You know one of the best bits about moving, which is all so much fun anyway? Cleaning the old house. Because not only do you get to reflect upon what filthy people you are, and turns out you are way filthier than even you imagined, but you also get to spend days and days cleaning [...]
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Cleaning together
Posted in bill, cormac, home, lauca, me, school kids, toddlers on September 30, 2011 | 14 Comments »
The stench of negativity
Posted in lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, school kids on September 26, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Stench of negativity: a term that comes from the time my sister and her husband had spent all day bickering, the way couples sometimes do, and they tried to go picnicking because you always try to do something nice together when you’re having one of those days and its failure will just be one more [...]
Kangaroo pâté
Posted in cormac, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, school kids, toddlers, vegetarians are not fun on September 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Here are my kids feeding kangaroos to within an inch of their lives. The kangaroos are so over-fed at this park that they lay about under trees and kind of groan. The children push pellets between their little hairy kangaroo lips. It is school holidays here, the kangaroos already guessed that.
“Life in paradise. Death in custody”.
Posted in aboriginal australia, book review, politics, race/anti-racism on September 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I recently read Chloe Hooper’s The Tall Man, upon which this documentary is based and it’s a terrific read. (You can get a taste of it here). Kinda like Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood in terms of genre, but a lot more political. Although the politics isn’t clobbering, so don’t be afraid of the politics. [...]
These links I am liking
Posted in babies, breastfeeding, celebrity breastmilk, fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, GLBTI, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, race/anti-racism, the first year of motherhood, toddlers, work and family (im)balance, yummy mummy on September 22, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Remember how bad it used to be.. when you were first a mother and you had a very difficult little baby and you were going out of your tree? Yes, yes of course you do.. and so there is this from Pretty All True: Imagine that she is sleeping during the day and screaming all [...]
On going to IKEA
Posted in bill, cormac, fatherhood, goddamn craft, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, school kids, toddlers on September 21, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Bill is a very patient man, it is one of the things that first really attracted me to him. I thought, man, this boy can handle me and he could probably handle kids, too. ………………………… About shopping with Lauca for some bedroom furniture in IKEA. Me: You two were gone a while. Bill: We would [...]
Who’s afraid of feminists raising sons?
Posted in feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, pop culture, raising sons on September 20, 2011 | 21 Comments »
I’m a huge Lionel Shriver fan – difficult, divisive, dark and absolutely enthralling. My sister and her friend and I trade Shriver novels and can talk about them endlessly. I have often thought that I’d like to belong not to a book club but to a Lionel Shriver book club. Although not my favourite of [...]
Our bedroom
Posted in bill, home, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, school kids on September 20, 2011 | 6 Comments »
On account of circus class Lauca is currently obsessed with flexibility. Now that I’m getting very close to middle age I think flexibility and core strength are not bad things to be obsessed with. All furniture has become a place for Lauca to practice on with her flexibility and balance ‘tricks’. Don’t lie down in [...]
Shrews winning!
Posted in fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, surnames on September 19, 2011 | 20 Comments »
From a Mens Rights Activist quoted here. If you hyphenate your child’s last name, well its just pathetic. It means the mother was an uncompromising shrew. Yep, and proud of it.
If your brain needs a little holiday
Posted in nothing, pop culture on September 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I loved this. “I feel confident that no one would recognize me as Marc Anthony wearing this scarf,” said Rob.
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