No Longer
Bits and pieces from this song have been bouncing round my head since we sang it on Sunday…
I’m still battling with a chest infection, and sometimes I feel like throwing up my hands at the world and its foibles. I’ll just step out of the world for a few minutes and listen to this again…
Tea For A Reason
Just sent off the money raised at an afternoon tea at my place a couple of weekends ago for a great organisation – go have a look here – Mercy Ships provide free health care for people who would not be able to have access to health care otherwise. It’s really worth having a look at the site to see what they do! The afternoon tea was specifically to raise money for the women’s health programme, particularly issues relating to pregnancy and childbirth.
It was a good afternoon – we watched a DVD about the work of the Africa Mercy, then talked about it all, while eating biscuits and drinking tea in pretty teacups…
🙂
We have friends on the Africa Mercy – if you want to read a more personal view, here’s their blog –
Rothwell Recap
Enjoy!
Smile! :)
It’s been a bit wet today…
we’ve had an almost miniflood – the quick unplugging of a drain and the use of brooms and shovels kept the house from being wetter than it should be!
Apart from that, it’s been a reading, cuppa tea, keeping warm sort of day.
Hope your day has been good, despite the greyness and rain…
If not – here’s some puppies-in-a-basket to cheer you up!
🙂
Feeling Middle Aged…
Went to a Medieval Market and Fantasy Faire today in town – it’s on again tomorrow in the Ipswich Mall if you’re interested…
It was fun, and interesting – lots of lovely clothes and accessories (out of my price range) and a variety of medieval costumes/weapons/tools etc. I didn’t take too many photos – lots of people and too much to see – but here’s some!
A bit of pop culture geekery…
…and then home for some coffee and a cupcake 🙂
Out For The Day
The water was shut off at our place all day, so we decided to go out…
It was a chance to do some things differently. We had a look around Inala to start with. There’s a large Vietnamese community there, and the boys were fascinated by all the vegetable and grocery items they didn’t recognise. We shared a cup of sugar cane juice, which was a lovely green and not as sweet as you would think. We had lunch there (pork buns and containers with meats, veg and noodles with varying sauces) and got some goodies to take home.
The boys chose the bean paste rolls (in the red bag) – yum! – and the variously flavoured jellies (we haven’t tried those yet). I went in to a few places before I found the ginger candy – I first tried it over 20 years ago, but don’t get to have it much now. It’s very nice but very hot!
Our next stop was Redbank Plains Library, another place we don’t often get to, then to the Ipswich Art Gallery, where we checked out works from the National Photographic Portrait Prize from last year, then up to the Kids’ Gallery to use various “drawing machines”.
Off home after the shops, where our water was back on again, and we could have a lovely cup of tea! 🙂
Being Mum
Today is Mothers’ Day in Australia… I’ve had a lovely day. Hubby and I have both been ill in bed through the week, but were able to get to church today. My sweet beans gave me pressies, and a hand drawn card from little Bean. I would have liked to post a photo of them both, since I’m only Mum because of them 🙂 Neither of them are too happy about public photos though… (and I forgot to ask before they went to bed!)
Here’s a photo of my gifts..
Both boys got me crosswords, since that’s what I asked for. The chocolate came later (picked up on the way home from church). The rubies tote bag was a gift for all the women who came to church today, and we picked up custard tarts because I wanted to watch “As Time Goes By” while we ate lunch. I love being Mum!
To finish – here’s a song we heard today, originally sung by a very famous Mother…
The Tribble With Biochemistry
I recently read a book on the medicinal effects of cannabis, and came across a family of mammalian homologs (to do with genes) called Tribbles, so called because they enter mitosis early and proliferate rapidly. Yes, they are named after these little creatures…
There appear to be other biological discoveries named after pop culture references – there’s a sonic hedgehog protein that can be found in humans. It belongs to a family of hedgehog proteins, so called because they have prickly looking protrusions. There’s also a pikachuran protein, with “lightning-fast moves and shocking electric effects” like Pikachu, and a “Conan the Bacterium“, that survives radiation and is known to be extremely hardy.
It can be fun to be a scientist….
