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*logorrhoea n pathologically excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness, prolixity [Gr logos word + roia flow, stream]
blogorrhoea n online manifestation of the above
Monday, June 29, 2009
A couple of years ago my sister-in-law sent me, from Geneva, a small, brightly-painted wooden bird that twitters when shaken. It sits on the windowsill above our bed and can sometimes be heard, from the living room, tweeting away on its own. Perhaps a train running along the tracks deep below our house? Or a very gentle earthquake?
saturday nite haiku
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Parenthood, these days,
equals Real Life in relays
(if there's two of you).
ship to kenya
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The girls try out a crate for size at Wellington Zoo a few weeks ago
Family portrait
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Taken by my sister Ruth during her visit to Wellie with Danny and gorgeous 14-month-old Molly.
is she an adenoid?
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Proof that I am, after all, turning into my mother: the last two lines of Jack's 3 June blogpost.
a confession
Thursday, May 28, 2009
After some initial scepticism (not to say lip-curling disparagement) I've followed the lowing herds onto Twitter. And now tweeting is eating my blog time. It's fun: I especially enjoy the restrictions imposed by the 140-character limit, which probably speaks volumes about my own character. Anyway for those who're interested, here is my Twitter page.
little pitchers
Saturday, May 02, 2009
J and I are piloting the Parenting Safe Word system. This is to be employed when the kids are being, ahem, challenging: it enables one parent to inform the other, in the presence of the children and in the heat of the situation that they may, possibly, be overreacting and inadvertently escalating matters, and that in the co-parent's entirely respectful opinion, they need to step back. Maybe go for a short, calming walk. However it does this quietly and discreetly without undermining that parent's authority in front of the kids, thereby provoking resentment, intemperate language and general Bad Things.
Ours is 'chloroform', if you're at all interested.