It might as well rain...
...and we've just had a week of it.
Some of it actually fell in the catchment area, so Sydney's water situation is mildly less dire.
So much for spring :-). Apparently it will be fine again from tomorrow.
Two months since we've moved, and the new routines are just about established.
Exercise is building, and weight is dropping steadily.
Haven't really explored that much of Sydney yet, other than what work and socialising requires.
We're going to see the Boy from Oz this Sunday for our 4th wedding anniversary.
Should be fun to see Hugh Jackman, Australia's man of the moment (not withstanding Steve Irwin or Peter Brock).
Victoria & Lydia are doing well. At 17.5 months, the words are now flowing very freely. Latest vocabulary:
1. A-mo (Elmo)
2. A-me (Amen)
3. Shuuus (Shoes)
4. Dad-dyia (Daddy + Lydia)
5. Nononononono..... (speaks for itself)
6. Up/Down
7. Gown (as in the dressing variety)
8. Awdun (All done - with food/drink/anything)
9. Mummy's heeer
10. oosh
11. ook (look)
The brain development side of things is just remarkable. When in Fremantle, I heard a presentation from a 70 year old Associate Professor & Practicing Paediatrician on early childhood brain development.
It was fascinating to see how all the longitudinal studies on health brain development showed how neurone interconnectivity and brain architecture for everything from motor skills and language development is largely in place by the age of one.
The human body's an amazing thing...
posted by Nato @ 9:39 PM
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I haven’t yet read any of those books you recommended, Nato, but only because I haven’t been able to find them for free anywhere yet. Books that I have to pay for always take me longer, since I don’t have so much money to splash around and my weekly rounds of work/home/work/home doesn’t take me past any bookshops. However, I won’t let that stop me from making my own recommendations!
You have probably forgotten, but when I came to visit you in 1990 one of the books I was reading was the English translation of the Qur’an by Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall. (The other book I was reading, curiously enough, was a graphic novel by a Peruvian Catholic version of Jim Wallis). If the whole Qur’an is too much, you could do worse than start with the very sensible book report by Cardinal Pell.
Next, while Alan Moore may know quite a lot about terrorism, he was never actually a terrorist per se, and I recommend Menachem Begin’s ‘White Nights’. Especially the last chapter, for the sort of calculations on when and how to resist oppression by violence that are made by real terrorists.
Finally, the book that I find most cheering is probably St. Thomas Aquinas, by Chesterton. Honest! :)
I can report that today I boughtthe V for Vendetta DVD for $12.99 at Coles, so I will be in a position to report on it shortly. :)
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