So we are proud parents now. She's a lovely little wee thing who is a credit to her mother's understanding and skills. It's a truly unique experience with truly unique results.

So is anyone interested in some Appleseed invites?

I've been keeping an eye on options and Appleseed has enough differentiating factors to warrant giving it a red hot solid go.

It's not all there yet, but I see this as a long term prospect.

So we went and saw The Social Network last night ( Read more... )

It was a good weekend ( Read more... )

We were late for the show and missed the Fuellers, but were in plenty of time to see Mikelangelo's new band The Tin Star. That was OK, because Gregor ended up playing a few songs with Mik anyway, and the encore was a Prik Harness song(!). Tin Star is western/Hawaiian guitars and was very rockin. All very relaxing so I'm glad we made the effort to ( Read more... )

We normally shop at the local markets. All our stuff goes in to a basket or bag as-is. We'll get one or two small plastic bags for any meat and gluggy stuff that would otherwise soil or bags. Fruit, veg and other stuff go loose into our bags, they usually come in their own packaging ("skin"). We'll buy cleaning products and the like from the local ( Read more... )

So there's a bunch of groups lobbying and legislating to ban shopping bags in the ACT to save us from global warming. From experience, full life-cycle cost can be fiendishly difficult to quantify. I look from time to time and the most recent calls prompted me to find this study ( Read more... )

Energy efficient light bulbs are a con ( Read more... )

It's a public holiday and it's a quiet, pleasant spring day. There's a rosella singing in the tree outside and I've got some quiet moments to journal a bit ( Read more... )

Post the election, I've been continuing to read and have had some really good discussions with a number of people about the result, particularly if there are any precedents in history that might tell us about the turn of events ( Read more... )