It lives!

I still owe my journal posts on several trips, and Neil Gaiman, amongst other things, BUT. This is time dependent.

As some of you know, my sister died of leukaemia just over eight years ago. As I have a few times in the past, I'm going to do the World's Greatest Shave as a fundraiser for leukaemia research.

I will therefore be going from ( Read more... )

• The sum of five consecutive primes (3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13), and the sum of the first three powers of 3.
• The atomic number of yttrium
• The number of categories of activity prohibited on Shabbat according to Halakha
• The number of books in the Old Testament according to Protestant canon
• The age American comedian Jack Benny claimed to be for more than 40 ( Read more... )

Right, before I get back to belatedly chronicling my travels, I'll fill in what's happened in the last few days.

Christmas completely snuck up on me this year. I wasn't feeling it at all, completely disconnected. We got together presents for the kids, and I laybyed some Harry Potter lego (both halves of Hogwarts) for acerbicmuffin. As a family we chipped in to ( Read more... )

Work is over for the year, so I'm going to play catchup now. Not that work is an excuse really - I have friends who've had eighty bajillion christmas events that they organised, family bereavements, or in one notable case, two operations and pneumonia (hi nicholeipickle!), since I last updated. Must just be the laziness I guess.

( Mildura )

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I drove back from Horsham via Ballarat, and did another teacher presentation there on my way through.

Pretty disappointed in the turnout there - I had three. Sigh. Didn't even get the regional rep who'd organised it for me! Nobody knew where she was, she'd just taken off from the office. Ah well.

I've always liked Ballarat. It's only a bit over an ( Read more... )

More travel for work. I'll slap the details under a cut. I've included some photos for the curious. This will be part one of three, it's getting a bit long...

( Travels )

Sigh.

So, let's see.

Still eleven people in the house. It's a bit crazy a lot of the time. (For those who missed it, my brother, his wife and their four kids moved in with us while they built their new house. It's been a year and a half, and they've not started building yet.)

I went on a tour with one of the other education staff from the Library, ( Read more... )

Had not seen this before. But I love it. Hopefully, one day the whole world will be like this.

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As it turns out!

Just really quiet.

It's tricky when you've not posted for this long. What's noteworthy, what's not? I have no idea, to be honest. Let's see.

Work: is good Inside a Dog and Ergo have both been rebuilt and relaunched, and are going well. I've been travelling a lot promoting the sites to schools and libraries around the state, including ( Read more... )