donna, that is a squeezy polar bear bath toy…

Tomorrow I have to book him in for a nasty test at the end of June, and then we will know if the reflux has resolved itself and he can stop taking his daily cocktail of anti-biotics. Until then, carry on as usual…

And no, I still haven’t given him any chicken, fish, or lamb. As far as I know, they are still animal corpses!