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Life’s a beach

January 11, 2010 – 7:09 pm

The Eagle family has just spent a few days down on the coast, staying with some friends who have a beach house. It was really lovely. The beach plays such an important role in my childhood memories. My parents are both Sydneysiders, and we used to visit their childhood holiday venues. We would go camping [...]

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Baby, it’s cold outside!

January 8, 2010 – 4:48 am

Photo: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response From the BBC News website.

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Environment, Fark!, Science | Tagged | Comments (8)

Marking time

November 30, 2009 – 9:50 pm

I haven’t been about much for a number of reasons, the principle of which is that I agreed to mark some law exams for a colleague, and they’re due back on Thursday. There’s a tight turn around, so I’m finding I have to average around 10 papers a day to keep up with my schedule. [...]

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I am not an underclass

November 24, 2009 – 3:10 am

Disability sucks. I just thought you should know that. It’s sometimes painful, always inconvenient and inclined to bite gaping holes out of your self esteem. Most people are pretty reliable: they get up in the morning, go to work or school during the week and kick back on the weekends doing activities they enjoy once [...]

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Taking a break

October 29, 2009 – 10:13 am

I’m not recovering from pneumonia as well as I ought to be, and thus I’m going to take a break from everything for a week or two. See you in a week (hopefully I’ll feel much better then). If you want something interesting to read in the meantime, have a look at this article from [...]

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Kids on Planes

October 7, 2009 – 9:20 am

My parents were transferred overseas when I was 2 and a half years old. Apparently, I was a sanguine traveller. Nothing has changed. I remember quite a lot from our overseas travel, as I’ve explained in my “Earliest Memory Meme” post. My parents went through Mauritius, South Africa, Greece and France until we got to [...]

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A long friendship – dogs and humans

August 11, 2009 – 8:22 pm

Dogs and humans have a long history together. Recent archaeological finds indicate that the relationship between dogs and humans may be at least 15,000 years old, and possibly much longer. Dogs can see in the dark, and drowse, watching over a group of people at night effectively. They are warm, and can help with hunting. [...]

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Video killed the radio star

July 30, 2009 – 8:10 am

I don’t listen to radio very much. When I do, I avoid commercial stations like the plague. I can’t stand the ads, the cheesy voice overs, the annoying comperes and the gimmicks. Some of the things they talk about are really not suitable for small children, and I almost always have my kids in the [...]

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What kind of a woman am I?

July 27, 2009 – 5:29 pm

There’s this stereotype about marriages that the husband comes home cheerfully, to find his wife stony-faced. After some time of receiving the cold shoulder, he tentatively inquires as to what the matter is, and finds out that he’s forgotten that it is his wedding anniversary. With whom do my sympathies lie? With the husband, all [...]

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Things that make me proud

June 21, 2009 – 10:48 am

Jim Belshaw wrote a post listing 5 things that make him proud, and has tagged SL and I to do the same. I’m not going to write a list, mainly because I’m terrible at lists. I struggle with memes. The main thing in life that makes me proud is family: my children, my husband, my [...]

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