August 2010

31 Photos in 31 Days (Day 5) In the Car

August 5, 2010

for those concerned, the car was parked at the time of this pic Since moving to the same suburb that I work in, I think I must spend more time driving for work purposes than for personal reasons (not including driving to Newcastle!). Last year, I really noticed it because I would often drive Colt [...]

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Climate Change is Coming

August 5, 2010

The Greens made the above ad in response to this one from the Liberals…

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31 Photos in 31 Days (Day 4) 40

August 4, 2010

Busy day today. Kicked it off by presenting a workshop on literacy and phonological awareness, then ducked off to the special school for a joint feeding visit, back to work for a meeting, then off to a massive case conference, then back to my desk just in time to get my July stats in by [...]

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Tony Abbott's Words

August 4, 2010

And I don’t think Abbott would like this to be screened here…

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31 Photos in 31 Days (Day 3) Waiting for Coffee

August 3, 2010

Sitting in Lava Espresso Bar waiting for my soy latte before walking up to work. Groups started today, so I needed that caffeine hit to keep me bubbling along through the parent sessions. Try talking about kids overusing “like” or “um” and then listen to how much you do it yourself! (Tights are from Mimco, [...]

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Cologne

August 3, 2010

After a train trip along the Rhine, I arrived in a drizzly Cologne, for the first time having to find my own way to the hotel without Rish’s help :) Fortunately, Cologne is extremely well signposted for tourists, and I knew I had to get to Neumarkt and Rudolfplatz to find Hotel Flandrischer Hof, which [...]

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31 Photos in 31 Days (Day 2) Bootcamp!

August 2, 2010

Got up not so bright and early this morning for my first session of bootcamp! I figured I might as well do the Monday morning, it’d have to set me in good stead for the rest of the week, right? It went well – with only 2 of us in the “class”… there might be [...]

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31 Photos in 31 Days (Day 1) Shoes!

August 1, 2010

Okay, time for the foot and shoe fetishists to come out of the lurker-woods for August. I’m participating in 31 photos in 31 days and I’ve decided that each day I’ll share my footwear for that day. Be it my uggies, work shoes, runners or my tokidoki rain boots, you’ll get to share in the [...]

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There can be only one winner.

August 1, 2010

Me. Because both ‘real bird’ and ‘mirror bird’ flew off shortly after.

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