Archive for May, 2009
sweet 16
29 May 1993 – my (our) life changed with the birth of my first child – Jack Morgan.
Jack and Carl – 29 May 1993
Jack is 16 and I’ve chosen one photo from each of the last 16 years to give an idea of this wonderful person. I am so very proud of him.
Taken Christmas 1994 – [...]
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Tags: children, future, parenting
Pistachio, macchiato….and Jeremy
- reminds me of that awful Janis Ian song…I am queen of remembering horrible, irritating songs! -
Pistachio and macchiato are the names of the ‘feature’ tiles in the bathrooms. We seemed to have made quite a few design decisions based on some tenuous association (the Memphis red in the kitchen was chosen because we have [...]
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Tags: building, family, happiness, health, house
Topsy turvy
… not sure if that is even how it’s spelt, but that has been my world for the last week.
Just over a week ago my brother Jeremy rang to say that he had suspected lung cancer. He is in Sydney and I am in Canberra so the last week has been a blur of travel [...]
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Tags: building, family, health, state of mind
A is for argon
… this really cool gas that is in our double glazed windows. Argon helps greatly with thermal insulation.
I have high hopes for this ‘noble gas’ – (an odourless, colourless gas with little chemical reactivity). Equally cool and interesting is that argon is used for preservation- The US Declaration of Independence is stored in an argon-filled [...]
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Tags: green, house
