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Not usually about penguins: In character
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Not usually about penguins. Thursday, September 17, 2009. M - Weary and long suffering Mum. C - Sensitive and slightly melodramatic young Child. 1:30am a couple of nights ago. Noises off - creak of door, pad of small feet belonging to Child. C: I can't sleep. M: Do you need to go to the toilet? M: Come on then. C and M exit. A long time passes. Voices heard from outside door:. M: Time to go back to your bed. C: I want to be in your bed. M: I know, but you need to go back to your bed. C: Sister is crying.
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Not usually about penguins: Something burnt and something blue
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Not usually about penguins. Thursday, August 23, 2007. Something burnt and something blue. On Saturday we went to a wedding. Beforehand I was in our bedroom getting dressed and D was in the kitchen ironing his favourite shirt. I came out of the bedroom with green hair, I's magical green, purple and blue dress and a purple cape. D said "You look good. You look really good." And just stood there gazing at me admiringly. Until he realised he'd burnt his shirt. Suddenly I felt a hundred. Feeds (atom) : posts.
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Not usually about penguins: The web is burning a hole in my pocket
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Not usually about penguins. Wednesday, September 09, 2009. The web is burning a hole in my pocket. The internet is full of tempting things. Currently it is home harvest. Organic vege gardens, sport kilts. And party in my pants. Pads that appeal to me. I'm trying to talk D around to the first, the second has exorbitant postage to NZ and the third is just rather expensive but maybe. These are closer to home in case you are tempted:. Http:/ www.outrageouscloth.com/. Im so glad youre back!
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Not usually about penguins: Mars on life
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Not usually about penguins. Tuesday, June 15, 2010. The Martians are trying to communicate with me through Google Reader. Today thinking with my hands yet. Led me to Symphony of Science. Which is fabulous and entertaining, it also has " The Case for Mars. Once upon a time, many moons ago, when I wrote this blog more regularly, I was thinking of posting something about why I think terraforming is a bad idea but then someone told me that first I should read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. I think that...
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Not usually about penguins: R38
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Not usually about penguins. Monday, September 14, 2009. Suddenly becoming in loco parentis to a 16 year-old is a fascinating experience. Sometimes it is just like parenting 6 year-olds but it is also very enjoyably different: he dresses himself every day without help and. Today I took B to the Weta Cave. And I started telling him about Peter Jackson's early movies: Bad Taste. Suddenly I realised that they might be R18. So what do I think is appropriate for B? Actually they are all R16.
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Not usually about penguins: December 2010
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Not usually about penguins. Saturday, December 25, 2010. Not the figgy pudding. Christmas has been lovely with delighted small people enjoying presents. My mother gave me Richard Attenborough's Life in Cold Blood. For my birthday and right now I feel a strong empathy with snakes. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Wellington, New Zealand. I am a mother, of H and K, two 8ish year-old girls, and I borrowed a teenager B. I like it when people comment. View my complete profile. Email : ruthlessly at gmail dot com.
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Not usually about penguins: Seeing red
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Not usually about penguins. Tuesday, September 08, 2009. One of the many kinds of unpaid work I do at the moment is shelving books in the junior bookroom at H and K's school. There is one in the easiest level called What is Red? And I thought "Wow! I wonder how they explained what red is with such a limited vocab and structure? Then I looked inside and found out that it meant what things. I was left with the thought - what is the simplest book I could write that explains "What is Red? This is a blue light.
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Not usually about penguins: October 2011
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Not usually about penguins. Thursday, October 13, 2011. I hopped out of the car and started across the road. Huge smile. Still no one else around and I'm thinking that he's probably been told to stand right there while they deal with a baby or something like that. I ask: "Hello, what are you up to? Is your mum around? Where do you live? But don't get any answers. After a bit he points down the hill at a house. "Is that your house? And woman appears. "Is this your little one? Labels: saving the world.
