After a two year hiatus I have returned to netball this summer for a short season. Returning once again to the sport that occupied my childhood and adolescence has brought fresh perspective to some interesting phenomena of netball. Here is the first in a series of three posts.

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Part 1: Gender and UniformOne of ( Read more... )

Doctors visits are few and far between for me at the moment. Thank heavens! Health wise, budget wise, time wise - it makes everything easier ( Read more... )

We have been growing a mystery vegetable in our garden all winter and spring. It's beautiful, it was a climber, with tiny leaves and flowers and tendrils. And then it started bearing fruit, tiny pods. Were they peas? Nope. It turned out to be a lentil bush ( Read more... )

In 2008, Matthew, myself and our friend Yi started a Sunday afternoon international bible study at our church. Yesterday our group met for the last time. We finished reading Acts, we celebrated Tao's recent engagement, we prayed for each other and sent each other off to our new ministries ( Read more... )

Now that I've been a Howie for close to a year and I'm definitely out of the honeymoon phase I feel more comfortable comparing my old job with my new one. I am 100% convinced that it was the right time to finish at Anglicare and work at something other than research. However I realised recently that the change in work has meant that I don't write ( Read more... )

Usually when I engage with Oliver O'Donovan I am either standing wide-eyed and open mouthed in response to his amazing ideas or gently mocking his inability to communicate with normal people. He is a very smart man, and if you are a Christian you should really listen to what he has to say about ethics and politics. It's just that it's hard to ( Read more... )

Thanks to my boss for a generous half-day off this weekend started on Friday. It's been a wonderfully relaxing weekend, filled with just the right blend of alone/people time, indoors/outdoors time and productive/lazy time ( Read more... )

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Matt was a groomsmen at the wedding of two wonderful friends today. I spent the morning on my own as Matt got ready, watching the end of the Cranford miniseries to while away the time. I teared up a little as the story drew to a close. It's such a beautiful story. I love the way it ends with such a tight knit community coming together to celebrate ( Read more... )