That Friday afternoon feeling…

Here I am on this Friday afternoon sitting at my desk, looking around at all the last few things I have to do when I finish, knowing that I only have one more of these Friday afternoons at work. It feels pretty damn exciting!
This week has gone pretty well, apart from the fact that I’ve [...]

Work is not working

It’s been a trying week at work. Yesterday, with help, I ran a 3-hour training session with postgraduate coursework students. The training was held in an unconditioned computer lab with noisy fans, requiring yelling to be heard over the noise. I turned bright red, sweated like crazy, and felt like I was going to keel [...]

7…..

It feels pretty weird to realise that I’m 33 weeks pregnant today, with only 7 weeks today. It seems like only a few minutes ago there were 10 weeks to go! Pretty soon we’ll have a little baby on our hands!
The last few weeks have been beset by a few health problems. Apparently I [...]

Tallulah

We’ve just had a lovely week spent with our dear friends’ pip, Brent, and their baby Tallulah. It was so nice catching up with them, showing them “our Sydney” (primarily, places we like to walk to and eat at). Also, because of Tallulah, we had some great pre-birth exposure to a baby. Here are the [...]

Well-disposed

One of the big decisions you have to make in the care of your baby is whether to use disposables or cloth nappies. It’s a very loaded debate: you risk derision at every turn. Some people will think you’re mad for spurning disposables – who would contemplate that much laundry? Some will think you’re an [...]