The QI Elves on twitter (@qikipedia) made my day recently.Back in the earliest days of this blog, I confessed a long-held fear of mine. Not of something understandable, like heights, or spiders. Or snakes. Or the idea of Eddie McGuire one day ...
Archives for February 2013
You shouldn’t procrastinate because it’s (finish this title later)
Last week was a week of to-do lists.A week of writing them.Not a week of completing items on them.I seemed to forget that simply writing down what I need to do isn't the same as doing them. It's not even getting halfway there.It's just yet ...
Watching your child learn things on their own is amazing
I love helping Ashleigh learn new things. There's a sense of satisfaction and, I'll admit, self-serving pride when I explain something to her and see the 'penny drop' moment, knowing that she has understood.But she's reached that age where ...
Green Eggs and Ham has just 50 words in it
50 unique words, that is.SourceTheodor Seuss Geisel was challenged by his publisher, who bet that he couldn't create a children's story, let alone an engaging and popular one, using 50 words or fewer.In 1960, Geisel rose to the ...
You can create a ‘why’ question from anything
I'd been warned it was coming. But knowing about it and living it are two very different things.The 'why' phase.At first, it was very cute. As most development stages are. And I revelled in the fact that my child was become more inquisitive ...
Sometimes winning a disagreement actually means losing
We're renovating.Still.Regular readers will already know this. Occasional readers will know this. People who infrequently visit this blog will know this, and will be thinking, "Come ON, is she STILL going on about this?!"Yes. Yes I am.Stage one ...
Phantom vibration syndrome is the word of the year
It's done. Voting is over. The committee has decided.Earlier this week, Macquarie Dictionary announced that phantom vibration syndrome is the word of 2012.phantom vibration syndrome noun a syndrome characterised by constant anxiety in relation to ...