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Before Our Time: In our time: Grateful for the indoor, flushing toilet
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009. In our time: Grateful for the indoor, flushing toilet. View from above of rows of timber houses with outhouses built by the Queensland Housing Commission in Norman Park, Brisbane, Australia around 1950. The little sheds in each back yard are "outhouses" or "dunnies". (sourced from:. Many of my parents' generation remember well the days before indoor, flushable toilets. The days of the dunny, the thunderbox, the shed up the back, the outhouse, the sh*thouse, the building at ...
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Stomper Girl: Walkerville
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Tap-dancer, mother of the Climber (15) and the Cherub (12), and girlfriend of Mr. Fixit. Monday, April 20, 2015. Fixit's work refused to give him any time off over the January school holidays, so I asked him to apply for something in the April holidays so that we could go away somewhere. I wanted the beach, but I also wanted a social holiday, like our lovely Mothers Group stay in Rosebud. The ruins of the historic limestone kiln, with Fixit and Nell for scale. Sometimes the tide came right up to the rock...
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Stomper Girl: May 2014
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Tap-dancer, mother of the Climber (15) and the Cherub (12), and girlfriend of Mr. Fixit. Friday, May 30, 2014. Fixit started work on Wednesday. He leaves the house at 6.30am but is home at a reasonable hour. He seems to be enjoying himself, but is tired at the end of the day. When he was first retrenched I found it annoying having him around in the morning. He kept getting in my way while I was trying to get the boys off to school! I'm feeling proud of all the boys this week! There were no purple ones le...
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Stomper Girl: January 2015
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Tap-dancer, mother of the Climber (15) and the Cherub (12), and girlfriend of Mr. Fixit. Thursday, January 29, 2015. We had a Mothers' Group celebration at Astrid's house for our January babies, Climber, Pea and Squeaky. They are such a lovely trio. It was funny giving them their gifts, they were all very low key and just smiled in a pleased way at their treasures. But you could see they were happy. They're just not the excitable. Members of the Mothers' Group. Labels: How did that happen? On Monday morn...
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Stomper Girl: For Nell. On Her Birthday.
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Tap-dancer, mother of the Climber (15) and the Cherub (12), and girlfriend of Mr. Fixit. Monday, October 23, 2006. For Nell. On Her Birthday. Once there were two little boys who lived with their mother and father. And they were very lucky little boys because they had an extra. In their lives. Her name was Princess Nell. Princess Nell came from the magic kingdom of Goulburn, where she learned from her wise father the many facts of science and from her clever mother the many techniques of art. This is the ...
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Stomper Girl: March 2015
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Tap-dancer, mother of the Climber (15) and the Cherub (12), and girlfriend of Mr. Fixit. Friday, March 06, 2015. Somehow February skipped by, with all of its back-to-school-and-tap madness, without making a mark on the blog. So before March marches out of control, here's what went on in the last month or so. Climber started Year 9 and Cherub started his last year of Primary School. Talk about grown-up. I don't really know how these things work. We went to the zoo in the school holidays with Jen and her g...
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Stomper Girl: September 2014
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Tap-dancer, mother of the Climber (15) and the Cherub (12), and girlfriend of Mr. Fixit. Wednesday, September 03, 2014. Is the current phrase that my boys use to make themselves laugh. It's in high rotation. Previous phrases in this series are: wheeeskers. Insert opening of mouth and closing of eyes while touching index fingertip to thumb-tip]. The remainder of the journey was spent sticking their heads out of the window like dogs. They have not as yet made a firm offer for his long-term prospects (which...
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Stomper Girl: In which I say Rest-in-Peace but hope I'm proved wrong
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Tap-dancer, mother of the Climber (15) and the Cherub (12), and girlfriend of Mr. Fixit. Saturday, August 01, 2009. In which I say Rest-in-Peace but hope I'm proved wrong. That Bertie Wooster used to love Climber's football socks and used to steal them - and only them- out of Climber's sock draw and leave them in odd locations round the house. Occasionally we'd catch a glimpse of him carrying the enormous socks in his little cat mouth, with his I'm on a very-important-mission. And that the 18 or so month...
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Stomper Girl: December 2014
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Tap-dancer, mother of the Climber (15) and the Cherub (12), and girlfriend of Mr. Fixit. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. The rest of 2014. So since my last catch-up, I have the following things to report. Cherub graduated to a full-size bike. It is my old mountain-bike with a more masculine set of handlebars. We also visited an a native animal park, where we patted kangaroos and tried to avoid the stroppy emus. We helped Bron move into a better house, and I cooked lots of soup for her. Not that she was...
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Stomper Girl: November 2014
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Tap-dancer, mother of the Climber (15) and the Cherub (12), and girlfriend of Mr. Fixit. Thursday, November 13, 2014. This is his crew, and for the sake of fairness, here is a picture of Cherub and his friends in their Halloween garb. Cherub went as a pirate, arrrr. We'd tried a few men's size-extra-smalls on, which were a good fit across his swimmer's shoulders, but were too long for him. I was telling Fixit about this later and he shook his head and said the Curse of the Fixit Shoulders. Stompergirl at...
