A horse is a horse, of course, of course
“Kids are stupid. They don’t even know what horses look like.”
Shower peeing for the environment
I’ve made no secret that I am, in most cases, in favour of weeing in the shower.
When dreams die
As I keep mentioning, I am turning 40 later this year. I partly keep mentioning it so that I will be ridiculously chilled out about it when it happens, but also in the vain hope that people will respond with “Forty? No WAY. You don’t look a day over thirty-mumble”. Thankfully, several folk have been…
6 things that shocked me about having a baby
When you’re pregnant people offer you all sorts of advice. Sometimes the advice is welcome and offered in a take-from-this-what-you-will, sharing of wisdom way. Sometimes it’s just kind of thrust at you and is more rude than it is helpful. Or sometimes it’s just gross. Someone I know went into far too much detail about…
The spurious science of baby
Babies are amazing scientists. As creatures who know very little about anything, every day as a baby is a day for trying out new things and exploring the world. And as a new parent you spend just as much time trying to figure out how the baby works. What makes it sleep? What makes it…
There are so many things to learn, and not just about driving
Here’s hoping they can tell their left from their right.
Things I learned from being on fire
Yesterday I set myself on fire. And I don’t mean that figuratively in a “I got wildly excited about something*”. I literally set myself on fire. This happened in the course of me making soup. I was heating the beginnings of said soup on the stove and noticed a bit of smoke, presumably from something…
Marcus Chown Interview
Several years ago I had the opportunity to interview Marcus Chown, author, Science big-brain, and thoroughly pleasant individual.
Why don’t I already have one of these?
Seriously though, I need this.
The horrors of Plunket – A bag of inside out baby faces
None of my parenting/baby books prepared me for this.