I really do like christmas. Not the religious parts or the commercial parts, but what is left when you take that away. I love the sense of family and community it can create. I love that people decorate their houses with lights and blow up santas, I don't care if the end result often looks like christmas threw up on their house, I just love that ( Read more... )

well, the title of this post pretty much covers it. I am thinking of trying out a small business selling hand made baby slings and wrap carriers, and possibly also baby clothes made to fit over cloth nappies. The idea is that these will be one of a kind fashion pieces made from new and recycled materials--basically things I already make for myself ( Read more... )

hearing the splat of a baby spitting up over your shoulder and onto the floor and thinking 'by the sound of it that probably missed me entirely, right? right?'

possibly an unusual request--well, unusual for me anyway ( Read more... )

The best advice I have found so far about converting to a vego diet has come from a booklet I got from the vegetarian society, titled 'Go Vegetarian!'. There is an article in it called 'A Simple 3 Step Way to Go Vegetarian' that says that the average family actually only eats 8 or 9 different dinners repeatedly. While our family probably has a bit ( Read more... )

There are two goals I have for the rest of this year*. By the start of next year I would like to have transitioned to a vegetarian/almost vegan diet** and also transitioned to a completely open source computer environment ( Read more... )

Now that the baby is here and happy I am starting to think about putting plans into action so that I can return to (or indeed join) the paid workforce sometime in the future. The main part of my plan is to finish my PhD by the end of the year and most likely starting with part time work at the beginning of next year. I have been pretty sure for a ( Read more... )

I managed to get a hold of an interlibrary loan copy of Woman on the Edge of Time and am about 10 pages from finishing and being able to join the discussion. Wow, but for now let me say that the book could do with about a page and a half of trigger warnings! I think I may be a little desensitized now that I am coming to the end of it, but the first ( Read more... )

Am now twittering. I am enjoying it, it is an interesting new world. I can see it has all the capacity for crazy making and short attention span inducement that was feared about the introduction of video clips and MTV. My rain feels a little scrambled just trying to follow the information flows. I think a certain amount of zen is needed--an ability ( Read more... )

I am considering trying out twitter (which means I will probably give it a go, because, you know, why not, and if it turns out it is all too much I can just stop I guess :) ).

Do you tweet? What do you love about it?

ETA: am now tweeting as sajbrfem (sajbrfem jones), friend me or follow me or tweet me or whatever it is one does there if you dare*

*and ( Read more... )