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little friends 27 Nov 2011 | 02:48 pm
At least once a day I show Leonard my collection of animal salt-and-pepper shakers. He loves looking at them and seems to find them even more hilariously amusing than all the other things in the house...
back to Sills Bend...? 9 Oct 2011 | 01:06 pm
Hello, it's been a while. Nearly six months, actually. Lenny is nearly six months old - most of it's been a blur for me, which to be honest is a good thing in a lot of ways. It hasn't been a walk in t...
A few photos... 19 May 2011 | 09:22 pm
I promise this blog isn't going to be consumed with baby baby baby forever after. Just bear with me for a little while though...
Head High and Mobile 19 May 2011 | 01:35 pm
How Leonard was born is a story that begins two days before his birth date on the 30th of April. It was a Thursday and my last planned appointment with my obstetrician: I was 39 weeks and 4 days pregn...
Leonard Elvis Jones 9 May 2011 | 10:22 am
Leonard E. Jones was born at 11.54 am on Saturday 30 April 2011. Here he is coming home from the hospital. I'm afraid that in all the photos I have of him so far, he's either asleep or covered in gor...
Update 28 Apr 2011 | 11:47 am
Hello blog. I am afraid we used up all our Internet for the month several days ago ( I'm laboriously typing this on my phone) so I can't really blog until May which is poo; Mel's suggestio...
the Miles Franklin syndrome 21 Apr 2011 | 11:40 am
Five of the last six novels I've read have been installments in the Southern Vampire Mysteries series. Since going on leave I've been indulging my readerly whims in a way I haven't had the luxury of d...
The Rules 6 Apr 2011 | 12:04 pm
I have now had a full nine months to brood upon how I would like to bring up my son (who will be liberated from his aquatic pod in two or three weeks, so I had better hurry up and finish washing the i...
Somebody just isn't prepared to let this go 1 Apr 2011 | 10:23 am
Saw this in Target yesterday. Literate this time, but that doesn't make it right.
8 3/4 months 1 Apr 2011 | 09:58 am
Here I am sporting my huge lump. It is getting in the way a bit now, especially when I want to turn over at night, which is often. On one of the last days I spent at La Trobe I saw a colleague I hadn'...