My brother Sam stayed last night - he arrived about 4am and left about 10:30am - the busy life of a rock star! Nice to see him though. We are off to Hamilton tomorrow for a weekend reunion with Larnie & Mikey, and a first meeting with little Charlotte Darling!
Some things on the net that […]

We subscribe to the NSW Down Syndrome Association’s newsletter, and it often has movie reviews by Sara McEvoy, a person with Down Syndrome. She has an uncanny knack of summing up the movie very succintly. I loved her latest one and had to share it with you:
Ross and I saw Troy and it was fantastic. […]

We took Archie to see a kindergarten yesterday and I took a peek at the roll. Some of the names were quite distinctive - Iago for one, and some child named Galahad hyphenated name, as in Galahad Chumley-Brown.
Dad told me a story about some friends of his who named their son Mungo. The day he […]

Just read this very scary article in Salon about the fight against gay rights in Ohio. Check out this guy to the left, a supposed man of God, with his giant sword. These guys are now preaching to their congregrations that they should vote Bush to “protect the unborn child” and the “sanctity of marriage”. […]

Found this great page of 80’s video games (all in Flash) - the thing that got me into this mad mad Playstation world. Tetris was always my personal fave. I sure spent a lot of hours in the video arcade (singular!) of Nelson playing that puppy. And I had a Simon too.
But why o […]

I’ve been going through a bit of a mad gaming patch since I returned from Tokyo. Jan & I have just finished Baldur’s Gate II - one of the few games you can play co-operatively - lots of fun! Sadly while I was away, Jan accidentally deleted my Ratchet & Clank II save, so am […]

After I finally uploaded all my holiday pics, I got another bunch from my dad of the holiday. So will be uploading some of those for your pleasure over the next couple of days also.

I thought I’d share with you my three favourite purchases on my trip.
1 :: Fake Rolex
Everywhere you went in Shanghai, hawkers were trying to sell you Rolexes. After Max bought one in People’s Square, I decided I really wanted one too! Ned found this at the Xiang Yang Fashion Market, a stallholder had a stash […]

Virginia Woolf: Orlando. You are a challenge, for outer events, the outside world, the time etc. play no importance to you. Your focus is in writing, in gender issues, and inside your own head. Self-analysis and exploration of yourself as well as the outer world hold great importance to you.
Which literature classic are you?
brought […]

Last night Archie peed in the toilet! We made a great song and dance of it, then about ten mins later he peed all over the floor and immediately burst into tears! Poor little lad. Sign for toilet is now a top priority. Jenni the speech therapist is starting him on this new program tomorrow, […]