My Favourite Piece of Art
A while back the lovely folk at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu asked me to contribute to their regular “My Favourite” column in their monthly Bulletin magazine.
I’ve got “rythm”, I’ve got music (television)
No need for amber beads
When you have a kid with someone you very quickly come to learn a lot about their values. If you’ve chosen wisely you and your partner should have more or less matching attitudes on the important aspects of child-rearing.
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…