What political issue would get you on the streets in protest, even at risk of arrest?There are many political issues I feel strongly about, but I don't know that any would move me to take to the streets and risk arrest. I could be moved to take part in a peaceful march, at a pinch, but it would be as a show of solidarity and social bonding ( ( Read more... )

lnhammer: Your thoughts on sheep, please?Sheep get a bad rap, culturally. All the stereotypes are about them being stupid creatures who mindlessly follow the flock and have no thoughts more interesting than cud and crud. How does the cheery gambolling lamb image dwindle so fast into witless wool-wearer? Lambs seem to get more credit for having minds of ( Read more... )

Ha - it seems that photos of children and clothing are even less inspiring than I feared! Never mind. It's easy to assume on LJ that no commentary means no interest or no readers, but it ain't necessarily so. Am now slightly embarrassed about posting quite so many stashed clo pix, but them's the breaks.

To the questions from sun__king, whose questions I ( Read more... )

Technically it's the day after B2's birthday now, it being 12:21am, but hey, in my book it's still spiritually yesterday until daylight. He's a charmer, my little B2, and I mean that genuinely, not sarcastically. Such a cheery, feisty little chap. For the first few weeks after he was born I thought dominant genes had reasserted themselves and ( Read more... )

OK, so I've had two more questions from readers, which means I need to recalibrate my questions schedule. Let me see.

Today: slemslempike Is there anything you've learnt about others' views of Australian culture(s) from your work that you didn't know before?
Tues 10th December: sun__king Where would you take a 'Melbourne newbie' to show off your city (say, something ( Read more... )

QUESTIONS

Four questions from the floor! Let me allocate some dates, here. If you are of the four and passionately want a different day, just say.

Sat 7th December: slemslempike Is there anything you've learnt about others' views of Australian culture(s) from your work that you didn't know before?

Sat 14th December: lnhammer Your thoughts on sheep, please ( Read more... )

There are times when the hype about an examples of popular culture gets to the point where I decide I need to get me a first-hand opinion. Thus it was with Harry Potter (leading to the existence of this very LJ, ultimately), and thus it has just been with the video for Miley Cyrus's 'Wrecking Ball', which I just watched on YouTube ( Read more... )

There seems to be a meme going around where you nominate a list of dates and readers come up with questions for assigning to those dates. Er, does anyone want to ask me any questions? I hesitate to unleash dozens of possible dates for fear of not filling them...

Well, there we are. Thirty days of daily clo pix, and not a day missing. The dedication! I did plan to move directly from Clovember to style blog, but given recent events the energy and mental space to do so just haven't been there. I could just slap one up - presumably all that needs doing is starting a new blog - but I feel that a style blog ( Read more... )

Yesterday's warmth has given way to rainy cool. I was originally going to head for work this afternoon to do some filming, but all has gone awry there and I'm now looking taking B1 to his orientation morning at his new pre-school (junior gap year!) then a peaceful afternoon at home finishing my project report and the booklet I'm developing for ( Read more... )