March 2009

A Ceramic update as well as other stuff. Like, possibly zombies

by frogpondsrock on March 31, 2009

in friendship,potential insanity,Zombies

It feels like time is travelling at an impossibly fast rate. The days seem to be sneakily getting shorter (and not just because it is Autumn either.) I am sure that some days are conspiring with each other and managing to just vanish.

Pfffffttt!!!! Gone in a blaze of almostness.

Like Hello, it is Tuesday already. What happened to Monday? I only just published my weekly winners a minute ago and now it is Tuesday?

Gah!!!! Something is going on but, mind you if I was a day of the week, I would probably try to vanish as well if I had to be a Monday.

I mean honestly what sort of a name is Monday? Munnday? At least Wednesday has tricky spelling to trip the unwary and Sunday has the promise of a good lie in even when it isn’t sunny..

Enough of that drivel. I need to get my internal dialogue under control. Thinking about that sort of stuff is probably why my days sneak off anyway. Now Monday has probably gone and gotten all huffy with me, just because I wanted to know what a Munn was?

You watch, next week it will be Thursday all of a sudden and then I will be really confused. *sigh*

Ceramics! Yay!

I had to type that in order to control myself and get back on track.

This year is all about Focus. Focus and Resolution.

But it is hard to focus on earthly things like housework and making pots, when I am so close to discovering where they keep the Zombies..

I am pretty sure there are Zombies at the Royal Hobart hospital. Mum and I have been traipsing all through the hospital lately. Up corridors and down elevators.There are lots of places in the hospital where you could stash a few Zombies and no-one would ever notice.

Ever.

Unless of course they escaped.

There are lots of closed off sections, with crumbling plaster ceilings and faded yellow tile walls, that look like they could have been used as a set for a Frances Farmer movie.

The last time that Veronica was with us we had to venture down into the dank depths of the hospital to make an appointment for a bone-scan. We had travelled deeper and deeper into the bowels of the hospital, passing locked rooms with innocent looking labels on the doors. Hmmm? Camera room? I wonder if that is where they filmed bits of Shawn of the dead?

We were getting further and further away from the modern section of the hospital. There wasn’t a pastel coloured wall in sight. Veronica and I were loudly discussing discreetly pondering the possibility of Zombies, when we suddenly came to an abrupt halt at a reception cubicle. The receptionist (who looked uncannily similar to Norman Bate’s Mother, btw) didn’t look pleased to see us at all. She was barely civil as she made Mum’s appointment and you could tell,that she knew, that we knew about the zombies. It was a good thing there were three of us,(and a baby) or we mightn’t have gotten out of there quite so easily…

I will try and get some photographic evidence next week when we go in for Mum’s chemo..

Ceramics Yay..

This year is going to be an exciting year in the Ceramic Studio.Very Exciting. But the zombies have exhausted my supply of words and I need to get off my bum and actually do some work..

Cheers Kim

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weekly winners

by frogpondsrock on March 29, 2009

in environmental stuff,fauna and flora,weekly winners

This week has just raced by and once again it is my pleasure to share some of my winners for the week. Brought to you as per usual by Lotus our hostess with the mostest… Yay!!!

tree

mum1

misty-morning-view

misty-morning-view-2

first-light

cheeky-currawong

wattle-bird-enjoying-the-elderberries

a-typical-autumn-sunset-because-there-is-a-lot-of-smoke-in-the-atmosphere-due-to-the-horrendous-practice-of-firebombing-tasmanias-forests

a-much-softer-sky

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chemotherapy,sour grapes and a bad back…

by frogpondsrock on March 24, 2009

in blogging,cancer,friendship,potential insanity,thinking out loud,whingeing

Lets get the sour grapes out of the way first. Shall we?

The winners of The Bloggies were announced last week and the winner of the Best Australian Weblog was, Girl With a Satchel. Congratulations to the writers of GWAS but if this webmag is representative of an Australian blog then Australian blogging is in very bad shape. We may as well all give up now and go home and read out of date ‘New Ideas’ and drool over the celebrities of the moment.*sigh*

Girl With a Satchel is very slick and professionally put together but that is nothing less, than what I would expect from an ezine with this as its blurb.

A daily magblog (a daily blog with magazine-style content), written by a Sydney-based glossy magazine editor, providing industry insights, magazine reviews, internet shopping updates, beauty product reviews, thoughts on Christianity, pop-culture musings and girlie finds.

If you want information on celebrities, or need help finding just the right shade of pretty pink lipstick, then Girl With a Satchel is the place to be.

But if you want to read stories written by real Australians. Stories that will make you cry, nod your head in recognition or laugh so much that you snort coffee out your nose. Then go and read these ladies, the other finalists in the best Australian categories..

Kelley from Magneto Bold Too

Tiff from My Three Ring Circus

Veronica from Sleepless Nights.

Tokyo Girl Down Under was a finalist as well..

Ok now for the Chemotherapy. Mum had her second infusion of chemotherapy drugs yesterday. Mum’s cancer has decided that it doesnt want to be confined to her lungs. Oh no. This cancer has decided to go out and colonise the world and fuck things up, much like the British did in centuries past.

I just keep on getting images of a teenage skinhead in ‘bovva boots’ stomping about the place. *sigh* Except that it is a toxic cocktail of chemicals that is doing all the stomping. Laying waste to my Mother’s immune system, in the hope of shrinking the tumours so that we can have just a little bit more time.

ouch

stay-plugged-in-and-switched-on

mum

Oh and the bad back, well that would be me. I have spent the past week or so hobbling and shuffling around like an old woman. But I am much better now and if anything it has made me empathise a bit more with how Mum must be feeling. Because there is nothing quite like a touch of serious pain now and then to make you apreciate the joys of walking about pain free..

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weekly winnners

by frogpondsrock on March 22, 2009

in fauna and flora,Isaac,weekly winners

There are two photos of an orb spider in this week’s winners. This spider lives just outside my front door. Every night her web gets totally destroyed by large moths and every night she repairs her web. I took these photos with a flash at night and I like how they have turned out. Once again if you scroll past her really fast you might not notice her at all… cheers Kim.

ps. there is a photo of a baby in here somewhere as well…

grey-shrike-thrush