quick catch up

Me: had awful gastro thing. Better now. Meanwhile everything gone chaotic.
husband forthwith known as Bhaer (do you know your Little Women?): Busy essaying
Sparky: is reading his first readers.
Owl: is waving and crawling everywhere
The house: less said the better
The garden:lovely and neat - will post piccies soon
Facebook: ah the addiction continues unabated...

Just watching Aussie idol as I write this and an early fave is Holly.

more facebook propaganda

I have been thinking about the privacy issues re internet pursuits such as blogging and facebook, myspace. I have read a few articles about the internet generation (which I am a bit older than...) having a different conception of privacy.

I have been thinking through such issues as - what do you do when someone you have issues with wants you to be a friend on facebook? now facebook has some ways around this - you can make yourself only visible to friends (though this then means you can't have the serendipitous reconnection with old friends) or you can block people (whats to say that someone can't sign in as a different name, or ask a mutual friend whether you are on facebook?). It means that you will now find it very hard to leave relationships behind.

I think this is, rather than a problem, instead a very good thing. It brings back the village. People used to have to live lives of getting along, sorting things out, putting up with eccentricities, everyone knowing your business, because people lived in small communties their whole lives. I think this taught the practicalities of love - you didn't just have to love when it was easy, when someone was the same as you. I think it teaches civility - we don't have to all be best friends, but we should all be able to be civil with each other.

And think on this if you are a christian - if you are going to live with other christians in eternity - what! can't you live with them now on facebook?

Of course this is all in my humble I'm still in the honeymoon period opinion. What do others think?

my vegie patch

a friend blogged about the success or not of her patch. We have just planted ours! (well a friend has done it for us...) . In ours so far is :
lettuce
tomatoes
basil
rosemary
spanish onions
coriander
parsley
thyme
marjoram
lemon thyme
snow peas
and we also planted 3 olive trees
as I look at it a leaning to the mediterranean.

and the fledgling lemon tree that was in the front yard when we moved in has finally borne fruit (not many).

so I will keep you posted on our progress.

also, on the inedible front, just planting some natives near the council strip - banksias, grevilleas and bottle brush - all with flowers shading from cream through to amber.

I am very pleased with the grey green foliage of the natives and the olives (I'm kinda anti bright green - its un australian somehow)

whatever became of...90s oz bands

2 posts below I mentioned a crush on a guy from an aussie band in the early 90s - adam tried to identify them but no luck - after I recalled that they had a strange skivvy uniform (not like the wiggles - they had black ones) I managed to find them online - they were called the sharp - see article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sharp. and myspace page http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=230497904

the one I liked was allan catlin.

felt very nostalgic when I saw them, for all those aussie bands that were around in my late teens - early 20s (ah! salad days..) and have now sadly been long forgotten - while if they were american they would probably be playing las vegas now...

so my challenge - anyone want to pay their respects to other such bands "lest we forget?"

the very trivial but mind consuming things I think about

anyone else noticed that very frequently on clothing items with 2 colours and stripes, these stripes tend to be around 3/4 cm wide - it's like an unofficial stripe standard. I noticed this today for the umpteenth time as my bub and I were both wearing stripes of the same width. There must be something behind it - is it related to the traditional french jersey? or naval uniforms? and why that width? I might go google it....

celebrity crushes

Ok a very feeble blog topic, but I wanted to keep up my blog and i have a brain like putty today. Thought i might list celebs that have caught my eye through the years:

High school first:
Brett Climo the nurse on Country Practice - so snaggy!
Rick Astley (what an admission!) - not sure why now...
Robert Sean Leonard in Dead Poets and Much Ado - hasn't aged well...
Rupert Graves in A room with a view - so cheeky!
Julian Sands as above - but not in anything else...
The guy from Ratcat - Simon Day - and the way he swung his hair around
The guy with the curly hair from early 90s melbourne band with 3 guys and they had a double bass - anyone know who i am talking about?

facebook addiction

I would like to confess my new facebook addiction. Part of the addiction is that it is engineered to have things happen to you everyday or to people you know, so you feel like you should check back to find out....

But I have found facebook a good thing because:
- 1) many of my friends who are parents with small kids are on it. This time of your life can be quite isolating - this gives us some degree of community and support without leaving the house.
- 2) there are many people I know and like who I would love to spend time with or get to know better but can't because of 1) or because they live too far away. This enables me to keep some degree of friendship going until a later time when there might be more chance to catch up
- 3) it is good with church people, now I can know what is going on for them sooner - as a part time pastor this helps.

it isn't a substitute for depth interaction face-to-face or even on the phone, but it fills in the gaps until this can happen.