• Listening to the Sookie Stackhouse Audiobooks whilst knitting.
  Suffering withdrawls after the end of Season 2 of TrueBlood, I got myself a copy of the Audiobooks. Audiobooks are new to me and I'm in love.


• Spring. I love winter food but Melbourne winters are a depressingly grey and dreary time, the people stay in and are surlier but come spring and a touch of blue in the sky and my much loved city stirs into a much more outwardly focussed place. People go out, they smile, they talk to strangers. There is a lightness to Melbourne in the warmer weather.


• Lola. Always. She and I are family.


• Making, creating, fingers busy and watching something coming into being.

• The increasingly common usage of verbs made from nouns. Gifted is top of my list. There is a perfectly excellent word: GAVE. A gift is a present, a noun. One wouldn't say I appled you when handing over a piece of fruit so why do it with a gift? Down the list are others such as tasked. Grrrr.


• Looking for a new home. I'm looking forward to moving and having more space - somewhere I can leave my sewing table out, somewhere I can hang my stuff on the walls and use my kitchenware. It's the process - attending open for inspections (without a car), schmoozing the estate agent, the dearth of good rental properties etc. etc. NOT HOT.


• Racism and sexism. The Hey Hey debacle, the xenophobia I hear every day at my dayjob ("They are aren't Australian, they're muslim." yes, I hear this. headdesk), the way we are treated as women in what is, at least chronologically, the 21st century. I swear I feel like we're in the 1950's so much of the time. I thought I had traditional values; I want a family, I'd like to stay home with my children until they are old enough to go to school. In my life, I haven't had the choice to do this and yet, as a 35 year old woman, I am judged on not having done this almost every day. At the same time, I want other women to have the right to choose what is best for them. I want men to have the option of staying home with the kids if that is what works for his relationship just as I want women to not have to define themselves as breeding machines first. Sadly, I can't see this changing - it's getting worse not better.
  

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